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El impresionismo musical en tres obras para piano de compositores españoles: Vicente Arregui (1902), Salvador Bacarisse (1922) y Joaquín Turina (1930)
Authors: Heine Christiane
Published: January 2019

El análisis de tres obras para piano de Vicente Arregui (Sonata en fa menor), Salvador Bacarisse (Heraldos) y Joaquín Turina (Sonata fantasía) demuestra que el impresionismo musical francés en España no fue una mera corriente pasajera de principios del siglo XX porque sus peculiaridades estilísticas influyeron durante tres décadas en la técnica de composición de al menos dos generaciones de músicos españoles. Basado en el examen del tratamiento sonoro y melódico, el estudio parte de los criterios estilísticos más característicos del impresionismo musical para relevar a continuación su asimilación al estilo de cada uno de estos compositores.
Women and the guitar in Spain's upper classes
Authors: Pinnell Richard
Published: January 2019

The 13th-century Libro de Apolonio featured women and an aristocratic guitar called the vihuela. This instrument's prestige continued into the 16th century in the hands of empresses, queens, princesses, and ladies of the Spanish upper classes. Their inclination to perform on the fretted instruments enhanced the impact of humanistic and educational values emanating from the Italian Renaissance into Spain's Mediterranean ports. On the return ships, starting around 1550, Spanish women launched the baroque guitar's expatriation at Naples, which gathered forces for a northward invasion through the city-states and into the rest of Europe as the guitarra española. Reinforcements came from Spanish and Italian popular culture, as it advanced north to Scandinavia and west to the Americas. Following in the footsteps of the Habsburg infantas who became the wives of Louis XIII and Louis XIV of France, the guitar movement reached its apotheosis under Bourbon rule, which after 1700 circled back into Spain. From 1660 to 1800 the princesses and queens of the Habsburg, Savoyard, Stuart, and Bourbon dynasties, continually elevated the instrument's prestige, adding to its popularity and opening the way for its influence in secular art music.
La música como ciencia en los teóricos españoles del Renacimiento: Juan Bermudo (1555) y Francisco Salinas (1577)
Authors: Otaola Paloma
Published: January 2019

Tradicionalmente se suele presentar una oposición entre música teórica y práctica, entre musicus y cantor, de origen pitagórico-platónico, transmitida a la Edad Media por San Agustín y Boecio. La superioridad de la música teórica, concebida como ciencia racional lleva a rechazar el papel del oído en el juicio musical. Así mismo, el instrumentista o el cantor es considerado inferior al que posee el conocimiento racional de la música, esto es al músico teórico. El peso de la tradición en el Renacimiento hace que se repita en algunos tratados teóricos esta oposición entre el músico (teórico) y el cantor, instrumentista o compositor (práctico). Sin embargo, el verdadero propósito de algunos teóricos como Juan Bermudo y Francisco Salinas, no es el de rechazar la música práctica, considerada inferior, sino la de promover la necesidad del conocimiento teórico para el ejercicio de la música. El deseo de estos dos teóricos, según se desprende de sus escritos, es el de combatir la ignorancia de los cantores y de los instrumentistas, perjudicial para el desarrollo y enriquecimiento de la música. La influencia del pensamiento aristotélico les lleva a concebir la teoría unida a la práctica que nace de la experiencia. Para Bermudo y Salinas, es absolutamente necesario el concurso del oído en el juicio musical.
Contexto histórico de la obra del P. Vicente Pérez-Jorge
Authors: Blanes Arques Luis
Published: January 2019

