A note on John Hawkins (1761–1841) and the Hawkins archive

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-268
Author(s):  
R. J. CLEEVELY
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Reference Lists ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

A note dealing with the history of the Hawkins Papers, including the material relating to John Hawkins (1761–1841) presented to the West Sussex Record Office in the 1960s, recently transferred to the Cornwall County Record Office, Truro, in order to be consolidated with the major part of the Hawkins archive held there. Reference lists to the correspondence of Sibthorp-Hawkins, Hawkins-Sibthorp, and Hawkins to his mother mentioned in The Flora Graeca story (Lack, 1999) are provided.

scholarly journals The Psychoprophylactic Method of Painless Childbirth in Socialist Czechoslovakia: from State Propaganda to Activism of Enthusiasts

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ema Hrešanová
Keyword(s):  
Pain Relief ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
The West ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Pharmacological Method ◽  
Insight Into

This paper explores the history of the ‘psychoprophylactic method of painless childbirth’ in socialist Czechoslovakia, in particular, in the Czech and Moravian regions of the country, showing that it substantially differs from the course that the method took in other countries. This non-pharmacological method of pain relief originated in the USSR and became well known as the Lamaze method in western English-speaking countries. Use of the method in Czechoslovakia, however, followed a very different path from both the West, where its use was refined mainly outside the biomedical frame, and the USSR, where it ceased to be pursued as a scientific method in the 1950s after Stalin’s death. The method was imported to Czechoslovakia in the early 1950s and it was politically promoted as Soviet science’s gift to women. In the 1960s the method became widespread in practice but research on it diminished and, in the 1970s, its use declined too. However, in the 1980s, in the last decade of the Communist regime, the method resurfaced in the pages of Czechoslovak medical journals and underwent an exciting renaissance, having been reintroduced by a few enthusiastic individuals, most of them women. This article explores the background to the renewed interest in the method while providing insight into the wider social and political context that shaped socialist maternity and birth care in different periods.

Talking About (My) Generation

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-108
Author(s):  
Anna von der Goltz
Keyword(s):  
Intergenerational Relations ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Generational Conflict ◽  
Student Protest ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The West ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nazi Past ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter engages with several major themes that have long animated research on the West German 1960s: protesters’ family backgrounds and wartime childhoods; the meaning of the Nazi past to their activism; and intergenerational relations. Like their student peers on the Left, centre-right activists had been raised in a post-genocidal society. Given that, how did they view and engage with Germany’s recent history of mass violence? The chapter highlights the centrality of anti-totalitarianism to their thinking. It also shows that, inspired by the so-called ‘‘45ers’ and nudged by social scientists who routinely portrayed student protest as a symptom of generational conflict, they began to think of themselves as a distinct generational community in the 1960s.

An Historical Sketch of Physical Oceanography in Canada

1976 ◽  
Vol 33 (10) ◽  
pp. 2155-2167
Author(s):  
Neil J. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Inland Waters ◽  
Physical Oceanography ◽  
The West ◽  
Ocean Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Historical Sketch

The history of Canadian oceanography is outlined through the contributions of individual scientists and the organization or programs they were associated with from 1890 to the early 1970s. The period up to 1960 reflects not only the scientific and personal efforts of H. B. Hachey, J. P. Tully, W. M. Cameron, and G. L. Pickard, but also their work in establishing oceanography as a science in Canada. The organizational developments which took place in the 1960s and their culmination in the building of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, the Canada Centre for Inland Waters, and the Institute of Ocean Sciences now under construction on the west coast are described.

The Phenomenon of Jewish Buddhists in Light of the History of Jewish Suffering

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yonatan N. Gez
Keyword(s):  
Jewish History ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

Studies on the practice of Buddhism in the West clearly show that, ever since the 1960s, Buddhism has won a significant following from individuals of Jewish background. This article explores the links between Jewish adoption of Buddhism (as a form of spiritual practice, philosophy, therapy or overarching religion) and the pains of Jewish history, and proposes that conversion may be an attempt to disassociate one's self not only from her or his own Jewishness, but from the entire Abrahamic religious model. At the same time, the trend is confronted by its countertrend, by which the disassociation from Judaism for the sake of engagement with Buddhism often seems to be temporary, partial, or both. It is argued that in such instances, engagement with Buddhism may serve post-Holocaust needs for spiritual convalescence while at the same time instilling a pluralistic spirit that holds vicarious ramifications for Jewish attitudes towards and relations with other faiths, Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic alike.

scholarly journals Psikologi Keluarga Islam sebagai Disiplin Ilmu (Telaah Sejarah dan Konsep)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (02) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Ratna Suraiya ◽  
Nashrun Jauhari
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Human Values ◽  
The West ◽  
Psychological Dimension ◽  
Family Psychology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Western Perspective ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Epistemological Framework

