the perception of a new temporality influenced a certain group of nineteenth-century Spanish intellectuals when they wrote or thought about history (and, consequently, the meaning they gave to it) and the various solutions they put forward for the
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Ana Isabel González Manso
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 64–84
Introduction
Experiences of Time in the Ibero-American World, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Javier Fernández-Sebastián and Fabio Wasserman
research halfway between conceptual history and studies of temporality. The group’s objective is to analyze from a conceptual perspective the experiences of time in the Ibero-American world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 5 In this sense
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 43–47
Contested Citizenship
Public Schooling and Political Changes in Early Nineteenth Century Switzerland
Ingrid Brühwiler
nineteenth century. 4 This article focuses on the relationship between the emergence of the nation-state and the need for public education, with the aim of forming “ideal citizens,” in the first half of the nineteenth century in the Swiss canton of Fribourg
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 15–39
Educating the Other
Foreign Governesses in Wallachia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Nicoleta Roman
preconceived hopes and expectations. 9 In the West, the Industrial Revolution, demographic growth, and the emergence of women in the labor force also shaped the profile of the governess. In the first half of the nineteenth century, an ever-greater number of
Teaching National Identity and Alterity
Nineteenth Century American Primary School Geography Textbooks
Bahar Gürsel
paradigm of the British Empire. In the United States, the second half of the nineteenth century was characterized by turmoil and strife as well as by development and progress. In the wake of the Civil War (1861–1865), Americans aspired to rejuvenate their
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 106–126
Political Regeneration
José Bonifácio and Temporal Experiences in the Luso-American World in the Early Nineteenth Century
Maria Elisa Noronha De Sá and Marcelo Gantus Jasmin
article notes, however, that the study of actions, thoughts, and languages occurring in the transition between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries in Brazil (and also in many other contexts) shows how a given character or even discourse
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 48–63
The Politics of Time
Zeitgeist in Early Nineteenth-Century Political Discourse
Theo Jung
This article traces the uses of zeitgeist in early nineteenth-century European political discourse. To explain the concept's explosive takeoff in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, two perspectives are combined. On the one hand, the concept is shown to be a key element in the new, “temporalized” discourses of cultural reflection emerging during this time. On the other, its pragmatic value as a linguistic tool in concrete political constellations is outlined on the basis of case studies from French, British, and German political discourse. Developing this two-sided perspective, the article sheds light on an important aspect of early nineteenth-century political discourse while also pointing to some general considerations concerning the relationship between the semantic and pragmatic analysis of historical language use.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 24–49
Regards croisés
James Henry Dorugu's Nineteenth-Century European Travel Account
Winckler
This article focuses on the little known travel account: The Life and Travels of Dorugu recorded by James Henry Dorugu in the 1850s. Dorugu was a freed slave, who traveled from Africa to Europe with the German explorer Heinrich Barth in 1855. Dorugu's story is a precious and rare eyewitness account of a nineteenth-century African visitor to London, Hamburg, and Berlin. Most travel writing of the period was done by Western travelers who observed the cultures they visited from a eurocentric perspective. In Dorugu's account, the observed becomes the observer. The stories told by the African guides are indispensable to our contemporary understanding of historical expeditions. Although marginalized at the fringes of official histories, Dorugu played a pivotal role as an informed mediator among European explorers, missionaries, and Africans.
Neither Reformers nor Réformés
The Construction of French Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Gavin Murray-Miller
Modernity has typically been considered a process consisting of “modernizing” initiatives concerned with nation-building, industrial economic development, and new social and political practices associated with democratization. This article engages ongoing debates regarding the import and meaning of modernity for historians and argues in favor of an historically situated understanding of the modern based upon an examination of social power and identity in post-revolutionary France. In particular, it assesses the transformation of social and political relationships in the nineteenth century as France embraced mass democracy and overseas imperial expansion in North Africa, arguing that modernity became a convenient means of preserving elite primacy and identity in an age increasingly oriented toward egalitarianism, democratic participation, and the acquisition of global empires.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 44–67
“A Story, Exemplified in a Series of Figures“
Paper Doll versus Moral Tale in the Nineteenth Century
Hannah Field
Early in the nineteenth century the London publishers and printsellers, S. and J. Fuller, packaged paper dolls and storybooks together in their Temple of Fancy paper doll books. This article examines the tension between the narratives of these works—typically moral tales for children in which a love of clothing is punished—and the accompanying paper dolls, which celebrate costume and dressing up. The textual morals against love of clothing are gendered in problematic ways, with female characters mortified for this flaw more readily than male characters. However, the variety of potential reading experiences offered by the form of the paper doll book, in which picture and word are separate, is viewed as a challenge to the gendered moral content of the stories. Ultimately this article argues that the form of the paper doll book sheds new light on D. F. McKenzie's (1986) ideas about how readers make meaning from texts.
