Mission Tracks in the Bush

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 103-124
Author(s):  
Gemma Tulud Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
History Of

Christian missionaries played an important role in the Australian nation building that started in the nineteenth century. This essay explores the multifaceted and complex cultural encounters in the context of two aboriginal missions in Australia in the nineteenth century. More specifically, the essay explores the New Norcia mission in Western Australia in 1846-1900 and the Lutheran mission in South Australia in 1838-1853. The essay begins with an overview of the history of the two missions followed by a discussion of the key faces of the cultural encounters that occurred in the course of the missions. This is followed by theological reflections on the encounters in dialogue with contemporary theology, particularly the works of Robert Schreiter.

Nation-Building and Nationalism in Karamzin's History of the Russian State

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Derek Offord
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis essay analyzes Karamzin's contribution, through his History of the Russian State, to the formation of national identity and to the development of nationalism in early nineteenth-century Russia. It explores Karamzin's argument that the development of a unified state gave Russia an equal claim to membership in Europe's family of nations, and thus underlines the way that, for Karamzin, Russia's national identity was subsumed in imperial expansion. Karamzin was first and foremost a political nationalist. Yet the essay also explores the humane, cosmopolitan elements of Karamzin's thinking – elements that were in some tension with his statism and which pointed toward a cultural nationalism more complex than this statism.

scholarly journals From the Past to the Future: Changing Agendas in Teacher Education between the 19th and the 21st Century

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 43-70
Author(s):  
Anne Rohstock ◽  
Daniel Tröhler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Professional Educators ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War

The educational turn of the late eighteenth century, nation building of the nineteenth century, and efforts to promote global unity after the two World Wars did not only have effects on educational organizations, policies, and materials, but also on the manner with which the major actors in the world of education—namely, teachers – were trained. The different ideals and agendas in teacher training reflected the major cultural concerns of each era: in the nineteenth century, this was national uniqueness and supremacy, which, in the post war period, gave way to internationalization and global standardization. These visions were associated with the emergence of particular academic subfields and heavily shaped pedagogical ideals. In the era of nation building, the history of education dominated teacher education. In the context of the Cold War teacher training was aligned with a new internationalist and scientific paradigm. The following chapter discusses these two agendas in teacher education. In the first section we will reconstruct the rise of the history of education as a major subject in nationalist and religiously inspired teacher education in Germany and France. In the second section we will show how this leitmotif in the Cold War era was supplanted by a “cognitive turn” in the training of professional educators.

Taxonomy and historical distribution of the wallaby genus Lagostrophus

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristofer M. Helgen ◽  
Timothy F. Flannery
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Museum Specimen ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Shark Bay ◽  
Historical Distribution

The banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus) is an endangered macropodid currently restricted to Bernier and Dorre Islands in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Historically, L. fasciatus was also recorded on the Australian mainland from far western Australia, where it became locally extinct early in the twentieth century. Here we discuss an overlooked museum specimen of L. fasciatus collected in the mid-nineteenth century near Adelaide, South Australia. This specimen considerably extends the known historical distribution of L. fasciatus, validates anecdotal reports of the species from South Australia made by early Australian naturalists, and forms the basis for our description of a new subspecies.

Cultural Encounters Offshore

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-109
Author(s):  
Andrés Baeza Ruz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Personal Interactions ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Independence Era

During the wars for independence Britain maintained a policy of neutrality between Spain and its colonies. As a result, relations between Chile and Britain were largely enacted by ‘non–state’ actors. This chapter delves into the role played by one of these ‘non–state’ actors: British seamen who participated in the newly created Chilean navy from 1817 and their interactions with their Chilean counterparts. The analysis of the inter–personal interactions that took place on board reinforces the argument that Chile’s Independence era cannot be considered a prelude to the neo–imperial relations established in late nineteenth century. British seamen were rarely seen – and did not see themselves – as imperial agents. The navy worked as a ‘contact zone’, in which relationships were troubled. In addition, this brought about significant repercussions for the nation–building process in Chile.

