Volker R. Berghahn
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691161099
- eISBN:
- 9781400850297
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691161099.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter begins the story of the American–British–German business and political relationship in the year 1900. It assesses the prevailing attitudes toward this transitional period in terms of ...
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This chapter begins the story of the American–British–German business and political relationship in the year 1900. It assesses the prevailing attitudes toward this transitional period in terms of press commentary, before considering political and economic relations in the age of late-nineteenth-century imperialism. While positive visions of the future tended to predominate, the papers also contained evidence of the conflicts that were smoldering within the societies of Britain, Germany, and the United States. From here, the chapter turns to a rich archival source for the extent of the European–American constellation in the form of accounts made by financial expert Frank Vanderflip as well as by journalist William Stead.Less
This chapter begins the story of the American–British–German business and political relationship in the year 1900. It assesses the prevailing attitudes toward this transitional period in terms of press commentary, before considering political and economic relations in the age of late-nineteenth-century imperialism. While positive visions of the future tended to predominate, the papers also contained evidence of the conflicts that were smoldering within the societies of Britain, Germany, and the United States. From here, the chapter turns to a rich archival source for the extent of the European–American constellation in the form of accounts made by financial expert Frank Vanderflip as well as by journalist William Stead.
Laura Barbas-Rhoden
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035468
- eISBN:
- 9780813038155
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035468.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter tries to provide the readers new to the field or region a sense of the possibilities for ecocritical analysis in contemporary Latin American letters. In the process it explores natural ...
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This chapter tries to provide the readers new to the field or region a sense of the possibilities for ecocritical analysis in contemporary Latin American letters. In the process it explores natural settings within Latin American novels that illustrate important moments of environmental change in the region extending from nineteenth-century imperialism to the present. The book expresses concerns with the way contemporary Latin American fiction portrays the economic, cultural, and historical roots of ecological transformations in the Americas. This chapter also sheds light on the different ways through which Latin American novels and texts appropriate the rhetoric of nature to depict social and environmental justice concerns as the foreground of historical debates.Less
This chapter tries to provide the readers new to the field or region a sense of the possibilities for ecocritical analysis in contemporary Latin American letters. In the process it explores natural settings within Latin American novels that illustrate important moments of environmental change in the region extending from nineteenth-century imperialism to the present. The book expresses concerns with the way contemporary Latin American fiction portrays the economic, cultural, and historical roots of ecological transformations in the Americas. This chapter also sheds light on the different ways through which Latin American novels and texts appropriate the rhetoric of nature to depict social and environmental justice concerns as the foreground of historical debates.
