Like a Butterfly Stirring within a Chrysalis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Commodity Prices ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Risk And Uncertainty ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Finance Capital ◽  
The Press

Finance infiltrated fiction, just as fiction enabled readers of the early 1870s Arabic press to apprehend the dangerous and deceptive fictitiousness underwriting a financialized society. With the rise of a credit economy in Beirut, transactions textualized in the form of ledgers, receipts, checks, promissory notes, and mortgages were securing the economy, but the very immateriality of these exchanges introduced a new kind of risk and uncertainty. Fiction loomed within finance and threatened dreams of progress; speculating in Arabic became the province of novelists and financiers alike. Merchants and brokers became stock protagonists of novels by Salīm al-Bustānī and Yūsuf al- Shalfūn. Enabled by the telegraph, a new kind of speed emerged: merchants and traders relied on the press for the latest shipping news and commodity prices; a single year’s silk harvests could make or break fortunes; and imported fashions changed so fast, as one printed anecdote had it, that a wife’s hat could go out of style before her husband even made it home from the shop. Ultimately, a sense of anxiety pervaded a Beirut reading public increasingly worried about the costs of keeping pace with the flows and imbalances of a global order of finance capital.

Autocratic Journalism: The Case of the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency

Slavic Review ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
Louise Mcreynolds
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Support ◽  
National Development ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Government ◽  
Mass Circulation

At the close of the nineteenth century, the tsarist government faced an increasingly restive reading public, well-informed on a variety of issues through the proliferation of mass-circulation newspapers. A punitive censorship served as the basis for the autocracy's policies toward the press, but by 1900 it had long outgrown the requirements for dealing with a society undergoing modernization. As public opinion tacitly began to be recognized as a factor in national development, some officials realized that they must adapt to the changing journalistic demands of Russia's readers. Hoping to gain public support for the government, they knew that the prohibition of certain controversial topics would not generate the backing they sought. Following the example of successful commercial publishers, they argued that the government should take an active lead in supplying news.

From Data to News: Weather Reporting, Telegraphy and the Press in Colonial Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 157 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Cryle
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This article examines the role of telegraphy and newspapers in the provision of weather news during the late nineteenth century. In order to trace the transformation from data to news, the discussion begins by documenting the formation of both technical and professional meteorological networks, at a time when government observers across the colonies began to compile joint reports for an expanding reading public. In this respect, its focus will be primarily on the use of the inter-colonial telegraph, and upon two influential observers operating in different Australian colonies: Charles Todd in South Australia and Clement Wragge in Queensland. In order to explore the development of colonial weather networks in the age of the telegraph, the article examines the protracted press and professional controversy that arose between these two media personalities, and maps the transformation of weather telegrams into news by late colonial newspapers.

scholarly journals El precio de leer a los clásicos en el siglo XVIII: los lectores españoles de versiones vendidas por suscripción

2018 ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
María Jesús García Garrosa
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Press ◽  
Late Eighteenth

RESUMENEl estudio aborda los aspectos comercial y sociológico de la difusión de los clásicos en la España dieciochesca. Utilizaré dos tipos de fuentes: anuncios en la prensa sobre la puesta a la venta de ciertas obras significativas y listas de suscripción. El análisis de los precios y formas de comercialización supone un primer acercamiento al grado de difusión que pudieron alcanzar los autores clásicos en traducciones contemporáneas o en reediciones (normalmente revisadas, ampliadas o anotadas) de versiones del siglo XVI. Posteriormente estudiaré las listas de suscripción a cuatro obras vendidas por este sistema en la última década del siglo; los datos que esos listados proporcionan y la identificación de los nombres que figuran en ellos ayudarán a trazar un perfil sociocultural de sus compradores, permitiendo presentar una aproximación al público lector de las versiones españolas de autores clásicos en el último tercio del siglo XVIII.PALABRAS CLAVELibros vendidos por suscripción, autores grecolatinos, anuncios en la prensa, precios, perfil sociocultural de los lectores, España de finales del siglo XVIII. TITLEThe Price of Reading the Classics in the Eighteenth Century: Spanish Readers of Translations Sold by SubscriptionABSTRATCThe present study focuses on commercial and sociological features of the dissemination of classical texts in eighteenth-century Spain. It makes use of two types of source material: press advertisements detailing the sale of certain major works and subscription lists. The analysis of prices and retail methods in the press enables an initial calculation of purchase statistics for Spanish buyers achieved by new translations or re-editions(usually revised, amplified or annotated) of translations carried out in the sixteenth century. There follows an examination of subscription lists of four works sold by this method in the final decade of the eighteenth century. The data provided by such lists and the identification of those whose names they include permit a social and cultural profile of their purchasers to be constructed, providing a picture of the reading public for Spanish translations of classical authors in the final third of the eighteenth century.KEY WORDSBooks sold by subscription, Greek and Roman authors, press advertisements, prices, social and cultural profile of readership, late eighteenth-century Spain.

