The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities. By John R. Kellett. [Studies in Social History.] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1969. Pp. xxi, 466. $11.50.)

1970 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Impact

Book History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Low
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Book History ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Cultures ◽  
The Impact ◽  
History Book

This chapter discusses Book History. Drawing on the disciplinary fields of ‘analytical bibliography’ and influenced by work in Annales social history, Book History takes as its subject the cultural history and the sociology of print, and also the impact of print on the ‘thought and behaviour of mankind’ from the Gutenberg press to the present day. As books make the complicated journey from the idea to print in all its variant forms, the connections between publishing, cultural, educational, and literary institutions—and the individuals involved in these—are crucial to understanding how they emerge in print, how they are used, how they circulate, and what they mean. The chapter thus addresses the following areas of importance to the social and material histories of the Anglophone novel to 1950: the ‘glocalized’ geographies of print and trade; newspapers and local literary cultures; colonial editions; libraries, readers and writers; trade and copyright legislation.

Interpreting Revelation through African American Cultural Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 482-498
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Slater
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social History ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Resistance Literature ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Impact

African American scholarship on Revelation makes fruitful use of cultural studies as a discipline. This approach draws on the field of sociology, social history, literature, anthropology, linguistics, and other cultural markers. As a method for biblical interpretation it values both the ancient context and the current cultural contexts of readers, and is open to multiple interpretations. This essay considers the various ways Revelation has functioned in African American congregations, the impact of Liberation theology, womanist and postcolonial perspectives, and the notion that Revelation is subversive or resistance literature. Attention is given to similarities and differences between African American scholars concerning Revelation’s political perspective, its approach to identity construction, and the way in which the book might engage current readers.

Residential mobility in seventeenth-century Southwark

Urban History ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Boulton
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
Excellent Work ◽  
Provincial Society ◽  
The Impact

It is nearly two decades since Tony Wrigley first discussed the possible effects that the experience of London life may have had on changing the society of seventeenth-century England. Despite some excellent work on certain aspects of London's social history, however, his qualification still stands: ‘too little is known of the sociological differences between life in London and life in provincial England to afford a clear perception of the impact of London's growth upon the country as a whole’. Among the obstacles to this latter goal are that metropolitan and provincial society are often seen as qualitatively different and, perhaps in consequence, comparisons between the two have not been seriously attempted. What is needed is a model which might serve to embrace the experiences of both urban and rural inhabitants within a common framework.

Of ‘prostitutes’ and ‘AIDS people’: Feminization of HIV and AIDS in South-eastern Ghana

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Bright B. Drah
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Hiv Infections ◽  
Hiv Prevalence ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Orphans And Vulnerable Children ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
The Impact

In sub-Saharan Africa, more women than men live with HIV and women bear the largest proportion of the burden of care that is due to the epidemic. Only a few studies have documented the precise details of how women in countries with low HIV prevalence became the worst affected by the epidemic. In Ghana, the historical factors that account for high HIV infections among women and the emergence of women-led community-based HIV interventions have been less researched. This paper examines the historical (political-economic), cultural and personal factors that account for the high HIV prevalence in Manya Klo, the area worst impacted by HIV in Ghana. The paper presents the social history of the pandemic in Manya Klo and explains why Klo women are considered to be the sources of HIV in Ghana. It suggests that concentrating interventions on women helps to reduce the impact of HIV and inform national interventions. Women-focused interventions may, however, alienate other groups that can contribute to improving the lives of families affected by HIV. Therefore, women-focused interventions must be planned in a manner that engages multiple stakeholders.Keywords: Manya Krobo, queen mothers, female migration, female sex work, orphans and vulnerable children, community-based HIV initiatives

scholarly journals The academic productivity and impact of the University of Toronto Neurosurgery Program as assessed by manuscripts published and their number of citations

2015 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 561-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Lozano ◽  
Joseph Tam ◽  
Abhaya V. Kulkarni ◽  
Andres M. Lozano
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Gini Coefficients ◽  
Academic Activity ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The University ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
The Impact

OBJECT Recent works have assessed academic output across neurosurgical programs using various analyses of accumulated citations as a proxy for academic activity and productivity. These assessments have emphasized North American neurosurgical training centers and have largely excluded centers outside the United States. Because of the long tradition and level of academic activity in neurosurgery at the University of Toronto, the authors sought to compare that program's publication and citation metrics with those of established programs in the US as documented in the literature. So as to not rely on historical achievements that may be of less relevance, they focused on recent works, that is, those published in the most recent complete 5-year period. METHODS The authors sought to make their data comparable to existing published data from other programs. To this end, they compiled a list of published papers by neurosurgical faculty at the University of Toronto for the period from 2009 through 2013 using the Scopus database. Individual author names were disambiguated; the total numbers of papers and citations were compiled on a yearly basis. They computed a number of indices, including the ih(5)-index (i.e., the number of citations the papers received over a 5-year period), the summed h-index of the current faculty over time, and a number of secondary measures, including the ig(5), ie(5), and i10(5)-indices. They also determined the impact of individual authors in driving the results using Gini coefficients. To address the issue of author ambiguity, which can be problematic in multicenter bibliometric analyses, they have provided a source dataset used to determine the ih(5) index for the Toronto program. RESULTS The University of Toronto Neurosurgery Program had approximately 29 full-time surgically active faculty per year (not including nonneurosurgical faculty) in the 5-year period from 2009 to 2013. These faculty published a total of 1217 papers in these 5 years. The total number of citations from these papers was 13,434. The ih(5)-index at the University of Toronto was 50. CONCLUSIONS On the basis of comparison with published bibliometric data of US programs, the University of Toronto ranks first in terms of number of publications, number of citations, and ih(5)-index among neurosurgical programs in North America and most likely in the world.

scholarly journals Reviews: Social History, Local History and Historiography, Receptions and Revisitings: Review Articles, 1978–2011, Slavery and the Culture of Taste, Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, 1790–1870: Gender, Race and Nation, the Vulgar Question of Money: Heiresses, Materialism and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James, the Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century, Translation, Authorship and the Victorian Professional Woman: Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Martineau and George Eliot, the Lost Ireland of Stephen Gwynn: Irish Constitutional Nationalism and Cultural Politics, 1864–1950, Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction, the Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siècle, Middlebrow Literary Cultures, the Masculine Middlebrow, 1880–1950: What Mr Miniver Read, Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism, a Sense of Shock: The Impact of Impressionism on Modern British and Irish Writing, Marianne Moore and the Cultures of Modernity, British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940, American Postmodern Fiction and the Past, the Second World War in Contemporary British Fiction: Secret Histories, 9/11 and the Literature of Terror

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-111
Author(s):  
Olwen Hufton ◽  
Ed Rugemer ◽  
Clare Elliott ◽  
Simon James ◽  
Heather Worthington ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Social History ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Henry James ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Harriet Martineau ◽  
Postmodern Fiction ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Literary Cultures ◽  
The Impact
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