Toda la vida del Padre Vicente Pérez-Jorge se desarrolló en el siglo XX, siglo que se ha distinguido por los cambios radicales producidos en sus fundamentos estéticos y, por ende, en sus sistemas y procedimientos de composición. La creación musical se renovó de tal manera que algunos sectores, como el canto y la música sagrados, quedaron rezagados, adocenados en sus maneras habituales y manteniéndose en sus costumbres tradicionales. Fue el P. Vicente Pérez-Jorge, abierto a todas las corrientes y técnica artísticas modernas, perforador "aprovechado" de vanguardias, luchó durante toda su vida por la expresión de la música eclesiástica con elementos contemporáneos, es decir, que la Iglesia hiciera suyos los procedimientos modernos empleados por los compositores de nuestro siglo, siempre dentro de los criterios propios de la Santa Sede y con un fín único: dignificar la música de los templos y ponerla a la altura de los tiempos actuales.
An Italian pediatric case series of Maldive-imported dengue fever
Authors: Dondi Arianna , Gottardi Francesca , Fabi Marianna , Attard Luciano , Rossini Giada , Re Maria Carla , Lanari Marcello
Published: January 2019

Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease frequently imported in Europe, where autochthonous outbreaks are potential since recent spreading of the vector. Primary infections usually produce a selflimited febrile syndrome. Secondary infections with different serotype, especially in children, may lead to a severe shock syndrome with plasma leakage and hemorrhagic features. We report a case series of 4 children infected with viral serotype 3 during a journey to the Maldive Islands, who developed symptoms after returning to Italy. Once diagnosed, they were admitted to hospital, followed with clinical and laboratory monitoring and treated supportively; they developed no complications. Dengue endemic areas are popular touristic destinations. Vector eradication may be incomplete where tourist resorts share water tanks with local dwellings. Diagnostic tests should be available in our hospitals for early recognition of cases. Awareness of a primary infection may help prevent re-exposure, avoiding a reinfection with a potentially severe clinical course.
О теореме Борсука-Улама для липшицевых отображений в бесконечномерном пространстве
Authors: Gel'man Boris Danilovich
Published: January 2019

Настоящая статья посвящена изучению разрешимости уравнения $A(x)=f(x)$ на сфере гильбертова пространства и размерности множества его решений в случае, когда $A$ является замкнутым сюръективным оператором, а $f$ - липшицевым нечетным отображением. Полученная теорема является некоторым «аналогом» бесконечномерной версии теоремы Борсука-Улама.
О показателях Гeльдера самоподобных функций
Authors: Sheipak Igor Anatolievich
Published: January 2019

Изучаются показатели Гeльдера аффинно-самоподобных функций на отрезке $[0;1]$. Получены явные формулы для показателей Гeльдера через параметры самоподобия.
К распределению нулевых множеств голоморфных функций. II
Authors: Menshikova Enzhe Bulatovna , Khabibullin Bulat Nurmievich
Published: January 2019

Это краткое сообщение содержит оценки дивизоров нулей голоморфных функций из весовых классов в терминах субгармонических вещественных тестовых функций.
The impacts of institutional quality and infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade
Authors: Yushi Jiang , Borojo Dinkneh Gebre
Published: January 2019

The authors examine the impacts of quality of institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure on overall and intra-Africa trade covering 44 African countries and their 173 trade partners for the periods 2000–2014. Aggregate indicators are derived for the quality of economic institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure using principal component analysis. The findings disclose that intra-Africa and overall Africa's trade robustly determined by the quality of institutions, border and transport efficiency, physical and communication infrastructure. The estimates also indicate that the marginal effect of the quality of institutions, physical and communication infrastructure on trade flow appears to be increasing in GDP per capita. In contrast, the marginal effect of border and transport efficiency on trade decreases in GDP per capita. The authors compute the simulation of improving each indicator to the best performer in the sample. Their findings are robust to estimation method conducted to account for potential endogeneity.
The influence of mixing on the stratospheric age of air changes in the 21st century
Authors: Eichinger Roland , Dietmüller Simone , Garny Hella , Šácha Petr , Birner Thomas , Bönisch Harald , Pitari Giovanni , Visioni Daniele , Stenke Andrea , Rozanov Eugene , Revell Laura , Plummer David A. , Jöckel Patrick , Oman Luke , Deushi Makoto , Kinnison Douglas E. , Garcia Rolando , Morgenstern Olaf , Zeng Guang , Stone Kane Adam , Schofield Robyn
Published: January 2019

