P. J. Kelly
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197262948
- eISBN:
- 9780191734762
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197262948.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter focuses on how the history of political ideas has been approached in the context of British political science. This has the consequence that the discussion ranges over commentators who ...
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This chapter focuses on how the history of political ideas has been approached in the context of British political science. This has the consequence that the discussion ranges over commentators who are explicitly not historians. It claims that the current British approaches to the study of past political thought have domestic origins in the development of the study of politics in British Universities, especially Oxford, Cambridge, and LSE. The first section accounts for different approaches to the study of political ideas in British political science by examining conceptions of the history of political thought. It shows how institutional history is connected to the development of a genre, and how this history has not been dependent on the direct import of Continental or American intellectual fashions or personalities. The second section delineates the three main British approaches to the study of the history of political ideas in the post-war period.Less
This chapter focuses on how the history of political ideas has been approached in the context of British political science. This has the consequence that the discussion ranges over commentators who are explicitly not historians. It claims that the current British approaches to the study of past political thought have domestic origins in the development of the study of politics in British Universities, especially Oxford, Cambridge, and LSE. The first section accounts for different approaches to the study of political ideas in British political science by examining conceptions of the history of political thought. It shows how institutional history is connected to the development of a genre, and how this history has not been dependent on the direct import of Continental or American intellectual fashions or personalities. The second section delineates the three main British approaches to the study of the history of political ideas in the post-war period.
Robyn Creswell
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691182186
- eISBN:
- 9780691185149
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691182186.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter attempts to re-create the “internal dialogue” about their pasts as militants that the Shi'r poets chose not to make public. This narrative is centered on the career of Yusuf al-Khal, who ...
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This chapter attempts to re-create the “internal dialogue” about their pasts as militants that the Shi'r poets chose not to make public. This narrative is centered on the career of Yusuf al-Khal, who as editor in chief played a leading role in determining the principles of the Shi'r movement. But the real protagonists of the story are institutions: the political party, the university, the Cénacle, and the little magazine. These settings constitute the backstory to al-Khal's engagement with the institutions of late modernism itself—the global network of actors and discourses examined in Chapter 1. This focus on institutional history is intended, in part, as a corrective to the Shi'r poets' insistence that modernist literature is the work of heroic, deracinated individuals.Less
This chapter attempts to re-create the “internal dialogue” about their pasts as militants that the Shi'r poets chose not to make public. This narrative is centered on the career of Yusuf al-Khal, who as editor in chief played a leading role in determining the principles of the Shi'r movement. But the real protagonists of the story are institutions: the political party, the university, the Cénacle, and the little magazine. These settings constitute the backstory to al-Khal's engagement with the institutions of late modernism itself—the global network of actors and discourses examined in Chapter 1. This focus on institutional history is intended, in part, as a corrective to the Shi'r poets' insistence that modernist literature is the work of heroic, deracinated individuals.
Susannah Crowder
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526106407
- eISBN:
- 9781526141989
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526106407.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
Two male monasteries – and their roles in the religious observances of laywomen – illuminate another facet of the relationship among gender, devotion, and performance in Metz. This chapter first ...
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Two male monasteries – and their roles in the religious observances of laywomen – illuminate another facet of the relationship among gender, devotion, and performance in Metz. This chapter first revisits the Celestine community, deepening the findings of the third chapter by examining the institution that housed the family chapel of the Gronnaix and the burial place of Catherine Baudoche. Its spaces reveal a culture of performance that was grounded in women’s material contributions and spiritual needs; contemporary institutional histories construct a performance “edifice” that depicts the partnership of laywomen and the Celestine brothers. A second Messine religious community documents an alternative perspective on the role of women in long-term history-making and performance practice. Through liturgical performance, the monastery of St-Arnoul had claimed a past that tied Carolingian-era imperial identity to female sanctity and patronage. Catherine Gronnaix’s foundation of masses at St-Arnoul took place during the decline of this institutional narrative, however, when the preservation and appropriation of older traditions of female performance had lost appeal. In distinct eras, the cloistered spaces of St-Martin and St-Arnoul – both permeated by the presence and remains of laywomen and their devotions – sheltered collaborative performances that intertwined monastic and familial aspirations.Less
Two male monasteries – and their roles in the religious observances of laywomen – illuminate another facet of the relationship among gender, devotion, and performance in Metz. This chapter first revisits the Celestine community, deepening the findings of the third chapter by examining the institution that housed the family chapel of the Gronnaix and the burial place of Catherine Baudoche. Its spaces reveal a culture of performance that was grounded in women’s material contributions and spiritual needs; contemporary institutional histories construct a performance “edifice” that depicts the partnership of laywomen and the Celestine brothers. A second Messine religious community documents an alternative perspective on the role of women in long-term history-making and performance practice. Through liturgical performance, the monastery of St-Arnoul had claimed a past that tied Carolingian-era imperial identity to female sanctity and patronage. Catherine Gronnaix’s foundation of masses at St-Arnoul took place during the decline of this institutional narrative, however, when the preservation and appropriation of older traditions of female performance had lost appeal. In distinct eras, the cloistered spaces of St-Martin and St-Arnoul – both permeated by the presence and remains of laywomen and their devotions – sheltered collaborative performances that intertwined monastic and familial aspirations.
