TY - JOUR
AU - Goldstein, Robert Justin
AB - 302 The Journal of American History June 2007 This book will be most useful as a means to cide whether the nation appreciated civiliza- place Arctic history within the mainstream his- tion or those values that withstood civiliza- torical narrative. Robinson pays minimal at- tion’s stamp. tention to the actual expeditions of Elisha Kent Robinson uses primary newspaper accounts Kane, Isaac Hayes, Charles Hall, Adolphus and literary digests to special advantage. Each Greely, Walter Wellman, Peary, and Cook. In- American explorer is firmly rooted within the stead, he focuses on each man’s home audienc- cultural dictates of his era. However, the shift- es and patrons, and explains why he was popu- ing of patronage claims, from scientific circles lar. Audiences expected different explanations to wealthy private citizens, is explained a bit for each Arctic quest, but those were not the too briefly and could have been expanded. only changes over time. Robinson also charac- This book moves through familiar expedition - terizes the later-nineteenth-century explorers ary chronologies with a new slant. It is the ide- as being at the mercy of an increasingly sen- al book for those who want to understand why sationalized press. And scientific achievement, Arctic 
TI - Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/25094877
DA - 2007-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/death-in-the-haymarket-a-story-of-chicago-the-first-labor-movement-and-R90co5KLnx
SP - 302
EP - 303
VL - 94
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -