Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century England. Andrew T. Scull

Isis ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-328
Author(s):  
Roger Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
The Social

Family Clusters: Generational Nucleation in Nineteenth-Century Argentina and Chile

1979 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Balmori ◽  
Robert Oppenheimer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Capital City ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Control ◽  
Broad Generalization ◽  
National Formation

This paper is derived from the authors' detailed studies of two groups of nineteenth-century families—eighteen families in Argentina and twenty-four in Chile. The studies revealed such remarkable similarities in the evolution of the two groups that it is possible to propose a broad generalization in respect to the social organization and national formation of both countries: there was, in each country, a three-generation sequence during which a number of families came together to form clusters that became the controlling entities of a region. Their base for political and economic control was either the existing capital city or a city that had been designated as the capital by these families.

Social and Intercultural Relations in Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar: Dressed Identity

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Vander biesen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Richard Burton ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Century Literature

Abstract Starting from the nineteenth century descriptive literatures on Zanzibar by authors such as Sir Richard Burton and Charles Guillain, and Salima bint Said-Ruete's autobiography, we can draw a rather detailed picture of the relationship between the different social layers, cultures and genders on Zanzibar. Describing and differentiating the complexity of Zanzibar society in the nineteenth century is the main aim of this paper. The focus is on clothing in order to sketch the social organization of the society and to highlight the cultural relations between the different groups in Zanzibar. The evidence obtained from the description of clothing is used as an eye-opener for the Zanzibar society and this evidence is supported by nineteenth century literature and photography on Zanzibar.

Idle Power: the Riot, the Commune, and Capitalist Time in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-204
Author(s):  
Christian P. Haines
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
The United States ◽  
Idle Power ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Antonio Negri

This chapter argues that Thomas Pynchon’s novel Against the Day (2006) not only represents the temporality of capitalism but also contests it through an aesthetic strategy of idleness or sloth. It analyzes how Pynchon recuperates nineteenth-century traditions of anarchism, work refusal, rioting, and the commune as a way of responding to contemporary conditions of labor under capitalism. Putting Pynchon into conversation with the Italian Autonomist Marxists—most notably, Antonio Negri and Mario Tronti—it shows how Against the Day frames class struggle as a conflict between capitalism and workers regarding the social organization of time. It explains that Pynchon links the utopian reinvention of the United States to a political version of idleness, or a willful refusal of capitalist efficiency. It also situates Pynchon’s utopian imagination in respect to the social forms of the riot and the commune.

scholarly journals The Singapore Rickshaw Pullers: The Social Organization of a Coolie Occupation, 1880–1940

1985 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Warren
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Southeast China ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

This article integrates the history of the experience of rickshaw coolies into the larger history of Singapore in the period from 1880 to 1940. These were decisive years. They witnessed the extraordinary economic development of the vast potential for tin, rubber, oil palm, and tobacco in the Malay peninsula and on the east coast of Sumatra under colonial rule, and the evolution of Singapore as a “coolie town”, with a colonial administrative heart and an entrepôt port, with the birth of the rickshaw and a stream of emigrants from China who poured in faster and faster to pull it. This floodtide ofsingkeh singkeh (newcomers from China) came to Singapore with the hope of forming a foundation for a new and prosperous life. Expanding Singapore, especially at this stage of its growth from the third quarter of the nineteenth century, was often considered by the migrants as a place of hope and betterment. There were in Singapore tens of thousands of Cantonese, Hengwah, Hockchia, and Foochow sojourners who hoped to find a pipeline to prosperity since the second half of the nineteenth century, when dire poverty and overpopulation plagued Southeast China.

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