A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America by Claire M. Wolnisty

Abstract This article focuses on the nineteenth century as a pivotal time for the development of a Deaf identity in the United States and examines the way John Jacob Flournoy’s idea of a “Deaf-Mute Commonwealth” touches upon core themes of American culture studies and history. In employing pivotal democratic ideas such as egalitarianism, liberty, and self-representation as well as elements of manifest destiny such as exceptionalism and the frontier ideology in order to raise support for a Deaf State, the creation and perpetuation of a Deaf identity bears strong similarities to the processes of American nation-building. This article will show how the endeavor to found a Deaf state was indicative of the separationist and secessionist movements in the United States at that time, and remains relevant to Deaf group identity today.

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B. Naylor, "Accounts of Nineteenth Century South America. An Annotated Checklist of Works by British and United States Observers" (Book Review)

The Bulletin of Hispanic Studies ◽

10.3828/bhs.47.3.281b ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 281

Author(s):

MICHAEL P. COSTELOE

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

South America ◽

Annotated Checklist

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Beyond the Mainstream

Revista de Antropologia ◽

10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2019.157036 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Michael Kraus

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

South America ◽

Academic Discipline ◽

Amazon Region ◽

Intellectual Culture ◽

Cultural Dissemination

Analyzing the work of Max Schmidt (1874-1950), especially his 1917 book Die Aruaken. Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Kulturverbreitung [The Arawak: A Contribution to the Problem of Cultural Dissemination], this article deals with methodological and theoretical trends among German ethnologists carrying out expeditions in the Amazon region at the turn of the nineteenth century. The approaches outlined are placed in the context of the institutionalisation of ethnology as a separate academic discipline in Germany. The focus is on the development of modern fieldwork methods; the critique of diffusionism by Schmidt and other South America researchers; and the specific approaches of Max Schmidt who, in spite of the contemporary emphasis on "material" and "intellectual" culture, also considered sociological issues in his analysis.

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Manuel Llorca-Jaña, The British textile trade in South America in the nineteenth century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 403. 38 figs. 44 tabs. ISBN 9781107021297 Hbk. £60)

The Economic History Review ◽

10.1111/1468-0289.12034_12 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 66 (4) ◽

pp. 1200-1201

Author(s):

Peter Sims

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

South America ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Textile Trade

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Expectations: Meek’s Cutoff

ReFocus: The Films of Kelly Reichardt ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474411127.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

E. Dawn Hall

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

Aspect Ratio ◽

Manifest Destiny ◽

Historical Events ◽

Native Peoples ◽

Political Issues ◽

Female Gaze

This chapter focuses on Reichardt’s genre mixing, slow cinematic techniques, minimalism, neorealism and her use of the “female gaze” as well as “the open image” or “crystal image” as defined by Shohini Chaudhuri and Howard Finn. Reichardt subtly shifts the environmental and political issues highlighted in her prior films back to the nineteenth century debate of Manifest Destiny and its effects on the landscape and native peoples. Based on historical events during the 1845 “terrible trail” tragedy, Meek’s Cutoff explores contemporary political issues of leadership and community by loosely linking Meek’s violence with George W. Bush era torture tactics and foreign policy. In her feminist Western, Reichardt used an aspect ratio of 1:37:1 creating a claustrophobic framing aesthetic and while this echoes the pioneer women’s vision during their long march in the dessert, it also created distribution concerns.

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The Folk Song Project at the Confluence of Music and Nationalism

Song Loves the Masses ◽

10.1525/california/9780520234949.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Philip V. Bohlman

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

South America ◽

Cultural History ◽

Intellectual History ◽

English Translation ◽

Paradigm Shift ◽

Folk Songs ◽

Folk Song ◽

World Music ◽

Musical Thought

Published in six folios during 1778 and 1779, Herder’s Volkslieder (Folk songs) has been one of the most influential works in modern intellectual history, even though it has never before appeared in English translation. The Volkslieder not only became the first collection of world music—songs came not only from many regions of Europe, but also from Africa, the Mediterranean, and South America—but also served as the source for European composers throughout the nineteenth century. Aesthetics, ethnography, and literary and cultural history converge to transform modern musical thought. Part one of the chapter contains translations from Herder’s own introductions to the songs, and part two contains twenty-four songs that represent the paradigm shift inspired by this monumental work on folk song.

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