The Devil and Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires

2002 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-233
Author(s):  
Kristin Ruggiero
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
New Approach ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Devil ◽  
Latin American Countries

In the late nineteenth century, the move away from classical criminology toward positivist criminology brought with it new categories of crime and new definitions of the criminal. A great deal of scholarship has focused on positivism's new approach, which grew out of research in Europe, especially in France and Italy, and later took hold in Argentina and other Latin American countries. It might be supposed that as a state's judicial and penal authorities and doctors of forensic medicine were becoming more professionalized and positivist at this time, and as state and society were becoming more secularized and urbanized, such a traditional figure as the devil would have disappeared from criminal court cases.

Porfirian Commercial Propaganda: Mexico in the World Industrial Expositions

1977 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gene Yeager
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Trade And Investment

Students of late nineteenth century history have long dismissed the world industrial expositions as glittering, but not highly significant reflections of the gilded age. What emerges from the literature of the period, however, is a sense of the overriding commercial importance of these exhibitions. Nineteenth-century observers consistently linked the fairs to the general growth of world trade and to the expanding commercial hegemony of the United States. More specifically, contemporaries agreed that the expositions served to develop trade and investment ties with Latin America. Among the Latin American countries represented in the expositions, Mexico was the most important and consistent participant.

Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-197
Author(s):  
Nicola Miller
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Latin American Countries

This chapter recounts the Latin American countries that welcomed foreign innovation and expertise for technically demanding infrastructure projects. It mentions how the American continent's first railways were built by Spanish American engineers under contract to the respective states, contrary to the common belief that British or US American companies always led the way. It also focuses on the visibility and intensity of public concern about the relationship between science and sovereignty in late nineteenth-century Latin America. The chapter reviews the overlooked history of resistance in Latin American countries on handing over infrastructure projects to private companies, especially if they were foreign owned. It disputes conceptions of the role of the state and provides further evidence for the argument that free-market liberals did not have their own way in nineteenth-century Latin America.

‘Business Imperialism’ and Argentina, 1875–1900: A Theoretical Note

1980 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Economic Advantage ◽  
The State ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
South American ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
British State

The facts are by now sufficiently clear for it to be common ground in any discussion of late nineteenth-century imperialism that the British State was disinclined to interfere on behalf of British capitalists with Latin American interests when these were threatened by local firms or States. Equally it is clear that British capitalists did not invest in Argentina in the belief that, by so doing, they were actively assisting the foreign policy of the British State. The State provided no grounds for this belief and no inducement to invest, and had it done so it is unlikely that the capitalists concerned – a pretty liberal bunch by and large – would have responded to any greater extent than they felt was consistent with their economic advantage. Again, there were not, in Britain, territorially ambitious militarists and aristocrats with their sights set on the South American republics. This element was quite adequately catered for in the Empire. In short, the models of imperialism favoured by Hobson, Schumpeter, and other conspiracy theorists, however appropriate they may be in particular cases, cannot be generalized and have very little relevance to Argentina.

Cultural Divergence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter offers a periodization of the literatures of the Americas from the late nineteenth century through the postwar period. After acknowledging the emergence of a brief “transamerican literary imagination” forged in the early nineteenth century, I chart the gradual breakdown of this shared literary imagination in the second half of the nineteenth century and the concomitant rise of two distinct modes of literary production in the hemisphere: the US literature of experience and the Latin American literature of the reader. I track the emergence of these systems: in the United States, through the mid-nineteenth-century “American Renaissance,” the late nineteenth-century “age of realism,” the interwar “modernist” period, and the “postmodern” era of the second half of the century; in Latin America, through the modernismo of the turn of the twentieth century, the vanguardia movement of the 1920s and early 1930s, and the boom decades of the 1960s and 1970s.

The Audience of Ammianus Marcellinus and the Circulation of Books in the Late Roman World

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darío N. Sánchez Vendramini
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Ammianus Marcellinus ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Late Roman ◽  
Book Circulation ◽  
Nineteenth Century Studies

AbstractSince the late nineteenth century, studies of Ammianus’ audience have reached widely divergent conclusions. Research has focused on two opposed theses: while some scholars have seen the pagan senatorial aristocracy as the audience of the Res Gestae, others have assigned that role to the imperial bureaucracy. However, in thinking that a work could reach—or target—exclusively the members of a specific social group, the prevalent views on Ammianus’ audience contradict what we know about the circulation of books in the late Roman world. In contrast to previous research, this study proposes a new approach based on an analysis of the information available on book circulation in Ammianus’ time. This analysis shows that the audience of the Res Gestae was most likely socially diverse.

scholarly journals Proto-Zionist––Arab Encounters in Late Nineteenth-Century Palestine: Socioregional Dimensions

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuval Ben-Bassat
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Close Cooperation ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Two Populations ◽  
Sociocultural Identity

Based on rarely used documents from archives in Israel and Turkey, this article offers a new approach for the study of proto-Zionist––Arab relationships in Palestine at the end of the nineteenth century. It foregrounds the regional and sociological dimensions of the encounters between the two populations through focus on the Judean colonies southeast of Jaffa. These colonies, located relatively close together, maintained a close-knit network of mutual exchanges and gradually crystallized into a ““bloc””. Using a bottom-up approach, the article explores the developing coordination between the colonies and its impact on their relationships with their Arab neighbors. By the early twentieth century, the author argues, a distinct sociocultural identity had developed in the colonies and the close cooperation had begun to take on a nationalist coloration.

scholarly journals La metáfora biológica en la obra de Manuel González Prada

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Camilo Rubén Fernández-Cozman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
American Authors

Manuel González Prada is one of the most important Latin American authors. He used the biological metaphor to criticize Peruvian society in the late nineteenth century. The metaphor of disease, animal and plant are three kinds of analog procedures that González Prada uses according to a naturalistic vision, heiress of Spencer's evolutionism. González Prada questions the imitation and lack of stylistic precision of writers in the nineteenth century, as well as conceiving that Peru is a sick organism

scholarly journals Framing the Latin American nutrition transition in a historical perspective, 1850 to the present

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-253
Author(s):  
Jonathan D. Ablard
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Nutrition Transition ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Recent Onset ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Global Food

Abstract This paper argues that many of the foundations and trends that led to the rise in obesity and other diet-related health problems in Latin America began to develop in the late nineteenth century. The tendency towards presentism in the nutrition transition literature provides a much abbreviated and limited history of changes in diet and weight. Whereas medical and nutrition researchers have tended to emphasize the recent onset of the crisis, a historical perspective suggests that increasingly global food sourcing prompted changes in foodways and a gradual “fattening” of Latin America. This paper also provides a methodological and historiographic exploration of how to historicize the nutrition transition, drawing on a diverse array of sources from pre-1980 to the present.

Conclusion: The Legacy of Commonwealth

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noah Dauber
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter discusses the persistence of the ideal of commonwealth in the postwar welfare state. It first considers the notion that lies at the heart of the commonwealth theory of state and society: that distributive justice was the basis of peace and mutuality. It then examines the argument that the commonwealth could be saved by understanding that the incentives for conformity with the law needed to be grounded on mutual fear rather than on the pursuit of honor. It notes that, by the eve of the Restoration, posing the question of government as one of sovereignty or control had run its course. It also analyzes the turn to class politics in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as well as opinions that were more redolent of commonwealth themes on both the Right and the Left in the twentieth century.

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