A planter’s life

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela McCarthy ◽  
T.M. Devine
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Coffee Tree ◽  
New Crops ◽  
The Andes

Ceylon’s natural environment underwent huge changes during the nineteenth century due to the importation of new crops, above all the coffee tree from Ethiopia, cinchona from the Andes, and tea from the Himalayas. We evocatively examine transformations to Taylor’s environs including his natural surroundings, health, living conditions, and social relations.

Science and Physical Culture – A Glimpse into the Future

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Nenad Živanović ◽  
Petar Pavlović ◽  
Veroljub Stanković ◽  
Zoran Milošević ◽  
Nebojša Ranđelović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Nourishing Food

Summary The end of the 20th and the first decade of the 21st century are characterized by a technological development which could be described as having revolutionary speed. If we were to look back on the revolutionary events during the 17th and 18th century, in the domain of great scientific changes, changes in industry, agriculture, economy, the organization of social relations (democracy and socialism), we could say that we are witnesses to this sixth technological revolution. All these civilizational leaps forward have conditioned, quite expectedly, big changes in our profession. This has been reflected in the goals which have been imposed by social changes initiated by numerous revolutionary changes. Even though man and his need for physical exercise, as the nourishing food necessary for his being, have remained the same, the circumstances which have imposed different living conditions have required changes in our profession. Naturally, this was reflected in our science as well (which we refer to by different names today). The time we live in, caught up in this new sixth technological revolution, requires a different approach to man and his personality. Now, the question is not only how to “drag” him out of a sedentary culture, but also how to fight the increasingly present physical and intellectual inactivity. Through perfectly guided marketing activities which have been made possible by the implementation of new technological aids, man has been drawn into the hedonistic waters of his own inactivity. And unfortunately, he cannot free himself from this skillfully set trap. That is why physical culture and science must be included in finding a means of helping man find his way out of this hedonistic labyrinth and return to his roots.

The Natural Stage: Fanny Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219
Author(s):  
Chandra Owenby Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Full Length

Noted British actress Fanny Kemble lived eighty-four years on and off the theatrical and political stages of the nineteenth century. Kemble was an active writer who authored her first five-act play, Francis the First, at the age of eighteen. She would go on to write at least ten other published works, including a second full-length play, multiple journals recording her personal observations, notes on Shakespeare, and poetry collections. While Kemble remained devoted to writing as personal practice throughout her life, her most well-known piece of writing is her 1863 Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839. Kemble's journal documents her outrage and disgust at the living conditions, harsh daily existence, and enslaved individuals she encountered while living on the two Sea Island plantations that her husband, Pierce Butler, inherited off the coast of Georgia.

scholarly journals Technical Infrastructure Increasing Resistance in the Natural Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Šárka KROČOVÁ
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Acceptable Level ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
The World

The natural environment has its specific patterns that a human must take into account during realisation of any technical infrastructure of the world countries. Underestimating the dangers that can arise from natural phenomena has often serious consequences. Forsome constructions of technical infrastructure, especially their line constructions, there will be a high number of operational accidentswith extremely negative impact on the supplied regions with energy or drinking water. Other types of technical infrastructure forexample in nuclear power have a potential to create a natural emergency threaten the environment not only in the country of theirdislocation but also in the long term to change living conditions in entire regions.The following article deals with this issue in a suffcient basic range suggests chat ways and means to recognize the threat of danger andthen based on risk analysis to eliminate the consequences to an acceptable level.

scholarly journals PERSPECTIVE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN POST-PANDEMIC WORLD: SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND HOPES

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-166
Author(s):  
ŁUKASZ RĄB ◽  
KAROLINA KETTLER
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Working Models ◽  
Healthcare Crisis ◽  
Modern Technologies

The current coronavirus pandemic is not only a health/healthcare crisis but to a vast extent it will also influence other spheres of life, including social relations, the shape of economy and working models, and natural environment. Sustainable development that relies on the previously mentioned pillars (economy, society, environment) is going to be strongly affected by the virus outbreak. There is a threat that the process of recovering from the corona crisis will accelerate and legitimize the dynamics of surveillance capitalism. A really interesting case is going to be the labor world, where thanks to modern technologies, suppression of personal freedoms and triumph of total surveillance might be particularly easy. However, good scenarios are also plausible. The first 21st century pandemic of that scale may force societies to redefine their current modus operandi and shift capitalism into a more sustainable, humanistic model.

