Book Reviews: Modernisation et Territoire: L'électrification du Grand Sudouest de la Fin du XIXème Siècle à 1946, På Sporet 1847–1997: Jernbanerne, DSB og Samfundet, Fokker: A Transatlantic Biography, Horse-Drawn Cabs and Omnibuses in Paris: The Idea of Circulation and the Business of Public Transport, the Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750, Early American Railroads: Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner's ‘Die Innern Communicationen’ (1842–43), Flying the Flag: European Commercial Air Transport since 1945, Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century, Building Castles in the Air: Schiphol, Amsterdam and the Development of Airport Infrastructure in Europe, 1916–96, the Railways of Boston: Their Origins and Development, 1848–1998, Breaking Frame: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century, Beyer Peacock: Locomotive Builders to the World, Exploiting the Sea: Aspects of Britain's Maritime Economy since 1870

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-180
Author(s):  
Michèle Merger ◽  
Andreas Dreyer ◽  
Peter Lyth ◽  
Dorian Gerhold ◽  
David Richardson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
The Political ◽  
Maritime Economy ◽  
Early American ◽  
The World ◽  
Merchant Empires ◽  
Frame Technology

The Wasteland of William Blake

1947 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Frank O'Malley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
William Blake ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Mind ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The question is: how can you put a prophet in his place when, by the very character of prophecy, he is eternally slipping out of place? William Blake was not an eighteenth century or nineteenth century mind or a typically modern mind at all. What I mean to say, right at the start, is that, although well aware of his time and of time altogether, he was not in tune with the main tendencies of his or our own time. Indeed time was a barrier he was forever crashing against. Blake's talent raved through the world into the fastnesses of die past and dramatically confronted the abysses of the future. His age did not confine him. As a poet he does not seem finally to have had real spiritual or artistic rinship with any of the rationalist or romantic writers of England. As a thinker he came to despise the inadequacy of the limited revolutionary effort of the political rebels of the Romantic Revolution. Blake's name is not to be seen mounted first with that of Paine or Godwin, of Rousseau or Voltaire, of Wordsworth or Shelley or Byron or Keats. With these he has, ultimately, little or nothing in common. At any rate, his voice and mood and impact are thoroughly different from the more publicly successful voices of the period of his life, older and younger generations alike.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-202
Author(s):  
Philip Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Climate History ◽  
Accurate Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Dimensions ◽  
Better Than

My own interest in the topics of this book dates back a good many years. In fact, it predates the emergence of the modern field of climate history, or the identification of global warming as an incipient menace. In saying that, I am claiming no status as a prodigy, still less a prophet. Rather, in my teenage years, I read a great deal of speculative fiction, science fiction, in which themes of climate change and cataclysm have long percolated, at least since the latter years of the nineteenth century. We can debate how accurate the scientific analyses or predictions were in many of these works—in many cases, the level of accurate knowledge was minimal—but those works had the inordinate advantage of thinking through the human and cultural consequences of catastrophe, commonly speculating about religious dimensions. Obviously, some works succeeded better than others in that regard, but the essential project was critically important. If we are foretelling that the world will be assailed by lethal menaces, then we cannot fail to go on to imagine what the political or cultural consequences would or should be....

Art and civic culture in Birmingham in the late nineteenth century

Urban History ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Hartnell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civic Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Consensus View ◽  
Municipal Reforms

This paper looks at Joseph Chamberlain's Birmingham and claims that George Dawson's famous ‘civic gospel’ which laid the ground for the municipal reforms was permeated by a consensus view of the moral and civic role of art. It suggests that it was this combination of philosophy in action through art which created the special Birmingham context for a vibrant civic culture which led to the political and artistic achievements of the 1870s and 1880s. For a few brief years, this combination enabled Birmingham to stand above other British cities and lay claim to the titles of ‘the best-governed city in the world’ and ‘perhaps the most artistic town in England’.

