The Significance of Grain in the Development of the Tobacco Colonies

1969 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Klingaman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
World Demand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Upper South

The economic development of the American colonies is one of the least explored areas in American economic history. Since the several regions in the colonies followed somewhat different paths of development, the colonial puzzle can be gradually pieced together through research which concentrates on particular regions. The subject of this study is an important aspect of the development of the tobacco colonies during approximately the thirty years preceding 1770. George Rogers Taylor and Jacob M. Price have suggested that the second and third quarters of the eighteenth century brought “rapid economic growth” to the tobacco colonies and a “marked resumption of growth” in tobacco exports. The findings of this study will suggest some reservations concerning the leading role of tobacco during this time. The series on American tobacco exports to Great Britain suggests that there was virtual stagnation in the first quarter of the eighteenth century followed by perhaps a doubling of exports in the second quarter and then near stagnation in the third quarter until the year 1771. The reason for the leap in tobacco exports in 1771 to a high plateau of approximately 100 million pounds annually during 1771–1775 is unknown. What is important for analysis of the growth and development of the tobacco colonies, however, is that the exceptionally high exports in the last five years of the colonial period tend to mask what was apparently a slow and erratic growth in world demand for American tobacco exports in the immediately preceding decades. The assumption that tobacco was a booming sector in the economy of the upper South at this time is open to question.

Baku Oil and Transcaucasian Pipelines, 1883–1891: A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy

Slavic Review ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. McKay
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Finance Minister ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Point Of Departure

The leading role of the state in nineteenth-century Russian industrialization is one of the most widely accepted notions in economic history. Thus state-sponsored industrialization, deeply rooted in the strength of the despotic state and the subservience of an undifferentiated peasantry and an insignificant middle class, began in earnest in the era of the Great Reforms, after the Crimean War had shocked the government out of its economic lethargy under Nicholas I and Finance Minister Kankrin. It continued unevenly thereafter until it crested in the burst of state-led growth in the 1890s. The “statist interpretation” of prerevolutionary Russian industrial development has been most notably expounded by Alexander Gerschenkron in a series of influential essays and by Theodore Von Laue in his biography of Sergei Witte. It thoroughly dominates non-Soviet scholarship and serves as the point of departure for almost all general investigations.

Samuel Storke: An Eighteenth-Century London Merchant Trading to the American Colonies

1965 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
William I. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Business Decision ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
American Trade

In contrast to older views of the passive role of London houses in the American trade, the active influence of a leading English merchant on the business decision-making of his colonial counterparts emerges from this case study.

scholarly journals Sign-Pragmem as a Semiotic Dominant of the Axiological Field

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-592
Author(s):  
Tatyana V Markelova
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Pragmatic Function ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Standard Character

The study tested the semiotic approach to the system of evaluation marks allocated on the basis of pragmatic function. Traditional triad - semantics, syntactics, pragmatics - is accompanied by sigmatech as a branch of semiotics, determining the relationship between sign and object, which has not been properly studied yet. The system of evaluation of signs - function, connotation, pragmem, their functional and semantic differences are described through the prism of the semantic structure of the word influenced by the pragmatic function. Non-standard character of pragmatic mark is denotative-significative, expressing the nature convoluted judgment is focused on the subject of speech and its axiological intentions. The article demonstrates semantic, syntactic and pragmatic nature of Prameny sign evaluation with special feaches of its semiotic nature. Three types of evaluation signs - functions, connotations, pragmem -are compared and the role of pragmem in the system is defined. The leading role of pragmem in the axiological fragment of the linguistic picture of the world is determined.

scholarly journals INTEGRATED APPROACH IN THE METHOD OF REPRESENTATION OF THE LECTURE MATERIAL ON HUMANITARIAN CYCLE DISCIPLINES

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
N.V DEVDARIANI ◽  
◽  
E.V RUBTSOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Lecture Material ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Russian Universities ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

This article presents the methodological development of lectures, material which may be used in the study course "Philosophy", "Philosophy of science and technology" and "concepts of modern natural Sciences" (cmns) for students of the Humanities in Russian universities. This lecture on "Philosophical understanding of the concept of "life": biocentricity picture of the world" presents the main approaches to the idea of the modern scientific picture of the world. Such a summary of the lecture material, according to the authors, due to the need to change existing approaches to teaching of specific disciplines. In particular those which involve integrated knowledge from different scientific disciplines and the subject of study which are universal categories and phenomena. It is noted that in the conditions of modern technogenic civilization machineoriented, justified is the issue of revision of existing views about the current ideological approach to the basic concepts, components of a comprehensive scientific picture of the world. In this article, the authors examine biocentricity picture of the world in which the author focuses on the leading role of the life. It is concluded that a comprehensive summary of the lecture material various areas of scientific knowledge, contributes to the formation of metacognitive abilities of students in the course of studying the above disciplines.

