John Prest
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201755
- eISBN:
- 9780191675003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201755.003.0018
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the adoption of the Local Government Act of 1858 by suburbs of Huddersfield. Moldgreen was the first locality in the Huddersfield area to adopt the Local Government Act. It was ...
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This chapter discusses the adoption of the Local Government Act of 1858 by suburbs of Huddersfield. Moldgreen was the first locality in the Huddersfield area to adopt the Local Government Act. It was followed within the next few years by a rush of others. The first group consists of four townships named in the Huddersfield Act of 1848 which lived under the immediate threat of being brought within the jurisdiction of the Improvement Commissioners: Marsh, Fartown, Deighton, and Bradley. The second group includes places lying just a little way further outside the town, which were also incorporated with it in 1868, and the third includes more remote towns and villages which were in no danger of being absorbed by Huddersfield in the 19th century.Less
This chapter discusses the adoption of the Local Government Act of 1858 by suburbs of Huddersfield. Moldgreen was the first locality in the Huddersfield area to adopt the Local Government Act. It was followed within the next few years by a rush of others. The first group consists of four townships named in the Huddersfield Act of 1848 which lived under the immediate threat of being brought within the jurisdiction of the Improvement Commissioners: Marsh, Fartown, Deighton, and Bradley. The second group includes places lying just a little way further outside the town, which were also incorporated with it in 1868, and the third includes more remote towns and villages which were in no danger of being absorbed by Huddersfield in the 19th century.
Mark A. Noll
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195151114
- eISBN:
- 9780199834532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195151119.003.0012
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
In the early nineteenth century, a great deal of diversity existed in American theology. Nevertheless, despite substantial differences, American religious thinkers during this period were dominated ...
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In the early nineteenth century, a great deal of diversity existed in American theology. Nevertheless, despite substantial differences, American religious thinkers during this period were dominated by Christians – mostly Protestants – and emphasized commonsense republican understandings of authority over against traditional standards. Even in disagreements, the commonsense republican approach to Christianity set the boundaries for dispute.Less
In the early nineteenth century, a great deal of diversity existed in American theology. Nevertheless, despite substantial differences, American religious thinkers during this period were dominated by Christians – mostly Protestants – and emphasized commonsense republican understandings of authority over against traditional standards. Even in disagreements, the commonsense republican approach to Christianity set the boundaries for dispute.
Bernard L. Herman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469653471
- eISBN:
- 9781469653495
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653471.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Marsh hens (mud hens, sage hens, clapper rails, rail birds) are the emblem of marshland worlds of men hunting vast wetland meadows and marshlands of salt grass, cooking together in clam houses and ...
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Marsh hens (mud hens, sage hens, clapper rails, rail birds) are the emblem of marshland worlds of men hunting vast wetland meadows and marshlands of salt grass, cooking together in clam houses and garage kitchens. This chapter examines the natural history of marsh hens, hunting lore, storytelling, terroir, foodways and regional identity through historical narratives, recipes, and oral histories.Less
Marsh hens (mud hens, sage hens, clapper rails, rail birds) are the emblem of marshland worlds of men hunting vast wetland meadows and marshlands of salt grass, cooking together in clam houses and garage kitchens. This chapter examines the natural history of marsh hens, hunting lore, storytelling, terroir, foodways and regional identity through historical narratives, recipes, and oral histories.
Henry B. Wonham
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195161946
- eISBN:
- 9780199788101
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161946.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter explores Mark Twain's life-long fascination with ethnic humor and caricature, highlighting the oxymoronic logic involved in his affection for “the genuine nigger show” and other forms of ...
