The Nigerian Records Survey Remembered

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 391-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. E. H. Hair
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
National Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S

Since all of today's trained African historians took up their burden in the 1960s or later decades, it is gratifying to be an untrained African historian who began in the 1950s, inasmuch as my early career can now be immodestly presented to younger researchers as historical documentation. This thought has arisen when reading in HA 18 a contribution by Simon Heap on the Nigerian National Archives at Ibadan. The archive's inspired founder, Kenneth Onwuka Dike, being long dead, a note on the history of the archives, or rather on its prehistory, can be offered from probably the Only Survivor.

Frontiers of Visibility

Transfers ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Torma
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Popular Images ◽  
Cinematic Technology

This article deals with the history of underwater film and the role that increased mobility plays in the exploration of nature. Drawing on research on the exploration of the ocean, it analyzes the production of popular images of the sea. The entry of humans into the depths of the oceans in the twentieth century did not revitalize myths of mermaids but rather retold oceanic myths in a modern fashion. Three stages stand out in this evolution of diving mobility. In the 1920s and 1930s, scenes of divers walking under water were the dominant motif. From the 1940s to the 1960s, use of autonomous diving equipment led to a modern incarnation of the “mermen“ myth. From the 1950s to the 1970s, cinematic technology was able to create visions of entire oceanic ecosystems. Underwater films contributed to the period of machine-age exploration in a very particular way: they made virtual voyages of the ocean possible and thus helped to shape the current understanding of the oceans as part of Planet Earth.

The ‘Brazilian Connection’ in the History of American Linguistics

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-382
Author(s):  
Cristina Altman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
South American ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Structural Linguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Jakobson ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One

Summary When mention is made of Brazil in connection with American linguistics, it usually amounts to a reference to the Linguistic Circle of New York, where Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) and Claude Lévi-Strauss (b.1908), who had come from Brazil where he had done ethnological work, met and exchanged ideas. This singular event has cast a shadow on other contacts between Brazil and American linguistics, of which, the one between Jakobson and the Brazilian linguist Joaquim Mattoso Câmara (1904–1970) was much more consequential, at least as far as the implementation of structural linguistics in Brazil and in South America generally during the 1950s and the 1960s is concerned. Mattoso Câmara came to the United States and spent most of his time in New York City (September 1943 till April 1944), where he got exposure to Praguean type structuralism, notably through Jakobson’s lectures he attended at Columbia University and at the École Libre of New York, which had been established by European refugees at the time. He also participated in the first meetings of the Linguistic Circle of New York in 1943 as one of its co-founders. Following his return to Rio de Janeiro, Mattoso Câmara proposed, in 1949, as his doctoral thesis a phonemic description of Brazilian Portuguese. The work was published a few years later, in 1953. His most influential work, Princípios de Lingüística Gerai, first published in 1954, had two more revised and updated editions (1958, 1967) and served to introduce several generations of Brazilian as well as other South American students to structural linguistics during the 1950s and 1960s.

The Cul-de-Sac of Social Democracy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Wald
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
New York Intellectuals ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Irving Howe ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S

A history of Irving Howe and Dissent magazine is used to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the social democratic alternative that became the Left wing of the New York intellectuals during the 1950s. This is followed by an examination of the life and work of Harvey Swados, which also express the ambiguities that would render this tradition problematic during the era of new radicalization in the 1960s.

scholarly journals Film and the "Other" Singaporean

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edna Lim
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Air Film ◽  
Second Period

COMING UP FOR AIR: FILM AND THE "OTHER" SINGAPOREAN The history of Singapore's film industry is marked by two distinct periods. The first period, which lasted from the 1950s to the 1960s, is considered the golden age of Singapore films due to the prolific outpouring of primarily Malay films produced by the local Cathay and Shaw studios. The second period, which began in the 1990s, constitutes a revival of sorts for Singapore film, and is marked by the recent spate of local productions that began with Medium Rare in 1991 and continues to the present. What is interesting about this current "resurgence" of local films is that while these films have resuscitated the previously dormant film industry in Singapore, and can, therefore, be considered a "revival," they are in fact very different kinds of films from the ones that were made during the golden age, just as the current...

scholarly journals Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (APAE): delineamento de uma gênese histórica

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Giovani Ferreira Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
History Of Special Education ◽  
De Se ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Specialized Institution

