Lloyd P. Gartner
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195134681
- eISBN:
- 9780199848652
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195134681.003.0021
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
A review of the book, Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American Jewish Past by Henry L. Feingold is presented. The book presents Feingold's collected articles, some of which originated as ...
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A review of the book, Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American Jewish Past by Henry L. Feingold is presented. The book presents Feingold's collected articles, some of which originated as lectures to Jewish organizations, and others that appeared mainly in the labor Zionist magazine, Jewish Frontier. One of Feingold's virtues, present here, is a skillful analysis of the contemporary American Jewish scene. He draws historical parallels with restraint, his articles and lectures are fluent and read easily — and they make points. The most prominent of Feingold's observations is the effect of liberalism and secularization on American Jews.Less
A review of the book, Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American Jewish Past by Henry L. Feingold is presented. The book presents Feingold's collected articles, some of which originated as lectures to Jewish organizations, and others that appeared mainly in the labor Zionist magazine, Jewish Frontier. One of Feingold's virtues, present here, is a skillful analysis of the contemporary American Jewish scene. He draws historical parallels with restraint, his articles and lectures are fluent and read easily — and they make points. The most prominent of Feingold's observations is the effect of liberalism and secularization on American Jews.
Cicely Saunders
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198570530
- eISBN:
- 9780191730412
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198570530.003.0015
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine Research
The 1966 paper reproduced here, published in an ecumenically-oriented Christian quarterly, Frontier, sees death as ‘the frontier where physical, mental and spiritual meet’. It advises that pain is ...
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The 1966 paper reproduced here, published in an ecumenically-oriented Christian quarterly, Frontier, sees death as ‘the frontier where physical, mental and spiritual meet’. It advises that pain is neither inevitable nor common in the dying, but that when present it can be complex in manifestation. It can however be controlled by a programme of drugs which still allows the patient to remain alert. Such was the case with ‘Louie’, a long term patient who is quoted at length in the article. Louie's words come from a tape-recorded interview with Cicely Saunders and are presented as an example of ‘pain controlled by drugs while yet the patient is able to entertain an intense spiritual awareness of all that is going on’.Less
The 1966 paper reproduced here, published in an ecumenically-oriented Christian quarterly, Frontier, sees death as ‘the frontier where physical, mental and spiritual meet’. It advises that pain is neither inevitable nor common in the dying, but that when present it can be complex in manifestation. It can however be controlled by a programme of drugs which still allows the patient to remain alert. Such was the case with ‘Louie’, a long term patient who is quoted at length in the article. Louie's words come from a tape-recorded interview with Cicely Saunders and are presented as an example of ‘pain controlled by drugs while yet the patient is able to entertain an intense spiritual awareness of all that is going on’.
Abigail A. Kohn
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195150513
- eISBN:
- 9780199944095
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195150513.003.0012
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture, Sport and Leisure
This chapter describes the sport of cowboy action shooting, the gun sport that most explicitly dramatizes the narrative of American Frontier history. It explains that this sport is conducted in a ...
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This chapter describes the sport of cowboy action shooting, the gun sport that most explicitly dramatizes the narrative of American Frontier history. It explains that this sport is conducted in a venue that ostensibly gave birth to images of traditional American gender roles and forms of Frontier-oriented entertainment. It argues that cowboy action shooting presents a vision of the American Frontier in which white, middle-class good guys can create small, self-contained communities based on shared values and lifestyles. It describes cowboy shoots governed by the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS).Less
This chapter describes the sport of cowboy action shooting, the gun sport that most explicitly dramatizes the narrative of American Frontier history. It explains that this sport is conducted in a venue that ostensibly gave birth to images of traditional American gender roles and forms of Frontier-oriented entertainment. It argues that cowboy action shooting presents a vision of the American Frontier in which white, middle-class good guys can create small, self-contained communities based on shared values and lifestyles. It describes cowboy shoots governed by the Single Action Shooting Society (SASS).
Philip Wood
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199588497
- eISBN:
- 9780191595424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199588497.003.0008
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern History: BCE to 500CE
This final chapter investigates how the kind of political and historical ideas employed among Syriac‐speaking Miaphysites in Mesopotamia were exported elsewhere in the Roman world, focl1sing on the ...