Islamic family psychology is currently being developed by a number of experts in the country, both in Islamic scientific studies and in handling practical Islamic family therapy. However, from the development efforts made, it often appears that the identity of the study is blurred between as an Islamic study and between a study from a Western perspective. The main asset to uncover the obscure curtain in the concept of this study is through tracing the psychological history of the Islamic family, so that it can provide an insight into the epistemological framework and the purpose of its study. The research succeeded in finding several points of findings: (1) Islamic family psychology emerged as a scientific study in the 1980s, after the development of family psychology studies in the 1960s in the West; (2) the emergence of Islamic family psychology studies was triggered by a mission to respond back to the pace of development of family psychology studies in the West which increasingly hegemony in the Islamic world; (3) the concept of Islamic family psychology is based on Islamic teachings which uphold human values, especially in the character of human creation; (4) the psychological dimension of each family person is always touched by Islamic teachings in order to create a Sakinah family.

The Loss of El Dorado and ‘Colonial’ Historiography

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-120
Author(s):  
William Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Derek Walcott ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
El Dorado ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Caribbean Writers

This chapter is about historical writing in the West Indies, from the 1960s onwards. Historical writing about the colonial past was a key place in which Caribbean writers in this era analysed the social and cultural impact of that history and looked forward to a decolonized future. Naipaul’s Loss of El Dorado is a fascinating but neglected text in this conversation, and is a key text in the development of his historical and social thought. This chapter positions Naipaul’s work within a history of West Indian historical writing, and historiographical debate, looking in detail at the work of C.L.R. James, Elsa Goveia, Eric Williams, Derek Walcott, and David Scott.

A House for Mr Biswas and the Theory of the West Indian Novel

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-80
Author(s):  
William Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
West Indian ◽  
The Novel ◽  
George Lamming ◽  
The West ◽  
Kamau Brathwaite ◽  
Cultural Sovereignty ◽  
Novel Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter is about the novel form in the West Indies in the 1960s. The novel, in this period, was a key site in which debates about decolonization, originality, and cultural sovereignty took place. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas was central to this debate. It responds to a history of West Indian novels and novel theory, and became an influential text in novels, criticism, and social theory in the region. Work by George Lamming, Kamau Brathwaite, and Sylvia Wynter is discussed in detail. By tracing the changing reception of A House for Mr Biswas in the Caribbean through the 1960s, we can also trace changing ideas and priorities in Caribbean social thought.

Origins

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-63
Author(s):  
Juliane Fürst
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
The West ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

The first chapter charts the history of the Soviet hippie movement all across the Soviet Union, using both declassified KGB and party documents as well as personal interviews. It explores the role of the official press in inspiring youngsters to become ‘hippies’ and the crucial transmission belt of diplomatic parents and other Soviet elites allowed to have direct contact with the West. It delves into the world of intellectual circles in Moscow in the 1960s, which provided some of the intellectual soil on which a Soviet variation of hippie ideals could grow. It subsequently traces some of the fashion and style roots of the Soviet hippies, which range from the Soviet stiliagi to the British Beatles, from glimpses of Western hippies to the Soviet-infused imagination of youngsters wanting to look different than the rest.

A history of botanical collections in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-291
Author(s):  
P.S.M. PHIRI ◽  
D.M. MOORE
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Peak Activity ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Made In

Central Africa remained botanically unknown to the outside world up to the end of the eighteenth century. This paper provides a historical account of plant explorations in the Luangwa Valley. The first plant specimens were collected in 1897 and the last serious botanical explorations were made in 1993. During this period there have been 58 plant collectors in the Luangwa Valley with peak activity recorded in the 1960s. In 1989 1,348 species of vascular plants were described in the Luangwa Valley. More botanical collecting is needed with a view to finding new plant taxa, and also to provide a satisfactory basis for applied disciplines such as ecology, phytogeography, conservation and environmental impact assessment.

Fictive Mode, ‘Journey to the West’, and Transformation of Space: ‘Ali Mubarak’s Discourses of Modernization

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-358
Author(s):  
WEN-CHIN OUYANG
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Theoretical Principle ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The West ◽  
Arab Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Journey To The West

I begin my exploration of ‘Ali Mubarak (1823/4–1893) and the discourses on modernization ‘performed’ in his only attempt at fiction, ‘Alam al-Din (The Sign of Religion, 1882), with a quote from Guy Davenport because it elegantly sums up a key theoretical principle underpinning any discussion of cultural transformation and, more particularly, of modernization. Locating ‘Ali Mubarak and his only fictional work at the juncture of the transformation from the ‘traditional’ to the ‘modern’ in the recent history of Arab culture and of Arabic narrative, I find Davenport's pronouncement tantalizingly appropriate. He not only places the stakes of history and geography in one another, but simultaneously opens up the imagination to the combined forces of time and space that stand behind these two distinct yet related disciplines.

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