Chronological Overview of the French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-24
Author(s):  
Susan E. Schopp
Keyword(s):  
Asian Country ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Third ◽  
French Experience ◽  
Limited Basis

Chapter 1 provides a chronological overview of France’s near century and a half (1698–1842) in the Canton Trade. The Europe trade was carried out for its first two decades by private traders to whom the French East India Company leased its China monopoly on a limited basis; then, following reorganization in 1719, the Company began to exercise that monopoly itself, sending ships to Canton from 1720 to 1769. In 1769 the trade was opened to all French subjects and continued so until 1785, when the third Company was created; and when the trade was opened once and for all to all French nationals in 1790, this Company became private, in competition with other private companies before it was abolished in 1793. The intra-Asian (country) trade, in contrast, was initially in the hands of the Company, which remained involved in it to some degree before the trade went wholly private in the early 1740s. The French experience demonstrates the need for a reassessment of the traditional definitions of the terms “private” and “company,” and “Europe” and “intra-Asian,” proving that the distinctions between them are in fact far more nuanced, and indeed, often blurry, than traditionally acknowledged.

When do Subnational Policy Challenges Succeed?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Institutional Capacity ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Policy Challenge ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Structural Significance

This chapter elaborates the book’s theoretical framework by focusing on the three critical variables—structural, institutional, and coalitional—that help explain the outcome of the two types of subnational policy challenges conceptualized in Chapter 1. It argues that a subnational jurisdiction’s structural significance is critical for the ability to influence the national policy regime (the second type of policy challenge), while its institutional capacity is essential for the defense of ideologically deviant subnational policy regimes (the first type of policy challenge). The third variable, internal and external coalitional strength, matters for both types of challenges. After situating these hypotheses relative to a variety of political science literatures, the chapter then introduces the Bolivian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian cases by focusing on the similarities that make these countries a productive site for small-N comparison. The chapter also scores each country on the dependent variable and describes the book’s data-collection methods.

Translating Identity-Based Motivation to Intervention: Pathways to Success from School to Jobs and Life

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphna Oyserman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Control School ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Own Name ◽  
Made In

In this chapter I describe the school-to-jobs intervention, a brief inter¬vention that translates the components of identity-based motivation (IBM) into a testable, usable, feasible, and scalable intervention for use in schools and other settings to improve academic outcomes. To develop the intervention, I took the core IBM principles and translated them into a framework and set of activities that have coherence and meaning. These core principles, as detailed in Chapter 1, are that identities, strategies, and interpretations of difficulty matter when they come to mind and seem relevant to the situation at hand. Because thinking is for doing, context matters, and identities, strategies, and interpretations of difficulty can be dynamically constructed given situational constraints and affordances. Therefore the framework and set of activities I developed were sensitive to the context in which education and educational success or failure occurs, the processes by which children succeed or fail to attain their school-success goals, and the action children need to take if they are to succeed. The intervention was fully tested twice (Oyserman, Bybee, & Terry, 2006; Oyserman, Terry, & Bybee, 2002), using random assignment to control (school as usual) and intervention conditions so that it would be possible to know whether the effects were due to the intervention and not to other differences in the children themselves. Importantly, the tested intervention was manualized and fidelity to both manual and underlying theorized process was also tested. In these ways, the intervention stands as a model for development. STJ is currently being used in England and in Singapore. Each country gives the intervention its own name to fit the context. This chapter is divided into three parts. In the first part, I outline the choices I made in developing the intervention. In the second part, I outline the sequenced activities that constitute the intervention (they are detailed in the manual that forms Chapter 4). In the third part, I describe the evidence that the intervention succeeded in changing academic outcomes and that changes occurred through the process predicted by IBM.