Peter Lorge
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199236428
- eISBN:
- 9780191863349
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0024
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
This chapter details how the writing of institutional history proceeded along markedly different tracks in Europe and China, primarily because the men writing those histories and the institutions ...
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This chapter details how the writing of institutional history proceeded along markedly different tracks in Europe and China, primarily because the men writing those histories and the institutions they were concerned with were very different. In medieval Europe most educated men were religious professionals, who involved themselves in royal or aristocratic court governments because of their class and education. Meanwhile, in China, most educated men pursued learning in order to work for the central, imperial government. Moreover, Chinese levels of education were considerably higher than in Europe or anywhere else in the world, both in literacy and numeracy, yielding an imperial bureaucracy that communicated with itself and its ruler in a highly systematic and nuanced manner. Governments outside of China were far smaller, less coherent, less continuous, and less literate.Less
This chapter details how the writing of institutional history proceeded along markedly different tracks in Europe and China, primarily because the men writing those histories and the institutions they were concerned with were very different. In medieval Europe most educated men were religious professionals, who involved themselves in royal or aristocratic court governments because of their class and education. Meanwhile, in China, most educated men pursued learning in order to work for the central, imperial government. Moreover, Chinese levels of education were considerably higher than in Europe or anywhere else in the world, both in literacy and numeracy, yielding an imperial bureaucracy that communicated with itself and its ruler in a highly systematic and nuanced manner. Governments outside of China were far smaller, less coherent, less continuous, and less literate.
Ian Miller
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780719088865
- eISBN:
- 9781781706909
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719088865.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
The late nineteenth century was marked by profound concern about national physical well-being. Despite initial post-Famine optimism in the 1850s about the prospects of national dietary reconstruction ...
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The late nineteenth century was marked by profound concern about national physical well-being. Despite initial post-Famine optimism in the 1850s about the prospects of national dietary reconstruction and agricultural prosperity, pessimism about the Irish condition quickly re-emerged. To introduce this theme, this chapter focuses on mid-century feeding in institutions and maintains that critics of institutional dietary policies invoked this seemingly internal institutional matter as a concern with national implications. Following the Famine, physicians paid closer attention to the issues of nutritional quality and deficiency and established firm links between an insufficient diet and permanent physical and mental weakening. Institutions provided opportunities for physicians and medical witnesses to witness, monitor and better understand the negative physical and mental effects of poor nutrition. Their well-publicised observations drew public attention to the idea that a nutritionally inadequate diet encouraged the onset of bodily conditions such as scrofula (or tuberculosis of the neck) and ophthalmia (or conjunctivitis). This chapter explores these themes by analysing dietary arrangements in mid-century prisons, workhouses, reformatories and industrial schools.Less
The late nineteenth century was marked by profound concern about national physical well-being. Despite initial post-Famine optimism in the 1850s about the prospects of national dietary reconstruction and agricultural prosperity, pessimism about the Irish condition quickly re-emerged. To introduce this theme, this chapter focuses on mid-century feeding in institutions and maintains that critics of institutional dietary policies invoked this seemingly internal institutional matter as a concern with national implications. Following the Famine, physicians paid closer attention to the issues of nutritional quality and deficiency and established firm links between an insufficient diet and permanent physical and mental weakening. Institutions provided opportunities for physicians and medical witnesses to witness, monitor and better understand the negative physical and mental effects of poor nutrition. Their well-publicised observations drew public attention to the idea that a nutritionally inadequate diet encouraged the onset of bodily conditions such as scrofula (or tuberculosis of the neck) and ophthalmia (or conjunctivitis). This chapter explores these themes by analysing dietary arrangements in mid-century prisons, workhouses, reformatories and industrial schools.
