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Iowa Physicians: Legitimacy, Institutions, And The Practice Of Medicine, Part Three: Dealing With Poverty And Defending Autonomy, 1929-1950, Susan C. Lawrence
Iowa Physicians: Legitimacy, Institutions, And The Practice Of Medicine, Part Three: Dealing With Poverty And Defending Autonomy, 1929-1950, Susan C. Lawrence
Department of History: Faculty Publications
This article, the last of this three-part series, briefly lays out some of the major changes in medical organization and institutions in Iowa between 1929 and 1950. The bulk of the essay then focuses on the effects that the rising costs of medical care had on ordinary Iowa physicians. Anxiety about the expense of medical services for the respectable working and middle classes joined worries about paying for the basic health needs of the indigent and marginally poor. In the 1910s and 1920s, more physicians and more patients expected hospital stays for surgery and childbirth, looked to laboratory-based tests for …
The Tryphê Of The Sybarites: A Historiographical Problem In Athenaeus, Robert J. Gorman, Vanessa Gorman
The Tryphê Of The Sybarites: A Historiographical Problem In Athenaeus, Robert J. Gorman, Vanessa Gorman
Department of History: Faculty Publications
A large number of the most informative fragments of the Hellenistic Greek historians are transmitted by Athenaeus. Unlike the frequently jejune evidence provided by scholiasts, lexicographers, and the like, these texts allow us to draw historiographical conclusions about lost writers: on this basis, scholars have posited, for example, the place of a given author in the Hellenistic “schools” of history. The importance of Athenaeus as a source for history-writing between Xenophon and Diodorus calls for detailed study of the Deipnosophist’s method of citing these lost authors. The present article focuses on Athenaeus’ testimony concerning the downfall of Archaic Sybaris through …
Review Of Church Robbers And Reformers In Germany, 1525-1547. Confiscation And Religious Purpose In The Holy Roman Empire. By Christopher Ocker., Amy Nelson Burnett
Review Of Church Robbers And Reformers In Germany, 1525-1547. Confiscation And Religious Purpose In The Holy Roman Empire. By Christopher Ocker., Amy Nelson Burnett
Department of History: Faculty Publications
This study is valuable not only as an overview in English of a very complicated area of ecclesiastical law which had significant economic ramifications, but also for its implications for understanding the rise of the territorial state in early modern Germany.
Review Of The Subject Of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, And Representation By Louis Montrose, Carole Levin
Review Of The Subject Of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, And Representation By Louis Montrose, Carole Levin
Department of History: Faculty Publications
In a clever play on words, Louis Montrose’s important new book on Elizabeth I suggests a study with Elizabeth both as the focus and as a topic of her people’s discourse. The title also suggests the importance of Elizabeth in understanding early modern England; this book is not itself simply about Elizabeth but about how this queen was created, understood, and negotiated by her subjects, male and female. As Montrose points out, all of Elizabeth’s subjects produced and reproduced their queen in a variety of ways throughout their daily practices. And throughout her reign, the queen’s image was manipulated by …
Working On The Domestic Frontier: American Indian Domestic Servants In White Women’S Households In The San Francisco Bay Area, 1920–1940, Margaret D. Jacobs
Working On The Domestic Frontier: American Indian Domestic Servants In White Women’S Households In The San Francisco Bay Area, 1920–1940, Margaret D. Jacobs
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Household employment for young Indian women differed from that of other domestic servants in several key ways. First, they had not journeyed across the Atlantic or Pacific or trudged across a national border in search of wage labor; nor had they been freed from human bondage only to be enlisted into the lowest rungs of the American economy. Instead it was the colonization of their land and the subsequent federal Indian policy of assimilation that drove young Indian women into domestic service.
Second, employment of young Indian women by white families became more than a private labor transaction between employer …
Review Of The Correspondence Of Wolfgang Capito, I: 1507-1523. Edited And Translated By Erika Rummel., Amy Nelson Burnett
Review Of The Correspondence Of Wolfgang Capito, I: 1507-1523. Edited And Translated By Erika Rummel., Amy Nelson Burnett
Department of History: Faculty Publications
This is the first of a projected three volumes of the correspondence of the humanist and reformer Wolfgang Capito, covering his early career first as cathedral preacher in Basle, then as advisor to the archbishop of Mainz, Albrecht of Brandenburg, through his move to Strasbourg and his definitive break with Rome. About half of the almost 200 letters are published for the first time; the remaining letters, printed elsewhere in modern critical editions, are summarised.
