Jerry Schuchalter, Narratives of America and the Frontier in Nineteenth-Century German Literature, Peter Lang, New York, Washington, D.C. 2000 (North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature 25).

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wynfrid Kriegleder
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
North American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
German Literature

scholarly journals La emigración irlandesa decimonónica tras la gran hambruna, parte intrínseca del carácter irlandés

2020 ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Ester Díaz Morillo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The North ◽  
Great Famine ◽  
Irish People

Resumen: A lo largo de la historia han tenido lugar episodios de grandes crisis que transformarían irremediablemente la vida de millones de personas. Uno de estos acontecimientos fue la gran hambruna producida en Irlanda entre 1845 y 1851, uno de los eventos más trágicos de nuestra historia contemporánea que dejaría profundas huellas en su población. Uno de sus efectos más graves fue la oleada migratoria sin precedentes que llevó a numerosos irlandeses especialmente hasta las costas norteamericanas. Este artículo pretende, por tanto, estudiar la migración irlandesa producida por la gran hambruna y las características especiales que mostró y que la hizo distinguirse del resto de olas migratorias europeas decimonónicas. La «nueva Irlanda» que se conformaría en lugares como Estados Unidos nunca perdería su vínculo con la isla y dejaría un legado imborrable en ciudades como Nueva York y Chicago.Abstract: Throughout history there have been episodes of major crisis which would inexorably transform the lives of millions. One of such events was the Great Famine that took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1851, which was one of the most tragic events in our contemporary history and which would leave important marks on its population. The great unprecedented migration wave which led countless Irish people, especially towards the North American coasts, was one of its gravest effects. The aim of this article, therefore, is to explore the Irish migration induced by this Great Famine and the special characteristics that it showed and that made it distinguishable from the rest of the migration waves from nineteenth-century Europe. The “new Ireland” which developed in places such as the United States would never lose its bond with the island and would leave an indelible legacy in cities like New York and Chicago.

The First (and Very Secret) International Steamship Cartel, 1850-1856

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward W. Sloan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
North American ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Early History ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of

This chapter explores the early history of the steamship cartel, following the rivalry between transatlantic shipping companies, the British and North American Royal Steam Packet Company, and the New York and Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Company, known as the Cunard Line and Collins Line, respectively. Their competitive business practices and the first international steamship cartel were kept out of the public eye for a hundred years; author Edward W. Sloan examines surrounding source material, including the correspondence of Liverpool based banker and merchant, William Brown, to determine what knowledge of nineteenth-century shipping be gleaned from the cartel operation, information that remained obscured during its time.

scholarly journals Domesticating Wilderness: How Nature and Culture Converge in the Museum Space

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Goulet
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
North American ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
High Line ◽  
Visual Rhetorics

My thesis compares the Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History and High Line park. I argue that museums and other cultural institutions using museological methodologies seek to construct specific visual rhetorics and narratives in order to shape how visitors define, understand, and place themselves in relation to nature. Both spaces use a combination of artistic display techniques informed by a foundation of scientific knowledge to represent the results of major shifts in thought about how we define nature and respond to problematic human impacts from the eras prior to their construction. The Hall of North American Mammals uses diorama displays that most prominently feature iconic species of animals and majestic landscape paintings, following in a traditional style and appreciation for nature that emerged from specific artistic and scientific developments through the nineteenth century. Conversely, the High Line uses architecture and sculptural planting design to guide visitors along a predetermined series of vignettes that display not only the park itself but also contemporary art and the surrounding New York landscape, following an environmentally-minded ethic that emerged with the twentieth century environmental movement. Though both sites promote an aesthetic appreciation of nature that has origins in the visual culture established in the nineteenth century, the High Line attempts to contemporize this experience through the synthesis of nature and human activity while the Hall of North American Mammals rests more firmly in a dated experience of nature as an other, separated from the human realm.

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