Splendid Isolation Research Articles

Alone; the story of South American mammals

Splendid Isolation: The Curious History of South American Mammals. By G.G. Simpson. Pp.256. (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1980.) 17.50, 11.05.

The Last Palmerston Government: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and the Genesis of "Splendid Isolation."

The Last Palmerston Government: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and the Genesis of "Splendid Isolation."

Models of Legislative Voting

IN RECENT YEARS various specialists in legislative behavior have found themselves troubled by what they have considered to be a deficiency in theory-building in field. After an extended review of literature on Congress, for instance, Robert Peabody argues, The critical need is for theory at several levels for, quite clearly, in congressional research generation of data has proceeded much more rapidly than accumulation of theory.' While it is not clear that the theory of legislative behavior is on horizon, scholars have recently developed a number of models of legislative voting which promise substantial theoretical payoff. These models are relevant not only to specific case of legislative voting itself, but also potentially to legislative decision-making more broadly conceived and to governmental decision-making in general. These models have largely stood in splendid isolation, each supposedly representing a fairly complete accounting of legislative vot-

Acoustic levitation—a useful experimental technique

The nonzero, time-averaged acoustic force exerted by a sound field on a local inhomogeneity allows liquid, solid, and gaseous particles to be suspended in a fluid medium relatively free of physical restraints. This splendid isolation allows studies to be made of radiation pressure, rectified diffusion, damping constants, acoustic streaming, surface waves, and physical parameters of metastable states, as well as many other phenomena, that would be nearly impossible without it. A review will be given of the general technique, and of various ways it can be utilized to obtain experimental data. [Work supported by ONR.]

The Tribune C. Cornelius

That Roman politicians function neither in splendid isolation nor in durable groups with common policies is a lesson we have grasped in large part through the imagination of the scholar who is honoured in this volume. Therefore a study aiming to put a tribune of 67 B.C. in his immediate context may be thought an appropriate offering, especially if the author does not fail ‘to keep the absent Pompeius in mind’ (Syme, Sallust 102).If Sallust in his Histories reached the tribunate of C. Cornelius, he probably treated him as one of a number of sincere tribunes crusading against Optimate corruption; similarly, W. McDonald, writing in 1929 the first separate treatment of Cornelius' tribunate, saw him more as a representative of the Popular Party than as an agent of the ambiguous Pompey, whose quaestor he had been and who, McDonald thought, had put him forward to defend his own interests.

German Sketches on Videotape in the Language Lab

Turned toward the needs of the youth, rather than toward the needs of our discipline, we have finally reached the time to open our programs and curriculums to innovations which serve both the general goals of education and our own particular goals. . . . Replace the old image of an austere and difficult subject, reserved for the mature, motivated, intelligent student who knows what he wants and where he is going, with a more frivolous but much mQre attractive image of a fun subject for everybody, taken at least partly for enjoyment. A subject furthermore, which has not fossilized in splendid isolation from the changing world, but, on the contrary, is changing with that world, projecting its substance in new forms, issues, and games of society opening channels to all directions.

Splendid Isolation: A Study of Ideas Concerning Britain’s International Position and Foreign Policy During the Later Years of the Third Marquis of Salisbury, by Christopher Howard; The Illusion of Permanence: British Imperialism in India, by Francis G. Hutchins

Splendid Isolation: A Study of Ideas Concerning Britain’s International Position and Foreign Policy During the Later Years of the Third Marquis of Salisbury, <i>by Christopher Howard</i>; The Illusion of Permanence: British Imperialism in India, <i>by Francis G. Hutchins</i>

Normal ranges de-emphasized.

Normal ranges de-emphasized.

Splendid Isolation: a Study of Ideas Concerning Brit-Ain's International Position and Foreign Policy During the Later Years of the Third Marquis of Salisbury. by &lt;italic&gt;Christopher Howard&lt;/italic&gt;, (New York: St. Martin's Press. 1967. Pp. xv, 120. $6.00)

Journal Article Splendid Isolation: a Study of Ideas Concerning Brit-Ain's International Position and Foreign Policy During the Later Years of the Third Marquis of Salisbury. by Christopher Howard, (New York: St. Martin's Press. 1967. Pp. xv, 120. $6.00) Get access Splendid Isolation: a Study of Ideas Concerning Brit-Ain's International Position and Foreign Policy During the Later Years of the Third Marquis of Salisbury. by Howard Christopher, (New York: St. Martin's Press. 1967. Pp. xv, 120. $6.00.) Max Beloff Max Beloff All Souls College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 73, Issue 5, June 1968, Pages 1534–1535, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/73.5.1534 Published: 01 June 1968

Splendid Isolation: A Study of Ideas Concerning Britain's International Position and Foreign Policy During the Later Years of the Third Marquis of Salisbury