Abstract. Climate models consistently predict an acceleration of the
Brewer–Dobson circulation (BDC) due to climate change in the 21st century.
However, the strength of this acceleration varies considerably among
individual models, which constitutes a notable source of uncertainty for
future climate projections. To shed more light upon the magnitude of this
uncertainty and on its causes, we analyse the stratospheric mean age of air
(AoA) of 10 climate projection simulations from the Chemistry-Climate Model
Initiative phase 1 (CCMI-I), covering the period between 1960 and 2100. In
agreement with previous multi-model studies, we find a large model spread in
the magnitude of the AoA trend over the simulation period. Differences
between future and past AoA are found to be predominantly due to differences
in mixing (reduced aging by mixing and recirculation) rather than differences
in residual mean transport. We furthermore analyse the mixing efficiency, a
measure of the relative strength of mixing for given residual mean transport,
which was previously hypothesised to be a model constant. Here, the mixing
efficiency is found to vary not only across models, but also over time in all
models. Changes in mixing efficiency are shown to be closely related to
changes in AoA and quantified to roughly contribute 10 % to the long-term
AoA decrease over the 21st century. Additionally, mixing efficiency
variations are shown to considerably enhance model spread in AoA changes. To
understand these mixing efficiency variations, we also present a consistent
dynamical framework based on diffusive closure, which highlights the role of
basic state potential vorticity gradients in controlling mixing efficiency
and therefore aging by mixing.
Comparison of Antarctic polar stratospheric cloud observations by ground-based and space-borne lidar and relevance for chemistry–climate models
Authors: Snels Marcel , Scoccione Andrea , Di Liberto Luca , Colao Francesco , Pitts Michael , Poole Lamont , Deshler Terry , Cairo Francesco , Cagnazzo Chiara , Fierli Federico
Published: January 2019

Abstract. A comparison of polar stratospheric cloud (PSC) occurrence from 2006 to
2010 is presented, as observed from the ground-based lidar station at McMurdo
(Antarctica) and by the satellite-borne CALIOP lidar (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar
with Orthogonal Polarization) measuring over McMurdo. McMurdo (Antarctica) is
one of the primary lidar stations for aerosol measurements of the NDACC (Network for
Detection of Atmospheric Climate Change). The ground-based observations have
been classified with an algorithm derived from the recent v2 detection and
classification scheme, used to classify PSCs observed by CALIOP. A statistical approach has been used to compare ground-based and satellite-based observations, since point-to-point comparison is often troublesome due
to the intrinsic differences in the observation geometries and the imperfect
overlap of the observed areas. A comparison of space-borne lidar observations and a selection of simulations
obtained from chemistry–climate models (CCMs) has been made by using a series of
quantitative diagnostics based on the statistical occurrence of different PSC
types. The distribution of PSCs over Antarctica, calculated by several
CCMVal-2 and CCMI chemistry–climate models has been compared with the PSC
coverage observed by the satellite-borne CALIOP lidar. The use of several
diagnostic tools, including the temperature dependence of the PSC
occurrences, evidences the merits and flaws of the different models. The
diagnostic methods have been defined to overcome (at least partially) the
possible differences due to the resolution of the models and to identify
differences due to microphysics (e.g., the dependence of PSC occurrence on
T−TNAT). A significant temperature bias of most models has been observed, as well as a
limited ability to reproduce the longitudinal variations in PSC occurrences
observed by CALIOP. In particular, a strong temperature bias has been observed
in CCMVal-2 models with a strong impact on PSC formation. The WACCM-CCMI
(Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model – Chemistry-Climate Model
Initiative) model compares rather well with the CALIOP observations, although
a temperature bias is still present.
Positive matrix factorization of organic aerosol: insights from a chemical transport model
Authors: Drosatou Anthoula D. , Skyllakou Ksakousti , Theodoritsi Georgia N. , Pandis Spyros N.
Published: January 2019