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This chapter explores Mark Twain's life-long fascination with ethnic humor and caricature, highlighting the oxymoronic logic involved in his affection for “the genuine nigger show” and other forms of patently racist entertainment. This book traces the history of minstrel comedy in America and its transformation during the late 19th century into a new set of comedic conventions, including the “coon show” and the “variety show.” The chapter also explores the relationship between Huckleberry Finn's illustrations, which draw heavily on “coon” imagery and the novel's ostensibly “realist” tendencies.Less
This chapter explores Mark Twain's life-long fascination with ethnic humor and caricature, highlighting the oxymoronic logic involved in his affection for “the genuine nigger show” and other forms of patently racist entertainment. This book traces the history of minstrel comedy in America and its transformation during the late 19th century into a new set of comedic conventions, including the “coon show” and the “variety show.” The chapter also explores the relationship between Huckleberry Finn's illustrations, which draw heavily on “coon” imagery and the novel's ostensibly “realist” tendencies.
Ursula Murray Husted
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781501750915
- eISBN:
- 9781501750939
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, Prose (inc. letters, diaries)
This chapter illustrates how the author spent nights alone by Lake Wingra listening for short-eared owls and whip-poor-wills. After and before work, the author spent time drawing on the University of ...
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This chapter illustrates how the author spent nights alone by Lake Wingra listening for short-eared owls and whip-poor-wills. After and before work, the author spent time drawing on the University of Wisconsin terrace, watching ducks raise their ducklings and pelicans stopping to rest on their journeys north. The chapter also describes how the author heard on the radio that the big pelican migration would be coming through Horicon Marsh. The author called in sick and drove northeast on U.S. Highway 151. However, she found out that she had missed the pelicans. Instead, she saw a flock of sandhill cranes, as well as red-winged blackbirds.Less
This chapter illustrates how the author spent nights alone by Lake Wingra listening for short-eared owls and whip-poor-wills. After and before work, the author spent time drawing on the University of Wisconsin terrace, watching ducks raise their ducklings and pelicans stopping to rest on their journeys north. The chapter also describes how the author heard on the radio that the big pelican migration would be coming through Horicon Marsh. The author called in sick and drove northeast on U.S. Highway 151. However, she found out that she had missed the pelicans. Instead, she saw a flock of sandhill cranes, as well as red-winged blackbirds.
Maximillian E. Novak
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199261543
- eISBN:
- 9780191698743
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199261543.003.0014
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
Little is known about Daniel Defoe’s formal education until he enrolled at Charles Morton’s Dissenting Academy in Newington Green. For so religious a family as the Foes, reading and even memorizing ...
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Little is known about Daniel Defoe’s formal education until he enrolled at Charles Morton’s Dissenting Academy in Newington Green. For so religious a family as the Foes, reading and even memorizing large portions of the Bible would have constituted a major part of their son’s early education. While most of Defoe’s life was spent in the city which he was to eulogize in his Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–7) as ‘the great Center of England’ and as ‘the most glorious Sight without exception...’, he travelled beyond London on a variety of occasions. Although Defoe may have visited such places on occasional trips with his parents, he appears to have spent a considerable time at Dorking in Surrey, where the Marsh family lived. Had Defoe’s parents not been Dissenters, Defoe would have been sent to Oxford or Cambridge for the studies that would have enabled him to take orders as a clergyman.Less
Little is known about Daniel Defoe’s formal education until he enrolled at Charles Morton’s Dissenting Academy in Newington Green. For so religious a family as the Foes, reading and even memorizing large portions of the Bible would have constituted a major part of their son’s early education. While most of Defoe’s life was spent in the city which he was to eulogize in his Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724–7) as ‘the great Center of England’ and as ‘the most glorious Sight without exception...’, he travelled beyond London on a variety of occasions. Although Defoe may have visited such places on occasional trips with his parents, he appears to have spent a considerable time at Dorking in Surrey, where the Marsh family lived. Had Defoe’s parents not been Dissenters, Defoe would have been sent to Oxford or Cambridge for the studies that would have enabled him to take orders as a clergyman.
Victoria Margree, Daniel Orrells, and Minna Vuohelainen (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526124340
- eISBN:
- 9781526136206
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526124340.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This collection of essays seeks to question the security of our assumptions about the fin de siècle by exploring the fiction of Richard Marsh, an important but neglected professional author. Richard ...
