Historical Preface Research Articles

About Ivan Pereverzev’s «Patriotism»

Research aim is to comprehend and rethink the public views of the author of «The Short Rules of Russian Spelling» (1782) and «The Topographical Description of the Kharkov Vicegerency with a Historical Preface» (1788) Ivan Pereverzev represented in his historical works and in the historical science Research methodology. The article is based on the use of the modern nationological toolkit, especially the concept of «national projects» and mapping as a tool/marker of nation-building. Scientific novelty. For the first time the identity of I. Pereverzev became a subject of a special study. The efforts of numerous researchers of the second half of the XX – early XXIth century to present him as a person aspiring to Ukrainian patriotism or even as a forerunner of the Ukrainian «national project» have been critically reviewed. Conclusions. The brief analysis of the text of the «Topographical Description of Kharkiv Vicegerency» shows that the author’s genesis of the «Nation of Rusyns» was being built entirely on the basis of the Russian-Little Russian ideas, Ukrainian lands being treated as «primordially Russian» and their population as a part of a single «Slavic-Russian tribe» («the Russian people»), while the cultural features of the Little Russians being explained as a result of harmful foreign (primarily Polish) influences. I. Pereverzev did not position himself as a bearer of any Little Russian / Ukrainian identity, nor did he demonstrate a commitment to relevant values. It is concluded that all attempts to search for any non-Russian cultural identities of I. Pereverzev in his works and therefore to show their importance for the «Ukrainian project» are no more than groundless and unjustified speculations.

Leoš Janáček ed. by Jiří Zahrádka

Reviewed by: Leoš Janáček ed. by Jiří Zahrádka John Tyrrell Leoš Janáček. Osud = Fate = Schicksal. Edited by Jiří Zahrádka. (Leoš Janáček: Souborné kritické vydání, Řada A / Svazek 5 = Complete Critical Edition, Series A / Volume 5.) Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2016. [Introd. in Czech, Eng., and Ger., p. vii–l; libretto in Czech, Eng., and Ger., p. li–xcviii; ensemble in Czech, Eng., and Ger., p. xcix–ci; score, p. 1–439; crit. report, p. 441–63. ISMN 979-0-2601-0738-0, pub. nos. BA 9562-01, H 8038. €575.] Fate, or as often known by its Czech title Osud, is the only opera by Janáček that the composer never saw on stage: it was first performed as recently as 1958, on the thirtieth anniversary of his death. Together with the early and unrepresentative Počátek románu (The Beginning of a Romance) it was until recently the only Janáček opera still unpublished, available only for hire (three different piano-vocal hire scores were issued between 1964 and 1985, a full score in 1978). So the publication of Jiří Zahrádka’s full score for Bärenreiter is an important event, at the same time inaugurating the first of the publisher’s opera scores in the Complete Critical Edition. In its red cloth boards, with over four hundred pages of musical text, it is a handsome production. Over one hundred pages are devoted to Zahrádka’s historical preface tracing the opera’s checkered compositional and attempted performance history. Then follow side-by-side Czech-English and Czech-German librettos. These are not literal translations, but the earlier singing translations by Rodney Blumer and Claus H. Hennenberg supplied with the music text but now shorn of repetitions. Why has it taken so long for Fate to appear in print? Once Janáček achieved his breakthrough in Prague with his third opera Její pastorkyňa (Jenůfa) in 1916, [End Page 773] Universal Edition was quick off the mark, publishing a Czech piano-vocal score with a German translation, and continuing this practice for all his subsequently staged operas (full scores were also issued for three of them). Universal has been exemplary in keeping the piano-vocal scores in print and, from 1993 onward, began issuing high-quality study scores, a process that continues with the recent appearance of Zahrádka’s edition of Věc Makropulos (The Makropulos Affair [Vienna: Universal Edition, 2016]). Even Šárka has not been forgotten. Janáček was touchingly proud of his first opera, which he extensively revised after the success of Jenůfa, and it was only his death in 1928 that let Universal Edition off the hook. Universal Edition finally published it in 2002, again edited by Jiří Zahrádka. Two operas escaped the Universal Edition net: The Beginning of a Romance, not much more than a folksong compilation that the composer himself rejected after conducting a few performances; and Fate, an opera, on the other hand, that Janáček desperately believed in. Years later, in an autobiographical sketch, he recalled his fourth opera with the following words: “And she was one of the most beautiful of women. Her voice was like that of a viola d’amore. The Luhačovice Slanice was in the scorching heat of the August sun. Why did she walk about with three fiery roses and why did she relate the story of her young life? And why was its end so strange?” (p. xxi). One of the problems with Fate (but also one reason why Janáček clutched on to it so tenaciously) was its autobiographical nature. The “she” that Janáček does not further identify here was Mrs. Camilla Urválková, whom Janáček had met in the summer of 1903 at the Moravian spa of Luhačovice, where he had gone to get over the death of his daughter Olga. With his third opera Jenůfa recently finished and awaiting its Brno premiere the next season, his mind was open to new impulses. Urválková provided one. Hearing that Janáček was a composer, she told him about her encounter with another composer, Ludvík Čelanský (better known as...

