Mapping an empire: Tourist cartographies of the Caribbean in the early twentieth century

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Caribbean

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Andrew Byers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
War Department ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

This chapter provides an overview of why the U.S. Army sought to address perceived problems caused by soldiers’ sexual interactions with civilians and other soldiers as the army deployed across the Caribbean and into the Pacific and Europe in the early twentieth century. Military planners, army leaders, War Department officials, and civilian observers of the military were intensely concerned about issues related to sexuality because they tended to believe that soldiers had irrepressible sexual needs that could cause harm to the army. The army also believed that by instituting a series of legal regulations and medical interventions, it could mitigate the damages to the institution arising from sex, while also shaping soldiers’ sexuality in ways the army and interested civilian parties might find more acceptable. The chapter describes the research methodology and chapter overviews for the book as a whole.

C. L. R. James and the Grenada Revolution: Lessons Learned and Future Possibilities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tennyson S. D. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Direct Relevance ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Way

Many of the theoretical assumptions and tactical approaches of the Grenada revolution were rooted in the experiences of early twentieth century Russia. The internal debates within the Grenada Revolution largely ignored the pre-and post-Stalin theoretical debates within Communism, and showed little awareness of original Caribbean Marxist thought. This was reflected in the limited impact of the Caribbean’s foremost Marxist theoretician, C.L.R. James, on the revolutionary process in Grenada, despite the fact that James’ theoretical contributions addressed concerns which bore direct relevance to the later implosion of the Grenada Revolution, and to a post-Stalinist global Marxism. This chapter therefore seeks to apply the theoretical insights of C.L.R. James to understanding the lessons of the collapse of the Grenada Revolution and in pointing the way towards the possibilities of a future anti-systemic project in the Caribbean.

Marvell in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

2019 ◽  
pp. 772-792
Author(s):  
Steven Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Waste Land ◽  
Waste Land ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Caribbean

This chapter reviews Marvell’s presence in poetry in English from the early twentieth century down to the present. Beginning with T. S. Eliot’s decisive considerations of Marvell’s significance at the time of the tercentenary of Marvell’s birth, the chapter develops a picture of Marvellian themes which recur thereafter. Eliot’s reflections on Marvell were written as he was working on The Waste Land, and consideration is given to the qualified exploitation of a Marvell-derived ‘wit’ and ‘conceit’ in Eliot’s sequence. The chapter considers the availability of Marvell’s work to writers in this period, from Herbert Grierson’s anthology Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems onwards, to capture the significance of these editions within the writing of such as W. B. Yeats. Having established these complex threads of connection back to Marvell, the chapter then follows them through the work of later poets from Britain, America, Ireland, and the Caribbean including Empson, Ashbery, Gunn, Lowell, Walcott, Hill, Dunn, and Donaghy.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Capó
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Migration History ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Caribbean Tourism ◽  
And Migration

This introduction lays out the major themes and parameters of the book. It delineates the multi-textured meanings of “fairyland”—a term crafted by white urban boosters by the early twentieth century—to a diverse group of people who traveled to and settled in the Greater Miami area from 1890 to 1940. The introduction stresses how migration and immigration, tourism, and trade to and from the Caribbean proved central to shaping the image of Miami as fairyland, a moniker that allowed gender and sexual transgressives to carve out a space for themselves in the nascent city. It emphasizes the significance of Miami’s queer past by situating this research in the existing literature, particularly in the fields of queer, transnational, Caribbean, tourism, and immigration and migration history. This introduction also offers an overview of each chapter and the book’s research methods, methodology, and use of archives.

scholarly journals Small Farms, Large Transaction Costs: Haiti’s Missing Sugar

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Craig Palsson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Small Farms ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Sugar Plantations

In the eighteenth century, Haiti was the world’s leading sugar producer, but when cane surged in the Caribbean in the early twentieth century, Haiti produced none. Instead, the land sat idle while workers emigrated to work on sugar plantations. I examine the hypothesis that historical property rights institutions created high transaction costs for converting land to cane production. I collect new data on land-use from 1928–1950 and a proxy for transaction costs. The evidence suggests transaction costs impeded the land market from responding to the sugar boom.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

New insights into the controversy surrounding marine biological laboratory (Marine Station) facilities in the Firth of Clyde in the early twentieth century

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Biological Laboratory ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Marine Station ◽  
Regius Professor ◽  
Adjacent Island

Three letters from the Sheina Marshall archive at the former University Marine Biological Station Millport (UMBSM) reveal the pivotal significance of Sheina Marshall's father, Dr John Nairn Marshall, behind the scheme planned by Glasgow University's Regius Professor of Zoology, John Graham Kerr. He proposed to build an alternative marine station facility on Cumbrae's adjacent island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde in the early years of the twentieth century to cater predominantly for marine researchers.

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