Relative productivity and factor-intensity in the manufacturing sectors of the U.S. and the U.K. during the nineteenth century

De Economist ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 440-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Asher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Factor Intensity ◽  
Manufacturing Sectors ◽  
Relative Productivity ◽  
The U.S

Human Capital and Technological Transition: Insights from the U.S. Navy

2011 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 704-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrell J. Glaser ◽  
Ahmed S. Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
Naval Academy ◽  
Technological Transition ◽  
Wage Premia ◽  
Naval Officers ◽  
The U.S

We explore the effects of human capital on workers during the latter nineteenth century by examining the U.S. Navy. Naval officers belonged either to a regular or an engineer corps and had tasks assigned for their specialized training. We compile education and career data for officers from Naval Academy and navy registers for the years 1858 to 1907. Wage premia for “engineer-skilled” officers deteriorated over their careers; more traditionally skilled officers enjoyed higher gains in earnings and more frequent promotions. This compelled those with engineering skills to leave the service early, hindering the navy's capacity to further technologically develop.

The U.S. Coastal Passageand Caribbean Spaces of Freedom

2018 ◽  
pp. 275-316
Author(s):  
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Fugitive Slave ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Slave Revolts ◽  
Domestic Slave Trade

In November 1841, the U.S. slaver Creole transporting 135 slaves from Richmond to New Orleans was seized by nineteen slave rebels who steered the ship to the British Bahamas, where all secured their liberation. Drawing from this well-known story as a point of departure, this chapter examines the understudied maritime dimensions of British free soil policies in the nineteenth century, with a particular emphasis on how such policies affected the U.S. domestic slave trade and slave revolts at sea. In contrast to the more familiar narrative of south-to-north fugitive slave migration, this chapter sheds light on international south-to-south migration routes from the U.S. South to the circum-Caribbean.

“Design His Course to Mexico”

2018 ◽  
pp. 232-250
Author(s):  
Mekala Audain
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Underground Railroad ◽  
Westward Expansion ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Fugitive Slaves ◽  
Abolitionist Movement ◽  
Runaway Slaves ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fugitive Slave ◽  
The U.S

In the mid-1850s, Texas slaveholders estimated that some 4,000 fugitive slaves had escaped south to Mexico. This chapter broadly examines the process in which runaway slaves from Texas escaped to Mexico. Specifically, it explores how they learned about freedom south of the border, the types of supplies they gathered for their escape attempts, and the ways in which Texas’s vast landscape shaped their experiences. It argues that the routes that led fugitive slaves to freedom in Mexico were a part of a precarious southern Underground Railroad, but one that operated in the absence of formal networks or a well-organized abolitionist movement. The chapter centers on fugitive slaves’ efforts toward self-emancipation and navigate contested spaces of slavery and freedom with little assistance and under difficult conditions. It sheds new light on the history of runaway slaves by examining the ways in which American westward expansion and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands shaped the fugitive slave experience in the nineteenth century.

Unsettling Subjects

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-135
Author(s):  
Sharada Balachandran Orihuela
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Mexican American War ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
The U.S

Though the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) ostensibly extended American citizenship to the Mexican landed class at the conclusion of the Mexican American War and ensured their property rights despite the transfer of land to the U.S., they were nonetheless stripped of formal claims to their property and forced to enter into lengthy and costly legal battles to regain possession of these ranches. Hidalgos had to compete with Anglo agricultural settlers (or squatters), as well as with the railroad barons looking to expand railways in the newly annexed territories. Women are able to best navigate the unstable political economy of the borderlands through the act of squatting, understood broadly to mean the settlement of “unoccupied” land. Read alongside the significant historical events including various land laws and pre-emption acts of the mid-nineteenth century, hidalgo women perform forms of ownership that upend the racialized and gendered logics of citizenship, and the intimate ties between property and rights. The Squatter and the Don recasts the “problem” of Mexican land occupation as U.S. anxiety over territorial expansion and colonization made more complex by the presence of differently racialized populations along the borderlands.

Wilderness of Waters

2018 ◽  
pp. 14-40
Author(s):  
Jason W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Maritime Culture ◽  
Empirical Rationality ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines the origins of navigational science in the American maritime culture of the early nineteenth century, in marine societies, and in the U.S. Navy, linking the institutionalization of naval science to the broader expansion of American maritime commerce and the evolving role of science in the federal government more broadly. The chapter argues that naval scientists, surveyors, and cartographers saw their work as bringing empirical rationality to a watery wilderness, imposing cartographic order over nature and an appropriation of space in the interests of American maritime commerce. In the process, they aimed to replace folkloric and experiential navigational understandings deeply held by the American seafaring community with a growing embrace of science institutionalized in the federal government and in the American navy specifically.

Negotiating Sovereignty

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-152
Author(s):  
Ryan Hall
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
Human Costs ◽  
The U.S

This essay looks at nineteenth-century treaty-making between Blackfoot peoples and the U.S. and Canadian governments. All parties initially saw treaties as assertions of their own sovereignty over the Northwest Plains. Hall argues that the two treaty regimes were interrelated in significant ways and that the human costs of the transformation of Canadian and American sovereignty in this period were ultimately devastating for Blackfoot peoples in both economic and cultural terms (an outcome they did not foresee or believe they had agreed to).

Limbs

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-106
Author(s):  
Sarah Blackwood
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The U.S

This chapter traces a new visual genealogy of inner life as it appears in canonical late-nineteenth-century painter and portraitist Thomas Eakins’s work. It situates Eakins’s lauded portraits alongside the complex political and racialized questions about mind and body that emerged in the U.S. after the Civil War. It centers a reading of a marginal Eakins painting—Whistling for Plover—that Eakins gave as a gift to neurologist S. Weir Mitchell. This painting is a part of a web of inventive thinking about mind and body in the postbellum U.S., evincing the deep anxiety felt nationally over the bodily scars left by the Civil War’s racial violence, an anxiety that is essential to the development of the New Psychology as a discipline.

The Center Holds

2020 ◽  
pp. 90-123
Author(s):  
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The U.S

Over the course of the mid-nineteenth-century wars, the dominant powers (Britain, the U.S., Russia, and Qing China) came to espouse a surprisingly similar orientation toward legitimate statehood. While the liberation wars of the late-eighteenth century witnessed the creation of many new republics, by midcentury those republics and the empires that had survived pursued greater central authority. Although sometimes at odds with liberal rhetoric of the age (especially among reforming Republicans in the U.S.), these actors recognized the importance of coercion of violence to maintaining their states. The victory of centralized authority, whether it took the form of empires or republics, reinforced the power of established states and of organized, aggressive defense of that order.

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