Bank Mergers in Late Nineteenth-Century New England: The Contingent Nature of Structural Change

1991 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
New England ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Economic Environment ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Bank Mergers ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Although New England's unit banking system was declining in profitability during the late nineteenth century, the existing competitive environment prevented large institutions from outperforming their smaller rivals. As a result, there was little change in the structure of the banking system during this period. At the turn of the century, however, a wave of mergers radically transformed the banking sectors of Boston and Providence. Although the greater profitability of the mergers indicates they were a better fit to the economic environment than their smaller predecessors, their creation was only made possible by a special combination of historical circumstances.

Mill Town Mortality: Consequences of Industrial Growth in Two Nineteenth-Century New England Towns

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan I. Hautaniemi ◽  
Alan C. Swedlund ◽  
Douglas L. Anderton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mortality Trends ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Connecticut Valley ◽  
Broad Objective ◽  
The Impact

Recent research has considerably increased our understanding of the factors associated with the American epidemiological transition in the late nineteenth century. However, uncertainty remains regarding the impact on mortality of specific changes ancillary to urbanization and industrialization in American cities and towns. The broad objective of the Connecticut Valley Historical Demography Project is to examine changing relationships between socioeconomic status, the rise of new urban-industrial communities, and cause-specific mortality trends during the rapid development of New England manufacturing. To address these issues, the present analysis examines two emergent urban centers in Massachusetts, adopting a micro-demographic approach to explore late-nineteenth-century and turn-of-the-century determinants of mortality.

scholarly journals Popular Darwinism and Geography Textbooks in Canada, 1850-1920

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Gormley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
School System ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Dense Population ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Climatic Features

Influenced by Darwin's ideas, geographers in the late nineteenth century attempted to understand how the earth affected man. Disseminating their ideas through textbooks, geographers established what physical and climatic features were favourable for advancement and also defined what constituted progress or success. A dense population, for instance, was desirable, a sign the race was succeeding. This paper analyzes pre-and post-Darwinian geography textbooks used in the Canadian school system, indicating that they helped to shape culture at the turn of the century. Geography textbooks in Canadian schools were an important mechanism for the transmission of popular conceptions of Darwinian thought.

Cuban Painting at the Turn of the Century (1902–1930)

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-81
Author(s):  
Anelys Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Art historian Anelys Alvarez reviews the tumultuous first three decades of the Cuban Republic (1902–30) and their impact on painting and other visual arts such as sculpture. First, she questions the conventional dichotomy between traditional (or academic) and avant-garde (or modernist) art in Cuba during this period. She then recovers several forgotten artists, such as Antonio Rodríguez Morey, María Capdevila, and Manuel Mesa, who were active on the island before the rise of modernism in the 1930s. Alvarez reappraises a whole generation of painters who served as an artistic bridge between the late nineteenth century and the first generation of avant-garde (vanguardista) painters in 1927.

An Introduction to Selected New England Composers of the Late Nineteenth Century

1973 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-92
Author(s):  
Harold Dart
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The Mansana Collection. A Treasury of Japanese Art in Barcelona at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-209
Author(s):  
Ricard Bru
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Abstract Josep Mansana Dordan, a well-known Catalan late-nineteenth-century businessman, founded what is considered the finest collection of Japanese art established in Catalonia and in Spain at the turn of the century. In the early twentieth century, the Mansana Collection, as it was known, enjoyed popularity and prestige in Barcelona thanks to its constant expansion driven by the founder’s son, Josep Mansana Terrés, also an entrepreneur. The collection was well known at the time, but fell into oblivion after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. It was not until 2013 that, on the occasion of the exhibition Japonisme. La fascinació per l’art japonès, the collection began to be rediscovered and studied. This article aims to present a first complete overview of the history and characteristics of the old Mansana Collection and its impact on Barcelona at and immediately after the turn of the twentieth century.

The Aesthetic Woman: Re-forming Female Bodies and Minds in Early Twentieth-Century Keralam

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. DEVIKA
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Basel Mission ◽  
Established Order

In late nineteenth century Malayalee society, the project of social reforming was caught up in the concern to evolve an alternative to established Jati-based mode of ordering human beings. The criticism by the missionaries of the CMS, LMS and the Basel Mission of the established order in Malayalee society as entirely unnatural and inimical to (universal) human values was heard right through the nineteenth century. At the turn of the century, the nascent modern educated of Tiruvitamkoor, Kochi and Malabar were beginning to echo such viewpoints actively. The terms on which these groups perceived their identities and assessed local society were more or less set by colonial sociology and the codification efforts by both imperial and local powers. Interpreting locally existing jati in terms of the construction of ‘caste’ (i.e., ‘Nair’, ‘Ezhava’, ‘Araya’ etc.) these groups sought to form organisations for the reform of caste, to transform these into full-fledged modern communities.

