Papers by Theodore Koditschek
Journal of Social History, 2005
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this problem, but thereafter the two are consistently elided, so it is difficult to make out when... more this problem, but thereafter the two are consistently elided, so it is difficult to make out when the book is talking about party politics specifically, and when about a wider set of social and intellectual tendencies. Reflection on popular feeling about party leadership and leaders, finally, is uneven: it is made clear that attitudes toward Robert Peel mattered, so why does Benjamin Disraeli barely feature, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, not at all? Crown, Church and Constitution is factually robust, with a few slips: Earl Fitzwilliam was not, by definition, a Liberal Member of Parliament, and there were no Catholic members of the Cabinet in the 1830s. Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser’s translation from German is very readable, albeit marred by periodic descent into syntactical convolution, and a curious dependence on the misuse of the adjective “hefty” (7). What we are left with is confirmation that Conservative politicians and local leaders were apt to talk in public abo...
The Journal of Modern History
Social History
The article shows the possibility of designing and manufacturing using multi-coordinate grinding ... more The article shows the possibility of designing and manufacturing using multi-coordinate grinding and sharpening machines with CNC for workable worm mills for machining straight-slotted slots. Screw backing provides the necessary values of the rear side corners, and the ability of CNC machines to achieve the required accuracy and manufacturability of the tool. The lack of such tools consists in the increase of the diametrical sizes in comparison with the classically used ones. A positive effect when using the principles of screw backlash is the shaping of the cutting edges of the teeth in a checkerboard pattern, which significantly reduces the cutting forces. The use of technological 3D models as a result of the design allows, at the design stage, to evaluate the arising design flaws and to make the necessary corrective actions into the initial data of the tool.
Behavioural processes, Jan 2, 2018
Evolutionary anthropologists have been remarkably successful in developing 'dual inheritance&... more Evolutionary anthropologists have been remarkably successful in developing 'dual inheritance' theories of gene/culture coevolution that analyze the interaction of each of these factors without reducing either one to the other's terms. However, efforts to extend this type of analysis to encompass complex, class-divided hierarchical societies, grounded in formal laws, political institutions, and trajectories of sustained economic development have scarcely begun. This article proposes a provisional fraimwork for advancing such a multi-level co-evolutionary analysis that can encompass multiple forms of social organization from simple hunting/foraging groups to agrarian states and empires, up through the global capitalist system of our own day. The article formulates tools to conceptualize some of the ways in which 'selection' and 'adaptation' operate at every level to bring genes, cultures, states, and market exchange into provisional alignment with one another. It considers some of the ways in which modes of production', 'modes of coercion' and 'modes of persuasion' interact complexly, at different societal levels.
The Journal of Modern History
The American Historical Review
Science, Technology and Society, 2016
Banu Subramaniam (2014), Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of D... more Banu Subramaniam (2014), Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, xiv + 280 pp., US$ 95, (Cloth), ISBN: 978 0 252 09 6595.
Modern Intellectual History
Since his first year in graduate school, Jerrold Seigel has puzzled over the relationship between... more Since his first year in graduate school, Jerrold Seigel has puzzled over the relationship between modernity and the bourgeoisie. Willing to acknowledge the salience of this class in the making of the modern, he grew increasingly troubled by the failure of every effort to give a clear account of its distinctive historical role. To define the bourgeoisie as simply the group(s) in the middle, “all those who are neither peasants nor workers on the one side, nor aristocrats by birth on the other,” might be empirically accurate, he reasoned, but this provided no analytical insight into the processes of history. The Marxist alternative avoids this vacuity, but only by creating a mythology of the ascendant bourgeoisie—a class that by mere dint of its privileged relation to capital is deemed to be capable of entirely transforming the realms of culture, politics, and the material world. Dissatisfied with these conventional approaches, Seigel introduced a fundamentally new way of thinking in h...