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This final chapter investigates how the kind of political and historical ideas employed among Syriac‐speaking Miaphysites in Mesopotamia were exported elsewhere in the Roman world, focl1sing on the border zones of Rome's conflict with Persia, on Yemen (Himyar) and the lands controlled by the Ghassanid Arab federation (centred in modern‐day northern Jordan). The persecuted missionary church of Miaphysites exported a distinctive paradigm ofhistory, by which new Christian territories such as Himyar could repeat the defining moments of Christian nationhood, the experience of martyrdom and the overthrow of the Jews. Moreover, while this struggle was part of a wider struggle against the Jews, it did not tie Himyar into the political orbit of the Roman lfmpire. It is this evolution of a self‐sufficient political thought in the communities of the late Roman and post‐Roman east that is one of the most important achievements of Miaphysitism in the Syriac‐speaking world.Less
This final chapter investigates how the kind of political and historical ideas employed among Syriac‐speaking Miaphysites in Mesopotamia were exported elsewhere in the Roman world, focl1sing on the border zones of Rome's conflict with Persia, on Yemen (Himyar) and the lands controlled by the Ghassanid Arab federation (centred in modern‐day northern Jordan). The persecuted missionary church of Miaphysites exported a distinctive paradigm ofhistory, by which new Christian territories such as Himyar could repeat the defining moments of Christian nationhood, the experience of martyrdom and the overthrow of the Jews. Moreover, while this struggle was part of a wider struggle against the Jews, it did not tie Himyar into the political orbit of the Roman lfmpire. It is this evolution of a self‐sufficient political thought in the communities of the late Roman and post‐Roman east that is one of the most important achievements of Miaphysitism in the Syriac‐speaking world.
Mandy Sadan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780197265550
- eISBN:
- 9780191760341
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197265550.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter considers the impact of World War II on the Kachin region. It examines evidence for the motivations of Kachin volunteers during the war in the Kachin Levies and other organisations. It ...
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This chapter considers the impact of World War II on the Kachin region. It examines evidence for the motivations of Kachin volunteers during the war in the Kachin Levies and other organisations. It examines the demographics of this conflict and its impact on the development of politicised Kachin youth groups. It discusses their role in developing political strategy for Kachin State in the Union of Burma at the Panglong Conference and Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry in 1947. The chapter also looks at the developments in this region in a broader regional context to understand how related communities in Burma, India, and China interacted with each other and with their respective national governments during the early post-World War II years.Less
This chapter considers the impact of World War II on the Kachin region. It examines evidence for the motivations of Kachin volunteers during the war in the Kachin Levies and other organisations. It examines the demographics of this conflict and its impact on the development of politicised Kachin youth groups. It discusses their role in developing political strategy for Kachin State in the Union of Burma at the Panglong Conference and Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry in 1947. The chapter also looks at the developments in this region in a broader regional context to understand how related communities in Burma, India, and China interacted with each other and with their respective national governments during the early post-World War II years.
Andrew K. Frank and A. Glenn Crothers (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813054957
- eISBN:
- 9780813053400
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054957.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This collection of original essays extends the concept of boderlands—as both a process and place—to geographic places and topics not usually considered in this realm. This includes African slavery, ...
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This collection of original essays extends the concept of boderlands—as both a process and place—to geographic places and topics not usually considered in this realm. This includes African slavery, missionaries, the Ohio Valley, and other non-Spanish regions. Positioning these regions and topics as comparable to other early North American crossroads and meeting places highlights how the mingling of people and cultures shaped North America’s history before 1850. Equally important, it helps illuminate scholars’s growing focus on the process of borderland formation across a variety of North American regions. Collectively, the essays in this volume reveal how the field is currently unfolding and urge scholars to abandon the geographic determinism of the first definition. The southwestern United States-Mexico border remains an ideal locale to employ the concept as a metaphor and as an intellectual tool, but this volume reveals the merits of employing borderlands to create more nuanced narratives of the intersection of people and ideas in the Ohio Valley and elsewhere in early North America.Less
This collection of original essays extends the concept of boderlands—as both a process and place—to geographic places and topics not usually considered in this realm. This includes African slavery, missionaries, the Ohio Valley, and other non-Spanish regions. Positioning these regions and topics as comparable to other early North American crossroads and meeting places highlights how the mingling of people and cultures shaped North America’s history before 1850. Equally important, it helps illuminate scholars’s growing focus on the process of borderland formation across a variety of North American regions. Collectively, the essays in this volume reveal how the field is currently unfolding and urge scholars to abandon the geographic determinism of the first definition. The southwestern United States-Mexico border remains an ideal locale to employ the concept as a metaphor and as an intellectual tool, but this volume reveals the merits of employing borderlands to create more nuanced narratives of the intersection of people and ideas in the Ohio Valley and elsewhere in early North America.