Abstract. Factor analysis of aerosol mass spectrometer measurements
(organic aerosol mass spectra) is often used to determine the sources of
organic aerosol (OA). In this study we aim to gain insights regarding the
ability of positive matrix factorization (PMF) to identify and quantify the
OA sources accurately. We performed PMF and multilinear engine (ME-2)
analysis on the predictions of a state-of-the-art chemical transport model
(PMCAMx-SR, Particulate Matter Comprehensive Air Quality Model with
extensions – source resolved) during a photochemically active period for
specific sites in Europe in an effort to interpret the diverse factors
usually identified by PMF analysis of field measurements. Our analysis used
the predicted concentrations of 27 OA components, assuming that each of them
is “chemically different” from the others. The PMF results based on the chemical transport model predictions are quite
consistent (same number of factors and source types) with those of the
analysis of AMS measurements. The estimated uncertainty of the contribution
of fresh biomass burning is less than 30 % and of the other primary
sources less than 40 %, when these sources contribute more than 20 % to
the total OA. The PMF uncertainty increases for smaller source
contributions, reaching a factor of 2 or even 3 for sources which
contribute less than 10 % to the OA. One of the major questions in PMF analysis of AMS measurements concerns the
sources of the two or more oxygenated OA (OOA) factors often reported in
field studies. Our analysis suggests that these factors include secondary OA
compounds from a variety of anthropogenic and biogenic sources and do not
correspond to specific sources. Their characterization in the literature as
low- and high-volatility factors is probably misleading, because they have
overlapping volatility distributions. However, the average volatility of the
one often characterized as a low-volatility factor is indeed lower than that
of the other (high-volatility factor). Based on the analysis of the
PMCAMx-SR predictions, the first oxygenated OA factor includes mainly
highly aged OA transported from outside Europe, but also highly aged
secondary OA from precursors emitted in Europe. The second oxygenated OA
factor contains fresher secondary organic aerosol from volatile, semivolatile, and intermediate
volatility anthropogenic and biogenic organic compounds. The exact
contribution of these OA components to each OA factor depends on the site
and the prevailing meteorology during the analysis period.
Subaqueous speleothems (Hells Bells) formed by the interplay of pelagic redoxcline biogeochemistry and specific hydraulic conditions in the El Zapote sinkhole, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
Authors: Ritter Simon Michael , Isenbeck-Schröter Margot , Scholz Christian , Keppler Frank , Gescher Johannes , Klose Lukas , Schorndorf Nils , Avilés Olguín Jerónimo , González-González Arturo , Stinnesbeck Wolfgang
Published: January 2019

Abstract. Unique bell-shaped underwater speleothems were recently reported from the deep (~ 55 m) meromictic El Zapote sinkhole (cenote) on the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. The local diving community has termed these speleothems as Hells Bells because of their shape and appearance in a lightless environment in ~ 28–38 m water depth above a sulfidic halocline. It was also suggested that Hells Bells form under water, yet the mystery of their formation remained unresolved. Therefore, we conducted detailed hydrogeochemical and geochemical analyses of the water column and Hells Bells speleothems including stable carbon isotopes. Based on the comprehensive results presented in this study we deduce that both, biogeochemical processes in the pelagic redoxcline and a dynamic halocline elevation of El Zapote cenote, are essential for Hells Bells formation. Hells Bells most likely form in the redoxcline, a narrow 1–2 m thick water layer immediately above the halocline where a pelagic chemolithoautotrophic microbial community thrives from the upward diffusion of reduced carbon, nitrogen and sulfur species released from organic matter degradation in organic-rich debris. We hypothesize that chemolithoautotrophy, in particular the proton consuming nitrate-driven anaerobic sulfide oxidation, favors calcite precipitation in the redoxcline and hence Hells Bells formation. A dynamic elevation of the halocline as a hydraulic response to recharge events, e.g. hurricanes, is further discussed, which might explain the shape of Hells Bells as well as their occurrence over a range of 10 m water depth. Finally, we infer apparent prerequisites for Hells Bells formation considering the exclusivity of these underwater speleothems to only a few cenotes of a restricted area of the northeastern Yucatán Peninsula.
Decomposition technique for contributions to groundwater heads
from inside and outside of an arbitrary boundary: Application to
Guantao County, North China Plain
Authors: Li Ning , Kinzelbach Wolfgang , Li Haitao , Li Wenpeng , Chen Fei
Published: January 2019

