687 research outputs found
Rowland Kenney and British propaganda in Norway, 1916-1942
No full textRowland Kenney was a British propaganda agent operating in Norway during both the First World War and the Second World War. He has been forgotten by history but the re-discovery of his private collection of materials allows for an analysis of his work. Kenney was deeply involved in the development of propaganda policy and practice. In the First World War, his work in Norway resulted in thousands of pro-British articles appearing in the Norwegian press as well as the realignment of the Norwegian national news agency. In the interwar years, in spite of severe medical difficulties, Kenney continued to work within the field of propaganda, becoming instrumental in the establishment of the British Council. At the start of the Second World War, he returned again to Norway, but was forced to flee during the German invasion of April 1940. During the Second World War, Kenney became the Director of the Northern Section of the Foreign Division in the Ministry of Information where he continued to affect policy-creation and the development of propaganda. There is no doubt that Kenney was a key figure in this development. His professional network and his varied roles within the propaganda bureaucracy speak to his level of involvement, and his documented accomplishments even more so. Finally discovering Kenney’s story and his impact illustrates vividly a few aspects of how the practice of propaganda mutated and changed between 1916 and 1942
Latour’s greatest hits, reassembled
No full textRowland NJ, Passoth J-H, Kinney AB. Latour’s greatest hits, reassembled. Spontanous Generations. A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science. 2011;5(1):95-99
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[Book Review] Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Paul Westover and Ann Wierda Rowland
No full textBook review of "Transatlantic Literature and Author Love in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Paul Westover and Ann Wierda Rowland; pp. xiv + 371. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
The cult of St Nicholas in medieval Italy
No full textSt Nicholas was one of the most popular saints in medieval Italy. His cult attracted the attention
of popes, kings and emperors, and his shrine at Bari became an important international pilgrimage
destination. This thesis asks how the cult of St Nicholas came to be so widespread and popular in
Italy, and why the saint attracted the attention of diverse groups and individuals.
This thesis is structured around four chapters. The first demonstrates that through a
process of Latinisation the cult of St Nicholas became integrated within Italian literary traditions
and within a new spiritual era. Chapter Two reveals that this Latinisation also occurred within the
saint’s iconography. Chapters Three and Four are case studies of the cult in Puglia and Venice,
locations which claimed possession of the saint’s relics. These case studies show that the general
developments that the cult of St Nicholas underwent in Italy, identified in Chapters One and Two,
did not apply universally. Instead, the presence of the saint’s relics resulted in a different profile
of the saint in Bari and Venice. Through the process of Latinisation, the cult of St Nicholas
became updated and remained relevant for its new Italian audience; Chapters Three and Four
show alternative ways that the cult of St Nicholas gained widespread popularity.
This thesis presents for the first time an iconographical study of St Nicholas in Italian art,
which develops existing research of the saint’s Byzantine iconography. Chapter Four presents a
profile of the cult of St Nicholas in Venice in the Middle Ages, which is a significant oversight in
the literature. The thesis uses a variety of visual and textual sources, in particular fresco and
altarpiece representations, archival documents from Venice and Rome (including the Apostolic
Visitations), and under-exploited contemporary and antiquarian Venetian sources
J.T. Rowland Letter, MSS.2505
No full textAbstract: J. T. Rowland of Halsey, Oregon, writes to Mr. J. H. Settlemier of Woodburn, Oregon, concerning orders and pricing of books, trees, and possibly strawberries in Settlemier's catalogue. The letter contains some spelling errors and confusing handwriting.Scope and Content Note: Contains a request to Mr. Settlemier for more information concerning catalogue orders and pricing about books, trees and possibly strawberries. The writing is sometimes illegible and contains a few spelling errors.Biographical/Historical Note: The author writes from Halsey, Oregon to the catalog owner, Mr. J. H. Settlemier of Marion County in Woodburn, Oregon.J.H. Settlemier founded the his tree nursery company in Marion County in 1863, which he would later turn into the town of Woodburn, according to "Woodburn Centennial Program" (A Short History of Woodburn), published on the City of Woodburn, Oregon, website: http://www.woodburn-or.gov/communitydevelopment/history/documents.aspx (accessed September 24, 2009
On the Vitruvius of Cesare Cesariano
No full textThe focus of the essay is the Vitruvius edition of Cesare Cesariano (Como 1521). In particular Alessandro Rovetta wrote the sections on the editorial venture, the author, the translation, the lexica and the others sources
Named Graphs as a Mechanism for Reasoning about Provenance
No full textNamed Graphs is a simple, compatible extension to the RDF abstract syntax that enables statements to be made about RDF graphs. This approach is in contrast to earlier attempts such as RDF reification, or knowledge-base specific extensions including quads and contexts. In this paper we demonstrate the use of Named Graphs and our experiences developing new kinds of semantic web application that build on Named Graphs for digital signatures, provenance, and semantic reasoning. We present a working example based on the Named Graphs for Jena (NG4J) API, from which we developed a semantic version control system for Software Engineering capable of reasoning about Named Graph-based provenance. We go on to discuss the implications of Named Graphs for Description Logics and semantic inference strategies
Acting in International Relations? Political Agency in State Theory and Actor-Networks
No full textPassoth J-H, Rowland NJ. Acting in International Relations? Political Agency in State Theory and Actor-Networks. In: Jacobi D, Freyberg-Inan A, eds. Human Nature, Agency and Beyond. Reflecting on the Human Element in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; In Press
Actor-Network State. Integrating Actor-Network Theory and State Theory
No full textPassoth J-H, Rowland NJ. Actor-Network State. Integrating Actor-Network Theory and State Theory. International Sociology. 2010;25(6):818-841.This conceptual article draws on literature in the sociology of science on modelling. The authors suggest that if state theory can be conceptualized as an 'engine' rather than merely a 'camera', in that policy is mobilized to make the world fit the theory, then this has implications for conceptualizing states. To examine this possibility the authors look through the lens of actor-network theory (ANT) and in doing so articulate a relationship between two models of the state in the literature. They find that an 'actor model' of the state is accepted by many scholars, few of whom develop 'network models' of the state. In response, this study introduces an actor-network model and proposes that its contribution to state theory is in rethinking the character of modern states to be the outcome of actually performed assemblages of all those practices of building it, protecting it, governing it and theorizing about it
ON THE ECHELETTE GRATING
No full textH. A. Rowland, The Physical Papers of Henry A. Rowland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1902, p. 525 J. H. Greig and W. F. C. Ferguson, J. O. S. A. 40:504 (1950) N. Finkelstein, J. O. S. A. 41:179 (1951)Author Institution: New York University published an integral formula for the relative intensities to be expected in the diffraction orders of an echelette grating. On performing the integration, we obtain a formula (after correcting for two typographical errors) which differs from that obtained by Rowland in his third term. On the basis of this formula, conditions can be obtained so that a given wavelength can be in the blaze in a certain order. It will be shown that these conditions are not sufficient to determine the incident and diffracted rays uniquely, and further that a variety of blaze conditions exists. This leads to the possibility of several grating mountings which permit the operator to work in the blaze over a range of wavelengths. Two of these possibilities have previously been published by Greig and and
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