From Wheel House to Counting House

1992 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Business History ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Nautical Archaeology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Port System ◽  
History Department ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Interests

This volume is dedicated to Maritime Business History, by means of commemorating the career of Professor Peter Neville Davies, a prominent member of the Economic and Social History department of the University of Liverpool (a career spanning the dates 1964-1992). The volume is divided into four sections. The first is a tribute and appreciation of Professor Davies, which also acts as an introduction to his work for unfamiliar readers. The second section focuses on business aspects of British maritime history, with particular attention to the impact of British shipping overseas, and the rise and decline of shipbuilding industries. The third section is specific to Liverpool and Merseyside, and explores the local maritime history of the area, including trade with the Mediterranean, local shipbuilding, the Mersey port system, and nautical archaeology. The final section explores subjects within international maritime history, particularly within Norway and America. All essays and topics covered aim to collectively and significantly develop the field of maritime business history, and all are directly related to Professor Davies' academic interests, as a means of celebrating Professor Davies own accomplishments during his career. The journal concludes with a comprehensive bibliography of Professor Davies' work.

Continuity of Traditions in the Context of the History of One Department: Lev Gerasimovich Filatov and Alexander Petrovich Lebedev

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-161
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Kistanov ◽  
Olga V. Koshina
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social History ◽  
Structural Unit ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. The relevance of the topic is related to the preservation of the significant role of the individual in the development of education. The head of the department, as one of the key structural divisions of the higher educational institution, has played an important role in the implementation of the scientific and pedagogical tasks of the university and the reproduction of teaching staff. Materials and Methods. The methodological basis of the research is the socio-cultural perspective of the study of the life activity of educational actors, which involves taking into account the social, cultural, spiritual and moral factors of the formation of the personality of a higher school teacher and studying the impact of this personality on the development of education. The study is historical and biographical in nature, contains elements of the direction of social history. Results. The scientific and pedagogical path of the two heads of the Department of the History of the Motherland (until 1991 – the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union) is also shown in the context of the development of the department as a structural unit of the university, the higher school in the republic. The socio-cultural conditions for the formation of personal and professional qualities of two teachers, scientists, heads of the department, their role in the development of one of the most important structural divisions of the university are revealed. Discussion and Conclusions. Continuity of personnel, preservation of traditions, and transfer of experience are important for all spheres of society, and especially for the sphere of science and education. On the example of the activity of the personalities of the two heads of the department, the implementation of the continuity of managerial, methodological, pedagogical principles of teaching and management of the structural unit of the university is illustrated.

Sprachgeschichte als Textsortengeschichte. Zur Linguistik der Beschwerde am Beispiel der "cahiers de doléances"

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Issel-Dombert
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social History ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Text Type ◽  
Grassroots Movements ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Language And Law

To this day, French politicians and grassroots movements refer to the cahiers de doléances of the Ancien Régime as a primordial democratic legitimation tool for self-expression, for the pooling of opinions and the negotiation of social interests. The precursor of the petition, it has entered collective memory as the "French recipe" of political participation from below. As a mouthpiece for democratic articulation, this text type not only documents the actual state of a society described by its authors, but also far-reaching visions of the future. It can thus be read equally as an indicator of the disposition prevalent in a society at a given time, but as a social history of France as well. Based on culture-oriented linguistics, this study traces the evolution of the cahiers de doléances from the beginning of their lore to its end. This study work was awarded the "Prix Germaine de Staël" as well as the advancement award "Language and Law" of the University of Regensburg.

Our Rightful Place

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry L. Birdwhistell ◽  
Deirdre A. Scaggs
Keyword(s):  
Women Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Rightful Place ◽  
Women's Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Since women first entered the University of Kentucky (UK) in 1880 they have sought, demanded, and struggled for equality within the university. The period between 1880 and 1945 at UK witnessed women’s suffrage, two world wars, and an economic depression. It was during this time that women at UK worked to take their rightful place in the university’s life prior to the modern women’s movement of the 1960s and beyond. The history of women at UK is not about women triumphant, and it remains an untidy story. After pushing for admission into a male-centric campus environment, women created women’s spaces, women’s organizations, and a women’s culture often patterned on those of men. At times, it seemed that a goal was to create a woman’s college within the larger university. However, coeducation meant that women, by necessity, competed with men academically while still navigating the evolving social norms of relationships between the sexes. Both of those paths created opportunities, challenges, and problems for women students and faculty. By taking a more women-centric view of the campus, this study shows more clearly the impact that women had over time on the culture and environment. It also allows a comparison, and perhaps a contrast, of the experiences of UK women with other public universities across the United States.

