A Rape in the Early Republic : Gender and Legal Culture in an 1806 Virginia Trial

Autor: Alexander Smyth, Randal L. Hall

On January 14, 1806, Sidney Hanson was raped by John Deskins on a rough gravel path in the woods in Tazewell County, Virginia. In the early nineteenth century, trials for rape were rare. Scanty court records typically lacked the detail needed to reco

Seeing Jefferson Anew : In His Time and Ours

Autor: John B. Boles, Randal L. Hall

Thomas Jefferson's ideas have been so important in shaping the character and aspirations of the United States that it has proven impossible to think about the state of the nation at almost any moment without implicit or explicit reference to his word

William Louis Poteat : A Leader of the Progressive-Era South

Autor: Randal L. Hall

William Louis Poteat (1856-1938), the son of a conservative Baptist slaveholder, became one of the most outspoken southern liberals during his lifetime. He was a rarity in the South for openly teaching evolution beginning in the 1880s, and during his

Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk

Autor: Jessica Lockrem, Trevor J. Durbin, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Edward J. Hackett, Farès el-Dahdah, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Cymene Howe, Randal L. Hall, Albert Pope, Hannah Appel, Elizabeth Long, Cyrus C.M. Mody, Andrew Ballestero, Elizabeth A. Rodwell

Publikováno v: Howe, C; Lockrem, J; Appel, H; Hackett, E; Boyer, D; Hall, R; et al.(2015). Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk. Science Technology and Human Values, 41(3), 547-565. doi: 10.1177/0162243915620017. UCLA: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1fc5g7dc
Science Technology and Human Values, vol 41, iss 3
Science Technology & Human Values, 41(3), 547-565. SAGE Publications Inc.

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information sci

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Mountains on the Market : Industry, the Environment, and the South

Autor: Randal L. Hall

Manufacturing in the Northeast and the Midwest pushed the United States to the forefront of industrialized nations during the early nineteenth century; the South, however, lacked the large cities and broad consumer demand that catalyzed changes in ot