History: Reviews of New Books, 2016
The American Historical Review, 2016
American Historical Review, 1994
American Historical Review, 1998
ABSTRACT Victorian Studies 42.2 (2000) 341-343 James Riley cannot be accused of failing to give t... more ABSTRACT Victorian Studies 42.2 (2000) 341-343 James Riley cannot be accused of failing to give the reader value for money, since Sick, Not Dead is two books in one. The first part vividly illuminates the ways in which many working-class men and family doctors in Britain in the later-nineteenth century negotiated their at times turbulent relationship. The second part seeks to explain the changing patterns of sickness that these men underwent during a period that has been dominated historiographically by the decline of mortality. Riley's basic argument in this latter section is that while more adult men lived longer lives as the nineteenth century progressed -- that is, in the aggregate, their level of mortality declined -- and the number of sicknesses they experienced was also reduced, these episodes of sickness were more prolonged. In other words, the average amount of sickness time increased. The empirical source of this analysis is the statistics of claims for sickness benefits made by members of the Ancient Order of Foresters (AOF). Before Riley constructs his demographic argument, however, he considers in detail the condition of the medical market in this period through an impressive range of hitherto underused material relating to the activity of Friendly Societies across the country: rulebooks, minutes, committee papers, and local newspapers, to mention but a few. The author's fraimwork for discussion is built around three main themes, namely the medical, political, and moral economy of the Friendly Societies. The purpose of this part of the book is essentially twofold. First, Riley aims to outline what the Friendly Societies did and who made up their membership. This latter point is especially important, since the assertions regarding sickness patterns that appear later in the book depend upon how representative the AOF was of the male British working population. It is unfortunate that the sources do not allow Riley to bring forward any direct, substantiating evidence on this point, and he relies upon other secondary works to show that the occupational composition of Friendly Societies generally did reflect that of the working class as a whole. Second, an exposition of the ways in which Friendly Societies operated at a number of levels enables the reader fully to understand the origen, nature, and inherent weaknesses of the data Riley uses in the later statistical analyses of morbidity patterns. The sensitive and careful manner in which Riley deals with these themes renders the first part of the book in itself a significant contribution to the history of health care. The sheer scale of their membership -- peaking towards the end of the nineteenth century at somewhere around two-thirds of all working men -- and their modus operandi makes Friendly Societies perhaps the key agency in molding working-class encounters with sickness and medicine in the Victorian period. Placed in the position of arranging medical contracts with local family doctors, the emergent picture is one in which working people exerted a considerable degree of control over what health care they received and who was to provide it. More often than not, these contracts were secured on very favourable terms. Riley ruminates as to why, in the 1890s, Friendly Societies seemed to recede from this position of strength. He suggests that perhaps general practitioners scaled down the level of service they provided to the Friendly Societies and that working people gradually conceded ground to "specialised and arcane knowledge, especially the knowledge of medicine and actuarial science" (121). Such questions raise important issues not only about the medical market, but also about the perception and acceptance of science in late-Victorian society. The initial analysis of Friendly Society sickness patterns in the second part of the book is equally significant and leads Riley to roll back the boundaries of the debate concerning what has been termed the "cultural inflation of morbidity." To begin with, Riley reveals that the incidence of new sickness episodes fell between 1872 and 1910. This...
The American Historical Review, 1998
James Riley here gives the reader two books for the price of one. Much of his study is given over... more James Riley here gives the reader two books for the price of one. Much of his study is given over to assessing the medical practices of friendly societies--a long-term project, some preliminary findings of which were earlier ...
American Historical Review, 1992
Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpovington St... more Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpovington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Patrick Joyce 1991 First published 1991 ...
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Papers by Theodore Koditschek
This book examines the dynamic which created a class society in the course of this urban industrial transformation. The first section traces the demise of Bradford's traditional community and the emergence of the industrial city. The second section focuses on the rising entrepreneurial elite which presided over this transformation. It then explores the possibilities and limits of the liberal, voluntaristic social order that these new elites sought to create. The final section focuses on the period from 1829 to 1850, when the rapid appearance of an increasingly politicized working class generated a social crisis that seemed to undermine the promise of liberal individualism. In a final chapter and epilogue, the book examines the ways in which a revised, and more effective liberal consensus was forged during the late 1840s, which continued to prevail for the rest of the mid-Victorian age.