Writing Europe into the History of the British Empire

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Rüger
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
European History ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
The Public ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

How should we think of the relationship between Europe and the British empire? Much of the public debate in the recent past has suggested a clear-cut answer: the empire prevented Britain from being drawn ‘into Europe’; it was thanks to its imperial possessions that the United Kingdom could afford not to play a more active European role. Empire and Europe, in short, presented opposite poles in Britain’s engagement with the world. The essay challenges this widely held assumption. It investigates the many ways in which European and imperial experiences were bound up with each other in British life. By doing so, it explores strategies for writing the British empire into European history and European history into the imperial British past.

The Relationship between the Korean Dawn Prayer Meeting and Spirituality

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-219
Author(s):  
Jonghyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Spirituality ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dawn Prayer Meeting ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyzes the formative power of the Korean dawn prayer service to better understand the public and private dimensions of Christian spirituality. It explores the origin of the dawn prayer in the history of Korean Protestantism, and examines an example from a particular church. On the basis of this exploration, it is argued that the dawn prayer service should not be understood as an instrument to strengthen individual spirituality, but rather as a place to participate in God’s redemptive work to and for the world. Both the individual and communal aspects of dawn prayer practice are important, but I will argue that current Korean practice leans too much toward the individual.

Dogs

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Domestic Dogs ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between humans and dogs has garnered considerable attention within archaeological research around the world. Investigations into the lived experiences of domestic dogs have proven to be an intellectually productive avenue for better understanding humanity in the past. This book examines the human-canine connection by moving beyond asking when, why, or how the dog was domesticated. While these questions are fundamental, beyond them lies a rich and textured history of humans maintaining a bond with another species through cooperation and companionship over thousands of years. Diverse techniques and theoretical approaches are used by authors in this volume to investigate the many ways dogs were conceptualized by their human counterparts in terms of both their value and social standing within a variety of human cultures across space and time. In this way, this book contributes a better understanding of the human-canine bond while also participating in broader anthropological discussions about how human interactions with domesticated animals shape their practices and worldviews.

Reframing Canada’s Great War: Liberalism, sovereignty, and the British Empire c. 1860s–1919

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Thompson
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Great War ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Canadian Foreign Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines how Canadian Liberals understood Canada’s international relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, situating their political thought within the British imperial world and their views of the Great War in a broader historical context. It argues that while Liberals regarded Canadian participation in the war as an affirmation of nationhood, they nonetheless conceived of Canada as a “British nation” and an integral part of a British imperial community in international politics. The article further illuminates the growth of an autonomous Canadian foreign policy within the British Empire, and shows that even the staunchest Liberal proponents of independence upheld the Dominion’s British connection. In so doing, it connects the history of Canadian Liberalism to a wider British Liberal tradition that advocated the transformation of the relationship between the United Kingdom and its settler Dominions from one of imperial dependence to that of equal, sovereign, and freely associated nations.

Who Should Foot the Bill

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Likosky
Keyword(s):  
Urban Poor ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The World ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
The Relationship

Should the urban poor be asked to pay their way out of poverty? Should transnational corporations be invited to profit from the plight of the urban poor? I fear that, if we use privatization to solve urban poverty, then we are answering ‘yes’ to these questions. In his impassioned and challenging contribution to this collection, World Bank President James Wolfensohn describes the World Bank’s Cities Without Slums action plan. This plan is in the process of upgrading infrastructures and services in urban slums globally. However, this plan and others like it seek in part to solve urban poverty by using the specific privatization technique of the public– private partnership. By harnessing the power of transnational corporations to solve urban poverty, such partnerships demand that the poor pay private companies for what should be their birthright: a basic social and economic infrastructure. In this response, I’d like to highlight three pieces for special attention: the lectures by Stuart Hall, David Harvey, and James Wolfensohn. Hall and Harvey’s account of the relationship between globalization, privatization, and urban poverty is very different from that offered by Wolfensohn. For Hall and Harvey, globalization impoverishes, while for Wolfensohn it is the key to solving the problem of urban poverty. With minor qualifications I will side with Hall and Harvey and argue that, while Wolfensohn’s position has important merits, it should be modified in significant ways. It seems to me that many of the problems of urban poverty are caused by globalization. The bill for eradicating urban poverty should be handed to the beneficiaries of globalization, not to its victims. I’ll start by fleshing out a recurring theme in all three chapters, the privatization of our cities, before giving some sense of how the privatization of urban infrastructure has come about over the last twenty-five or so years. Then I’ll turn to the lectures by Hall, Harvey, and Wolfensohn. The privatization of urban infrastructures started in the late 1970s in the United Kingdom. It was part of what Stuart Hall in his contribution refers to as ‘the privatization of public goods’.