Perceptions of Failure

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Monshan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Global Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
History Of Modern China

The introduction begins with examples of German missionaries and mission societies who started as cultural chauvinists in the nineteenth century but had cast such beliefs aside by the 1930s. It lays out the broader arguments and questions of the book: German missionaries, propelled by their sense of failure in the missionary field, began to repudiate their former beliefs. The German missionary encounter produced new reflections not only on the relationship between Europe and China, but also on the nature of Christianity itself. The introduction also explores how a study of the German missionary encounter with China intersects with three broader scholarly literatures: the history of modern China, modern German religious history, and the history of global Christianity. It also sheds light on broader conceptual concerns, such as secularization, globalization, and cross-cultural encounters.

scholarly journals Status of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off Australia

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bannister
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Eubalaena Australis ◽  
Right Whales ◽  
Southern Right Whales ◽  
Breeding Grounds ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

The history of Australian right whaling is briefly reviewed. Most catching took place in the first half of the 19th century, with a peak inthe 1830s, involving bay whaling by locals and visiting whaleships in winter and whaling offshore in the summer. In the early 20th century,right whales were regarded as at least very rare, if not extinct. The first published scientific record for Australian waters in the 20th centurywas a sighting near Albany, Western Australia, in 1955. Increasing sightings close to the coast in winter and spring led to annual aerialsurveys off southern Western Australia from 1976. To allow for possible effects of coastwise movements, coverage was extended intoSouth Australian waters from 1993. Evidence from 19th century pelagic catch locations, recent sightings surveys, 1960s Soviet catch dataand photographically-identified individuals is beginning to confirm earlier views about likely seasonal movements to and from warm watercoastal breeding grounds and colder water feeding grounds. Increase rates of ca 7-13% have been observed since 1983. Some effects ofdifferent breeding female cohort strength are now beginning to appear. A minimum population size of ca 700 for the period 1995-97 issuggested for the bulk of the ‘Australian’ population, i.e. animals approaching the ca 2,000km of coast between Cape Leeuwin, WesternAustralia and Ceduna, South Australia.

Globalising German Anthropology: Erhard Eylmann in Australia

Itinerario ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Monteath
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Australian Aborigines ◽  
Religious Persecution ◽  
British Colony ◽  
German Anthropology ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Discourse ◽  
German Contribution ◽  
Better Than

The German presence in nineteenth-century South Australia is associated primarily with the immigration of Prussian Lutherans escaping religious persecution in their homeland. Their settlement in the fledgling British colony aided its early, stuttering development; in the longer term it also fitted neatly South Australia's perception of itself as a “paradise of dissent.” These Germans took their religion seriously, none more so than the Lutheran missionaries who committed themselves to bringing the Gospel to the indigenous people of the Adelaide plains and, eventually, much further afield as well. In reality, however, the story of the German contribution to the history of this British colony extended far beyond these pious Lutherans. Among those who followed in their wake, whether as settlers or travellers, were Germans of many different backgrounds, who made their way to the Antipodes for a multitude of reasons. In South Australia as much as anywhere, globalising Germany was a multi-facetted project.The intellectual gamut of Germans in South Australia is nowhere more evident than in the realm of anthropology. The missionaries were not alone in displaying a keen interest in the Australian Aborigines. Anthropologists steeped in the empirical tradition that came to dominate the nascent discipline at the end of the nineteenth century also turned their attention to Australia. Indeed, in Germany and elsewhere, Australia occupied a special position in international discourse. The American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan had observed in 1880 that Australian aboriginal societies “now represent the condition of mankind in savagery better than it is elsewhere represented on the earth—a condition now rapidly passing away.”

scholarly journals Civics in the Curricular Construction of the Loyal National Citizen: A Comparative View of Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekka Horlacher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Public Schooling ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
History Of

The implementation of public schooling is usually understood as both an expressionand a means of nation-building. The formal organization of the school, i.e. thecurricula, teaching materials and the respective teacher’s education were interpretedas cultural-political arrangements deriving from assumed national convictionsabout the future of the particular nation-state and its ideal citizens. Against thisbackground, the entire learning arrangement of the curriculum can be seen asan instrument to educate pupils to become loyal national citizens. Of particularinterest is the curricular area which is explicitly dedicated to political education,i.e. civics. This paper focuses on precisely this area and its teaching materials oncivic education in a nation-state which comprises different nations organized bycantons, which cannot refer to a common religion, history or language and thusto a common culture. Examining two different cantons of Switzerland, this articledeals with the question of how nation-building may differ within the frameworkof one nation-state.Keywords: history of schooling; nineteenth century; textbooks; nation-building;citizenship education.

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