The Book of Academician Kiril Hristov "The Struggle of Ideas in the Science – Clash of Ideas"

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-187
Author(s):  
Nina Hristova
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Data ◽  
The Press ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World

Kiril Vasilev was born on 23rd May 1918 and died in 2014 in Sofia. In 1938 he was a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). During the Second World War he was a partisan in the Second Rhodope Brigade ‘”Vasil Kolarov”. Kiril Vasilev attended major Thompson from Greece to Bulgaria. After 9th September 1944 he was one of the main opponents against the organization “Friendship Motherland”, which tried to change names of the Bulgarians, who professed the Islam.Kiril Vasilev studied Philosophy at Sofia University. He was a lecturer at the University and read lectures on Historical Materialism. He was a head of the department of “Dialectical and Historical Materialism”. Kiril Vasilev laid the foundations of the Empiric Sociology in Bulgaria.Kiril Vasilev was not a conformist. He came into conflict with many leaders of the BCP. His clashes with Todor Zhivkov were frequent. He leveled criticism at all existing political models. Kiril Vasilev was not flattering in his interpretation on present-day political, economical, and social data, too. The special features of Kiril Vasilev`s character, his direct statement, and his experience give us an additional clearness in relation to the fate of his book. The monograph, according to his own words, was written about 1978, but it was accessible to the reading public only in 2008. In this work we can notice some inconvenient ideas, for the sake of that this book probably cames off the press approximately 30 years later.

scholarly journals From the Newspaper Serial to the Novel (1853–1863): Mediation of the Periodical Press in the Foundation of Alberto Blest Gana’s Narrative Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-148
Author(s):  
Hernán Pas
Keyword(s):  
National Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Alberto Blest Gana ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Press ◽  
Martin Rivas

Abstract Scholarly studies on Alberto Blest Gana have generally disregarded the author’s production prior to his narrative cycle, begun with his novel La aritmética en el amor [Arithmetic in Love] (1860), awarded first prize in a literary contest sponsored by the Universidad de Chile. Nonetheless, the canonical cycle of his first narrative period (which includes his famous Martín Rivas and El ideal de un calavera) shares with his earlier fiction the fact that the novels were originally published in the press. Indeed, with the exception of the award-winning novel and Juan de Aria – published in the Aguinaldo of the newspaper El Ferrocarril – all the author’s production from his first narrative period was published in periodical publications, decisive in consolidating his narrative project. This essay analyses the mediation of the periodical press (and its subgenres, such as the folletín [newspaper serial] and the artículo de costumbres [a literary vignette of customs]) in the foundation of Blest Gana’s narrative scheme, contemplating the diversity of his production. The main features of his project were embodied, materially speaking, in the space of the folletín. It was in this space, in short, where the author’s narrative managed to challenge an extended reading public, necessary for the constitution of a national literature.

Policing the Caribbean

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-138
Author(s):  
Jack Daniel Webb
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Fast Moving ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
State Actors

This chapter examines the powerful resonance of Haiti in Britain in the aftermath of two conflicts that took place almost simultaneously in the Caribbean in October 1865: the sinking of the H. M. S. Bulldog in Haitian waters and the Morant Bay War in Jamaica. The British authorities and presses were initially convinced that Haitians had aided the protestors at Morant Bay. When scant evidence for this was forthcoming, the press insisted instead that Haiti had acted as a powerful inspiration for the protestors. In this fast-moving situation, British diplomats worked together with the Haitian state. Yet, the perceived opposition of Haiti to the British Empire in the Caribbean was further consolidated when news arrived that the Bulldog had been defeated by Haitian rebels. The various lines of communication between Haitian state actors and rebels and British diplomats, journalists and a popular reading public made for rapidly fluctuating representations of Haiti in this period.

The Arabic Palestinian Press between the Two World Wars

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kabha
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Reading Public ◽  
British Mandate ◽  
National Movement ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The Press ◽  
Palestinian Society ◽  
Zionist Movement ◽  
Palestinian National Movement

This chapter discusses the development of the Arabic press in Palestine during the years 1929–39, a period that saw the emergence of the Palestinian national movement in its struggle with the Zionist movement and the administration of the British mandate to prevent the fulfilment of the programme for a Jewish national home. The press played a critical role in this process, from its beginnings in the mid-1920s through a period of growing strength following the events of 1929 which peaked during the Great Strike of April–October 1936. In its examination of the development of the Palestinian national movement and its cultural and social characteristics, the chapter addresses the background of the growth of the press, the reading public, the operating political forces and the extent of press influence in the shaping of public opinion in Palestinian society.

Social science and the press: A case study and its implications.

1981 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 480-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell H. Weigel ◽  
Jeffrey J. Pappas
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
The Press
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