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This collection of essays seeks to question the security of our assumptions about the fin de siècle by exploring the fiction of Richard Marsh, an important but neglected professional author. Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857–1915) began his literary career as a writer of boys’ fiction, but, following a prison sentence for fraud, reinvented himself as ‘Richard Marsh’ in 1888. Marsh was a prolific and popular author of middlebrow genre fiction including Gothic, crime, humour, romance and adventure, whose bestselling Gothic novel The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Building on a burgeoning interest in Marsh’s writing, this collection of essays examines a broad array of Marsh’s genre fictions through the lens of cutting-edge critical theory, including print culture, New Historicism, disability studies, genre theory, New Economic Criticism, gender theory, postcolonial studies, thing theory, psychoanalysis, object relations theory and art history, producing innovative readings not only of Marsh but of the fin-de-siècle period. Marsh emerges here as a versatile contributor to the literary and journalistic culture of his time whose stories of shape-shifting monsters, daring but morally dubious heroes, lip-reading female detectives and objects that come to life helped to shape the genres of fiction with which we are familiar today. Marsh’s fictions reflect contemporary themes and anxieties while often offering unexpected, subversive and even counter-hegemonic takes on dominant narratives of gender, criminality, race and class, unsettling our perceptions of the fin de siècle.Less
This collection of essays seeks to question the security of our assumptions about the fin de siècle by exploring the fiction of Richard Marsh, an important but neglected professional author. Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857–1915) began his literary career as a writer of boys’ fiction, but, following a prison sentence for fraud, reinvented himself as ‘Richard Marsh’ in 1888. Marsh was a prolific and popular author of middlebrow genre fiction including Gothic, crime, humour, romance and adventure, whose bestselling Gothic novel The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) outsold Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Building on a burgeoning interest in Marsh’s writing, this collection of essays examines a broad array of Marsh’s genre fictions through the lens of cutting-edge critical theory, including print culture, New Historicism, disability studies, genre theory, New Economic Criticism, gender theory, postcolonial studies, thing theory, psychoanalysis, object relations theory and art history, producing innovative readings not only of Marsh but of the fin-de-siècle period. Marsh emerges here as a versatile contributor to the literary and journalistic culture of his time whose stories of shape-shifting monsters, daring but morally dubious heroes, lip-reading female detectives and objects that come to life helped to shape the genres of fiction with which we are familiar today. Marsh’s fictions reflect contemporary themes and anxieties while often offering unexpected, subversive and even counter-hegemonic takes on dominant narratives of gender, criminality, race and class, unsettling our perceptions of the fin de siècle.
G. J. TOMMER
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202912
- eISBN:
- 9780191675591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202912.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter discusses the decline in the esteem for Arabic Studies in England after the Restoration: the situation at Cambridge from 1680 to 1700; the last two decades of Pococke's career; Thomas ...
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This chapter discusses the decline in the esteem for Arabic Studies in England after the Restoration: the situation at Cambridge from 1680 to 1700; the last two decades of Pococke's career; Thomas Marshall; scholars such as Robert Huntington, Narcissus Marsh, Humphrey Prideaux, William Guise, and Edward Pococke Junior; the later career of Hyde; and Edward Bernard.Less
This chapter discusses the decline in the esteem for Arabic Studies in England after the Restoration: the situation at Cambridge from 1680 to 1700; the last two decades of Pococke's career; Thomas Marshall; scholars such as Robert Huntington, Narcissus Marsh, Humphrey Prideaux, William Guise, and Edward Pococke Junior; the later career of Hyde; and Edward Bernard.
Richard Sharpe
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198215820
- eISBN:
- 9780191678219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198215820.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History, History of Religion
The best-known Irish collection of vitae, commonly referred to as the Codex Kilkenniensis, survives in two parchment manuscripts, both now in Dublin libraries. The contents of these manuscripts are ...
