James McWilliams

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James E. McWilliams (born November 28, 1968 ) is an American historian and professor of history at Texas State University-San Marcos . His research interests are US colonial history , the early post- independence period, and United States environmental history .

Life

He received his BA (Philosophy) from Georgetown University in 1991, his MA ( American Studies ) from the University of Texas at Austin and his PhD (History) from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. He was awarded the Walter Muir Whitehall Prize in 2001 honored for his work on US colonial history. In 2009 he received the Hiett Prize from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture . Since 2003 (as of 2011) he has been an Associate Professor of History at Texas State.

His publications have also appeared in the Texas Observer , the History News Service of the New York Times , the Christian Science Monitor , USA Today and, comparatively, somewhat more extensively in the Atlantic . He lives in Austin and is vegan .

Works

Books

  • 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 [1]
  • Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts (University of Virginia, 2007)
  • A Revolution in Eating: how the quest for food shaped America (Columbia, 2005)

Technical article

  • “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), pp. 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 that year in colonial history).

  • "Brewing Beer in Massachusetts Bay, 1640-1690." The New England Quarterly (December 1998), p. 353-384.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://media.uoregon.edu/channel/2011/04/11/live-webcast-thinking-beyond-the-food-movement-four-big-ideas-about-food-and-sustainability/
  2. ↑ Meet James McWilliams, meat-industry defender - and aggrieved vegan?

Journalistic

  1. ↑ http://www.theatlantic.com/james-mcwilliams/
personal data
SURNAME McWilliams, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McWilliams, James E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and professor of history
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1968