Robert I. Burns
- Published in print:
- 1992
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198203612
- eISBN:
- 9780191675898
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203612.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
The frontier is a heroic place to take one's stand. On the other hand, the frontier in history, and its image in letters and film, is a concept umbilically attached to Frederick Jackson Turner, a ...
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The frontier is a heroic place to take one's stand. On the other hand, the frontier in history, and its image in letters and film, is a concept umbilically attached to Frederick Jackson Turner, a historian half a century dead, whose theories have been savaged and repudiated. It is common to find Turner absurd, and by extension any multiplication of frontiers wherever descried. In order to approach the significance of the frontier, then, one must first come to terms with the notion of frontier itself. This means confronting Turner and his Thesis. Turner has become a kind of vampire, killed on many a day with a stake through his Thesis, yet ever undead and stalking abroad. His paradigm for the history of the American West has currently transmogrified into separate varieties of neo-Turnerism. The chapter further discusses Robert Porter, Turnerianism, and Turner's Frontier Thesis.Less
The frontier is a heroic place to take one's stand. On the other hand, the frontier in history, and its image in letters and film, is a concept umbilically attached to Frederick Jackson Turner, a historian half a century dead, whose theories have been savaged and repudiated. It is common to find Turner absurd, and by extension any multiplication of frontiers wherever descried. In order to approach the significance of the frontier, then, one must first come to terms with the notion of frontier itself. This means confronting Turner and his Thesis. Turner has become a kind of vampire, killed on many a day with a stake through his Thesis, yet ever undead and stalking abroad. His paradigm for the history of the American West has currently transmogrified into separate varieties of neo-Turnerism. The chapter further discusses Robert Porter, Turnerianism, and Turner's Frontier Thesis.
Wayne A. Logan
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804757102
- eISBN:
- 9780804771399
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804757102.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. This book traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come ...
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Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. This book traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity—criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated in the 1930s as a means of monitoring gangsters, went largely unused for decades before experiencing a dramatic resurgence in the 1990s. Since then it has been complemented by community notification laws, which, like the “Wanted” posters of the Frontier West, publicly disclose registrants' identifying information, involving entire communities in the criminal monitoring process. The book provides an in-depth history and analysis of criminal registration and community notification laws, examining the potent forces driving their rapid nationwide proliferation in the 1990s through today, as well as exploring how the laws have affected the nation's law, society, and governance. In doing so, it provides compelling insights into the manifold ways in which registration and notification reflect and influence life in modern America.Less
Societies have long sought security by identifying potentially dangerous individuals in their midst. America is surely no exception. This book traces the evolution of a modern technique that has come to enjoy nationwide popularity—criminal registration laws. Registration, which originated in the 1930s as a means of monitoring gangsters, went largely unused for decades before experiencing a dramatic resurgence in the 1990s. Since then it has been complemented by community notification laws, which, like the “Wanted” posters of the Frontier West, publicly disclose registrants' identifying information, involving entire communities in the criminal monitoring process. The book provides an in-depth history and analysis of criminal registration and community notification laws, examining the potent forces driving their rapid nationwide proliferation in the 1990s through today, as well as exploring how the laws have affected the nation's law, society, and governance. In doing so, it provides compelling insights into the manifold ways in which registration and notification reflect and influence life in modern America.
Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469646862
- eISBN:
- 9781469646886
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646862.003.0008
- Subject:
- Education, Higher and Further Education
The war on disease has been a primary animating purpose of higher education and the partnership with the public ever since Vannevar Bush wrote the influential paper, Science: The Endless Frontier, ...
