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Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld, 1780-1930
01 Jan 2010-British Journal of Canadian Studies (Liverpool University Press (UK))-Vol. 23, Iss: 1, pp 122
About: This article is published in British Journal of Canadian Studies.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 26 citations till now.
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TL;DR: The authors examines Susanna Moodie's memoirs in the context of changing narratives around immigration and social class in the 1830s, arguing that she overtly engaged with the age's boosterist literature, warn...
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TL;DR: Sainthill's stage and costume designs for Benthall's Shakespeare Memorial Theatre production of The Tempest (1951, 1952) were discussed in this article. But they focused on the Australian artist.
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TL;DR: An agent-based approach to explain both the final state and the dynamics of the development process of the wine sector in the MaA‚opolska region in Poland finds that the crucial element underlying the good predictive power of the model enables it to capture the fact that wine enthusiasts initially concentrate in sub-regions with more benign environmental conditions.
Abstract: In this paper, we apply an agent-based approach to explain both the final state and the dynamics of the development process of the wine sector in the MaA‚opolska region in Poland. This sector has been affected by various environmental, institutional, behavioural and social factors and has undergone evolutionary changes in recent years. The econometric analysis of empirical data of vineyards in this region provides insights into the degree of influence of various factors under consideration on the aggregate number of vineyards in sub-regions. However, this does no explain the dynamics of the local formation of new vineyards or the underlying latent attitudes of vineyard owners. To overcome this limitation, we developed an agent-based model with heterogeneous agents (regular farms as well as large and small vineyards), which allowed us to identify a two-stage development scenario: i) community building and ii) vineyard creation. Our findings are of two types. Firstly, we showed a case where the agent-based model has good predictive power, in situations where the econometric model fails. Secondly, estimation of the agent-based model parameters and sensitivity analysis revealed crucial factors that have driven development of viticulture in the MaA‚opolska region. In particular, we find that the crucial element underlying the good predictive power of the model is that it enables us to capture the fact that wine enthusiasts initially concentrate in sub-regions with more benign environmental conditions. Next, when one of them eventually established a vineyard, agents in the community had a lowered barrier to entry via the possibility of practical knowledge exchange, joint marketing efforts or vineyard maintenance resource sharing. This is in line with current evidence, which shows strong clustering effects, namely, a relatively large number of vineyards originate at relatively similar times and locations.
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TL;DR: Nicotinamide deficiency is an overlooked diagnosis in poor cereal-dependant economies masquerading as 'environmental enteropathy' or physical and cognitive stunting as mentioned in this paper.Good health and rapid progress depend on an optimal dose of nicotinamide.
Abstract: Good health and rapid progress depend on an optimal dose of nicotinamide. Too little meat triggers the neurodegenerative condition pellagra and tolerance of symbionts such as tuberculosis (TB), risking dysbioses and impaired resistance to acute infections. Nicotinamide deficiency is an overlooked diagnosis in poor cereal-dependant economies masquerading as 'environmental enteropathy' or physical and cognitive stunting. Too much meat (and supplements) may precipitate immune intolerance and autoimmune and allergic disease, with relative infertility and longevity, via the tryptophan-nicotinamide pathway. This switch favours a dearth of regulatory T (Treg) and an excess of T helper cells. High nicotinamide intake is implicated in cancer and Parkinson's disease. Pro-fertility genes, evolved to counteract high-nicotinamide-induced infertility, may now be risk factors for degenerative disease. Moderation of the dose of nicotinamide could prevent some common diseases and personalised doses at times of stress or, depending on genetic background or age, may treat some other conditions.
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TL;DR: Argentina's early twentieth century is commonly portrayed as a "golden age" in which it became "one of the richest countries in the world" as discussed by the authors, however, this optimistic vision is challenged by placing Argentina within a new metanarrative of global divergence during the long nineteenth century.
Abstract: Argentina’s early twentieth century is commonly portrayed as a ‘golden age’ in which it became ‘one of the richest countries in the world’. Here, however, this optimistic vision is challenged by placing Argentina within a new metanarrative of global divergence during the long nineteenth century. A massive terms-of-trade boom – the extent of which has not previously been appreciated – had profoundly uneven impacts across the periphery. Where land was abundant, frontiers could expand, leading to dramatic extensive (that is, aggregate) growth. An expanding frontier then had a safety-valve effect on labour markets, so capitalists responded to high wages by mechanising production, which raised labour productivity and, consequently, per capita incomes. In the land-scarce periphery, by contrast, deindustrialisation led to increasing quantities of labour receiving diminishing returns by being applied to limited land resources. Similarly, Argentina’s own century-long terms-of-trade boom allowed the Littoral to prosper but made the more densely populated interior stagnate. The presence of the poor interior then prevented the country from developing the kind of white-egalitarian democracy that had allowed the prosperous European offshoots to make the transition to rapid intensive (that is, per capita) growth. Most importantly, Argentina’s political backwardness ensured that landownership remained concentrated, which muted the safety-valve effect of the expanding frontier, so capitalists did not make the same investments in laboursaving technologies. The new metanarrative of global divergence thus leads to a far more pessimistic revision of Argentina at the beginning of the twentieth century – a revision that is verified through a comparative assessment of its living standards that shows them to have been considerably below the levels of Northern Europe and the European offshoots. Argentina’s ‘golden age’ is therefore a myth.
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TL;DR: The authors contextualized some of these recognizable names and faces by placing them into the transnational circuits that brought them to New Zealand, and argued that New Zealanders actively participated in these transnational networks of politics, entertainment, and sport.
