AN UNPUBLISHED STIRRUP JAR FROM ATHENS AND THE 1871–2 PRIVATE EXCAVATIONS IN THE OUTER KERAMEIKOS

2011 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 167-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis Galanakis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Antiquities Trade ◽  
The University

This article presents an unpublished stirrup jar from the Outer Kerameikos in Athens. The recently discovered archival material in the University of Oxford associated with the purchase of the stirrup jar helps to contextualise this object, and assess its significance in the light of the 1871–2 private excavations in the Outer Kerameikos. It also provides important information regarding the organisation of the antiquities trade in late nineteenth-century Athens.

Replication, re-placing and naval science in comparative context, c.1868–1904

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
DON LEGGETT
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Test Tank ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Engineering Practices ◽  
The University

AbstractThe test tank broadly embodied the late nineteenth-century endeavour to ‘use science’ in industry, but the meaning given to the tank differed depending on the experienced communities that made it part of their experimental and engineering practices. This paper explores the local politics surrounding three tanks: William Froude's test tank located on his private estate in Torquay (1870), the Denny tank in Dumbarton (1884) and the University of Michigan test tank (1903). The similarities and peculiarities of test tank use and interpretation identified in this paper reveal the complexities of naval science and contribute to the shaping of an alternative model of replication. This model places the emphasis on actors at sites of replication that renegotiated the meaning of the original Froude tank, and re-placed the local values and conditions which made it a functional instrument of scientific investigation.All the European [test tank] stations are modelled on the station at Haslar; [yet] each station had its own individuality which I will try to throw into relief, avoiding tedious repetitions or comparisons.1

scholarly journals Brief History of Islamic Civilization from Its Genesis in the Late Nineteenth Century to Its Institutional Entrenchment

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-173
Author(s):  
Kevin Van Bladel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
General Education ◽  
Social Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
The University

This article sketches the early history of Islamic civilization from its genesis in the late nineteenth century to its institutionalization in the twentieth. Key moments include its enshrinement in journals and a monumental encyclopedia and the flight of European Semitists to the United States. Its institutionalization in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Chicago in 1956 created a successful model for the subsequent dissemination of Islamic civilization. Working in a committee on general education (the core curriculum) in the social sciences at the University of Chicago, Marshall Hodgson inaugurated Islamic civilization as a subject of university study that was not just for specialists but available to American college students as fulfilling a basic requirement in a liberal arts education. Many other universities followed this practice. Since then, Islamic civilization has come to be shared by the educated public. Today it is an internationally accepted and wellfunded entity that confers contested social power but still lacks analytical power. 

The Untold History of Transparency: Mercantile Agencies, the Law, and the Lawyers (1851–1916)

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Flandreau ◽  
Gabriel Geisler Mesevage
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This paper discusses the origins of rating in the second half of the nineteenth century. We review and criticize existing narratives, which—echoing a story told by lawyers favorable to (or employed by) the agencies—have alleged that a cultural shift in normative views, evidenced in an evolution of court decisions, provided legal protection (against libel) to agencies, and permitted the development of printed credit reports. Such a view is inconsistent with evidence from actual judicial decisions and from our exploration of archival material. Looking at both litigated and settled cases, we show that the rise of mercantile agencies in the late nineteenth century was the product of a farsighted corporate strategy applied ruthlessly to a legal system that was still very reluctant to permit the agencies to “commoditize” credit.

Elder Brothers of the University: Early Vice Presidents in Late Nineteenth-Century Universities

2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Nidiffer ◽  
Timothy Reese Cain
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University

If he may not be called the Father of the University of Illinois, he was at least its elder brother, intimately acquainted with its aims, character, and history, the depository of traditions, the friend, counselor, guide, and trusted confident of its successive presidents and of its trustees… long may he live in these halls and on this campus, in memory, in spirit, in example, and in gratitude and honor of all good men.-Stephen A. Forbes, 1916

Lampreys, lungfish and elasmobranchs: Cambridge zoology and the politics of animal selection

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
HELEN BLACKMAN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Evolutionary Trees ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Cambridge School

AbstractThe Cambridge school of animal morphology dominated British zoology in the late nineteenth century. Historians have argued that they were very successful until the death of their leader F. M. Balfour in 1882, when the school all but died with him. This paper argues that their initial success came about because their work fitted well with the university in the 1870s and 1880s. They attempted to trace evolutionary trees by studying individual development. To do this they needed access to species they considered primitive. Balfour made use of his social networks to aid the school and to collect the specimens they needed for their work. The school has been portrayed as failing in the 1890s when students rejected dry laboratory-bound studies. However, a new generation of researchers who followed Balfour had to travel extensively if they were to obtain the organisms they needed. International travel was popular amongst zoologists and the Cambridge school developed their own extensive networks. A new breed of adventurer–zoologists arose, but because of the school's tenuous position within the university they were unable to equal Balfour's success.

scholarly journals Illustrator Extraordinaire: Bechtel Fellow Enthralled by Arthur Rackham

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Bridgid Mangan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Flickering Light ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University

These are the words of a young C. S. Lewis, who was deeply impressed by the “tender, flickering light of imagination”2 conveyed in the watercolor images by Rackham, the late nineteenth-century artist. Upon entering the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida, I felt the same anticipation and excitement. There was a shelf of first-edition books, some signed by Rackham himself, awaiting my perusal. As a recipient of the 2016 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship, I had been awarded an exceptional opportunity to explore the works of one of the most admired and influential illustrators of all time.

Modern Arabic Literature as Seen in the Late Nineteenth Century: Jurji Murqus’s Contribution to Korsh and Kirpichnikov’s Vseobshchaya Istoriya Literatury*

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Modern Arabic

This chapter discusses modern Arabic literature as seen in the late nineteenth century by focusing on Jurji Ibrahim Murqus's contribution to Vseobshchaya Istoriya literatury (Universal History of Literature), edited by V. F. Korsh and A. I. Kirpichnikov. Murqus was a Syrian academic migrant who left Damascus in 1860. He studied at the Faculty of Oriental Languages of the University of St Petersburg and taught Arabic at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow. This chapter presents a slightly abridged rendering of Murqus's text, which concentrates on the evolution of the Arabic language, on prose writers and on translators. It also considers Murqus's position where prose genres are concerned, with particular emphasis on his recognition of the significance of travel writing, as well as his views on translation. Finally, it suggests that Mustafa Badawi would have disputed some of Murqus's statements on sound scholarly grounds.

Religion, Evolution and Scottish Philosophy

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Gordon Graham
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University ◽  
The Chairs

This paper explores developments in the defence of theism within Scottish philosophy following Hume's Dialogues and the advent of Darwinian evolutionary biology. By examining the writings of two nineteenth-century Scottish philosophers, it aims to show that far from Darwinian biology completing Hume's destruction of natural theology, it prompted a new direction for the defence of philosophical theism. Henry Calderwood and Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison occupied, respectively, the Chairs of Moral Philosophy and Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in the late nineteenth century. Their books reveal that the challenge of articulating new grounds for philosophical theism was not motivated by a conservative desire to see off a new intellectual threat, but by a desire for a proper understanding of evolutionary biology.

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