‘Promiscuous’ Planting

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Angma Dey Jhala
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Swidden Agriculture ◽  
Chittagong Hill Tracts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hill Tribes

During the eighteenth century, the travelogue flourished as a genre and was used to describe peoples both familiar and unfamiliar to the western observer. Chapter 1 examines one such account, the 1798 travelogue of the Scottish doctor Francis Buchanan in the CHT. In his tour diary, he deployed the language of natural history to describe not only the region’s unusual soil quality, topography, and local jhum or swidden agriculture, but also the religious, cultural, and linguistic practices of the various hill tribes he encountered. In the process, he exposed the tumultuous history of this border region, which found itself at the crossroads of imperial ambition by both the East India Company and the kingdom of Burma. He is also an intriguing example of an Enlightenment era man of science and reason in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

Legal Form

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Zoe Adams
Keyword(s):  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

The chapter builds on the analysis in Chapter 1 with a view to exploring the nature of law and its relationship with capitalist society in more detail. The previous chapter used an analysis of capitalism’s deep structures to explore the nature of law’s role(s) in capitalism, engaging with the various legal ‘functions’ that capitalism presupposes. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the implications of this understanding of law’s role (or function) when it comes to understanding law’s form. The first section begins by developing a theory of the legal form by engaging with the work of Evgeny Pashukanis. The second section teases out the implications of this analysis for our understanding of the relationship between the legal form and capitalism’s contradictions. The third section draws on this analysis to shed light on the relationship between legal form and content. The fourth section makes some tentative conclusions about the implications of this analysis for our understanding of labour law.

Latour’s Modern Is Fanon’s Manichaean

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-194
Author(s):  
Emily Anne Parker
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
The Political ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
The Third ◽  
Adequate Response

The third chapter looks to the work of Bruno Latour and Frantz Fanon, each of whom offers a way of bridging the concerns of Barad and Hartman. Latour and Fanon are often read as primary sources in political ecology and performativity respectively. And yet political ecology and social construction each represent a polarization explored in different ways by Latour and Fanon themselves. This chapter argues that Latour’s denunciation of the modern is helpful, but it does not offer an adequate response to ecofascism. This chapter argues that Fanon’s exposition offers a better framework for bridging the ecological and the political. Although Fanon’s work concurs, with Latour, that that which is biological is polarized with respect to the political, Fanon suggests that the biological is not understood to be without agency so much as it is problematically agential. This chapter completes the philosophy of elemental difference begun in Chapter 1.

French Private Trade at Canton, 1698–1833

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Schopp
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Limited Basis ◽  
First Time

Private trade played a legitimate and important role in Sino-French trade at the very start, as members of the private sector to whom the Compagnie des Indes (French East India Company) leased its monopoly on a limited basis were responsible for carrying out the first two decades of France’s trade with China (1698-1719). Leasing ceased under the second Compagnie (1719-1769); during this era, private trade took the form of the port-permis (‘privilege trade’) and non-Europe (‘country’) trade.When the second Compagnie’s monopoly was suspended in 1769, a period of wholly private trade followed, marking the first time that a nation possessing an East India company abolished that company’s monopoly and opened commerce with China and elsewhere to the private sector. The large number of merchant voyages from France to Canton during this fifteen-year period (1770–1785) shows that private traders were well capable of taking advantage of the new opportunities that were offered. Although a third Compagnie was created in 1785, its abolition eight years later (1793) opened the door for all subsequent Sino-French trade to be conducted by persons in the private sector. Profiles of François and Edmond Rothe, Mr. Thimothée, Gilles Sebire, Julien Bourgogne, François Terrien, and Charles de Constant provide examples of the varied experiences of private traders; three of these individuals earlier served as Compagnie employees.

Climbing the Capitoline Hill

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Moralee
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traditional Uses ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Do So ◽  
High Politics ◽  
Late Roman

Chapter 1 introduces the transformations of the traditional uses of the hill from the third to the sixth century, in particular when emperors climbed the Capitoline Hill, when they chose not to do so, and the dynamics that eventually led to the abandonment of the Capitoline Hill. By the end of the fourth century, Christian rulers and administrators began to treat Rome as pilgrims did, thus terminating processions not at the Capitoline Hill, as they had in the past, but instead at St. Peter’s, the Lateran Palace, or the Forum of Trajan. Far from signaling the end of the hill’s history, the absence from the hill of emperors and their ritual power lifts the hill from the shadow of late Roman high politics and allows us to see how the hill functioned in other ways.

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