Cholera on the Continent and in America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Geographic Scope ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Total Destruction ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Fernand Braudel

While describing the peculiarities of cholera myths and riots from Asiatic Russia to Quebec, 1831–7, this chapter emphasizes the remarkable similarities across national and linguistic divides, oceans, and political regimes. The chapter argues first that this pan-regional mental landscape with the poor and marginal lashing out against elites and the medical profession cannot be explained by political events, regimes, or other causes particular to local settings. Secondly, these beliefs and struggles, instead of fading with successive waves of cholera, continued in places such as Russia, parts of Eastern Europe, Spain, and Italy. Moreover, their geographic scope and violence could increase, as with the total destruction of the industrial town of Hughesofka (today Donetsk) and riotous crowds reaching 10,000 in Astrakhan in 1892, murdering governors, counts, and physicians. As Fernand Braudel taught us long ago, pan-regional phenomena cannot be explained by local events.

Political and Cultural Indicators in Political Regimes’ Study

2011 ◽  
pp. 110-115
Author(s):  
E. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Democratic Character ◽  
Regime Analysis

One of the most common methods of political regime analysis and in particular assessment of their democratic character is a rating approach that envisages political regime classification depending on belonging to one or another group or cluster of democratic and non-democratic countries. Nevertheless this approach usually ignores political-cultural aspects of studied regimes. The article outlines the most commonly used indices of political regime comparison. The example of Central and Eastern Europe region proposes political regime classification taking political-cultural characteristics into account.

scholarly journals The Geopolitical Identity of the Bulgarian Nation

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 78-92
Author(s):  
A. A. Kovalevskiy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Balkan Peninsula ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Small State ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Political Events ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
The One

The article considers the issues of the nature and conditions of the formation of the geopolitical identity of the Bulgarian nation. The author analyzes the specifics of geopolitical thinking in Bulgaria as a small state in South-Eastern Europe associated, on the one hand, with the approval of the “central”, “core” position of Bulgaria on the Balkan Peninsula, and with belonging to “Intermediate Europe” (“Wide South-Eastern Europe”) along with all other Balkan countries on the other hand. It has been shown that the fundamental Bulgarian geopolitical notions are not part of any clearly articulated doctrine, as was the case in neighboring Greece or Serbia, but are the result of a number of political events, due to which the modern Bulgarian national identity begins to take shape. First of all, we are talking about the firman of the Ottoman Sultan, according to which the Bulgarian Autocephalous Church – Exarchate was founded on March 11, 1870, and after that the draft about autonomous Bulgaria worked out at the Istanbul Conference of Ambassadors of the Great Powers (December 1876), and finally – San - Stefan Peace Treaty of 1878, which completed the formation of the national geopolitical ideal of "Greater Bulgaria."

Central and Eastern Europe in 1924

1925 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malbone W. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Events

A study of the political events of 1924 in Central and Eastern Europe reveals such a variety of topics lending themselves to extensive treatment that for convenience of treatment, the material has been grouped under the four main heads of (1) financial reconstruction, (2) constitutional, legislative, and administrative developments, (3) parties and politics, and (4) foreign relations.

scholarly journals Pedagogies of the Poor: Resisting Resilience in Eastern Europe and Beyond

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 111-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Reid
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Critical Legal Theory

This article illustrates the different ways in which the poor are being put to work, in defence of a global neoliberal order by global economic institutions concerned with constructing them as resilient subjects, as well as by opponents of neoliberalism concerned with galvanizing the revolutionary potentials of poor people. In spite of the apparent gulf between neoliberalism and its revolutionary opponents, the poor find themselves subject to remarkably similar strategies of construction by both proponents and opponents of neoliberalism today. This predicament of the poor is particularly vexed in Eastern Europe where strategies of resilience are fast developing, and critical legal theory has so far offered little resistance to this trend. Turning against this tide, this article considers how we might reimagine poverty and conceive its politics beyond and against clichéd images of the poor as resilient subjects. Through an analysis of the work of the Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr, it argues for the necessity of images capable of conveying the intolerability of the conditions in which the poor continue to live, as well as the contingency of those conditions; images that serve as interventions on narratives which would reduce the poor to a life of mere resilience.

scholarly journals Medical Fees in Lunacy

1901 ◽  
Vol 47 (197) ◽  
pp. 435-435
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Medical Certificate ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Medical Fees ◽  
The Law

The guardians of the poor at Yarmouth are of opinion that half a guinea is an adequate fee for each medical certificate granted for the detention of pauper lunatics in asylums. The local medical practitioners refuse to accept less than a guinea, when they enter on the serious responsibilities which the Lunacy Acts entail upon them. We should not have been surprised if they had decided to raise the amount to twice the modest sum which custom has sanctioned. The Legislature has taken elaborate care in this matter, considering the interests of the alleged lunatic, the interests of the community, but in no way determining the pecuniary interests of the ratepayers. No doctor proceeds to the examination of an insane person without a lively sense of the importance of coming to a right decision on the questions submitted to him. He must be prepared to answer for his findings before the law. He has to decide by a personal examination, which may cost him much time and trouble, if the person is of unsound mind, if he is a fit and proper person to be detained in an asylum, if he is in a fit state for removal to an asylum. These are not perfunctory questions to be answered haphazard. The wonder to us is that, after the experience of the medical profession in courts of law, the work is undertaken at all. Did we not record in October last how witchcraft was recognised by the laws of England, and how it bore upon the case of Dowling v. Dod?

4. Making India work? 1947–1989

2017 ◽  
pp. 48-67
Author(s):  
Craig Jeffrey
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Radical Nature ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
Economic Climate

The emergence of India as an independent nation was associated with a new institutional drive, centred on the state, to cultivate hope. Yet the post-independence period also witnessed the successive failure of the state to address the problems of poverty and inequality that became so evident during British Rule. In some respects, successive political regimes have unwittingly exacerbated the scarcities and inequalities that affect many Indians. ‘Making India work? 1947–1989’ considers the first government under Prime Minister Nehru and the radical nature of the Constitution. It then discusses the poor economic climate at the time of Nehru’s death in 1964 and the governments of Indira Gandhi and her son, Rajiv.

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