Splendid Isolation: A Study of Ideas Concerning Britain's International Position and Foreign Policy During the Later Years of the Third Marquis of Salisbury

Bridging the Research Gap: CARA, Response to Vatican II

The Gap: Study Versus Application Contrary to a sometimes expressed opinion, considerable research on the religious and social mission of the church, including examinations of the pastoral horizons of the U.S. Catholic Church, has long been under way. Frequently, however, much of this research effort has suffered from subsequent failures to apply its findings. Too often, moreover, the conclusions have been lodged on the dusty shelves of academe. Researchers, as if in defense of their scientific objectivity and "neutrality," have felt that it would be demeaning to interpret the significance of their findings for decision-makers. In turn, the decision-makers--especially church social actionists-unable to see much sense in the technical jargon and tentative conclusions of the research specialists, have tended to deprecate the relevance of socio-religious research to the real world of the church. To the pastoral-minded, a great deal of research knowledge seems simply irrelevant, perhaps at times because from their viewpoint, as Harris Dienstrey has said in another context, "the picture of man that emerges from it is of a stunted, inept being, not fully capable of ordering his life in a meaningful way." It appears certain in any event that, consistent with a major strand of the American cultural ethos, those in responsible church positions have not always seemed to be holding research in high esteem whether for appropriate and sound reasons or not. For the most part, in fact, decision-makers in our society, whether in ecclesiastical or other areas of life, have traditionally appeared to feel that the socio-statistical researcher was pursuing "pie-in-the-sky" and that, in consequence, little insight into the human condition was to be gained from listening to his counsels. Whatever may be the blame or reasons for their mutual sins toward each other, the fact is that for too long the researchers and the organizational churchmen have, on the surface of things, been at loggerheads, living seemingly in splendid isolation from each other, unable to appreciate, according to observers, that a little "ecumenism" might be a good thing within particular church structures themselves.

The Ten Years Leading to the Formation of the CAS

In her Inaugural Lecture delivered at Cambridge University in 1950, Professor Elizabeth Hill emphasized that Never before have the Slavs been so prominent in world history, nor our need for Slavonic studies in the English-speaking world greater than it is today. According to Professor Hill, Systematic Studies in European universities, some 150 years old, began in Vienna and in Prague; they were then taken up in the nineteenth century in the other Slav centres, and later in the non-Slav academic centres in Europe/' Interest in Slavonic studies developed rather late in British and Canadian institutions of learning. Half a century ago, Canada was living in a state of splendid isolation, which kept her removed not only from European political affairs, but from Eastern European literary developments as well. Great Slavonic writers were known to the average Canadian intellectual only from the few English translations which were available. In 1957 Professor Watson Kirkconnell correctly observed in his address to the annual convention of the CAS: If Canadian education, as was the case prior to 1942, were to be wholly without an awareness of such literatures, it would lack one of the major stones in the arch of modern civilization.

Lehrbuch der Kinderheilkunde.

On the jacket of this book is printed part of a review, apparently published in the<i>Ärtzliche Mitteilungen</i>, wherein this textbook of pediatrics, which contains chapters contributed by a number of professors of pediatrics (all heads of pediatric departments from various German universities), is praised as a classic textbook reflecting the most up-to-date thinking and knowledge in this field. This is not simply an exaggerated claim. It is documentary evidence of a "splendid isolation" of a number of senior university professors of pediatrics who in many instances are unwilling to accept new ideas and changing concepts. When this reviewer reads that it is necessary to limit the intake of water and salt in cases of exogenous obesity, or that infants should always be exposed to fresh air (the windows of their bedrooms should always be open as long as the temperature of the room does not fall below 52 F),

Diplomacy and War Plans in the United States, 1890–1917

In 1890 America was at peace, the golden age appeared to be at hand; unfettered by the miseries of European strife, in prosperous rather than splendid isolation, the American people confidently looked forward to an even more exciting future. But a new age of danger was rapidly approaching; the nineteenth-century conditions of American safety—geographical isolation, the British fleet, as it turned out, the ‘hostage’ of Canada in American hands, and the balance of power in Europe—were passing away. The era which had seen the new world fattening on the follies of the old was coming to an end; soon the follies of the old world impinged on the peace and prosperity of the new. Within three decades the contest for world power fought out in Europe, and the rise of the youngest of the great nations, Japan, was to endanger the safety of the United States. Yet few Americans recognized the full import of these changes and the need for fresh policies.

