REBECCA JEAN EMIGH
Professor
Department of Sociology
UCLA
Contact Information
Phone
310-206-9546
310-825-1313 (Sociology Department)
310-206-9838 (Fax)
Mail
Department of Sociology, UCLA
264 Haines Hall
375 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Office
252a Haines Hall
Email
emigh@soc.ucla.edu
Publications
The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in
Fifteenth-Century Tuscany.
Reviews of The
Undevelopment of Capitalism:
Lachmann, Richard. “Review of The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century
Tuscany.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 51(3):236-238,
2010.
Mielants, Eric. “Review of The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in
Fifteenth-Century Tuscany.” Contemporary Sociology 38(6):575-576,
2010.
Stern, Laura Ikins.
“Review of The Undevelopment
of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany.”
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41(1):144-146,
2010.
“What
Influences Official Information? Exploring Aggregate Microhistories
of the Catasto of 1427.” Pp. 199-223 in Small Worlds: Method, Meaning, and Narrative
in Microhistory, edited by James F. Brooks,
Christopher R. N. DeCorse, and John Walton.
“Internal and External Ethnic Assessments in Eastern Europe.” (with Patricia Ahmed and Cynthia Feliciano.) Social Forces 86(1):231-255, 2007.
“The Unmaking of Markets: A
Composite Visual History.” Vectors:
Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular 1, 2005.
“Household Composition in Post-Socialist Eastern
Europe.” (with first author, Patricia Ahmed). The International Journal of Sociology and
Social Policy 25(3):9-41, 2005.
“The
Great Debates: Transitions to Capitalisms.” Pp. 355-380 in Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and
Sociology, edited by Julia Adams, Elisabeth Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2005.
“[The]
Transition(s) to Capitalism(s)?: A Review
Essay.” Comparative Studies in
Society and History 46(1):188-198, 2004.
"Economic Interests and Sectoral
Relations: The Undevelopment of Capitalism in
Fifteenth-Century Tuscany." American
Journal of Sociology 108(5):1075-1113,
2003.
"Property Devolution in
Tuscany." The Journal of
Interdisciplinary History XXXIII(3):385-420, 2003.
"Numeracy or Enumeration? The
Uses of Numbers by States and Societies." Social Science History 26(4):653-698, 2002.
"Post-Colonial
Journeys: Historical Roots of Immigration and Integration." (with first
author, Dylan Riley) Comparative
Sociology 1:169-191, 2002.
"Theorizing Strategies: Households and Markets in 15th-Century
Tuscany." The History of the
Family 6:495-571, 2001.
“Review of Regions, Institutions, and Agrarian Change in European History, by
Rosemary L. Hopcroft.” Contemporary Sociology 30(6):601-603,
2001.
“Review of Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic
Transitions in Early Modern Europe,” by Richard Lachmann.
American Journal of Sociology
106(3):832-834, 2000.
"Divergent Paths of Agrarian Change: Eastern
England and Tuscany Compared." The
Journal of European Economic History 29(1):9-51, 2000 (with first author
Rosemary L. Hopcroft).
"The Gender Division of Labor: The Case of Tuscan
Smallholders." Continuity and
Change 15(1):117-137, 2000.
"Forms of Property Rights or Class Capacities: The
Example of Tuscan Sharecropping." Archives
Europeennes de Sociologie
(The European Journal of Sociology) 41(1):22-52, 2000.
"Means and Measures: Property Rights, Political
Economy, and Productivity in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany." Social Forces 78(2): 461-490, 1999.
"The Length of Leases: Short-Term Contracts and
Long-Term Relationships." Viator 30:345-382,
1999.
"Traces of Certainty: Recording Death and Taxes in
Fifteenth-Century Tuscany." The
Journal of Interdisciplinary History XXX(II, Autumn):181-198, 1999.
"The Mystery of the Missing Middle-Tenants: The
'Negative' Case of Fixed-Term Leasing and Agricultural Investment in
Fifteenth-Century Tuscany," Theory
and Society 27(3):351-375, 1998.
"Labor Use and Landlord Control: Sharecroppers'
Household Structure in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany," The Journal of Historical Sociology
11(1):37-73, 1998.
"Land Tenure, Household Structure, and Fertility:
Aggregate Analyses of Fifteenth-Century Rural Tuscan Communities," The International Journal of Sociology and
Social Policy 17(7/8):220-254, 1997.
"Land Tenure, Household Structure, and Age of
Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany," The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 27(4):613-635, 1997.
"The Spread of Sharecropping in
Tuscany: The Political Economy of Transaction Costs," The American Sociological
Review 62:423-442, 1997. (Honorable Mention, Barrington Moore Prize
for Best Article, Comparative and Historical Section of the American
Sociological Association, 1999.)
"The Power of Negative Thinking:
The Use of Negative Case Methodology in the Development of Sociological
Theory," Theory
and Society 26:649-684, 1997.
"Loans
and Livestock: Comparing Landlords' and Tenants' Declarations from the Catasto of 1427," The Journal of European Economic History 25(3):705-723, 1996.
“Review of Fifteen Generations of Bretons: Kinship
and Society in Lower Brittany, 1720-1980, by Martine Segalen.”
American Journal of Sociology
98(1):214-216, 1992.
"Poverty and Polygyny as
Political Protest: The Waldensians and Mormons,"
Journal of Historical Sociology
5(4):462-484, 1992.
“Polygynous Fertility: Sexual
Competition versus Progeny," American
Journal of Sociology 94:832-855, 1989 (second author; with first author:
Douglas L. Anderton).
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