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The war on disease has been a primary animating purpose of higher education and the partnership with the public ever since Vannevar Bush wrote the influential paper, Science: The Endless Frontier, that led to the formation of the federal funding research enterprise. The academic medicine function of universities is politically popular and often seen as separate from the ideas that obtain in undergraduate education. Nonetheless, it is important for presidents and trustees to see the relationship closely. The governance of academic medicine is complex and can involve interlocking lay boards and tricky relationships with the board, chancellor or president, and provost.Less
The war on disease has been a primary animating purpose of higher education and the partnership with the public ever since Vannevar Bush wrote the influential paper, Science: The Endless Frontier, that led to the formation of the federal funding research enterprise. The academic medicine function of universities is politically popular and often seen as separate from the ideas that obtain in undergraduate education. Nonetheless, it is important for presidents and trustees to see the relationship closely. The governance of academic medicine is complex and can involve interlocking lay boards and tricky relationships with the board, chancellor or president, and provost.
Sonia Alconini
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062914
- eISBN:
- 9780813059631
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062914.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Southeast Inka Frontiers explores how the Inka empire exercised control over vast expanses of land and peoples in the Southeastern frontier, a territory located over hundreds of kilometers away from ...
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Southeast Inka Frontiers explores how the Inka empire exercised control over vast expanses of land and peoples in the Southeastern frontier, a territory located over hundreds of kilometers away from the capital city of Cuzco. This frontier region was the setting for the fascinating encounter between the Inka, the largest empire in the pre-Columbian world, and the fierce Guaraní tribes from the tropical mountains and beyond. This singular encounter also occasioned radical shifts in the political economy of many indigenous frontier populations like the Yampara. Based on extensive field research, this manuscript explores these changes by using different scales of analysis and lines of evidence. Only through a deeper, cross-regional understanding of the multifaceted socioeconomic processes that transpired in the different Inka frontier regions can we elucidate the mechanics of this remarkable empire, and the associated effects on the lives of the indigenous populations.Less
Southeast Inka Frontiers explores how the Inka empire exercised control over vast expanses of land and peoples in the Southeastern frontier, a territory located over hundreds of kilometers away from the capital city of Cuzco. This frontier region was the setting for the fascinating encounter between the Inka, the largest empire in the pre-Columbian world, and the fierce Guaraní tribes from the tropical mountains and beyond. This singular encounter also occasioned radical shifts in the political economy of many indigenous frontier populations like the Yampara. Based on extensive field research, this manuscript explores these changes by using different scales of analysis and lines of evidence. Only through a deeper, cross-regional understanding of the multifaceted socioeconomic processes that transpired in the different Inka frontier regions can we elucidate the mechanics of this remarkable empire, and the associated effects on the lives of the indigenous populations.
Matthew Carter
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748685585
- eISBN:
- 9780748697038
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748685585.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
What is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs ...
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What is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards the frontier? Is there still a place for the genre in light of revisionist histories of the American West? Myth of the Western re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology, arguing for the importance of the genre's socio-cultural, historical and political dimensions. A number of critical-theoretical and philosophical approaches are applied to prominent forms of frontier historiography. The book also considers the historiographic element of the Western by exploring the different ways in which the genre has responded to the issues raised by the frontier. Deconstructing the division of the genre into classical, revisionist, and post Westerns, this book argues that the genre has – and continues to reveal – the complexities and contradictions at the heart of US society. With its clear analyses of and intellectual challenges to the film scholarship that has developed around the Western over a 65-year period, Myth of the Western adds new depth to our understanding of specific film texts and of the genre as a whole – a welcome resource for students and scholars in both Film Studies and American Studies.Less
What is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? How have Western films helped develop cultural and historical perceptions, attitudes and beliefs towards the frontier? Is there still a place for the genre in light of revisionist histories of the American West? Myth of the Western re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology, arguing for the importance of the genre's socio-cultural, historical and political dimensions. A number of critical-theoretical and philosophical approaches are applied to prominent forms of frontier historiography. The book also considers the historiographic element of the Western by exploring the different ways in which the genre has responded to the issues raised by the frontier. Deconstructing the division of the genre into classical, revisionist, and post Westerns, this book argues that the genre has – and continues to reveal – the complexities and contradictions at the heart of US society. With its clear analyses of and intellectual challenges to the film scholarship that has developed around the Western over a 65-year period, Myth of the Western adds new depth to our understanding of specific film texts and of the genre as a whole – a welcome resource for students and scholars in both Film Studies and American Studies.
Ulrike Matthies Green and Kirk E. Costion (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813056883
- eISBN:
- 9780813053660
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813056883.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
Archaeologists who study cross-cultural interaction face the challenge of carefully untangling the web of complex relationships between people, landscapes, and material cultures. Over time the debate ...