In The Shadow Of Yung Wing

2005 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDWARD J. M. RHOADS
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Educational Mission ◽  
Qing Government ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) was one of the �rst efforts at "self-strengthening," China's late nineteenth-century attempt at modernization. Beginning in 1872, the Qing government sent 120 boys to live and study in New England for extended periods. The mission was the brainchild of Yung Wing (1828-1912), known as a pioneering Chinese in America. This article contends that Zeng Laishun (ca. 1826-1895), the CEM's original interpreter, was no less a pioneer. It examines Zeng's education in Singapore, New Jersey, and New York; his early career as, successively, a missionary assistant, a businessman, and a teacher at a naval school in China; his concurrent roles as the English translator for the CEM in the United States and (with his family) as a cultural interpreter of China to New England's elite; and brie�y, following his return to China in 1874, his association with Li Hongzhang as his chief English secretary.

scholarly journals ‘Looking as Little Like Patients as Persons Well Could’: Hypnotism, Medicine and the Problem of the Suggestible Subject in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teri Chettiar
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
British Society ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
Therapeutic Uses ◽  
Rational Individual ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Will Power

AbstractDuring the late nineteenth century, many British physicians rigorously experimented with hypnosis as a therapeutic practice. Despite mounting evidence attesting to its wide-ranging therapeutic uses publicised in the 1880s and 1890s, medical hypnosis remained highly controversial. After a decade and a half of extensive medical discussion and debate surrounding the adoption of hypnosis by mainstream medical professionals – including a thorough inquiry organised by the British Medical Association – it was decisively excluded from serious medical consideration by 1900. This essay examines the complex question of why hypnosis was excluded from professional medical practice by the end of the nineteenth century. Objections to its medical adoption rarely took issue with its supposed effectiveness in producing genuine therapeutic and anaesthetic results. Instead, critics’ objections were centred upon a host of social and moral concerns regarding the patient’s state of suggestibility and weakened ‘will-power’ while under the physician’s hypnotic ‘spell’. The problematic question of precisely how far hypnotic ‘rapport’ and suggestibility might depart from the Victorian liberal ideal of rational individual autonomy lay at the heart of these concerns. As this essay demonstrates, the hypnotism debate was characterised by a tension between physicians’ attempts to balance their commitment to restore patients to health and pervasive middle-class concerns about the rapid and ongoing changes transforming British society at the turn of the century.

Fashioning Modernity: Elite Dressmaking in Barcelona c. 1870–1919

Costume ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-243
Author(s):  
Laura Casal-Valls
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Substantial Change

Late nineteenth-century fashion in Barcelona is examined through the development of the dressmaker’s craft, taking account of the historical context and changes in society at the turn of the century. Analysis of the production process, surviving garments and archival evidence demonstrates that a substantial change took place in the organization of the dressmaking industry in Barcelona in the late nineteenth century. This included the insertion of dressmakers’ labels in the most technically and stylistically sophisticated garments, signalling an increasing recognition of leading dressmakers — a process similar to that found in French couture. Juana Valls has been identified as a key designer who, although almost unknown today, was highly successful and prominent at the turn of the twentieth century; a brief biography of Valls is developed. Finally, following this evolutionary period, the year 1919 is proposed as a turning point for Catalan and Spanish couture.

scholarly journals Nonstandard Were and the Nonstandard forms of the Preterite Negative of to be in Nineteenth Century New England Civil War Letters and Literary Dialect Portrayals

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Pablé ◽  
Radosław Dylewski ◽  
Agnieszka Urbańska
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
New England ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Nonstandard Were and the Nonstandard forms of the Preterite Negative of to be in Nineteenth Century New England Civil War Letters and Literary Dialect Portrayals The present paper presents the preliminary results of the study of were in nonstandard positions as well as nonstandard preterit negative forms of to be in mid- and late nineteenth century New England folk speech. More specifically, the aim of the study is to investigate whether the grammatical feature at issue, deemed to have been confined to the Mid- and South Atlantic states in several scholarly publications, is also attested in the verbal repository of New Englanders of the mid- and late nineteenth century. The analysis relies mainly on the scrutiny of two types of primary sources: informal Civil War letters penned by less literate individuals, and fictional portrayals written by New England regionalists. The data retrieved from the inspected body of material confirms the presence of were/weren't/wa'n't (and other spellings) in nonstandard contexts, preponderantly in the literary dialect portrayals, whereas Civil War correspondence seems rather devoid of the traits at issue. As indicated above, the paper presents the preliminary results of the study: it is believed that an analysis of a bigger corpus of Civil War material, which is currently being compiled, might identify more instances of forms at issue in nonstandard environments.

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