When they come to model Heaven: big science and the monumental in post-war Britain

Antiquity ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (325) ◽  
pp. 774-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Edmonds
Keyword(s):  
Radio Telescope ◽  
Big Science ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Parallel Lives ◽  
Post War

How useful is the archaeology of the present? In this tour de force the author takes an iconic structure of modern times – the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank – and reveals the conjuncture of its origins and its subsequent parallel lives in science, war, politics and the imagination. The modern example allows us to get behind the scenes and under the covers – into the mentality of monumentality, as it has probably always been, proxy for the zeitgeist. Sceptics should read on…

scholarly journals Consumption, Consumerism, and Japanese Modernity

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Global Study ◽  
New Goods ◽  
Post War

The experience of people in Japan offers a rich body of evidence for a comparative and global study of consumption from early modern, through modern times, and to the postmodern period. One finds ample grist for the mill of economic historians seeking to measure the extent and the shifts in consumption of all manner of goods and services. One also finds sources in abundance from the seventeenth century onwards speaking to the politics and culture of regulating, lamenting, and celebrating consumption. Building on early modern foundations, consumption expanded in the era of self-conscious modernization that followed the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate (1868), with a turn to new goods alongside more widespread use of customary ones. As this happened, attitudes in Japan evolved as part of a global dialogue on consumer life. This article explores consumption, consumerism, modernity, and the post-war ascendance of consumers in Japan.

scholarly journals Deportation of Ukrainians from Ethnic Areas in Poland and Contemplation of the International Community in 1944-1946

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
I. Liubchyk
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Local Population ◽  
International Community ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Archival Documentation ◽  
Post War

In the article, the author attempts to consider the nature of contemplation of the international community on the deportation of Ukrainians from ethnic lands in Poland during 1944-1946. The author implements this task through archival documentation, which to some extent justifies extensive quotations. Today, the subject of post-war resettlement for Ukrainians and Poles is ambiguous, both in interpretation and in the politics of memory. The deportation of Ukrainians of the borderlands is a conflict of the historical memory of both peoples: Ukrainians want to remember the history which Poles prefer to forget. We learn about the terrible conditions of social adaptation of Polish deportees in the USSR from the epistolary of deportees, which they had been sending abroad in hope that relatives would read the letters. However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR had been intercepting those letters. In this sense, a conscious part of the local intelligentsia of the region was aware of the passive position of international politicians and the public on the unjustified eviction of autochthonous Ukrainians, but sincerely sought and expected its help. The analysis of The Open Letter of Ukrainians living behind the Curzon line entitled “To the whole civilized world” written in October 1945 convincingly evidences it. Losing hope of voluntary eviction, this letter was a kind of mouthpiece of Ukrainians in the region to the international community, hoping to be heard and supported. The author concludes that the international community did not live up to the hopes and expectations of Ukrainians who found themselves in a “war after war” and gradually lost their native lands, where they were indigenous. The deportation of 1944-1946, the local population from Lemkovschina, became a tragic ethno-political experiment of the USSR and Poland, which Lemkos had to survive in modern times.

scholarly journals Commercial Rodents in America: Standard Animals, Model Animals, and Biological Diversity

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
Cheryl A. Logan
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Selective Breeding ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Big Science ◽  
Wistar Institute ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Post War ◽  
Commercial Distribution ◽  
Evolutionary Perspectives

Rodents as standardized test animals were developed for commercial distribution in the USA between 1910 and the 1930s. The selective breeding of rats (Rattus norvegicus) and pure-bred mice (Mus musculus) at the Wistar Institute and the Jackson Memorial Laboratories eventually led to a decline in the diversity of species used in American medical and life sciences. The early driving figures, science administrator Milton Greenman and the scientists Henry Donaldson and Clarence Little, sought to standardize animals to render science and its application to humanity more precise. But their efforts were exaggerated in the USA through an expanding industrial and engineering ideal, culminating in a preference for Big Science. I explore the nineteenth century origins of this ideal in Emil Du Bois-Reymond’s neurophysiology. This foundation later merged with increasing standardization, American commercialism, and the success of Big Science to transform animal laboratory “standards” into “model animals.” Recent accounts of research with commercially bred mice reveal how findings can be co-constructed using human clinical data, as animal research is applied to humans. The neglect of evolutionary perspectives and the dominance of “models” may even have begun with the government’s post-war emphasis on funding greater species access for large-scale biomedical research.