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Archaeologists who study cross-cultural interaction face the challenge of carefully untangling the web of complex relationships between people, landscapes, and material cultures. Over time the debate on describing cultural interaction scenarios centered on changing definitions of colonialism and frontier and at times obscured the in-depth analysis of complex social processes that take place in these contexts. In an attempt to bridge this gap, this book introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM) as a tool to visually display and organize the inherent complexity of the social, economic, and political interactions that take place in multicultural borderlands or across long distances. Through the CCIM, scholars are able to explore a wide spectrum of cultural interactions, expose what motivates participation in cultural exchanges, or highlight what people reject in these interactions. Throughout the book the CCIM is adapted by various scholars to specific datasets from a wide variety of geographical and temporal contexts around the world. The adaption of the CCIM in these and other case studies demonstrates not only the versatility of the model in multicultural contexts but also highlights its usefulness as an analytical tool. The process of graphically modelling cross-cultural interactions compels scholars to think about them in a different light and can be applicable not just in archaeological, but also historical and contemporary scenarios.Less
Archaeologists who study cross-cultural interaction face the challenge of carefully untangling the web of complex relationships between people, landscapes, and material cultures. Over time the debate on describing cultural interaction scenarios centered on changing definitions of colonialism and frontier and at times obscured the in-depth analysis of complex social processes that take place in these contexts. In an attempt to bridge this gap, this book introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM) as a tool to visually display and organize the inherent complexity of the social, economic, and political interactions that take place in multicultural borderlands or across long distances. Through the CCIM, scholars are able to explore a wide spectrum of cultural interactions, expose what motivates participation in cultural exchanges, or highlight what people reject in these interactions. Throughout the book the CCIM is adapted by various scholars to specific datasets from a wide variety of geographical and temporal contexts around the world. The adaption of the CCIM in these and other case studies demonstrates not only the versatility of the model in multicultural contexts but also highlights its usefulness as an analytical tool. The process of graphically modelling cross-cultural interactions compels scholars to think about them in a different light and can be applicable not just in archaeological, but also historical and contemporary scenarios.
MARK STEIN
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264423
- eISBN:
- 9780191734793
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264423.003.0023
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
Just over a century ago, Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous Frontier Thesis, which continues to be one of the most debated and controversial theories in historical scholarship and has ...
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Just over a century ago, Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous Frontier Thesis, which continues to be one of the most debated and controversial theories in historical scholarship and has affected all discussions of frontier history worldwide. This chapter explores one aspect of Turner's work that may be applicable to other frontiers — that of the frontier as a zone of economic opportunity. It discusses how military service on the seventeenth-century Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier presented a number of chances for economic advancement to men who were willing to take the risks of living and working along the border. Moving to the frontier offered economic opportunities not found in the interior. In North America, a large part of the opportunity was the potential to acquire land. It is possible that in some cases there was similar opportunity along the seventeenth-century Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier.Less
Just over a century ago, Frederick Jackson Turner presented his famous Frontier Thesis, which continues to be one of the most debated and controversial theories in historical scholarship and has affected all discussions of frontier history worldwide. This chapter explores one aspect of Turner's work that may be applicable to other frontiers — that of the frontier as a zone of economic opportunity. It discusses how military service on the seventeenth-century Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier presented a number of chances for economic advancement to men who were willing to take the risks of living and working along the border. Moving to the frontier offered economic opportunities not found in the interior. In North America, a large part of the opportunity was the potential to acquire land. It is possible that in some cases there was similar opportunity along the seventeenth-century Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier.
James K. Hoffmeier
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195130881
- eISBN:
- 9780199853403
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195130881.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
In the early 1970s, a team of scientists of the Geological Survey of Israel, while working in the Sinai Peninsula during Israel's occupation of the territory east of the Suez Canal, discovered the ...
