Heather A. Haveman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164403
- eISBN:
- 9781400873883
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164403.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory
This chapter examines the material and cultural foundations that provided the resources necessary for magazine publishing and the demand necessary to sustain a large number of magazines in locations ...
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This chapter examines the material and cultural foundations that provided the resources necessary for magazine publishing and the demand necessary to sustain a large number of magazines in locations across America. In particular, it explores a number of fundamental changes in American society that supported the explosive growth and increasing variety of magazines. It first considers basic material supports such as advances in printing and papermaking technologies and the development of the U.S. postal system before discussing the more complex demographic, economic, and cultural supports. These include population growth and urbanization and the rise of various religious, political, and economic communities of readers. In particular, the chapter describes the growth of an increasingly urban, better-educated, more prosperous population, along with the development of copyright law in Britain and America and its impact on cultural conceptions of authorship in both countries.Less
This chapter examines the material and cultural foundations that provided the resources necessary for magazine publishing and the demand necessary to sustain a large number of magazines in locations across America. In particular, it explores a number of fundamental changes in American society that supported the explosive growth and increasing variety of magazines. It first considers basic material supports such as advances in printing and papermaking technologies and the development of the U.S. postal system before discussing the more complex demographic, economic, and cultural supports. These include population growth and urbanization and the rise of various religious, political, and economic communities of readers. In particular, the chapter describes the growth of an increasingly urban, better-educated, more prosperous population, along with the development of copyright law in Britain and America and its impact on cultural conceptions of authorship in both countries.
Kory Olson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786940964
- eISBN:
- 9781789629033
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786940964.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
In order to understand fully the proposed communication circuit between map maker and map reader, one may turn to a variety of tools, such as semiotics, the framework for my map image analysis. The ...
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In order to understand fully the proposed communication circuit between map maker and map reader, one may turn to a variety of tools, such as semiotics, the framework for my map image analysis. The investigation of colour, shapes, symbols, and text on maps of Third-Republic Paris help uncover underlying themes of modernity, stability, ease of movement, and growth. There are also benefits to be gained from working with maps. The visual nature of the medium has the potential to draw a reader’s eye much more effectively than pages and pages of black and white script. Beyond discourse, this chapter also investigates the changing role of the French state in the history of cartography. With a population that could more readily access and understand maps as the Third Republic progressed, cartography helped foster the growing field of French urbanism and planning. Furthermore, the government shifted from presenting what it had accomplished in Paris throughout the Third Republic to planning and managing its growth and state cartography needed to adapt. An investigation of historic cartographic colour printing techniques will show how this is done and support this book’s map analysis.Less
In order to understand fully the proposed communication circuit between map maker and map reader, one may turn to a variety of tools, such as semiotics, the framework for my map image analysis. The investigation of colour, shapes, symbols, and text on maps of Third-Republic Paris help uncover underlying themes of modernity, stability, ease of movement, and growth. There are also benefits to be gained from working with maps. The visual nature of the medium has the potential to draw a reader’s eye much more effectively than pages and pages of black and white script. Beyond discourse, this chapter also investigates the changing role of the French state in the history of cartography. With a population that could more readily access and understand maps as the Third Republic progressed, cartography helped foster the growing field of French urbanism and planning. Furthermore, the government shifted from presenting what it had accomplished in Paris throughout the Third Republic to planning and managing its growth and state cartography needed to adapt. An investigation of historic cartographic colour printing techniques will show how this is done and support this book’s map analysis.
Terje Hillesund and Claire Bélisle
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038402
- eISBN:
- 9780252096280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038402.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter analyzes critical edition digitization ambitions, ranging from the conception and aims of editors to the expectations of readers. The first part deals with issues and questions raised by ...
