scholarly journals Clifford Ford. Canada's Music: An Historical Survey. Agincourt, Ontario: GLC Publishers Limited, 1982, viii, 278 pp. Ian L. Bradley. Twentieth Century Canadian Composers, Vol. II. Agincourt, Ontario: GLC Publishers Limited, 1982, xii, 281 pp.

1982 ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Elaine Keillor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Canadian Composers

scholarly journals Inside the Box: Photography and the Portfolio Format

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Kalkstein
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Limited Edition

Photography portfolios—published sets of loose photographs housed in a folder or box—have been produced continuously since at least the 1850s, but have rarely received serious critical attention as a distinct format. This thesis focuses on mid-twentieth-century limited edition portfolios and argues that they were informed by, and have contributed to, developments in photography more broadly. It provides a historical survey of the photography portfolio; considers its material, expressive, and commercial qualities, particularly in comparison to the photography book; and presents five case studies comprising eight portfolios produced between 1940 and 1972: Paul Strand’s Photographs of Mexico (1940) and The Mexican Portfolio (1967); Ansel Adams’s Portfolio One (1948); Berenice Abbott’s 20 Photographs by Eugène Atget 1856–1927 (1956); Lee Friedlander and Jim Dine’s Photographs & Etchings (1969); and Les Krims’s The Deerslayers, The Little People of America 1971, and The Incredible Case of the Stack O’Wheats Murders (1972).

One or two? A historical survey of an aspect of personhood

2005 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Peter Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Historical Survey

The article provides a rapid survey of concepts of human personhood over the last two and a half millennia, focussing particularly on the issue of dualism. It illustrates the variety of concepts of personhood, and the variety of types of dualism. The main thinkers touched on are the Presocratics, Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume and Kant, with a brief final section on developments in twentieth century psychology.

scholarly journals Contributions to a historical review of biological anthropology in Brazil from the second half of the twentieth century

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 517-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
The United States ◽  
Biological Anthropology ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Short Discussion ◽  
General Development ◽  
Initial Survey ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Brazilian Case

Abstract This article provides a preliminary historical survey of Brazilian biological anthropology from the second half of the twentieth century. Even today, little historiographic information on the last 50 or 60 years is available and/or has been explored, while few allusions to bioanthropology can be found in existing works on the history and contemporary state of anthropology in Brazil; this article attempts to span this gap. The first section examines various aspects of the general development of biological anthropology as it radiated from the centers (Europe and the United States) outward over time. This initial survey affords a clearer understanding of the Brazilian case, which is the topic of the second section. This is followed by a brief historical and bibliographic account of the most recent state of biological anthropology in the country, including a number of specialized areas of research. The article concludes with a short discussion of the material covered.

MUNICH, CARPATHO–UKRAINE, THE ‘VELVET REVOLUTION’, AND THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 1169-1178 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIKULÁš TEICH
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
National Interests ◽  
East European ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Velvet Revolution

Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler: the diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s. By I. Lukes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii+318. ISBN 0-1951-0267-3. £22.50.Carpatho–Ukraine in the twentieth century: a political and legal history. By V. Shandor. Cambridge, MA: distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 1998. Pp. xvii+321. ISBN 0-9164A-5886-5. £21.95.Czechoslovak national interests, Part I: A historical survey of Czechoslovak national interests, Part II: Reflections on the demise of Czechoslovak communism. By Oskar Krejčí. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1996. Pp. 193, 167. ISBN 0-8803-3343-X. £31.00

Electro-mechanical robots before the computer

2008 ◽  
Vol 223 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-241
Author(s):  
N Sharkey ◽  
A Sharkey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Open Loop ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Open Loop Control ◽  
Loop Control ◽  
Learning Machines ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Radio Signals ◽  
Mechanistic Biology

There were several electro-mechanical robots in the period leading up to the birth of the Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science in 1959. The authors examine the rise and fall of the electro-mechanical robot in the early twentieth century. After exploring the roots and uses of the term ‘robot’, a historical survey of the early landmark robots is provided. Some were controlled remotely by wireless radio signals or by selectively operating relays with whistle tones or by converting sound into light. Long before the invention of the modern digital computer, there were robots working autonomously with simple sensing and open-loop control. There were even learning machines. Many of the machines were inspired by and in turn inspired the development of mechanistic biology in the early twentieth century. The article ends with the demise of the electro-mechanical robot as the computer is developed and the new artificial intelligence takes hold.

scholarly journals Inside the Box: Photography and the Portfolio Format

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Kalkstein
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Limited Edition

Photography portfolios—published sets of loose photographs housed in a folder or box—have been produced continuously since at least the 1850s, but have rarely received serious critical attention as a distinct format. This thesis focuses on mid-twentieth-century limited edition portfolios and argues that they were informed by, and have contributed to, developments in photography more broadly. It provides a historical survey of the photography portfolio; considers its material, expressive, and commercial qualities, particularly in comparison to the photography book; and presents five case studies comprising eight portfolios produced between 1940 and 1972: Paul Strand’s Photographs of Mexico (1940) and The Mexican Portfolio (1967); Ansel Adams’s Portfolio One (1948); Berenice Abbott’s 20 Photographs by Eugène Atget 1856–1927 (1956); Lee Friedlander and Jim Dine’s Photographs & Etchings (1969); and Les Krims’s The Deerslayers, The Little People of America 1971, and The Incredible Case of the Stack O’Wheats Murders (1972).

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