Business History and Economic History

1966 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold F. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business History ◽  
German Scholar ◽  
The Relationship

As Fritz Redlich has had occasion to point out, business history is neither of American nor of recent vintage–that interest in company histories which began on the Continent early in the nineteenth century had by 1900 prompted at least one prominent German scholar to suggest how a study of business might be developed into an academic discipline. What was new in the United States was the term “business history,” and what is more relevant for my comments in this paper were the circumstances that led to its emergence as a special field and the effect that this separation has had on the relationship between business history and economic history.

Terrible Revolution

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher James Blythe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Norms ◽  
Violent Images ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The relationship between Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt governments across the globe but would particularly decimate the tyrannical government of the United States. Mormons turned to prophecies of divine deliverance by way of plagues, natural disasters, foreign invasions, American Indian raids, slave uprisings, or civil war unleashed on American cities and American people. For the Saints, these violent images promised an end to their oppression. It also promised a national rebirth as part of the millennial Kingdom of God that would vouchsafe the protections of the U.S. Constitution. Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it would take shape in localized and personalized forms in the writings and visions of ordinary Latter-day Saints outside of the church’s leadership. By following the official response of church leaders to lay prophecy, Blythe shows how the hierarchy, committed to a form of separatist nationalism of their own, encouraged apocalypticism during the nineteenth century. Yet, after Utah obtained statehood, as the church sought to accommodate to national norms for religious denominations, leaders sought to lessen the tensions between themselves and American political and cultural powers. As a result, visions of a violent end to the nation became a liability, and leaders began to disavow and regulate these apocalyptic narratives especially as they showed up among the laity.

The Ethnicity of Things in America's Lacquered Age

2007 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Bush
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
The Relationship

This essay analyzes the cultural meaning of the enormous popularity of, and significance attributed to, Japanese objects in the United States during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. By locating this significance at the intersection of the United States' racial, economic, and material imaginaries, the essay argues for an interpretation of the Japanese object as an "ethnic thing" that suggests new ways of understanding of the relationship between objectification and racialization.

scholarly journals Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.'s, The Visible Hand after Twenty Years

1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard R. John
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Large Body ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business History ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Visible Hand ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Two decades have passed since the publication of The Visible Hand, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.'s, magisterial account of the rise of the modern business enterprise in the United States. Although Chandlers pathbreaking work has been widely hailed as a landmark in business history, only rarely has anyone considered systematically its influence on the large body of historical scholarship on related topics. This essay is intended to help fill this gap. It is divided into two sections. The first section reviews Chandlers argument, touches on the relationship of Chandlers oeuvre to his personal background, and locates The Visible Hand in the context of American historical writing. The second considers how three groups of historians have responded to Chandlers ideas. These groups consist of champions who creatively elaborated on Chandler's intellectual agenda; critics who probed anomalies between Chandler's argument and their own research; and skeptics who rejected Chandlers analysis outright.

Storia d'impresa: complessitŕ e comparazioni

2012 ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
Amatori Franco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Business History ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
China And India ◽  
The World

Business History: complexity and comparisons. An overview of the last two centuries of business history around the world focusing on three variables: technology, the firm, and the local context. Analysis shows the continuous competition between various countries, from the United States and Japan to China and India, with new waves of technology that make it impossible to forecast history. Business history naturally leads to the larger field of economic history.

scholarly journals Cosmotopia Delineated: Rammohun Roy, William Adam, and the Calcutta Unitarian Committee

Itinerario ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 446-470
Author(s):  
Clare Midgley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article seeks to establish the value of the concept of cosmotopia to historians of intercultural connections through presenting a case study of the Calcutta Unitarian Committee, which was active between 1821 and 1828. In tandem, it aims to enhance understanding of the origins of one particularly sustained set of intercultural connections: the interfaith network which developed between an influential group of Hindu religious and social reformers, the Brahmo Samaj, and western Unitarian Christians. The article focusses on the collaboration between the two leading figures on the Committee: Rammohun Roy, the renowned founder of the Brahmo Samaj, who is often described as the Father of Modern India; and William Adam, a Scottish Baptist missionary who was condemned as the “second fallen Adam” after his “conversion” to Unitarianism by Rammohun Roy, and who went on to cofound a utopian community in the United States. It explores the Calcutta Unitarian Committee's activities within the cosmopolitan milieu of early colonial Calcutta, and clarifies its role in the emergence of the Brahmo Samaj, in the development of a unique approach to Christian mission among Unitarians, and in laying the foundations of a transnational network whose members were in the vanguard of religious innovation, radical social reform, and debates on the “woman question” in nineteenth-century India, Britain, and the United States. In conclusion, the article draws on the case study to offer some broader reflections on the relationship between utopianism, cosmopolitanism, and colonialism.

The Order of Signs: Perspectives on the Relationship between Language and Thought during the First Century of Widespread Sign Language Teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Arnaud
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Speech Acquisition ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Language And Thought ◽  
The Relationship

While current debates oppose the cochlear implant's privileging of speech acquisition to teaching sign language, nineteenth-century debates, in contrast, opposed those who saw sign language as a tool for learning to read and write, and those who saw in it an autonomous language for organizing thought itself. Should the order of gestural signs follow written syntax? Or should it have its own coherence, that is, possibly a different syntax and order of enunciation? Starting with these questions, distinct teaching legacies developed, specifying which kinds of signs to use in which context and what role signs were to fulfill. This article focuses on French deaf and hearing teachers whose positions were influential throughout Europe and the United States, moving from Abbé de l'Epée's 1784 method to Rémi Valade's 1854 publication of the first sign language grammar.

Saviors and Scientists: North American Protestant Missionaries and the Development of Anthropology

2003 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. HIGHAM
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Few historians of anthropology and missionary work examine the relationship of Protestant missionaries with nineteenth-century anthropologists and its effect on anthropological portrayals of Indians. This paper poses the question: Does it make a difference that early anthropologists in Canada and the United States also worked as Protestant missionaries or relied on Protestant missionaries for data? Answering yes, it shows how declining support for Indian missions led missionaries to peddle their knowledge of Indians to scholarly institutions. These institutions welcomed missionaries as professionals because of their knowledge, dedication, and time in the field. Such relationships helped create a transnational image of the Indian in late nineteenth-century North American anthropology.

The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. Vol. 2: The Long Nineteenth Century

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 1047
Author(s):  
Jean Riviere ◽  
Stanley L. Engerman ◽  
Robert E. Gallman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of
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