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This chapter analyzes critical edition digitization ambitions, ranging from the conception and aims of editors to the expectations of readers. The first part deals with issues and questions raised by the digital trend in scholarly text editions as they migrate from one media to another. The chapter explains, through the concept of remediation, how the traits and configuration of editions that are present in print technology live on in digital technology, even though text creation and dissemination have profoundly changed. Digital remediation of text is taking place within a digital context impelling new reading habits. The remainder of the chapter explores these new emerging reading practices, coupled with a probing of readers' expectations.Less
This chapter analyzes critical edition digitization ambitions, ranging from the conception and aims of editors to the expectations of readers. The first part deals with issues and questions raised by the digital trend in scholarly text editions as they migrate from one media to another. The chapter explains, through the concept of remediation, how the traits and configuration of editions that are present in print technology live on in digital technology, even though text creation and dissemination have profoundly changed. Digital remediation of text is taking place within a digital context impelling new reading habits. The remainder of the chapter explores these new emerging reading practices, coupled with a probing of readers' expectations.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Hentschel
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198509530
- eISBN:
- 9780191709050
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198509530.001.0001
- Subject:
- Physics, Atomic, Laser, and Optical Physics
This book describes how advances in recording and printing technologies influenced the research and teaching styles of succeeding generations of physicists, chemists, and astronomers, particularly ...
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This book describes how advances in recording and printing technologies influenced the research and teaching styles of succeeding generations of physicists, chemists, and astronomers, particularly from the boom of spectrum analysis in the 1860s until the advent of quantum mechanics in 1925. Seemingly disparate strands in the history of the spectrum, such as spectrochemistry and cartography, instrument design, and science education, are interlaced in one of the most fascinating and influential research-technologies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The emphasis is on the material culture of spectroscopy, including the impact of lithography and photography on research and its interplay with photochemistry. Well-documented case studies on MIT and Wellesley College, Harvard University and the Ecole Polytechnique cover teaching aspects. A bibliography of c. 2500 entries and a tabular survey of all the major terrestrial and stellar spectrum maps 1835-1949 complete the volume.Less
This book describes how advances in recording and printing technologies influenced the research and teaching styles of succeeding generations of physicists, chemists, and astronomers, particularly from the boom of spectrum analysis in the 1860s until the advent of quantum mechanics in 1925. Seemingly disparate strands in the history of the spectrum, such as spectrochemistry and cartography, instrument design, and science education, are interlaced in one of the most fascinating and influential research-technologies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The emphasis is on the material culture of spectroscopy, including the impact of lithography and photography on research and its interplay with photochemistry. Well-documented case studies on MIT and Wellesley College, Harvard University and the Ecole Polytechnique cover teaching aspects. A bibliography of c. 2500 entries and a tabular survey of all the major terrestrial and stellar spectrum maps 1835-1949 complete the volume.
Chandak Sengoopta
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199464753
- eISBN:
- 9780199087198
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199464753.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This chapter shows how Upendrakishore Ray, after beginning his career as a photographer, mastered the then radically new technology of half-tone photography—essential for the printing of ...
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This chapter shows how Upendrakishore Ray, after beginning his career as a photographer, mastered the then radically new technology of half-tone photography—essential for the printing of photographs—and, despite lacking any formal training, became the premier block-maker for Calcutta’s leading illustrated periodicals and improved existing techniques sufficiently to find real, though fleeting, recognition in Britain and America. The chapter not only argues that small entrepreneurs like Upendrakishore were important in the colonial, semi-capitalistic context for generating innovations, but also examines changes in Bengali print culture that made it viable for Upendrakishore to practise the new technology. The chapter also explores Upendrakishore’s contributions to music and children’s literature, paying particular attention to Sandesh, the magazine he founded in 1913 and which sought to educate today’s children to be tomorrow’s citizens.Less
This chapter shows how Upendrakishore Ray, after beginning his career as a photographer, mastered the then radically new technology of half-tone photography—essential for the printing of photographs—and, despite lacking any formal training, became the premier block-maker for Calcutta’s leading illustrated periodicals and improved existing techniques sufficiently to find real, though fleeting, recognition in Britain and America. The chapter not only argues that small entrepreneurs like Upendrakishore were important in the colonial, semi-capitalistic context for generating innovations, but also examines changes in Bengali print culture that made it viable for Upendrakishore to practise the new technology. The chapter also explores Upendrakishore’s contributions to music and children’s literature, paying particular attention to Sandesh, the magazine he founded in 1913 and which sought to educate today’s children to be tomorrow’s citizens.
Laurie Langbauer
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198739203
- eISBN:
- 9780191802348
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739203.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
Thomas Chatterton provided a model for juvenile writers who self-consciously followed him in creating and sustaining juvenile literary culture. The publication of his literary remains by Southey and ...
