Timothy Alborn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 960263 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Timothy Alborn |
| PRENOMES | Timothy |
| SOBRENOME | Alborn |
| ASSINATURA | ALBORN T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lehman College |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-1110-3345 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
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Misers
This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving, spending, and investment. Misers surveys this class of people—as invented and interpreted in sermons, poems, novels, and plays; analyzed by economists and philosophers; and profile…
Misers
Necessary Evils
All That Glittered
From the early eighteenth century into the 1830s, Great Britain was the only major country in the world to adopt gold as the sole basis of its currency, in the process absorbing much of the world’s supply of that metal into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers. During the same period, Britons forged a nation by distilling a heady brew of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, while preserving important features of its older social hierarchy.…
The Greatest Metaphor Ever Mixed
Given the frequency of negative references to gold in British allusions to filthy lucre, it emerges as an historical puzzle that Britons resorted to biblical metaphors of gold so often in describing heaven and their aspiration to be purified in God's crucible. This article provides evidence for the prominence of these two metaphors in British religious and secular discourse between 1750 and 1850, and argues that Britons tried to resolve the resul…
Personal Business
Of the many examinations of Victorian business and culture that have responded to Mary Poovey's Genres of the Credit Economy since its publication in 2008, Aeron Hunt's Personal Business moves the
Robert J. Mayhew. Malthus
Of the many British economists who left a mark during the century after 1776, Thomas Robert Malthus stands out as influencing the most ancillary disciplines—including biology, demography, ecology, and eugenics—and as uttering the “inconvenient truth” of overpopulation in a manner that has continued to ebb and flow down to the present. In this magisterial survey, Robert J. Mayhew guides readers on a winding tour of Malthus's long succession of aco…
King Solomon’s Gold
Contemplating King Solomon’s enormous importation of gold from the mysterious land of Ophir filled Victorians with vicarious pride and glutted their pedantic appetite with no end of tempting antiquarian puzzles concerning the identity of his trading partners. This article provides details and context regarding the various putative Ophirs proposed by British travellers during the nineteenth century, which ranged from Sumatra to the Gold Coast. It …
An Irish El Dorado
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Quill-Driving
For the clerks who worked in British life-insurance companies during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, occupational mobility was both an opportunity that motivated effort and a generator of wide disparities in pay and status. Ambitious clerks learned math in the hope of becoming actuaries. By the end of the nineteenth century, this pattern had changed, owing to the rise of branch networks and accompanying bottle-necks in the promotion…
Creating Capitalism
Reviewed by: Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870 Timothy Alborn (bio) Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870, by James Taylor; pp. x + 256. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2006, £45.00, $80.00. Beginning with the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1844, the British government permitted investors to form companies without applying for a ch…
Were the Victorians ever Modern
Conceiving Companies
Questions concerning the relationships and boundaries between 'private' business and 'public' government are of great and perennial concern to economists, economic and business historians, political scientists and historians.Conceiving Companies discusses the birth and development of joint-stock companies in 19th century England, an area of great importance to the history of this subject. Alborn takes a new approach to the rise of large scale com…
Conceiving Companies
The First Fund Managers
Life insurance companies absorbed a large amount of the surplus capital that became increasingly dispersed throughout British society in the nineteenth century. In this they joined a number of other institutional investors, including building societies, savings banks, fire and marine insurers, commercial banks, and trust companies, each of which performed different social and economic functions. Socially, these institutions catered to people from…
Insurance against Germ Theory
This article highlights the role played by commercial life insurance companies in determining the response to tuberculosis in Britain between 1865 and 1920. Late-Victorian life offices hired two sorts of physicians to help them screen out high-risk proposals: provincial medical examiners, who collected fees for examining candidates; and salaried medical advisors, who developed guidelines for the medical examination and interpreted the examiners' …
Senses of Belonging
Age and Empire in the Indian Census, 1871-1931
The age returns in the British-administered Census of India between 1871 and 1931 were problematic. Owing to low levels of numeracy and poor records of births and deaths in India, census officials resorted to a number of technical innovations to generate useful statistical regularities out of the imperfect data. In the process, they came to realize that even so putatively a "universal" category as age might be impossible to determine accurately i…
Conceiving Companies
