A Nineteenth-Century View of the United States of America from Hsu Chi-yu's Ying-huanchih-lüeh

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States

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 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 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 ‘We at least had our Ancient Trees’: The Development of Myth and Identity in Nineteenth Century American Painting

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin J Morris
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hudson River School ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Thomas Eakins ◽  
American Painting ◽  
First And Second Generation

Modern history has looked on the United States of America as a country with a very distinct and proud national heritage and identity, though this was not always so. When founded in 1776, America was a nation that had not yet developed the identity and customs that would soon come to define the country nationally and internationally. The articulation of this distinct identity fell to the artist class and, in particular, first and second generation American painters. Painters such as Thomas Eakins, Thomas Cole, and the Hudson River School of artists pulled from their natural surroundings to create art that would foster pride in the values of peace, liberty, and freedom. Without these early painters, the United States would not have the strong identity that is so well known today.

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.

The Turkish American Controversy Over Nationality

1931 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 658-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leland J. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Motive Force ◽  
Collective Effects ◽  
Oppressed People ◽  
Form Of Government

The motive force back of immigration into the United States has shown interesting variations. Appealing first to victims of religious tyranny as a haven, the United States of America assumed a new importance in the middle of the nineteenth century as a refuge for victims of political tyranny, and somewhat later for individuals seeking relief from economic poverty. Its democratic form of government offered an undreamed of freedom to millions of politically oppressed people, and its marvelous stores of natural wealth held forth fabulous opportunities for an immigrant to improve his material well-being. The cumulative and collective effects of these inducements resulted in an increasing annual influx of immigrants seeking surcease from oppression of one kind or another which culminated in the most extensive movement of people from one continent to another ever recorded by history.

scholarly journals The Training of the Protestant Ministry in the United States of America, before the Establishment of Theological Seminaries

1921 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 71-202
Author(s):  
William Orpheus Shewmaker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Yale College ◽  
Theological Seminaries

The Protestant ministry in the United States extends back over three hundred years; the present study covers the first two hundred. For the sake of simplicity the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries are treated successively. A stricter division might terminate the first part of the period with the founding of the College of William and Mary in 1693, or with the establishment of Yale College in 1701; and might end the second part either with the opening of the first theological seminary, or with the early nineteenth century, when the practice of attending the seminaries had become general. These dates, however, fall so close to 1700 and to 1800 that it will suffice to treat the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries successively.

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