Ian S. E. Carmichael (1930-2011)

Charles Robert (Bob) Schuster: 1930-2011.

Charles Robert (Bob) Schuster was born and grew up in New Jersey across the Delaware from Philadelphia. His father was a grocer–butcher, his gracious and delightful mother sang in the choir, and there was never a doubt that Bob revered his older sister. He learned to play the trumpet early and had great affection for jazz throughout his life. Nothing would portend the dedicated public health ad...

U . S . Cities , 1880 - 1930

We investigate the role of industrial structure in labor productivity growth in U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 using a new dataset constructed from the Census of Manufactures. We find that increases in specialization were associated with faster productivity growth but that diversity only had positive effects on productivity performance in large cities. We interpret our results as providing s...

Ian McKay , Rebels , Reds , Radicals : Rethinking Canada ’ s Left History

In Rebels, Reds, Radicals, Ian McKay offers us a reconceptualization of Canada’s left history. Those looking for a blow by blow account of the development of socialism in Canada might possibly be disappointed by this book. More historiography than history, it attempts to provide an alternative approach to understanding left history in Canada. Only the final chapter offers a more conventional hi...

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S-s-s-syncopation: Music, Modernity, and the Performance of Stammering (Ca. 1860–1930)

The modern history of disability, and of speech impediments in particular, has largely been written as one of medical discourse and (more recently) of social and cultural imaginations. The pathology of speech appears as an embodied, but ultimately intangible, issue due to the transient nature of sound itself. Once produced, it disappears, and seems to escape memory. In this text, stammering is ...