Do We Have Contact?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaina Lemon
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Cold War

Actors and psychics are good to think together. Since the late nineteenth century and into the twenty-first, both have formulated and popularized broadly significant understandings of communicative contact, technologies to intuit such contact, and techniques to forge, maintain, and block contact. Such people rank among phatic experts, those whose claims to master the understanding of contact refracted through the workings of a number of key institutions. The circles of such experts began to narrow centuries ago, as imperial arts and sciences defined sensory capacities, linking them to moral and intellectual capacities to discern and thus to govern. During the Cold War, imperial categories were transposed to describe socialism, to reverberate with imperial-era geopolitical competitions even as those origins for paranoia were erased.

Picturing an industrial city: green and modern? Postcards from Chemnitz and Lodz (1880s–1980s)

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Piotr Kisiel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
European City ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Iconic Image ◽  
Worker Housing ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract A pictorial postcard condenses a cityscape into one iconic image, which claims to summarize the place, usually in a highly aestheticized version. If that is the case, how does one present an industrial city: with factories and worker housing or rather with churches and the palaces of industrial tycoons? Using four digitalized collections (over 700 postcards) this article analyses images of industrialized cities from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Cold War. The main argument is that this idealized depiction does not focus on industry, but rather taps into the imagination of the European city.

Historicizing the Cold War

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Iriye
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
World History ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War ◽  
World War 2 ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter discusses the process of historicizing the Cold War. It explains that the Cold War had no influence on major world affairs from the late nineteenth century onward and that, under such a view, the Cold War can only be considered as but a fraction of world history. It argues that if the Cold War is to be historicized, it is important to broaden the perspective and relativize the geopolitical story against the background of many other stories which comprise history. The chapter explores the role or contribution the Cold War in the three sub-periods after World War 2: 1945–70, 1970–90, and 1990 to the present.

Wisconsin Marianism and Upper Midwestern Catholic Culture, 1858–2010

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-91
Author(s):  
Michael J. Pfeifer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Green Bay ◽  
Liberal Nationalism ◽  
Catholic Culture ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Cold War

In the late nineteenth century, a cultus that included a shrine and devoted followers developed around the claims of Adèle Brise, a Belgian immigrant, asserting that “Our Lady of Good Help” had appeared to her in Robinsonville in northeastern Wisconsin in the late 1850s. In December 2010, the bishop of Green Bay, David Ricken, pronounced the apparitions to Brise valid, making these the only American apparitions to be officially recognized by the Catholic Church. By contrast, in 1955 the bishop of La Crosse, John P. Treacy, found Mary Ann Van Hoof’s claim of receiving apparitions from “the Queen of the Holy Rosary, Mediatrix of Peace” in Necedah, central Wisconsin, to be inauthentic, and he prohibited Catholics from worshipping with Van Hoof and her followers. Van Hoof’s claims briefly attracted thousands of Midwestern Catholics seeking mystical experiences of Mary in an American nationalist idiom during the Cold War. The Robinsonville and Necedah apparitions were Upper Midwestern manifestations of a transnational Marian Revival originating in continental Europe after the French Revolution as European Catholics and their diasporas responded to aspects of liberal nationalism and its advocacy of an expansive modern state that undercut clerical authority and parochial communalism.

Chile, the CIA and the Cold War

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Lockhart
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Southern South America ◽  
Intelligence Operations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Cold War

This book reinterprets the history of Chile, the CIA and the Cold War. It blends national, regional, and world-historical trends from Chile -- from the appearance of its labor movement in the late nineteenth century to the end of the Pinochet dictatorship in the late twentieth -- into both the inter-American and transatlantic communities. It argues that Chileans made their own history as highly engaged internationalists while reassessing American and other foreign-directed intelligence operations in Chile and southern South America while recontextualizing and reassessing United States, particularly CIA, influence.

Contents of Western Sociology of Religion as a Science and Educational Discipline

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Society ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

John Lloyd Williams (1854–1945): profile of a Snowdonian botanist

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Dewi Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Plant Physiology ◽  
Marine Algae ◽  
Plant Distribution ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Major Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Late Nineteenth

John Lloyd Williams was an authority on the arctic-alpine flora of Snowdonia during the late nineteenth century when plant collecting was at its height, but unlike other botanists and plant collectors he did not fully pursue the fashionable trend of forming a complete herbarium. His diligent plant-hunting in a comparatively little explored part of Snowdonia led to his discovering a new site for the rare Killarney fern (Trichomanes speciosum), a feat which was considered a major achievement at the time. For most part of the nineteenth century plant distribution, classification and forming herbaria, had been paramount in the learning of botany in Britain resulting in little attention being made to other aspects of the subject. However, towards the end of the century many botanists turned their attention to studying plant physiology, a subject which had advanced significantly in German laboratories. Rivalry between botanists working on similar projects became inevitable in the race to be first in print as Lloyd Williams soon realized when undertaking his major study on the cytology of marine algae.

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