“A Tremendous Sensation”: Cross-Dressing in the 19th-Century San Francisco Press

The impact of Henry George's land value taxation theory was nothing less than global in scope, and his epochal Progress and Poverty – first published in 1879 – gained wider fame than any other political or socio-economic treatise emanating from an American pen. While George's doctrine was essentially a product of of his experience in California during the land-grabbing 60's and 70's, the most pervasive influence of the San Francisco sage was not manifested at home, but in Europe, Australasia and other distant places.It is with some aspects of this remarkable diffusion of Georgeism during the latter part of the 19th century that this study is concerned. In particular, we would like to examine the circumstances under which this ideological stimulus was transmitted and received in such divergent settings as England, China and Japan. First we will trace the history of the Georgeist influence in each of these countries and then compare their respective patterns of development.

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The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake

After the Earth Quakes ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195179132.003.0008 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Susan Elizabeth Hough ◽

Roger G. Bilham

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

19Th Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

The United States ◽

Gold Rush ◽

Westward Expansion ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

The Waves ◽

Collective Psyche ◽

Large Earthquakes

By 1886 the population of the United States had grown to over 50 million people. Both the East Coast and the Midwest were by this time well populated with bustling towns and cities. Railroads had sprung up as well, greatly facilitating land travel, which in turn helped spark further migration and trade. The tide of westward expansion had long since steamrolled over whatever reservations the New Madrid earthquakes might have caused. By 1886 the gold rush was already several decades old, and San Francisco had grown into a lively urban center with a population of 35,000—about 5,000 more than the population of Chicago. A number of notable earthquakes had occurred in California by the end of the 19th century. While the massive Fort Tejon earthquake of 1857 occurred too early in the state’s history to leave a lasting impression on the collective psyche, large earthquakes along the eastern Sierras in 1872 and on the Hayward fault in 1872 had begun to suggest that California might be earthquake country. Still, as of the late 1800s people had nothing approaching a modern understanding of earthquakes—neither their underlying physical processes nor their fundamental characteristics. As the 19th century drew to a close, scientists did not have any way to gauge the overall size of an earthquake, for scales had been developed only to rank the severity of shaking from a particular earthquake at a particular location. Whereas scientists today can easily rank temblors in terms of their overall size, or energy release, in earlier times people could only gauge an earthquake’s overall effects, an assessment that can sometimes prove misleading. For example, the overall reach of earthquake shaking depends on the nature of the rocks through which the waves travel. As noted in chapter 5, waves travel especially efficiently in central and eastern North America, and especially inefficiently in California. Thus an earthquake of a given magnitude will pack a disproportionately heavy punch in the former region.

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Proyectos en torno al convento de San Francisco el Grande de Madrid: incertidumbres urbanísticas e indefinición paisajística | Projects concerning the convent of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid: urban uncertainty and landscaping indefinition

ZARCH ◽

10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201661462 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 190

Author(s):

Benito Jiménez

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

Empty Space ◽

Royal Palace ◽

Historical Cartography ◽

Siglo Xix ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

The City

La tradición ha hecho de la llamada Cornisa oeste de Madrid su imagen más definitoria y distintiva. El Palacio Real y el colindante convento de San Francisco el Grande son sus elementos patrimoniales más significativos. Previa a su desamortización y posterior demolición, el convento ocupaba una vasta extensión de terreno, formada por huertas, patios y claustros ajardinados, que se distribuían de manera orgánica en terrazas descendentes hacia el río Manzanares. En la actualidad un gran vacío rodea su basílica, el único vestigio conventual. Desde el siglo XIX varias controvertidas propuestas han tratado de caracterizar y revitalizar ese espacio indefinido, regenerar su degradado entorno y dar así continuidad paisajística a la Cornisa. El presente estudio pretende valorar la evolución del entorno del convento, intentando explicar el porqué de esa especie de no-lugar, mediante la comparación y revisión de la cartografía histórica, las representaciones existentes y los diferentes proyectos de intervención planteados en la zona.The tradition has made the so-named west Cornice of Madrid the most defining and distinctive image of the city. The Royal Palace and the nearby Convent of San Francisco el Grande are its most significant heritage elements. Before its confiscation and subsequent partial demolition, the convent occupied a vast extension of land, formed by orchards, patios and gardened cloisters, organically distributed on terraces descending towards the River Manzanares. Nowadays, a large empty space encircles the Basilica, which is the only remaining convent vestige. From the 19th Century onwards, several controversial proposals aimed to characterize and revitalize this undefined space, regenerate its deteriorated surroundings and thus provide landscaping continuity to the fragmented Cornice. The present study attempts to assess the evolution of the convent environment and explain the reason of this “no-place” by comparing and reviewing historical cartography, existing representations and the different intervention projects proposed for the area.