A reading of Bentham’s “Historical Preface to A Fragment on Government – Intended for the second edition.”

The present note is part of a commentary on the first six chapters of the Historical Preface – the preface intended by Bentham for the second edition of A Fragment on Government As Sir John Bowring, the executor of Jeremy Bentham’s work, testifies, « This preface was first printed in 1828, during Mr. Bentham’s lifetime. » (footnote, p. 240, Vol. I of the 1843 edition of The Works of Jeremy Bentham). On this, as on other occasions, Bentham employs the literary convention of the preface to demo...

Buried Treasue or Fairy-Tale Verismo ? Framing Sicilian Women's Stories

Fairy-tale studies are made especially interesting by the controversies that inevitably accompany them. Accordingly, Marvels & Tales will publish critical exchanges between readers and authors. Concise, professional responses that augment, develop, or constructively challenge the substance of essays published in the journal may be submitted to the editor. Responses should be submitted as an e-mail attachment or on diskette. They should be limited to one thousand words or less and should contain no footnotes or other apparatus unless approved in advance by the editor. The author whose work is the subject of the response will be given the opportunity to reply. The editor maintains the right to reject or edit any response. From time to time, exchanges about specific topics may be invited. Buried Treasure or Fairy-Tale Verismo? Framing Sicilian Women's Stories Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Translated and edited by jack Zipes. Illustrations by Joellyn Rock. New York: Routledge, 2004. xxxii + 364 pp. Jack Zipes has found buried treasure. After a career spent detailing the sanitizing of the fairy tale by bourgeois literati, he has discovered a nineteenthcentury collection that preserves, with considerable fidelity, the voices of an indisputably subaltern population: Sicilian peasant women. On this ground, Zipes characterizes Laura Gonzenbachs Sizilianische Marchen as the most important collection of fairy tales, legends, and anecdotes in the nineteenth century, more important perhaps than the Brothers Grimm (xii). When the leading authority in the field puts forward so radical an assertion in so halting a fashion, his unease is evident. The peasant women who speak through the Gonzenbach collection, a remarkable work with a troubled history, outZipe Zipes in their denunciation of economic and gender violence, and Zipes is both greatly enthusiastic and a little disconcerted as he presents the stories for a general readership. When buried treasure is resurrected and rehoused as a great treasury, the lingering smell of the soil can be unsettling. There were good reasons to bury the Gonzenbach collection not long after its 1870 publication. It was unearthed-along with the complex history of its production and reception-by Rudolf Schenda and especially Luisa Rubini, whose magisterial contribution is properly and generously acknowledged by Zipes.1 The collection belongs to the much larger body of Mediterranean folktales collected and published in translation by nineteenth-century northern European scholars, with the original texts lost. Laura Gonzenbach was the daughter of the Swiss consul at Messina and younger sister of Magdalena Gonzenbach, a pioneer of feminism and women's education in Italy. Growing up in the German-speaking colony of textile manufacturers and merchants, she was cared for by Sicilian servants and spent her summers in the countryside playing among the peasants. At the behest of historian Otto Hartwig, who met her in 1860 when he came to serve for five years as chaplain to the Lutheran community in Messina, she began in 1868, at the age of twenty-six, to collect fairy tales. Hartwig was writing a history and expected the tales to provide evidence for his theories of the mixed cultural influences that shaped the Sicilian dialect and character in the Middle Ages. Working among the peasant women in the eastern provinces of Messina and Catania, Gonzenbach found the field so rich that within a year she provided Hartwig with a collection of a hundred stories, sufficient for an autonomous publication. Gonzenbach translated the tales into literary German and provided occasional footnotes with cultural, linguistic, and performance commentary. Hartwig arranged for the Leipzig publication of a two-volume edition of ninety-two of the tales (with two more still in dialect from an as-yet-unidentified Sicilian collaborator, Salvatore Morganti) and wrote a historical preface on the formation of the Sicilian language during the Norman period, recruiting the folklorist Reinhold Kohler to provide comparative notes. …