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Thomas Chatterton provided a model for juvenile writers who self-consciously followed him in creating and sustaining juvenile literary culture. The publication of his literary remains by Southey and Cottle turn attention to precocious genius into an understanding of literary tradition. Innovations in publishing in the latter part of the eighteenth century made print technology the medium of the emergence of the modern. Understanding Chatterton as exemplary premature writer, a kind of boy wonder, the assumed origin of the juvenile tradition itself, recasts his faux archaic writing into the proleptic emblem of an ultramodern future. Chatterton’s forgery of a literary past, by cannily manipulating new technologies of literary production, mocks conventional models of history as slow development. His celebrity a rallying point for later young writers, Chatterton’s imposture models the proleptic stance adopted by later juveniles, a rhetorical position allowing the writing of history in advance of the event.Less
Thomas Chatterton provided a model for juvenile writers who self-consciously followed him in creating and sustaining juvenile literary culture. The publication of his literary remains by Southey and Cottle turn attention to precocious genius into an understanding of literary tradition. Innovations in publishing in the latter part of the eighteenth century made print technology the medium of the emergence of the modern. Understanding Chatterton as exemplary premature writer, a kind of boy wonder, the assumed origin of the juvenile tradition itself, recasts his faux archaic writing into the proleptic emblem of an ultramodern future. Chatterton’s forgery of a literary past, by cannily manipulating new technologies of literary production, mocks conventional models of history as slow development. His celebrity a rallying point for later young writers, Chatterton’s imposture models the proleptic stance adopted by later juveniles, a rhetorical position allowing the writing of history in advance of the event.
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226469140
- eISBN:
- 9780226469287
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226469287.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This chapter focuses on the relationship between typographic elements and white space on the page, and the readerly ramifications of these various configurations. It traces a fine line between ...
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This chapter focuses on the relationship between typographic elements and white space on the page, and the readerly ramifications of these various configurations. It traces a fine line between material practice and phenomenological effect. The ways that publishers, authors, and readers (when they mark margins or otherwise mark the space of a page) use and work with the spacing of a printed page raise an important question about printed matter: how does the physical layout of the page as a product of print technologies form and inflect readers' experience of and interaction with the printed page as an object of use and source of meaning? How does page layout lend the text an affective potential, a stimulating force? This chapter shows that the printed page is not simply an inert object of technical manipulation; it is rather a phenomenon with which humans interact. It is in this interaction, in the inextricable link of the technical and the human, that print exits.Less
This chapter focuses on the relationship between typographic elements and white space on the page, and the readerly ramifications of these various configurations. It traces a fine line between material practice and phenomenological effect. The ways that publishers, authors, and readers (when they mark margins or otherwise mark the space of a page) use and work with the spacing of a printed page raise an important question about printed matter: how does the physical layout of the page as a product of print technologies form and inflect readers' experience of and interaction with the printed page as an object of use and source of meaning? How does page layout lend the text an affective potential, a stimulating force? This chapter shows that the printed page is not simply an inert object of technical manipulation; it is rather a phenomenon with which humans interact. It is in this interaction, in the inextricable link of the technical and the human, that print exits.
Ahmed El Shamsy
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691174563
- eISBN:
- 9780691201245
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691174563.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, ...
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Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and commentaries on, these ideas. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East only in the early nineteenth century, and it wasn't until the second half of the century that the first works of classical Islamic religious scholarship were printed there. But from that moment on, as this book reveals, the technology of print transformed Islamic scholarship and Arabic literature. The book tells the story of how a small group of editors and intellectuals brought forgotten works of Islamic literature into print and defined what became the classical canon of Islamic thought. Through the lens of the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arab cities—especially Cairo, a hot spot of the nascent publishing business—the book explores the contributions of these individuals, who included some of the most important thinkers of the time. Through their efforts to find and publish classical literature, the book shows, many nearly lost works were recovered, disseminated, and harnessed for agendas of linguistic, ethical, and religious reform. The book is an examination of the central role printing and its advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab world.Less
Islamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and paper and then to compose increasingly elaborate analyses of, and commentaries on, these ideas. Movable type was adopted in the Middle East only in the early nineteenth century, and it wasn't until the second half of the century that the first works of classical Islamic religious scholarship were printed there. But from that moment on, as this book reveals, the technology of print transformed Islamic scholarship and Arabic literature. The book tells the story of how a small group of editors and intellectuals brought forgotten works of Islamic literature into print and defined what became the classical canon of Islamic thought. Through the lens of the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arab cities—especially Cairo, a hot spot of the nascent publishing business—the book explores the contributions of these individuals, who included some of the most important thinkers of the time. Through their efforts to find and publish classical literature, the book shows, many nearly lost works were recovered, disseminated, and harnessed for agendas of linguistic, ethical, and religious reform. The book is an examination of the central role printing and its advocates played in the intellectual history of the modern Arab world.
