Paupers and Scholars: The Transformation of Student Life in Nineteenth Century New England

Several authors have suggested that a particular managerial component was needed before cost accounting could be fully used for accountability and disciplinary purposes. They argue that the marriage of managerialism and accounting first occurred in the United States at the Springfield Armory after 1840. They generally downplay the quality and usefulness of cost accounting at the New England textile mills before that time and call for a re-examination of original mill records from a disciplinary perspective. This paper reports the results of such a re-examination. It initially describes the social and economic environment of U.S. textile manufacturing in New England in the early nineteenth century. Selected cost memos and reports are described and analyzed to indicate the nature and scope of costing undertaken at the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the late 1820s and early 1830s. The paper discusses how particular cost information was used and speculates why certain more modern procedures were not adopted. Its major finding is that cost management practices fully measured up to the business complexities, economic pressures, and social forces of the day.

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The Catholic Historical Review, XXXVI, No. 2 (Washington, July 1950) : 163—189. Mason Wade, “The French Parish and Survivance in nineteenth Century New England”

Revue d histoire de l Amérique française ◽

10.7202/801662ar ◽

1950 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 446

Author(s):

Adolphe Robert

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New England ◽

Historical Review

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Mid-Nineteenth Century New England Women in Evangelical Foreign Missions: Seraphina Haynes Everett, A Missionary Wife in The Ottoman Mission Field

Turkish Historical Review ◽

10.1163/18775462-00801003 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 75-102

Author(s):

Melike Tokay-Ünal

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

New England ◽

Ottoman Empire ◽

The United States ◽

Foreign Missions ◽

Women’S Perceptions ◽

Islam And Christianity ◽

Mission Field ◽

Journal Entries

This article illustrates American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions’ support of the “missionary matrimony”, mid-nineteenth-century New England women’s perceptions of the missionary career obtained through matrimony, and their impressions of the Oriental mission fields and non-Christian or non-Protestant women, who were depicted as victims to be saved. A brief introduction to New England women’s involvement in foreign missions will continue with the driving force that led these women to leave the United States for far mission fields in the second part of the paper. This context will be exemplified with the story of a New England missionary wife. The analysis consists of the journal entries and letters of Seraphina Haynes Everett of Ottoman mission field. The writings of this woman from New England give detailed information about the spiritual voyage she was taking in the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman lands. In her letters to the United States, Everett described two Ottoman cities, Izmir (Smyrna) and Istanbul (Constantinople), and wrote about her impressions of Islam and Christianity as practiced in the Ottoman empire. Everett’s opinions of the Ottoman empire, which encouraged more American women to devote themselves to the education and to the evangelization of Armenian women of the Ottoman empire in the middle of the nineteenth century, conclude the paper.

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Miscegenated Whiteness: Rebecca Harding Davis, the "Civil-izing" War, and Female Racism

Nineteenth-Century Literature ◽

10.1525/ncl.2002.57.1.64 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 57 (1) ◽

pp. 64-99 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stephen Knadler

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New England ◽

White Women ◽

Female Sexuality ◽

White Female ◽

Sentimental Fiction ◽

The Public ◽

Racial Ideologies ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender

This essay examines Rebecca Harding Davis's resistance to the Civil War discourse in the Atlantic Monthly in order to complicate the relation between nineteenth-century racism and sentimental fiction. While much revisionary work has been done on nineteenth-century women'sfiction and how it reinforced racial ideologies, the misleading question often asked is whether white women did or did not participate in the public arena of race. Yet this initial framing of the question denies the alternative possibility: that white women might have engaged in their own gendered forms of racial activity, or in a "female racism" (to use Vron Ware's term), that did not correspond to or act in complicity with a racism that is by default seen as public and masculine. By imagining her heroine as a "woman from the border" inWaiting for the Verdict (1868), Davis works to oppose and overturn a particular regional and gender-based inscription of whiteness that was being disseminated amid the war crises as an emergent New England-based national identity. In contrast, Davis creates a particular feminine and liminal version of white racial power, or a "miscegenated whiteness." But this fantasy of an imagined national community based on the "white mulatto" finally undoes itself in the novel's moments of narrative crises about a free and open female sexuality, and Davis'snovel seeks to restore the white female body to its "purity."

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FABLES FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH PUBLISHED IN BOSTON IN 1818

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.50.1.158 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 158-159

Author(s):

Thomas E. Cone

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New England ◽

School Children ◽

Early Years ◽

Open Books ◽

Moral Instruction ◽

Almost All

In the early years of the nineteenth century William Perry's The Only Sure Guide to the English Tongue, published by Isaiah Thomas, Jr., was the most widely used speller and reader in New England schools (Fig. 1). The two things in Perry's book that were said to have most impressed those who learned to spell and read from it were the frontispiece (Fig. 2) and the collection of fables. The frontispiece shows a tree of learning growing in a schoolyard, and groups of boys playing in its shadow. A ladder reaches into the branches and several boys with open books in their hands are climbing up the ladder into branches of the tree. The illustrated fables found toward the end of Perry's book were studied and memorized by almost all New England school children a century and a half ago. Perry's choice of fables, one of which will be published each month, will offer an excellent view of the kind of moral instruction our children were once taught.1

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