Jeffrey G. WilHamson, Late Nineteenth-Century American Development: A General Equilibrium History (Cambridge at the University Press, 1974), pp. x + 350; £8.00

1977 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-91
Author(s):  
J. J. Pincus
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University

Replication, re-placing and naval science in comparative context, c.1868–1904

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
DON LEGGETT
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Test Tank ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Engineering Practices ◽  
The University

AbstractThe test tank broadly embodied the late nineteenth-century endeavour to ‘use science’ in industry, but the meaning given to the tank differed depending on the experienced communities that made it part of their experimental and engineering practices. This paper explores the local politics surrounding three tanks: William Froude's test tank located on his private estate in Torquay (1870), the Denny tank in Dumbarton (1884) and the University of Michigan test tank (1903). The similarities and peculiarities of test tank use and interpretation identified in this paper reveal the complexities of naval science and contribute to the shaping of an alternative model of replication. This model places the emphasis on actors at sites of replication that renegotiated the meaning of the original Froude tank, and re-placed the local values and conditions which made it a functional instrument of scientific investigation.All the European [test tank] stations are modelled on the station at Haslar; [yet] each station had its own individuality which I will try to throw into relief, avoiding tedious repetitions or comparisons.1

scholarly journals Brief History of Islamic Civilization from Its Genesis in the Late Nineteenth Century to Its Institutional Entrenchment

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-173
Author(s):  
Kevin Van Bladel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
General Education ◽  
Social Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
The University

This article sketches the early history of Islamic civilization from its genesis in the late nineteenth century to its institutionalization in the twentieth. Key moments include its enshrinement in journals and a monumental encyclopedia and the flight of European Semitists to the United States. Its institutionalization in the undergraduate curriculum at the University of Chicago in 1956 created a successful model for the subsequent dissemination of Islamic civilization. Working in a committee on general education (the core curriculum) in the social sciences at the University of Chicago, Marshall Hodgson inaugurated Islamic civilization as a subject of university study that was not just for specialists but available to American college students as fulfilling a basic requirement in a liberal arts education. Many other universities followed this practice. Since then, Islamic civilization has come to be shared by the educated public. Today it is an internationally accepted and wellfunded entity that confers contested social power but still lacks analytical power. 

Elder Brothers of the University: Early Vice Presidents in Late Nineteenth-Century Universities

2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Nidiffer ◽  
Timothy Reese Cain
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University

If he may not be called the Father of the University of Illinois, he was at least its elder brother, intimately acquainted with its aims, character, and history, the depository of traditions, the friend, counselor, guide, and trusted confident of its successive presidents and of its trustees… long may he live in these halls and on this campus, in memory, in spirit, in example, and in gratitude and honor of all good men.-Stephen A. Forbes, 1916

Marshall's Neo-Classical Labor-Values

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Persky
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Utility Theory ◽  
Marginal Utility ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Real Value ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Over Time

With the coming of marginal utility theory, the economists of the late nineteenth century were left with a theory of exchange values, but not with a theory of value. For example, William Stanley Jevons suggested that the concept of value be dropped from economics, leaving behind only vectors of exchange ratios (Jevons 1879). Not a few general equilibrium economists today hold much the same view. However, then, as today, there were seemingly fundamental economic questions that required a more general concept of value. Whenever economists turned to describing the movements in the economy over time or comparing the economies of different countries, they inevitably wanted to make statements about changes or differences in the real value of goods.

Lampreys, lungfish and elasmobranchs: Cambridge zoology and the politics of animal selection

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 413-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
HELEN BLACKMAN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
International Travel ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Evolutionary Trees ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Cambridge School

AbstractThe Cambridge school of animal morphology dominated British zoology in the late nineteenth century. Historians have argued that they were very successful until the death of their leader F. M. Balfour in 1882, when the school all but died with him. This paper argues that their initial success came about because their work fitted well with the university in the 1870s and 1880s. They attempted to trace evolutionary trees by studying individual development. To do this they needed access to species they considered primitive. Balfour made use of his social networks to aid the school and to collect the specimens they needed for their work. The school has been portrayed as failing in the 1890s when students rejected dry laboratory-bound studies. However, a new generation of researchers who followed Balfour had to travel extensively if they were to obtain the organisms they needed. International travel was popular amongst zoologists and the Cambridge school developed their own extensive networks. A new breed of adventurer–zoologists arose, but because of the school's tenuous position within the university they were unable to equal Balfour's success.

scholarly journals Illustrator Extraordinaire: Bechtel Fellow Enthralled by Arthur Rackham

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Bridgid Mangan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Flickering Light ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University

These are the words of a young C. S. Lewis, who was deeply impressed by the “tender, flickering light of imagination”2 conveyed in the watercolor images by Rackham, the late nineteenth-century artist. Upon entering the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida, I felt the same anticipation and excitement. There was a shelf of first-edition books, some signed by Rackham himself, awaiting my perusal. As a recipient of the 2016 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship, I had been awarded an exceptional opportunity to explore the works of one of the most admired and influential illustrators of all time.

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