John Haydock
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781942954231
- eISBN:
- 9781786944153
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781942954231.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Conventional academic criticism of the works of Herman Melville does not include agreement that the author knew or was influenced by the contemporary and popular French writer Honoré de Balzac until ...
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Conventional academic criticism of the works of Herman Melville does not include agreement that the author knew or was influenced by the contemporary and popular French writer Honoré de Balzac until very late in his life. However, the nature of the literary and technological networks of the mid-nineteenth century, along with an examination of important texts, suggests that Melville was not only seeking to rival the Frenchman as a competitor in book sales, but through study and guidance from his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, attempting to infuse Balzac’s vision of unity of composition into a new American proto-Realist genre.Less
Conventional academic criticism of the works of Herman Melville does not include agreement that the author knew or was influenced by the contemporary and popular French writer Honoré de Balzac until very late in his life. However, the nature of the literary and technological networks of the mid-nineteenth century, along with an examination of important texts, suggests that Melville was not only seeking to rival the Frenchman as a competitor in book sales, but through study and guidance from his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, attempting to infuse Balzac’s vision of unity of composition into a new American proto-Realist genre.
Chandak Sengoopta
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199464753
- eISBN:
- 9780199087198
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199464753.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, children’s ...
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Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, children’s literature, feminism, advertising, entrepreneurialism, and religious reform. Indeed, even within Bengal, the earlier Rays are often very inadequately known and associated exclusively with children’s literature. The first study in English of the multifarious interests and accomplishments of the Ray family and its collateral branches, The Rays before Satyajit reconstructs the multidimensional Ray saga and interweaves it with the larger history of Indian modernity. While eager to learn from the West and rarely drawn to simple-minded nationalism, the Rays, at their best, shunned mere imitation and sought to create forms of the modern that were thoroughly Indian and enthusiastically cosmopolitan. Some of the outcomes of this quest—such as Upendrakishore Ray’s innovations in half-tone photography and block-making—were admired in the West, though the metropolitan careers of colonial innovators, the book shows, were inevitably constrained by forces beyond their control. Within India and Bengal, however, many of the Rays’ innovations were of enduring significance, and when situated in their contexts, they help us understand the tensions and contradictions of the pursuit of modernity in an economy that was neither capitalistic nor politically autonomous. Ranging across the history of religion, literature, science, technology, and entrepreneurial culture, The Rays before Satyajit is not only the first collective biography of an extraordinary family but also a book that illuminates the history of Indian modernity from a new perspective.Less
Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well known across the world, few outside Bengal know much about the diverse contributions of his forebears to printing technology, nationalism, children’s literature, feminism, advertising, entrepreneurialism, and religious reform. Indeed, even within Bengal, the earlier Rays are often very inadequately known and associated exclusively with children’s literature. The first study in English of the multifarious interests and accomplishments of the Ray family and its collateral branches, The Rays before Satyajit reconstructs the multidimensional Ray saga and interweaves it with the larger history of Indian modernity. While eager to learn from the West and rarely drawn to simple-minded nationalism, the Rays, at their best, shunned mere imitation and sought to create forms of the modern that were thoroughly Indian and enthusiastically cosmopolitan. Some of the outcomes of this quest—such as Upendrakishore Ray’s innovations in half-tone photography and block-making—were admired in the West, though the metropolitan careers of colonial innovators, the book shows, were inevitably constrained by forces beyond their control. Within India and Bengal, however, many of the Rays’ innovations were of enduring significance, and when situated in their contexts, they help us understand the tensions and contradictions of the pursuit of modernity in an economy that was neither capitalistic nor politically autonomous. Ranging across the history of religion, literature, science, technology, and entrepreneurial culture, The Rays before Satyajit is not only the first collective biography of an extraordinary family but also a book that illuminates the history of Indian modernity from a new perspective.
