American Naturalism and Asiatic Racial Form: Frank Norris's The Octopus and Moran of the ““Lady Letty””

2003 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-99
Author(s):  
COLLEEN LYE
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Literary Naturalism ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
American Naturalism ◽  
Finance Capitalism ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT American literary naturalism is well known for its formal engagement with determination and abstraction and its thematic preoccupation with Anglo-Saxon degeneration. Yet the central importance of the U.S.-Asian border to the literature's elaboration of the imperial contradictions of monopoly finance capitalism has been largely overlooked. Taking up the question of U.S. anti-Asian anticapitalism, a political movement with which American naturalism was historically coincident, this essay explores the powerful early twentieth-century consensus that permitted the conflation of trust-busting and coolie-fighting.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Andrew Byers
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
War Department ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Military ◽  
The U.S

This chapter provides an overview of why the U.S. Army sought to address perceived problems caused by soldiers’ sexual interactions with civilians and other soldiers as the army deployed across the Caribbean and into the Pacific and Europe in the early twentieth century. Military planners, army leaders, War Department officials, and civilian observers of the military were intensely concerned about issues related to sexuality because they tended to believe that soldiers had irrepressible sexual needs that could cause harm to the army. The army also believed that by instituting a series of legal regulations and medical interventions, it could mitigate the damages to the institution arising from sex, while also shaping soldiers’ sexuality in ways the army and interested civilian parties might find more acceptable. The chapter describes the research methodology and chapter overviews for the book as a whole.

Reshaping School Mathematics in Australia 1788–1988

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. F. Ellerton ◽  
M. A. Clements
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Mathematics Educators

An examination of nineteenth and early twentieth century events reveals the origins of the following three traditions of school mathematics in Australia: 1. Many groups in society will not benefit from having access to any branch of mathematics other than elementary arithmetic. Such groups include females, working-class children, and Aboriginal and other children whose cultures differ from the dominant Anglo-Saxon culture. 2. The main purpose of school mathematics is to prepare students for tertiary courses. 3. Rote teaching and learning procedures associated with rigidly defined courses of study, prescribed text books, and written examinations are desirable. Over the last 25 years the validity of these traditions has been questioned. This paper argues that the heavy dependence on overseas ideas, and the acceptance of tertiary mathematicians' views on school mathematics, which characterised earlier times, have diminished because of the greater involvement of school teachers, and tertiary and government mathematics educators, in discussions on school mathematics.

scholarly journals THE CONCEPT OF THE «BLACK HUNDREDS» IN THE SOVIET HISTORICAL SCIENCE: RUNNING IN CIRCLES

2016 ◽  
pp. 88-101
Author(s):  
G. A. Ivakin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Right

During the Soviet period, the right monarchism was considered by historians of our country as part of general methodological approaches to the study of non-proletarian parties. As ideological and political antagonist of Bolshevism, the Black Hundreds were interpreted as the most reactionary political movement of pre-revolutionary Russia. As a result, the full scientific debate on the right monarchism in the Soviet period did not take place, and Soviet historians failed to form a historical concept of the Black Hundreds as an ideological and political trend in the early twentieth century.

Progressive Counterinsurgency and COIN

American Datu ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 243-266
Author(s):  
Ronald K. Edgerton
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
First Century ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The U.S

This last chapter compares and contrasts the Progressive counterinsurgency strategy implemented by John J. Pershing in the Muslim Philippines with twenty-first-century counterinsurgency (COIN) guidelines as set forth in The U.S. Army * Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, first published in 2006. It argues that although modern COIN ideas have much to recommend them, American officers engaged in combatting Islamic militants today would be wise to study Pershing’s full-spectrum but more limited approach to counterinsurgency among Philippine Moros in the early twentieth century.

scholarly journals The Yankees of Europe? A New View on Technology and Productivity in German Manufacturing in the Early Twentieth Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 874-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel P. Timmer ◽  
Joost Veenstra ◽  
Pieter J. Woltjer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Manufacturing Performance ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The U.S

Labor productivity in German manufacturing lagged persistently behind the United States in the early twentieth century. Traditionally, this is attributed to dichotomous technology paths across the Atlantic. However, various industry case studies suggest rapid diffusion of U.S. technologies in Germany. We develop a novel decomposition framework based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to reconcile these findings. We conclude that by 1936 inefficient assimilation of modern production techniques—and not the use of different techniques—accounted for most of the U.S./German labor-productivity gap. Our findings call for a reappraisal of the drivers behind cross-country differences in manufacturing performance.

Change and Change Back: the Development of English Parish Church Chancels

1999 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Carol F. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Parish Church ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Parish Churches ◽  
The Church

The eleventh-century core of the church at Wittering, Northamptonshire (Fig. 1a), is typical of the type of church which served local communities in the Anglo-Saxon period. It has a rectangular nave and a short, square chancel. Kilpeck, Herefordshire (Fig. 1b), is an equally typical example of a post-Conquest, twelfth-century local church. It also has a rectangular nave, but it has a longer, apsidal chancel. Such early twentieth-century authors on the development of English parish churches as A. Hamilton Thompson and Alfred Clapham suggested that the use of apses for smaller, post-Conquest churches is an example of French/Norman influence overriding the existing English/Anglo-Saxon forms. They cite the widespread use of apses after the Conquest not only for smaller churches, but also for virtually every major church built in the wake of the Conquest, and the use of apses for churches of all sizes in France in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries. The use of square ends for later medieval parish church chancels such as those at Polebrook, Northamptonshire (Fig. 2a), or Linton, Herefordshire (Fig. 2b), Clapham suggested, marked a return to native English forms after the immediate impact of the Conquest had passed. But is this actually the case? Or are the rectangular, square-ended chancels so typical of later medieval English parish churches a response to new demands being placed upon these buildings? This paper will explore this issue, and ask whether the use of square-ended chancels represents a continuity with, or a change from, older forms.

The Petticoat Inspectors: Women Boarding Inspectors and the Gendered Exercise of Federal Authority

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Pliley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
White Slavery ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Federal Authority ◽  
Moral Boundaries ◽  
Port Of New York ◽  
Government Authority ◽  
The U.S

In the early twentieth century, anti-white-slavery activists sought to construct a new position for women inspectors in the Immigration Bureau. These activists asserted that immigrant girls traveling without a family patriarch deserved the U.S. government's paternal protection, yet they argued that women would be best suited to provide this protection because of women's purported maternal abilities to perceive feminine distress. By wielding paternal government authority—marked by a badge, the ability to detain, and presumably the power to punish—these women could most effectively protect the nation's moral boundaries from immoral prostitutes while also protecting innocent immigrant girls from the dangers posed by solitary travel. In 1903 the Immigration Bureau launched an experiment of placing women among the boarding teams at the port of New York. The experiment, however, was short-lived, as opponents of the placement of women in such visible positions campaigned against them. This episode reminds us that the ability to represent and exercise federal authority in the early twentieth century was profoundly gendered; and women's increased participation in government positions during the Progressive Era was deeply contested.

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