Saint Anselm College

About: Saint Anselm College is a education organization based out in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Nurse education. The organization has 255 authors who have published 522 publications receiving 7222 citations.

Stephen Tuffnell. <i>Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America</i>.

Abstract: Stephen Tuffnell’s Made in Britain: Nation and Emigration in Nineteenth-Century America investigates how American emigrants in Britain “shaped the nature of US overseas economic exchange, cultural encounter, social interaction, and diplomatic engagement” (23). Tuffnell sees this hitherto neglected group as transnational connectors whose membership in a variety of networks created and sustained a modern, vibrant, transatlantic world. As Tuffnell insists, the capitalist economy that undergirded this world during the nineteenth century did not build and run itself. American financiers, merchants, agents, manufacturers, and brokers living in Liverpool—before the Civil War—and London—throughout the century—were indispensable to constructing this edifice with the help of their British counterparts. Many of these same emigrants, Tuffnell argues, also played a significant diplomatic role. At a time when foreign relations were often conducted through informal, personal channels, respected Americans of long residence, particularly in London, amplified the efforts of their diplomats through various means. Emigrants gathered intelligence, provided entrée into the highest levels of British society, managed public relations, and presented an image of the United States calculated to further the aims of the country. It was while they performed this last task that emigrants were central to developing American identity. As Tuffnell asserts, through engagement with Britain, American emigrants worked out who they were in an attempt to delineate what they were not. By engaging in this exercise of determining what a “representative American” ought to look like, emigrants themselves became the object of debates and the target of attacks in the United States. For example, in the 1850s, the Young America movement, with its aggressive republicanism, equated the old emigrant elite’s notions of transatlantic collaboration with “toadying.” This obsession with the evils of subservience and the possibility of denationalization persisted so long as Americans felt insecure within an unequal postcolonial relationship. Not surprisingly, then, Tuffnell claims Americans often displayed ambivalence toward Britain. For much of the period surveyed, they grappled continuously with the “challenge of reconciling fundamentally opposing aspirations: between independence and interdependence, between the desire to beat and to be like their former parent, and between integrating with and remaining distinct from Britain’s global commercial system” (55).

Quantum communication on closed time-like curves: A Protocol for exchanging, protecting and storing qubit states

Abstract: We describe a weaker consistency condition for qubits on closed time-like curves (CTCs) and define a new quantity we call a ctcbit that provides a means for quantifying a qubit on CTC as a shared resource. We describe a simple protocol for the sharing of information that is similar to quantum teleportation but does not require an entangled particle pair or ebit. The nature of CTCs also serves as a way to protect a qubit state. While there is the appearance that the given resource is free, we employ a non-Hausdorff topology to prevent any limitless information exchanges. While the reality of CTCs is highly speculative, the present paper provides a manner by which quantum informational methods may be employed to study such problems and may ultimately prove useful in studying quantum gravity.