scholarly journals The International Potential of the Polish Nineteenth-Century Novel – a Review of Grażyna Borkowska and Lidia Wiśniewska’s (eds.) “Another Canon: The Polish Nineteenth-Century Novel in World Context”

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 642-648
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Rokosz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Nineteenth Century Novels

The article is a review of “Another Canon: The Polish Nineteenth-Century Novel in World Context”, edited by Grażyna Borkowska and Lidia Wiśniewska, published in 2020 by Lit Verlag, Switzerland within the “Polonistik im Kontext” series. The first part of the monograph includes articles that provide a reinterpretation of selected novels (including Krasicki’s “The Adventures of Mr. Nickolas Wisdom”, Orzeszkowa’s “On the Niemen”, and Sienkiewicz’s “Without Dogma”) in relation to the main currents of world literature. The second part focuses on the reception of selected nineteenth-century Polish novels in Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia, France, Spain, the United States, and Great Britain. The publication is aimed at raising the interest of non-Polish recipients in the nineteenth-century novels during a period when twentieth and contemporary Polish literature has already gained relative popularity abroad.

The Empire's New Frontiers

2003 ◽  
Vol 102 (667) ◽  
pp. 383-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael T. Klare
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural Behavior ◽  
Central Eurasia ◽  
South Central ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The United States … wants to enhance its own strategic position in south-central Eurasia, much as Great Britain attempted in the late nineteenth century. This effort encompasses anti-terrorism and the pursuit of oil, but many in Washington also see it as an end in itself—as the natural behavior of a global superpower engaged in global dominance.

Nutrition and Well-Being in the Late Nineteenth Century

2006 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
TREVON D. LOGAN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Price ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Cost Of Living ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Using the 1888 Cost of Living Survey, I estimate the demand for calories of American and British industrial workers. I find that the income and expenditure elasticities of calories for American households are significantly lower than the corresponding elasticities for British households, suggesting that American industrial workers were nutritionally better off than their British counterparts. I further find that the calorie elasticity differential between the two countries was driven by the higher wages enjoyed in the United States. Additional analysis reveals that the relative price of calories was approximately 20 percent greater in Great Britain than in the United States.

The Atlantic Voyage and Black Radicalism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Radicalism ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Black Abolitionists ◽  
American Racism

Chapter 5 looks at the Atlantic crossing from the United States to Great Britain, where colored travelers shifted their protest strategies at sea. Black abolitionists made this journey between the 1830s and the 1860s, and they found that even British-owned steamship companies practiced segregation. Interestingly, however, black activists did not take on Atlantic captains and ship proprietors with the same ferocity that they had conductors back home. In part, this was because the ocean voyage, which lasted between nine and fourteen days, was too confining and dangerous to defy white vigilantes. Yet, more importantly, colored travelers also knew that desegregating Atlantic steamships was hardly the endgame. Rather, colored travelers relaxed their protest strategies while on board and remained focused on the significance of the trip itself. They wanted to reach foreign shores, connect with British abolitionists, and most of all see if the promises were true that abroad African Americans could experience true freedom of mobility, a right that eluded them at home. This is not to suggest that activists did not protest segregation on British steamships. They did, but without the physical assertiveness they adopted in the fight against the Jim Crow car. The story of Frederick Douglass’s harrowing transatlantic voyage in 1845 shows this. An analysis of early nineteenth- century shipboard culture and the British-owned Cunard steamship line illustrates how, for colored travelers, the transatlantic voyage emerged as a liminal phase between American racism and their perceptions of British and European egalitarianism.

The Diversion of Waters Affecting the United States and Canada

1938 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 488-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Simsarian
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Of Canada

The submission by the Government of the United States to the Government of Canada on May 28, 1938, of a rewritten draft of a Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterway treaty brings to the forefront again the desirability of concluding a comprehensive agreement between the two Governments for a mutually advantageous utilization of the available navigation and power resources along the boundary basin. In view of the heightened interest in both the United States and Canada, a reexamination of the diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Great Britain and Canada since the end of the nineteenth century regarding the diversion of waters in the United States or in Canada which affected interests in the other country is opportune. It is of significance to note the positions taken by the United States and Great Britain and, later, Canada, in diplomatic negotiations and by significant municipal acts, as to the legal rights of the United States and Canada to the use or diversion of (1) boundary waters, (2) waters which are tributary (and entirely within the territory of one country) to boundary waters, and (3) waters of rivers flowing across the boundary. The distinction between the first situation and the second and third is an important one to observe.