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The best-known Irish collection of vitae, commonly referred to as the Codex Kilkenniensis, survives in two parchment manuscripts, both now in Dublin libraries. The contents of these manuscripts are called the Dublin collection. This manuscript was probably that now in Marsh's Library. Revd William Reeves denied this connexion, identifying the Marsh's Library manuscript with the volume Patrick Fleming referred to as the Codex Ardmachanus. The latter identification he sufficiently proved, but he failed to establish that this was different from John Colgan's Kilkenniensis. Colgan had an extremely high opinion of the Lives of this collection, assigning some of them to the late sixth century, and others to dates in the seventh century. For the two manuscripts, Revd Charles Plummer's symbols M and T are retained, but the symbol D is introduced to represent the recension common to both.Less
The best-known Irish collection of vitae, commonly referred to as the Codex Kilkenniensis, survives in two parchment manuscripts, both now in Dublin libraries. The contents of these manuscripts are called the Dublin collection. This manuscript was probably that now in Marsh's Library. Revd William Reeves denied this connexion, identifying the Marsh's Library manuscript with the volume Patrick Fleming referred to as the Codex Ardmachanus. The latter identification he sufficiently proved, but he failed to establish that this was different from John Colgan's Kilkenniensis. Colgan had an extremely high opinion of the Lives of this collection, assigning some of them to the late sixth century, and others to dates in the seventh century. For the two manuscripts, Revd Charles Plummer's symbols M and T are retained, but the symbol D is introduced to represent the recension common to both.
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226779751
- eISBN:
- 9780226145594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226145594.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses litigation brought to challenge government chaplaincies under the Constitution, beginning with the Katcoff case challenging the Army chaplaincy. Katcoff establishes the ...
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This chapter discusses litigation brought to challenge government chaplaincies under the Constitution, beginning with the Katcoff case challenging the Army chaplaincy. Katcoff establishes the doctrine that government chaplaincies are justified as ensuring opportunities for government workers who are posted away from their home congregations to avail themselves of the free market in religion, understood to be the US ideal. Increasingly, the courts are seen to justify chaplaincies by recourse to the presumed universality of spirituality as a non-divisive and therefore constitutionally unproblematic form of religion as well as to the assumed importance of spiritual health to national well-being. US law with respect to religious freedom is set in a larger comparative context.Less
This chapter discusses litigation brought to challenge government chaplaincies under the Constitution, beginning with the Katcoff case challenging the Army chaplaincy. Katcoff establishes the doctrine that government chaplaincies are justified as ensuring opportunities for government workers who are posted away from their home congregations to avail themselves of the free market in religion, understood to be the US ideal. Increasingly, the courts are seen to justify chaplaincies by recourse to the presumed universality of spirituality as a non-divisive and therefore constitutionally unproblematic form of religion as well as to the assumed importance of spiritual health to national well-being. US law with respect to religious freedom is set in a larger comparative context.
Bruce Kuklick
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199260164
- eISBN:
- 9780191597893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199260168.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Thinkers unconnected to institutions were the most lively and creative thinkers in the US for much of the nineteenth century. These ‘amateurs’ were more willing to adopt untraditional, usually ...
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Thinkers unconnected to institutions were the most lively and creative thinkers in the US for much of the nineteenth century. These ‘amateurs’ were more willing to adopt untraditional, usually German, ideas; and they moved more quickly to modern, secular ideas. The most important of these thinkers were James Marsh of Vermont, who introduced Kantian ideas into America; Ralph Waldo Emerson, the leading Transcendentalist; Connecticut minister Horace Bushnell, who followed Nathaniel William Taylor in remaking the theology of New England and leading it to figurative and metaphorical interpretations of the Bible; John Williamson Nevin and Philip Schaff of the Mercersburg Seminary in Pennsylvania, who meditated on an organicist Protestant theology; and The St Louis Hegelians.Less
Thinkers unconnected to institutions were the most lively and creative thinkers in the US for much of the nineteenth century. These ‘amateurs’ were more willing to adopt untraditional, usually German, ideas; and they moved more quickly to modern, secular ideas. The most important of these thinkers were James Marsh of Vermont, who introduced Kantian ideas into America; Ralph Waldo Emerson, the leading Transcendentalist; Connecticut minister Horace Bushnell, who followed Nathaniel William Taylor in remaking the theology of New England and leading it to figurative and metaphorical interpretations of the Bible; John Williamson Nevin and Philip Schaff of the Mercersburg Seminary in Pennsylvania, who meditated on an organicist Protestant theology; and The St Louis Hegelians.