scholarly journals Imagining the Serbs revisionism in the recent historiography of nineteenth-century Serbian history

Balcanica ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 325-346
Author(s):  
Milos Kovic
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Social Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cold War

The end of the Cold War has brought about a complete change of the political and social context in the world. Consequently, history, as a scholarly discipline, has also undergone a significant transformation. In this broader context, with the destruction of Yugoslavia, the interpretations of the Serbian nineteenth century have been experiencing a far-reaching revision. It is necessary, therefore, to scrutinize the main topics of the debate on nineteenth-century Serbian history in recent world historiography, as well as to examine the main causes of this academic revision.

scholarly journals The Geopolitics of Decadence

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-620
Author(s):  
Regenia Gagnier
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
International Competition ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Anxiety Depression

The conditions of rapid change and modernization that swept the world from the second half of the nineteenth century enforced the new nationalisms, imperialisms, racisms, anti-Semitisms, and, more positively, sexualities that are again sweeping the world today. The longue durée of modern globalization that began with British industrialization continues with our contemporary forms of technological expansion, international competition, populist disaffection, and accompanying forms of stress, anxiety, depression, nostalgia, regression: decadence. This essay will focus on the political-economic conditions of the period and the cosmopolitanism and progressivism that resisted, and continue to resist, them. I conclude with the classic Japanese analysis of the condition, Kobayashi Hideo's “Literature of the Lost Home” (1933).

Republican Socialism and Gendered Portrayals of Catholic Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century France

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 78-100
Author(s):  
Randolph Miller
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
The Political ◽  
French Politics ◽  
Sacred Heart ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The World ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
French Catholicism

The popularity of Ultramontanism and the political energy provided by Sacred Heart piety gave French Catholicism of the post-Commune era a militant posture, one that republican socialists saw as antagonistic to their political objectives. This article shows that socialists responded by emasculating their Catholic opponents. Drawing on the materialist tradition that emerged from the Enlightenment and Revolution, and highlighting the resignation and emotive nature of radical Catholic piety, republican socialists maintained that religious belief was evidence of inadequate virility. Speaking to the anxieties of the period, which included concerns about racial degeneration and the adequacy of France on the world stage, this gendering of epistemological convictions allowed socialists to argue for the exclusion of religion and the religious male from French politics.

Problems of a Bismarck Biography

1947 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Rothfels
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
The Political ◽  
Full Credit ◽  
The World ◽  
German Reich

Friedrich Meinecke in his recent book on The German Catastrophe quotes a Danish friend and historian as saying to him during the Hitler regime: “You know, that I cannot love Bismarck, but in the present situation I must say: Bismarck belonged to our world.” It would be easy to contrast this nicely balanced statement with innumerable others which, in the last years, indulged in indictments of the founder of the German Reich as a “Nazi forefather” or threw him into the line of descent which is supposed to lead from Frederick IPs attack on Silesia in 1740 to Hitler's attack on Poland in 1939. Thus the myth of the “Iron Chancellor,” of the man “in high dragoon's boots” revived and, amazingly enough, the Nazi trick of appropriating “Prussianism” as epitomized in the pageantry of the so-called “day of Potsdam,” was given full credit by many of their very adversaries. But there were also the voices of those who, in a more careful and responsible way, tried to find out what links may possibly connect the beginnings with the end of the Prusso-German Reich or may point ahead from 1866 and 1871 or from 1879 to the potentialities of the Hitler regime. Meinecke's treatise is one of the finest examples of such conscientious scrutiny carried out by Germans themselves. From whatever angle this question is raised the towering and baffling figure of Bismarck undoubtedly has won a new actuality. And it can easily be understood that in the recent crisis of statesmanship and particularly in view of the disaster which Germany brought upon herself and the world, attention turned back to the man who stands for decisive changes in the external setup as well as in the intellectual and moral, the political and social climate of nineteenth century Europe.

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