scholarly journals History of the Department of Dermatology in Gdansk. The profiles of heads of the Department from the post-war period to modern times

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Dorota Purzycka-Bohdan ◽  
Aneta Szczerkowska-Dobosz ◽  
Roman Nowicki ◽  
Aleksandra Wilkowska
Keyword(s):  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

scholarly journals „Znane” i nieznane produkcje przedwojennego polskiego kina. Halka Konstantego Meglickiego i Sportowiec mimo woli Mieczysława Krawicza

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (29) ◽  
pp. 336-341
Author(s):  
Michał Pieńkowski
Keyword(s):  
Early Period ◽  
Original Version ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Digital Restoration ◽  
Film Archives ◽  
Post War

There are many Polish films from the pre-war period that are not known to the public today. Most oft en they simply did not make it to modern times or only fragments are preserved, their condition too poor to allow utilization. One of such films is Halka, directed by Konstanty Meglicki in 1929, which due to digital restoration has returned to the screen in November 2016, after decades-long break. In recent years, however, it’s been discovered that even some seemingly well-known films should in fact be considered unknown. Due to the research conducted at the National Film Archives, new facts came to light, revealing lost film fragments or alternative versions. One such example is a film from 1939 called Sportowiec mimo woli, until now only known for its post-war American adaptation, turns out to be very different from the unknown original version. Polish pre-war cinema, which was often treated with some disdain, is now perceived in a very different light. And recent discoveries allow us to re-examine the achievements of the early period of Polish cinematography.

scholarly journals PROSPECTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND REHABILITATION OF TOURISM IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD

2021 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Farhad Babayev Farhad Babayev
Keyword(s):  
Political Stability ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Development Region ◽  
Post War

Problems related to the tourism sector are quite relevant in modern times, and it is necessary to identify solutions to the problems of this area in accordance with the challenges of the time. Especially during war periods, the tourism sector was paralyzed, and it took a lot of time and resources to rehabilitate its activities in the post-war period, to restore the pace of development of this particular sector. Regional economic, political and geopolitical stability play an important role in the diversification of tourism, and I would like to pay more attention to the development and rehabilitation of tourism in the post-war period, which is one of the current problems of the mentioned sphere.[1] I personally conduct this research on regional tourism - on the basis of Caucasus region, especially in Azerbaijan area. The development of regional tourism is a complex process and involves many factors. The development of regional tourism depends not only on the economic and political stability of a country, but also on the existence of geopolitical stability in all countries bordering on that country, as well as on the relations between these countries. Planning, forecasting, management, marketing, socio-economic processes and their impact play a significant role in the development of regional tourism. Factors influencing the development of regional tourism, along with scientific approaches in the work process, practical approaches including international experience are quiet effective as well. Keywords: tourism, war, postwar, postpandemic, development, region, problems, challenges, international experience, etc.

Interpretation of the Filament Depression at Millimetric and Centimetric Wavelengths

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
A. Raoult ◽  
P. Lantos ◽  
E. Fürst
Keyword(s):  
Radio Telescope ◽  
Active Regions ◽  
Simple Shape ◽  
Quiet Sun ◽  
Unstable Process

The depressions at centimetric and millimetric wavelengths associated with the filaments are studied using already published maps as well as unpublished observations from the Effelsberg 100 m radio telescope of the M.P.I., Bonn. The study has been restricted to large Ha quiescent prominences of relatively simple shape, situated far from the limb and from active regions. The data has been reduced employing one method whose main characteristics are choice of a local quiet sun definition and avoidance of the unstable process of deconvolution.

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