The University of Groningen in the World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaas Berkel ◽  
Guus Termeer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
International University ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

The University of Groningen has been an international university since its foundation in 1614. The first professors formed a rich international community, and many students came from outside the Netherlands, especially from areas now belonging to Germany. Internationalization, a popular slogan nowadays, is therefore nothing new, but its meaning has changed over time. How did the University of Groningen grow from a provincial institution established for religious reasons into a top-100 university with 36,000 students, of whom 25% come from abroad and almost half of the academic staff is of foreign descent? What is the identity of this four-century-old university that is still strongly anchored in the northern part of the Netherlands but that also has a mind that is open to the world? The history of the university, as told by Klaas van Berkel and Guus Termeer, ends with a short paragraph on the impact of the corona crisis.

Liverpool Shipowners, the Mediterranean, and the Transition from Sail to Steam During the Mid-Nineteenth Century

1992 ◽  
pp. 153-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.L. Cottrell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
Nautical Archaeology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mediterranean

This section of the journal is comprised of essays exploring the local maritime history of Liverpool and Merseyside. P.L. Cottrell studies Merseyside trade with the Mediterranean; Frank Neal considers the organisation of Liverpudlian ship carpenters and their impact on shipbuilding; Adrian Jarvis examines the role of Alfred Jones in Liverpool's maritime history; and Michael Stammers discusses Professor Davies' extensive study of Liverpool's nautical archaeology.

New nurses, new spaces: a preview of the AACN History Study

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
JE Lynaugh ◽  
J Fairman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Social History ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Critical Care Nursing ◽  
New Nurses ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

This article previews selected findings of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses History Project that is being conducted under the auspices of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Using methods of social history research, we reviewed pertinent literature, studied documents of institutions and organizations, and interviewed a broad array of participants. Analysis of this evidence resulted in a history of the evolution of nursing and hospital care for patients with life-threatening illnesses during the 40-year period since 1950. We explored the effects of changing public and professional ideas about the nature of critical illness, the effects of technology, and the historical dimensions of critical care nursing. Special attention was given to the events and circumstances that led to the development of AACN and the reciprocal relationships between AACN and the care of critically ill people.

scholarly journals ‘Civilizing the warlike Indians:’ A Confrontation of the Rutherford Library's Glyde Mural

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The Glyde mural in the University of Alberta’s Rutherford Library is a testament to the history of Alberta as it was understood by white society in the 1950s. A contemporary viewer described the painting as depicting “the civilizing influences in the early life of the Province.” The prominent historical heroes in the mural represent the main institutions that were involved in this process of ‘civilizing the savages'. An artefact of modern colonial racism, it has overshadowed the threshold of the library’s South reading room since 1951. This article brings the ideas of several historical theorists to bear on the impact and implications of the historical memory invoked by the mural.

The Left and the Revolutions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Priestland
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Impact

This article provides a new interpretation of Europe’s revolutionary era between 1917 and 1923, exploring the origins of the revolutionary wave and its diverse impact across Europe, focusing on the role of the Left. It seeks to revive the insights of social history and historical sociology, which have been neglected by a recent historiography, that stress the role of contingency, the impact of war, and the influence of militaristic cultures. Yet unlike older social history approaches which emphasised domestic social conflict at the expense of ethnic politics and empire, it argues that the revolutions were the result of a crisis of old geopolitical and ethnic hierarchies, as well as social ones. It develops a comparative approach, presenting a new way of incorporating the experience of eastern Europe and the Caucasus into the history of Europe’s revolutions, and a new analysis of why Russia provided such fertile ground for revolutionary politics.

Lauro Quirini

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Parry
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
Political Career ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
University Of Padua ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Interests

Lauro Quirini (b. 1420–d. 1479) was a major Venetian humanist of the mid-15th century. He was born into a patrician family and pursued academic interests in his early life. He studied at the University of Padua, receiving doctoral degrees in arts in 1440 and law in 1448. Quirini was a recognized master in Greek and Latin, and he used his linguistic skills to spread his love of Aristotle in the original Greek. He participated in a number of controversies with fellow humanists (such as Poggio Bracciolini, Leonardo Bruni, and Lorenzo Valla) and corresponded with others. He translated a number of works into Latin from Greek and wrote a series of treatises concerning nobility. These treatises—which use Aristotelian categories to argue that nobility is an inborn attribute of the patriciate—are one of Quirini’s major legacies. In 1452, though, he relocated from Venice to Crete where his family owned lands. He remained there for the rest of his life, trading in a number of commodities. While on Crete, Quirini acted as a go-between book dealer for Cardinal Bessarion, with whom he maintained a lifelong relationship. As a result of his relocation, Quirini did not participate in Venetian domestic politics, a feature that differentiates him from other Venetian humanists, who usually pursued an active political career alongside their intellectual interests. Quirini’s second contemporary legacy is the series of letters he wrote from Crete concerning his worries about the advance of the Ottoman Empire after its conquest of Constantinople. In true humanist fashion, he particularly highlighted the impact that the fall of this ancient capital had on culture, maintaining that Turkish victories threatened the continued existence and preservation of countless antique manuscripts.

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