Peak Pursuits

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Schaumann
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Mountain Regions ◽  
The Andes ◽  
New Models ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Alps

European forays to mountain summits began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the search for plants and minerals and the study of geology and glaciers. Yet scientists were soon captivated by the enterprise of climbing itself, enthralled with the views and the prospect of “conquering” alpine summits. Inspired by Romantic notions of nature, early mountaineers idealized their endeavors as sublime experiences, all the while deliberately measuring what they saw. As increased leisure time and advances in infrastructure and equipment opened up once formidable mountain regions to those seeking adventure and sport, new models of masculinity emerged that were fraught with tensions. This book examines how written and artistic depictions of nineteenth-century exploration and mountaineering in the Andes, the Alps, and the Sierra Nevada shaped cultural understandings of nature and wilderness in the Anthropocene.

The living conditions of Gypsy slaves in early nineteenth-century Wallachia

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-55
Author(s):  
DAVID GAUNT ◽  
JULIETA ROTARU
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Household Size ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Majority Population ◽  
Ethnic Attitudes

Very little research has been done specifically on the condition of the Gypsy slaves in Wallachia. Most general histories ignore them, and few contemporary observers studied them. This is just one more sign of their discrimination and neglect. This study draws on the exhaustive nominal lists of the Romani population from the database MapRom which draws on the first preserved count of the population of Danubian principalities (1838). Many aspects of the rob-slave condition have been analysed, the household size, the socio-professional and juridical categories and the Gypsy owners, the degree to which the Gypsies in Wallachia were integrated into the majority population and the ethnic attitudes of the surrounding population, and a case study of formation of a Gypsy settlement.

The True Story of Ah Jake

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mae M. Ngai
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
True Story ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Chinese Workers ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Murder Trial

This chapter examines how the issues of language, labor, and justice intertwined in the murder trial of Ah Jake, a Chinese gold miner in nineteenth-century California. The focus is on the transcript of the Sierra County court's hearing in October 1887, on whether to bring the charge of murder against Ah Jake for the killing of another miner, Wah Chuck. Much of the hearing took place in pidgin, or Chinglish. The chapter first tells the story of Ah Jake and how he came to stand trial for murder before discussing the cross-cultural relations between Anglo, Mexican, and Chinese workers in the gold fields of nineteenth-century California. It suggests that the traces of history that can be gleaned from Ah Jake's trial and pardon, when considered within the frame of transpacific circulations of people, language, and organization, produce new knowledge about social relations in the late-nineteenth-century California interior.

scholarly journals Haberfield

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Jackson-Stepowski
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Industrial City

Walking around Haberfield’s wide, leafy streets, just five kilometres west of Sydney’s CBD, and enjoying its intertwining gardens, one might think this is how suburbia has always been. But look east, across the Hawthorne Canal into Leichhardt, and one sees the mish-mash of buildings associated with the appalling living conditions and blight of the nineteenth-century industrial city.

Shepherding in Colonial Australia

Rural History ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN PICKARD
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Good Productivity ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Productivity Gains ◽  
Wool Industry

AbstractShepherds were a critical component of the early wool industry in colonial Australia and persisted even after fencing was adopted and rapidly spread in the later nineteenth century. Initially shepherds were convicts, but after transportation ceased in the late 1840s, emancipists and free men were employed. Their duty was the same as in England: look after the flock during the day, and pen them nightly in folds made of hurdles. Analysis of wages and flock sizes indicates that pastoralists achieved good productivity gains with larger flocks but inflation of wages reduced the gains to modest levels. The gold rushes and labour shortages of the 1850s played a minor role in increasing both wages and flock sizes. Living conditions in huts were primitive, and the diet monotonous. Shepherds were exposed to a range of diseases, especially in Queensland. Flock-masters employed non-whites, usually at lower wages, and women and children. Fences only replaced shepherds when pastoralists realised that the new technology of fences, combined with other changes, would give them higher profits. The sheep were left to fend for themselves in the open paddocks, a system used to this day.

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