External Dependence, Demographic Burdens, and Argentine Economic Decline After the Belle Époque

1992 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 907-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Demographic Model ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Rapid Population Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
External Dependence ◽  
The Great War

Once one of the richest countries in the world, Argentina has been in relative economic decline for most of the twentieth century. The quantitative records of income growth and accumulation date the onset of the retardation to around the time of the Great War, and patterns of aggregate saving and foreign borrowing show that scarcity of investable resources significantly frustrated interwar development. A demographic model of national saving demonstrates that the burdens of rapid population growth and substantial immigration depressed Argentine saving, contributing significantly to the demise of the Belle Époque following the wartime collapse of international financial markets.

French classical music and Brazil: Beyond Franco-German rivalry

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 349-356
Author(s):  
Marcos Câmara de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
Cultural Choices

One of the consequences of any colonisation is the emergence in the colonies of a dominant consular class, one of whose characteristics is cultural snobbery. This snobbery is manifested mainly in cultural choices that ignore local music or include it in an ensemble of strategies to participate in an alleged metropolitan cultural universalism. In Brazil, Villa-Lobos, the Batutas orchestra or the dancer known as Duque, who all enchanted France during the belle époque and who still arouse interest all over the world, were only the tip of an iceberg of popular music. This paper aims to demonstrate how the music and writings of Debussy and Ravel can be helpful in establishing the construction of a true history of classical music in Brazil, beyond the historical Franco-German rivalry.

The paradoxes of urbanization: Belgian socialism and society in the belle epoque

Urban History ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 82-96
Author(s):  
Carl Strikwerda
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Belgian Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Western European ◽  
Belle Époque

Although small and consequently often overlooked, Belgium none the less provides historians with an interesting case study for comparing social and economic trends among Western European countries. Belgian society in the nineteenth century was transformed by the same forces as its close neighbours – Britain, France and Germany. Indeed, Belgium was the second country in the world to industrialize and it has long been one of the most heavily urbanized societies as well. Yet urbanization and industrialization affected Belgium in some significantly different ways than they did other Western European countries.

The Battle for the Irrational

2019 ◽  
pp. 36-87
Author(s):  
Renaud Gagné ◽  
For Albert Henrichs
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Greek Religion ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Foundations ◽  
Ancient Religion ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
The Great War

This chapter examines how the historiography of Greek religion renewed itself between 1920 and 1950. This period invested a great deal of effort in the answers that could be sought from the celebrated old sources. As the former certainties were battered from all sides, the revered voices from the past often resonated with the intensity of a battle call for renewal. Greek religion, one of the most contested domains in the reception of ancient culture, was to be solicited again and again to help imagine a new future. The chapter then considers the great changes that saw the Belle Époque study of ancient religion thoroughly transformed after the Great War, and the stakes of some of the fundamental disagreements that set influential scholars of the Interwar years against each other. Ultimately, the battle for the Greek Irrational was a search for the new foundations of modernity.

scholarly journals Five centuries of Latin American income inequality

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey G. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Growth Performance ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Latin American Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
American Economy ◽  
Very High

AbstractMost analysts of the modern Latin American economy believe that it has always had very high levels of inequality. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post-conquest Americas, and that this fact supported rent-seeking and anti-growth institutions that help explain the disappointing growth performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, Latin American inequality wasnothigh either in pre-conquest 1491 or in the post-conquest decades following 1492. Indeed, it wasnoteven high in the mid-19thcentury just before Latin America’sbelle époque. It only became high thereafter. Historical persistence in Latin American inequality is a myth.

Medicine Goes to the Opera: Vocal Health and Remedies for Professional Singers of the Belle Époque

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Kimberly Francis ◽  
Sofie Lachapelle
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
Vocal Health ◽  
Professional Singers ◽  
The World ◽  
Belle Époque ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Many ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In July 1892, Dr. Arthur Chervin (1850–1921), director of the Institut des bègues de Paris, was named physician of the Opéra, thus joining the group of health specialists tasked with the care of artists. A recognized specialist of vocal physiology and speech afflictions, Chervin was also the recent founder and editor of La Voix parlée et chantée, a periodical that straddled the worlds of medicine and lyrical performance. Vocal health and medicine, he and his community argued, were key to the execution of vocal prowess and the successful pursuit of lyrical ambitions for singers. This article explores the relationship of medicine and the burgeoning field of laryngology to the world of lyrical training and performance of the Belle Époque. In particular, we focus on the many roles played by laryngologists and physicians at the Opéra and the Conservatoire as well as in the pages of Chervin’s leading medical-musical journal. We argue that concerns driving the medical innovations of the increasingly sophisticated subfield of laryngology evolved in synergy with concerns about how to meet the demands of the changing world of the second half of nineteenth-century Parisian operatic performance. In so doing, we claim for medicine a key position in Paris’s vibrant world of lyrical performance during the Belle Époque.

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