The maintenance, repair and construction of ships in the French Empire during the eighteenth century

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 590-611
Author(s):  
David Plouviez
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
French Empire ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Construction Tasks ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Port Infrastructure

The history of maritime trade has been the subject of considerable research since the 1950s, but the technical artefacts of this trade have not received the attention they deserve. While historians have paid plenty attention to ships – their features, tonnage, etc. – and port infrastructure overseas, the issues relating to naval repair and construction in the Empires have rarely attracted interest. However, this is a key factor in understanding the dynamics of trade, which encompasses the interplay between economic history, social history and the history of technology. Drawing on the example of the French Empire, this article aims to provide a first approach to this economy of maintenance, repair and shipbuilding overseas. The first step is to identify the places where these complex tasks were carried out and to establish the temporality of equipment in overseas ports. Did the French Empire offer a network of ports equipped to maintain, repair and build ships? What equipment does this include? But while the question of infrastructure is crucial, insofar as it raises other issues related to the role of the State and its relationship with economic stakeholders, it is also essential to consider that a significant share of maintenance, repair and construction tasks were not associated with any specific infrastructure. The question of knowledge, know-how and their exchange within the Empires is also important and is the subject of the second part of this article. The aim is to demonstrate that the identification and breakdown of shipbuilding workers, the establishment of their occupational mobility and the technical discussions they engaged in with other Europeans, settlers or natives, provide challenging research opportunities that may help us to understand the maintenance, repair and construction of ships in the Empires.

Grace and Freedom in the Soteriology of John Wyclif

Traditio ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 279-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Christopher Levy
Keyword(s):  
Careful Study ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Good Works ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many ◽  
John Wyclif ◽  
The Church

The popular portrayal of John Wyclif (d. 1384) is that of the inflexible reformer whose views of the Church were driven by a strict determinism that divided humanity into two eternally fixed categories of the predestined and the damned. In point of fact, however, Wyclif's understanding of salvation is quite nuanced and well worth careful study. It may be surprising to find that Wyclif's soteriology has not received a thoroughgoing analysis, one that would pull together the many facets involved in medieval conceptions of the salvific process. Instead, one finds some insightful, but abbreviated, analyses that tend to focus more on specific aspects, rather than offering a comprehensive view. The best sources are Lechler, Robson, and Kenny, all three of whom offer valuable appraisals. Actually, Lechler comes the closest to a broad view within his study of Wyclif, but well over a century has passed since it was first published. Needless to say, there has been an enormous amount of research done on late medieval thought since then, research that enables us to situate Wyclif more thoroughly within the discussions of his day. Even Robson's work is more than forty years old by now. And, while Kenny's treatment is comparatively recent at twenty years old, he tackles the subject only as part of a more strictly philosophical discussion of necessity and contingency. We will, of course, consider the views of each of these scholars in the course of this essay, the purpose of which is to offer a full appraisal of Wyclif's soteriology in its many facets. This means that we will first discuss the related questions of divine will and human freedom, and their impact upon his soteriology. Then we will examine his views on sin, grace, merit, justification, faith, and predestination, all within the larger medieval context. What we should find is that Wyclif's soteriology makes quite a lot of room for human free will even as he insists on the leading role of divine grace in all good works. Futhermore, Wyclif will emerge as a subtle thinker who most often presents a God who is at once just and merciful, extending grace and the possibility of salvation to all.

scholarly journals Persophilia

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Negar Davari
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Space ◽  
World History ◽  
National Level ◽  
Space Theory ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Shifts