Abstract: Numerous famous individuals travelled to New Zealand in the period from the 1880s to the 1930s. Their names have previously lent celebrity endorsement to the promotion of New Zealand tourism and the twentieth-century historical project to define a unique national identity. This thesis contextualizes some of these recognizable names and faces by placing them into the transnational circuits that brought them to New Zealand. It addresses three groups of mainly male visitors to New Zealand from the 1880s to the 1930s: political commentators, itinerant lecturers, and wealthy fishermen. Partly due to the promotional efforts of these visitors, New Zealand has acquired the international reputation of being a ???social laboratory??? at the turn of the twentieth century, a tourist destination in the early twentieth century, and a millionaires??? playground in the interwar period. Re-situating these privileged individuals in their contemporary networks and communities demonstrates ways in which these national and nationalistic images were generated, and the limits of their application to understanding New Zealand???s past. The personal relationships that created and nurtured the networks that allowed individuals to lead transnational lives in this period are also explored, and this thesis argues that New Zealanders actively participated in these transnational circuits of politics, entertainment, and sport. If we view history in national isolation we lose sight of the sustained connections New Zealand and New Zealanders had with the world throughout these decades. It is not enough to simply theorize transnational connections; transnational networks must be populated. Peopling these transnational networks of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with the familiar names that helped constituted them enriches our view of New Zealand in this period.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how and with what effect the Confederate rebellion sprawled across the oceans and suggest the "blue water" theater as an integrated whole, whose sea lanes connected Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific waters to those of the Indian Ocean and the Bering Sea.
Abstract: Beginning with this journal's 2011 inaugural issue, its contributors and readers have witnessed the conceptual power of oceanic place-names. "Atlantic," "Caribbean," and "Pacific rim" perspectives have been prominently featured, and each has significantly enhanced our understanding of the North American 1860s. (1) This watery nomenclature has involved both more and less than it implies. As an exercise in innovative metageography, the "worlds" of oceans and seas have reconfigured vast networks of interaction and influence that earlier histories often separated by national, continental, or hemispheric boundaries. (2) Yet, both in this journal and across the field of Civil War studies more generally, the terminology has mainly applied to terrestrial locales situated on the dry (or semidry) edges of dynamic maritime zones. While we have gained much in looking out from ports and coastlines upon and across the high seas, there are a series of Civil War-era maritime conflicts, controversies, and programs that need to be viewed from the decks of ocean-borne ships surrounded by nothing but water. This essay's chief concern--to explore how and with what effect the Confederate rebellion sprawled across the oceans--begins with a simple suggestion: to consider the "blue water" theater as an integrated whole, whose sea lanes connected Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific waters to those of the Indian Ocean and the Bering Sea. This far-flung salt water complex confronts us as the largest and the least conceptualized spatial arena of an ever-more globalized Civil War. (3) The notion of a Salt Water Civil War offers more than a new spatial category. By drawing attention to a series of war-related developments in international waters, the terminology addresses how American belligerency mattered to all members of a global community, which in the mid-nineteenth century was fixated on the terms and possibilities of oceanic sea power, trade, exploration, and reform. A key goal of this essay is to survey the burgeoning specialized literatures devoted to war-related maritime incidents, beginning with that spate of Civil War naval histories capped recently by authoritative overviews of James McPherson and Craig Symonds. (4) Another objective is to demonstrate how such impressive summations, and the increasingly sophisticated and ambitious research agendas of naval history as a subfield, can benefit from a more sustained engagement with the economic, scientific, diplomatic, and cultural studies of the 1860s high seas. (5) Setting Civil War narratives aside from work developed apart from U.S. history can be a step toward embedding Union and Confederate initiatives within world history, broadly conceived. In combining synthesis and agenda-setting, this essay uses the New Thalassology as a point of departure and framing device. A bit more than a decade ago, Mediterranean specialists deployed the ancient Greek term thalassa ("the seas") to a distinctive mode of historicizing the waters of the Earth. (6) As the approach was taken up and applied to an increasing array of blue water settings, a set of defining thalassological principles have placed sea-based human endeavors at the center, rather than on the margins, of historical narratives, thus offsetting a prevalent "terracentric bias." (7) Thalassological approaches consider the high seas a realm of meaningful human activity in its own right and insist that the economic, legal, and imaginative construction of these spaces involved historical developments of enormous consequence. (8) Rather than the spaces "in between" continental land-masses and "around" island archipelagos, oceans in these renderings have been forums for international economic development, intercontinental migration, scientific discovery, war-making, and resource management, to name the most critical topics. (9) A similar ocean-centered approach can provide new vantages on the international dimensions of the American Civil War. …
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TL;DR: This paper argued that the land discourse has generally been emphasized over and above the latter, which examines principally in terms of the struggle for the rangatiratanga (loosely translatable as autonomy) promised to Maori by the British Crown in the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840.
Abstract: This article interrogates indigeneity in the context of two New Zealand indigenous discourses, one of them land orientated and the other people orientated. It argues that the former has generally been emphasized over and above the latter, which it examines principally in terms of the struggle for the rangatiratanga (loosely translatable as autonomy) promised to Maori by the British Crown in the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840. People-based discourse is seen as key to the resilience of Maoridom and its powerful assertions of agency in recent decades. But to argue in this way is not to discount the land discourse, which in the holistic Maori worldview is conflated with the people discourse and rangatiratanga
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