Since the early twentieth century, the joint-stock company and the state have stood together as exemplars of modern bureaucratic institutions. For at least as long, that co-existence has been comfortable, as companies and states have wound their way through an inconclusive cycle of proposals to regulate, deregulate, or otherwise adjust the boundaries between 'private' and 'public' spheres. Conceiving Companies offers a new perspective on the rise…
Coin and Country
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Trust in Numbers
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 259 world of small farms, shops, and manufactories. The first chapter, “The Modern American folk hero,” uses a description of the village as a springboard to a discussion of Henry Ford as a paradoxical mythic figure. Ford appears both as the larger-than-life perfecter of a mass production system which powerfully transforms the America of his youth, and as the larger-than-life exemplar and lamenter of a bygone a…
Persuading by the Numbers
Research Article| January 01 1997 Persuading by the Numbers: The Balance Sheet in Late-Victorian Financial Journalism Timothy L. Alborn Timothy L. Alborn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (suppl_1): 212–230. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1997-suppl_1015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy L. Alborn; Persuading by the Numbers: The Balanc…
Trust in Numbers
The First Fund Managers
Life insurance companies absorbed a large amount of the surplus capital that became increasingly dispersed throughout British society in the nineteenth century. In this they joined a number of other institutional investors, including building societies, savings banks, fire and marine insurers, commercial banks, and trust companies, each of which performed different social and economic functions. Socially, these institutions catered to people from…
A Calculating Profession
The ArgumentHistorians of science naturally tend to express interest in other forms of intellectual activity only when these intersect with science. This tendncy has produced a number of enlightening studies of what happens when science and (for instance) law or theology come into contact, but little by way of how science enters into the calculations and social status of such forms of knowledge after the conjuction has passed. Recent work in the …
Senses of Belonging
The Business of Induction
Afin de comprendre le sens du langage economique qui formait les pratiques culturelles des anciens philosophes victoriens, il est important de comprendre ce qu'ils acqueraient en utilisant un tel langage
Quill-Driving
For the clerks who worked in British life-insurance companies during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, occupational mobility was both an opportunity that motivated effort and a generator of wide disparities in pay and status. Ambitious clerks learned math in the hope of becoming actuaries. By the end of the nineteenth century, this pattern had changed, owing to the rise of branch networks and accompanying bottle-necks in the promotion…
An Irish El Dorado
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Creating Capitalism
Reviewed by: Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870 Timothy Alborn (bio) Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870, by James Taylor; pp. x + 256. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2006, £45.00, $80.00. Beginning with the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1844, the British government permitted investors to form companies without applying for a ch…
Were the Victorians ever Modern
Age and Empire in the Indian Census, 1871-1931
The age returns in the British-administered Census of India between 1871 and 1931 were problematic. Owing to low levels of numeracy and poor records of births and deaths in India, census officials resorted to a number of technical innovations to generate useful statistical regularities out of the imperfect data. In the process, they came to realize that even so putatively a "universal" category as age might be impossible to determine accurately i…
Persuading by the Numbers
Research Article| January 01 1997 Persuading by the Numbers: The Balance Sheet in Late-Victorian Financial Journalism Timothy L. Alborn Timothy L. Alborn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (suppl_1): 212–230. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1997-suppl_1015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy L. Alborn; Persuading by the Numbers: The Balanc…
More Heat than Light
The Taming of Chance. Ian Hacking
A Calculating Profession
The ArgumentHistorians of science naturally tend to express interest in other forms of intellectual activity only when these intersect with science. This tendncy has produced a number of enlightening studies of what happens when science and (for instance) law or theology come into contact, but little by way of how science enters into the calculations and social status of such forms of knowledge after the conjuction has passed. Recent work in the …
The Business of Induction
Afin de comprendre le sens du langage economique qui formait les pratiques culturelles des anciens philosophes victoriens, il est important de comprendre ce qu'ils acqueraient en utilisant un tel langage
Trust in Numbers
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 259 world of small farms, shops, and manufactories. The first chapter, “The Modern American folk hero,” uses a description of the village as a springboard to a discussion of Henry Ford as a paradoxical mythic figure. Ford appears both as the larger-than-life perfecter of a mass production system which powerfully transforms the America of his youth, and as the larger-than-life exemplar and lamenter of a bygone a…
Persuading by the Numbers
