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Item Trans* & gender identity in the premodern Mediterranean(Springer, 2024-11-14) McDonough, Susan; Armstrong-Partida, MichelleThis paper explores the intersection and imbrication of transness and Mediterraneaness in the premodern period. How did Mediterranean mobility, spaces, and creativity inform and make possible the ‘transing’ of gender? Re-examining previously considered sources with the benefit of recent scholarship on archival silences and trans history, we suggest that Mediterranean culture, migration, local community, and race shaped possibilities for transgender people. Prioritizing the agency of people who lived non-binary and trans lives, we make them legible to a contemporary audience while refraining from imposing our own labels upon them. The messy and contradictory lives of our subjects show the complexity of personhood and identity. We consider unrecorded suffering and reflect on how the physical bodies of those punished for transgressing gender norms were inscribed with meaning that resonated with hegemonic constructions of sexuality and identity. We center the bodies, identities, and experiences of trans people rather than the elite male discourses of a heteronormative society.Item Navigating Heir Disputes over the New American South: Confederate Memorials and Media Framing of Black Mayoral Leadership Against Symbols of White Authoritarianism(MDPI, 2024-11-01) King-Meadows, Tyson; Agarwal, Vishakha; Nalubula, Priscilla NakandiContrary to what other mayors had done to deal with calls to remove Confederate monuments in their cities, the first Black woman mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina appointed a 2020 commission to evaluate and make recommendations for dealing with the monument controversy. As the state’s largest city and “international gateway” to the New South, Charlotte had long wrestled with tensions over cultural memory. Utilizing a mixed methods “embedded design” case study approach, this article examines quantitative and qualitative data, including an analysis of newspaper articles from The Charlotte Observer and The Raleigh News & Observer, to ascertain public reaction to the commission. Results show that media accounts often framed the city’s monument controversy as reflecting the locale’s new sociodemographic reality, a euphemism for lingering conflicts in the jurisdiction over cultural memory, heritage claims, electoral representation, race, and monumentality.Item The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Philadelphia’s African-American and Immigrant Neighborhoods(2024-08-01) Breier, Matthew; Korendiy, Katya; Bonneau, Nicholas; Barnes, David S.Item Catriona Macleod, Alexandra Shephard, Maria Ågren (eds), The Whole Economy, Work and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 230 pp. ISBN 9781009359368(Open Edition Journals, 2024-09-19) Froide, AmyItem Fuzzy Numbers: U.S. Hospital Accounting Since the 1930s(springer, 2024-06-15) Chapin, Christy FordThis chapter argues that U.S. hospitals have used accounting in a distinctive, paradoxical manner to secure generous reimbursements and favorable regulatory terms from third-party financiers, both public and private. By presenting inexact, unreliable cost calculations as “objective” accounting products, hospital leaders could more readily inflate treatment prices, charge patients widely divergent rates, and conceal internal operations from third-party payers seeking data to design efficacious cost containment methods.Item Review of Ottaway, Susannah R., The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England(H-Albion, 2005-02) Froide, AmyItem Review of Harris, Barbara J., English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers(H-Albion, 2003-02) Froide, AmyItem Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Britain. By Mary Poovey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. x + 511 pp. Bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, 24.00. ISBN: cloth, 978-0-226-67532-9; paper, 978-0-226-67533-6.(Cambridge University Press, 2011-04-14) Froide, AmyItem The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Allyson M. Poska, Jane Couchman, and Katharine A. McIver, eds.(The University of Chicago Press, 2015-03) Froide, AmyItem Learning to Invest: Women’s Education in Arithmetic and Accounting in Early Modern England(The University of Chicago Press, 2015-09) Froide, AmyItem HIDDEN WOMEN: REDISCOVERING THE SINGLEWOMEN OF EARLY MODERN ENGLAND(Local Population Studies Society, 2002) Froide, AmyAmy Froide attempts to estimate the proportion ofsingle (that is, never-married) women in the adult female populationusing the Marriage Duty assessments. Froide explains that various biasesin the Marriage Duty listings, not to mention some conventions adoptedby historical demographers, mean that, unless the analyst is careful,some adult ‘singlewomen’ will not be identified (mainly because theywill be classified as children). Using data from Southampton, she showsthat single women comprised at least one third of the adult femalepopulation of the city in the 1690s. More generally, a higher proportionof adult women was single, and a lower proportion married, in urbanareas than in the countryside. Indeed, in the towns for which data areavailable, fewer than half of the adult women were