Chronologies of the Early Twentieth Century

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
River Sediments ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Glacial Epoch ◽  
History Of

Dr Allen Sturge spelled out some of the problems facing researchers who worked on the British Palaeolithic in his first Presidential Address to the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. For the Drift period, the main task was ‘to ascertain the relative ages of the humanly-worked stones, and the number of the periods concerned’.1 In 1908, when Sturge made this suggestion, he was troubled by suspicions that the French divisions—Chellean, Acheulian, and Mousterian—were too broad to encompass the variety of British tools. He called on the younger school of geologists to help solve the dificulty. A few elderly Wgures, familiar from previous chapters, would accompany Sturge’s younger school of geologists as they worked on various sequences that could give a date to the stone tools of Britain. James Geikie published The Antiquity of Man in Europe in 1914, still defending his sequence of interglacials. 2 Harmer was inspired to take up the glacial researches of his old friend Wood as the twentieth century dawned. The refiection left by the Glacial epoch in East Anglia also led the young geologist Percy Boswell (1886–1960) to consider the connections between boulder clays and Palaeolithic industries. Dawkins continued to promote his classification of Quaternary mammals and to attack Geikie’s views, but two newcomers took a different approach to the palaeontological sequence. Martin A. C. Hinton and Alfred Santer Kennard used the bones of smaller mammals and the shells of molluscs to reconstruct the geological history of the Thames Valley. They maintained the traditional antagonism of palaeontologists towards the theories of glacial geologists by suggesting controversial links between the river drifts and the glacial sequence.3 Meanwhile, Warren, the eolith sceptic, developed his own opinions about the British Palaeolithic sequence and its place in geological time as he worked on Palaeolithic sites around Essex. Several different answers to Sturge’s question about the relative ages of stone tools would be extracted with the help of these sequences of glacial deposits, bones and shells, and river sediments.

scholarly journals When natives became Africans: A historical sociolinguistic study of semantic change in colonial discourse

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Susan Fitzmaurice
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial

AbstractThe word native is a key term in nineteenth-century British colonial administrative vocabulary. The question is how it comes to be central to the classification of indigenous subjects in Britain’s southern African possessions in the early twentieth century, and how the word is appropriated by colonial citizens to designate the race of indigenous subjects. To answer the question, I construct a semasiological history of native as a word that has to do with the identification of a person with a place by birth, by residence or by citizenship. I track the manner in which speakers invest old words with new meanings in specific settings and differentiate among them in different domains. In the case of native, a signal keyword is recruited to do particular work in several contemporaneous discourses which take different ideological directions as the nature of the involvement of their speakers changes. The result is a particularly complicated word history, and one which offers a clue to the ways in which colonial rhetoric is domesticated in specific settings at the very same time as the colonising power eschews it in the process of divesting itself of its colonies.

From Buddhist Icons to National Antiquities: Cultural Nationalism and Colonial Knowledge in the Making of Thailand's History of Art

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1520-1548 ◽  
Author(s):  
MAURIZIO PELEGGI
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Art History ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Close Linkage ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ideological Context ◽  
Canonical Status

AbstractIn the mid 1920s Prince Damrong Rajanubhab and George Coedès jointly formulated the stylistic classification of Thailand's antiquities that was employed to reorganize the collection of the Bangkok Museum and has since acquired canonical status. The reorganization of the Bangkok Museum as a ‘national’ institution in the final years of royal absolutism responded to increasing international interest in the history and ancient art of Southeast Asia, but represented also the culmination of several decades of local antiquarian pursuits. This paper traces the origins of the art history of Thailand to the intellectual and ideological context of the turn of the twentieth century and examines its parallelism to colonial projects of knowledge that postulated a close linkage between race, ancestral territory and nationhood.