Indira Chowdhury
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199466900
- eISBN:
- 9780199087211
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199466900.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This book is about one of the premier scientific institutions of modern India—the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) founded by the physicist Homi Bhabha in 1945. In a critical departure ...
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This book is about one of the premier scientific institutions of modern India—the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) founded by the physicist Homi Bhabha in 1945. In a critical departure from books that focus on Bhabha as the architect of India’s atomic energy programme, Growing the Tree of Science concentrates instead on his efforts towards the creation of a scientific culture at his institute. Bhabha’s institutional model came from the West; the book details out his efforts to transplant the tree of science on Indian soil. Chowdhury weaves together a story of personal connections, new forms of philanthropy, nationalist objectives, ideas of citizenship, international training networks, and art, design, architecture, and landscape that shaped scientific life at TIFR. Analysing the dissonances between institutional narratives and individual recollections, the book asks how we might interpret the nature of institutional legacy. The book goes beyond Bhabha’s individual efforts and reveals the ways in which the institute was also shaped by younger scientists who attempted to reinterpret institutional legacy. Reflecting on the relationship between history and memory, Growing the Tree of Science presents a cultural history of science. Chowdhury’s reflections on archival resources and the uses of oral history of scientists provokes us to think of new methods with which to understand the functioning of institutions and the nature of resources required to understand them.Less
This book is about one of the premier scientific institutions of modern India—the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) founded by the physicist Homi Bhabha in 1945. In a critical departure from books that focus on Bhabha as the architect of India’s atomic energy programme, Growing the Tree of Science concentrates instead on his efforts towards the creation of a scientific culture at his institute. Bhabha’s institutional model came from the West; the book details out his efforts to transplant the tree of science on Indian soil. Chowdhury weaves together a story of personal connections, new forms of philanthropy, nationalist objectives, ideas of citizenship, international training networks, and art, design, architecture, and landscape that shaped scientific life at TIFR. Analysing the dissonances between institutional narratives and individual recollections, the book asks how we might interpret the nature of institutional legacy. The book goes beyond Bhabha’s individual efforts and reveals the ways in which the institute was also shaped by younger scientists who attempted to reinterpret institutional legacy. Reflecting on the relationship between history and memory, Growing the Tree of Science presents a cultural history of science. Chowdhury’s reflections on archival resources and the uses of oral history of scientists provokes us to think of new methods with which to understand the functioning of institutions and the nature of resources required to understand them.
Amy Mills and Timur Hammond
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781479827787
- eISBN:
- 9781479850662
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479827787.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter begins with a brief survey of the literature that constitutes the present spatial turn in Middle East studies (MES). This review has two aims: to examine the (often undertheorized or ...
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This chapter begins with a brief survey of the literature that constitutes the present spatial turn in Middle East studies (MES). This review has two aims: to examine the (often undertheorized or loosely defined) understandings of space at work in MES research and to explore the central or emerging research interests in MES developed by this spatial turn. The chapter then considers the theories of space discernible in research on the Middle East for many decades before the present spatial turn. It argues that not only does an interest in space have a far longer history in MES than recent critical research lets on, but that attention to this issue is important because it illuminates the ways in which evolving understandings of space accompany changing research agendas and, possibly, new theoretical, methodological, or conceptual assumptions in the interdisciplinary arena of MES more generally. Next, the chapter discusses questions of disciplinarity, particularly in relation to geography, and the ways in which disciplinary and institutional histories have shaped the contours of the spatial turn in Middle East area studies. It concludes by identifying new directions for research.Less
This chapter begins with a brief survey of the literature that constitutes the present spatial turn in Middle East studies (MES). This review has two aims: to examine the (often undertheorized or loosely defined) understandings of space at work in MES research and to explore the central or emerging research interests in MES developed by this spatial turn. The chapter then considers the theories of space discernible in research on the Middle East for many decades before the present spatial turn. It argues that not only does an interest in space have a far longer history in MES than recent critical research lets on, but that attention to this issue is important because it illuminates the ways in which evolving understandings of space accompany changing research agendas and, possibly, new theoretical, methodological, or conceptual assumptions in the interdisciplinary arena of MES more generally. Next, the chapter discusses questions of disciplinarity, particularly in relation to geography, and the ways in which disciplinary and institutional histories have shaped the contours of the spatial turn in Middle East area studies. It concludes by identifying new directions for research.