Historical preface ? Three decades of Micro and Nano Engineering

Historical preface ? Three decades of Micro and Nano Engineering

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Illuminating Life: Selected Papers from Cold Spring Harbor (1903–1969) by J. Witkowski Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (2000) pp. 383 + xvi. ISBN 0–87969-566-8 $25.00 If you are anywhere on the spectrum from frequent Cold Spring Harbor visitor to someone who barely knows that Symposia of that name were until recently published in maroon covers, and if you want to learn more of the history of this remarkable research centre, then this book is for you. At first sight, Illuminating Life looks like a coffee table book, but it is much more than that. Jan Witkowski has assembled a history of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories from their inception in 1890 through to 1968, illustrated by a selection of research papers from 1903 to 1969. Each one or two papers is preceded by an interpretative essay and a biographical note on the principal author(s), and the whole is introduced by an informative historical preface. At the end are three obituaries from the literature summarizing the lives of three key players, Davenport, Harris and Demerec. For a book of this size and compass, the essentials can be assimilated remarkably quickly, and at $25 the book is exceptional value for money. First read the preface. Then the essays. These are gems, and at two or three pages each there is no need to postpone them until later! Then dip into a few research papers. Then re-read the preface. Then you will know a lot about Cold Spring Harbor. If you read the obituaries you will know even more. Here are just a few impressions. On p. 364 there is a photograph of one of the early buildings, the James Laboratory. The laboratory was constructed for $12,000 in 1928 for biophysics research (p117). It looks tiny, but in the early years of the Symposia, which were then on biophysical topics, it housed a galaxy of summer visitors including Curtis and Cole (electrophysiology), J. Z. Young (nerve conduction), Davison and Danielli (need one say more?) and many others. If biophysics under Reginald Harris (1924–36) was what made Cold Spring Harbor Quantitative, then the quest for the genetic material and its properties is what has made it most widely famed. The book brings out the seminal contributions of Demerec, both as scientist and as director (1941–60) and of McClintock, Hershey, Cairns (director 1963–8) and others. The chosen research papers include many that are landmarks in science, from maize to bacteria and phage, and generally they are easy to read. They are largely devoid of the ponderous throat-clearing and innumerable citations that are so much a part of scientific literature today. Many examples could be given of such ease of style and freedom from excess verbage, but one will suffice here. ‘Aggregation of DNA is often suspected but seldom studied. In phage λ we found a DNA that can form characteristic and stable complexes. A first account of them is given here’. That is the entire introduction in Hershey, A. D., Burgi, E. and Ingraham, L. (1963), Cohesion of DNA molecules isolated from phage λ. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 49, 748–755. The paper by de Lucia and Cairns (1969) on ‘Isolation of an E. coli strain with a mutation affecting DNA polymerase’ is a fitting choice with which to conclude the compilation. In the late 1960s something seemed not quite right about the Kornberg enzyme as the putative engine of replication. Several suspicious inconsistencies were accumulating. How to test these suspicions? Random mutagenesis, a precise and rapid screening assay applicable to thousands of isolates. The rest is history. What of the last thirty years? The spine of the cover says, rather enigmatically, ‘Volume 1’; the reviewer could find no statement elsewhere in the book that more is to follow. Perhaps we can look forward to Volume 2. Surely that volume will contain, among many other landmark papers, one called ‘An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5 ends of Adenovirus 2 messenger RNA’.

