scholarly journals The History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York in America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cadwallader Colden
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Native People ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Early American ◽  
British America ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
Indian Nations

This book, originally published in 1727 and revised in 1747, is one of the most important intellectual works published in eighteenth-century British America. The author was among the most learned American men of his time, and his history of the Iroquois tribes makes fascinating reading. The book discusses the religion, manners, customs, laws, and forms of government of the confederacy of tribes composed of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas (and, later, the Tuscaroras), and gives accounts of battles, treaties, and trade with these Indians up to 1697. Since the book was first reprinted in 1958, it has served as an invaluable resource for scholars and students interested in Iroquois history and culture, Enlightenment attitudes toward Native Americans, early American intellectual life, and Anglo-French imperial contests over North America. This new edition features materials not previously included, such as the 1747 introduction, which contains rich and detailed descriptions of Iroquois culture, government, economy, and society. New chapters place the volume in a historical and cultural context and provide a balanced introduction to the historic culture of the Iroquois, as well as their relationship to other Native people.

Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Van Horn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Prosthetic Devices ◽  
British America ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
American Society ◽  
Material Artifacts

Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. This book investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and, eventually, of American citizenship. Interweaving analysis of paintings and prints with furniture, architecture, textiles, and literary works, the book reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston, S.C. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, this work illuminates that Anglo-Americans’ material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to institute civility and to distance themselves from native Americans and African Americans. It also traces colonial women’s contested place in forging provincial culture in British America. As encountered through a woman’s application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee’s donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. Instead, they actively participated in making Anglo-American society.

Religion and Science in Early American Psychology

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Spilka
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Philosophical Psychology ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Psychology ◽  
History Of

Most texts in the history of psychology ignore American contributions prior to the appearance of Hall and James. This may be a function of the strong religious inclinations of the pre-Jamesians, but there is reason to believe their views were of significance to the later development of American psychology. The present article attempts to place the psychology of this time into historical-cultural context, and then explicate the nature of science during that period The paramount place of religion in this philosophical psychology is discussed Finally, the implications of these ideas for contemporary psychology are brought to the fore. The need for further attention to the work of these religious American philosopher-psychologists is emphasized.

Jump Up!

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Allen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Transnational Identities ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
First Time ◽  
Comprehensive History

Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending urban studies, oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Jump Up! examines how members of New York’s diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational identities through the self-conscious embrace, transformation, and hybridization of select Carnival music styles and performances. The work fills a significant void in our understanding of how Caribbean Carnival music—specifically calypso, soca (soul/calypso), and steelband—evolved in the second half of the twentieth century as it flowed between its island homeland and its burgeoning New York migrant community. Jump Up! addresses the issues of music, migration, and identity head on, exploring for the first time the complex cycling of musical practices and the back-and-forth movement of singers, musicians, arrangers, producers, and cultural entrepreneurs between New York’s diasporic communities and the Caribbean.

Café CIA Roma: Mary McCarthy's Cold War

Prospects ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 683-706
Author(s):  
Michael Holzman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Central Intelligence Agency ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Mary Mccarthy ◽  
Early Maturity ◽  
Intelligence Agency ◽  
Major Figure ◽  
American Intellectual

Mary McCarthy had, and has, a formidable reputation in American intellectual life. Brilliant, beautiful, much feared for her biting wit, she is a major figure in the histories of her time and in the biographies of her friends, lovers, and enemies – notoriously unstable categories. She was, with her great friend, Hannah Arendt, a certain archetype of the independent and engaged intellectual. Although she began life as a member of the provincial Seattle upper middle class, and in her final years she constructed a life in Maine not remote from the ideals of that class, its constraints, and decorous pleasures, in her youth and early maturity she lived a myth of New York bohemia: poverty-stricken, promiscuous, politically of the Left. Such is her image. It is not an inaccurate story. It is merely incomplete. For during much of that time, for fifteen or twenty years, her milieu was defined not so much by the culture of the Left, as by that of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Not that she was an official of the Agency; nor was it that she was one of those – like Arthur Schlesinger or Philip Rahv – who were more or less associated with it. She simply lived in a cultural matrix saturated with its influence, where she published in its journals, attended its conferences, stayed in the homes of those who were in its employee or who were members of the families of CIA officials. It is not, or should not be, controversial that such circumstances had an influence on her thought and work as it had on the thought and work of her contemporaries.

KARL POLANYI AT THE MARGINS OF ENGLISH SOCIALISM, 1934–1947

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-346
Author(s):  
TIM ROGAN
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The Self ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Karl Polanyi ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
History Of

Growing interest among historians and social scientists in the work of Karl Polanyi has yet to produce detailed historical studies of how Polanyi's work was received by his contemporaries. This article reconstructs the frustration of Polanyi's attempts to make a name for himself among English socialists between his arrival from Vienna in 1934 and his departure for New York in 1947. The most obvious explanation for Polanyi's failure to find a following was the socialist historians’ rejection of his unorthodox narrative of the rise of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution inThe Great Transformation(1944). But this disappointment was anticipated in earlier exchanges revealing that Polanyi's social theory, specifically his conception of the self and its social relations, differed markedly from the views prevailing among socialists of R. H. Tawney and G. D. H. Cole's generation. As well as casting new light on the intellectual history of English socialism and variegating our understanding of the contexts in which conceptions of the human person were invoked in the interwar period, this article seeks to illuminate by example the importance of deep-seated, often tacit, commitments to particular conceptions of the self and its social relations in structuring mid-century intellectual life.

Continental and English Foundations of J. S. Dwight's Early American Criticism of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

1994 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-267
Author(s):  
Ora Frishberg Saloman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Reception History ◽  
History And Criticism ◽  
Musical Thought ◽  
Early American ◽  
Ninth Symphony ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Many Sources

The reception history of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies in America offers striking evidence of multiple, previously unidentified, Continental and English connections to the musical thought of John Sullivan Dwight (1813–93), the first American-born critic of art music, and therefore to early American conceptions of the symphony in the 1840s. These direct links illuminate the history and criticism of the first performance in America of Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 in D minor, op. 125, which took place in New York in 1846. From the many sources associated with Dwight's musical learning and aesthetic education, I have chosen in this article to examine Dwight's literary interest in Johann Christoph Friedrich Schiller's poem ‘An die Freude’ and in Thomas Carlyle's biography of Schiller, to document his knowledge of commentary on the symphony by the German critic Adolf Bernhard Marx, and to describe Dwight's response to the initial American performance of the Ninth Symphony.

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