169 research outputs found
The beds of empire: Power and profit at the pearl fisheries of South India and Sri Lanka, c.1770-1840
No full textThe Gulf of Mannar—the shallow body of water between present-day India and Sri Lanka—was one of the largest sources of natural pearls in the world for at least two millennia. This dissertation focuses on a relatively brief period during which managerial control over the human and natural resources of the pearling industry transferred from Dutch to British powers. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries also witnessed a shift in political economic thought, as classical liberalism dislodged mercantilism as the prevailing framework for interpreting the relationship between the state and economy. The Company and Crown governments brought an assemblage of ideas to bear on the management and governance of people and oysters that sought to not only increase productivity but also fundamentally reshape the social, economic, and political foundations of the pearling industry. However, the attempt by British officials to extricate local networks and institutions from pearling operations was fraught with contradictions and seldom delivered on the promise of reform. Through an examination of key targets of government intervention—labor, markets, merchants, sovereignty, and corruption—this dissertation explores the interstices between success and failure and tracks such developments through the evolving contexts of colonialism and imperialism in India and Sri Lanka
A RUSSIA DIVIDED into its GOVERNMENTS
No full textThere are three scale bars; two are different Russian Versts, great versts and common versts and the third British miles. Ferro (El Hierro) is the prime meridian
Why Do We Need HBCUs and Qualities for Successful Leadership: Perspectives from Past HBCU Presidents, June 14, 2012
No full textVideo interviews with a complementing monograph providing reflections of former presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities discussing leadership, mission, challenges, successes, and issues of race and education. Dr. Barbara R. Hatton, Moderator, President, South Carolina State University 1992-1995; President, Knoxville College 1997-2005. Panelists: Wiley S. Bolden, Ed.D., Acting President, Savannah State College, 1988-1989. Carlton E. Brown, Ed.D., President, Savannah State University 1997-2006; President, Clark Atlanta University 2008 - present. Johnnetta B. Cole, Ph.D., President, Spelman College 1987-1997; President, Bennett College for Women 2002-2007. Thomas W. Cole Jr., Ph.D., President, West Virginia State College 1982-1986; President, Clark Atlanta University 1989-2002; President, Interdenominational Theological Center 2009-2010. Samuel DuBois Cook, Ph.D., President, Dillard University 1974-1997. Nathaniel R. Jackson, Ed.D., President, Mary Holmes College 2000 - 2003. Joseph B. Johnson, Ed.D., President, Grambling State University 1977- 1991; President, Talladega College 1991-1998. Burnett Joiner, Ph.D., President, LeMoyne-Owen College 1991-1995; President, Livingstone College and Hood Theological Seminary 1996-2000. Samuel D. Jolley Jr.,Ed.D., President, Morris Brown College 1993-1997 and 2004-2006. Wiley A. Purdue, LLD., M.B.A., Acting President, Morehouse College 1994-1995. Herman B. Smith Jr., Ph.D., Interim President, Central State University 1965 and 1995; Chancellor, University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff 1974-1981; Interim President, Jackson State University 1991 � 1992; Interim President, Morris Brown College 1992- 1993. Charles E.Taylor, Ph.D., President, Wilberforce University 1976-1984; President, Morris Brown College 2002-2003. Samuel Tucker, Ph.D., President, Edward Waters College 1973-1976; President, Langston University 1978-1979. W. Clyde Williams, Ph.D., President, Miles College 1971 �1986; President, Trenholm State Technical College, 1998-2001. Robert Threat, Ed.D.; President, Morris Brown College 1973-1984
Roundtable 2: Perspectives on Presidential Leadership with Past HBCU Presidents from Private HBCUs, June 14, 2012
No full textVideo interviews with a complementing monograph providing reflections of former presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities discussing leadership, mission, challenges, successes, and issues of race and education. Moderator: Dr. Barbara R. Hatton, President, South Carolina State University 1992-1995, President, Knoxville College 1997-2005 Panelists: Samuel DuBois Cook, Ph.D., President, Dillard University 1974-1997. Wiley A. Purdue, LLD., M.B.A., Acting President, Morehouse College 1994-1995. Charles E. Taylor, Ph.D., President, Wilberforce University 1976-1984; President, Morris Brown College 2002-2003. Robert Threat, Ed.D., President, Morris Brown College 1973-1984. W. Clyde Williams, Ph.D., President, Miles College 1971 �1986; President, Trenholm State Technical College, 1998-2001
