“With Marx against Moscow”: the backstage of editing Karl Marx’s manuscripts about Romanians

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Marian Hariuc
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
History Of ◽  
Romanian Academy ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Important Objective

"“With Marx against Moscow”: the backstage of editing Karl Marx’s manuscripts about Romanians. In mid-1960s, a book containing unknown manuscripts attributed to Karl Marx was published in Romania. The documents were discovered at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam by the Polish historian Stanislav Schwann. The sources of the most important notes were reprised from a book written by the French historian Élias Regnault in mid-19th century. For the Romanian communist leadership, the Russian presence in the Romanian Principalities during the first half the 19th century was the most relevant part of the texts signed by Marx. As such, the historical discourse was co-opted in the political plan aimed to emancipation from Soviet authority in Romania. The main Romanian historian involved in the plan for editing Karl Marx’ writings was Andrei Oţetea. As Director of the Institute of History of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest, he received the main mission of maintaining the correspondence with the Institute of Amsterdam. The study aims to establish the evolution of Romanian-Dutch treaties, in order to exploit the manuscripts, as well as the involvement of the historiographical circles. Although the question was treated as a strictly political one, the project experienced several phases influenced in particular by the changes of attitude from the Dutch Institute. Thus, an important objective of the study is to highlight the reactions produced by the Romanians’ intentions to bring to light some important data attributed to Karl Marx Keywords: Andrei Oţetea, Karl Marx manuscripts, Institute of Social History Amsterdam. "

Prosody and Meter: Early Modern to 19th Century

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Martin
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Irish Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Terminological Confusion

Both of the terms prosody and meter have shifting and contested definitions in the history of English literature. Historically, prosody was a grammatical term adopted from early translations of Greek and then Latin grammatical models, forming part of an overarching structure: orthometry, etymology, syntax, prosody. In this structure, meter was not always named, but versification covered “the measure of language” and was a subsection of prosody, after “pronunciation, utterance, figures, versification” (or some variation on these) in most 19th-century grammar books. Therefore, prosody contains within it changing approaches to the study of pronunciation and versification. In the 20th century, prosody has become synonymous in linguistics with pronunciation, and in literary study with versification. Scholars of the history of versification are legion. The versification manual or poetic forms handbook is a genre unto itself. The beginning of these books usually accounts for inadequate predecessors; consequently, many manuals are also bibliographies. Historical discourse about versification is not limited to the manual or handbook, however, and is found in studies of poetry, school textbooks, grammar books, introductions to collected works by individual poets, addendums to dictionaries, articles and reviews of poetry in periodicals and newspapers, pronunciation guides, histories of language, and studies of translation. Because the history of the study of pronunciation in English and Irish studies is so vast, this bibliography will only consider a few key texts that consider pronunciation and versification together as prosody. The development of historical linguistics in the 19th century is concurrent with the largest proliferation of studies of prosody-as-versification, and therefore is an important context for the narrative of prosody’s dual fate in the 20th century, hovering between literary study and the science of linguistics. To provide a history of even the ways that these terms themselves have shifted is outside the scope of this bibliography. As T. V. F. Brogan rightly claimed in 1981, “In studies of the structure of verse the use of terms such as poetry, verse, accent, quantity, Numbers, Measure, rhythm, meter, prosody, versification, onomatopoeia, and rhyme/rime/ryme historically and consistently has been nothing short of Pandemonium.” (Brogan 1981, p. ix, cited under Histories of Prosodic Criticism) Indeed, any modern attempt to define prosody must wrestle with the terminological confusion that Brogan narrates. Following Brogan, this bibliography will highlight the confusion without attempting to correct it. Here, I consider both prosody and versification in their widest sense to mean “verse-theory” and not solely “linguistic prosody,” and will discuss texts that have been considered “canonical” as well as texts that consider prosody in all of its historical and cultural valences.

scholarly journals Malaria, Tarai Adivasi and the Landlord State in the 19th century Nepal: A Historical-Ethnographic Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 87-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janak Rai
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Social History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
The 19Th Century

This paper examines the interplay between malaria, the Tarai Adivasi and the extractive landlord state in the 19th century Nepal by focusing on Dhimal, one indigenous community from the easternmost lowlands. Throughout the 19th century, the Nepali state and its rulers treated the Tarai as a state geography of extraction for land, labor, revenue and political control. The malarial environment of the Tarai, which led to the shortage people (labor force), posed a major challenge to the 19th  century extractive landlord state and the landowning elites to materialize the colonizing project in the Tarai. The shortage of labor added pressure on the malaria resistant Tarai Adivasi to reclaim and cultivate land for the state. The paper highlights the need for ethnographically informed social history of malaria in studying the changing relations between the state and the ?div?si communities in the Tarai DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v7i0.10438 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 7, 2013; 87-112

scholarly journals Słowiańszczyzna w podręcznikach. Studium socjologiczne nad możliwością budowania alternatywnych narracji historycznych o początkach państwa polskiego