Noeleen McIlvenna
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469624037
- eISBN:
- 9781469624051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469624037.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter describes the causes of the War of Jenkins’ Ear and Oglethorpe’s preparations for it. The action included the taking of small forts in northern Florida and a siege at St. Augustine. ...
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This chapter describes the causes of the War of Jenkins’ Ear and Oglethorpe’s preparations for it. The action included the taking of small forts in northern Florida and a siege at St. Augustine. Highlanders were slaughtered at Fort Mosa, but won at Bloody Marsh. Many residents of Georgia benefitted from the military expenditures in the southern part of the colony. Whitefield toured the northern colonies, then returned to Georgia to build an orphanage, and both the high wages he offered workers plus his criticism of South Carolina planters’ treatment of their slaves infuriated the Malcontents. But they used the low population in Savannah to argue strongly for slavery, hiring a lobbyist in London and sending a “True Narrative” that claimed Georgia was dying and could only be saved by lifting the prohibition on slavery.Less
This chapter describes the causes of the War of Jenkins’ Ear and Oglethorpe’s preparations for it. The action included the taking of small forts in northern Florida and a siege at St. Augustine. Highlanders were slaughtered at Fort Mosa, but won at Bloody Marsh. Many residents of Georgia benefitted from the military expenditures in the southern part of the colony. Whitefield toured the northern colonies, then returned to Georgia to build an orphanage, and both the high wages he offered workers plus his criticism of South Carolina planters’ treatment of their slaves infuriated the Malcontents. But they used the low population in Savannah to argue strongly for slavery, hiring a lobbyist in London and sending a “True Narrative” that claimed Georgia was dying and could only be saved by lifting the prohibition on slavery.
Michael P. DeJonge
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199639786
- eISBN:
- 9780191738708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199639786.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Church History
When Bonhoeffer’s intellectual relationship to Barth is understood as described in the previous chapters, then Bonhoeffer’s theology constitutes a genuine and enduring alternative to Barth’s. This ...
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When Bonhoeffer’s intellectual relationship to Barth is understood as described in the previous chapters, then Bonhoeffer’s theology constitutes a genuine and enduring alternative to Barth’s. This chapter advances that case against the view, expressed in different forms in Charles Marsh’s Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Oxford, 1996) and Christiane Teitz’s Bonhoeffers Kritik der Vernunft (Mohr Siebeck, 1999), that Bonhoeffer’s critique of Barth either misses the mark or is rendered irrelevant by Barth’s intellectual development. Specifically, these interpretations of the Barth–Bonhoeffer relationship have allowed Hans Urs von Balthasar’s ‘from dialectic to analogy’ interpretation of Barth’s development to distract attention from the key issues in Bonhoeffer’s critique of Barth: the concepts of God and revelation.Less
When Bonhoeffer’s intellectual relationship to Barth is understood as described in the previous chapters, then Bonhoeffer’s theology constitutes a genuine and enduring alternative to Barth’s. This chapter advances that case against the view, expressed in different forms in Charles Marsh’s Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Oxford, 1996) and Christiane Teitz’s Bonhoeffers Kritik der Vernunft (Mohr Siebeck, 1999), that Bonhoeffer’s critique of Barth either misses the mark or is rendered irrelevant by Barth’s intellectual development. Specifically, these interpretations of the Barth–Bonhoeffer relationship have allowed Hans Urs von Balthasar’s ‘from dialectic to analogy’ interpretation of Barth’s development to distract attention from the key issues in Bonhoeffer’s critique of Barth: the concepts of God and revelation.
Catherine Owen Koning, Sharon M. Ashworth, and Catherine Owen Koning
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226554211
- eISBN:
- 9780226554495
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226554495.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Aquatic Biology
The consequences of saltmarsh destruction and restoration are brought to bear in the story of Pine Creek Marsh. Pine Creek Marsh was cut off from tidal influence, which led to a cascade of plant and ...