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Die Entwicklung der Homöopathie in den Vereinigten Staaten

Gesnerus ◽

10.1163/22977953-0510102007 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 51 (1-2) ◽

pp. 84-100

Author(s):

Josef M. Schmidt

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cultural History ◽

20Th Century ◽

19Th Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

United States Of America ◽

The United States ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

The 19Th Century

After an enormous spread in the United States of America during the 19th century homeopathy had almost completely vanished from the scene by the beginning of the 20th century. For the past two decades, however, it seems once again to experience a kind of renaissance. Major aspects of this development—in terms of medical and cultural history, sociology, politics, and economics—are illustrated on the basis of a general history of homeopathy in the United States. Using original sources, a first attempt is made to reconstruct the history of homeopathy in San Francisco which has some institutional peculiarities that make it unique within the whole country.

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The Chinese Lady

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1017/s1054204321000149 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 65 (2) ◽

pp. 167-172

Author(s):

Colleen Kim Daniher

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

The 19Th Century

Magic Theatre’s San Francisco production of Lloyd Suh’s The Chinese Lady plays with theatrical time to stage a confrontation between the 19th-century American past and the Trump-era present.

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Art libraries in Romania

Art Libraries Journal ◽

10.1017/s0307472200009214 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 24-25

Author(s):

Mihaela Danga

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

International Community ◽

Automated System ◽

Annual Conference ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

Romanian Art

Specialised art libraries emerged in Romania during the 19th century. Today, all of Romania’s art libraries are facing similar problems, the result of years of isolation from the international community and from one another, compounded by an absence (until recently) of education for librarianship, and by a continuing lack of money and adequate accomodation. In addition, different kinds of art library are confronted by problems specific to their functions. However, the renewal of contact with the wider world is bringing many benefits; work has started on a common automated system, initially involving a handful of art libraries; and three art libraries are trying to establish a Romanian art libraries society. (The text of a paper presented to the Annual Conference of ARLIS/NA at San Francisco, January 28th — February 3rd 1993. Please note that this report dates from over two years ago. We eagerly await further news.)

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Remains of the 19th Century: Deep storage of contaminated hydraulic mining sediment along the Lower Yuba River, California

Elem Sci Anth ◽

10.1525/elementa.333 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tyler K. Nakamura ◽

Michael Bliss Singer ◽

Emmanuel J. Gabet

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

San Francisco ◽

Sierra Nevada ◽

Gold Mining ◽

Environmental Damage ◽

Ecological Problem ◽

Hydraulic Mining ◽

Sierra Nevada Foothills ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

And Storage

Since the onset of hydraulic gold mining in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills in 1852, the environmental damage caused by displacement and storage of hydraulic mining sediment (HMS) has been a significant ecological problem downstream. Large volumes of mercury-laden HMS from the Yuba River watershed were deposited within the river corridor, creating the anthropogenic Yuba Fan. However, there are outstanding uncertainties about how much HMS is still contained within this fan. To quantify the deep storage of HMS in the Yuba Fan, we analyzed mercury concentrations of sediment samples collected from borings and outcrops at multiple depths. The mercury concentrations served as chemostratigraphic markers to identify the contacts between the HMS and underlying pre-mining deposits. The HMS had mercury concentrations at least ten-fold higher than pre-mining deposits. Analysis of the lower Yuba Fan’s volume suggests that approximately 8.1 × 107 m3 of HMS was deposited within the study area between 1852 and 1999, representing ~32% of the original Yuba Fan delivered by 19th Century hydraulic gold mining. Our estimate of the mercury mass contained within this region is 6.7 × 103 kg, which is several orders of magnitude smaller than what was estimated to have been lost to the mining process. We suggest that this discrepancy is likely due to a combination of missing (yet to be found) mercury masses stored upstream, overestimated losses during mining, and high delivery of mercury to the lowland Sacramento Valley and to the San Francisco Bay-Delta system, where it poses a great risk to sensitive ecosystems.

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Grammatical Descriptions in Manchu Grammar Books from the Qing Dynasty

Histoire Épistémologie Langage ◽

10.1051/hel/2019004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 39-55

Author(s):

Takashi Takekoshi

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

Qing Dynasty ◽

The Qing Dynasty ◽

Chinese Scholars ◽

High Degree ◽

The 19Th Century

In this paper, we analyse features of the grammatical descriptions in Manchu grammar books from the Qing Dynasty. Manchu grammar books exemplify how Chinese scholars gave Chinese names to grammatical concepts in Manchu such as case, conjugation, and derivation which exist in agglutinating languages but not in isolating languages. A thorough examination reveals that Chinese scholarly understanding of Manchu grammar at the time had attained a high degree of sophistication. We conclude that the reason they did not apply modern grammatical concepts until the end of the 19th century was not a lack of ability but because the object of their grammatical descriptions was Chinese, a typical isolating language.

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