Lily Chumley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691164977
- eISBN:
- 9781400881321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164977.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter begins with an oral history of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, describing how the school changed over the course of gaigekaifang. Gaigekaifang is often referred to in English as ...
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This chapter begins with an oral history of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, describing how the school changed over the course of gaigekaifang. Gaigekaifang is often referred to in English as “reform” (gaige), putting the stress on the structural adjustments that fomented change, while kaifang roughly means “opening up.” This institutional history is given a broader social context through interpretations of three art exhibitions commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of reform and opening up in 2008. These exhibitions offer perspectives on the legacies of socialism and the novelties of reform that are variously aligned with or critical of official state narratives, showing how contemporary Chinese dreamworlds contest with one another.Less
This chapter begins with an oral history of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, describing how the school changed over the course of gaigekaifang. Gaigekaifang is often referred to in English as “reform” (gaige), putting the stress on the structural adjustments that fomented change, while kaifang roughly means “opening up.” This institutional history is given a broader social context through interpretations of three art exhibitions commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of reform and opening up in 2008. These exhibitions offer perspectives on the legacies of socialism and the novelties of reform that are variously aligned with or critical of official state narratives, showing how contemporary Chinese dreamworlds contest with one another.
Bryan D. Lowe
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780824859404
- eISBN:
- 9780824873660
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824859404.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Chapter four stresses the importance of institutions in enabling the reproduction of large numbers of Buddhist texts. It surveys the types of institutions that existed in ancient Japan and argues for ...
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Chapter four stresses the importance of institutions in enabling the reproduction of large numbers of Buddhist texts. It surveys the types of institutions that existed in ancient Japan and argues for the close connection between bureaucracy and ritual practice. It begins with an overview of the process of sutra copying. It then turns to continental precedent before looking at some of the earliest sutra copying projects in Japan and the institutions that sponsored them. It provides a detailed institutional history of a scriptorium at Tōdaiji closely connected to Queen Consort Kōmyōshi but also uncovers numerous other scriptoria managed by a variety of individuals in the capital and provinces, some of relatively small scale. It also addresses projects known as “private copying” in documents at the Tōdaiji scriptorium to show how individuals could use personal connections to utilize state institutions for their own purposes.Less
Chapter four stresses the importance of institutions in enabling the reproduction of large numbers of Buddhist texts. It surveys the types of institutions that existed in ancient Japan and argues for the close connection between bureaucracy and ritual practice. It begins with an overview of the process of sutra copying. It then turns to continental precedent before looking at some of the earliest sutra copying projects in Japan and the institutions that sponsored them. It provides a detailed institutional history of a scriptorium at Tōdaiji closely connected to Queen Consort Kōmyōshi but also uncovers numerous other scriptoria managed by a variety of individuals in the capital and provinces, some of relatively small scale. It also addresses projects known as “private copying” in documents at the Tōdaiji scriptorium to show how individuals could use personal connections to utilize state institutions for their own purposes.
Miriam Bradley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198716389
- eISBN:
- 9780191784958
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716389.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
One of the central arguments of this book is that institutional characteristics are of paramount importance in shaping the ways that the ICRC and UNHCR understand and practise protection. This ...
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One of the central arguments of this book is that institutional characteristics are of paramount importance in shaping the ways that the ICRC and UNHCR understand and practise protection. This chapter, therefore, outlines the institutional history, structure, and culture of each of the ICRC and UNHCR. It explains the process of mandate expansion in both of these international organizations, and contrasts the formal structure of the ICRC, designed to ensure a system of checks and balances on major policy developments, with the more hierarchical structure of UNHCR. It further argues that the ICRC organizational culture is characterized by consensus-led decision-making, and strong internal information-sharing combined with a tendency to secrecy externally, while UNHCR is characterized by weaker internal communications and a lack of clarity on various issues.Less
One of the central arguments of this book is that institutional characteristics are of paramount importance in shaping the ways that the ICRC and UNHCR understand and practise protection. This chapter, therefore, outlines the institutional history, structure, and culture of each of the ICRC and UNHCR. It explains the process of mandate expansion in both of these international organizations, and contrasts the formal structure of the ICRC, designed to ensure a system of checks and balances on major policy developments, with the more hierarchical structure of UNHCR. It further argues that the ICRC organizational culture is characterized by consensus-led decision-making, and strong internal information-sharing combined with a tendency to secrecy externally, while UNHCR is characterized by weaker internal communications and a lack of clarity on various issues.