Research Article| January 01 1997 Persuading by the Numbers: The Balance Sheet in Late-Victorian Financial Journalism Timothy L. Alborn Timothy L. Alborn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1997) 29 (suppl_1): 212–230. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-1997-suppl_1015 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy L. Alborn; Persuading by the Numbers: The Balanc…
Trust in Numbers
Conceiving Companies
Since the early twentieth century, the joint-stock company and the state have stood together as exemplars of modern bureaucratic institutions. For at least as long, that co-existence has been comfortable, as companies and states have wound their way through an inconclusive cycle of proposals to regulate, deregulate, or otherwise adjust the boundaries between 'private' and 'public' spheres. Conceiving Companies offers a new perspective on the rise…
Coin and Country
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Age and Empire in the Indian Census, 1871-1931
The age returns in the British-administered Census of India between 1871 and 1931 were problematic. Owing to low levels of numeracy and poor records of births and deaths in India, census officials resorted to a number of technical innovations to generate useful statistical regularities out of the imperfect data. In the process, they came to realize that even so putatively a "universal" category as age might be impossible to determine accurately i…
Insurance against Germ Theory
This article highlights the role played by commercial life insurance companies in determining the response to tuberculosis in Britain between 1865 and 1920. Late-Victorian life offices hired two sorts of physicians to help them screen out high-risk proposals: provincial medical examiners, who collected fees for examining candidates; and salaried medical advisors, who developed guidelines for the medical examination and interpreted the examiners' …
Senses of Belonging
Conceiving Companies
Questions concerning the relationships and boundaries between 'private' business and 'public' government are of great and perennial concern to economists, economic and business historians, political scientists and historians.Conceiving Companies discusses the birth and development of joint-stock companies in 19th century England, an area of great importance to the history of this subject. Alborn takes a new approach to the rise of large scale com…
Conceiving Companies
The First Fund Managers
Life insurance companies absorbed a large amount of the surplus capital that became increasingly dispersed throughout British society in the nineteenth century. In this they joined a number of other institutional investors, including building societies, savings banks, fire and marine insurers, commercial banks, and trust companies, each of which performed different social and economic functions. Socially, these institutions catered to people from…
Were the Victorians ever Modern
Creating Capitalism
Reviewed by: Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870 Timothy Alborn (bio) Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870, by James Taylor; pp. x + 256. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 2006, £45.00, $80.00. Beginning with the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1844, the British government permitted investors to form companies without applying for a ch…
Quill-Driving
For the clerks who worked in British life-insurance companies during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, occupational mobility was both an opportunity that motivated effort and a generator of wide disparities in pay and status. Ambitious clerks learned math in the hope of becoming actuaries. By the end of the nineteenth century, this pattern had changed, owing to the rise of branch networks and accompanying bottle-necks in the promotion…
An Irish El Dorado
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Personal Business
Of the many examinations of Victorian business and culture that have responded to Mary Poovey's Genres of the Credit Economy since its publication in 2008, Aeron Hunt's Personal Business moves the
Robert J. Mayhew. Malthus
Of the many British economists who left a mark during the century after 1776, Thomas Robert Malthus stands out as influencing the most ancillary disciplines—including biology, demography, ecology, and eugenics—and as uttering the “inconvenient truth” of overpopulation in a manner that has continued to ebb and flow down to the present. In this magisterial survey, Robert J. Mayhew guides readers on a winding tour of Malthus's long succession of aco…
King Solomon’s Gold
Contemplating King Solomon’s enormous importation of gold from the mysterious land of Ophir filled Victorians with vicarious pride and glutted their pedantic appetite with no end of tempting antiquarian puzzles concerning the identity of his trading partners. This article provides details and context regarding the various putative Ophirs proposed by British travellers during the nineteenth century, which ranged from Sumatra to the Gold Coast. It …
The Greatest Metaphor Ever Mixed
Given the frequency of negative references to gold in British allusions to filthy lucre, it emerges as an historical puzzle that Britons resorted to biblical metaphors of gold so often in describing heaven and their aspiration to be purified in God's crucible. This article provides evidence for the prominence of these two metaphors in British religious and secular discourse between 1750 and 1850, and argues that Britons tried to resolve the resul…
All That Glittered
From the early eighteenth century into the 1830s, Great Britain was the only major country in the world to adopt gold as the sole basis of its currency, in the process absorbing much of the world’s supply of that metal into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers. During the same period, Britons forged a nation by distilling a heady brew of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, while preserving important features of its older social hierarchy.…
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