O artigo aborda como a então designada problemática do excepcional, confi gurada no começo do século XX, possibilitou, no Brasil, a emergência da primeira Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (Apae), na década de 1950, estendendo as análises apresentadas até o começo da década de 1960, quando surgiu a Federação Nacional das Apaes. Apesar de sua longevidade e capilaridade no país, pouco se tem abordado sobre a gênese da instituição Apae, o que tem impedido de se problematizar o contexto sócio-histórico, político e cultural em que esta emergiu. Para tanto, recorreu-se às contribuições de pesquisas histórica e bibliográfica. Com os dados encontrados, pôde-se constatar que a Apae surgiu impulsionada pelos princípios do pragmatismo e do modelo liberal de cidadania estadunidenses, pautada na fi lantropia e na ótica da higidez social, bem como recebeu infl uência do trabalho de Helena Antipoff . Entre as décadas de 1950 e 1960, a instituição se ramifi cou pelo país, levando à necessidade de se criar, já em 1962, uma Federação Nacional para congregar as associações e formular diretrizes de ação, o que ampliou seu espectro de atuação e sua difusão institucional.Palavras-chave: Educação de excepcionais. História da Educação Especial. Instituição especializada. Movimento apaeano.Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (APAE):development of a historical genesisAbstractThe article discusses how the so-called problem of the exceptional, confi gured at the beginning of the 20th century, made possible, in Brazil, the emergence of the fi rst Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (Apae), in the 1950s, extending the analyzes presented until the beginning the 1960s, when the Federação Nacional das Apaes emerged. Despite its longevity and capillarity in the country, little has been discussed about the genesis of the Apae institution, which has prevented the problematic of the socio-historical, political and cultural context in which it emerged. To this end, we used contributions from historical and bibliographical research. With the data found, it could be seen that Apae emerged driven by the principles of pragmatism and the liberal model of American citizenship, guided by philanthropy and the perspective of social health, as well as infl uenced by the work of Helena Antipoff . Between the 1950s and 1960s, the institution branched across the country, leading to the need to create, already in 1962, a National Federation to congregate associations and formulate guidelines for action, which expanded its range of action and its institutional diffusion .Keywords: Education of exceptional. History of Special Education. Specialized institution. Apaeano movement.Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (APAE): delineamiento de una génesis históricaResumenEl artículo analiza cómo el llamado problema de lo excepcional, configurado a principios del siglo XX, hizo posible, en Brasil, la aparición de la primera Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Excepcionais (Apae), en la década de 1950, ampliando los análisis presentados hasta el comienzo. la década de 1960, cuando surgió la Federação Nacional das Apaes. A pesar de su longevidad y capilaridad en el país, poco se ha discutido sobre la génesis de la institución Apae, que ha evitado la problemática del contexto sociohistórico, político y cultural en el que surgió. Para este fin, utilizamos contribuciones de investigaciones históricas y bibliográficas. Con los datos encontrados, se pudo ver que Apae surgió impulsado por los principios del pragmatismo y el modelo liberal de ciudadanía estadounidense, guiados por la filantropía y la perspectiva de la salud social, así como influenciados por el trabajo de Helena Antipoff. Entre las décadas de 1950 y 1960, la institución se expandió por todo el país, lo que llevó a la necesidad de crear, ya en 1962, una Federación Nacional para congregar asociaciones y formular directrices para la acción, lo que amplió su rango de acción y su difusión institucional.Palabras clave: Educación de excepcionales. Historia de la Educación Especial. Institución especializada. Movimiento apaeano.

WHERE TO? FILMING EMIGRATION ANXIETY IN PREWAR LEBANESE CINEMA

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-201
Author(s):  
Ghenwa Hayek
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Research ◽  
Research Avenue

AbstractI propose that careful reading of films and film coverage provides a new research avenue for scholars interested in the social and cultural history of the 1950s and the 1960s in Lebanon. Looking specifically at the manner in which George Nasser's 1957 filmIla Ayn?(Where To?) embraces and modifies the generic conventions of neorealist melodrama to articulate anxieties over the effects of emigration on Lebanon, this article explores the manner in which contemporaneous cultural critics used the film to, in turn, express their dismay at migration from Lebanon. Reading the film closely for the affects it contains and for those it produced in its readers, I argue that this technique, attendant to both sides of this dynamic, affords us new insights into the manner in which cinema produced during Lebanon's golden period interacted with and complicated the dominant cultural narratives of that era.

