scholarly journals Archeological Survey of a Portion of Old Velasco (41B0125) for the Village of Surfside Beach Proposed Boat Ramp Facility, Brazoria County, Texas

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Thick Layer ◽  
Coast Guard ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Port City ◽  
Brazos River ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Village ◽  
The U.S

In February 2006 Prewitt and Associates, Inc., conducted an archeological survey of a 5.5-acre property slated for development as a boat ramp and parking lot by the Village of Surfside Beach in Brazoria County, Texas. The property is at the southern end of the Village of Surfside Beach, between City Hall and the U.S. Coast Guard station. The tract overlaps with the western edge of the townsite of Old Velasco (41BO125), which was a prominent port city at the mouth of the Brazos River from the 1820s through 1875. Excavation of 25 trenches revealed historic artifacts associated with Old Velasco in the southern portion of the project area, but no remains were found over the northern three-quarters of the property. Most of the culture-bearing deposits were extensively disturbed and covered with a thick layer of artificial fill. Three bone clusters found in one trench probably represent intact dump features from late-nineteenth-century Velasco. Due to the disturbed nature of the deposits, no further archeological work is recommended.

1917

Peyote Effect ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Indian Agents ◽  
The U.S

This chapter explores the first sustained efforts to enact a federal ban on peyote in the United States. Missionaries and Indian Agents began pressing for a ban in the late nineteenth century, only to be thwarted by Native American peyotists and their allies in the Bureau of American Ethnology, who argued both that peyote worship should be protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and that it was not deleterious to the health of individual peyotists. By 1917, however, state governments were beginning to pass local bans, with the first prohibitions passed in Colorado and Utah. In early 1918, the U.S. House of Representatives took up the cause, holding hearings on a proposed ban. The record of those hearings offers a fascinating glimpse into the ways that racial anxieties were articulated through anxieties over peyotism in the early twentieth century. The ban passed the House but failed in the Senate.

Mexican American Women’s Alternative Archive

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen R. Roybal
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mexican Women ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Mexican Men ◽  
The U.S

This chapter discusses the ways in which the U.S. government created an alternative archive when it recorded Mexicanas/os' voices in the "official" record during land grant adjudication proceedings in the mid- to late nineteenth century. The testimonio of landowner María Cleofas Bóne de López serves as a prime focus in the chapter to emphasize the ways in which marriage to Mexican women was one way that both Anglo and Mexican men gained access to and amassed material property. Through this and other key cases, the chapter emphasizes that males' land ownership was often predicated on relationships to and with Mexican women and the ways Mexican men were effeminized within the U.S. legal system. The depositions serve as testimonials to the integral role of gender in the history of property ownership and dispossession.

Limbs

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-106
Author(s):  
Sarah Blackwood
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The U.S

This chapter traces a new visual genealogy of inner life as it appears in canonical late-nineteenth-century painter and portraitist Thomas Eakins’s work. It situates Eakins’s lauded portraits alongside the complex political and racialized questions about mind and body that emerged in the U.S. after the Civil War. It centers a reading of a marginal Eakins painting—Whistling for Plover—that Eakins gave as a gift to neurologist S. Weir Mitchell. This painting is a part of a web of inventive thinking about mind and body in the postbellum U.S., evincing the deep anxiety felt nationally over the bodily scars left by the Civil War’s racial violence, an anxiety that is essential to the development of the New Psychology as a discipline.

Origins

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Investment Banks ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Survival And Growth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Securities Business ◽  
The U.S

Chapter 1 describes the rise of universal banks in the U.S. during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Large commercial banks in New York and Chicago entered the securities business in the late nineteenth century by forming alliances with leading investment banks. In 1902, the federal regulator of national banks (the Comptroller of the Currency) told national banks that they could not underwrite or trade in securities except for government bonds. Large national banks evaded that prohibition by establishing securities affiliates. Securities affiliates of national banks survived challenges from the Justice Department, Congress, and the Comptroller of the Currency between 1911 and 1920. Universal banks and their securities affiliates prospered during the 1920s with the enthusiastic support of the Harding and Coolidge administrations. The survival and growth of universal banks during the early twentieth century demonstrated their ability to overcome political and regulatory obstacles.

The European Grain Invasion, 1870–1913

1997 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Transport Costs ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
European Economies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

The article quantifies the impact of cheap grain on the European economy in the late nineteenth century. Falling transport costs led to dramatic declines in Anglo-American grain price gaps, but price convergence was less impressive between the U.S. and other European economies, and within Europe. Cheaper grain meant lower rents throughout Europe, and protection boosted rents, but the magnitudes involved differed between countries. Similarly, cheap grain increased real wages in Britain, but lowered them elsewhere. The grain invasion implied different shocks across countries, and this partly explains the varying trade policies pursued in Europe during this period.

