scholarly journals Personal Links Between Landlord and Tenant on a Welsh Estate: An Absentee Landlord’s Influence on the Social Life of an Estate Village in the Nineteenth Century

Folk Life ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Social

Resurrection

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Tolstoy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a peasant girl who ends up a prisoner in Siberia. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence, dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, reflecting its author's outrage at the social injustices of the world in which he lived. This edition, which updates a classic translation, has explanatory notes and a substantial introduction based on the most recent scholarship in the field.

scholarly journals Przestrogi dla utopistów. Wizje optimum dóbr w historii idei w książce Andrzeja Waśkiewicza

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-167
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Sokół
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Orders

The subject of this essay is Andrzej Waśkiewicz’s book Ludzie – rzeczy – ludzie. O porządkach społecznych, gdzie rzeczy łączą, nie dzielą (People–Things–People: On Social Orders Where Things Connect Rather Than Divide People). The book is the work of a historian of ideas and concerns contemporary searches for alternatives to capitalism: the review presents the book’s overview of visions of society in which the market, property, inequality, or profit do not play significant roles. Such visions reach back to Western utopian social and political thought, from Plato to the nineteenth century. In comparing these ideas with contemporary visions of the world of post-capitalism, the author of the book proposes a general typology of such images. Ultimately, in reference to Simmel, he takes a critical stance toward the proposals, recognizing the exchange of goods to be a fundamental and indispensable element of social life. The author of the review raises two issues that came to mind while reading the book. First, the juxtaposition of texts of a very different nature within the uniform category of “utopia” causes us to question the role and status of reflections regarding the future and of speculative theory in contemporary social thought; second, such a juxtaposition suggests that reflecting on the social “optimal good” requires a much more precise and complex conception of a “thing,” for instance, as is proposed by new materialism or anthropological studies of objects and value as such.

The Manufactured Map, 1790–1830

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Social ◽  
Time Map ◽  
Diverse Audience

The symbolic and social value of maps changed irreversibly at the turn of the nineteenth century when Mathew Carey and John Melish introduced the business model of the manufactured map. During the decades spanning the 1790s and 1810s respectively, Carey and Melish revised the artisanal approach to mapmaking by assuming the role of the full-time map publisher who not only collected data from land surveyors and government officials but managed the labor of engravers, printers, plate suppliers, paper makers, map painters, shopkeepers, and itinerant salesmen. As professional map publishers, they adapted a sophisticated business model familiar in Europe but untested in America. This chapter documents the process of economic centralization and business integration critical to the social life of preindustrial maps and responsible for jump-starting a domestic map industry that catered to a growing and increasingly diverse audience.

The Oral History of Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: An Interview with Sallama Dako

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Sean Stilwell ◽  
Ibrahim Hamza ◽  
Paul E. Lovejoy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sokoto Caliphate ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Royal Slavery ◽  
Official Sources

A powerful community of royal slaves emerged in Kano Emirate in the wake of Usman dan Fodio's jihad (1804-08), which established the Sokoto Caliphate. These elite slaves held administrative and military positions of great power, and over the course of the nineteenth century played an increasing prominent role in the political, economic, and social life of Kano. However, the individuals who occupied slave offices have largely been rendered silent by the extant historical record. They seldom appear in written sources from the period, and then usually only in passing. Likewise, certain officials and offices are mentioned in official sources from the colonial period, but only in the context of broader colonial concerns and policies, usually related to issues about taxation and the proper structure of indirect rule.As the following interview demonstrates, the collection and interpretation of oral sources can help to fill these silences. By listening to the words and histories of the descendents of royal slaves, as well as current royal slave titleholders, we can begin to reconstruct the social history of nineteenth-century royal slave society, including the nature of slave labor and work, the organization the vast plantation system that surrounded Kano, and the ideology and culture of royal slaves themselves.The interview is but one example of a series of interviews conducted with current and past members of this royal slave hierarchy by Yusufu Yunusa. As discussed below, Sallama Dako belonged to the royal slave palace community in Kano. By royal slave, we mean highly privileged and powerful slaves who were owned by the emir, known in Hausa as bayin sarki (slaves of the emir or king).

scholarly journals THE ELEMENTS OF TRADİTİON AND MODERNİSM İN NİNETEENTH CENTURY AZERBAİJANİ LİTERATURE: EAST - WEST THOUGHT AND RELİGİOUS-MYTHOLOGİCAL MOTİVES

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aytan Hajiyeva
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Angle Of View ◽  
Peculiar Phenomenon

