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Detroit: A Motor City History by David Lee Poremba

140 Michigan Historical Review car. Once these conveniences were incorporated into the gasoline propulsion system, the technological advantages of the electric vehicle dwindled in significance. At this point, purchase price determined consumer choice. The electric car, with its higher priced technology, failed once and for all as the gasoline-powered automobile gained a mass market. The strength of this volume isMom's methodical and exhaustive research drawing from several European countries and the United States, and his conclusions are based on expectations for the technology internationally. Mom provides a clear argument that demands consideration from historians of technology aswell as policymakers. NealV. Hitch Ohio Historical Society David Lee Poremba. Detroit: A Motor City History. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2003. Pp. 159. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $19.99. As one of the oldest permanent European settlements in North America, Detroit has had a fascinating history. Since 1701, when Antoine de laMothe Cadillac landed on the north shore of the Detroit River, through its days as a gathering place for French fur traders, its position as a British and American outpost, and finally its rise to become one of the country's industrial giants, Detroit and its citizens have participated inmany of the crucial developments that shaped our nation. David Lee Poremba wrote this book about the city's storied past in order to mark Detroit's tricentennial in 2001. Unfortunately, because of severe space constraints, perhaps imposed by the publisher, the book doesn't really tell us anything new, save what has happened in recent decades. Still this compact account would be useful for someone looking for a general history of the city, one not clogged with footnotes or references. Detroit is full of facts?one right after the other?with little analysis of how or why an event happened. Frequently the work piques the reader's interest; however, the discussion often ends abruptly leaving him or her wondering about the outcome. Some parts of the book are much stronger than others. In the middle chapters, Poremba's descriptions are quite effective. The earlier and later chapters, however, can be a bit confusing and sometimes ask more questions than they answer. Often names are dropped without a reference to who the person was. For instance, Tecumseh and his Book Reviews 141 brother Tenkswatawa, known as the Prophet, are mentioned for their roles in uniting northern tribes to fight for the British, but at no point does the author tell the reader who Tecumseh and Tenkswatawa actually were or which tribe (Shawnee) they represented. In other sections of the book the narrative either glosses over or completely omits some key moments in the city's history. For example, Detroit is cited "as the leader in Prohibition law violations" (p. 119), but the reader is left to speculate about what those might have been. The Detroit River was one of the busiest routes for alcoholic contraband from Canada to the United States during Prohibition, but the only other reference the reader gets to that tumultuous era is a photo of dilapidated warehouses along the riverfront. The section on the General Motors-Poletown confrontation lacks specificity and does not convey the true nature of what occurred. Poremba states that the plant was built "amidst some controversy" and the complex displaced "some people" (p. 140). In reality the project razed thirteen hundred homes, more than one hundred businesses, and half a dozen churches, as well as displacing forty-two hundred residents. Although these two topics are more fully examined in Philip P. Mason's Rumrunning and the Rearing Twenties: Prohibition on theMichigan-Ontario Waterway (1995), and in a number of books on Poletown, readers of Detroit: A Motor City History still need some explanation of these critical events in the city's history. The casual reader will find Detroit to be an interesting read. The more curious, on the other hand, may be disappointed to find only a two-page bibliography. Historians will have to go elsewhere to find sources about the fascinating history of theMotor City. Kenneth G. Hafeli Gerald R. Ford Library, Ann Arbor Kenneth J. Schoon. Calumet Beginnings: Andent Shorelines and Settlements at the South End ofLake Michigan. Bloomington: Indiana...

Regional collaboration infrastructure

Regional innovation has been incorporated into planning debates broadening the view of the crucial role that networks play in regional development as vehicles of knowledge and innovation. Research in this area has focused on the effects of the ‘innovative milieu’ (Maillat 1991; Kogut et al. 1993: Capello 1999; Camagni 1999) and recently into systems of innovation as a way to explain innovation at the regional level (Storper 1995: Landabaso 1997; de La Mothe & Paquet 1998: Cooke 2001). However, less research has been done into the meaning of regional collaboration structures, their measurement and their effects on regional development. This paper discusses collaboration systems such as clusters and development networks as they enable innovation in regions. The paper argues that collaboration infrastructure has tangible and intangible effects in regional development that make it a critical infrastructure to be developed in regions, especially those suffering economic decline. The paper will present the case of the Hunter region of NSW as an example of tangible and intangible effects of a collaboration network.