Marschak and Utility Measurement at Yale

2018 ◽  
pp. 239-246
Author(s):  
Ivan Moscati
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Expected Utility ◽  
Expected Utility Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Percent Correct ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Experimental Findings

Chapter 14 continues the history of the experimental attempts to measure utility by discussing two further experiments performed at Yale University in the early 1960s, one by Trenery Dolbear and the other by Jacob Marschak in association with Gordon Becker and Morris DeGroot. Like the experiments conducted in the 1950s, these were also based on expected utility theory (EUT) and aimed at measuring the utility of money of individuals on the basis of their preferences between gambles where small amounts of money were at stake. There are some differences in the designs of the experiments of the 1950s and those of the 1960s. Like the experimenters of the 1950s, however, Dolbear, Marschak, Becker, and DeGroot also confidently assessed their experimental findings as validating EUT: the theory was not 100 percent correct, but in an approximate sense, it appeared to be an acceptable descriptive theory of decision-making under risk.

Digitization of Hungarian Military Registers

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-232
Author(s):  
Ildikó SZERÉNYI ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
The Public ◽  
Source Type ◽  
National Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Military

In Hungary, the mandatory military service existed for almost 300 years (1715-2004), and therefore affected the life of a significant number of families. This study gives a review of the digitization project of the military registers of the National Archives of Hungary (NAH). The history of the military register collection dates back to the 1960s, when the original archival records were collected from the county archives and were microfilmed in the microfilm laboratory of the NAH in Budapest. Although the collection is outstanding for family and scientific researchers as well, this unique source type remained almost unknown to researchers for decades. After the digitization of microfilm rolls, the digital images became available online and received a warm welcome from the public.

THE PYRAMID AND THE CROWN: THE EGYPTIAN BEER INDUSTRY FROM 1897 TO 1963

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar D. Foda
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Muslim Country ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Beer Industry ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
Economic Institution

AbstractThis paper focuses on a long-running and understudied Egyptian economic institution, the beer industry. While the presence of a well-developed beer industry in a predominantly Muslim country is noteworthy in itself, it is the consistent profitability of this industry despite the vicissitudes of Egypt's economic and political development that have made it truly remarkable. Relying heavily on archival material, including documents preserved in Cairo's Dar al-Wathaʾiq (Egyptian National Archives), this paper tracks the development of the beer industry in Egypt from 1897, when Belgian entrepreneurs started the Pyramid and Crown breweries, to the 1960s, when the Egyptian government nationalized the two companies. This analysis uses the history of the beer company to map larger social and economic trends in the colonial and semicolonial Egyptian economy (1882–1963) and to further problematize the foreign/Egyptian dichotomy that shapes discussions of it.

scholarly journals Aleksandr Tvardovsky’s Journal “New World” in Memoirs

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 599-607
Author(s):  
Tatiana O. Ostroumova
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Editorial Policy ◽  
World Journal ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to the history of the journal “New World” of the second half of the 1950s — the 1960s, and the work of its chief editor A.T. Tvardovsky. It focuses on the second period of Tvardovsky’s editorship, the first part of which fell on the era of “thaw” (1958—1964), the second one — on the era of early “stagnation” (1965—1970). The article assesses the professional qualities of A.T. Tvardovsky as an editor. There are considered his literary preferences, attitude to the editorial work, and the factors that influenced the radical changes in his worldview. The author examines the editorial policy of the journal in the context of political changes in public life. Within the topic, the article shows the impact of various party and state bodies, including censorship, on culture and, in particular, on literature. There is traced the outline of events around “New World” journal, the publication history of the novel “One Day of Ivan Denisovich”, and the relations between A.T. Tvardovsky and A.I. Solzhenitsyn. There is analyzed the controversy surrounding A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s book “The Oak and the Calf”. The article notes the different level of publications’ information content of the “stagnation” and perestroika eras.The purpose of the study is to determine the place of Tvardovsky’s “New World” in the literary and political struggle of the second half of the 1950s — the 1960s, and the journal’s impact on the worldview formation of the generation of intellectuals, who played a significant role in the restructuring of the 1980s. The article is relevant because the journal “New World” of the second half of the 1950s — the 1960s occupies one of the central places in the history of Russian Soviet literature and journalism. A.T. Tvardovsky’s “New World” was the most consistent conductor of the policy of de-Stalinization in the “thaw” era, and continued the chosen course, despite Brezhnev’s policy of re-Stalinization, thus becoming a legal journal opposing the current government. The novelty of the article lies in the fact that this topic is studied using memoir sources: recollections and diaries of the events’ participants — famous writers, literary critics, members of the Editorial Board and employees of the journal “New World” — as well as A.T. Tvardovsky’s “Workbooks” and “New World Diary”. These sources allow to supplement the known facts and to reconstruct events related to the legendary journal’s history. Conclusions and observations made by the author can be used to further study the history and work of “New World” journal.

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