In search of James Croll: archives, genealogy, publications and other resources

Kevin J. EDWARDS

doi:10.1017/s1755691021000323

In search of James Croll: archives, genealogy, publications and other resources

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ◽

10.1017/s1755691021000323 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 112 (3-4) ◽

pp. 309-328

Author(s):

Kevin J. EDWARDS

Keyword(s):

Private Ownership ◽

Source Materials

ABSTRACTSource materials for investigating the life of James Croll are examined and collated. This is organised around the topics of: Croll's Autobiographical sketch and the Memoir of his life and work, both contained within the volume produced by James Campbell Irons; publications by Croll; aspects of his genealogy; manuscript sources in publicly accessible archives and in private ownership; and other published sources.

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Identifying groups of airborne particles by ordination

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100172012 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 856-857

Author(s):

M. Shlepr ◽

C. M. Vicroy

Keyword(s):

Elemental Analysis ◽

Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy ◽

Manufacturing Process ◽

Spatial Representation ◽

Airborne Particles ◽

Common Source ◽

Data Set ◽

Microelectronics Industry ◽

Induced Changes ◽

Source Materials

The microelectronics industry is heavily tasked with minimizing contaminates at all steps of the manufacturing process. Particles are generated by physical and/or chemical fragmentation from a mothersource. The tools and macrovolumes of chemicals used for processing, the environment surrounding the process, and the circuits themselves are all potential particle sources. A first step in eliminating these contaminants is to identify their source. Elemental analysis of the particles often proves useful toward this goal, and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) is a commonly used technique. However, the large variety of source materials and process induced changes in the particles often make it difficult to discern if the particles are from a common source.Ordination is commonly used in ecology to understand community relationships. This technique usespair-wise measures of similarity. Separation of the data set is based on discrimination functions. Theend product is a spatial representation of the data with the distance between points equaling the degree of dissimilarity.

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Research in Brief--Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e514612006-001 ◽

1997 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Philip J. Cook ◽

Jens Ludwig

Keyword(s):

National Survey ◽

Private Ownership

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Screen Presence

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474403375.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Stephen Monteiro

Keyword(s):

Contemporary Art ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Popular Media ◽

Andy Warhol ◽

Film Culture ◽

Artistic Practice ◽

Popular Film ◽

Robert Rauschenberg ◽

Mona Hatoum ◽

Source Materials

Cinema plays a major role in contemporary art, yet the deeper influence of its diverse historical forms on artistic practice has received little attention. Working from a media and cultural studies perspective, Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media, and art since the 1950s through the examples of four pivotal figures – Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum and Douglas Gordon. While their film-related works may appear primarily as challenges to conventional cinema, these artists draw on overlooked forms of popular film culture that have been commonplace, and even dominant, in specific social contexts. Through analysis of a range of examples and source materials, Stephen Monteiro demonstrates the dependence of contemporary artists on cinema’s shifting applications and interpretations, offering a fresh understanding of the enduring impact of everyday media on how we make and view art.

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A Comparative Overview of the Fair Wear and Tear Exception: the Duty of Holders of Temporary Interests to Preserve Property

Edinburgh Law Review ◽

10.3366/elr.2002.6.1.85 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 85-100

Author(s):

Raffaele Caterina

Keyword(s):

Common Core ◽

Complete Solution ◽

Roman Law ◽

Private Ownership ◽

Legal Systems ◽

Personal Rights ◽

Wear And Tear ◽

Long Life ◽

The Law ◽

The Relationship

“A system of private ownership must provide for something more sophisticated than absolute ownership of the property by one person. A property owner needs to be able to do more than own it during his lifetime and pass it on to someone else on his death.”1 Those who own things with a long life quite naturally feel the urge to deal in segments of time. Most of the owner's ambitions in respect of time can be met by the law of contract. But contract does not offer a complete solution, since contracts create only personal rights. Certain of the owner's legitimate wishes can be achieved only if the law allows them to be given effect in rem—that is, as proprietary rights. Legal systems have responded differently to the need for proprietary rights limited in time. Roman law created usufruct and other iura in re aliena; English law created different legal estates. Every system has faced similar problems. One issue has been the extent to which the holder of a limited interest should be restricted in his or her use and enjoyment in order to protect the holders of other interests in the same thing. A common core of principles regulates the relationship between those who hold temporary interests and the reversioners. For instance, every system forbids holder of the possessory interest to damage the thing arbitrarily. But other rules are more controversial. This study focuses upon the rules which do not forbid, but compel, certain courses of action.

