The Later Nineteenth Century
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Author | : Carolyn Marvin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1990-05-24 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0198021380 |
In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the nineteenth century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century, as seen in specialized engineering journals and popular media. Marvin pays particular attention to the telephone, describing how it disrupted established social relations, unsettling customary ways of dividing the private person and family from the more public setting of the community. On the lighter side, she describes how people spoke louder when calling long distance, and how they worried about catching contagious diseases over the phone. A particularly powerful chapter deals with telephonic precursors of radio broadcasting--the "Telephone Herald" in New York and the "Telefon Hirmondo" of Hungary--and the conflict between the technological development of broadcasting and the attempt to impose a homogenous, ethnocentric variant of Anglo-Saxon culture on the public. While focusing on the way professionals in the electronics field tried to control the new media, Marvin also illuminates the broader social impact, presenting a wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining account of the early years of electronic media.
Author | : George Saintsbury |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290917773 |
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Author | : George Saintsbury |
Publisher | : Edinburgh W. Blackwood 1907. |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Literature, Modern |
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Author | : George Saintsbury |
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Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : European literature |
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Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Ivan T. Berend |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520245253 |
Historian Iván Berend turns his attention to Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th century, a turbulent period. Extending up to World War I, the period contained the seeds of developments and crises that continue to haunt the region today.
Author | : Sarah Wadsworth |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781558495418 |
Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.
Author | : George 1845-1933 Saintsbury |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781363558056 |
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Author | : Gilbert M. Joseph |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2013-09-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822377381 |
In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men; the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle. In the process, they engage major questions about the revolution. How did the revolutionary process and its aftermath modernize the nation's economy and political system and transform the lives of ordinary Mexicans? Rather than conceiving the revolution as either the culminating popular struggle of Mexico's history or the triumph of a new (not so revolutionary) state over the people, Joseph and Buchenau examine the textured process through which state and society shaped each other. The result is a lively history of Mexico's "long twentieth century," from Porfirio Díaz's modernizing dictatorship to the neoliberalism of the present day.
Author | : Carl Dahlhaus |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780520036796 |
Carl Dahlhaus here treats Nietzsche's youthful analysis of the contradictions in Wagner's doctrine (and, more generally, in romantic musical aesthetics); the question of periodicization in romantic and neo-romantic music; the underlying kinship between Brahms's and Wagner's responses to the central musical problems of their time; and the true significance of musical nationalism. Included in this volume is Walter Kauffman's translation of the previously unpublished fragment, "On Music and Words," by the young Nietzsche.