James E. McWilliams
James E. McWilliams ( born November 28, 1968) is an American professor of history at Texas State University - San Marcos. His area of research is U.S. colonial history, the early post-independence period and the environmental history of the United States.
Life
His B. A. (Philosophy ), he graduated from Georgetown University in 1991, his MA (American Studies) at the University of Texas at Austin and his PhD ( History ) at the Johns Hopkins University in 2001. 2001, he became the Walter Muir Whitehall Prize in awards for his work on the American colonial history. In 2009 he received the Hiett Prize of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Since 2003 (as of 2011 ), he is an associate professor of history at Texas State.
His publications are also in the Texas Observer, the History News Service of the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and comparatively little more extensive published in the Atlantic [J 1]. He lives in Austin and is vegan.
Works
- Just Food: How Locavores are Endangering the Future of Food and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly ( Little, Brown, 2009) ISBN 978-0-316-03374-9
- American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT (Columbia, 2008) Review: " American Pests ": Our wrongheaded approach to insect control: Bugged to death: James E. McWilliams takes on insects, agriculture and pesticides in "American Pests: . The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT " By Irene Wanner, The Seattle Times, August 8, 2008
Articles
- "The horizon opened up very greatly. Leland O. Howard and the Transition to Chemical Insecticides in the United States, 1894-1927 ," Agricultural History ( Fall 2008 ).
- " Cuisine and National Identity in the Early Republic, " Historically Speaking ( May / June 2006 ), 5-8.
- " African Americans, Native Americans, and the Origins of American Food, " The Texas Journal of History and Genealogy. Volume 4 (2005), p. 12-16.
- " 'How unripe We Are': An Intellectual Construction of American Food, " Food, Society, and Culture (Fall 2005), p 143-160. .
- " 'To Forward Well- Flavored Productions '. The Kitchen Garden in Early New England," The New England Quarterly ( March 2004), p. 25-50.
- "Integrating Primary and Secondary Sources, " Teaching History ( Spring 2004), p. 3-14.
- "The Transition from Capitalism and the Consolidation of Authority in the Chesapeake Bay region, 1607-1760: An Interpretive Model, " Maryland Historical Magazine
( Summer 2002), p. 135-152.
- "New England 's First Depression: An Export -Led Interpretation, " The Journal of Interdisciplinary History ( Summer 2002), p. 1-20.
- "Work, Family, and Economic Improvement in Seventeenth - Century Massachusetts Bay, " The New England Quarterly ( September 2001), p. 355-384. ( Winner of the
2000 Whitehill Prize in Colonial History for the best essay published in colonial history did year ).
- " Brewing Beer in Massachusetts Bay, 1640-1690. " The New England Quarterly ( December 1998), p. 353-384.