Papers by Mary Greenfield
Reply to D. E. Hull's letter of 3 July
The International Journal of Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 1959
The Unending Conquest of the S.S. Beaver: Steam Power and the Myth of the White Anglo-Saxon Nation in the Nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest
This work traces the development of the far Pacific Northwest Coast from fur trade to industrial ... more This work traces the development of the far Pacific Northwest Coast from fur trade to industrial capitalism. Concentrating on the trajectories of the first steamship in the North Pacific, the Hudson Bay Company's S.S. Beaver (1835-1888), allows the story to be told from what some consider the cultural margins. The ship's activities, however, show First Nations, Hawaiian sailors, Chinese immigrants, and diverse women to be central rather than peripheral to the modernization of the Northwest. Eventually white settlers arrived, many devoted to an ideology of white Anglo-Saxon nationalism. Indigenous people and nonwhite immigrants visibly contradicted Anglo-Saxon nationalists' unrealistic dream of racial purity. Industry and commerce increased the area's human diversity by employing non-white people from around the Pacific Rim. In response to this reality, white nationalists sought to control the physical distribution of non-white groups, create barriers between them in ...
Benevolent Desires and Dark Dominations
Southern California Quarterly, 2012
The career of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s SS City of Peking, 1874–1910, both outlined an... more The career of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s SS City of Peking, 1874–1910, both outlined and undermined the currents of American cultural identity, national policy, industrial development, and immigration and labor history. Most significantly, the roles it played in the establishment of an American Pacific challenged the moral foundations on which the American political system was founded.
Book Review: Dolin, When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail , by Mary Greenfield When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail . By Eric Jay Dolin . ( New York , Liveright Publishing , 2012 . xviii +...
Pacific Historical Review, 2013
“From St. Louis to San Francisco in 1850,” by J. E. Clark
Southern California Quarterly
J. E. Clark worked his way to the California gold rush as an employee of the company building the... more J. E. Clark worked his way to the California gold rush as an employee of the company building the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama. He describes the company’s recruitment process, the poor food furnished to the construction workers, and the horrific death toll. He was one of those fortunate to reach the Pacific and take ship to San Francisco.
A "Devil Ship" Bedeviled: The Iconography and Reality of the Opium War's SS Nemesis
WOMEN OF THE NEW MEXICO FRONTIER, 1846-1912/A WOMAN'S PLACE: Women Writing New Mexico
Montana the Magazine of Western History, Apr 1, 2006
From westward space to western place : the end of illusion and birth of acceptance in the American West /
Typescript. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leav... more Typescript. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-125). Adviser, Dan L. Flores.
The Game of One Hundred Intelligences": Mahjong, Materials, and the Marketing of the Asian Exotic in the 1920s
Pacific Historical Review, 2010
The Mahjong craze of 1922––1924 marks a pivotal moment in the culture that shaped and justified U... more The Mahjong craze of 1922––1924 marks a pivotal moment in the culture that shaped and justified U.S. imperialism. In a mere two years Mahjong evolved from an expensive upper-class pursuit that prized an "authentic" and imported experience into a widely available mass-marketed pastime produced in the United States. Changes in technology made possible the mass production of what had formerly been elite trophies of empire, helping to make imperialism both accessible and palatable to mainstream Americans. The process was not always smooth. Mahjong opened fault lines between old elites and new money, as well as between male salesmen and female consumers. Finally, Mahjong had implications for domestic interethnic relations, as it incorporated Chinese Americans into a nascent national multicultural ideal while still marking them as an inassimilable "other."
The Game of One Hundred Intelligences": Mahjong, Materials, and the Marketing of the Asian Exotic in the 1920s
Pacific Historical Review, 2010
The Mahjong craze of 1922––1924 marks a pivotal moment in the culture that shaped and justified U... more The Mahjong craze of 1922––1924 marks a pivotal moment in the culture that shaped and justified U.S. imperialism. In a mere two years Mahjong evolved from an expensive upper-class pursuit that prized an "authentic" and imported experience into a widely available mass-marketed pastime produced in the United States. Changes in technology made possible the mass production of what had formerly been elite trophies of empire, helping to make imperialism both accessible and palatable to mainstream Americans. The process was not always smooth. Mahjong opened fault lines between old elites and new money, as well as between male salesmen and female consumers. Finally, Mahjong had implications for domestic interethnic relations, as it incorporated Chinese Americans into a nascent national multicultural ideal while still marking them as an inassimilable "other."
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