The ‘talking machine’ comes to the Dutch East Indies: The arrival of Western media technology in Southeast Asia

2008 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Suryadi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Recording Technology ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies

The invention of sound recording technology in the nineteenth century was a modern miracle. Making possible the storage and preservation of sounds across time and distance, which previously could only be dreamed of, this invention contributed significantly to the developing entertainment world. Thomas Alva Edison first realized this dream in 1877 when he invented the tin-foil phonograph, which then inspired other scientists to perfect and develop his invention. During the last two decades of the 1800s sound recording machines were exhibited outside the United States of America, first in Europe and then in Australia and Asia. In Europe the machine was first demonstrated at the Academy of Science in Paris on 11 March 1878, where a French professor named Bonjour accused Edison of cheating. He stated that Edison was a ventriloquist.

scholarly journals "THE AMSTERDAM SCHOOL" DAN PERKEMBANGAN ARSITEKTUR KOLONIAL DI HINDIA BELANDA ANTARA 1915-1940

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-58
Author(s):  
Samuel Hartono ◽  
Handinoto Handinoto
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Continent ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

The Amsterdam School is an architectural stream developed in the Netherlands between 1915 and 1930. The influence was so wide that the whole European continent and the United States of America were affected. Indonesia as one of the colonies of the Netherlands also experienced its influence directly and indirectly. This article is an early study dealing with how far the Amsterdam School has influenced the colonial architecture in the then Dutch East Indies. Abstract in Bahasa Indonesia : Amsterdam School adalah aliran arsitektur yang berkembang di Belanda antara th. 1915-1930. Pengaruhnya sangat luas, bahkan sampai keseluruh benua Eropa dan Amerika Serikat. Indonesia sebagai negara bekas jajahan Belanda waktu itu tidak luput dari pengaruh langsung maupun tidak langsung dari aliran tersebut. Tulisan ini merupakan studi awal yang membahas sampai sejauh mana pengaruh Amsterdam School pada perkembangan arsitektur kolonial di Hindia Belanda waktu itu. Kata kunci: Amsterdam School, Arsitektur Kolonial di Hindia Belanda.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

scholarly journals Glant, Tibor. 2013. "Amerika, a csodák és csalódások földje." (America, the Land of Wonders and Disappointments.)

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 296-299
Author(s):  
Susan Glanz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States

Glant, Tibor. 2013. Amerika, a csodák és csalódások földje. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok képe a hosszú XIX. század magyar utazási irodalmában (America, the Land of Wonders and Disappointments - the Picture of the United States of America in the Hungarian Travel Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century). Debrecen: University of Debrecen Press. 259 pp. Reviewed by Susan Glanz, St. John's University

scholarly journals Sociological perspective on the elimination of Karanganyar Regency as an impact of the 1930s economic depression

Simulacra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Teguh Hindarto ◽  
Chusni Ansori
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Government Bureaucracy ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Economic Depression ◽  
The Government

 The 1930s economic crisis in the United States had spread throughout the world and caused a number of social, economic, political and cultural impacts, including for the Dutch East Indies colonies. Karanganyar Regency, which was in the Bagelen Residency territory since 1901, had experienced the effects of the economic shock as well. Karanganyar was a district in the Kebumen Regency area. Before becoming a sub-district, Karanganyar was an independent regency and had its head of government from 1832 until 1936. Through literature studies, this paper intended to thoroughly analyze the existence of Karanganyar Regency in the colonial era, find out the background of its elimination, and the process of social change that occurred. To obtain the main variables that cause the elimination of Karanganyar Regency, the researcher utilized the historical comparative method. From the analysis, we concluded that the Economic Depression centred in the United States affected the Dutch East Indies colonies, particularly on the management of the government bureaucracy. This situation demanded the Dutch East Indies government to adapt to social change by removing a number of Regency, including Karanganyar Regency.

scholarly journals A Great Variety of New and Fine Designs: Advertisements for Painted Backgrounds, 1856--1903

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista Keller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comprehensive Index ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of

The painted background, as a piece of photographic equipment, has rarely bee studied apart form its decorative function in portraits. This thesis addresses the history, construction, and use of the painted background within studio portrait photography during the latter half of the nineteenth century as revealed from examining advertisements for painted backgrounds. 1,096 advertisements for painted backgrounds were reviewed in nine periodicals published in the United States of America from 1856 to 1903, all taken from the Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House. This material has been compiled into a comprehensive index revealing an increase in the use of painted background within portrait photography during this time period. The analysis of this research also provides information about the history of painted backgrounds, companies advertising backgrounds, sizes, styles, and costs of backgrounds, and ways companies shipped their backgrounds throughout this era.

scholarly journals The United States of America and the End of Dutch Colonial Rule in Indonesia

Ad Americam ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Anna Wyrwisz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War I ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
The U.S

The United States had developed trade relations with the Dutch East Indies before World War I. In the 1920s, American diplomatic services prepared reports on the economic and political situation in the Dutch colony. The U.S. wanted to defend their interests in the region. In 1949, after several years of attempts to regain power in Indonesia, the Dutch withdrew in the absence of American support. A decade later, suchlike events occurred in connection with Dutch New Guinea.

Opium, Tungsten, and the Search for National Security, 1940–52.

1991 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-116
Author(s):  
Jonathan Marshall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
National Security ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
And Tungsten

If Indochina goes, several things happen right away. The Malayan Peninsula, that last bit of land hanging on down there, would be scarcely defensible—and tin and tungsten that we so greatly value from that area would cease coming. … So, when the United States votes $400,000,000 to help that war, we are not voting for a giveaway program. We are voting for the cheapest way that we can to prevent the occurance of something that would be of the most terrible significance for the United States of America—our security, our power, and ability to get certain things we need from the riches of … Southeast Asia.—President Dwight Eisenhower, speech to Conference of Governors, 4 August 1953.

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