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ABSTRACT If you are anywhere on the spectrum from frequent Cold Spring Harbor visitor to someone who barely knows that Symposia of that name were until recently published in maroon covers, and if you want to learn more of the history of this remarkable research centre, then this book is for you. At first sight, Illuminating Life looks like a coffee table book, but it is much more than that. Jan Witkowski has assembled a history of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories from their inception in 1890 through to 1968, illustrated by a selection of research papers from 1903 to 1969. Each one or two papers is preceded by an interpretative essay and a biographical note on the principal author(s), and the whole is introduced by an informative historical preface. At the end are three obituaries from the literature summarizing the lives of three key players, Davenport, Harris and Demerec.

Civil rights in the United States

Contents 1. Hugh Davis Graham/Introduction 2. Hugh Davis Graham/Race, History, and Policy: African Americans and Civil Since 1964 3. Jane Sherron De Hart/Equality Challenged: Equal and Sexual Difference 4. Peter Skerry/The Ambivalent Minority: Mexican Americans and the Voting Act 5. Edward D. Berkowitz/A Historical Preface to the Americans with Disabilities Act 6. Gerard Noiriel/Civil Rights Policy in the United States and the Policy of Integration in Europe: Divergent Approaches to a Similar Issue 7. Mary Ann Glendon/Rights in Twentieth-Century Constitutions: The Case of Welfare Contributors

Historical preface to Max Weber, stock and commodity exchanges

Les deux pamphlets composes en 1894 et 1896 par Max Weber sur la bourse des valeurs et du commerce pour la Bibliotheque des travailleurs de Gottingen refletent les efforts du jeune universitaire qu'il etait a l'epoque pour prendre position sur une question cruciale dans le paysage socio-economique et politique changeant et complexe de l'Allemagne de la fin du 19 e siecle. L'engagement de Max Weber sur la question (appele notamment en tant qu'expert) est mis en relation avec son rapprochement du mouvement socialiste-chretien de Friedrich Neumann

An historical preface to engineering ethics

This article attempts to distinguish between science and technology, on the one hand, and engineering, on the other, offering a brief introduction to engineering values and engineering ethics. The method is (roughly) a philosophical examination of history. Engineering turns out to be a relatively recent enterprise, barely three hundred years old, to have distinctive commitments both technical and moral, and to have changed a good deal both technically and morally during that period. What motivates the paper is the belief that a too-easy equation of engineering with technology tends to obscure the special contribution of engineers to technology and to their own professional standards and so, to obscure as well both the origin and content of engineering ethics.

A Historical Preface to the Americans with Disabilities Act

On 26 July 1990, President George Bush signed an ambitious new civil rights law at an emotional ceremony held on the South Lawn of the White House. Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA, PL 101–336) brought civil rights protections for people with disabilities to a level of parity with civil rights protections already enjoyed by racial minorities and by women. What accounted for a Republican administration enthusiastically endorsing a sweeping civil rights law that might benefit as many as 43 million people? Briefly put, historical traditions within disability policy that in turn reflected broader trends within social welfare policy between 1950 and 1990 allowed the ADA to be portrayed in conservative terms that were congenial to a Republican administration.

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Medical Thinking: A Historical Preface.

Lester S. King, M.D., focuses on those aspects of medicine that remain constant through the centuries--the problems that doctors always face and the critical judgment needed to solve them. According to Dr. King, modern technological advances are really new ways of answering old questions, while the basic modes of medical thinking have not changed. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Journal Article Lester S. King. Medical Thinking: A Historical Preface. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1982. Pp. vii, 336. $19.50 Get access King Lester S.. Medical Thinking: A Historical Preface. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1982. Pp. vii, 336. $19.50. Todd L. Savitt Todd L. Savitt School of Medicine East Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 3, June 1983, Page 654, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/88.3.654 Published: 01 June 1983

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