No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
History is Everything: An Interview with Alison Games
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2017
Abstract
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.
- Type
- Interview
- Information
- Copyright
- © 2017 Research Institute for History, Leiden University
References
1 The Fairbanks House; see https://fairbankshouse.org/
2 Kenneth A. Lockridge, A New England Town: The First Hundred Years: Dedham, Massachusetts, 1636–1736 (New York: Norton, 1970).
4 Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982). Natalie Zemon Davis published her seminal, anthropologically-influenced microhistory of a sixteenth-century village in Toulouse in 1984. Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984).
5 Alison Games, “‘Wild Fire Passions’: Evangelical Women in Eighteenth-Century New England” (BA thesis, Harvard University, 1985).
6 Fred Anderson, A People’s Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years’ War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).
7 Richard S. Dunn, Puritans and Yankees: The Winthrop Dynasty of New England, 1630–1717 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962).
8 Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713 (Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1972)
9 Nancy Farriss is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, Emerita, at the University of Pennsylvania. Her seminal work on the colonial Maya was the winner of the 1985 Albert J. Beveridge Award in American History, awarded by the American Historical Association. Nancy Farriss, Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984). Dain Borges is currently Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago. See Dain Borges, The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870–1945 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992).
10 Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).
11 Alan L. Karras, Sojourners in the Sun: Scottish Migrants in Jamaica, 1740–1800 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992); Alan L. Karras and J. R. McNeill, eds., Atlantic American Societies: From Columbus through Abolition, 1492–1888 (London: Routledge, 1992).
12 Alison Games, The Web of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560–1660 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
13 Douglas R. Egerton, Alison Games, Kris Lane, and Donald R. Wright, The Atlantic World: A History, 1400–1888 (Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, 2007).
14 Alison Games and Adam Rothman, eds., Major Problems in Atlantic History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
15 Alison Games, Witchcraft in Early North America (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).
16 Elizabeth Fisher is the author of “‘Prophesies and Revelations’: German Cabbalists in Early Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 109 (1985): 299–333.
17 The American Historical Association found that in 2011–12, 40 percent of history BA degrees went to women. Alan Mikaelian, “New Data on the History BA: Dynamic Growth Elusive, but Potential Still There,” Perspectives on History, March 2014, https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2014/new-data-on-the-history-ba.
18 In 2010, 44.8 percent of the PhDs in History were awarded to women. Robert B. Townsend, “Who are the New History PhDs NSF Snapshot from 2010 Provides Insights into Current Trends, Perspectives on History, March 2012, https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/march-2012/who-are-the-new-history-phds.