Chile 1816
No full textRelief shown by hachures. Includes inset map. "Pinkerton's modern atlas" -- across the top margin.This hand-colored map of 1816 shows most of Chile, from its northern border to approximately 44° South. Relief is shown by hachures. An inset map depicts Isola de Tierra, the easternmost of the Juan Fernández Islands, the archipelago in the Pacific Ocean that appears at the far western edge of the map. The map has two distance scales, Spanish geographical miles and British statute miles. Yellow is used to highlight the borders of the Viceroyalty of La Plata, an administrative unit of the Spanish Empire established in 1776 out of territories previously part of the Viceroyalty of Peru (comprising all or parts of present-day Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia). The map was included in Pinkerton’s Modern Atlas, which was published in London between 1808 and 1815 and in a special American edition in 1818. John Pinkerton (1758-1826) was a Scottish scholar and author who wrote books on Scottish history and poetry, numismatics, and other topics. In 1808–14 he published the 17-volume A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World. A six-volume edition of Pinkerton’s compilation was issued in Philadelphia in 1810–12. The map was engraved by Samuel John Neele (1758–1824), who was from an important family of British engravers who worked from offices on the Strand in London. WDLColor1:3,000,00
The theatre of the organised working class 1830-1930
No full textThis study of the theatre of the British Labour Movement had
its roots in 1985 when History Workshop published a collection
of documents relating to the Workers' Theatre Movements in
Britain and America between 1880 and 1935. In his introductory
essay in Theatres of the Left, Raphael Samuel concludes that
there are no traditions in British Labour Theatre except those
which have been broken or lost, that
There is no continuous history of socialist or
alternative history to be discovered, rather a
succession of moments separated from one another by
a rupture (1).
Since this conclusion was reached, others have repeated
Samuel's assertion in varying forms. So, Andrew Davies talks
of "scanty Chartist theatrical activity" and of the mainstream
lab6ur movement in the 1920s remaining "uninterested in
cultural matters" and Ian Saville asserts that
the conception of a partisan, organised theatre
devoted to spreading the socialist message
throughout the working classes only began to take
shape in Britain in the mid-1920s (2).
Yet a cursory glance at the theatre which preceded the
Workers' Theatre Movement, a glance which Raphael Samuel
provides in his introductory essay on theatre and socialism in
Britain, reveals I a plethora of activity in the labour
movement. From the Chartists and the Owlenites in the nineteenth century, through the Socialist Sunday Schools and
the Socialist League to the Clarion movement, the Independent
Labour Party and the Labour Party, the theatrical activity
pointed to by Samuel is startling in comparison to anything we
can see today. What follows is an attempt to look at some of
those moments, to look at the plays they produced and at both
how and why working class political organisations looked to
the theatre, to try to ascertain if they were indeed no more
than broken threads and if so to try to account for why this
may be the case. It is also an attempt to re-examine some of
our notions of what is political theatre, for since the
discovery of the work of the Workers' Theatre Movement and
subsequently of the Actresses Franchise League much has been
made of these as the starting point of political theatre in
Britain. Yet, for a country with one of the longest traditions
of organised working class movements, such assertions seem at
best strange, at worst dishonest.
One clue as to the reason for such claims can be found in the
characterisation of the theatre of the organised working class
prior to the Workers' Theatre Movement which has become common
currency. It was, in the words of Colin Chambers, primarily
of ethical and anti-militarist rather than directly political",
or in the words of Raphael Samuel:
First, the belief that it is their mission to bring
the working class into contact with "great" art (ie
capitalist art) and second, the tendency to produce
plays which may deal with the misery of the workerss
may even deal with the class struggleg but which
show no way out, and which therefore spread a
feeling of defeat and despair (3).
