Female Workers and Heads of Households in Buenos Aires Countryside During the Nineteenth Century (San Vicente, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1815–1895)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-76
Author(s):  
Claudia Contente
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
National Population ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Economic Census

Rural Buenos Aires, as many other regions of what constitutes Argentina today, underwent some radical transformations during the course of the nineteenth century. We here study San Vicente, a rural area where micro-family households were predominant, in order to explore two complementary aspects of the changing social environment. First, the possibilities women had of being the heads of households as well as the resources available to them to earn their living by different means. Secondly, how their position in society evolved during this period. Our main sources are data gathered from the register of inhabitants of 1815 and the National Population Censuses of 1869 and 1895, which we will complement with data from the economic census carried out in 1895. We will see that when competition intensified, there came to be fewer opportunities for women to head households or businesses.

International Opera in Nineteenth-century New York

2020 ◽  
pp. 244-269
Author(s):  
Karen Ahlquist
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World War I ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
World War ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
The City

This chapter charts how canonic repertories evolved in very different forms in New York City during the nineteenth century. The unstable succession of entrepreneurial touring troupes that visited the city adapted both repertory and individual pieces to the audience’s taste, from which there emerged a major theater, the Metropolitan Opera, offering a mix of German, Italian, and French works. The stable repertory in place there by 1910 resembles to a considerable extent that performed in the same theater today. Indeed, all of the twenty-five operas most often performed between 1883 and 2015 at the Metropolitan Opera were written before World War I. The repertory may seem haphazard in its diversity, but that very condition proved to be its strength in the long term. This chapter is paired with Benjamin Walton’s “Canons of real and imagined opera: Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1810–1860.”

A Latin Epitaph of the Early Nineteenth Century

1936 ◽  
Vol 5 (14) ◽  
pp. 121-122
Author(s):  
D. A. Macnaughton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
Precise Meaning ◽  
High Esteem ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

This epitaph is on a tombstone in the churchyard of Kenmore, Perthshire, a little village on the shores of Loch Tay, close to the point at which the river leaves the parent lake. In the early nineteenth century Kenmore had some importance as the market of a wide rural area and as containing the parish church and parish school. The epitaph is the work of the son, William Armstrong, who succeeded to his father's post and died in 1879. Purists might perhaps take exception to the post-classical authority of puritate, but it will be generally allowed that as the composition of the Headmaster of a rural parish school its Latinity is as remarkable as its pietas. It is to be regretted that the author left no pupil to pay him a fitting tribute in the same tongue. But among his alumni there were many who remembered his teaching with admiring gratitude. Of these was one of the principal farmers of the district who told me years ago that he held Latin in high esteem as the subject which, as he put it, ‘opened his head’. His precise meaning eluded me until in later years I reflected that Highland farmers have a gift of imagination and a command of terse and figurative expression. Clearly what he implied was that, just as, when Hephaestus split the skull of Zeus, Athene sprung out in full panoply, so the impact of the lene tormentum of Latin on his own brain let wisdom loose.

Catholicism in Argentina as Viewed by Early Nineteenth-Century British Travelers

1963 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-275
Author(s):  
S. Samuel Trifilo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Declaration Of Independence

British interest in the region of the River Plate developed relatively early, but, due to Spain's monopolistic trade policies regarding her American possessions, few Englishmen were allowed to visit that area during the colonial period. It was not until after 1810, with the declaration of independence of Argentina, that trade barriers were lifted, and countless Englishmen sailed to the port of Buenos Aires with adventure and profit in mind. This little known part of the globe attracted the most diverse personalities—unemployed soldiers, tradesmen, mining engineers, scientists, missionaries, diplomats, and just plain adventurers. The great majority seemed to have one characteristic in common, however—the English mania for keeping extensive diaries and journals.

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