Un Français au pays du cheval : Vallin de La Mothe et Wilton House, 1755

When Henry Herbert, tenth earl of Pembroke, set out for his Grand Tour journey in 1751, he didn't travel to Rome or Naples. Instead, he went to Vienna to admire the Spanish Riding School, to Lyons to meet Claude Bourgelat, the famous horse veterinary and to Paris and Versailles, the cities La Guérinière's teaching was spreading all over Europe from. The earl of Pembroke had just inherited Wilton House, a magnificent Tudor hall transformed by Inigo Jones. The earl was eager to build a riding school to satisfy his passion for horses. He met in Paris Jean-Baptiste Vallin de La Mothe, a young and ambitious architect, trained by the famous Jacques-François Blondel and who just came from Italy. The project Vallin de La Mothe submitted to the English aristocrat is published here for the first time. It already contains all the elements that will ensure the French architect a brilliant carrier at the service of the empresses of Russia: elegance and inventiveness mixted with the wish of respecting the rule of convenance and the desires of his client. But contrary to what the local tradition reports, the earl chosed a radically different project. The history of the Wilton House riding school is a good example of the English reluctance to the French architectural manner of the XVIIIth century.

Feast or famine? Eloquence and the engraved image in Le Parasite Mormon

Attributed to the Abbot Francois de La Mothe Le Vayer, Le Parasite Mormon, or Mormon the Parasite, published in Paris in 1650, contains two pages that draw the reader's attention at the very beginning. The first image, if one can call a partially blank page an ‘image,’ announces the lack of an engraving and interrupts the development of the main narrative (figure I). This image invites the reader to relate to the text in an unexpected way: to engage his or her imagination so as to supply what is lacking, namely a portrait of the writers of The Parasite and their friends at a banquet. The second image is an engraving of an orator standing in a cauldron lecturing to a group of cooks in a kitchen (figure 2). The reader, familiar with frontispieces contemporary with this one, such as those in Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée (1607–27) or Madeleine de Scudéry's Artamène (1648–53), might expect it to depict an episode from the main narrative of The Parasite. Surprisingly, one discovers that it does not. After reading the main narrative and its four intercalated tales, one is struck by this lack of correspondence between image and word. Perhaps the bookmaker just arbitrarily attached this frontispiece to The Parasite, as was sometimes the custom in seventeenth-century France. Yet authors and knowledgeable printers may have seen a thematic relationship between narrative and image, and then made the match accordingly.

Carved in Stone The History of Stone Mountain (review)

Carved in Stone The History of Stone Mountain By David B. Freeman Mercer University Press, 1997 200 pp. Cloth, $32.95 Reviewed by John M. Coski, historian at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia. Coski is the author of CapitalNavy: The Men, Ships, and Operations oftheJames River Squadron and contributed to A Woman's War: Southern Women, Civil War, and the Confederate Legacy. He has written and lectured widely on die Confederate memorial period and on the history and symbolism of the Confederate battle flag, including a photo essay for Southern Cultures. A heroic monument to the Confederacy first envisioned in 1914 and finally dedicated in 1970 presents an ideal opportunity to explore the Lost Cause in twentiethcentury America. Inexplicably, freelance historian David B. Freeman fails to seize this opportunity in his history of Stone Mountain, Georgia. Instead, Carvedin Stone is a minimally interpretive narrative history ofthe granite monolith, the village, and the memorial known as Stone Mountain. The author 's purpose is to write a definitive history -"to set the record straight"—about the often controversial mountain. Based on research in official records and newspaper accounts and featuring fifty full-page black-and-white photographs, Carved in Stone fulfills the author's documentary purpose, but it only hints at the mountain 's significance for the study of southern cultures. Rising 800 feet above the surrounding north-central Georgia hills, Stone Mountain was a landmark for Native Americans and European setders, a resort, and a source ofbuilding stone before it assumed its place as the "Southern Mount Rushmore." The mountain's vertical north face virtually begged for a monumental sculpture, and it was Helen C. Plane, an eighty-year-old widow ofa Confederate soldier and an active member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (udc), who proposed transforming it into a monument that would oudast all the others dedicated to Confederate heroes. The saga ofStone Mountain was epic in direct proportion to the ambitions of its visionaries. Sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum captured the imagination of the udc sponsors with a proposed relief sculpture of nearly 1,000 figures featuring the only three figures to be started or completed: PresidentJefferson Davis and generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. 102 Reviews Complementing the colossal relief sculpture was a grand colonnaded memorial hall hewn out of the mountain's base. Typical ofmany Confederate memorial projects, Stone Mountain was delayed by financial problems and organizational schisms. Compounding these was the ultimately fatal rift between the stubborn Borglum and Hollins Randolph, the powerful president ofthe Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association (smcma). Before being fired and becoming persona non grata in Georgia in early 1925, Borglum and his crew finished the figure of Lee, which was unveiled with great fanfare on 19 January 1923 (which Freeman erroneously identifies as the general 's centennial birthday). In March 1928 Borglum's Lee was blown from the mountain, replaced with the work of another sculptor, Augustus Lukeman, unveiled on 9 April 1928. Lukeman's work remained unfinished and virtually untouched for thirty-five years as the smcma went down in a blaze oforganizational and financial ignominy. Only when the state of Georgia took over the project and the property in the late 195os was the monument completed by yet another sculptor, and Stone Mountain became an enormous success—as a popular amusement park. The story told here is an engaging one. Carving even three equestrian figures into a sheer rock face was a complex challenge, and Freeman relates clearly how Borglum and his successors met the challenge. Carvedin Stoneis a story oftechnical achievement amid often comical organizational chaos. Freeman is not oblivious to Stone Mountain's wider social and cultural ramifications . The monument project was born almost simultaneously with the release ofD.W. Griffith's film Birth ofa Nation and the revival ofthe Ku Klux Klan (???) at a ceremony held on Stone Mountain. The mountain's owner, Sam Venable, was a Klan activist; the principal figures in the project, including Gutzon Borglum, became members; and Helen Plane suggested adding figures of 1 860s klansmen to the sculpture. Contrary to contemporary belief, however, Freeman asserts that the monument was not a...