The literary orientation based on common principles is determined on the same cultural, ethical and aesthetic traditions, the same outlook, philosophy of life, related principles of creativity and the unified social, cultural and historical environment. Public and political views also usually act as a powerful driving force. The nineteenth century literature is one of the stages distinguished with ideological and aesthetic achievements of the Azerbaijani literary culture which has rich history. Emerging as a reflection of new historical conditions, this literature attracts attention as an original and peculiar phenomenon because of its literary and poetic qualities. Literature that reflects the world through literary paints depending on the angle of view, approach, ethno-cultural thinking, is also of interest as the product of its formation era and environment. As fiction or poetic literature reflects life, it is important to understand the reflection of the social, socio-historical processes, to “catch the pulse" of  life, and to address worldwide problems that are relevant for all periods. The writer's social life, social activities, and communication circle sometimes play a decisive role in issues such as being more aware of problems and finding ways to solve them. Azerbaijani literature which has historically been at different stages of development, has not only gained new qualities, but also has been able to preserve the existing tradition, influenced by different literary trends and different socio-cultural processes.

scholarly journals Dietro le quinte della modernità armena Il ruolo degli intellettuali nel periodo delle Riforme costituzionali dell’Impero Ottomano. Il contributo di Ṙet‘ēos Bērbērian

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedetta Contin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Social

This paper explores the varied facets of the intellectual activity of Ṙet‘ēos Pērpērean (1848-1907). He was the founder of one of the most renown educational centres of Constantinople, the Pērpērean/Bērbērean College, and a dynamic agent in the cultural and political panorama within the so-called Awakening movement (Zart‘ōnk‘). The paper aims to show that Pērpērean played a dominant role in enhancing the cultural and social modernisation that influenced the social life of the Constantinopolitan Armenian millet. Pērpērean contributed to reform the educational system of his time, promoted gender equality and women’s rights, and constituted the first Armenian workers associations in Constantinople. This article shall analyse Pērpērean’s philosophical thought and its significance in the later nineteenth-century Armenian-Ottoman society.

scholarly journals Immigration and the maintenance of the religious moral order: the case of the Ruthenian immigration to Paraná in the late nineteenth century

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-196
Author(s):  
Paulo Renato Guérios
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Church

This article focuses on the concrete conditions and the social processes involved in the maintenance or change of the moral order in immigrant communities. This question is addressed based on archival research of the events that resulted in the restoration of the authority of Greek catholic priests in the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) communities that settled in Paraná in the late nineteenth century. The analysis of the practices of the priests and of the settlers in the first years of their establishment in Brazil permits a reconstruction of the dynamics of the centralization of social life around the church, and the religious precepts of the Greek Catholic religion. The presentation of three cases in different communities with varying degrees of acceptance or rejection of the authority of the Uniate priests shows that the question of the maintenance of religious values in situations of diaspora can only be solved empirically.

The Force of Dispositifs

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (02) ◽  
pp. 291-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Dodier ◽  
Janine Barbot
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Criminal Trial ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way ◽  
Processual Approach

The social sciences have much to gain by paying particular attention to the place that dispositifs occupy in social life. The utility of such a perspective is clear from an examination of the research that has made use of this notion since the end of the 1970s. Yet in addition to the wide variety of definitions and objectives relating to the concept of dispositif, a reading of these works also reveals some of the difficulties that have been encountered along the way. An effort to clarify and renew the discussion on both the conceptual and methodological levels is thus worthwhile, and this article is a contribution to that end. The first section sets out the results of our conceptual inquiry into the notion of dispositif. The second puts forward a series of propositions designed to develop a “processual” approach to dispositifs. Finally, we return to several studies that we have conducted from this perspective relating to the dispositifs of redress, looking at the doctrinal work of jurists around a criminal trial, the practices of lawyers in the courtroom, the reactions of victims of a medical scandal to a compensation fund, and the historical transformation of dispositifs of redress for medical accidents since the beginning of the nineteenth century. This enables us to clarify the approach we propose and to suggest new avenues for the future.

Arena of Desire

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-77
Author(s):  
Mark Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Forensic Evidence ◽  
Home Town ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Family Home

The arrival of a circus in Raffaella Saraceni’s home town in Calabria forms the basis of this chapter, which investigates the intense emotional experiences, particularly desire, evoked within this distinctive social and cultural arena. The circus arts represented by this small provincial troupe, based around an extended family, are contextualized within the broader history of the circus, mostly in the nineteenth century but also reaching back to ancient Roman arenas. Personal testimonies give surprising evidence about the degree of desire experienced and expressed in this arena, particularly by women towards the leading performer, Pietro Cardinali. It appears that Cardinali was the provincial version of more famous contemporary practitioners of the circus arts such as Jules Léotard. The chapter explores evidence about the way Cardinali’s circus performers participated in the social life of a small Calabrian town during their month-long visit, which provides means to think more generally about the cultural and social dynamics of southern Italian provincial life in the 1870s. Forensic evidence also supports exploration of the emotional ‘regime’ within the circus family, in which male desire and female fear were central. Cardinali and his sister Antonietta were favoured guests at soirées held in Raffaella Saraceni’s family home, and it was not long before the town’s gossip mill, or voce pubblica (public voice), became firmly convinced that Raffaella, now estranged from her husband, had herself embarked upon a love affair with Pietro Cardinali.

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