Selling Home

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-145
Author(s):  
Abigail McGowan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Product Lines ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Home Deliveries ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Window Displays ◽  
Market Density ◽  
The City

This essay explores the emergence of new forms of retail in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Bombay, an era which saw the development of new shopping districts, department stores, showrooms, and retail culture in the city. In a city known for its market density and commercial vibrancy, elite retailers tried to reach out to consumers in new ways, enticing them in from the street with window displays, standardized product lines, and novel assemblages of goods, while also contacting consumers directly through catalogues, flyers, designs sent on request, and home deliveries. Focusing on major department stores like the Army and Navy Stores and Whiteaway Laidlaw, major nationalist concerns like the Bombay Swadeshi Store and Godrej and Boyce, as well as smaller showrooms featuring fewer ranges of goods, the essay argues that novel retail strategies efforts helped to shape not just how things were sold but what was desired in Bombay—noting in particular how efforts to sell domestic furnishings promoted new ideas about what the home should be.

Beirut, City of the Levant

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Foreign Investments ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City

This chapter introduces the concept of domesticity and sets the general historical background for the rest of the book. Looking at how new ideas on Ottoman urban management in Istanbul and foreign investments in infrastructure helped transform Beirut from a sleepy harbor town to major entrepôt, the chapter also foregrounds how the emergence of a middle class shaped life in the city. It explores the various characteristics of the middle class and places it in the context of the nahda, the late-nineteenth, early-twentieth century vibrant intellectual and cultural production in Arabic. It also investigates how the middle class spread across the city's new neighborhoods. Finally, the chapter closes with an overview of the archival sources used in the book.

Volksconcerte in Vienna and Late Nineteenth-Century Ideology of the Symphony

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 421-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Notley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City

Late nineteenth-century journalistic criticism in Vienna offers many precedents for Paul Bekker's interpretation of the symphony. Beethoven's symphonies provided the model for an aesthetics of the genre-couched in metaphors connecting it to "the people"-that motivated the reception of works by Brahms and Bruckner. Activists who wished to inaugurate symphonic Volksconcerte in the city took the figurative utopian function of the genre literally. Though their efforts were confounded not only by institutionalized elitism but also by the preferences of the Viennese Volk for other kinds of music, their work bore fruit in the early twentieth century with the founding of the Wiener Konzertverein and the Arbeiter-Symphonie-Konzerte.

Florence as “Paradise Lost”

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Roger J. Crum
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
American Interest ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Earthly Paradise ◽  
The City

Abstract The city of Florence has been a place of artistic pilgrimage for centuries. This essay discusses late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British and American interest in Florence and, specifically, two of its masterpieces in Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus as indicative of a melancholic perspective on the Florentine Renaissance as a “Paradise Lost.” The city was ambivalently idealized as an “Earthly Paradise.”

Brontë countries: nation, gender and place in the literary landscapes of Haworth and Brussels

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Mathieson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Landscapes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Cultural Legacies ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City

This chapter assesses the legacy of Charlotte Brontë as it is bound up with a legacy of place. It seeks to reassert the overlooked afterlife of Brontë in Brussels through analyses of literary tourists’ accounts of journeys to and around the Pensionnat Heger from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. This chapter argues that Brussels offers a counterpart to the Brontë legacy at Haworth by providing a space where Charlotte Brontë could forge an independent female identity away from England and the domestic home-place, and it explores how literary tourists sought out this idea of Brontë in their traversals through the city streets. At the moment of Brontë’s bicentenary these accounts offer a valuable framework through which to reassess the intersecting themes of gender, nation and place in Brontë’s works, and to reassert the presence of Brussels in the future trajectory of Brontë’s cultural legacies and afterlives.

scholarly journals Archeological Investigations at the Laredo Cemetery Site (41WB22), Webb County, Texas

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary McReynolds
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City ◽  
Trench Excavation