The inter‐American dimension of future Canadian security policy

Canada's links with and involvement in Latin America have become more extensive over the past decade but, Paul Dufour, John de La Mothe and James Muffin note, in at least one important area —scientific research and technological development — Canada's relations in the region are weak. The authors examine the new “strategic” understanding of the role of science and technology in foreign relations, the greater need for international cooperation to cover the increased costs of conducting research, and the strengths and weaknesses of scientific and technological production in Canada and the countries of Latin America. They outline the ways Canada could build on its links within the region to forge a mutually beneficial partnership in scientific and technological research efforts that could enhance trade and economic development.

Which way did they go?

Journal Article Which way did they go? Get access Work For All or Mass Unemployment?: Computerized Technical Change Into the 21st Century by Freeman Chris and Soete Luc Pinter, London, 1994, 193, £35.99, 1-85567-255-3 (hardback), £10.99, 185567-256-1 (paperback) John de la Mothe John de la Mothe Program of Research on International Management and Economy (PRIME), Faculty of Administration, PO Box 142,275 Nicholas Street, University of Ottawa, Canada K1NBN5 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Science and Public Policy, Volume 22, Issue 6, December 1995, Pages 421–422, https://doi.org/10.1093/spp/22.6.421 Published: 01 December 1995

La neige d'antan

C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity. By John de la Mothe. University of Texas Press: 1992. Pp. 288. $35.

Judgements of Value: Selected Writings on Music

Part 1 Personal: critic's task Egon Wellesz as musician and teacher. Part 2 Composers: Giacomo Meyerbeer Carl Maria von Weber Scriabin and Russian Renaissance Sergei Prokofiev Gounod's influence on French music Faure and Hellenistic element in French music. Part 3 world of Music - articles from The Daily Telegraph: styles - art nouveau, pastoralism, pastiche and eclecticism, neo-classicism, baroque opera - The Fiery Angel, Fidelio, Simone Boccanegra, Cosi fan tutte politics and avant-garde - composers and influence of politics, for people - or the people, when theatre takes over from music composers and musicians - Clement Harris, Edward Dent, Hubert Parry, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Francois Couperin, Maurice Ravel, Albert Roussel, George Frideric Handel critical considerations - surprise, novelty, values that pass, humour, competitions, projection in performance, Italy. Part 4 Songs and singers: Schumann's songs Claire Croiza Pauline Viardot. Part 5 On air - contributions to BBC: three broadcast operas - Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Iphigenie en Tauride, Orfeo short thoughts - understanding music, shape and sound, words into music, fast and slow inner thoughts - acquiescence of Jesus. Part 6 Poets and poetry: music in German Novelle, E.T.A. Hoffman, Joseph von Eichendorff, Eduard Morike, Giacomo Leopardi. Part 7 Religious thinkers: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon, Friedrich von Hugel, Soren Kierkegaard.