Pathways to World Prehistory Presidential Address 1994

1994 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Modern World ◽  
National Society ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
International View

Several previous Presidents, most notably Professor Sir Grahame Clark, have stressed in their presidential addresses the worldwide scope of our subject; but so far only one, my distinguished predecessor, Thurstan Shaw, has chosen to speak mainly about the prehistory of a non-European part of the world, in his case Africa (Shaw 1990). My aim today is to develop this theme by exploring three pathways to world prehistory: first, the pathway followed by the Society itself; second, the pathway that led humanity to people the world's continents; and third, the pathway that links prehistoric archaeology to the concerns of the modern world. This agenda may appear unrealistically ambitious for a short address, but, by briefly considering these three inter-twined pathways, I hope to show that the study of prehistory is not only worthwhile for its own sake, but that it also has direct relevance to the social and political problems of our late 20th century world.On the occasion of our 50th Anniversary Conference, held in Norwich in March 1985, Grahame Clark described the eventful history of the Society, and that of its predecessor, the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia. He analyzed the trend in membership and publication that signalled the Society's transformation, from a local band of mainly amateur enthusiasts to a national society of professional and amateur prehistorians, with, increasingly, an international view of their subject (Clark 1985). The sub-title of Professor Clark's paper — From East Anglia to the World — neatly encapsulated this theme, which he illustrated by analyzing the geographical coverage of articles published in the Proceedings between 1911 and 1982: an analysis that brought up-to-date the earlier examination of publication trends that he had included in his own Presidential Address in 1959 (Clark 1959).

scholarly journals 2006 HES Presidential address a Tale of two Mainstreams: Economics and Philosophy of Natural Science in the Mid-Twentieth Century

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Wade Hands
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
Numerical Problem ◽  
History Of

HES Presidential addresses often attempt to answer a substantive question (or number of related questions) in the history of economic thought. The answers provided are not “answers” in the sense that one finds an answer to a simple numerical problem; rather they are historical narratives, stories, that bring the listener/reader to a new, and hopefully deeper, understanding of a particular author, piece of economic literature, or episode in the history of economic thought.

scholarly journals Presidential address: Experimenting with the scientific past

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREGORY RADICK
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Counterfactual History ◽  
Science Educators

AbstractWhen it comes to knowledge about the scientific pasts that might have been – the so-called ‘counterfactual’ history of science – historians can either debate its possibility or get on with the job. Taking the latter course means re-engaging with some of the most general questions about science. It can also lead to fresh insights into why particular episodes unfolded as they did and not otherwise. Drawing on recent research into the controversy over Mendelism in the early twentieth century, this address reports and reflects on a novel teaching experiment conducted in order to find out what biology and its students might be like now had the controversy gone differently. The results suggest a number of new options: for the collection of evidence about the counterfactual scientific past, for the development of collaborations between historians of science and science educators, for the cultivation of more productive relationships between scientists and their forebears, and for heightened self-awareness about the curiously counterfactual business of being historical.

scholarly journals Immobilized enzymes: a comprehensive review

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rafiq Khan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Immobilized Enzymes ◽  
Enzyme Engineering ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
History Of ◽  
Engineering Conference ◽  
Proposed Modification

Abstract Background This article is a comprehensive review of the events recorded in the history of enzymology from twentieth century to the recent work of author’s groups on different biochemical aspects of the immobilized enzymes. The review differs from those presented before on the basis that it is not limited to one or few aspects. It extends its spectrum to a large number of aspects from the definition to biomedical applications of immobilized enzymes. Main body The author and his associates have proposed modification of classification of immobilized enzymes by Enzyme Engineering Conference 1971. His groups have worked on cell bound proteases of medicinal seeds and have given them the name of “naturally immobilized enzymes”. Thus, the author proposes that the enzymes may be basically classified into “naturally immobilized enzymes” and “artificially immobilized enzymes”. The artificially immobilized enzymes may be further sub-classified as done in 1971. Conclusion The classification suggested above sounds logical and thus acceptable to the author and his associates. The author and his associates also suggest some applications on the basis of their results on naturally immobilized enzymes.

Conclusion

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Anchor Point ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
Geological Research