Abstract. To assess the efficiency of groundwater management of an administrative unit, we propose to decompose the groundwater head changes within an administrative unit into inside and outside contributions by using numerical models. Guantao County of Hebei Province, China, serves as an example to demonstrate the decomposition technique. The groundwater flow model of Guantao was constructed using observed heads as prescribed head boundary conditions. The model was coupled with Hydrus 1D, to calculate the groundwater recharge distribution in time reflecting the delay and damping effects of the soil column on seepage at the surface. The model was calibrated by adjusting parameters such as hydraulic conductivities, recharge infiltration ratios and specific yields. The calibrated parameters are then used in a large model with a boundary at large distance from Guantao administrative boundary to determine the groundwater head changes due to inside drivers. The differences of the two models on the Guantao boundary serve as the specified head values on the boundary for a small scale model, which is used to calculate the groundwater head imposed by outside drivers. To eliminate inconsistencies caused by the different types of boundary conditions of large and small models, the groundwater head changes due to inside drivers must be updated. The results indicate that the groundwater head changes in the centre and south of Guantao County are influenced equally by both inside and outside contributions, while in the north outside contributions have the stronger impact. The sensitivity analysis shows that the groundwater head changes and their decomposition are much more sensitive to infiltration ratios than to the aquifer parameters. The parameters within Guantao have a certain influence on the net groundwater head changes while the parameters outside of Guantao have only an influence on the decomposition.
Characterizing the behaviour of surge- and non-surge-type glaciers in the Kingata Mountains, eastern Pamir, from 1999 to 2016
Authors: Lv Mingyang , Guo Huadong , Lu Xiancai , Liu Guang , Yan Shiyong , Ruan Zhixing , Ding Yixing , Quincey Duncan J.
Published: January 2019

Abstract. Glaciers in the Pamir Mountains are generally acknowledged to be
in a stable state and show the least glacial retreat in high-mountain Asia;
however, they are also some of the most dynamic glaciers in the region and
their behaviour has been spatially variable in recent decades. Few data exist
for these glaciers, in particular relating to how they are responding to
recent climatic changes. Here, we utilize Landsat 7 (ETM+), Landsat 8
(OLI), ASTER, and Google Earth optical images acquired between 1999 and 2016
to characterize the dynamics of the glaciers in the Kingata Mountains,
located in the eastern Pamir Mountains. We quantify the velocity, areal, and frontal
changes of these glaciers, which provide us with valuable data on their
recent dynamic evolution and an indication of how they may evolve in future
years. We highlight 28 glaciers among which 17 have changed markedly over the
study period. We identify four advancing glaciers and 13 surge-type glaciers.
The dynamic evolution of the glacier surges shows some similarity with those
of the nearby Karakoram, suggesting that both hydrological and thermal
controls are important for surge initiation and recession. Topography seems
to be a dominant control on non-surge glacier behaviour in the Kingata
Mountains, with the north side of the divide characterized by steep,
avalanche-fed basins and glacier tongues now approaching recession in
contrast to those on the south side of the divide that capture the majority
of precipitation and have much broader plateau-like accumulation zones. This
study is the first synthesis of glacial motion across this region and
provides a baseline with which to compare future changes.
Racial Worldmaking
Authors: Jerng Mark C.
Published: January 2019

