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Sabine Clarke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Technocratic Imperial State? The Colonial Office and Scientific Research, 1940–1960
    Twentieth Century British History, 2007
    Co-Authors: Sabine Clarke
    Abstract:

    Accounts of the history of British Imperialism that talk of Imperial ideology as the product of the beliefs of a class of ‘gentlemanly’ administrators and capitalists often fail to engage fully with the changed character of colonial policies after 1940. Most notable is a failure to appreciate the decidedly technocratic turn in policy that occurred with the creation of a substantial Research Fund for the colonies. This article shows that a significant expansion in colonial research offered the prospect of restoring the credibility of British action in the colonial sphere at a time when the British government faced severe criticism over the management of its colonial possessions. With the emergence of new colonial policies that emphasized the need for metropolitan intervention and innovation came attempts to rationalize the development process that were based on faith in the efficacy of scientific solutions to colonial problems. In order to achieve their aims, officials at the Colonial Office afforded members of the scientific elite in Britain considerable powers in the organization and direction of colonial research. The result was the expansion of the research council system that had developed in Britain to the Colonial Empire as a whole with the extension of a liberal ideology of research which emphasized the need for freedom for the individual researcher. This article considers the implications of this for the organization of research in the colonies after 1940 and the relationship in practice between research and colonial development.

  • a technocratic Imperial State the colonial office and scientific research 1940 1960
    Twentieth Century British History, 2007
    Co-Authors: Sabine Clarke
    Abstract:

    Accounts of the history of British Imperialism that talk of Imperial ideology as the product of the beliefs of a class of ‘gentlemanly’ administrators and capitalists often fail to engage fully with the changed character of colonial policies after 1940. Most notable is a failure to appreciate the decidedly technocratic turn in policy that occurred with the creation of a substantial Research Fund for the colonies. This article shows that a significant expansion in colonial research offered the prospect of restoring the credibility of British action in the colonial sphere at a time when the British government faced severe criticism over the management of its colonial possessions. With the emergence of new colonial policies that emphasized the need for metropolitan intervention and innovation came attempts to rationalize the development process that were based on faith in the efficacy of scientific solutions to colonial problems. In order to achieve their aims, officials at the Colonial Office afforded members of the scientific elite in Britain considerable powers in the organization and direction of colonial research. The result was the expansion of the research council system that had developed in Britain to the Colonial Empire as a whole with the extension of a liberal ideology of research which emphasized the need for freedom for the individual researcher. This article considers the implications of this for the organization of research in the colonies after 1940 and the relationship in practice between research and colonial development.

Alexandra Shecket Korros - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a reluctant parliament stolypin nationalism and the politics of the russian Imperial State council 1906 1911
    2002
    Co-Authors: Alexandra Shecket Korros
    Abstract:

    Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Reforming Russia: The Crown Councils at Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo Chapter 4 Forming Factions in the State Council: The First Session Chapter 5 The Center as Political Party Chapter 6 Local Government, Naval Apprpriations, Stolypin, the Duma, and State Council Chapter 7 Nationalist Politics in State Council Chapter 8 The Formula Fails: The Western Zemstvo Act Chapter 9 The State Council Becomes What It Was Supposed to Be

  • Activist Politics in a Conservative Institution: The Formation of Factions in the Russian Imperial State Council, 1906-1907
    The Russian Review, 1993
    Co-Authors: Alexandra Shecket Korros
    Abstract:

    rT he years between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 hold a special fascination for Russian historians, but in the wake of the Soviet and post-Soviet experiment in glasnost and perestroika they have assumed a new importance. Scholars searching for models to reform the Soviet State resurrected Peter A. Stolypin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1906-1911), as the thwarted savior of Imperial Russia. Not too long ago an editorial in The Wall Street Journal extolled Stolypin's reform efforts as a paradigm for Mikhail Gorbachev, causing at least one reader to infer that "the economic reforms of Stolypin transformed late czarist Russia into an economic superpower." Some Western observers have even cast Stolypin's plans as a blueprint for democratic reform in the new era.1 Such popularized distortions underline the need for a reevaluation of Stolypin's legacy: Stolypin's reform package included not only land reform but also political restructuring, particularly of local government.2

Tamara L Bray - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • inka pottery as culinary equipment food feasting and gender in Imperial State design
    Latin American Antiquity, 2003
    Co-Authors: Tamara L Bray
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    In this paper, the Imperial Inka ceramic assemblage is examined in terms of its functional and culinary significance. Information culled from ethnohistoric sources, archaeological reports, and ethnographic studies is used to draw functional inferences about Inka vessel forms and to outline the features of an Imperial “haute cuisine.” In the Inka empire, the relationship between rulers and subjects was largely mediated through the prestation of food and drink. The elaboration of a distinctive State vessel assemblage suggests a conscious strategy aimed at creating material symbols of class difference in the context of State-sponsored feasting events. An empire-wide analysis of the distribution of Inka vessels indicates the particular importance of the tallnecked jar form (aribalo) to State strategies in the provinces. Analyzing Inka pottery as culinary equipment highlights the links among food, politics, and gender in the processes of State formation. Such an approach also illuminates the important role of women in the negotiation and consolidation of Inka State power.

