A tiny spot on the earth: the political culture of the Netherlands in the nineteenth and twentieth century

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (04) ◽  
pp. 53-1936-53-1936
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Earth

Cuban Revolutionary Politics in Diaspora

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Antonia Muller
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
National Association ◽  
The Political ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Revolutionary Party ◽  
And Gender

This chapter tells the story of two key and connected institutions of the Cuban Independence movement outside of Cuba: the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC) and the National Association of Cuban Revolutionary Émigrés (ANERC). These institutions and their records have much to teach us about the political culture of Cubans in exile during the second half of the nineteenth century. More specifically, the chapter explores the tension between inclusion and exclusion that marked both institutions during the 1890s and the first few decades of the twentieth century, with a special emphasis on race, class and gender.

Het Spoorwegmuseum Utrecht, the Netherlands

Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-121
Author(s):  
Rolf-Ulrich Kunze
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Hydraulic Engineering ◽  
Northwestern Part ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Limited Role ◽  
The Face ◽  
Integral Element ◽  
To Come ◽  
Engineering Identity

God created the Earth, but the Dutch created the Netherlands, albeit with only a limited role for the railway. Any railway museum in this country invented by and dependent on hydraulic engineering must creatively solve the problem of portraying a technology of mobility which was not central to the Waterstaat (hydro-engineering) identity and the nation’s sociotechnological construction, but one which initially was secondary and subsidiary and, above all, delayed. On the face of it, the story to be told here appears to be that of how, in a northwestern part of Europe where thorough industrialization was late to come, railway-based mobility established itself against the omnipresence of shipping and evolved from seaport-catering surface logistics into an integral element of everyday transportation in twentieth-century Netherlands. The Utrecht Spoorwegmuseum (railway museum) impressively shows that this is not even half the truth, behind which might be, at best, the grumbling resentment of an 1890 boatman.

Comment: The Separation of Powers in 1867

1987 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Ajzenstat
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Mixed Constitution

Philip Resnick argues that Montesquieu is seminal for an understanding of Canadian institutions. We find in nineteenth-century Canada, he says, not Montesquieu's separation of powers doctrine, so influential in the United States, but his teaching about the mixed constitution, that is, government by a combination of monarchic, aristocratic and democratic institutions. He argues that this influence shows in such typical features of our political culture as acceptance of hierarchical patterns, deference to authority and so on; these are reflections of the “disdain for democratic excesses” inherent in the mixed constitution. He then goes on to suggest that we have grown out of the mixed constitution in the twentieth century, but that as a result of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms relations between the political and judicial powers in Canada have so come to resemble the American that we are justified in saying that Canada in this one respect is now characterized by the separation of powers. We have moved from the Montesquieu of the mixed constitution to the Montesquieu of the separation of powers.

War Is Justiciable, Until It Isn’t

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Jasmine Farrier
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
The Political ◽  
War Powers ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter demonstrates that courts were once comfortable entering into the fray when they have clear congressional guidelines about war authorization (private lawsuits) and when members of Congress press their claims through political as well as legal channels (Cambodia cases). It also shows that federal courts can have a place in war powers conflicts—and they did up through the mid-twentieth century, but only in individual plaintiff cases. Although no federal court has ever ordered a president to stop a war, there was once more comfort in judicial engagement in war-related constitutional questions, at least from the founding generation through the Civil War and beyond; the Cold War changed all three branches' orientations. Member litigation began during the Vietnam War out of frustration with imbalance of power that took permanent root in the Cold War and then remained in the political culture under new international pressures in the 1990s and after 9/11. The chapter then details the first two member cases surrounding the Vietnam War's expansion.

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