married.Item Sustainable Preservation: The Adaptive Reuse of Historic Industrial Buildings and Spaces in Baltimore City, 1970-2020(2024-01-01) Masser, Joshua Paul; Blair, Melissa; History; Historical StudiesThis thesis demonstrates that the preservation and adaptive reuse of historic industrial buildings and spaces in Baltimore City from 1970 to 2020, reflects a citywide effort to reinvent the image of Baltimore in the wake of deindustrialization. To do so, it assesses and compares completed and proposed projects across the city; specifically, the Pratt Street Power Plant at the heart of the Inner Harbor, the Meadow Mill in Woodberry, and the Hendler Creamery in Jonestown. This topic is significant because it recognizes Baltimore’s legacy as a historic city that has both inadvertently and consciously became a world leader in cultural and heritage preservation. Despite the successes of the late twentieth century, this thesis argues that Baltimore City officials failed to maintain a commitment to the preservation of the city’s historic industrial character, instead enabling developers to dictate the trajectory of preservation in the twenty-first century.Item "The Demon of Blood and Slaughter:" Know-Nothing Gangs and Working-Class Republicanism in 19th Century Baltimore(2024-01-01) Breeding, Mark; Rubin, Anne Sarah; History; Historical StudiesThis thesis examines white working-class male identity in Baltimore during the nineteenth century and how its expression through nativism and violence was directed against African Americans, foreign-born immigrants, and political opponents. It argues that the Know-Nothing Party’s rise to power in Baltimore took advantage of existing schisms and violent identities caused by the market revolution. In examining the tradition of artisan republicanism and social violence, this thesis argues that the ideology of working-class republicanism was a tool for the expansion of nineteenth century nativism and gang affiliation because it reinforced a violent white male identity. This identity, mixed with the social and political environment, culminated in the Baltimore riots of the 1850s and 1861.Item Forty-Eighters in Baltimore: German Revolutionaries and their Political Ideologies, 1858-1865(2024-01-01) berkheimer, martha; Blair, Melissa; History; Historical StudiesForty-Eighters were a significantly influential subsect of the German immigrants community in Baltimore in the 1805s, particularly because of their radical belief in the abolition of slavery. This was especially the case in Baltimore, where Carl Heinrich Schnauffer published a radical Republican newspaper called The Baltimore Wecker. The Wecker was representative of the values and ideologies held by Forty-Eighters in Baltimore, and often symbolized the development of their community. Throughout the 1850s, Forty-Eighters grew as a formidable political sect in Baltimore, culminating in the Pratt Street Riots, when their meetings space and The Wecker office were attacked by Confederate mobs. In this thesis, I argue that because Forty-Eighters were able to develop as a community in Baltimore due to their formidable newspaper publications and commitment to community organizing, they shaped the German American political landscape.Item Pushed to the Edge: Homeland Outcasts(UMBC Review, 2024) Palmer, Julia; Lizarazo, Tania; Voerkelius, MirjamThis paper examines the impact of British colonization on present Australian Aboriginal diet and health. Two crucial timelines are included in this paper. The first follows the foodways of the Natives, with evidence of lingering foodways present today. The second describes the increased presence and power of the British government, specifically in policies relating to Aboriginals. The research questions grounding this paper are, how did British colonization marginalize and displace Aboriginals? In what ways did the diet for Aboriginals change due to British colonization? And, what are the health concerns Aboriginals are suffering as a result of colonization? My paper is in conversation with much ongoing research that focuses on the impact of colonial policies for Native populations worldwide. At-home research included modern-day footage and interviews of Aboriginals. I relied mainly on present-day sources for Aboriginal perspectives as much of their knowledge had been traditionally spread via word-of-mouth. British writers were also utilized with their description of Native foodways. Most highlighted the biases which were used to justify disproportionate British policies. The final piece of research included the information and conversations of the food tour with my guide who spoke about colonial policies and their impact on his family.Item Mellon Foundation grants CAHSS $750K to establish Global Asias Initiative(UMBC News, 2024-04-03) Duque, Catalina Sofia Dansberger; Demond, MarlaynaItem James Clavell’s ‘Shōgun’ is reimagined for a new generation of TV viewers(The Conversation, 2024-03-21) Vaporis, ConstantineCompared to its 1980 predecessor, the new FX series presents a more authentic portrayal of early modern Japan.Item Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany By Lauren Stokes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 312. Hardcover $35.00. ISBN: 978-0197558416.(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-15) Wyck, Brian Van