Organic Farming and the Challenge of Globalization

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Big Science ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Laboratory Findings ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hearts And Minds

As the previous chapters have shown, organic farming arose in an imperial setting and was actually part of a long history of environmental reforms initiated within the British Empire. Organic farming shared many similarities with, and even grew from, the empire forestry movement. Organic farming also played an important role in the growth of environmental consciousness around the world. It transmitted a deep suspicion of corporations and big-science into the broader environmental movement. It shows that, if we disconnect science from the needs of human culture (including spiritual values), science loses its impact on the public. Albert and Louise Howard both clearly understood this and recognized that theory and laboratory findings must produce results in the field, and in the hearts and minds of consumers. The organic farming movement made precisely such a connection and that is one of the ways to explain its remarkable success.

scholarly journals The concept of the synthesis of science and religion in modern theology

1997 ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
V. Medvid
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Global Vision ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

For the current, turning point in the history of Ukraine characterized by the desire of ideologues of different confessions to speak from the standpoint of the global vision of the world, the inclusion in the public consciousness of the ideological function of religion, through which the religious interpretation of the relationship "man - the world" is revealed. To achieve this they seek, in particular, through the involvement in theological outlook of theological interpretations of the achievements of the combined science, which supposedly only in such a way acquire perfection and true meaning.

scholarly journals Global Brotherhood: Freemasonry, Empires, and Globalization

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Harland-Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Global Awareness ◽  
Social Exchanges ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Both scholars of globalization and scholars of Freemasonry (bound by nation-based frameworks of analysis) have insufficiently examined the relationship between the fraternity and globalization. This article uses Manfred Steger’s definition of the four characteristics of globalization to argue that Freemasonry made a multifaceted contribution to the history of globalization during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.<br />It furthered the process by which the world became more interconnected by creating a global network that transcended traditional boundaries, by expanding and stretching social relations (both among its members and between Europe and the wider world), by accelerating and intensifying social exchanges and activities, and by fostering global awareness. In the process, this ultimate global brotherhood also played a role in the extension and functioning of modern European empires, especially the British Empire, which were in and of themselves agents of globalization.</p>

scholarly journals PHILOSOPHICAL LEGACY OF V. G. TABACHKOVSKYI: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL RECONSTRUCTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
Vitalii Turenko ◽  
Vasyl Semykras
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose of this article is consists in the complex researche of the many-sidedness of the philosophical legacy of the famous Ukrainian philosopher of the second half of the XXth century, one of the founders of philosophical anthropology in Ukraine – Vitalii Tabachkovskyi (1944–2006). The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is historical and philosophical reconstruction. A number of concepts and conclusions were applied, which take place in the context of the scientific works of Ukrianian authors on this issue. The author reveals the transformation of Vitalii Tabachkovsky's scientific research during the Soviet period and revealed the specificity and its significance of legacy in the context of Ukrainian philosophical thought of the second half of the twentieth century. Revealed that at the intersection of the 60s and 70s. The twentieth century in the center of attention of V. Tabachkovsky was the problem of the relationship between personal and impersonal, as a result of which her thorough research was the first that critically interpreted the key philosophical and anthropological problems of French personalizm. It was revealed that, on the basis of the then official philosophy, the practice phenomenon occupied a significant place, which became a key subject of research for Vitalii Tabachkovsky in the 1970s and until the mid-1980s. The peculiarity of his explication was that the practice was not only epistemological content (in the spirit of the ideology of Marxism-Leninism), but also related to the inner world of man. It was found that in the era of Perestroika and with the proclamation of independence of Ukraine, the scientific interests of V. Tabachkovsky focused on understanding the human perception of the world, alienation, as well as essential and existential in human nature. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility and necessity of using its results in the context of complex and systematic studies of the history of Ukrainian philosophy in the Soviet period.

“All in a Garden Green”: Shakespeare's Staging of Garden Imagery

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Deborah Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Audience Interaction ◽  
The Many ◽  
Green World

This essay draws attention to the surprising lack of scholarship on the staging of garden scenes in Shakespeare's oeuvre. In particular, it explores how garden scenes promote collaborative acts of audience agency and present new renditions of the familiar early modern contrast between the public and the private. Too often the mention of Shakespeare's gardens calls to mind literal rather than literary interpretations: the work of garden enthusiasts like Henry Ellacombe, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, and Caroline Spurgeon, who present their copious gatherings of plant and flower references as proof that Shakespeare was a garden lover, or the many “Shakespeare Gardens” around the world, bringing to life such lists of plant references. This essay instead seeks to locate Shakespeare's garden imagery within a literary tradition more complex than these literalizations of Shakespeare's “flowers” would suggest. To stage a garden during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries signified much more than a personal affinity for the green world; it served as a way of engaging time-honored literary comparisons between poetic forms, methods of audience interaction, and types of media. Through its metaphoric evocation of the commonplace tradition, in which flowers double as textual cuttings to be picked, revised, judged, and displayed, the staged garden offered a way to dramatize the tensions produced by creative practices involving collaborative composition and audience agency.

Historical Foundations, Strategic Visions, and World Order

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Bolt ◽  
Sharyl N. Cross
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
International Order ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
State Behavior ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 1 explores perspectives on world order, including power relationships and the rules that shape state behavior and perceptions of legitimacy. After outlining a brief history of the relationship between Russia and China that ranged from cooperation to military clashes, the chapter details Chinese and Russian perspectives on the contemporary international order as shaped by their histories and current political situation. Chinese and Russian views largely coincide on security issues, the desirability of a more multipolar order, and institutions that would enhance their standing in the world. While the Chinese–Russian partnership has accelerated considerably, particularly since the crisis in Ukraine in 2014, there are still some areas of competition that limit the extent of the relationship.

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