The translations are colloquial and tend towards the overly literal; the early ones in particular give readers a good sense of humanist rhetorical style. The …
Black And On The Border, Edward Ayers, William G. Thomas Iii, Anne Sarah Rubin
Black And On The Border, Edward Ayers, William G. Thomas Iii, Anne Sarah Rubin
Department of History: Faculty Publications
The civil war is often understood in terms of stark oppo¬sites. It seems only natural to think of North and South, of Union and Confederacy, of freedom and slavery. But the habit of thinking in opposites often extends to other parts of the war where it serves us less well: battlefield and homefront, soldier and civilian, male and female, and black and white, as if these places, people, and ex¬periences were not swept up in the same all-consuming war.
William Jennings Bryan, The Railroads, And The Politics Of "Workingmen", William G. Thomas Iii
William Jennings Bryan, The Railroads, And The Politics Of "Workingmen", William G. Thomas Iii
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Early in his career as a lawyer William Jennings Bryan took a principled position that set him apart from many of his colleagues at the bar. When he teamed up with Dolph Talbot in a law practice in Lincoln in 1887, the state was growing faster than any other in the nation in that decade, catapulting from 450,000 residents to over 1 million. It was a promising field for the law business by any measure. Talbot took on a wide spectrum of clientele and represented the Missouri Pacific Railroad, but Bryan refused "to accept money from a railroad company." This …
A Response To A Frontier Conversation (Review Of Documentary), Margaret D. Jacobs
A Response To A Frontier Conversation (Review Of Documentary), Margaret D. Jacobs
Department of History: Faculty Publications
This intriguing and soft-spoken documentary brings together scholars of Indigenous history from both North America and Australia to meet with Indigenous communities and their locally-based historians in the Northern Territory. In these encounters, it becomes clear that scholarly, academic approaches to history often clash with the ways that Indigenous communities and their historians tell their histories. This is not news to most readers of Aboriginal History; however, the film goes beyond this observation. It aims to show the possibilities for dialogue and fruitful exchange, as well as productive debate, when historians trained in different traditions of knowledge production meet …
How To Preach A Protestant Sermon: A Comparison Of Lutheran And Reformed Homiletics, Amy Nelson Burnett
How To Preach A Protestant Sermon: A Comparison Of Lutheran And Reformed Homiletics, Amy Nelson Burnett
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Preaching was the central function of the Protestant minister. From the very beginning of the Reformation, proclaiming "the pure word of God" from the pulpit was the most important way of making evangelical doctrine known, and both Lutherans and Reformed redefined the functions of pastoral care to place new emphasis on preaching. Both pastors already in the parish and young men training for the ministry needed to know how to preach. To provide the necessary guidance for these pastors, evangelical theologians produced a number of homiletics texts that prescribed how to write a Protestant sermon. Most of these preaching manuals …
The Armenian Commercial Houses And Merchant Networks In The 19th Century Ottoman Empire, Bedross Der Matossian
The Armenian Commercial Houses And Merchant Networks In The 19th Century Ottoman Empire, Bedross Der Matossian
Department of History: Faculty Publications
The aim of this article is to provide a synopsis of the Armenian merchant networks and commercials houses in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century with a specific concentration on Istanbul. It will discuss some factors that led to the proliferation and the decline of the Armenian merchant networks and commercial houses in the Empire. It will also argue that it is impossible to discuss geographic representations of merchant networks and commercial houses in the Empire as separate entities. On the contrary all were interconnected, not only economically, but also through kinship bonds. Other factors ranging from development of …
Venturing Into The Minefield: Turkish Liberal Historiography And The Armenian Genocide, Bedross Der Matossian
Venturing Into The Minefield: Turkish Liberal Historiography And The Armenian Genocide, Bedross Der Matossian
Department of History: Faculty Publications
Historiography normally refers to the act of writing history, the collective writings of history and the history of such activities over time. I This chapter addresses the collective writings of history by a group of scholars of "Turkish origin," mainly deriving from a tradition ofleftist sentiments. What is particular about this group of Turkish liberal historians is that they provide an alternative historical interpretation2 of a specific historical event that is otherwise accepted by the official Turkish history (resmi tarih) as an historical travesty.1 Historical events, which are conventionally regarded as the "building bricks of history," are composed into a …