The French Coterie of the Savoy 1896

The yellow nineties have always been regarded as fascinating yet also as something of a literary liability, a movement that took more from the world than it gave in return. And yet, although Art for Art may have rested in the “splendid isolation” of individual emotions, as it often did, for instance, in the poems of Arthur Symons, it was, in its debt to the French Symbolists, to Gautier, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, to the perfectionists like Flaubert, and in its over-all aspects to Baudelaire, truly international. There had been, of course, foreign influence on the Victorians, but never had there been such complete sympathy of interests as that which now bound the two intellectual groups facing each other across the water. Cultural barriers changed into cultural bridges, the fear of mal de mer was conquered, and the Channel was crossed and recrossed. London became a Quartier of Paris; Dowson and Wilde walked the streets dressed à la Bohème, the Beardsley group liked to think of themselves as habitués of the Café Royal, and Verlaine found an audience more rapt than that of the brasseries in the Boul. Mich. There was a new union of forces. The powerful influences of France can be traced nowhere better than in the life story of the Savoy, which, in its brief spurt of brilliant life in 1896, was more truly representative of the time than the Yellow Book. It would not be rash to call the Savoy an Anglo-French periodical, and in this, certainly, the first of its kind.

Browns Valley and Milnesand Similarities

For the student of the archaeology of the Plains, Browns Valley Man has been an engima. Loosely dated between 8000 and 12,000 years ago by Jenks (Jenks 1937a: 17) it has remained in splendid isolation — an important group of artifacts found in a burial site with the skeleton of a man who may be presumed to have been their maker — with, heretofore, no known close affiliations. That he hunted the giant bison has been inferred in an unpublished script by Lloyd Wilford to accompany a filmstrip on Minnesota archaeology being prepared by the University of Minnesota. This must be presumed to be based on one or both of 2 midden sites of giant bison dug by Jenks, Wilford, and Eddy. One of these has been described in a brief note in Science by Jenks (Jenks 1937b: 243–4). The other site has no published data.

The Norton Napoleon Collection

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The Abandonment of “Splendid Isolation” By Great Britain

The Abandonment of “Splendid Isolation” By Great Britain

The Founding Fathers and "Splendid Isolation"

F ALL political dogmas, the one that Americans have clung to s..J with the greatest tenacity and the least success is the doctrine of isolation from international entanglements and responsibility. For more than a century and a half, we have encouraged the expansion of foreign trade and simultaneously proclaimed our resolute determination to stay clear of political and military involvement overseas-an understandable but naive desire to have our cake and eat it too. We have demanded law and order and peace, that men might pursue the ends of commerce, but as a nation we have been averse to assuming our share of responsibility in maintaining the rights of peaceful pursuits. Not until flagrant encroachments reach our very doorsteps are we willing to bestir ourselves and to admit that we are a part of a complex and mutually dependent world. Almost invariably the United States finds itself embroiled in the major conflagrations of Europe, and always the nation is unready-woefully unprepared in mind and matter. And afterward we are shamefully eager to shirk any responsibility to prevent the recurrence of general war. We cherish the illusion that we can live apart, hide our heads in the sand, and forget the unpleasant existence of Europe and Asia when that existence proves unprofitable or dangerous. When the present war is over, many Americans will want to follow the same fatal course that we have taken after other wars. Deep-rooted is the belief that we have no responsibility to the rest of the world. The plans and efforts of statesmen like Woodrow Wilson are readily dismissed as academic idealism, not practicable and not acceptable to common-sense, rule-of-thumb politicians who presume to understand the realities of international affairs. The so-called practical politicians traditionally demand a return to normalcy, a withdrawal from the vexing business of trying to manage

The Professor as Radical

THIS IS AN ESSAY in persuasion, and since it is addressed chiefly to academic minds, presumably it should be subtle and disarming. Yet I find such an approach full of difficulties and uncertainties. Gentle raillery or satire, for example, is a method very congenial to the professor. From considerable practice he knows its uses, and in his own mind he is never in better form than when he is using it against himself. Here is where the difficulty comes in, for satire merely confirms him in his own prejudices and in his own splendid isolation.' It is likewise with reason, another possible weapon. Reason is the professor's stock in trade. It is what he lives by, and if he were deprived of its intricacies he would die. Yet here again whenever the possibilities let him, he uses it upon his own interests. And when reason is applied for that purpose the result becomes the plainest rationalization-a weapon, it is true, but one turned to the defense of the status quo. Scholarship, or more pertinently, the frame of scholarship, is still another possibility. But does the professor trust the footnotes of anyone uwth whose field of knowledge he is not already somewhat familiar? I think not. By and large they do not exist for him as much beyond a means for his own protective coloration. I shall endeavor to appeal, then, not to the professor but to the man. If in this brief history and the conclusions to be drawn from it there are found traces of satire, reason, and the trappings of scholarship, they should be set down as the difficulties of one who cannot wholly purge himself of the scholastic tradition. The more important elements, I trust, will be the open argument and the occasional cold shock of unspoiled truth-the ice cube dropped down the back of the neck.