Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

scholarly journals Burning International Bridges, Fuelling Global Discontent: The United States and Rejection of the Kyoto Protocol

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Christopher C Joyner
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
The University

This address was presented on 31 October 2001 by Professor Christopher C. Joyner as the 2001 Quentin Quentin-Baxter Memorial Lecture at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Law.Professor Joyner came to New Zealand as a Visiting Canterbury Fellow with the School of Law and Gateway Antarctica at the University of Canterbury from September through December 2001.This paper tackles the controversy surrounding the rejection of the Kyoto Protocol by the United States of America. The paper's particular focus is the international effect of rejection. An updated epilogue discusses the result of the conclusion of the United Nation's Climate Change Convention, and the reaction of the United States.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

scholarly journals Glant, Tibor. 2013. "Amerika, a csodák és csalódások földje." (America, the Land of Wonders and Disappointments.)

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 296-299
Author(s):  
Susan Glanz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States

Glant, Tibor. 2013. Amerika, a csodák és csalódások földje. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok képe a hosszú XIX. század magyar utazási irodalmában (America, the Land of Wonders and Disappointments - the Picture of the United States of America in the Hungarian Travel Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century). Debrecen: University of Debrecen Press. 259 pp. Reviewed by Susan Glanz, St. John's University

scholarly journals A Great Variety of New and Fine Designs: Advertisements for Painted Backgrounds, 1856--1903

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista Keller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comprehensive Index ◽  
Time Period ◽  
History Of

The painted background, as a piece of photographic equipment, has rarely bee studied apart form its decorative function in portraits. This thesis addresses the history, construction, and use of the painted background within studio portrait photography during the latter half of the nineteenth century as revealed from examining advertisements for painted backgrounds. 1,096 advertisements for painted backgrounds were reviewed in nine periodicals published in the United States of America from 1856 to 1903, all taken from the Richard and Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House. This material has been compiled into a comprehensive index revealing an increase in the use of painted background within portrait photography during this time period. The analysis of this research also provides information about the history of painted backgrounds, companies advertising backgrounds, sizes, styles, and costs of backgrounds, and ways companies shipped their backgrounds throughout this era.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 660-663
Author(s):  
Carl C. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
East Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Interesting Article ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Lead Article

IT WOULD SEEM most appropriate that if we in American pediatrics were to be given an opportunity, in the words of the immortal Robert Burns, "to see ourselves as others see us" that this be given by a fellow countryman of his! Such is the case in the most interesting article entitled "Pediatrics in America—Impressions of a Visit," the lead article in the July, 1962, issue of the American Journal of Diseases of Children, by Dr. John O. Forfar, Consultant Pediatrician at the Western General Hospital, Edinburg, and Senior Lecturer in Child Health at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Forfar is kind enough to present us with his impressions of a visit lasting 3 months and including some 10 academic centers in 21 hospitals along the East Coast with some few in the Central and Western America, each visit taking from 1 to 14 days. He starts by making some interesting comparisons between pediatrics in the United States and Great Britain. He notes that although in general there are definitely more physicians per unit of population in the United States than in the British Isles (e.g., USA 1:760, Great Britain 1:900), the percentage of specialists is considerably higher in our country than in his. He also notes that in the United States there are reported to be three general practitioners for five specialists, as compared with three general practitioners for one specialist in England. He further reports that the United States is said to have approximately 9,000 pediatricians, two-thirds of whom are certified, while all of Great Britain has only 250.

ATHEISM AND POLYGENESIS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: CHARLES BRADLAUGH'S RACIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 835-861 ◽  
Author(s):  
NATHAN G. ALEXANDER
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
British Empire ◽  
The United States ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Orthodox Christian ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of

This article examines a previously unexplored chapter in the history of atheism: its close links with nineteenth-century racial anthropology. These links are apparent especially in many atheists’ interest in polygenesis, the theory that human races had separate origins, in contrast to the orthodox Christian doctrine of monogenesis that said all races descended from Adam and Eve. The article's focus is Charles Bradlaugh (1833–91), arguably the most important British atheist of the era, representing the radical working-class, secularist movement that emerged in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. The article charts the ways Bradlaugh and other atheists used the research on polygenesis from leading scientific racists in both Britain and the United States to critique Christianity. It also explores some of the contradictions of this use, namely the ways polygenesis clashed with Darwinism and a longer chronology of the age of the Earth. Finally, the article explores how polygenist ideas informed Bradlaugh's imperial worldview and notes that, despite his acceptance of polygenesis, Bradlaugh was a supporter of the rights of nonwhites in the British Empire, particularly in India.

George Albert Boulenger, 1858 - 1937

1940 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
British Museum ◽  
The United States ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
The University

George Albert Boulenger was born in Brussels on 19 October 1858 and died on 23 November 1937. He was the son of Gustave Boulenger, notary of Mons, and was educated at the University of Brussels. From boyhood he was interested in animals and whilst at the University became known at the Musee d’Histoire Naturelle in Brussels, being appointed to the staff as an assistant naturalist in 1880. Two years later he was invited by Dr Gunther, the Keeper of the Department of Zoology, to join the staff of the British Museum, and was appointed a first class assistant in that year. This appointment he held till his retirement in 1920. He held honorary degrees LL.D. (St Andrews), Ph.D. (Giessen), and D.Sc. (Louvain), and was an honorary member of scientific societies in Belgium, Brazil, Chili, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxemburg, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America. He became a naturalized British subject soon after his appointment to the Museum and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894. After his retirement he returned to Belgium, working on the systematics of European roses in the Jardin Botanique de l’Etat in Brussels. In 1937 he was appointed to the Belgian Order of Leopold.

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