Martin J. Conyon and Andrew Shipilov
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262017275
- eISBN:
- 9780262301572
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262017275.003.0036
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Corporate Governance and Accountability
This chapter compares the patterns of business ownership and control in Great Britain and Canada. It provides an historical account of the evolution of the British and Canadian governance systems and ...
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This chapter compares the patterns of business ownership and control in Great Britain and Canada. It provides an historical account of the evolution of the British and Canadian governance systems and compares their structural properties using the social network theory. It also describes the British and Canadian system of director networks and explains the reasons for their differences. This chapter also highlights the influence of government policies and institutional histories on the structures of control in the two countries.Less
This chapter compares the patterns of business ownership and control in Great Britain and Canada. It provides an historical account of the evolution of the British and Canadian governance systems and compares their structural properties using the social network theory. It also describes the British and Canadian system of director networks and explains the reasons for their differences. This chapter also highlights the influence of government policies and institutional histories on the structures of control in the two countries.
Roger A. Shiner
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198262619
- eISBN:
- 9780191682353
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198262619.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
The U.S. Supreme Court extended constitutional protection to commercial expression or speech in 1976. The European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Canada subsequently did likewise. ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court extended constitutional protection to commercial expression or speech in 1976. The European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Canada subsequently did likewise. Historically, freedom of expression relates to public decision-making as to political, social, and other public issues, rather than the decision of a particular individual as to whether to purchase one or another kind of shampoo. For all that, courts are now granting constitutional protection to the commercial advertising of organisations such as tobacco manufacturers, breweries, and discount liquor stores. This book subjects to critical examination the history of and reasoning behind the extension to commercial expression of the principles of freedom of expression. It examines the institutional history of freedom of commercial expression as a constitutional doctrine, and argues that the history is one of ad hoc, not logical, development. In examining the arguments used in support of freedom of commercial expression, the book shows that even from within the borders of liberal democratic theory, constitutional protection for commercial expression is not philosophically justified. Commercial corporations cannot possess an original autonomy right to free expression. Moreover, the claim that there is a hearers' right to receive commercial expression which advertisers may borrow is invalid. Freedom of commercial expression does not fit the best available models for hearers' rights. Regulation of commercial expression is not paternalistic. The free flow of commercial information is not automatically a good, and in any case commercial expression rarely in fact involves information.Less
The U.S. Supreme Court extended constitutional protection to commercial expression or speech in 1976. The European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Canada subsequently did likewise. Historically, freedom of expression relates to public decision-making as to political, social, and other public issues, rather than the decision of a particular individual as to whether to purchase one or another kind of shampoo. For all that, courts are now granting constitutional protection to the commercial advertising of organisations such as tobacco manufacturers, breweries, and discount liquor stores. This book subjects to critical examination the history of and reasoning behind the extension to commercial expression of the principles of freedom of expression. It examines the institutional history of freedom of commercial expression as a constitutional doctrine, and argues that the history is one of ad hoc, not logical, development. In examining the arguments used in support of freedom of commercial expression, the book shows that even from within the borders of liberal democratic theory, constitutional protection for commercial expression is not philosophically justified. Commercial corporations cannot possess an original autonomy right to free expression. Moreover, the claim that there is a hearers' right to receive commercial expression which advertisers may borrow is invalid. Freedom of commercial expression does not fit the best available models for hearers' rights. Regulation of commercial expression is not paternalistic. The free flow of commercial information is not automatically a good, and in any case commercial expression rarely in fact involves information.
Mark Everist
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520234451
- eISBN:
- 9780520928909
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520234451.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life is illustrated in the institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. This book ...
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Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life is illustrated in the institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. This book traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to triumph, decline, and closure. Outlining the role the Odéon played in expanding operatic repertoire and in changing the face of musical life in Paris, the author reconstructs the political power structures that controlled the world of Parisian music drama, the internal administration of the theater, and its relationship with composers and librettists, and with the city of Paris itself.Less
Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life is illustrated in the institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. This book traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to triumph, decline, and closure. Outlining the role the Odéon played in expanding operatic repertoire and in changing the face of musical life in Paris, the author reconstructs the political power structures that controlled the world of Parisian music drama, the internal administration of the theater, and its relationship with composers and librettists, and with the city of Paris itself.
