PDF-[EBOOK] - The Cosmopolitan Lyceum: Lecture Culture and the Globe in Nineteenth-Century

From the 1830s to the 1900s a circuit of lecture halls known as the lyceum movement flourished across the United States At its peak up to a million people a week regularly attended talks in local venues captivated by the words of visiting orators who spoke on an extensive range of topics The movement was a major intellectual and cultural force of this nationbuilding period forming the creative environment of writers and public figures such as Frederic Douglass Ralph Waldo Emerson Anna Dickinson and Mark Twain The phenomenon of the lyceum has commonly been characterized as inward looking and nationalistic Yet as this collection of essays reveals nineteenthcentury audiences were fascinated by information from around the globe and lecturers frequently spoke to their fellow Americans of their connection to the world beyond the nation and helped them understand exotic ways of life Never simple in its engagement with cosmopolitan ideas the lyceum provided a powerful public encounter with international currents and crosscurrents foreshadowing the problems and paradoxes that continue to resonate in our globalized worldThis book offers a major reassessment of this important cultural phenomenon bringing together diverse scholars from history rhetoric and literary studies The twelve essays use a range of approaches cover a wide chronological timespan and discuss a variety of performers both famous and obscure In addition to the volume editor contributors include Robert Arbour Thomas Augst Susan Branson Virginia Garnett Peter Gibian Sara Lampert Angela Ray Evan Roberts Paul Stob Mary Zboray and Ronald Zboray. Nineteenth-Century Colloquium, Yale University. International students and culturally-aware initiatives in an Australian university. Jeannie Daniels -. Curriculum, Teaching & Learning Centre. La Trobe University, . M. elbourne.. La Trobe University –. Medicine in 19. th. century . Created By : Pratibha Jain. Group No. : 2. Content. Medical knowledge and understanding at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Changes in the understanding of the causes of disease. of the Last Three Centuries. Elizabeth Kramer. Liberty University. Nineteenth Century. Tsarist Abolitionism. Nicholas I. Indoctrination. Autocracy. Orthodoxy. Nationalism. Principles of Tsarist Autocracy. ‘ . Balm of America’: Nationalism, Advertising, and . Proprietary Medicines in Nineteenth-Century America. . Abstract:. Proprietary medicines flourished in the nineteenth century. As Americans struggled to make sense of the new nation, savvy businesspeople and owners of patent formulas drew on new forms and methods of advertising to increase distribution and profits of such items as cure-alls, elixirs, fever powders, salves and medical devices. With little government regulation or resistance from the very-young professional medical community until the late 1800s, proprietary medicines found a niche in lay usage across the United States due to advertising campaigns that stressed uniqueness, scarcity, efficacy, and a distinctly American quality of the product. This poster visually demonstrates how advertisers linked health to nationalism to legitimate and sell products that, within a century, came to be termed "quackery" and "snake-oil".. The New German School. Progressive . ideas and styles after 1850. “The . music of the future”. — . a teleological view of the composer’s role in music history. Freedom . from convention. harmonic exploration. Meaning in Artifacts: Hall Furnishings in Victorian America. Kenneth L. Ames. B. . A. . Art . History, . Carleton . College, 1964. M. A. . Art . History, . University . of Pennsylvania, 1966. Ph. D. . industrialists. . There is no doubt that these industrialists were driven by one motive, and that was wealth. However, historians and others debate the title to . bestow . on these men – that of “. 1830 - 1865. Instructions!. Your notes today will be to complete the timelines you picked up when you came in. . When you are done with the timeline notes, I will show you how to fold up your timelines. In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmen\'s primers, and legal cases, Hartman investigates a wide variety of scenes ranging from the auction block and minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed and rights-bearing individual of freedom.While attentive to the performance of power--the terrible spectacles of slaveholders\' dominion and the innocent amusements designed to abase and pacify the enslaved--and the entanglements of pleasure and terror in these displays of mastery, Hartman also examines the possibilities for resistance, redress and transformation embodied in black performance and everyday practice.This important study contends that despite the legal abolition of slavery, emergent notions of individual will and responsibility revealed the tragic continuities between slavery and freedom. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage readers in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies. A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. J?rgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the long nineteenth century, taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe\'s transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more.This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French. Indispensable for any historian, The Transformation of the World sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developments. A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. J?rgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the long nineteenth century, taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe\'s transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more.This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French. Indispensable for any historian, The Transformation of the World sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developments. The Benefits of Reading Books Year 11. History. 2. Content. Medical knowledge and understanding at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Changes in the understanding of the causes of disease. Developments in surgery and hospital treatment.