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In the early 1970s, a team of scientists of the Geological Survey of Israel, while working in the Sinai Peninsula during Israel's occupation of the territory east of the Suez Canal, discovered the remains of what they believed was a canal that ran along Egypt's border with the Sinai. Aerial photography and on-site study led to this identification by the leaders of the team, Amihai Sneh and Tuvia Weissbrod. The close relationship between the Fortress of Tjaru and the canal supports the hypothesis that the canal had a defensive purpose as an extensive moat. If indeed a canal existed along Egypt's border with Sinai during the New Kingdom, and the evidence does support this view, it seems logical to conclude that it would have been an impediment to the Israelites in their Exodus from Egypt. A number of intriguing questions remain to be answered about the Eastern Frontier Canal.Less
In the early 1970s, a team of scientists of the Geological Survey of Israel, while working in the Sinai Peninsula during Israel's occupation of the territory east of the Suez Canal, discovered the remains of what they believed was a canal that ran along Egypt's border with the Sinai. Aerial photography and on-site study led to this identification by the leaders of the team, Amihai Sneh and Tuvia Weissbrod. The close relationship between the Fortress of Tjaru and the canal supports the hypothesis that the canal had a defensive purpose as an extensive moat. If indeed a canal existed along Egypt's border with Sinai during the New Kingdom, and the evidence does support this view, it seems logical to conclude that it would have been an impediment to the Israelites in their Exodus from Egypt. A number of intriguing questions remain to be answered about the Eastern Frontier Canal.
William Hardy McNeill
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691174143
- eISBN:
- 9781400885107
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691174143.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
William Hardy McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. This book is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass. Now with a new ...
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William Hardy McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. This book is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass. Now with a new foreword, the book brings together two of McNeill's popular short books and an essay. The Human Condition provides a provocative interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human. McNeill discusses shifting patterns of microparasitism and macroparasitism and how they affected and continue to affect human history. McNeill uses the term “macroparasites” in a metaphorical sense to refer to the subsets of the human race that included rulers and bureaucrats, and, at times, military men. Macroparasitism can thus be defined as exploitative relations among groups and classes of human beings. The Great Frontier questions the notion of “frontier freedom” through an examination of European expansion. Formulated in the late 1880s, Turner's argument postulated a connection between the wide open spaces of the American frontier and the democratic culture and rugged individualism of American society. The concluding essay speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives. McNeill discusses catastrophes as a recurrent phenomenon in human history and one that can never be banished from human experience.Less
William Hardy McNeill is known for his ability to portray the grand sweep of history. This book is a classic work for understanding the grand sweep of world history in brief compass. Now with a new foreword, the book brings together two of McNeill's popular short books and an essay. The Human Condition provides a provocative interpretation of history as a competition of parasites, both biological and human. McNeill discusses shifting patterns of microparasitism and macroparasitism and how they affected and continue to affect human history. McNeill uses the term “macroparasites” in a metaphorical sense to refer to the subsets of the human race that included rulers and bureaucrats, and, at times, military men. Macroparasitism can thus be defined as exploitative relations among groups and classes of human beings. The Great Frontier questions the notion of “frontier freedom” through an examination of European expansion. Formulated in the late 1880s, Turner's argument postulated a connection between the wide open spaces of the American frontier and the democratic culture and rugged individualism of American society. The concluding essay speculates on the role of catastrophe in our lives. McNeill discusses catastrophes as a recurrent phenomenon in human history and one that can never be banished from human experience.
Bill Schwarz
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199296910
- eISBN:
- 9780191730887
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296910.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Beginning with a discussion of the idea of the colonial frontier, the chapter moves to a historical account of the formation of white Australia in the second half of the 19th century. It focuses ...
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Beginning with a discussion of the idea of the colonial frontier, the chapter moves to a historical account of the formation of white Australia in the second half of the 19th century. It focuses particularly on the person of the Henry Parkes, once an old Chartist radical and thence becoming a key figure in formulating the idea of the new Commonwealth of Australia as white. A critical issue addressed is the question of the Chinese in Australia. The chapter closes with a reading of the echoes of anti-Chinese, pro-white sentiments in the metropole in the period before the First World War.Less
Beginning with a discussion of the idea of the colonial frontier, the chapter moves to a historical account of the formation of white Australia in the second half of the 19th century. It focuses particularly on the person of the Henry Parkes, once an old Chartist radical and thence becoming a key figure in formulating the idea of the new Commonwealth of Australia as white. A critical issue addressed is the question of the Chinese in Australia. The chapter closes with a reading of the echoes of anti-Chinese, pro-white sentiments in the metropole in the period before the First World War.
Gwynne Tuell Potts
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178677
- eISBN:
- 9780813178707
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
Before “Colonel” George Croghan became Sir William Johnson’s British deputy Indian Supervisor, he traveled as far as today’s Cleveland to trade goods with Ohio Natives. Ruined during the trade hiatus ...