Kenneth Joel Zogry
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469608297
- eISBN:
- 9781469608303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469608297.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses the pedagogical and institutional history of UNC from founding in 1789 through the Civil War, and the significant changes made following Reconstruction, which formed the basis ...
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This chapter discusses the pedagogical and institutional history of UNC from founding in 1789 through the Civil War, and the significant changes made following Reconstruction, which formed the basis for the modern research institution. The birth of the student newspaper, the Tar Heel, is discussed, along with early operations and editors, including Frank Porter Graham and Thomas Wolfe. The paper’s initial function to promote the new student activity of intercollegiate athletics, first football and baseball, and later basketball, is examined. The university’s growth during the early twentieth century and following World War I are discussed, along with early issues involving women and African Americans.Less
This chapter discusses the pedagogical and institutional history of UNC from founding in 1789 through the Civil War, and the significant changes made following Reconstruction, which formed the basis for the modern research institution. The birth of the student newspaper, the Tar Heel, is discussed, along with early operations and editors, including Frank Porter Graham and Thomas Wolfe. The paper’s initial function to promote the new student activity of intercollegiate athletics, first football and baseball, and later basketball, is examined. The university’s growth during the early twentieth century and following World War I are discussed, along with early issues involving women and African Americans.
Victor Bascara
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680894
- eISBN:
- 9781452948799
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680894.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter focuses on possible linkages among the diverse institutional histories of the University of Hawai’i, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of the Philippines—all universities ...
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This chapter focuses on possible linkages among the diverse institutional histories of the University of Hawai’i, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of the Philippines—all universities founded under U.S. administration of island colonies, or colony-like possessions, between 1903 and 1908. It then provides a consideration of discursive formations from these universities which grapple with the meaning of the new imperial university—and of liberal education in particular—in the early years of three vastly separated institutions with potentially resonant concerns. The chapter also examines the implicit and explicit institutionalization of liberal education at these institutions by analyzing primary documents from the archives of each of the institutions, mainly via the genre of the general catalog and related university discourse.Less
This chapter focuses on possible linkages among the diverse institutional histories of the University of Hawai’i, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of the Philippines—all universities founded under U.S. administration of island colonies, or colony-like possessions, between 1903 and 1908. It then provides a consideration of discursive formations from these universities which grapple with the meaning of the new imperial university—and of liberal education in particular—in the early years of three vastly separated institutions with potentially resonant concerns. The chapter also examines the implicit and explicit institutionalization of liberal education at these institutions by analyzing primary documents from the archives of each of the institutions, mainly via the genre of the general catalog and related university discourse.
Emily Richmond Pollock
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190063733
- eISBN:
- 9780190063740
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190063733.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Opera, History, Western
Opera after the Zero Hour argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become ...
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Opera after the Zero Hour argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught. The idea of the “Zero Hour,” which put a rhetorical caesura between National Socialism and postwar occupied and divided Germany, was belied by significant continuities with earlier periods and by repeated efforts at conservative restoration. Opera’s social, aesthetic, and political value systems made it an essential piece of this cultural ethos. Its conservatism was creative and multifaceted, and composers who wrote new operas developed a range of strategies to make opera modern while still drawing on the conventions of the genre. Different historical reference points and approaches to operatic tradition are exemplified through five case studies of works premiered in the first two postwar decades on the stages of West Germany. For these operas, this book presents source studies, close reading, and reviews as constellations to illuminate the politicized artistic environment that influenced both their creation and their reception. The argument also draws on historical information and the archives of German opera houses to contextualize new opera within institutions. Works written for postwar West German opera companies could be nuanced in their conception of and relationship to historic and modern ideas of what opera should be, and the reception of these works reveals tensions between particular interpretations of tradition, operaticism, and the future of opera.Less
Opera after the Zero Hour argues that newly composed opera in West Germany after World War II was a site for the renegotiation of musical traditions during an era in which tradition had become politically fraught. The idea of the “Zero Hour,” which put a rhetorical caesura between National Socialism and postwar occupied and divided Germany, was belied by significant continuities with earlier periods and by repeated efforts at conservative restoration. Opera’s social, aesthetic, and political value systems made it an essential piece of this cultural ethos. Its conservatism was creative and multifaceted, and composers who wrote new operas developed a range of strategies to make opera modern while still drawing on the conventions of the genre. Different historical reference points and approaches to operatic tradition are exemplified through five case studies of works premiered in the first two postwar decades on the stages of West Germany. For these operas, this book presents source studies, close reading, and reviews as constellations to illuminate the politicized artistic environment that influenced both their creation and their reception. The argument also draws on historical information and the archives of German opera houses to contextualize new opera within institutions. Works written for postwar West German opera companies could be nuanced in their conception of and relationship to historic and modern ideas of what opera should be, and the reception of these works reveals tensions between particular interpretations of tradition, operaticism, and the future of opera.
