Inbreeding, incest, and the incest taboo: the state of knowledge at the turn of the century

This chapter explores a variety of issues central to the turn-of-the-century Austrian panic over trafficking. They include anti-Semitism, Jews as protagonists and victims, and mass migration in an urbanizing world, as well as why particular Austrian cities were associated with the trade in women. The chapter analyzes the government’s domestic and international efforts to combat trafficking, as well as the role bourgeois reform organizations played. It explores the relationship between the trafficker and the trafficked, arguing that these women and girls were not simply victims, but sometimes willing participants, or something in between, in order to sketch a more nuanced picture of turn-of-the-century “white slaving.” The term “trafficker” is employed to reflect the way sources (the state, journalists, reform groups) viewed the issue, not because it can be proved that the problem was as widespread as they claimed.

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The No-Man’s-Land of Language

Poetic Trespass ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691162485.003.0001 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Lital Levy

Keyword(s):

Historical Perspective ◽

Arabic Language ◽

The State ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

Jewish State ◽

No Man's Land ◽

Literature Culture ◽

Language And Ideology ◽

State Of Israel

This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the lives and afterlives of Arabic and Hebrew in Israeli literature, culture, and society. Hebrew is the spiritual, historical, and ideological cornerstone of the State of Israel, and Hebrew literature, having accompanied the national project from its inception, is an integral part of Israeli society. Yet in its broader geopolitical context, Hebrew is the language of a small state that views itself as an embattled island in a hostile Arabic-language sea. The book presents an alternative story of the evolution of language and ideology in the Jewish state. It takes a long historical perspective, beginning not in 1948 with the foundation of the state but rather at the turn of the century, with the early days of Zionist settlement in Palestine. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

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The State and the trade: the drink question at the turn of the century

The Politics of Alcohol ◽

10.7228/manchester/9780719077050.003.0011 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 130-148

Author(s):

James Nicholls

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Turn Of The Century

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The place names of Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa: the Wellman polar expedition, 1898–1899

Polar Record ◽

10.1017/s0032247414000801 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 51 (6) ◽

pp. 624-636

Author(s):

P.J. Capelotti ◽

M. Forsberg

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

The Political ◽

Business Manager ◽

Place Names ◽

National Geographic Society ◽

National Geographic ◽

Franz Josef Land ◽

Large Island ◽

Close Relationship

ABSTRACTIn 1898–1899, the first American polar expedition to Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa [Franz Josef Land], under the leadership of journalist Walter Wellman, added at least forty place names to the islands, of which many survive on modern charts. These include the main discovery of the expedition, the large island named for Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell, then president of the National Geographic Society, along with numerous smaller islands, capes and waterways. The origins of several of these names are now confirmed using recently discovered notes in the papers of Wellman's brother and business manager, Arthur Wellman. They demonstrate the close relationship between Walter Wellman and the political, financial and scientific elites of turn-of-the-century Chicago, Illinois, Washington, D.C., and the state of Ohio, associations derived from Wellman's profession as a Washington correspondent for Chicago newspapers.

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The Early History of Palaeontology in Western Australia: 1791-1899

Earth Sciences History ◽

10.17704/eshi.5.1.t85384660311h176 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 24-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kenneth Mcnamara ◽

Frances Dodds

Keyword(s):

Western Australia ◽

Sedimentary Basins ◽

The State ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

Early History ◽

Geological Society ◽

Australian Museum ◽

History Of ◽

Entire History ◽

Geological Map

The exploration of the coast of Western Australia by English and French explorers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries led to the first recorded discoveries of fossiliferous rocks in Western Australia. The first forty years of exploration and discovery of fossil sites in the State was restricted entirely to the coast of the Continent. Following the establishment of permanent settlements in the 1820s the first of the inland fossil localities were located in the 1830s, north of Albany, and north of Perth. As new land was surveyed; particularly north of Perth, principally by the Gregory brothers in the 1840s and 1850s, Palaeozoic rocks were discovered in the Perth and Carnarvon Basins. F.T. Gregory in particular developed a keen interest in the geology of the State to such an extent that he was able, at a meeting of the Geological Society of London in 1861, to present not only a geological map of part of the State, but also a suite of fossils which showed the existence of Permian and Hesozoic strata. The entire history of nineteenth century palaeontology in Western Australia was one of discovery and collection of specimens. These were studied initially by overseas naturalists, but latterly, in the 1890s by Etheridge at The Australian Museum in Sydney. Sufficient specimens had been collected and described by the turn of the century that the basic outline of the Phanerozoic geology of the sedimentary basins was reasonably well known.

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Neuropsychology at the Turn of the Century

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society ◽

10.1017/s1355617799006128 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 5 (6) ◽

pp. 572-577

Author(s):

Robert W. Butler ◽

Diane B. Howieson ◽

Muriel D. Lezak

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

The State ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

New Developments

This is an encyclopedic report on the state of neuropsychology at the end of the 20th Century. Some individual chapters will have enduring pertinence; some are destined to become historical mileposts as new developments succeed one another in this rapidly evolving discipline. For now and well into the next century, much of what is contained in these volumes will remain pertinent for practitioners, researchers, and theoreticians alike.

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British Hegelianism: A Non-Metaphysical View?

Hegel Bulletin ◽

10.1017/s0263523200003025 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 16 (01) ◽

pp. 17-38

Author(s):

Robert Stern

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Political Thought ◽

Frankfurt School ◽

The State ◽

Turn Of The Century ◽

Current Understanding ◽

Fundamental Aspect ◽

The Political ◽

Political Theories ◽

Interpretative Approach

Of all the major episodes in Hegel's Rezeptionsgeschichte, British Hegelianism can seem the most foreign and outmoded, to have the least relevance to our current understanding of Hegel's thought. Even today, we are lead back to the Young Hegelians for the problems they pose in reading his work; we can sympathise with the concerns of Peirce, Royce and Dewey that drew them to him, and the interpretative picture they developed; we can take seriously the attempts by Croce and Gentile to bring about their “reforms”, given our contemporary ambivalence to his project; and we can see how in different ways the influence of Hegel on Kojève, Sartre, Lukács and the Frankfurt School have made some of his ideas central to our times. But few feel this sense of identification and illumination on encountering the work of Hegel's British interpreters from the turn of the century; rather, in their writings we seem to find a Hegel that is darker, more distant, more difficult for us to relate to contemporary concerns. This is not true in every respect, of course. In particular, several recent commentators have stressed how far it is possible to find here a reading and assessment of Hegel's political thought that does connect directly with many current issues, and that in this respect the thought of T H Green, Bernard Bosanquet and Henry Jones is not dead, either as a tradition within political philosophy, or as an interpretative approach to Hegel's theory of the state. Nonetheless, even those who seek to defend the importance of British Hegelianism in this regard clearly recognize that this is a fairly modest claim: for it fails to resurrect and revitalize the more fundamental aspect of the their encounter with Hegel, which was with his metaphysics – on which, as for Hegel, their political theories were based, rather than being primary in themselves. Those concerned with the political thought of the British Hegelians have not tried to take on this wider issue, leaving unchallenged the assumption that in their appropriation of his metaphysics, the British Hegelians have little to offer us either interpretatively or philosophically.

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