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Before “Colonel” George Croghan became Sir William Johnson’s British deputy Indian Supervisor, he traveled as far as today’s Cleveland to trade goods with Ohio Natives. Ruined during the trade hiatus created by the French and Indian War, Croghan was with Washington at the fall of Fort Necessity and Braddock’s defeat before he and Johnson witnessed the destruction of British forces at Fort Ticonderoga.
At Fort Pitt in postwar service to the Crown, Croghan welcomed his Irish nephew, William Croghan, and taught young George Rogers Clark the ways of the West.He was the father of two daughters: Susanna, whomarried a British officer, and Catherine, whose mother led the Mohawk nation’s Turtle Clan.Less
Before “Colonel” George Croghan became Sir William Johnson’s British deputy Indian Supervisor, he traveled as far as today’s Cleveland to trade goods with Ohio Natives. Ruined during the trade hiatus created by the French and Indian War, Croghan was with Washington at the fall of Fort Necessity and Braddock’s defeat before he and Johnson witnessed the destruction of British forces at Fort Ticonderoga.
At Fort Pitt in postwar service to the Crown, Croghan welcomed his Irish nephew, William Croghan, and taught young George Rogers Clark the ways of the West.He was the father of two daughters: Susanna, whomarried a British officer, and Catherine, whose mother led the Mohawk nation’s Turtle Clan.
Gwynne Tuell Potts
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813178677
- eISBN:
- 9780813178707
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813178677.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
Jefferson gave Clark orders to mount a Detroit attack on Christmas Day, 1780. The governor’s decision was the result of three years of regular British–Native attacks on Kentucky settlements emanating ...
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Jefferson gave Clark orders to mount a Detroit attack on Christmas Day, 1780. The governor’s decision was the result of three years of regular British–Native attacks on Kentucky settlements emanating from the Crown’s western fort. Recruiting in the Fort Pitt area, Clark’s ability to raise an army was hampered by the region’s divide between Pennsylvania and Virginia allegiances.
With few men and supplies, Clark started down the Ohio in midsummer, warning Jefferson and Washington that his chances of success were slim. Pennsylvania militia leader, Archibald Lochry followed Clark with more men and most of the expedition’s supplies, and it was this unit that was attacked by Detroit scouts, including Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, husband of George Croghan’s second daughter, Catherine. Lochry and thirty-six others were executed and the survivors were marched to Detroit, ending Clark’s last opportunity to take Detroit.Less
Jefferson gave Clark orders to mount a Detroit attack on Christmas Day, 1780. The governor’s decision was the result of three years of regular British–Native attacks on Kentucky settlements emanating from the Crown’s western fort. Recruiting in the Fort Pitt area, Clark’s ability to raise an army was hampered by the region’s divide between Pennsylvania and Virginia allegiances.
With few men and supplies, Clark started down the Ohio in midsummer, warning Jefferson and Washington that his chances of success were slim. Pennsylvania militia leader, Archibald Lochry followed Clark with more men and most of the expedition’s supplies, and it was this unit that was attacked by Detroit scouts, including Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, husband of George Croghan’s second daughter, Catherine. Lochry and thirty-six others were executed and the survivors were marched to Detroit, ending Clark’s last opportunity to take Detroit.
Paul Geerlings
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190668532
- eISBN:
- 9780197559765
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190668532.003.0011
- Subject:
- Chemistry, Physical Chemistry
“The periodic table of the elements is one of the most powerful icons in science: a single document that captures the essence of chemistry in an elegant pattern.” This ...
