Successes and Failures of the “Modern Rebellion” in an Export Economy: The Case of the Peruvian Mining in the Twentieth Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-112
Author(s):  
Carlos Contreras Carranza
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Successes And Failures

The Institution of Meter

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Martin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
English Poetry ◽  
Prime Mover ◽  
Gerard Manley Hopkins ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primary Measure ◽  
Successes And Failures ◽  
The Way

This chapter begins with a discussion of metrical mastery, outlining the way that Robert Bridges's intervention in his best-selling treatise Milton's Prosody expanded and popularized the theories that he and Gerard Manley Hopkins discussed together. It shows how Bridges and his influential competitor, George Saintsbury, were jostling for position during the height of the prosody wars between 1900 and 1910, and how their successes and failures characterize much of our contemporary thinking about early twentieth-century prosody. Author of the three-volume History of English Prosody (1906–10), Saintsbury was a prime mover in both the foundation of English literary study and the institutionalization of the “foot” as the primary measure of English poetry. Infused with Edwardian-era military rhetoric, Sainstbury's foot marched to a particularly English rhythm, which he traced through the ages with wit and martial vigor.

What Empires Can and Can't Do

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 1127-1142
Author(s):  
Richard Lachmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
Contemporary United States ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Successes And Failures

AbstractI review and critique three important recent books to clarify the ways in which empires amass territories, dominate the peoples within them, and sooner or later decline and disappear. I review definitions of empires and contrast empires with nation-states. Empires succeed to the extent to which they manage differences among subjects, and I examine explanations for empires’ varying strategies for accomplishing that necessary task. I examine how empires both suppress and inadvertently foster nationalism. Imperial dynamics were influenced by competition with rival empires even as empires learned from each other's successes and failures. Throughout the modern era ancient Rome was a model and a caution. I identify the ways in which wars led to imperial expansion and moments when wars weakened or fatally undermined empires. I contrast ancient and modern and European and Asian empires. Finally, I look at the nineteenth-century expansion and twentieth-century collapses of modern empires and speculate on the extent to which those trajectories hold lessons for the contemporary United States.

Meliorist versus Insurgent Planners and the Problems of New York, 1921–1941

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Simpson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Regional Plan ◽  
State Plan ◽  
The City ◽  
Successes And Failures

American planning in the twentieth century has been dominated by a meliorist approach to environmental problems. This dominance has been challenged, more or less ineffectively, by a more radical tradition. The sharpest exchange between the two took place in the interwar years in the city and state of New York, respectively the nation's largest metropolis and then its most populous state. The problems of city and state were the problems of the new industrial-urban nation in microcosm. They attracted the attention of the leading figures in each camp and led to an abortive proposal for a state plan on the part of the radicals or insurgents and, in terms of its implementation, a much more successful Regional Plan of New York and its Environs (1921–30), the work of meliorist planners. This essay explores the problems of the metropolitan region in the interwar years, the alternative strategies put forward, the controversies between the opposing schools of thought and their relative successes and failures.

North American School Ensembles

2012 ◽  
pp. 806-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R. Lee ◽  
Michael D. Worthy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
Secondary Curriculum ◽  
American School ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Early School ◽  
Local Leaders ◽  
Successes And Failures

This article, which addresses the development of Canadian and US school ensembles from the early twentieth century to the present, identifies patterns of historical growth and speculates about larger successes and failures. In both countries, early school ensembles were regarded as a necessary part of an expanding secondary curriculum, emerging as they did in the midst of a reformist ethos positively disposed toward music. US and Canadian ensemble culture produced strong local leaders and administrators, who saw value in school ensembles in the education of children, and who worked with persistence and evangelical fervor to establish them in schools.

Analysis and Vision in Economic Discourse

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Boettke
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
Economic Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Successes And Failures

Robert Heilbroner (1990) challenges us to re-examine our preconceptions about the development of economic analysis in the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes (1951, p. 141) once said, in a discussion concerning Alfred Marshall, that the “master economist…must study the present in light of the past for the purposes of the future,” and in this regard Heilbroner's essay is the work of a historian of economics who commands our attention and respect. The purpose of his essay “is to inquire into the successes and failures of economic thought in anticipating the march of actual events” (Heilbroner 1990, p. 1097). The failures, Heilbroner points out, considerably outweigh the successes. But, he conjectures, even in those cases of success, the success is not due to superior analysis. Rather, “the success of the farsighted seem accounted for more by their prescient ‘visions’ than by their superior analyses” (ibid., p. 1098).

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