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The consequences of saltmarsh destruction and restoration are brought to bear in the story of Pine Creek Marsh. Pine Creek Marsh was cut off from tidal influence, which led to a cascade of plant and animal disappearances and unintended problems, including flooding, for the surrounding human community. The subsequent restoration of tidal influence corrected many issues, reversed vegetation changes, and served as a model for ecosystem repair along the coastline. The mystery of marsh die-off along the New England coast provides another opportunity to examine salt marsh ecology and trophic cascades as scientists study the interactions among cordgrass, crabs, and crab predators. The impacts of climate change are made apparent as sea level rises and scientists seek to develop models for future flood prediction, carbon storage, and marsh protection.Less
The consequences of saltmarsh destruction and restoration are brought to bear in the story of Pine Creek Marsh. Pine Creek Marsh was cut off from tidal influence, which led to a cascade of plant and animal disappearances and unintended problems, including flooding, for the surrounding human community. The subsequent restoration of tidal influence corrected many issues, reversed vegetation changes, and served as a model for ecosystem repair along the coastline. The mystery of marsh die-off along the New England coast provides another opportunity to examine salt marsh ecology and trophic cascades as scientists study the interactions among cordgrass, crabs, and crab predators. The impacts of climate change are made apparent as sea level rises and scientists seek to develop models for future flood prediction, carbon storage, and marsh protection.
Matthew C. Hunter
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226390253
- eISBN:
- 9780226390390
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226390390.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The conclusion critically examines one possible legacy for the relay of chemical image-making and its fusions with combustion-engine research examined in this book: the Anthropocene. Noting ways in ...
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The conclusion critically examines one possible legacy for the relay of chemical image-making and its fusions with combustion-engine research examined in this book: the Anthropocene. Noting ways in which James Watt and British industrialism have figured in the historiography of an epoch of humanity’s influence on the global climate (and in critiques of the Anthropocene), the conclusion highlights the abiding, art-historical force of tools and concepts rooted in the work of Alois Riegl. Against persisting resistance within art history to interpretations privileging materials and techniques, it concludes by considering the contours and possibilities of an “elemental art history.”Less
The conclusion critically examines one possible legacy for the relay of chemical image-making and its fusions with combustion-engine research examined in this book: the Anthropocene. Noting ways in which James Watt and British industrialism have figured in the historiography of an epoch of humanity’s influence on the global climate (and in critiques of the Anthropocene), the conclusion highlights the abiding, art-historical force of tools and concepts rooted in the work of Alois Riegl. Against persisting resistance within art history to interpretations privileging materials and techniques, it concludes by considering the contours and possibilities of an “elemental art history.”
Steven T. Moga
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226710532
- eISBN:
- 9780226710679
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226710679.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Chapter 2 examines Harlem Flats in New York City. A decade-long struggle over environmental problems arose from the speculative process of turning a salt marsh into an urban neighborhood. Once a ...