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“The periodic table of the elements is one of the most powerful icons in science: a single document that captures the essence of chemistry in an elegant pattern.” This statement taken from Eric Scerri’s marvelous book The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance (Scerri 2007) grasps in one simple sentence the status that the periodic table has acquired in chemistry, but not only in chemistry: every person all over the world who took high school chemistry remembers for the rest of his/her life at least one thing from it (and from science courses in general): this mysterious table of the elements omnipresent in all books and documents, often decorating the classroom. Why? Although the answer is not easy it is probably because a whole discipline of science is condensed in a simple table or scheme offering at one glimpse the essence (and the beauty) of a part of science which for the rest of the lives of many students will remain unexplored—and even for which these students will create an aversion among others in view of the “polluting role” of chemistry. Nevertheless at some moment in their lives these students felt “something” that was remarkable and which they always remember, as witnessed by their comments when visiting their old school of university with their children. In the hierarchy of the sciences chemistry is often considered, mainly by physicists, as the “physics of the outer shell.” It is sometimes said that chemistry, as also quoted by Scerri (2007), has no deep ideas, not a few fundamental laws like in physics or biology (such as those governing quantum mechanics, relativity and evolution), but the not-so-distant observer will disagree: chemical periodicity as precisely reflected in the periodic table is in my view not only the most fundamental law of chemistry, but is a law or if you want an “organizing principle” with the same status as these famous laws in adjacent disciplines! Chemical periodicity is at the heart of reducing an astonishing amount of experimental data (and nowadays theoretical data as well) to a limited number of patterns often with common origin, enabling one to understand and interpret the properties of the now more-than 50 million compounds registered in the databases of the Chemical Abstracts Services (Toussant, 2009).
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“The periodic table of the elements is one of the most powerful icons in science: a single document that captures the essence of chemistry in an elegant pattern.” This statement taken from Eric Scerri’s marvelous book The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance (Scerri 2007) grasps in one simple sentence the status that the periodic table has acquired in chemistry, but not only in chemistry: every person all over the world who took high school chemistry remembers for the rest of his/her life at least one thing from it (and from science courses in general): this mysterious table of the elements omnipresent in all books and documents, often decorating the classroom. Why? Although the answer is not easy it is probably because a whole discipline of science is condensed in a simple table or scheme offering at one glimpse the essence (and the beauty) of a part of science which for the rest of the lives of many students will remain unexplored—and even for which these students will create an aversion among others in view of the “polluting role” of chemistry. Nevertheless at some moment in their lives these students felt “something” that was remarkable and which they always remember, as witnessed by their comments when visiting their old school of university with their children. In the hierarchy of the sciences chemistry is often considered, mainly by physicists, as the “physics of the outer shell.” It is sometimes said that chemistry, as also quoted by Scerri (2007), has no deep ideas, not a few fundamental laws like in physics or biology (such as those governing quantum mechanics, relativity and evolution), but the not-so-distant observer will disagree: chemical periodicity as precisely reflected in the periodic table is in my view not only the most fundamental law of chemistry, but is a law or if you want an “organizing principle” with the same status as these famous laws in adjacent disciplines! Chemical periodicity is at the heart of reducing an astonishing amount of experimental data (and nowadays theoretical data as well) to a limited number of patterns often with common origin, enabling one to understand and interpret the properties of the now more-than 50 million compounds registered in the databases of the Chemical Abstracts Services (Toussant, 2009).
Itty Abraham
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804791632
- eISBN:
- 9780804792684
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804791632.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter examines geopolitics as a territorializing practice of foreign policy. It begins with an account of imperial geopolitics, with an eye to showing the continuities between colonial and ...
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This chapter examines geopolitics as a territorializing practice of foreign policy. It begins with an account of imperial geopolitics, with an eye to showing the continuities between colonial and postcolonial geopolitical practices. Even nonalignment, it is shown, is based on geopolitical thinking. This is followed by an exploration of the debate between Nehru and Patel following the Chinese annexation of Tibet. The discussion shows that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, these two figures agreed on basic principles and differed only on tactics. The final section deals with India's northeast. Through a historical account of the emergence of the northeast as a civilizational and geophysical frontier, this chapter argues that this region has become a “space of exception” where citizenship rights and legal protections are permanently suspended. Through contrast with this extreme space, the rest of India becomes identified as a normal and orderly political space.Less
This chapter examines geopolitics as a territorializing practice of foreign policy. It begins with an account of imperial geopolitics, with an eye to showing the continuities between colonial and postcolonial geopolitical practices. Even nonalignment, it is shown, is based on geopolitical thinking. This is followed by an exploration of the debate between Nehru and Patel following the Chinese annexation of Tibet. The discussion shows that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, these two figures agreed on basic principles and differed only on tactics. The final section deals with India's northeast. Through a historical account of the emergence of the northeast as a civilizational and geophysical frontier, this chapter argues that this region has become a “space of exception” where citizenship rights and legal protections are permanently suspended. Through contrast with this extreme space, the rest of India becomes identified as a normal and orderly political space.
