The Virtues of Archaism: The Political Economy of Schooling in Europe, 1750–1850

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Maynes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
School Attendance ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The Political ◽  
School Systems ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The North

Schooling is now a routine part of childhood in Western Europe, but this has not, of course, always been the case. The historical process of incorporation into school systems was one which affected the children of some social groups earlier than others and which occurred earlier in some regions than in others. In Western Europe, the contrast between the Protestant North and the Catholic South has proven to be significant in schooling history as in so many other realms: in general the South was less literate and less schooled than the North apparently from the sixteenth century until the accomplishment of universal school attendance and literacy around the beginning of the twentieth century.

scholarly journals El inglés en Europa: Origen y consolidación de una lengua franca

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fernández Vítores
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
International Communication ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Sobre Todo

Aunque la enseñanza del inglés en Europa continental se remonta al siglo XVI, la aparición de este idioma como herramienta de comunicación internacional no comenzó a ser palpable hasta el siglo XVIII. El siglo XX, sobre todo su segunda mitad, supuso la consolidación de este idioma como lengua franca de Europa y el desplazamiento progresivo de otras lenguas de prestigio, como el francés y el alemán. El propósito de este artículo es describir dicho proceso histórico y analizar los factores políticos, sociales y económicos que han convertido a esta lengua en el principal instrumento de comunicación internacional del viejo continente.Abstract:Although the teaching of English in mainland Europe dates back to the sixteenth century, the emergence of this language as a tool for international communication didn’t become evident until the eighteenth century. The twentieth century, especially during the second half, was witness to the consolidation of English as a lingua franca in Europe as it gradually superseded other prestigious languages such as French and German. The purpose of this paper is to describe this historical process and analyze the political, social and economic factors that made this language the major tool for international communication on the old continent.

Literary Conduits for ‘Consent’

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankaj Kumar Jha
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
North India ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The North ◽  
Literary Cultures

The making of the imperial subjects is as much a matter of historical process as the emergence of the empire. In the case of the Mughal state, this process started much before its actual establishment in the sixteenth century. The fifteenth century in North India was a period of unusual cultural ferment. The emergence of the Mughal imperial formation in the next century was intimately related to the fast congealing tendency of the north Indian society towards greater disciplining of itself. This tendency is evident in the multilingual literary cultures and diverse knowledge formations of the long fifteenth century.

scholarly journals Sustaining Animal Agriculture and Environmental Quality in the South: What Happened and Why? Discussion

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
Paul B. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Family Roles ◽  
Employment Patterns ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Organizational Innovations

German social theorist Ulrich Beck has suggested that the political economy of post-industrial society has shifted away from the competition among relatively well-defined social groups for control of benefit streams resulting from technological and organizational innovations that characterized the roughly 200-year period of industrialization. In its place, we find constantly changing aggregates of individuals engaged in temporary or limited alliances competing to affect the distribution of social, environmental, and economic risks. Beck argues that a complex set of forces has brought about this shift. He mentions many oft noted changes in gender and family roles, in employment patterns, and global interdependencies, but two points are especially relevant to me collection of issues that have been discussed in these four papers.

scholarly journals Science in The Children's Encyclopedia and its appropriation in the twentieth century in Latin America

BJHS Themes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
BERNARDO JEFFERSON DE OLIVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
South American ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Science And Technology Education ◽  
The North

AbstractIn the early twentieth century, encyclopedias addressed to children and youths became special reference works concerning science and technology education. In search of greater comprehension of this historical process, I analyse The Children's Encyclopedia’s representation of science and technology, and how it was re-edited by the North American publishing company that bought its copyrights and promoted its circulation in several countries. Furthermore, I examine how its contents were appropriated in its translations into Portuguese and Spanish, which circulated in Latin America in the first half of the twentieth century. The comparison between the different versions reveals that the writings of science and technology are practically the same, with significant changes only in literature and in the approach of historical and geographical themes. I then argue that, even keeping the scientific contents virtually unchanged, these versions of the encyclopedia gave it a new meaning, because of the contexts in which they circulated. Finally, I show how the appropriations of the encyclopedia contributed to the promotion of scientific values and technological innovation as the core development and as a model of civilization for South American nations.

A connected history of political economy in Asia and Europe, ca 1750–1914

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Alessandro Stanziani
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
History Of Political Economy ◽  
Political Economic

The history of political-economic thought has been built up over the centuries with a uniform focus on European and North American thinkers. Intellectuals beyond the North Atlantic have been largely understood as the passive recipients of already formed economic categories and arguments. This view has often been accepted not only by scholars and observers in Europe but also in many other places such as Russia, India, China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire. In this regard, the articles included in this collection explicitly differentiate from this diffusionist approach (“born in Western Europe, then flowed everywhere else”).

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