  • to dine splendidly Imperial pottery commensal politics and the inca State
    2003
    Co-Authors: Tamara L Bray
    Abstract:

    This paper looks at the classic polychrome vessels associated with the Imperial Inca State in terms of their functional significance and considers the role of these objects in the broader context of elite identity and empire building. The focus is on several dimensions of the ceramic assemblage not normally discussed in studies of Inca pottery including their significance from a culinary standpoint and the gendered associations of this category of material culture. Based on an empirewide analysis of the Imperial assemblage, I suggest that viewing Inca pottery as culinary equipment offers a window into the ways in which food, feasting, and gender figured in the negotiation of State power and Imperial expansion. To better understand how pots functioned as political tools in the Inca State, ethnohistoric and ethnographic information on Andean foodways is presented together with archaeological data on Inca vessel forms, patterns of distribution, and contexts of finds. The Imperial State assemblage is then compared to the local vessel repertoire of a northern Andean polity that was incorporated into the Inca empire shortly before its demise. These different lines of evidence are used

Douglas M. Haynes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Social Production of Metropolitan Expertise in Tropical Diseases: The Imperial State, Colonial Service and the Tropical Diseases Research Fund
    Science Technology & Society, 1999
    Co-Authors: Douglas M. Haynes
    Abstract:

    The hegemonic authority of Western science over disease in the tropical world is not a prod uct of its inherent truth value, but rather refers to the underdevelopment of science resources under European rule. As this study will show, the emphasis on the delivery of medical care in the dependent British Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century created conditions for the domestication of tropical disease research in the twentieth cen tury. A large pool of underemployed medical practitioners in Britain enabled the Colonial Office to satisfy the personnel needs of its far-flung empire. Colonial governments, in turn, maximised the labour of Imperial doctors as primary care providers through a wide range of administrative tools. This emphasis simultaneously retarded the development of labora tory research into disease in the periphery while creating an opportunity for its metropolitan appropriation. Eventually the Tropical Disease Research Fund was created to promote the understanding of disease in t...

Jeffrey T. Leigh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Revolution Begins: All Was Seemingly at Risk
    Austrian Imperial Censorship and the Bohemian Periodical Press 1848–71, 2017
    Co-Authors: Jeffrey T. Leigh
    Abstract:

    During the Revolutions of 1848 in Bohemia, under conditions of a free press and therewith market-determined success, a liberal-nationalist periodical press emerged as the public voice of opposition to the Austrian Imperial State. This bourgeois public sphere, grounded in a common mid-century liberalism, was, however, forced by the very issues raised by the revolution into separate and increasingly hostile Czech and German camps, despite efforts of German and Czech liberals to maintain amity. The Imperial State, however, while benefitting from the still general moderation of the opposition in Bohemia, was clearly losing its previously singular role in the political affairs of Bohemia to the new prevalence of market forces demanding a public and increasingly rancorous discussion of political issues.

  • Press Policy and the Early Neoabsolutist State: The Melding of Absolutism and Liberalism
    Austrian Imperial Censorship and the Bohemian Periodical Press 1848–71, 2017
    Co-Authors: Jeffrey T. Leigh
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    With the defeat of the revolution, a new system, dubbed Neoabsolutism, developed, attempting to combine the prerogatives of the traditional Imperial State with executive, legislative, and judicial authority all held in the hands of a new centralized administration but now functioning, for the first time, under the primacy of the rule of law. Far from being the death of independent journalism and despite its officials’ efforts to the contrary, Neoabsolutism’s focus on the rule of law opened an important opportunity for the survival of opposition expression in the periodical press and therein the continuation of a liberal public sphere.

  • The Revolutionary Year: The Defeat of the Revolution and the Victory of the Rule of Law
    Austrian Imperial Censorship and the Bohemian Periodical Press 1848–71, 2017
    Co-Authors: Jeffrey T. Leigh
    Abstract:

    The centrality of the Imperial State in the public affairs of Bohemia was nonetheless underscored during this period, which was bookended by the press laws of May 18, 1848, and March 13, 1849. The first press law established greater guarantees for publishers, thus unintentionally encouraging them to take greater risks in the publication of more radical periodicals. The general moderation of the period, however, remained, with the public generally refusing the calls of the proponents of more radical political changes. March 1849 would mark the end of the “revolutionary year,” but the new press law of that month nonetheless constituted a significant departure from the practices of the Vormarz.