1970 ◽  
pp. 315-334
Author(s):  
Andrzej Kasperek
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Early State ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

What has been undertaken in this study is the problem of narrations, alternative to the predominant historical discourse, about the beginning of Polish statehood. The considerations on the existence of such narrations are situated in the perspective “dominant culture – counterculture”. Some references are made to the research concerning the presentation in history course books and curricula of two events in the history of Poland: the christening of Mieszko I and the so called pagan reaction. What is suggested here is enriching the research conclusions with the issues of Romantic “revelation” and introducing Slavism into the 19th century culture as well as viewing the early state of the Piast dynasty in the Ciril-Methodius tradition. The author formulates the thesis that in the analysed coursebooks and curricula the narration about the early Polish statehood is subordinated to the evolutionaryrevolutionary model of interpreting history.

scholarly journals Karmicielki świata. Mamki mleczne w świetle reprodukcji życia społecznego

Wielogłos ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Szopa
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survival And Reproduction ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

[Feeders of the World. Wet Nurses and Social Reproduction] The article is an attempt to outline the history of wet-nursing on the example of France from the late 18th century until the beginning of the 20th century. The main aim of the article is to highlight the social and economic changes undergone by the profession of wet-nursing. This study explores the process in which increasing industrialisation and urbanisation leads to wet nurses becoming gradually subjected to what Karl Marx described as formal subsumption of labour under capital. Wet-nursing was one of the most important functions contributing to societies’ survival and reproduction, which is why at the turn of the 19th century it was commodified and transformed into one of the most alienated types of labour. These processes were accompanied by a series of changes in the social and cultural perception of wet nurses, notably by the so-called rabble discourse typical for the 19th-century means of racialising working class people.

scholarly journals Destroyed and Forgotten: Revisiting the History of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Magneto-Meteorological Observatory in Beijing in the 20th Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Tatiana Yu. Feklova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Meteorological Observatory ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Imperial Academy ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article is to study the history of formation and development of the unique library of the Beijing Magnetic Meteorological Observatory governed by the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. Nowadays, researchers increasingly focus their attention not just on history of institutes themselves, but also on history of their communications with and incorporation into the scientific institutional community. Studying the library of the Beijing Magnetic Meteorological Observatory (BMMO) and its books provide a better understanding of its place in the network of magnetic meteorological observatories of the 19th century Russian Empire, which has determined the novelty of the work. The author has introduced into scientific use new archival documents and data from the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Academy of Sciences and from the Russian National Library. The article analyzes activities and history of the Observatory, which was located on the territory of the Russian Orthodox mission in Beijing (China) from 1848 to 1914. For the first time in Russian and international historiography, not only the formation history of the library of the Beijing Observatory has been analyzed, but also the contents and structure of the library stock and its uniqueness. The author has demonstrated variety of its scientific life. As the library was destroyed in the Yihetuan Movement in 1900 and the 1917 Revolution in Russia, the article covers the second half of the 19th century. Its methodological basis modern basic principles of historical research (scientific objectivity, historicism, consistency, historical-genetic approach, etc.), as well as methods of social history of science (relationship between the science and the state, between the science and other social institutions, etc.). It uses the methods of statistical processing of large databases (the sampling method and the method of grouping and summarizing the materials of statistical observation) to analyze the books in library. The research fills the gaps in scientific knowledge on 19th century China and introduces data on the activities of the Imperial Academy of Sciences institutions (Magnetic Meteorological Observatory as well as its library as auxiliary apparatus). Studying the history of scientific research in China can enrich the scientific ties between two countries and allow us to rethink the historical legacy of Russia and China.

scholarly journals Towards Social History of Literature. Book Review: Paweł Tomczok (2018). "Literacki kapitalizm. Obrazy abstrakcji ekonomicznych w literaturze polskiej drugiej połowy XIX wieku". Katowice: Wydawnictwo UŚ

2019 ◽  
pp. 366-372
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Roman-Rawska
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
Theoretical Part ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
The 19Th Century

Towards Social History of Literature. Book Review: Paweł Tomczok (2018). Literacki kapitalizm. Obrazy abstrakcji ekonomicznych w literaturze polskiej drugiej połowy XIX wieku. Katowice: Wydawnictwo UŚThe article is a critical review of Paweł Tomczok's book Literary Capitalism: Images of Economic Abstractions in Polish Literature of the Second Half of the 19th Century (2018). It focuses primarily on the theoretical part of the monograph, analyzing the empirical part to a lesser extent. The article situates Tomczok's book in the area of social history of literature. W kierunku społecznej historii literatury. Recenzja monografii Pawła Tomczoka pt. Literacki kapitalizm. Obrazy abstrakcji ekonomicznych w literaturze polskiej drugiej połowy XIX wieku. Katowice: Wydawnictwo UŚ Artykuł jest krytycznym esejem recenzyjnym książki Pawła Tomczoka Literacki kapitalizm. Obrazy abstrakcji ekonomicznych w literaturze polskiej drugiej połowy XIX wieku. Skupia się przede wszystkim na części teoretycznej monografii, w mniejszym stopniu analizuje zaś część empiryczną. Artykuł umiejscawia książkę Tomczoka w obszarze społecznej historii literatury.