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Chapter 2 examines Harlem Flats in New York City. A decade-long struggle over environmental problems arose from the speculative process of turning a salt marsh into an urban neighborhood. Once a quasi-rural area of farms, small homesteads, and shanties overlooking an estuary interlaced with small streams and popular with boaters, this lowland was filled with garbage to create real estate for Tammany Hall-affiliated property speculators. Landfilling was aided by public health concerns over cholera and other deadly diseases. Elected officials, waste haulers, speculators, sanitarians, and residents constructed a new neighborhood of tenements and factories. This chapter engages questions of political corruption, garbage, and sensory history. It calls attention to the physical processes of city building, the actors involved, and the role of odors and fear of disease in pejorative place labeling and city development. It also introduces nationally-known figures like Egbert Viele who engineered systems of drainage, sewerage, and parks. Landfilling erased the largest wetland complex in Manhattan, including Harlem Creek and Harlem Marsh, and slum clearance for public housing transformed the neighborhood a second time in the mid-twentieth century. Hurricane Sandy highlighted flood risk as a significant concern in the future of this urban lowland neighborhood.Less
Chapter 2 examines Harlem Flats in New York City. A decade-long struggle over environmental problems arose from the speculative process of turning a salt marsh into an urban neighborhood. Once a quasi-rural area of farms, small homesteads, and shanties overlooking an estuary interlaced with small streams and popular with boaters, this lowland was filled with garbage to create real estate for Tammany Hall-affiliated property speculators. Landfilling was aided by public health concerns over cholera and other deadly diseases. Elected officials, waste haulers, speculators, sanitarians, and residents constructed a new neighborhood of tenements and factories. This chapter engages questions of political corruption, garbage, and sensory history. It calls attention to the physical processes of city building, the actors involved, and the role of odors and fear of disease in pejorative place labeling and city development. It also introduces nationally-known figures like Egbert Viele who engineered systems of drainage, sewerage, and parks. Landfilling erased the largest wetland complex in Manhattan, including Harlem Creek and Harlem Marsh, and slum clearance for public housing transformed the neighborhood a second time in the mid-twentieth century. Hurricane Sandy highlighted flood risk as a significant concern in the future of this urban lowland neighborhood.
Tim Youngs
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846319587
- eISBN:
- 9781781380895
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846319587.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Richard Marsh’s The Beetle, both from 1897. It reads them both as examples of reverse colonisation and draws a connection betwen the titular ...
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This chapter examines Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Richard Marsh’s The Beetle, both from 1897. It reads them both as examples of reverse colonisation and draws a connection betwen the titular characters’ shape-changing and the multiple narratives of the texts. The critical roles played by money and animality reflect anxieties about social, physical and moral identities.Less
This chapter examines Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Richard Marsh’s The Beetle, both from 1897. It reads them both as examples of reverse colonisation and draws a connection betwen the titular characters’ shape-changing and the multiple narratives of the texts. The critical roles played by money and animality reflect anxieties about social, physical and moral identities.
Todd Decker
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199759378
- eISBN:
- 9780199979554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199759378.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, American, Popular
The performers playing the six white leads in Show Boat exercised considerable influence over how Hammerstein and Kern wrote their roles. Draft scripts and other archival evidence demonstrate the ...
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The performers playing the six white leads in Show Boat exercised considerable influence over how Hammerstein and Kern wrote their roles. Draft scripts and other archival evidence demonstrate the power performers exercised over the process of making Show Boat in 1927. The vaudeville team of Eva Puck and Sammy White moved Ellie and Frank into a contemporary Twenties musical comedy idiom. Songs written specifically for operetta tenor Howard Marsh as Ravenal were substantially different in range and style from those composed before Marsh was cast, tilting the show towards operetta. Variety performer Norma Terris as Magnolia used her clout as a star to shape her character's vocal identity as a musical comedy role defined by white rather than black style.Less
The performers playing the six white leads in Show Boat exercised considerable influence over how Hammerstein and Kern wrote their roles. Draft scripts and other archival evidence demonstrate the power performers exercised over the process of making Show Boat in 1927. The vaudeville team of Eva Puck and Sammy White moved Ellie and Frank into a contemporary Twenties musical comedy idiom. Songs written specifically for operetta tenor Howard Marsh as Ravenal were substantially different in range and style from those composed before Marsh was cast, tilting the show towards operetta. Variety performer Norma Terris as Magnolia used her clout as a star to shape her character's vocal identity as a musical comedy role defined by white rather than black style.
William T. Bowers
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125640
- eISBN:
- 9780813135366
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125640.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Military History
The 1st Cavalry Division directed the reinforced 5th Cavalry Regiment to attack early on 14 March. Regimental orders initially called for the 3d Battalion of the 5th Cavalry to remain on Phase Line ...