Gowan Dawson and Jonathan R. Topham
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226676517
- eISBN:
- 9780226683461
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226683461.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a sizable expansion in the number and variety of science and medicine periodicals, making it difficult terrain for a twenty-first-century historian to navigate. ...
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Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a sizable expansion in the number and variety of science and medicine periodicals, making it difficult terrain for a twenty-first-century historian to navigate. This chapter provides a preliminary map, exploring the large-scale developments in formats and readers over the course of the century through "samplings and soundings." It also examines the factors that lay behind those developments, including technological and commercial ones as well as factors more intrinsic to the sciences. The chapter shows that the gradual cheapening of print was one of the overriding factors in the proliferation of science periodicals over the period, itself resulting from the introduction of new technologies of production and distribution, the expansion of reading audiences, and the gradual reduction in taxation. Nevertheless, the publication of financially viable periodicals for scientific specialists continued to be a major challenge to editors and publishers. Partly in consequence, many of the periodicals continued to make their appeal to more or less diverse audiences that increasingly included a range of occupational groups. It was only towards the end of the century that journals began to be produced that were aimed primarily at university-based scientific professionals.Less
Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a sizable expansion in the number and variety of science and medicine periodicals, making it difficult terrain for a twenty-first-century historian to navigate. This chapter provides a preliminary map, exploring the large-scale developments in formats and readers over the course of the century through "samplings and soundings." It also examines the factors that lay behind those developments, including technological and commercial ones as well as factors more intrinsic to the sciences. The chapter shows that the gradual cheapening of print was one of the overriding factors in the proliferation of science periodicals over the period, itself resulting from the introduction of new technologies of production and distribution, the expansion of reading audiences, and the gradual reduction in taxation. Nevertheless, the publication of financially viable periodicals for scientific specialists continued to be a major challenge to editors and publishers. Partly in consequence, many of the periodicals continued to make their appeal to more or less diverse audiences that increasingly included a range of occupational groups. It was only towards the end of the century that journals began to be produced that were aimed primarily at university-based scientific professionals.
Jason D. Hansen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198714392
- eISBN:
- 9780191782800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714392.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
Networks are the focus of the fourth chapter, with a particular eye to the circuitry that connected the creators of these images of the national community with the public sphere. This circulation, ...
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Networks are the focus of the fourth chapter, with a particular eye to the circuitry that connected the creators of these images of the national community with the public sphere. This circulation, this chapter argues, played a critical role in legitimizing and authenticating maps and statistics of nationality as “scientific” and “accurate” documents. Once again technology also plays a role in the story, as the increasingly lower cost of printing enabled the foundation of geographic journals such as Petermanns Mitteilungen and Globus, who brought “serious” maps of nationality to the public sphere. By the 1880s, the school system, reference works and nationalist pressure groups also helped further build the credibility of these images.Less
Networks are the focus of the fourth chapter, with a particular eye to the circuitry that connected the creators of these images of the national community with the public sphere. This circulation, this chapter argues, played a critical role in legitimizing and authenticating maps and statistics of nationality as “scientific” and “accurate” documents. Once again technology also plays a role in the story, as the increasingly lower cost of printing enabled the foundation of geographic journals such as Petermanns Mitteilungen and Globus, who brought “serious” maps of nationality to the public sphere. By the 1880s, the school system, reference works and nationalist pressure groups also helped further build the credibility of these images.
Jan Kiely
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190494568
- eISBN:
- 9780190494582
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190494568.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter analyzes the first Buddhist mass movement in modern Chinese history. The movement took place in and around Shanghai, China’s most cosmopolitan city during the 1920s and 1930s, and its ...
