3. “A rifle in the hands of every able-bodied man in the Dominion of Canada under proper auspices”: Arming Britons and Disarming Immigrants from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Great War

2012 ◽  
pp. 81-131
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Great War

scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vii
Author(s):  
Diederik F. Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Great War

I am pleased to introduce Boyhood Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1. This issue’s authors unanimously invite an appreciation of the many regional, temporal and contextual inflections of manliness-in-the-making. After all: “Among boys, as among men, there are ‘all sorts and conditions;’ environment moulds them” (Anon. 1890: 147). This merits a bit of intercontinental timetravel. Ecce puer: from Lord Baden-Powell’s and American contemporaries’ middle ages to late nineteenth-century Mexico’s French Third Republic, back to Baden-Powell and into the Great War, and back again to presentday Mexico. In Mexico, on both visits, we are travelling back and forth as well, between the rural and urban experience.

Reviews: Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory, Social Security in Ireland, 1939–1952: The Limits to Solidarity, the Big Houses and Landed Estates of Ireland: A Research Guide, the Parish in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland: Community, Territory and Building, Seventeenth Century Ireland: Making Ireland Modern, Our War: Ireland and the Great War, Social Conflict in pre-Famine Ireland: The Case of County Roscommon, Ringing True: The Bells of Trummery and Beyond: 350 Years of an Irish Quaker Family, ‘The Downfall of Hagan’: Sligo Ribbonism in 1842, Guarding Neutral Ireland: The Coast Watching Service and Military Intelligence, 1939–1945, Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland, the Diocese of Lismore, 1801–1869, New Perspectives on the Irish in Scotland, Music in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, the Vestry Records of the United Parishes of Finglas, St Margaret's, Artane and the Ward, 1657–1758, Georgian Dublin, Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History, the First Citizens of the Treaty City: The Mayors and Mayoralty of Limerick, 1197–2007, the Journal of Elizabeth Bennis, 1749–1779, the Murder of Major Mahon, Strokestown, County Roscommon, 1847, Tourism, Landscapes and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in pre-Famine Ireland, Politics, Pauperism and Power in late Nineteenth Century Ireland, Sources for the Study of Crime in Ireland, 1801–1921, Photographs and Photography in Irish Local History

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-163
Author(s):  
Peter Collins ◽  
Inga Brandes ◽  
Jonathan Cherry ◽  
Brendan Scott ◽  
Karl S. Bottigheimer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Local History ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Socioeconomic History ◽  
Folk History ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
County Roscommon ◽  
The Great War

Fighting Unfair Competition: The Bamberger Riot and the Emergence of Hire Purchase in Switzerland around 1900

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 194-217
Author(s):  
Matthias Ruoss
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Rationality ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Market Ethic

Abstract Hire purchase is today one of the most popular modes of consumer finance worldwide, yet it is still in many ways stigmatized and controversial. In this respect, nothing much has changed since the late nineteenth century, when this new way of selling goods spread through the industrialized countries of the West. How unacceptable it was, Louis Bamberger—a pioneer of hire purchase in Switzerland—found out the hard way. In 1883, only months after the opening of his department store in St. Gallen, hundreds of angry people gathered in front of it and started smashing windows and looting. Beginning with this incident, which came to be known as the Bamberger Riot, this article traces the history of hire purchase and the controversy around it in Switzerland before the Great War. Focusing mainly on artisans and shopkeepers, I argue that the sudden emergence of hire purchase in Switzerland fundamentally challenged the market ethic and economic rationality of this section of the urban middle class.

Howells's Obscure Hurt

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-211
Author(s):  
John W. Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
Henry Adams ◽  
American Literary History ◽  
Late Nineteenth

‘ Every loyal American who went abroad during the first years of our great war felt bound to make himself some excuse for turning his back on his country in the hour of her trouble ’, wrote W. D. Howells in 1881. It is a striking coincidence in American literary history that four major writers of the late nineteenth century – Howells, Henry James, S. L. Clemens, and Henry Adams – all failed to serve in the Civil War. Whether or not they believed that they had turned their backs on their country, each made some excuse in his published work. The most notorious is Henry James's statement in Notes of a Son and Brother that ‘ a horrid even if an obscure hurt ’ had prevented him from volunteering to fight.

The Great War and Social Change, 1900–1919

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
R. Keith Schoppa
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
The World ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Military Units ◽  
Deal Making

In 1914, nationalism was the political “ism” that seemed the motive choice, but ironically that is when “globalization” defined as “extending to other or all parts of the world” became clearly evident. The Great War tied the globe together: colonies participated in the fighting, and thousands of the colonized were sent to Europe to serve in labor or military units. This was not the first sign of a world coming together. The late nineteenth century witnessed globalization’s advance: 52 million Europeans migrated to the Americas, adopting a new culture. Similarly, industrialization globalized, bringing increased commerce on the world scene. At war’s end, the Spanish flu brought the globe together against the pandemic. The war did not change the world’s views on nationalism as the national intrigue and deal making at the Versailles Conference underscores.

The Rise of Danish Agrarian Liberalism

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeppe Nevers
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Strong State ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Crisis Of Liberalism

In the literature on European history, World War I and the interwar years are often portrayed as the end of the age of liberalism. The crisis of liberalism dates back to the nineteenth century, but a er the Great War, criticism of liberalism intensified. But the interwar period also saw a number of attempts to redefine the concept. This article focuses on the Danish case of this European phenomenon. It shows how a profound crisis of bourgeois liberalism in the late nineteenth century le the concept of liberalism almost deserted in the first decades of the twentieth century, and how strong state regulation of the Danish economy during World War I was crucial for an ideologization of the rural population and their subsequent orientation toward the concept of liberalism.

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