Ideas about the British Palaeolithic and its connections to geological time changed enormously between the days of the early eighteenth century, when Bagford wondered whether the implement found by Conyers at Gray’s Inn Lane had been left by an Ancient Briton near the bones of a Roman elephant, and the century covered in this book. In the hundred years that followed the acceptance of human antiquity—between c.1860 and c.1960— similar tools were scrutinized by many other interested eyes; they were labelled and classified, and their age and meaning were vigorously debated. In the present study, I have provided a picture of changing ideas about British Palaeolithic tools and their place in geological time, and have also tried to recover the excitement of the arguments that swept through this century of geological research and its little-known relations with archaeology. Views of the past were not built up by dispassionate authorities, coolly observing the range of available and expanding data; the gaze of each individual was restricted by different questions and expectations that encouraged them to describe, interpret, and defend different patterns in the ancient stone tools of Britain. It is now time, before closing this chapter on the history of British Palaeolithic research, to stand back and take a broader look at some of the reasons for these differing beliefs and for their varying success. But first, a recapitulation is offered of the major developments. In this summary, presented below, the Gray’s Inn Lane implement is followed through time to highlight the changes in perception of the Palaeolithic. During the latter part of the tale, this pear-shaped ‘hand-axe’ found by Conyers is accompanied by the Clactonian industry, which has supplied a more familiar anchor point for the shifting interpretations described in previous chapters. Human antiquity was widely accepted in learned circles after they heard the famous papers of 1859. But it was a few years more before the hand-axe from Gray’s Inn Lane became described as the contemporary of many extinct prehistoric animals and assigned to post-submergence, post-glacial times. The work of geologists was central to the task of placing such implements more precisely in Britain’s distant past. Chapters 1 and 2 described how geologists had been attracted in increasing numbers to the once-unpopular drifts and the bones and tools that they preserved.

Presidential address Experts and publishers: writing popular science in early twentieth-century Britain, writing popular history of science now

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER J. Bowler
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Science Writing ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Popular Science Writing ◽  
Popular Writing

The bulk of this address concerns itself with the extent to which professional scientists were involved in popular science writing in early twentieth-century Britain. Contrary to a widespread assumption, it is argued that a significant proportion of the scientific community engaged in writing the more educational type of popular science. Some high-profile figures acquired enough skill in popular writing to exert considerable influence over the public's perception of science and its significance. The address also shows how publishers actively sought ‘expert’ authors for popular material, but at the same time controlled what was published in accordance with their perception of what would sell. At a more popular level of writing there were many semi-professional authors who, while not active scientists, exploited close contacts with the scientific community. Here there was a strong emphasis on the practical applications of science.The address concludes by suggesting parallels between popular science writing in this period and the present state of popular writing about the history of science.

scholarly journals PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION THEORY POSTSTRUCTURALISM

2021 ◽  
pp. 279-290
Author(s):  
Сергей Александрович Гашков
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Classification Theory ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Knowledge Classification

В статье ставится вопрос о классификации знания как философской проблеме, и сопоставляются некоторые подходы, имеющие место в философии науки (Кедров, Мейен) с подходами, распространёнными во французской эпистемологии (Гобло, Мейерсон, Кангийем), и особенно «постструктурализме» второй половины ХХ в. (Барт, Деррида, Делёз, Лакан, Фуко, Касториадис). Автор приходит к выводу, что классификация в истории философии присутствует в нескольких связанных друг с другом смыслах: классификации наук, критического концепта «классификации» и классификации (периодизации) самой философской мысли. The article raises the question of the classification of knowledge as a philosophical problem, and compares some of the approaches that take place in the philosophy of science (Kedrov, Meyen) with the approaches prevalent in French epistemology (Goblot, Meyerson, Canguilhem), and especially «poststructuralism@ of the second half of the twentieth century (Barthes, Derrida, Deleuze, Lacan, Foucault, Castoriadis). The author comes to the conclusion that the classification in the history of philosophy is present in several interconnected senses: the classification of sciences, the critical concept of «classification» and the classification (periodization) of philosophical thought itself.

scholarly journals Presidential Address. Confronting Our Colonial Past: Reassessing Political Alliances over Canada’s Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Sangster
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
World War ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Political Alliances ◽  
History Of

This article examines examples of settler-initiated political alliances with Indigenous peoples in Canada over the twentieth century, placing them in their social and historical context, and assessing their insights as well as ideological and material limitations. I explore four very different examples, ranging from protests over the dispossession of land to attempts to preserve Indigenous cultures to the post-World War II organization of the Indian Eskimo Association and youth Indigenous projects associated with the Company of Young Canadians. Past settler efforts to create alliances or speak on behalf of Indigenous peoples incorporated multiple intentions and political ideas; they included both efforts at advocacy and partnership and paternal replications of colonial thinking. Assessing their complex histories is an important part of our efforts to grapple critically with Canada’s history of colonialism.

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