From the New York Crystal Palace to the World of Tomorrow: World Fairs as a Transnational Series

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-106
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
World Fairs ◽  
The World

Reflections of American Science and Technology at the New York Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1853

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Post
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
American Science ◽  
The World ◽  
William Cullen ◽  
New Yorkers

The New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was the first attempt to pursue the aims and imitate the success of the great London exhibition of 1851. The most remarkable thing about that event had been its setting, dubbed by Punch the “Crystal Palace.” Though a number of visitors from the United States had aired the notion of staging an American Crystal Palace exhibition, the first tangible plans were devised by Edward Riddle, who has served as U.S. Commissioner to the London Crystal Palace. Riddle was a Bostonian, but New York was clearly the place for such a venture, and early in 1852 the New York Board of Aldermen granted a concession on a tract just west of the Croton Reservoir (at Sixth Avenue between 40th and 42nd). Soon afterward, however, Riddle had to relinquish control of the enterprise to a new group of backers, all New Yorkers with close ties to Wall Street, Washington, and London. Included among them were August Belmont, Alexander Hamilton, Jr., William Cullen Bryant, Edward K. Collins, and members of such families as the Schuylers and the Livingstons. Their leader was Theodore Sedgwick, a well-connected lawyer with a reputation as an eminent student of judicial and political reform, and with ties to the world of letters through his friend Bryant and his aunt, the novelist Catherine Maria Sedgwick.

Reading Empire, Chasing Tikka Masala: The Contested State of Imperial HistoryAfter the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation, edited by Antoinette Burton. New York, Routledge, 2003. vi + 360 pp. $69.95 US (cloth), $23.95 US (paper).Captives: Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850, by Linda Colley. London, Cape, 2002. xvii + 424 pp. $27.50 US (cloth), $16.00 US paper.Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818-1940, by Jeffrey Cox. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2002. xiv + 349 pp. $60.00 US (cloth).Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, by Niall Ferguson. New York, Basic Books, 2003. xxix + 383 pp. $17.95 US (paper).An Empire on Display: English, Indian and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War, by Peter H. Hoffenberg. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2001. xxvii + 404 pp. $50.00 US (cloth).Empire and the Sun: Victorian Solar Eclipse Expedition, by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2002. xii + 194 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper).The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India, by Martine Van Woerkens. Translated by Catherine Tihanyi. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 2002. xvi + 343 pp. $55.00 US (cloth), $24.00 (paper).

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas M. Peers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Order ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The Great War ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

[review of:] Dace Prauliņš. 2012. Latvian. An Essential Grammar

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 240-243
Author(s):  
Nicole Nau
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The World ◽  
Scholarly Contribution

Dace Prauliņš, Latvian. An Essential Grammar. London & New York: Routledge, 2012. ɪsʙɴ 978-0-415-57692-5. Descriptive grammars of Modern Latvian written in English are still something of a rarity, and any such book will be warmly welcomed bylinguists as well as by the growing number of people learning Latvian all over the world. It is for the latter group that Dace Prauliņš wrote this book, and it would be unfair to review it as a scholarly contribution to the analysis of Latvian grammar.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Janet Klein ◽  
David Romano ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Atakan İnce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Eastern Anatolia ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
Oxford University Press

Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).

Universal Values and Muslim Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Dignified Life

This study deals with Universal Values and Muslim Democracy. This essay draws upon speeches that he gave at the New York Democ- racy Forum in December 2005 and the Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Istanbul in April 2006. The emergence of Muslim democracies is something significant and worthy of our attention. Yet with the clear exceptions of Indonesia and Turkey, the Muslim world today is a place where autocracies and dictatorships of various shades and degrees continue their parasitic hold on the people, gnawing away at their newfound freedoms. It concludes that the human desire to be free and to lead a dignified life is universal. So is the abhorrence of despotism and oppression. These are passions that motivate not only Muslims but people from all civilizations.

9/11 and Armageddon: the Christian Right and George W. Bush

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Göran Gunner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Christian Right ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Mega Church ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Jerry Falwell ◽  
High Degree

Authors from the Christian Right in the USA situate the September 11 attack on New York and Washington within God's intentions to bring America into the divine schedule for the end of the world. This is true of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, and other leading figures in the ‘Christian Coalition’. This article analyses how Christian fundamentalists assess the roles of the USA, the State of Israel, Islam, Iraq, the European Union and Russia within what they perceive to be the divine plan for the future of the world, especially against the background of ‘9/11’. It argues that the ideas of the Christian Right and of President George W. Bush coalesce to a high degree. Whereas before 9/11 many American mega-church preachers had aspirations to direct political life, after the events of that day the President assumes some of the roles of a mega-religious leader.

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