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This chapter analyzes the first Buddhist mass movement in modern Chinese history. The movement took place in and around Shanghai, China’s most cosmopolitan city during the 1920s and 1930s, and its leader was Yinguang, a Pure Land Buddhist master who emphasized discipline and simplicity. Yinguang was conversant with the new print technology that was changing China’s social and intellectual landscape. He also received the enthusiastic support of Shanghai’s influential and wealthy lay Buddhist elites, who were comfortable with the West but remained loyal to China’s cultural traditions and wary of the iconoclasm of the May Fourth revolutionaries. Kiely charts both the surprising growth of the movement, as well as its limitations: Yinguang’s wealthy patrons were distrustful of the mass enthusiasm generated by the monk, and by the “superstitious” practices associated with Yinguang’s mass following.Less
This chapter analyzes the first Buddhist mass movement in modern Chinese history. The movement took place in and around Shanghai, China’s most cosmopolitan city during the 1920s and 1930s, and its leader was Yinguang, a Pure Land Buddhist master who emphasized discipline and simplicity. Yinguang was conversant with the new print technology that was changing China’s social and intellectual landscape. He also received the enthusiastic support of Shanghai’s influential and wealthy lay Buddhist elites, who were comfortable with the West but remained loyal to China’s cultural traditions and wary of the iconoclasm of the May Fourth revolutionaries. Kiely charts both the surprising growth of the movement, as well as its limitations: Yinguang’s wealthy patrons were distrustful of the mass enthusiasm generated by the monk, and by the “superstitious” practices associated with Yinguang’s mass following.
Rachel Leah Jablon
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906764869
- eISBN:
- 9781800343375
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906764869.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter focuses on online yizkor and Cyber-Shtetls that give access to the places where Jewish life once flourished and are otherwise inaccessible due to the Holocaust. It discusses how ...
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This chapter focuses on online yizkor and Cyber-Shtetls that give access to the places where Jewish life once flourished and are otherwise inaccessible due to the Holocaust. It discusses how communities of the online yizkor and Cyber-Shtetls draw attention to changes in contemporary Jewish identity formation and the mediation of Jewish social connection in the digital age. It also explores how online yizkor books and Cyber-Shtetls that give people who are searching for 'home' a place to go and provide space that they occupy on the web as a surrogate for the real thing. The chapter mentions Benedict Anderson, who argues that the metropolitan daily newspaper represents a convergence of market capitalism and print technology that emerged at the start of the Industrial Revolution. It discloses the resulting 'communities of location' that are salient in Jewish life and culture that the Yiddish described the people who come from one geographic place as landsman.Less
This chapter focuses on online yizkor and Cyber-Shtetls that give access to the places where Jewish life once flourished and are otherwise inaccessible due to the Holocaust. It discusses how communities of the online yizkor and Cyber-Shtetls draw attention to changes in contemporary Jewish identity formation and the mediation of Jewish social connection in the digital age. It also explores how online yizkor books and Cyber-Shtetls that give people who are searching for 'home' a place to go and provide space that they occupy on the web as a surrogate for the real thing. The chapter mentions Benedict Anderson, who argues that the metropolitan daily newspaper represents a convergence of market capitalism and print technology that emerged at the start of the Industrial Revolution. It discloses the resulting 'communities of location' that are salient in Jewish life and culture that the Yiddish described the people who come from one geographic place as landsman.
Jason D. Hansen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198714392
- eISBN:
- 9780191782800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198714392.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This second chapter moves on to look at the scientific devices used to bring such knowledge to the public, focusing in particular on the development of European cartography in the middle of the ...
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This second chapter moves on to look at the scientific devices used to bring such knowledge to the public, focusing in particular on the development of European cartography in the middle of the nineteenth century. The chapter shows the weakness of the first attempts to depict nationality on maps, whose lack of graphic precision and inability to develop a comprehensible and consistent visual code rendered them unsuitable for formal use in politics. The chapter then charts the ways in which these limitations were overcome, so that by the 1870s new printing techniques and cheaper production costs helped make the nationality maps of men like Richard Böckh and Heinrich Kiepert increasingly believableLess
This second chapter moves on to look at the scientific devices used to bring such knowledge to the public, focusing in particular on the development of European cartography in the middle of the nineteenth century. The chapter shows the weakness of the first attempts to depict nationality on maps, whose lack of graphic precision and inability to develop a comprehensible and consistent visual code rendered them unsuitable for formal use in politics. The chapter then charts the ways in which these limitations were overcome, so that by the 1870s new printing techniques and cheaper production costs helped make the nationality maps of men like Richard Böckh and Heinrich Kiepert increasingly believable