The Migration of the Fang into Central Gabon during the Nineteenth Century: A New Interpretation

1978 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Chamberlin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Interpretation

Information brokers and the making of the Baring crisis, 1857–1890

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Vedoveli
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Quality Information ◽  
South American ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Redundant Information ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Structural Holes ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Information Brokers ◽  
Social Clusters

This article offers a new interpretation of the Baring crisis, the most dramatic financial collapse of the nineteenth century, by focusing on how information brokerage allowed Barings to abandon its risk-averse practices in the mid 1880s. I argue that the mediators who bridged structural holes (gaps between social clusters) shaped actors’ access to information as well as their expectations regarding its quality. Information brokers who enjoyedphilosties with at least one of the parties connected by the bridging relationships could promote collaborative arrangements more likely to survive an environment of heightened uncertainty. The performance of such brokers in the 1880s enabled cooperation between Baring Brothers & Co. and the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas and supported the London house's growing association with the Anglo-Argentine firm of S. B. Hale & Co. in the second half of the 1880s. Cooperation gave Barings an illusion of security amid the costs of increasing competition and supported the house's growing engagement in South American affairs. Nevertheless, the strategy proved ineffective at barring the entry of new players. By the late 1880s, ties produced by brokerage connected Barings to the house's former competitors, producing a cohesive social cluster. Barings thereafter had access to redundant information, which hindered the house's ability to assess risk.

Misreading Anita Brookner

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peta Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Narrative Forms ◽  
The Military

Anita Brookner was a best-selling women’s writer, Booker Prize winner and an historian of French Romantic art. However she is best known for writing boring, outdated books about lonely, single women. This book offers a queer rereading of Brookner by demonstrating the performative Romanticism of her novels to narrate multiple historical forms of homoerotic desire. It draws on diverse nineteenth-century intertexts from Charles Baudelaire to Henry James, Renée Vivien to Freud to establish a cross-historical and temporal methodology that emphasises figures of anachronism, the lesbian, the backwards turn and the woman writer. Delineating sets of narrative behaviours, tropes and rhetorical devices between Brookner’s Romantic predecessors and her own novels, the book produces a cast of Romantic personae comprising the military man, analysand, queer, aesthete, dandy, flâneur, degenerate and storyteller as hermeneutic figures for rereading Brookner. It then stages the performance of these personae along the specified narrative forms and back through six Brookner novels to reveal queer stories about their characters and plotlines. This new interpretation offers ways to think about Brookner’s contemporary female heroines as hybrid variations of (generally male) nineteenth-century artist archetypes. As a result it simultaneously critiques the heterosexual and temporal misreading that has characterised Brookner’s early reception.

scholarly journals The Last Abolition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Alonso
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
First Time

Seamlessly entwining archival research and sociological debates, The Last Abolition is a lively and engaging historical narrative that uncovers the broad history of Brazilian anti-slavery activists and the trajectory of their work, from earnest beginnings to eventual abolition. In detailing their principles, alliances and conflicts, Angela Alonso offers a new interpretation of the Brazilian anti-slavery network which, combined, forged a national movement to challenge the entrenched pro-slavery status quo. While placing Brazil within the abolitionist political mobilization of the nineteenth century, the book explores the relationships between Brazilian and foreign abolitionists, demonstrating how ideas and strategies transcended borders. Available for the first time in an English language edition, with a new introduction, this award-winning volume is a major contribution to the scholarship on abolition and abolitionists.

Contesting Patrilineal Descent in Political Theory: James Mill and Nineteenth-Century Feminism

Hypatia ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Jose
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Sole Source ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Patrilineal Descent

Liberal philosopher James Mill has been understood as being unambiguously antifeminist. However, Terence Ball, supposedly informed by a feminist perspective, has argued for a new interpretation. Ball has reconceptualized Mill as a feminist and the sole source of the feminism of his son (J. S. Mill), suggesting a revision of the received wisdom about their relationship to the development of nineteenth century feminist thought. This paper takes issue with Ball's “new interpretation” and its presumed feminist basis.

scholarly journals The Demystification of David Ricardo’s Famous Four Numbers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Morales Meoqui
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
Gains From Trade ◽  
Numerical Example ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Way

The paper features a new interpretation of David Ricardo’s famous numerical example in chapter 7 of the Principles. It claims that the only purpose of the four numbers was to illustrate the proposition that the relative value of commodities produced in different countries is not determined by the respective quantities of labour devoted to the production of each. This exception would apply until capital begins to move between countries as easily as it does within the same country. Moreover, the paper debunks some entrenched myths about the numerical example. It shows that Ricardo did not leave the terms of trade unspecified; that the purpose of the four numbers was not about measuring the gains from trade; and lastly, that Portugal had no productivity advantage over England. All of this marks a radical departure from the way scholars have interpreted Ricardo’s numerical example since the mid-nineteenth century.