In April, May and June of 1980, Prewitt and Associates, Inc. conducted archeological monitoring and excavations in specified areas of 41WB22, a late nineteenth and early twentieth century cemetery in the City of Laredo, Webb County, Texas. These investigations were directly solely towards locating and removing graves exposed by pit and trench excavation activities at the construction site of the Laredo Transit Operating Facilities. The result was the accumulation of data regarding the disinterment of twenty-two graves which contained twenty-three individuals; six of these were partially or totally removed during backhoe excavations prior to the initiation of archeological monitoring, and seventeen were systematically exposed, recorded and removed after the commencement of monitoring. An additional thirteen grave outlines were detected and their locations recorded but their contents were not exhumed.

scholarly journals Shanghai Chinese

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiya Chen ◽  
Carlos Gussenhoven
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Standard Chinese ◽  
The City

Shanghai Chinese (Shanghainese; 上海话) is a Wu dialect (ISO 639-3; code: wuu) spoken in the city of Shanghai (CN-31), one of the four municipalities in the People's Republic of China. Over the last century, the dialect has been heavily influenced by neighbouring dialects spoken in the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such as Jianghuai Mandarin (江淮官话), the Suzhou Wu dialect (吴语苏州话), and the Ningbo Wu dialect (吴语宁波话), in addition to two other, more distant dialects, Cantonese (广东话) and Northern Mandarin (北方官话). Most native speakers of Shanghai Chinese are in fact descendants of immigrants from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces who moved to Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. More recently, the position of Shanghai Chinese has been eroded with the influx of immigrants from other parts of the country and the widespread adoption of Standard Chinese.

scholarly journals The Agency of the Paper Plan: The Building Plans of Late Nineteenth-Century and Early Twentieth-Century Berlin

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-288
Author(s):  
Tilo Amhoff
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Town Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Verbal Knowledge ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
Building Plans

This article closely investigates the unique visual representations of the building plans of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Berlin, and emphasizes the agency of the paper plan in the profession and discipline of Städtebau. Following positions in German media theory, the paper plan is understood and theorized as a medium of bureaucracy and the plan drawing as a set of cultural techniques. In doing so, the article traces the refinement of the instruments for regulating the building of the city—from the building plan, to the building zones plan, to the town development plan. It is argued that the paper plans themselves have agency in seeing the city and hence thinking about the city (through their methods of visual representation), and agency in the formation of graphic terms and concepts (derived from the making of building plans). The paper plans mediated visual and verbal knowledge of the city that would have been inconceivable without them.

Faeries, Aliens, and Leviathans: Science and Fantasy in Ian McDonald's King of Morning, Queen of Day

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-303
Author(s):  
Richard Howard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Unexplored Area ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Cultural Movement

Irish science fiction is a relatively unexplored area for Irish Studies, a situation partially rectified by the publication of Jack Fennell's Irish Science Fiction in 2014. This article aims to continue the conversation begun by Fennell's intervention by analysing the work of Belfast science fiction author Ian McDonald, in particular King of Morning, Queen of Day (1991), the first novel in what McDonald calls his Irish trilogy. The article explores how McDonald's text interrogates the intersection between science, politics, and religion, as well as the cultural movement that was informing a growing sense of a continuous Irish national identity. It draws from the discipline of Science Studies, in particular the work of Nicholas Whyte, who writes of the ways in which science and colonialism interacted in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland.

A Historiographical Interlude

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan D. Teubner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The ‘Historiographical Interlude’ presents a brief overview of the cultural, social, and political changes that occur between Augustine’s death in 430 CE and Boethius’ earliest theological writings (c.501 CE). When Augustine, Boethius, and Benedict are treated together in one unified analysis, several historiographical challenges emerge. This Interlude addresses several of these challenges and argues that trends within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship established some unfounded interpretive biases. In particular, this section will discuss the contributions of Adolf von Harnack and Henri Irénée Marrou, focusing on how they contributed, in diverse ways, to the neglect of sixth-century Italy as a significant geographical site in the development of the Augustinian tradition.

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