Ideological closure in newspaper political language during the U.S. 1872 election campaign

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-291
Author(s):  
Dafnah Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Gilded Age ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The U.S

This paper studies political language in late nineteenth century partisan newspapers by (a) evaluating the degree of pragmatic force, or ideological closure in political editorial content published during the 1872 election year in three leading Iowa newspapers; and (b) linking variations in the degree of ideological closure of these texts to the institutional and social-political contexts of their production, i.e. the political role of editors and the web of relationships within which they performed their work. The degree of ideological closure is evaluated by analysing a range of rhetorical and discursive practices. The study identified variations in degree of closure both between newspapers affiliated with the same party and within a single newspaper over time. Such variations are interpreted as reflecting editors’ need to mitigate an intricate set of political interests and obligations. The analysis also brings to light the richness of partisan editorial language of this time. These finds demonstrate the complexity of the political language and discourse of Gilded Age newspapers.

scholarly journals 'Salimu': from Memory to Literary Narrative in Twentieth-Century manding Culture

Afrika Focus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tai Tamari
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Language Alternation ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Instrumental Accompaniment ◽  
The Village ◽  
Literary Narrative

This essay explores the creation of new literary narratives, many inspired by true incidents, from the late nineteenth century to the present, among Manding- (specifically Maninka-) speakers in Mali and Guinea. It simultaneously queries the relationships between Manding and Western literary categories, showing that the traits typically associated with African ‘epics’ – including poetic language, alternation of sung and recited passages to continuous instrumental accompaniment, and multi-generic qualities – characterise some (but not all) examples of several distinct Manding literary categories (fasa, tariku and maana); furthermore, these traits appear in narratives of various lengths, centred on sentimental as well as heroic themes. It then focuses on the stories and songs inspired by the apparently contradictory personality of Salimou Haidara (ca. 1930-1991), an eccentric who claimed sharifian descent. A performance by Amadou Kouyaté and Jekoriya Doumbia, a bard couple based in the village of Dabadou near Kankan (Guinea), is transcribed, translated, and analysed1. KEYWORDS: EPIC, LITERARY GENRE, GRIOTS, MANINKA, KANKAN (GUINEA), CHEIKH MOUHAMMAD CHÉRIF

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jason W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Science Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Naval Officers ◽  
The U.S

The introduction established the main argument of the book, which is that the U.S. Navy’s charts and its chart-making throughout the nineteenth century were integral to the expansion of American oceanic empire even as such effort exposed the limits of science practice, seafaring, and war-making in a dynamic, dangerous marine environment. The Navy and the broader American maritime world’s encounter with the ocean, mediated through science, was integral to the way mariners, navigators, and naval officers thought of an emerging maritime empire first in commercial terms and, by the late nineteenth century, in new geo-strategic terms. The introduction also places the larger work within the historiographies of military, maritime, and naval history as well as environmental history and the history of science and cartography, seeking to establish historiographical and methodological bridges among these sub-fields.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Dixa Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
World Order ◽  
Central Place ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Black Subjectivity ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The U.S

The introduction outlines the book’s claims, including the main contention that dominant Western discourses ghosted the Dominican Republic despite its central place in the colonial architecture of the Americas. Because the chapters focus on how Dominicans negotiated this large-scale ghosting from the late nineteenth century onwards, the introduction describes the free black subjectivity that predominated during the centuries prior. The other sections of the introduction define “ghosting” against other terms such as erasure, silencing, trauma, or even haunting; the gendered dimensions of the forms of black freedom that predominated in the territory; and the gendered and classed dimensions of the shift from this historical singularity to the present day commonplaceness when the Dominican Republic is another Caribbean nation embroiled in a neoliberal world order and with a vast emigrant population living in places such as the U.S. and Europe.

The Making of an Eastern Mediterranean Gateway City: Izmir in the Nineteenth Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 891-907
Author(s):  
Onur Inal
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Western Anatolia ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Port City ◽  
External Trade ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City

In the mid- to late nineteenth century, the Ottoman port-city of Izmir underwent a transformation more rapid than at any other time in all its long history. In this period, much of the urban and rural landscape people inhabited today in Western Anatolia was created: a large port-city with modern facilities, the remarkably fertile farmlands, and the major transportation linkages that connect the city with the interior. There have been studies focusing on the spectacular growth of Ottoman Izmir with reference to external trade; however, the complex interplay between city and country have been underestimated. This article discusses the role and significance of social, economic, and ecological changes that took place in the Western Anatolian countryside for the drastic urban transformations the city underwent in the late nineteenth century. It proposes the gateway city model to understand Izmir’s growth and prosperity in tandem with Western Anatolia in this period.

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