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The 1st Cavalry Division directed the reinforced 5th Cavalry Regiment to attack early on 14 March. Regimental orders initially called for the 3d Battalion of the 5th Cavalry to remain on Phase Line Albany, some five miles south of the Hongch'on River. As the operation began to unfold, the 3d Battalion's role became dominant. The battalion commander, Maj. Charles J. Parziale, explains what happened. The commander of Company L, Capt. Robert J. Cook, describes his company's situation when the order to advance over the Hongch'on River was received, and the subsequent night move to Objective Green. In addition, Captain Marsh summarizes the activities of March 15. Capt. R. M. Lohela, commander of Company K, describes the situation and the advance of his platoon during the reconnaissance in force. Captain Lohela describes the movement forward of the rest of Company K and the continuation of the attack on Hill 380. The advance was much easier for Company K when the 3d Battalion continued its attack to the north on 17 March. On 18 March, enemy resistance in front of the 3d Battalion largely disappeared as described by battalion officers.Less
The 1st Cavalry Division directed the reinforced 5th Cavalry Regiment to attack early on 14 March. Regimental orders initially called for the 3d Battalion of the 5th Cavalry to remain on Phase Line Albany, some five miles south of the Hongch'on River. As the operation began to unfold, the 3d Battalion's role became dominant. The battalion commander, Maj. Charles J. Parziale, explains what happened. The commander of Company L, Capt. Robert J. Cook, describes his company's situation when the order to advance over the Hongch'on River was received, and the subsequent night move to Objective Green. In addition, Captain Marsh summarizes the activities of March 15. Capt. R. M. Lohela, commander of Company K, describes the situation and the advance of his platoon during the reconnaissance in force. Captain Lohela describes the movement forward of the rest of Company K and the continuation of the attack on Hill 380. The advance was much easier for Company K when the 3d Battalion continued its attack to the north on 17 March. On 18 March, enemy resistance in front of the 3d Battalion largely disappeared as described by battalion officers.
Joshua Castellino and Kathleen A. Cavanaugh
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199679492
- eISBN:
- 9780191758539
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679492.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Public International Law
This chapter seeks to examine and analyse the history and legislative provisions to protect minorities in Iraq. It situates Iraq’s minority communities (Kurds, Kaka’i, Shabak, Yezidi, Marsh Arabs, ...
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This chapter seeks to examine and analyse the history and legislative provisions to protect minorities in Iraq. It situates Iraq’s minority communities (Kurds, Kaka’i, Shabak, Yezidi, Marsh Arabs, Christian, Armenian, Assyrian, Sabean Mandaeans, Baha’i, Black Iraqi, Circassians, Jews, Roma and Palestinian) within a socio-legal framework and includes a critique of the fragile unfolding constitution-building process and the conceptual frameworks upon which it has been built. The ‘liquid’ democracy that was meant to accompany the 2003 intervention has proved illusory for Iraqi communities inside and outside Iraq. There can be no other reading of the 2003 US and coalition forces’ intervention in Iraq other than that of a ‘transformative occupation’, which has operated outside the constraints dictated by the laws of occupation. The language of occupation may have been displaced, but the transformation of the political and demographic landscape in Iraq continues and this chapter examines the implications of this for the groups who continue to feel vulnerable within Iraq.Less
This chapter seeks to examine and analyse the history and legislative provisions to protect minorities in Iraq. It situates Iraq’s minority communities (Kurds, Kaka’i, Shabak, Yezidi, Marsh Arabs, Christian, Armenian, Assyrian, Sabean Mandaeans, Baha’i, Black Iraqi, Circassians, Jews, Roma and Palestinian) within a socio-legal framework and includes a critique of the fragile unfolding constitution-building process and the conceptual frameworks upon which it has been built. The ‘liquid’ democracy that was meant to accompany the 2003 intervention has proved illusory for Iraqi communities inside and outside Iraq. There can be no other reading of the 2003 US and coalition forces’ intervention in Iraq other than that of a ‘transformative occupation’, which has operated outside the constraints dictated by the laws of occupation. The language of occupation may have been displaced, but the transformation of the political and demographic landscape in Iraq continues and this chapter examines the implications of this for the groups who continue to feel vulnerable within Iraq.
