Michael Keevak
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098954
- eISBN:
- 9789882207608
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098954.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter begins in the middle of the nineteenth century, a period of greater Western presence in China than ever before. Five treaty ports had been opened to Western trade and to Western ...
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This chapter begins in the middle of the nineteenth century, a period of greater Western presence in China than ever before. Five treaty ports had been opened to Western trade and to Western diplomats following the first Opium War in 1842, and two more were ceded by 1860. For the first time in Chinese history, the empire was home to increasingly demanding foreign settlements, and by mid-century Western missionaries were allowed to travel anywhere throughout the country. By 1879, the Xi'an area had suffered even greater devastation and the brick enclosure was gone. The Chinese government took away the monument and placed it in their most important museum of stone tablets—an appropriate end, one might imagine. Scholarly study of the stone, both in the East and the West, had reached a new age of breadth and maturity, and it was only fringe voices that continued to raise any suspicions about authenticity.Less
This chapter begins in the middle of the nineteenth century, a period of greater Western presence in China than ever before. Five treaty ports had been opened to Western trade and to Western diplomats following the first Opium War in 1842, and two more were ceded by 1860. For the first time in Chinese history, the empire was home to increasingly demanding foreign settlements, and by mid-century Western missionaries were allowed to travel anywhere throughout the country. By 1879, the Xi'an area had suffered even greater devastation and the brick enclosure was gone. The Chinese government took away the monument and placed it in their most important museum of stone tablets—an appropriate end, one might imagine. Scholarly study of the stone, both in the East and the West, had reached a new age of breadth and maturity, and it was only fringe voices that continued to raise any suspicions about authenticity.
Rudolph J. Vecoli and Francesco Durante
Donna R. Gabaccia (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823279869
- eISBN:
- 9780823281428
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823279869.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Italian adventurer and sea captain Celso Cesare Moreno traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to establish his reputation as a middleman and person of ...
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Italian adventurer and sea captain Celso Cesare Moreno traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to establish his reputation as a middleman and person of significance. Through his machinations, Moreno became a critical player in the expansion of western trade and imperialism in Asia, the trafficking of migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, the conflicts of Americans and Native Hawaiians over the fate of Hawaii, and the imperial competitions of French, British, Italian, and American governments in an important era of imperial expansion during the nineteenth century. This book teases out Moreno's enormous peculiarities and fascination as well as his significance. It examines how he repeatedly sought a role at the center of a globalizing world with gusto and had no qualms about lying or betraying others. Dragged by his uncontrollable polemical passions, the old Captain died alone, unloved by anyone and with no meaningful relations to others. With its focus on Moreno, this book illustrates some of the most puzzling cultural traits of emigrant Italian elites. Called a “carpetbagger,” “land pirate,” “extinct volcano,” among many other derogatory monikers, Celso emerges in this fascinating biography as a multifaceted, chameleon-like personality not reducible to a single epithet.Less
Italian adventurer and sea captain Celso Cesare Moreno traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to establish his reputation as a middleman and person of significance. Through his machinations, Moreno became a critical player in the expansion of western trade and imperialism in Asia, the trafficking of migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, the conflicts of Americans and Native Hawaiians over the fate of Hawaii, and the imperial competitions of French, British, Italian, and American governments in an important era of imperial expansion during the nineteenth century. This book teases out Moreno's enormous peculiarities and fascination as well as his significance. It examines how he repeatedly sought a role at the center of a globalizing world with gusto and had no qualms about lying or betraying others. Dragged by his uncontrollable polemical passions, the old Captain died alone, unloved by anyone and with no meaningful relations to others. With its focus on Moreno, this book illustrates some of the most puzzling cultural traits of emigrant Italian elites. Called a “carpetbagger,” “land pirate,” “extinct volcano,” among many other derogatory monikers, Celso emerges in this fascinating biography as a multifaceted, chameleon-like personality not reducible to a single epithet.
David Walker
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781469653204
- eISBN:
- 9781469653228
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653204.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This chapter covers J.H. Beadle’s guidebook escorted Gentiles on atrocity tours of Utah’s many Mormon hell-scapes and how Corinne’s steamboat industry dominated Utah’s Central business in freighting ...
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This chapter covers J.H. Beadle’s guidebook escorted Gentiles on atrocity tours of Utah’s many Mormon hell-scapes and how Corinne’s steamboat industry dominated Utah’s Central business in freighting if not also tourism. With an anti-Mormon mindset, steamboats such as Kate Conner were built with the hope of transporting goods between the southern and northern parts of Utah. Beadle planned to capitalize on the market for anti-Mormon literature and lectures and focused on theory and politics of tourism. Beadle pointed tourists in the direction of Mormon atrocities, such as Mormon violence and plural marriages. However, benefitting from the steamboat boosted Corinnethians’ southern mining and lumber market and the western tourism trade.Less
This chapter covers J.H. Beadle’s guidebook escorted Gentiles on atrocity tours of Utah’s many Mormon hell-scapes and how Corinne’s steamboat industry dominated Utah’s Central business in freighting if not also tourism. With an anti-Mormon mindset, steamboats such as Kate Conner were built with the hope of transporting goods between the southern and northern parts of Utah. Beadle planned to capitalize on the market for anti-Mormon literature and lectures and focused on theory and politics of tourism. Beadle pointed tourists in the direction of Mormon atrocities, such as Mormon violence and plural marriages. However, benefitting from the steamboat boosted Corinnethians’ southern mining and lumber market and the western tourism trade.