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Documents and Source Material

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.2017.46.3.s5 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 1-26

Keyword(s):

Prime Minister ◽

Palestinian Authority ◽

Donald Trump ◽

The West ◽

White House ◽

Peace Negotiations ◽

Annotated List ◽

Un Security Council ◽

The Government ◽

Source Materials

This section comprises international, Arab, Israeli, and U.S. documents and source materials, as well as an annotated list of recommended reports. Significant developments this quarter: In the international diplomatic arena, the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2334, reaffirming the illegality of Israeli settlements and calling for a return to peace negotiations. Additionally, former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry delivered a final address on the Israel-Palestine conflict, outlining a groundwork for negotiations. Two weeks later, international diplomats met in Paris to establish incentives for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to return to the negotiating table. Despite international discussions of peace talks and the impediment settlements pose to a two-state solution, the Israeli Knesset passed the controversial Regulation Law, enabling the government to retroactively legalize settlements and confiscate Palestinian land throughout the West Bank. Meanwhile, U.S. president Donald Trump took office on 20 January 2017, and he wasted no time before inviting Netanyahu to the White House for their first meeting, in February.

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Documents and Source Material

Journal of Palestine Studies ◽

10.1525/jps.2017.47.1.s5 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 1-7

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Source Material ◽

Human Rights Abuses ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

Source Materials ◽

Israeli Occupation

This section comprises JPS summaries and links to international, Arab, Israeli, and U.S. documents and source materials from the quarter spanning 16 May-15 November 2017. Fifty years of Israeli occupation was the focus of reports by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Oxfam that documented the ongoing human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories. Other notable documents include Israeli NGO Gisha and UNSCO reports on the ten-year Gaza siege, Al Jazeera's interactive timeline of the Nakba, and an exchange of letters between the ACLU and U.S. senators on anti-BDS legislation.

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A Public Empire

10.23943/princeton/9780691159058.001.0001 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ekaterina Pravilova

Keyword(s):

World War I ◽

Property Rights ◽

Common Good ◽

Private Property ◽

Private Ownership ◽

State Reform ◽

Imperial Russia ◽

Public Status ◽

Russian Literary ◽

The Face

“Property rights” and “Russia” do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. This book refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, the book shows the emergence of the new practices of owning “public things” in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects—rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics—should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, the book looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing “the public” through the reform of property rights.

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Literary Chronicles of the Qajars’ Epoch

European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research ◽

10.2478/ejser-2018-0019 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 170-173

Author(s):

Gulnar Aqiq Jafarzade

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Original Source ◽

Literary Movement ◽

Literary Environment ◽

Source Materials

Abstract Following a historical appraisal and the progress of literature and poetry during the Qajar era, this article focuses on the specific literary environment in nineteenth century. As literature has effect in all areas such as cultural, social and other affairs, it is important to remember that Qajars’ rulers Fathali Shah and Nasiraddin Shah had an influential role in the comprehensive evolution of the literary environment in this period. Literary chronicles covered the works written during Qajar dynasty can be considered the most important sources for researching literary processes. Circle of poets inside and outside of the court led the new founded literary movement “bazgasht” (“Return”), turning to the their predecessors for the inspiration in this period. The most important and wealthy genre of literature were tazkiras (biographical books of anthology), based on the original source materials in Arabian, Persian, and sometimes in Turkish, especially written about poets and poetry.

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Oral Testimony as Historical Source Material for the Reconstruction of the Judicial History of Shipping in India (1600-1800)

Oral History Journal of South Africa ◽

10.25159/2309-5792/3618 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Mir Kamruzzman Chowdhary

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Source Material ◽

Maritime History ◽

Historical Source ◽

Alternative Source ◽

Oral Testimony ◽

History Of ◽

Judicial History ◽

Source Materials

This study was an attempt to understand how the available alternative source materials, such as oral testimonies can serve as valuable assets to unveiling certain aspects of maritime history in India. A number of themes in maritime history in India failed to get the attention of the generation of historians, because of the paucity of written documents. Unlike in Europe, the penning down of shipping activities was not a concern for the authorities at the port in India. The pamphlets and newsletters declared the scheduled departure of the ship in Europe but, in India, this was done verbally. Therefore, maritime history in India remained marginalised. Hence, in this article, I make an endeavour to perceive how the oral testimonies can help shed some new light on certain aspects of maritime history in India, such as life on the ship, maritime practices, and perceptions among the littoral people in coastal societies. This article also outlines an approach on how the broader question on the transformation of scattered maritime practices among coastal societies can be adapted and transferred into an organised institution of law by the nineteenth century, and how these can be pursued in future. I also suggest in this article that the role of Europeans, especially the British, in the process of transformation, can be investigated further through oral testimonies in corroboration with the colonial archival records.

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