scholarly journals The Wonders of Calculation in Nineteenth-Century American Experience and Literature

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Kinzinger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Experience

scholarly journals Contextualising Late-Nineteenth-Century Feminism: Problems and Comparisons

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Judith Allen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
American Experience ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Sexual Cultures ◽  
International Character

Abstract Histories of feminism since the 1970s have generally observed national and regional boundaries. In view of the international character of women's movements in western countries since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the neglect of comparative approaches has been unfortunate. The outcome is parochialism and inwardness, as feminist historians evaluate feminists of the past according to current preoccupations, in a cycle of identification and repudiation. An Anglo-American hegemony in the field is identified as is the consequent and pervasive “Northern Hemispherism” it ordains (notwithstanding an almost invariable omission of Canadian feminist experience). Advantages of comparative, international approaches to the history of feminism are not confined to the virtues of representativeness and comprehensiveness. Rather, major causal and chronological schema generalised from Anglo-American experience stand to beproblematised and revised in more useful directions. Most significantly, comparative studies of feminism permit due recognition of the fact that feminism emerged relatively contiguously across western countries in response to relatively common international characteristics of transformations in sexual patternings and sexual cultures.

Nineteenth-Century American Biblical Interpretation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Noll
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Biblical Criticism ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Bible And Slavery

Nineteenth-century interpretation reflected traditional Protestant devotion to scripture and hermeneutical conventions from American experience, especially the democratic empowerment of ordinary people and a republican resentment of intellectual aristocracy. In the antebellum era, interpretations flowed from long-standing Protestant convictions adjusted to republican common sense. Contention over the Bible and slavery generated the sharpest differences. After false starts from Tom Paine in the 1790s and a few New Englanders in the 1840s, modern biblical criticism affected interpretations from the 1870s. In the postbellum era, some Protestants adopted a more liberal understanding of scripture because of the earlier standoffs over slavery. Groups previously marginalized (Catholics, Jews, skeptics, women, African Americans) also became more visible.

The Polish National Catholic Church: An Inquiry Into Its Origions

1977 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren C. Platt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
American Experience ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
American Catholic

The last decade of the nineteenth century witnessed a number of trends in the American Catholic religious scene with special reference to new immigrants:(a) The immigrants developed a cohesion and identity based on language that tended to obscure provincial loyalties and to transcend village patriotism.(b) This new sense of identity, a product of nationalist ideology and the influence of the American experience, received its primary expression in the ethnic church. This institution, founded primarily on linguistic lines, encompassed those who spoke the same tongue and resided within the same ghetto or patch.

Calhoun's Idea of “Concurrent Majority” and the Constitutional Theory of Hegel

1939 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-590
Author(s):  
Gunnar Heckscher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Federal System ◽  
German Empire ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Government

It is a well-known fact that the writings of John C. Calhoun were read and admired by German political theorists in the latter part of the nineteenth century. When the problems of federalism became predominant in the German Empire, it was found natural to turn to American experience and to study the works of the leaders of contending factions in the United States before the Civil War.There may, however, be another reason why Calhoun, in particular, proved such a valuable source for the German authors. His theory of the concurrent majority, in many parts, presents a striking resemblance to the arguments advanced on the continent of Europe in defense of legislatures built on representation, not of individuals, but of groups, interests, or estates. It can be assumed that Calhoun, when speaking of the safeguards necessary against the despotism of the numerical majority, was thinking primarily of the federal system and states' rights. On the other hand, he can hardly have regarded this arrangement as the only possible solution to his problem. He defines the government of the concurrent majority as one “where the organism is perfect, excludes the possibility of oppression, by giving to each interest, or portion, or order,—where there are established classes,—the means of protecting itself, by its negative, against all measures calculated to advance the peculiar interests of others at its expense.” Especially in view of the expression “where there are established classes,” it seems safe to say that Calhoun probably knew of the existence of representation by estates of the realm in European countries, and regarded such systems with favor.

Academic Freedom: Its Meaning and Underlying Premises as Seen Through the American Experience

1976 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-76
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Research Scholar

Although some aspects of intellectual freedom embodied in the concept of academic freedom find their sources in earlier times, the modern development of the doctrine is largely derived from the nineteenth century German concepts of lehrfreiheit and lernfreiheit—freedom of teaching and learning respectively. The basic concept was that a university faculty member was free to teach what and how he thought best and students were free to learn what and how they thought best, with university authorities or external agencies such as governments imposing only the most minimal restraints on either teacher or student. The professor and student were viewed as engaged in a typically nineteenth century concept of laissez-faire, with the optimum situation being that of the least possible restriction on the teaching and learning process.Part of this concept—primarily that of freedom of teaching—crossed the Atlantic and found expression in the United States. This article will explore the meaning and premises of the doctrine of academic freedom of the teacher and research scholar, lehrfreiheit, as it so developed in the United States.

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