scholarly journals ELEMENTY WIDOWISKA BOŻONARODZENIOWEGO W POEMACIE DWUNASTU ALEKSANDRA BŁOKA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Borys Gasparow ◽  
Małogrzata Muszyńska
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Interpretation

“Elements of Christmas Pageant in Alexander Blok’s «The Twelve»”This paper is a an attempt of a new interpretation of Alexander Blok’s “The Twelve” in the context of Carnival customs in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century.

Statistical Law and Human Freedom

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-203
Author(s):  
Theodore M. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Scientific Validity ◽  
Mathematical Probability ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Causal Laws ◽  
Analysis Of Variation

This chapter evaluates the criticism of statistics. Already in the early nineteenth century, the statistical approach was attacked on the ground that mere statistical tables cannot demonstrate causality, or that mathematical probability presupposes the occurrence of events wholly by chance. The intent of these early critics was not to suggest the inadequacy of causal laws in social science, but to reject the scientific validity of statistics. The new interpretation of statistics that emerged during the 1860s and 1870s was tied to a view of society in which variation was seen as much more vital. Statistical determinism became untenable precisely when social thinkers who used numbers became unwilling to overlook the diversity of the component individuals in society, and hence denied that regularities in the collective society could justify any particular conclusions about its members. These social discussions on natural science and philosophy bore fruit in the growing interest in the analysis of variation evinced by the late-century mathematical statisticians. To be sure, Francis Galton gave little attention to the debates on human freedom, but Francis Edgeworth was closely familiar with them, and Wilhelm Lexis's important work on dispersion can only be understood in the context of this tradition.

The Making of British Socialism

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Bevir
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Radical Democracy ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
State Action ◽  
Utopian Communities ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Bernard Shaw

This book provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope promoting social justice, personal transformation, and radical democracy. The book shows that British socialists responded to the dilemmas of economics and faith against a background of diverse traditions, melding new economic theories opposed to capitalism with new theologies which argued that people were bound in divine fellowship. The book utilizes an impressive range of sources to illuminate a number of historical questions: Why did the British Marxists follow a Tory aristocrat who dressed in a frock coat and top hat? Did the Fabians develop a new economic theory? What was the role of Christian theology and idealist philosophy in shaping socialist ideas? The book explores debates about capitalism, revolution, the simple life, sexual relations, and utopian communities. It gives detailed accounts of the Marxists, Fabians, and ethical socialists, including famous authors such as William Morris and George Bernard Shaw. And it locates these socialists among a wide cast of colorful characters, including Karl Marx, Henry Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, and Oscar Wilde. By showing how socialism combined established traditions and new ideas in order to respond to the changing world of the late nineteenth century, the book turns aside long-held assumptions about the origins of a major movement.

Lecturing the Atlantic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom F. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
William Makepeace Thackeray ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Cultural Investment ◽  
Public Lecture

Lecturing the Atlantic argues for a new interpretation of the public lecture, as one of the nineteenth-century Anglo-American world’s most important cultural forms. It reorients our understanding of lecturing during the “lyceum movement” by seeing it as an international and cross-media phenomenon patterned by cultural investment in an “Anglo-American commons.” series of case studies shows how some of the midcentury North Atlantic world’s most enduring cultural figures, such as Frederick Douglass, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as fascinating marginal voices such as Lola Montez and John B. Gough, used lecture hall discussions of a transatlantic imaginary to offer powerful commentaries on slavery, progress, comedy, order, tradition, and reform. Through a series of readings of Anglo-American relations as understood through performance and print re-mediation, Wright connects the transatlantic turn in cultural studies to important recent debates in media theory and scholarship on the public sphere and nineteenth-century public culture.

The Drama of History

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Gjesdal
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche offers a new interpretation of Henrik Ibsen’s drama and brings to light new aspects of G. W. F. Hegel’s and Friedrich Nietzsche’s works, especially their theorizing of drama and theater. This study emphasizes the centrality of philosophy of theater in nineteenth-century philosophy and demonstrates how drama functions as an artform that offers insight into human historicity and the conditions of modern life. In this way, The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche seeks to deepen and actualize the relationship between philosophy and drama—not by suggesting that either philosophy or drama should have the upper hand, but by indicating how a sustained dialogue between them can bring out the best in both.

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