Changing industrial economy

Changing industrial economy Get access Manufacturing Matters: the Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy by Cohen Stephen S and Zysman John Basic Books, New York, 1987, $19.95, 0-465-04384-4 John R de la Mothe John R de la Mothe Lecturer (Technology Policy) Faculty of Administration, University of Ottawa and a Policy Analyst for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Researcn Council, 200 Kent Street, Ottawa, Canada K1A 1H5 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Science and Public Policy, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 1988, Pages 120–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/spp/15.2.120 Published: 01 April 1988

Thematic Development in Jodelle's Contr' Amours

Thematic Development in Jodelle's Conti*'Amours by Gale Crouse# When Etienne Jodelle's works were first published in 1574, just over a year after the poet's death, his editor and lifetime friend, Charles de La Mothe, grouped seven sonnets under the heading "Contr'Amours." In his introduction to this first edition, La Mothe commented that he could include only seven sonnets "par ce que l'on n'en a encore peu recouvrer le reste,"1 and he went on to explain that the "Contr'Amours" should contain over three hundred works. Balmas has recently uncovered two additional sonnets and two longer poems which he convincingly attributes to Jodelle (pp. 529-30), but the total number remains far short of the three hundred attested to by La Mothe. The few poems which are known, however, offer valuable insight into Jodelle's work as a poet, especially in terms of poetic structure and thematic development. The "Contr'Amours" present a bold and original poetic statement of the anti-Petrarchan sentiment which was common in the midsixteenth century, especially among the Pléiade poets. Both Du Bellay, in his "Contre les Pétrarquistes,"2 and Ronsard, in the "Elegie à son livre"' and in an "Odelette à sa maistresse,"4 had criticized the excesses and the effusiveness of the traditional expressions of love. In a "Chanson" (pp. 320-335) Jodelle himself had made a similar criticism.5 Jodelle's "Contr'Amours" are unique, however, in that they constitute an illustration rather than merely a statement of anti-Petrarchism. •GAI.E CROUSE (Ph.D.. University of Wisconsin-- Madison) teaches French and integrated humanities courses at the University of South Dakota where he is chairman of the Department of Modern Languages. He has taught at San Diego State College and at the Ecole Normale d'instituteurs in Chateauroux. France. He is editor of the Language Rt>und Table Bulletin of South Dakota and a member of the Advisory Council of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. His affiliations include AATE. ACTKI.. RMMl. A. and SDKI. A. 1 Etienne Jodelle. Oeuvres completes. cá. Enea Balmas (Paris: Gallimard. 1965), I, 72. Kurt her references to this edition will he given in the text of the study. ; Oeuvres françaises de Jitachim du Bel/ai . ed. Charles Marty-I.aveaux (Paris: Lemerre. 1867). II. .'3.1-3.18. 'Oeuvres comp/eres. ed. Gustave Cohen (Paris: Gallimard. 1950), I. 112. 'Ibid. II. 798 ^ Balmas suggests that Du Bellay's anti-Petrarchism may have been inspired by Jodelle. See his Cn poeta del Rinasfimento francese: Flienne Jodelle. La sua vna. 11 suo lempo ( Klorence: I.. S. Olschki. 1962), p. 445. ROCKY MOUNTAIN REVIEW7 Contr'Amours Unrequited or even rejected love is Jodelle's alleged reason for the creation of the "Contr'Amours," an interpretation supported by the poet's contemporary, Etienne Pasquier, who writes that Jodelle "estoit d'un esprit sourcilleux, et voyant que tous les autres poetes s'adonnoient à la célébration de leurs dames, luy, par un privilege spécial, voulut faire un livre qu'il intitula Contr'Amours, en haine d'une dame qu'il avoit autresfois affectionnée___6 There is no real evidence to substantiate the notion that Jodelle's poems were actually inspired by an unfortunate love affair, however, nor should this be a major consideration since the question of sincerity is often meaningless in a sixteenth-century context.7 As Piéri points out in his study of the style of the Petrarchists, "Leurs développements enthousiastes sont un procédé de rhétorique. Jodelle, dépité contre l'amour, explique comment il savait embellir l'objet de sa passion, transformer ses défauts mêmes en qualités."8 What the "Contr'Amours" present most notably is a vivid example of Jodelle's verve for writing. In these works he finds the perfect occasion to parody the traditional themes oflove poetry, especially the much-used and much-abused Petrarchan mode. Thematic modification allows him a new vocabulary and opens the possibility for unusual poetic effects. Into the sonnets of the "Contr'Amours" Jodelle pours his love for language and rhetorical innovation. The poet's creative enthusiasm is manifest...