Sienkiewicz's First Translator, Jeremiah Curtin

Slavic Review ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. B. Segel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
American Theater ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Quo Vadis

Let Peary seek his Arctic goal;His countrymen prefer a PoleLess brumal and uncertain;And Roe and Howells the prolixMust bow to Henry Sienkiewicz,Democratized by Curtin.Anonymous, "Columbus Sienkiewicz,"The Outlook, New York,March 12, 1898The subject of Henryk Sienkiewicz and America is hardly exhausted with the acknowledgment of the enormous popularity of Quo Vadis in the United States. Sienkiewicz himself visited America in 1876, in fact traveled extensively through the country and recorded his impressions at some length in his Listy z Ameryki (Letters from America), a large part of which was translated into English and published in 1959. Sienkiewicz's relations with Helena Modrzejewska (Modjeska) and her debut in the American theater at the time of his visit add to the interest of his sojourn in the United States. Another phase of Sienkiewicz's relations with this country embraces the fascinating career of his American translator, Jeremiah Curtin, whose name remains as intimately linked with translations from Polish literature, particularly the works of Sienkiewicz, as Constance Garnett's has been with English renditions of the Russian masters of the nineteenth century.

William Henry Fitchett: Methodist, Englishman, Australian, Imperialist

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
John Stuart ◽  
Ian Welch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Present Article ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
South Wales

AbstractHistorians of colonial Australia have long been fascinated by the effects of religious change on urban New South Wales and Victoria in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This period, it is generally acknowledged, was one of evangelical revival amongst Anglicans and nonconformists alike. Well known (and sometimes world-renowned) evangelists from Great Britain and the United States invariably included cities such as Sydney and Melbourne on their international itineraries. But the local evangelical presence was strong; and this article focuses on William Henry Fitchett, a Melbourne-based evangelical Methodist clergyman who has largely escaped the attention of historians of religion. The reason he has done so is because he achieved fame in a rather different field: as a popular author of imperial histories and biographies. His published works sold in the hundreds of thousands. Yet he also wrote many serious works on religious matters. This article places Fitchett in the context of evangelical mission and revival within and beyond Australia, while also paying due attention to the influence of religion on his writing career. Les historiens de l'Australie coloniale ont longtemps été fascinés par les effets des transformations religieuses dans le monde urbain de New South Wales et Victoria durant le dernier quart du 19e siècle. Cette période est généralement considérée comme ayant été celle d'un Réveil évangélique parmi les Anglicans et les non-conformistes. Des évangélistes connus (et parfois mondialement connus) venus de Grande Bretagne et des Etats-Unis incluaient invariablement dans leurs périples internationaux des villes comme Sydney et Melbourne. Mais la présence évangélique locale était aussi forte, et cet article se concentre sur un pasteur de l'Eglise Méthodiste évangélique basé à Melbourne, William Henry Fitchett, qui a largement échappé à l'attention des historiens de la religion. La raison en est qu'il s'est rendu célèbre dans un domaine autre que religieux, à savoir comme auteur populaire d'histoires et biographies impériales. Les travaux qu'il a publiés se sont vendus par centaines de milliers d'exemplaires, mais il a aussi écrit des œuvres sérieuses sur des questions de religion. Le présent article replace Fitchett dans le contexte de la mission évangélique et du Réveil en Australie et au-delà, tout en se penchant sur la question de l'influence de la religion sur sa carrière d'auteur.

Reception of Political Parties by Robert Michels in Poland in an international context

2020 ◽  
pp. 1468795X2090971
Author(s):  
Radomir Miński
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Context ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Classic Work ◽  
Marginal Part ◽  
Scientific Achievements

In 2011, it has been a centenary since the best-known book by Robert Michels titled Zur Soziologie des Parteiwesens in der Demokratie modernen. Untersuchungen über die oligarchischen Tendenzen des Gruppenlebens was first published. This work, together with the formulation “the iron law of oligarchy,” is the most recognizable component of the scientific achievements of this German-Italian sociologist. In the second half of the twentieth century, Michels’s thesis about the contradiction between the organization and democracy had a significant impact on the development of the sociology. “The iron law of oligarchy” inspired many scholars from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, where to present day Political Parties is regarded as the classic work in the field of sociology of politics. Unfortunately in Polish humanities, Michels has been played quite marginal part. Up until today, there has been no Polish translation of Michels’s main book. Nevertheless in Polish literature, there were a few publications dealing with Soziologie des Parteiwesens, which are worth mentioning.

scholarly journals Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States Since 1850

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 1109-1137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Long ◽  
Joseph Ferrie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Fathers And Sons ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The US tolerates more inequality than Europe and believes its economic mobility is greater than Europe's, though they had roughly equal rates of intergenerational occupational mobility in the late twentieth century. We extend this comparison into the nineteenth century using 10,000 nationally-representative British and US fathers and sons. The US was more mobile than Britain through 1900, so in the experience of those who created the US welfare state in the 1930s, the US had indeed been “exceptional.” The US mobility lead over Britain was erased by the 1950s, as US mobility fell from its nineteenth century levels. (JEL J62, N31, N32, N33, N34)

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