Outputs (142)

The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018)
Book
Rottenberg, C. (2018). The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190901226.001.0001

Through an in-depth analysis of bestselling “how-to-succeed” books along with popular television shows and well-trafficked “mommy” blogs, The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism demonstrates how the notion of a happy work-family balance has not only been inc... Read More about The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism.

The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition (2018)
Journal Article
Asquith, W. (2018). The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Historical Research, 91(253), 528-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12232

© 2018 Institute of Historical Research. This article explores how representatives of the Caribbean’s first postcolonial state undertook the project of displaying Haitian nationhood during the age of empire. It challenges current understandings of Ha... Read More about The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition.

Murder on the Kansas City Special? Pullman Porters, Emotions, and the Strange Case of J. H. Wilkins (2018)
Journal Article
Pearce, R. (2018). Murder on the Kansas City Special? Pullman Porters, Emotions, and the Strange Case of J. H. Wilkins. Journal of American Studies, 53(3), 683-702. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875818000476

J. H. Wilkins, an African American railroad porter for the Pullman Company, was killed while on duty in April 1930. How he met his death has never been fully determined, but the Pullman Company’s investigation file exposes the dangerous and racialise... Read More about Murder on the Kansas City Special? Pullman Porters, Emotions, and the Strange Case of J. H. Wilkins.

The seriality dividend of American magazines (2018)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2018). The seriality dividend of American magazines. American Periodicals, 28(1),

This essay argues that the preconsumption cycle of material creation and supply exerted powerful effects as periodicals journeyed from paper mill to reader. So powerful were these effects that they generated a “seriality dividend,” or a return on fin... Read More about The seriality dividend of American magazines.

Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s (2018)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2018). Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 15(1), 25-51. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4288647

Between the First and Second World Wars, Heywood Broun (1888-1939) and Benjamin Stolberg (1891-1951) were labor journalists when the newspaper industry was consolidating into chains and industrial unionism was gaining in American society. A compariso... Read More about Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s.

Herman Melville: among the magazines (2018)
Book
Thompson, G. (2018). Herman Melville: among the magazines. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America (2017)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2017). Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America. In N. Coles, & P. Lauter (Eds.), A History of American-Working Class Literature (7-24). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316216439.002

Nonviolence Crowned or Dethroned? (2017)
Book Chapter
Ling, P. (2017). Nonviolence Crowned or Dethroned?. In J. Street, & H. K. Lozano (Eds.), The Shadow of Selma. University of Florida Press

Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer (2017)
Journal Article
Ling, P. (2017). Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer. Comparative American Studies, 15(1-2), 72-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2017.1411829

The arrest of James Earl Ray at London Airport on 8 June 1968 marked the final stage of an international manhunt that had begun with the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April. Arrested for travelling on a false passport and with an unlicensed f... Read More about Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer.

The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election (2017)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2017). The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 28(4), 619-645. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2017.1386450

This article uses the case of the 1956 presidential election between Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower to highlight the ways that an obsession with foreign relations could, in fact, prove problematic to a campaign. Focusing primarily on Stevenson... Read More about The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election.