Concern for the Physical Education of the Female Sex from 1675 to 1800 in France, England, and Spain

Abstract The question of the “rightful place” of women began to attract a considerable amount of attention in the latter part of the 17th century. During the period from 1675 to 1800 a growing number of men and women in France, England, and even Spain spoke out in favor of greater educational opportunity for members of the female sex. The work of Francois de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon is considered by many educational historians to mark the beginning of a modern trend in education — a trend which, however slowly, sought to achieve greater equality of educational opportunity for girls and women. Fénelon's contemporaries, l'Abbé Fleury and Mme de Maintenon, contributed to the idea that, given the chance, women could begin to achieve similar educational accomplishments to those achieved by men. As the 18th century progressed authors like Josefa Amar y Borbon, Jean Verdier, Ambroise Riballier, and Erasmus Darwin contributed educational treatises which emphasized the importance of health and physical education for girls. One of the most famous was Mary Wollstonecraft, described by many as the first woman to truly champion women's rights and emancipation. It is significant in the history of physical education that so many of the proposals for a better education for women which appeared during this period included a concern for the health of members of the female sex and advocated for them programs of physical education.

Madame Guyon, Heterodox…

For the past century and a half most scholars engaged in the study of French Quietism have hesitated to focus primarily on its founder, Madame Jeanne-Marie Bouvières de la Mothe Guyon. Instead, their investigations have gravitated toward her champion, François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon, who emerged as a far more significant figure in the Quietist controversy once it began to take definitive form in 1693.

An Eighteenth-Century Experiment in Historical Realism: The Marquis d'Argenson and Bonnie Prince Charlie

RENE LOUIS DE VOYER, Marquis d'Argenson, son of Marc Rene d'Argenson, Lieutenant de Police of Louis XIV and Garde des Sceaux during the Regency, elder brother of Marc Pierre, Comte d'Argenson, War Minister for fifteen years, d'Argenson la bete, as he was called by his contemporaries, remains one of the most interesting figures of the eighteenth century. Statesman and litterateur, diplomat and Philosophe, political prophet and enlightened amateur, d'Argenson has excited, because of the contradictions in his personality, both scornful criticism and ardent praise. But on two counts there is complete agreement: all his life, he was an honnete homme 1 and an impenitent scribbler. His literary production was enormous. Unfortunately, a good part of it was destroyed in the fire of the Louvre library during the Commune. But, in addition to his diplomatic papers, there remained the works published before 1871 (the nine volumes of the Journal et Me'moires, the Considerations on French government, the Essais in the style of Montaigne, and his contribution to the Histoire du droit public ecclesiastique frangais published by the Pere de La Mothe) and a very few scattered manuscripts, including notes on the theater recently identified and published by H. Lagrave and a play called La Prison du Prince Charles Edouard Stuardt. This text has been available for years in the archives of the Foreign Ministry in Paris (Memoires et Documents, France, vol. 502, folios 129-190),2 but only excerpts, badly transcribed, have

Mysticism

Journal Article Mysticism Get access Christian Perfection. By FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE FÉNELON. Edited and prefaced by Charles F. Whiston. Translated by Mildred Whitney Stillman. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1947. 208 pages. $1.75. A Guide to True Peace, or The Excellency of Inward and Spiritual Prayer. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946. 118 pages. $1.00. CARL E. PURINTON CARL E. PURINTON Boston University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XVII, Issue 2, April 1949, Pages 153-b–154, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XVII.2.153-b Published: 01 April 1949

Detroit in Wartime

THE motor city has become a fabulous arsenal of democracy. At the time of the one hundredth meeting of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, in the fall of 1940, Detroit was serving a country at peace. Now it is serving the United Nations at war. The wide Detroit River—the peaceful strait or detroit of the early voyageurs—has been kept busy bearing on its bosom enormous quantities of coal and ore to feed the maws of the city's industrial giants. The little fort and trading post which was established almost 250 years ago by the French under Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac has become a great arms manufacturing center, whose contribution undoubtedly will be a major factor in shaping the destiny of the world. Those chemists and engineers who attend the 1943 spring meeting of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY will see a changed Detroit. The war has left a visible imprint on the city. The enormous ...