Archaeological and Historical Materials as a Means to Explore Finnish Crop History

Governmental inquiries where accounting is a central focus are a rich resource for injecting much needed historical content into accounting courses in higher education. An adversarial roleplay recreated a Wage Stabilization Board hearing in Washington, D.C. which, in 1952, led to President Truman's seizure of the American steel industry and ultimately to a constitutional crisis. The roleplay centered on the accounting issues debated by that Board in response to a highly provocative submission by W. A. Paton on behalf of the steel industry. The roleplay revealed strong support for recourse to such historical materials in providing an enjoyable, stimulating and effective way of learning accounting theory. Ancillary benefits were that students gained a better understanding of some important economic, political and constitutional issues in American history.

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Evangelists and Their Hearers: Popular Interpretation of Revivalist Preaching in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Journal of British Studies ◽

10.1086/385930 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 120-149 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ned Landsman

Keyword(s):

Popular Religion ◽

Great Majority ◽

Historical Record ◽

Modern World ◽

Religious Leaders ◽

Spiritual Experiences ◽

Ordinary People ◽

Historical Materials ◽

The Relationship ◽

Source Materials

The most persistent difficulty confronting historical interpreters of popular religion in the early modern world is that of establishing the relationship between ideas enunciated by religious leaders and those held by their hearers. The causes of that uncertainty are obvious; where historical materials for the former are plentiful, sources that address the latter are far more difficult to obtain. The great majority of evidence that we have concerning lay religiosity derives from clerical rather than lay sources, and most of it tells us more about religious behavior than belief. Even those rare accounts we have that purport to narrate the spiritual experiences of ordinary people tend to be both unrepresentative and stylized, to the point where the ultimate implications of such materials for understanding popular belief often are far from certain.Problems of documentation lead to equally significant but less often noted distortions in perspective. Where they have lacked adequate source materials for recovering the mental world of the laity, historians almost by necessity have had to approach their task as one of ascertaining the portion and proportion of the expressions of the ministry that lay men and women adopted. Thus deviations from clerical orthodoxy can only be understood as indicative either of a lack of intellectual sophistication on the part of the laity, or, at best, of a latent “folk” worldview that remains almost inaccessible to historical description. Yet there is ample documentation in the historical record that the laity possessed a rather remarkable capacity to integrate seemingly disparate beliefs and actively forge their own understandings of the delivered message and create their own religious symbols.

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STUDY ON RESIDENT'S LIVING SPACE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL ADJUSTMENT BEHAVIOR IN EDO “MACHIYASHIKI” DURING SUMMER BASED ON HISTORICAL MATERIALS IN THE EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD

Journal of Environmental Engineering (Transactions of AIJ) ◽

10.3130/aije.76.307 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 76 (661) ◽

pp. 307-316

Author(s):

Masahito TAKATA ◽

Akinobu MURAKAMI ◽

Akira HOYANO

Keyword(s):

Historical Materials ◽

Meiji Period ◽

Living Space

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A North American Perspective on Service Life and Durability of Concrete Bridges

IABSE Conference, Copenhagen 2018: Engineering the Past, to Meet the Needs of the Future ◽

10.2749/copenhagen.2018.448 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Neil A. Cumming

Keyword(s):

Service Life ◽

Numerical Modelling ◽

North American ◽

Concrete Bridges ◽

Formal Service ◽

Historical Materials ◽

American Perspective ◽

Definition Of ◽

Further Development ◽

Empirical Methodology

This paper describes the author’s views on durability and service life of concrete bridges in North America, considering the past, present and future. Historical materials and practices have resulted in disappointing durability and service life that does not meet modern expectations. In recent years formal service life analysis and prediction has been implemented as part of the design process for major projects, typically involving numerical modelling of time to corrosion, and mitigation or avoidance of other forms of deterioration by empirical methodology. These efforts are, however, hampered by a lack of an accepted service life design standard which is adapted to North American practice and materials. Work is under way to answer this need. In the future, further development is needed to provide a better match between expectations and reality, a more practical definition of “service life”, validation of design features implemented to mitigate or avoid deterioration for which there are no available time-based models, and improved validation of numerical modelling parameters that describe exposure conditions and material resistances.

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