On the Difficulty of Being a National Liberal in Nineteenth-Century Finland

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jussi Kurunmäki
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article examines the ways in which the Finnish liberals described themselves as national liberals and how they were labeled by their opponents as supporters of foreign doctrines and cosmopolitanism in the late nineteenth century. It will be shown that the rhetoric of liberalism was entangled in an inflamed issue between the advocates of Finnish and Swedish languages in Finland. Ultimately, this contest dealt with the concept of nation. Furthermore, the article discusses the uses of other countries' political life as exemplary cases, thus bringing a transnational perspective into the analysis. The contested character of the concept of liberalism and its compound form, national liberalism (nationell liberalism, kansallinen liberalismi), will be highlighted by paying attention to the semantic differences between Swedish-language and Finnish-language uses of the concept. The article closes with an interpretation of the weak role that the concept of liberalism has played in nineteenth-century Finnish political culture.

The “Un-American” Experiment: Jane Addams's Lessons from Pullman

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 903-923
Author(s):  
CHERYL HUDSON
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
American Experiment ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Exceptional Character ◽  
Do So

The exceptional character of the United States' political culture has been and continues to be hotly contested. In the late nineteenth century, commentators framed radical ideologies as “un-American” and they subsequently entered the political lexicon as alien to American ideals and values. However, far less scholarly attention has been given to alternative definitions of “un-American” activity that emerged in the late nineteenth century. This article examines the charges made by contemporaries against the “un-American” town of Pullman and of George Pullman's patronage of his town and its workers. Through a close reading of Addams's critique of Pullman as “A Modern Lear” as well as other narratives and counternarratives contained within contemporary speeches, pamphlets, and newspaper and journal articles, this essay will demonstrate the flexible nature of the charge of “un-Americanism” in the crisis years of the 1890s. In that decade, the character of the modern nation was still highly contested and although the conservative, anti-union view won the immediate Pullman battle, it did not do so without a fight and it did not ultimately succeed in defining the character of the modern nation.

Directors/Directing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Switzky
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Division Of Labor ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Electric Light

Although some official has organized the acting and scenery in theatrical performances since ancient Greece, the director only emerged as a significant creative figure in the late nineteenth century. Directors introduced innovative acting methods, modernized staging through new technologies such as electric light and mechanized scenery, proposed theories about the function of the theater in social and political life, and provided unified interpretations of complex plays. As the self-designated authors of productions, directors often competed with playwrights and actors for artistic control, a tension that continues to characterize the division of labor in theaters.

Letters from E. M. Edmonds to Nikolaos G. Politis

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-277
Author(s):  
Georgia Gotsi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
Vernacular Culture ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Modern Greece

This article presents the letters sent by the late nineteenth-century English writer Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds to the Greek folklorist Nikolaos G. Politis. While a preoccupation with folklore and ethnology predisposed the Victorian public to take a narrow view of Greek society, Edmonds's interest in both vernacular culture and the literary, social and political life of modern Greece enriched the complex cultural exchange that developed between European (Neo)Hellenists and Greek scholars. This European-wide discourse promoted modern Greece as an autonomous subject of study, worthy of intellectual pursuit.

scholarly journals THE PRESS AS A SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROCESSES IN THE GALICIAN PROVINCE AT THE END OF THE XIX CENTURY (BASED ON "GAZETA NADDNIESTRZAŃSKA" NEWSPAPER)

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Vitalii Telvak ◽  
Bohdan Yanyshyn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Editorial Policy ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Summary. The purpose of the study is to reconstruct the socio-economic life of Drohobych and Drohobych district in the late nineteenth century as represented by the newspaper "Gazeta Naddniestrzańska". The work’s methodological basis is an interdisciplinary approach with an emphasis placed on the structural and functional system analysis of historiographical facts and the method of critical analysis of documentary material. The article’s scientific novelty is an attempt to comprehensively analyse the materials of the journal "Gazeta Naddniestrzańska" as a source for studying socio-economic processes in Drohobych and Drohobych district in the late nineteenth century. Conclusions. The newspaper materials allow us to get acquainted with a range of cultural and socio-economic problems experienced by Drohobych district citizens in the late nineteenth century. The newspaper delivers an extremely dynamic image of the city’s daily life, and its articles are emotional and engaged in the interests of its ordinary residents. In addition, the broad public orientation of the newspaper’s editorial policy also allows getting acquainted with significant events in the socio-economic history of Galicia, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Europe and the world. The "perspective from the province" attaches exceptional value to newspaper reports, as it sheds light on the specifics of their perception on the periphery of cultural and political life. The materials of "Gazeta Naddniestrzańska" allow reconstructing only certain aspects of the history of Drohobych and its district in 1884‒1889. However, taken together with official documents and periodicals published by the city’s Jewish community in the late 19th century, they provide a reliable source base for reconstructing Drohobych’s past in its socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions.

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