British Communities and Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth-Century South America

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rock
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South America ◽  
Foreign Intervention

scholarly journals Beyond the Mainstream

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South America ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Cultural Dissemination

Analyzing the work of Max Schmidt (1874-1950), especially his 1917 book Die Aruaken. Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Kulturverbreitung [The Arawak: A Contribution to the Problem of Cultural Dissemination], this article deals with methodological and theoretical trends among German ethnologists carrying out expeditions in the Amazon region at the turn of the nineteenth century. The approaches outlined are placed in the context of the institutionalisation of ethnology as a separate academic discipline in Germany. The focus is on the development of modern fieldwork methods; the critique of diffusionism by Schmidt and other South America researchers; and the specific approaches of Max Schmidt who, in spite of the contemporary emphasis on "material" and "intellectual" culture, also considered sociological issues in his analysis.

The Folk Song Project at the Confluence of Music and Nationalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip V. Bohlman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South America ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
World Music ◽  
Musical Thought

Published in six folios during 1778 and 1779, Herder’s Volkslieder (Folk songs) has been one of the most influential works in modern intellectual history, even though it has never before appeared in English translation. The Volkslieder not only became the first collection of world music—songs came not only from many regions of Europe, but also from Africa, the Mediterranean, and South America—but also served as the source for European composers throughout the nineteenth century. Aesthetics, ethnography, and literary and cultural history converge to transform modern musical thought. Part one of the chapter contains translations from Herder’s own introductions to the songs, and part two contains twenty-four songs that represent the paradigm shift inspired by this monumental work on folk song.

The Development of British Interests in Chile's Norte Chico in the Early Nineteenth Century

2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
South America ◽  
Political Instability ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Norte Chico

By 1820, much of Spanish South America had achieved independence, and Spain was on the defensive in those areas where her flag still flew. Amongst the countries that gained their independence in this period was Chile, which after the battle of Maipú in April 1818, faced no further threats to its existence from Spain. For many of the new nations, the period immediately after independence was one of political instability, shading into civil war, and Chile was no exception. However, in comparison with many of its neighbors, the period of instability was short, and the physical destruction not great.

“Stay and Starve, Or Go and Prosper!” Juvenile Emigration from Great Britain in the Nineteenth Century

1985 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-166
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South America ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Equable Climate ◽  
Strategic Location ◽  
The World ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South

The nineteenth century saw the beginning of large-scale migration of population from western Europe to various countries of the world. North and South America had proven hospitable in previous centuries and the southern tip of Africa presented an equable climate as well as strategic location. The islands of the southern seas reached by Cook and Van Diemen proved equally attractive if more remote. In retrospect it seems inevitable that, with the exception of South America, they were bound to be English-speaking. Even South America had its British farming colonists at one stage. In 1826 just under two hundred Highland Scots embarked for Topo in the highlands of Colombia (United Kingdom, 1827). Significantly, one hundred and two of them were under fourteen years of age.

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