Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States * More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss

Abstract:Marriage cases discussed by Catholic missionaries in Uganda at the turn of the twentieth century showcase considerable diversity in relationships between women and men. While these cases reflect the turbulence of the late nineteenth century, the history of marriage and divorce in the region since around 700 CE demonstrates that diversity in marital arrangements was a long-standing phenomenon. This article sets out the history of aspects of marriage and divorce in Buganda, Bugwere, Busoga, and Bushana, and their ancestral communities to show how women and men conceptualized their domestic relationships and adapted them as they dealt with political and social change.

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A Century of America on Chinese Screens

Journal of American-East Asian Relations ◽

10.1163/187656111x566007 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 305-323 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zhiwei Xiao

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Print Media ◽

The United States ◽

Sharp Contrast ◽

American People ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

History Of ◽

Chinese Films ◽

New Millennium

AbstractNo serious study has been published on how Chinese filmmakers have portrayed the United States and the American people over the last century. The number of such films is not large. That fact stands in sharp contrast not only to the number of "China pictures" produced in the United States, which is not surprising, but also in contrast to the major role played by Chinese print media. This essay surveys the history of Chinese cinematic images of America from the early twentieth century to the new millennium and notes the shifts from mostly positive portrayal in the pre-1949 Chinese films, to universal condemnation during the Mao years and to a more nuanced, complex, and multi-colored presentation of the last few decades.

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Versatile and cheap: a global history of soy in the first half of the twentieth century

Journal of Global History ◽

10.1017/s1740022813000375 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 461-482 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ines Prodöhl

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

The United States ◽

Second World War ◽

Cash Crop ◽

The Great Depression ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Transnational Actors ◽

History Of ◽

Second World

AbstractThis article traces the complex and shifting organization of soy's production and consumption from Northeast China to Europe and the United States. It focuses on a set of national and transnational actors with differing interests in the global and national spread of soybeans. The combination of these actors in certain spatiotemporal contexts enabled a fundamental change in soy from an Asian to an American cash crop. At the beginning of the twentieth century, soy rapidly became Northeast China's cash crop, owing to steadily increasing Western demand. However, the versatility of soy – and soy oil in particular – offered a highly successful response to the agricultural and industrial challenges that the United States faced during the Great Depression and the Second World War. By the end of the war, American farmers in the Midwest cultivated more soybeans than their Chinese counterparts.

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The Cambridge History of America and the World

10.1017/9781108297479 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

The United States ◽

Military Power ◽

American Empire ◽

Global Power ◽

Cultural Terms ◽

The World ◽

Fourth Volume ◽

History Of

The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and abroad altered the United States and its role in the world. The second half of the twentieth century marked the pinnacle of American global power in economic, political, and cultural terms, but even as it reached such heights, the United States quickly faced new challenges to its power, originating both domestically and internationally. Highlighting cutting-edge ideas from scholars from all over the world, this volume anatomizes American power as well as the counters and alternatives to 'the American empire.' Topics include US economic and military power, American culture overseas, human rights and humanitarianism, third-world internationalism, immigration, communications technology, and the Anthropocene.

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Redefining Censorship

European Judaism ◽

10.3167/ej.2018.510219 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 134-142

Author(s):

Esther B. Schupak

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Emotional Valence ◽

The United States ◽

Educational Choice ◽

Merchant Of Venice ◽

The Past ◽

The Merchant Of Venice ◽

Film Images ◽

History Of

Abstract Because of its potential for fostering antisemitic stereotypes, in the twentieth century The Merchant of Venice has a history of being subject to censorship in secondary schools in the United States. While in the past it has often been argued that the play can be used to teach tolerance and to fight societal evils such as xenophobia, racism and antisemitism, I argue that this is no longer the case due to the proliferation of performance methods in the classroom, and the resultant emphasis on watching film and stage productions. Because images – particularly film images – carry such strong emotional valence, they have the capacity to subsume other pedagogical aspects of this drama in their emotional power and memorability. I therefore question whether the debate over teaching this play is truly a question of ‘censorship’, or simply educational choice.

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