Alban K. Forcione
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300134407
- eISBN:
- 9780300153309
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300134407.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In the Golden Age of Spanish theater, an age of highly dramatized coronations and regal spectacles, this book presents a surprising but persistent preoccupation with the disrobing of the king. In ...
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In the Golden Age of Spanish theater, an age of highly dramatized coronations and regal spectacles, this book presents a surprising but persistent preoccupation with the disrobing of the king. In both the celebrations of majesty and the enthrallment with its unveiling, it finds the chilling recesses in which a culture struggled to reconcile the public and the private, society and the individual, the monarch and the man. In reinterpreting two of Lope de Vega's plays, long regarded as conventional royalist propaganda, the book places his texts in the context of political and institutional history, philosophy, theology, and art history. In so doing it shows how Spanish theater anticipated the decisive changes in human consciousness that characterized the ascendance of the absolutist state and its threat to the cultivation of individuality, authenticity, and humanity.Less
In the Golden Age of Spanish theater, an age of highly dramatized coronations and regal spectacles, this book presents a surprising but persistent preoccupation with the disrobing of the king. In both the celebrations of majesty and the enthrallment with its unveiling, it finds the chilling recesses in which a culture struggled to reconcile the public and the private, society and the individual, the monarch and the man. In reinterpreting two of Lope de Vega's plays, long regarded as conventional royalist propaganda, the book places his texts in the context of political and institutional history, philosophy, theology, and art history. In so doing it shows how Spanish theater anticipated the decisive changes in human consciousness that characterized the ascendance of the absolutist state and its threat to the cultivation of individuality, authenticity, and humanity.
Miriam Bradley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198716389
- eISBN:
- 9780191784958
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716389.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
The conclusion summarizes the main findings of the book and draws out some implications for our understanding of international organizations more broadly. It emphasizes the importance of ...
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The conclusion summarizes the main findings of the book and draws out some implications for our understanding of international organizations more broadly. It emphasizes the importance of institutional history in shaping the approaches taken by international organizations to address new issue-areas incorporated into their mandates as a consequence of mandate expansion. The analogies employed by the ICRC and UNHCR to justify mandate expansion have also had an impact on how the new issue-areas are addressed, with ‘old solutions’ used to address ‘new problems’. To the extent that the ‘new problems’ are different from the old ones, seeking to address them with ‘old solutions’ limits the scope of protection that the ICRC and UNHCR are able to provide.Less
The conclusion summarizes the main findings of the book and draws out some implications for our understanding of international organizations more broadly. It emphasizes the importance of institutional history in shaping the approaches taken by international organizations to address new issue-areas incorporated into their mandates as a consequence of mandate expansion. The analogies employed by the ICRC and UNHCR to justify mandate expansion have also had an impact on how the new issue-areas are addressed, with ‘old solutions’ used to address ‘new problems’. To the extent that the ‘new problems’ are different from the old ones, seeking to address them with ‘old solutions’ limits the scope of protection that the ICRC and UNHCR are able to provide.
Melissa S. Dale
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9789888455751
- eISBN:
- 9789888455607
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888455751.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter traces the beginnings of eunuchs serving in the palace and the rise of eunuch power during the Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties. The remainder of the chapter focuses on the evolution of the ...
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This chapter traces the beginnings of eunuchs serving in the palace and the rise of eunuch power during the Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties. The remainder of the chapter focuses on the evolution of the eunuch system from its “embryonic” state before the Qing established its rule over China proper to its initial growth during the reign of Shunzhi (r. 1644–1661) to its maturation during the mid-Qing, and finally its gradual decline after the 1850s.Less
This chapter traces the beginnings of eunuchs serving in the palace and the rise of eunuch power during the Han, Tang, and Ming dynasties. The remainder of the chapter focuses on the evolution of the eunuch system from its “embryonic” state before the Qing established its rule over China proper to its initial growth during the reign of Shunzhi (r. 1644–1661) to its maturation during the mid-Qing, and finally its gradual decline after the 1850s.
