Book Review: Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World, Bicycle, Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity, Genoa and the Sea: Policy and Power in an Early Modern Maritime Republic, 1559–1684, Seen on the Packhorse Tracks, Ten-Pound Poms: Australia's Invisible Migrants, Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation and Empire, William Beardmore: Transport is the Thing, Surrey and the Motor: The Story of Road Development, Vehicle Manufacture and Motor Sport in the County, a Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946, Robert Stephenson: Eminent Engineer, Straße, Bahn, Panorama. Verkehrswege und Landschaftsveränderung in Deutschland von 1930 bis 1990, Twisted Rails, Sunken Ships: The Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Steamboat and Railroad Accident Investigation Reports, 1833–1879, Shipbuilding on the Thames and Thames-Built Ships, Vom nationalen zum globalen Wettbewerb. Die deutsche und die amerikanische Reifenindustrie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (From National to Global Competition: The German and American Tyre Industries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-176
Author(s):  
Ted Ownby ◽  
Nicholas Oddy ◽  
Georgina Hickey ◽  
M. Elisabetta Tonizzi ◽  
George Sheeran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The United States ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Road Development ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Black Life

Physics Textbooks and Textbook Physics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Simon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Science Education ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of Physics ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
German States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

This article focuses on physics textbooks and textbook physics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on developments in France, Germany, Britain, and the United States. It first examines the role that physics textbooks played in the early stages of the professionalization of the history of science before presenting a general overview of the genesis of textbook physics in the nineteenth century. It also looks at major textbooks produced in France and the German states while making some reference to British and American textbooks. Finally, it considers recent scholarship dealing with textbooks in the history of physics. The article shows how our views on textbooks have been shaped by events that have established particular hierarchies between scientific research and science education, and between universities and schools. It argues that the study of textbooks would benefit from greater reflexivity.

Vive la différence? Intergenerational Mobility in France and the United States during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Bourdieu ◽  
Joseph P. Ferrie ◽  
Lionel Kesztenbaum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Intergenerational Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Europe Today

Although rates of intergenerational mobility are the same in the United States and Europe today, attitudes toward redistribution, which should reflect those rates—at least in part—differ substantially. An examination of the differences in mobility between the United States and France since the middle of the nineteenth century, based on data for both countries that permit a comparison between the socioeconomic status of fathers and that of sons throughout a period of thirty years, demonstrates that the United States was a considerably more mobile economy in the past, though such differences are far from apparent today.

“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Mark Twain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Statistical Graphics ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Black Life

Abstract Quantification has long played a vexed role in efforts to record and resist racial violence. Building from Ida B. Wells’s antilynching crusade, this essay examines the risks and power of calculating life and death at the close of the nineteenth century. For her part, Wells pushed mere counting past itself to a profound mode of ethical accounting. Two of her contemporaries, Mark Twain and W. E. B. Du Bois, sustained a similarly supraquantitative thrust; each attempted to harness the antilynching potential of numbers by enlisting data visualization. Twain falls short in a telling fashion, as his unpublished satire “The United States of Lyncherdom” (written in 1901) exacerbates the dehumanizing tendencies of quantification. Du Bois, however, pursues a more generative experiment, creating statistical graphics in 1900 that indict and outstrip the causal circuit that yoked scientific numbering to lynching and racial violence more broadly. This latter achievement resonates with scholarly efforts to access Black life from within a desolately tabulated archive of loss and erasure. Specifically, as triangulated with Wells and Twain, Du Bois’s graphics proffer a counterintuitive means to register life as a future-oriented, aggregate abstraction that is neither wholly conditioned by, nor separate from, a past whose violent legacies endure.

scholarly journals Historical Methodology and Writing the Liberian Past: the Case of Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Historical Methodology ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Some of the late nineteenth century success of Liberia coffee, sugar, and other commodities can be attributed to the leasing of plantations to enterprising foreigners, although a few leading politicians did own successful farms … For most Americo-Liberians, the role of dirt farmer was decidedly beneath their station.Yet the reasons for this apathy among most Americo-Liberians for agriculture, which prevailed up to the early 1870s, were not far to seek. The majority of them being newly emancipated slaves, who had in servitude in America been used to being forced to work, erroneously equated their newly won freedom with abstinence from labour.Both arguments are inaccurate, yet the authors made essential contributions to the writing of Liberian history. J. Gus Liebenow became renowned within Liberian academic circles for his earlier book, Liberia: the Evolution of Privilege. In that book he analyzed the policy that enabled the minority Americo-Liberians (descendants of free blacks from the United States who founded Liberia in 1822), to monopolize political and economic power to the exclusion of the majority indigenous Africans for more than a century. M. B. Akpan dissected Liberia's dubious political history and concluded that Americo-Liberian authority over the indigenous population, was identical to the discriminatory and oppressive policy practiced by European colonizers in Africa.

scholarly journals Freedom’s Journal

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Emma Stave
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Freedom's Journal ◽  
Journalistic Field

This article examines the first newspaper operated, published, and distributed by free blacks in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century, Freedom’s Journal.  Despite being active for merely two years, the New York-based periodical managed to unite African Americans across different states by becoming their mouthpiece. The first part of the article examines well-established historical facts including information about the editors, the readership, and the methods of distribution. The second part examines changes brought to the journalistic field by African Americans, while part three analyzes excerpts from a debate between proponents of the colonization movement, and their African American opponents. The final part discusses why the periodical ceased publishing, the importance of the method of distribution, and how the paper may have impacted subsequent black rights movements. Finally, an assessment is given as to how periodicals like Freedom’s Journal may influence the present and the future.

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