scholarly journals For Whom the Bell Tolls: Memeing French Landscape on Instagram

Vista ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Meredith L. Pruden
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
The City

On the evening of April 15, 2019, hoary plumes of smoke erupted from Notre-Dame Cathedral and rolled across the rooftops of the Ile de la Cité in Paris, France. World leaders expressed their condolences over the loss, and many experts publicly warned that, though it can be rebuilt, the 12th-century monument to Catholicism will never “be the same”. By the end of the next day, cathedral bells tolled across the city in honor of the devastating fire and hundreds of millions in euros already had been pledged, with the uber-wealthy leading the way. In the days that followed the fire, the fire and fundraising efforts garnered a veritable tempest of media coverage and ignited a social media fervor. The hashtag #NotreDameFire trended on Twitter, spread virally across Facebook and, to date, has garnered almost 22,000 posts on Instagram. Much of this online popular discourse has not been as kind and can be read as a form of political struggle around the meaning and identity of Notre-Dame waged on the digital archive of Instagram. This article examines the #NotreDameFire hashtag on Instagram, reading the associated visuals through the framework set out by Cara A. Finnegan in Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression. It considers Finnegan’s presence, character, appropriation and magnitude in the context of Instagram as an archive of, in this case, both site and sight of one imperial landscape — Notre-Dame Cathedral.

scholarly journals The Art of Running Away: Escapes and Flight Movements During the Great Depression in São Tomé e Príncipe, 1930–1936

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Beatriz Valverde Contreras ◽  
Alexander Keese
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Atlantic Slavery ◽  
Sao Tome E Principe ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract As a coerced labour force living under repressive conditions, contract workers in São Tomé e Príncipe's cocoa plantations belong to a wider phenomenon of global plantation experience during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Flight appears as an important element of that experience and this article is an attempt to interpret the strategies of runaways in São Tomé's turbulent Great Depression years after 1930. The work set out here benefitted from a large selection of unexplored sources of the island's labour inspectorate, which can be found in the archipelago itself. Its analysis has enabled interpretation of the motives of escaping workers, and with it discussion of three principal strategic contexts of flight: the experiences of runaways who formed communities; attempts by escaped workers to hide and become part of “native” (forro) communities in rural areas or in the city of São Tomé; and the agency of workers trying to run away to subsequently renegotiate their conditions with labour inspectors or with plantation administrators sympathetic to their situation. The last part of the article attempts to locate that experience in the global history of runaways, connecting it with the types of “ecosystems of running” discussed for Atlantic slavery and later indentured labour systems.

‘A Low Dishonest Decade’?

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Adamthwaite
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
International Society ◽  
International System ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
World War ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Second World ◽  
Ideas And Institutions

This analysis of the origins of the Second World War in Europe challenges several key ideas of the historiography: the ‘thirty years war’ thesis, the notion of a European civil war, and the stereotyping of the 1930s as a seemingly unstoppable rush to war after the internationalism of the 1920s. There was no sharp contrast between decades—the period only makes sense as a whole. Churchill’s ‘unnecessary war’ was preventable. Alternatives to appeasement existed. Though the study of war origins starts with Hitler, his policies were decisively shaped by the actions of others and the instability of an international system, heavily impacted by the Great Depression and ideology. Miscalculation rather than design explains the war of 1939. The outbreak of war should not obscure the significance of the 1930s as a laboratory for ideas and institutions that came to fruition after 1945 and which continue to shape international society.

The Relief Scandal In Montreal's Italian Community and Its Political Background: Fascio, Consulate and the Roman Catholic Parish of the Church of the Madonna della Difesa, October 1932-July 1933

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Angelo Principe
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Political Background ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church ◽  
Italian Community

The following essay is divided into three inter-woven parts. The first deals with the ravage of the Great Depression in Canada; the second explores the Canadian clerical and secular establishment's view of fascism and its local Italian proponents; the last part unravels the cozy collaboration in Montreal among local Italian fascists, the Italian Consulate, the priests of the Italian Catholic Parish Madonna della Difesa and the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, which was in charge of assisting needy people across the city. In 1932, with the approval of the Parish priest, Zanobri Manfriani, the Society gave the task of dispensing relief to Catholic Italians of the Mile End district to the local Italian fascio Luporini and its leader Ottorino Incoronato. After a few months. Incoronato, to avoid being charged with fraud, left Canada in a hurry, for good.

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