Britain as Prophecy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom F. Wright
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Education System ◽  
English Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Great Exhibition

Chapter 4 explores the idea of the “choreography of reform” in performances by the Horace Mann and Horace Greeley. Upon returning from a tour of Britain in 1845, Mann felt compelled to tell his fellow Americans about the failings of the English education system. Five years later, Greeley returned from the 1851 Great Exhibition, proclaiming that he had witnessed the future. They toured the United States over the course of the next decade performing pieces that cast them as seers and oracles, using British futurity as a means of imagining starkly distinct national futures for the republic. In doing so, they transformed their findings into elaborate oratorical tours de force that reveal the blending of social science and sentiment in lecture hall reform rhetoric. This chapter uses their performances to show how transatlantic reformers transitioned not only between print and public speech, but also between strikingly different discourses and registers.

To 1750

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
American History ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Columbian Exposition ◽  
The Republic

IN THE LATTER part of the nineteenth century, east coast city dwellers in the United States had difficulty repressing a sense of their own persistent cultural inferiority vis-à-vis London and Paris. At the same time a great many old-stock Americans were dismayed by the stream of immigrants coming to these shores whose diversity called the future cohesion of the Republic into question almost as seriously as the issue of slavery had done in the decades before the Civil War. In such a climate of opinion, the unabashed provinciality of Frederick Jackson Turner's (1861-1932) paper "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," delivered at a meeting of the newly founded American Historical Association in connection with the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1892), began within less than a decade to resound like a trumpet call, though whether it signalled advance or retreat remained profoundly ambiguous....

Some Truths about Mexico

1951 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-424
Author(s):  
Fanchón Royer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
American Press ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Past Half

It is Probable that no country outside the borders of the United States has, during the past half century, been more widely and more inaccurately presented by our American writers, than the Republic of Mexico. An examination of this surfeit of material and the multiplicity of its authors’ approaches to their topic discovers our Catholic neighborland to have long proved both an irresistible lure and an enigma to the professional producers of run-of-the-mill travel volumes as well as to the more popular (i.e., lighter-weight) theorists on economics and sociology. Their enthusiastic, even florid rhetoric has been ceaselessly inspired by the color and drama of Mexico; but otherwise their persistent output rarely gives much evidence of a clear understanding of Mexican attitudes or ideals and so, of competence to fathom the true significance of this nation’s turbulent history. Since the past cannot be overlooked in any safe estimate of the future, this is a regrettable fact that could prove most detrimental to that much-desired inter-American accord which has already cost the American taxpayer some millions of dollars. There are two easily understood reasons for such lack of insight on the part of so many of our writers; this has already served to rouse the resentment and disrespect of the Mexican reader of the American press while also resulting in a sincere acceptance by Anglo-Americans of a decidedly strange mixture of misinformation and absurdly ill advised opinion for “the truth about Mexico.”

4. Six Additional Principles for the Negotiations towards a Political Settlement Submitted by the Committee of Good Offices at the Fourth Meeting of the Committee of Good Offices with the Parties on 17 January 1948 and Accepted at the Fifth meeting of the Committee with the parties on 19 January 1948.

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-408 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
The United States ◽  
Independent State ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Netherlands Indies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Political Settlement

The Committee of Good Offices is of the opinion that the following principles, among others, form a basis for the negotiations towards a political settlement:1. Sovereignty throughout the Netherlands Indies is and shall remain with the Kingdom of the Netherlands until, after a stated interval, the Kingdom of the Netherlands transfers its sovereignty to the United States of Indonesia. Prior to the termination of such stated interval, the Kingdom of the Netherlands may confer appropriate rights, duties and responsibilities on a provisional federal government of the territories of the future United States of Indonesia. The United States of Indonesia, when created, will be a sovereign and independent State in equal partnership with the Kingdom of the Netherlands in a Netherlands-Indonesian Union at the head of which shall be the King of the Netherlands. The status of the Republic of Indonesia will be that of a state within the United States of Indonesia.

7. Statute of the Netherlands-Indonesian Union, Signed at the Round Table Conference, The Hague, November 2, 1949.

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-183
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Round Table ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Complete Independence ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Republic

The Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of the United States of Indonesia,having resolved on a basis of free will, equality, and complete independence to bring about friendly cooperation with each other and to create the Netherlands Indonesian Union with a view to effectuate this future cooperation,having agreed to lay down in this Statute of the Union the basis of their mutual relationship as independent and sovereign States,thereby holding that nothing in this Statute shall be construed as excluding any form of cooperation not mentioned therein or cooperation in any field not mentioned therein, the need of which may be felt in the future by both partners.

Gendered differences in emigration and mobility perspectives among European researchers working abroad

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Highly Skilled

This paper focuses on gendered mobilities of highly skilled researchers working abroad. It is based on an empirical qualitative study that explored the mobility aspirations of Austrian scientists who were working in the United States at the time they were interviewed. Supported by a case study, the paper demonstrates how a qualitative research strategy including graphic drawings sketched by the interviewed persons can help us gain a better understanding of the gendered importance of social relations for the future mobility aspirations of scientists working abroad.

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