The ubiquitous Mr Babbage

1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-342 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Critical Survey ◽  
History Of Computing ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secure Place ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Computing Machines

Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (ed. M. CampbellKelly). London. Pickering and Chatto, 1994. Pp. 392, £12.95. ISBN 185196 040 6 The text for this new edition of Passages from the Life of a Philospher was first prepared by Dr Campbell- Kelly for the monumental edition of the complete works of Charles Babbage which he edited and which appeared in 1988 under the imprint of Pickering Masters. Its publication as a separate volume is said to be much welcomed as making the work readily available to the growing circle of those interested in the history of computing and in science in the 19th century. Campbell-Kelly has written, specially for this edition, an excellent introduction running to some 12,000 words and containing a critical survey of Babbage’s career and achievements. He points out that Babbage would not be today celebrated as the ‘Pioneer of the Computer’ were it not for the enormous importance that computers have assumed in the second half of this century. However, he goes on to say that Babbage, even by the standards of his day, was a considerable polymath, and that there is much of interest in his life apart from computing machines. During the last decade or two, Babbage scholarship has begun to illuminate his full intellectual range. His most positive achievement was to put together a book entitled On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures . This was quoted by various writers, including Karl Marx and J.S. Mill, and gives him a modest but secure place in the history of economics.

The Economic History of Modern Europe

1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Francois Crouzet
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social History ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical School ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
The 19Th Century

When World War II broke out, the economic history of Modern Europe was largely an underdeveloped and uncultivated field. One country only, Britain, had a well-established school of economic historians, which was already quite prolific. In Germany, there had been a promising start at the end of the 19th century, mostly with the historical school of economists, but it had largely petered out, even before the deadly influence of Nazism set in. In other countries, a number of scholars had done valuable and even brilliant work, but they were few and isolated, and political, diplomatic, religious history remained supreme. This was the case, for example, in France, which had one single chair of economic history in its eighteen universities, despite the passionate campaign which had been waged during the 1930's to promote work in economic and social history by the new journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, under the leadership of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre. Moreover, pre-war economic history was mostly institutional, with a side-line in the study of techniques and innovations. As Professor Herlihy points out in another article for works on the earlier centuries, scholars were “thinking primarily in terms of institutions and of total economic systems based upon them.”

Liberman et le socialisme russe

1938 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 25-88
Author(s):  
Boris Sapir
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Socialist Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Period ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Working Out

Aaron Liberman was the first to try to create a socialist movement among the Jews in the seventies of the 19th century. In the history of the social movements he is rightly considered to be the founder of Jewish Socialism. Liberman's views and methods were strongly influenced by Russian Socialism, particularly through Peter Lavrov and his followers, who grouped themselves round the Vperiod (Forewords), the organ edited by Lavrov. Drawing on the archives of the former secretary, later on editor of the Vperiod, Valerian Smirnov, which archives are in the possession of the International Institute for Social History, the author investigates into the main period of Liberman's life, from the beginning of his emigration until his death.The article comprises the following chapters: I. In Russia; II. First Stay in London (1. Growing sympathy with the Vperiod; 2. The Vperiod and Jewish Socialism; 3. The Jewish Socialist Society in London); III. The tiaemes and the Jewish socialist section in Berlin; IV. Tragic End.The author endeavours to determine Liberman's contribution to the Vperiod and other European socialist organs, and deals with the role he played in the working-out of the rules and constitution of the Social Revolutionist Union of the Jews in Russia, and in the foundation of the Jewish Socialist Society in London, 1876. He comes to the conclusion that Lavrov played as prominent a part in the working-out of the rules and constitution as Liberman, and that the London Jewish Socialist Society is greatly indebted to Smirnov. The author further deals with Liberman's stay in Vienna, where he edited his organ Haemes, and with the so-called Nihilist-trial in Berlin, 1879. Finally he sketches Liberman's return to London in the beginning of 1880 and discusses the circumstances which ultimately led to Liberman's suicide.An appendix contains eight letters from Liberman to Smirnov and five from Smirnov and others, bearing upon Liberman. The three most important letters from Liberman to Smirnov are cited in a French translation as well as in their Russian original.

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