Academic investigation of the mutual influences of the West and the Easthas been the subject of few studies during the past decades. In this category,Hamid Dabashi’s work on the mutual effects of the Persianate Orient and theWest is impressive. The book traces evidences of the West’s Persophiliathroughout world history from Biblical and ancient texts to contemporarytexts under the influence of the Romanticism, Transcendentalism, mysticism,fascism, and pan-Islamism approaches. It provides thoughtful commentaryon the roots of western Persophilia, its outcome for the West and the Persianaiteworld, and the overall picture of Persophilic knowledge productionand transfer.As such, Dabashi’s work contributes to the socio-historical hermeneuticsof Persian and western culture by mapping their inter-related texts. He considersPersophilia a sub-category of Orientalism, through which he challengescolonial-based Orientalism. By relying on Jürgen Habermas’ theory of bourgeoispublic space, Dabashi criticizes Raymond Schwab and Edward Said’sviews as introducing a one-directional influence of the West upon the East. Hiswork suggests that there is a cyclic relation of influences between them. Tofurther this point, Dabashi expands Habermas’ public space theory beyond“bourgeois” and shifts it from a limited national level into a transnational scenethat emphasizes the role of Persophilia in the circulation and production ofknowledge worldwide. The book deems the emergence of Persophilia duringthe eighteenth century and its continuation to the present time as an influential ...

scholarly journals State and Contradictions on Skills Development in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (37) ◽  
pp. 17-18
Author(s):  
Joseph O. Jiboku ◽  
Peace A. Jiboku
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Natural Material ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Skills Shortages

This paper advances the scholarly position that skills development is imperative for Nigeria in an era of intense globalization. It argues that skills development is the key for Nigeria’s socio-economic development, considering the country’s political-economic history, current social, economic, cultural, environmental, and health problems it faces and the demands of a fast-globalizing world. However, its central concern is that successive Nigerian governments have been rhetorical about developing skills. The country is not lacking policy, legal and institutional frameworks on skills development; yet skills shortages abound. The paper explores the concept of skills development, its relevance in the age of globalization; the role of the State in skills development, and the contradictions which have played out in the performance of this role, using Nigeria as a case study. It also provides answers to the following critical questions: Why has the issue of skills development become problematic in Nigeria despite the country’s rich natural, material, and human resources? And what are the contradictions that could be identified in national aspirations on skills development? The paper is based on qualitative research, and the researchers undertake a critical analysis of literature on the subject matter. A connection is established between skills development and the issue of governance in Nigeria in a conceptual framework for analysis.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF SENTIMENTALISM IN THE PASTORAL NOVEL OF WILLIAM GODWIN "IMOGEN"

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (79(1)) ◽  
pp. 146-150
Author(s):  
M.A. Seregina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
William Godwin ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Traditional Understanding ◽  
Pastoral Novel

The subject of the article is the peculiarities of sentimentalism in one of W. Godwin's early novels "Imogen". The author comes to the conclusion that, relying on the traditional understanding of sentimental pastoralism (the leading role of nature in the "bucolic" or "Georgian" understanding, the use of a pastoral chronotope, idealization of the pastoral lifestyle, the depiction of platonic feelings between heroes, the presence of pastoral conflicts), W. Godwin uses these features as a background to illustrate his socio-political ideas. He widely uses the technique of contrast, building a system of conflicts on its basis, complicates the nature of the characters and the relationships between them, making them more contradictory, and experiments with style and genre canons. As a result, the originality of the author's perception of sentimentalism in the pastoral novel "Imogen" lies in the mixture of typically sentimental features and the author's specific socio-political worldview. In addition, while writing the novel, the writer's style is still in development, which also leaves an imprint on the manifestation of a sentimental basis in the work.

E Pluribus Unum

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Political System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
The Common ◽  
Do So

This book examines the role of the common law in the life and politics of Great Britain’s North American colonies from the founding of Virginia in 1607 to the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775–76. The main theme of the book is that when the different colonies were initially founded, they followed very different law—typically not the common law of England. But over the course of the seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth century, the colonies all received the common law, with the result that by the 1750s the common law constituted the foundation of every colony’s law and every colony’s political system. Some of the colonies adopted the common law because of pressure from the Crown to do so, but others turned to the common law because of socioeconomic pressures on the ground. During the more than century-long process of reception, the common law gradually changed, and thus, what was on the ground in 1776 was not identical to the common law of England. Rather, it was a body of rules that would constitute a foundation for an Americanized version of the common law.

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