Such definitions of what is (or rather what is not) political
theatre rest very heavily on a notion that political is most
importantly propaganda. If the theatre that existed in
connection with political organisations prior to 1926 was not
propagandist then it follows for some that it was not
political. What follows is therefore also an attempt to
uncover a different approach, by looking at the groups own
justifications for their involvement in theatrical ventures as
part of the struggle for socialism
Improvements in the doctrine of the sphere, astronomy, geography, navigation, &c. deduced from the figure and motion of the Earth [electronic resource] : And absolutely necessary to be applied in finding the true longitude at sea and land. Rendering all other methods more correct, and in some cases by more than half a degree or 30 geographical miles. By Samuel Dunn, professor of mathematics, London.
No full textHorizontal chain lines.Without gathering C.Sig B4v (p.16) has the word 'End' at the foot, and D1r (unpaginated, but presumably intended to form p.25) has an imprint at the foot: 'Printed for the author. M.DCC.XCII.' - The last page ends: 'Here ends sheet II. supplementary.'.Verify everythingElectronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
Theology and natural philosophy in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Britain
No full textA number of historians of science have claimed that the early Boyle Sermons provided a platform for the promotion of a moderate-Anglican social and political ideology underpinned by Newtonian natural philosophy. However, by examining in detail the texts of Richard Bentley, John Harris and Samuel Clarke, this thesis argues that their Sermons should not be characterised as 'Newtonian'. These texts were highly complex literary productions constructed with the intention of achieving victory over the enemies of Christianity. An examination of their rhetorical strategies
focuses attention on the use to which various cognitive materials - including natural philosophy - were put. Thus the presence of Newtonian concepts in the texts is
explained by the aims and overall scholarly programmes of the Lecturers. It will also be argued that the term 'Boyle Lectureship' is problematic and that the main elements of the Lectureship - Robert Boyle's bequest, the Trustees, the
Lecturers, and the Sermons - cannot be conflated into a single historical unit. Therefore, throughout this study, emphasis is placed on the contingent and singular
behaviour of individuals located within an ecclesiastical and scholarly community, where career promotion and the notion of scholarly credit were important. The brief
in Boyle's last will and testament stipulated that the Lecturers must defend Christianity using the scholarly tools to hand. In this thesis it will be shown that the
personnel of the Lectureship conformed to Boyle's brief and that they utilised all available methods and materials in the pursuance of their legal and institutional
responsibilities. This approach removes the analysis of the Lectureship from an overarching sociological perspective; instead the Sermons are interpreted as exemplary texts in the rhetorical prosecution of the enemies of Christianity. This study, therefore, acknowledges the complex nature of theological texts in early modern England
Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge : the poetics of relationship
No full textMy thesis studies Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth to redress the unjust neglect of Hartley’s work, and to reach a more positive understanding of Dorothy’s conflicted literary relationship with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I provide a complete reassessment of the often narrowly read prose and poetry of these two critically marginalized figures, and also investigate the relationships that affected their lives, literary self-constructions, and reception; in this way, I restore a more accurate account of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers, and also highlight both the inhibiting and cathartic affects of writing from within a familial literary context.
My analysis of the writings of Hartley and Dorothy and the dialogues in which they engage with the works of STC and William, argues that both Hartley and Dorothy developed a strong relational poetics in their endeavour to demarcate their independent subjectivities. Furthermore, through a survey of the significance of the sibling bond – literal and figurative – in the texts and lives of all these writers, I demonstrate a theory of influence which recognizes lateral, rather than paternal, kinship as the most influential relationship. I thus conclude that authorial identity is not fundamentally predetermined by, and dependent on, gender or literary inheritance, but is more significantly governed by domestic environment, familial readership, and immediate kinship.
My thesis challenges the long-standing misconceptions that Hartley was unable to achieve a strong poetic identity in STC’s shadow, and that Dorothy’s independent authorial endeavour was primarily thwarted by gender. To replace these misreadings, I foreground the successful literary independence of both writers: my approach reinstates Hartley Coleridge’s literary standing as a major poet who bridged Romanticism and Victorian literature, and promotes Dorothy Wordsworth as one of the finest descriptive writers of nature and relationship
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