This introduction describes the theory and method of racial worldmaking. Critiquing the dominant approach of racial formation theory for analyzing race in the humanities and social sciences, it distinguishes an approach based on racial salience - how, when, and where we notice race. It describes the interrelations among genre and race in terms of larger theories of worldbuilding. The archive of popular fiction from 1893 to the present is established and linked to major, overlooked modes of black and Asiatic racialization. This archive challenges prominent historical accounts of race and racism in the twentieth century.
Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization
Authors: Jerng Mark C.
Published: January 2019

This chapter pursues the connections between the modes of storytellling built in future war stories and the new global logics of race described in the previous chapter. It takes the body of literature typically thought to be the most responsible for sensationalizing racist representations of Asiatic persons - future war yellow peril stories - and suggests instead that their narrative strategies act irrespective of the representation of Asiatic persons. Race and genre interact to achieve certain cognitive effects. It traces these cognitive effects across Homer Lea’s popular military history Valor of Ignorance, Marsden Manson’s political pamphlet, Yellow Peril in Action, and popular future war stories by M.P. Shiel and H.G. Wells. It shows how the genre of future war and these ways of noticing race interact in producing the yellow peril as real.
Reconstructing Racial Perception
Authors: Jerng Mark C.
Published: January 2019

This chapter interprets Frank Yerby, one of the most successful African American historical romance writers in U.S. publication history, in relation to the conjunction of plantation romance and historiography. It shows how Yerby, writing in the aftermath of Gone With The Wind, develops narrative strategies that both critique the way in which Mitchell refigures racial perception and construct different modes of perception. The chapter compares Yerby’s and Mitchell’s plantation romances in order to detail an early narrative practice of anti-racist racial worldmaking.
Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism
Authors: Jerng Mark C.
Published: January 2019

This chapter traces sword and sorcery’s re-emergence as a popular genre in the 1960s and 1970s during the era of U.S. Civil Rights movements. It shows how strategies for reproducing racism despite changing political sensibilities are constructed through the genre of sword and sorcery. These strategies go hand in hand with soon-to-be dominant re-imaginations of free market economics by economists such as Milton Friedman and Gary Becker. The chapter analyzes the work on the economics of discrimination in relation to Samuel Delany’s use of sword and sorcery to reflect on how race gets used to imagine market processes. Delany’s Nevèrÿon series adds another dimension to understandings of racial capitalism by focusing on race as economic utility.
Connecticut Copperhead Constitutionalism
Authors: Warshauer Matthew
Published: January 2019

Matthew Warshauer examines the Democratic Peace Movement in Connecticut to explain partisan perspectives on national loyalty. Warshauer argues that the state’s anti-war Democrats consistently stressed the importance of the Constitution, rather than the Declaration of Independence, as the litmus test of loyal citizenship. This ideology of Constitutionalism, emphasizing the power of the states and the limits of federal authority, was the core component of their vocal opposition to emancipation, conscription, and other wartime Republican measures. In studying their ideology, Warshauer also speaks to other important themes, including the development of the anti-war movement outside of the Midwest, the debate over alleged Democratic secret societies, Republican rhetoric of Democratic treason, and the vital political connections between the home front and battlefield.
“Patriotism Will Save Neither You Nor Me”
Authors: Scott Sean A.
Published: January 2019

Sean A. Scott’s essay addresses the attitudes of Northern Protestant churches on issues of patriotism and loyalty. Scott examines the 1862 resignation of Presbyterian minister William S. Plumer whose Allegheny City, Pennsylvania congregation judged his pronouncements to be devoid of patriotic sentiment. Plumer’s was the rare case of a minister who placed strict separation between political and religious spheres. Scott depicts Plumer as a man of true Christian integrity, whose ouster demonstrates the complex impacts of the “politics of loyalty.” Scott’s study offers a counter to a historical consensus that depicts northern clergy as at best pro-war “cheerleaders.” His work offers an instructive case of a minister who fell outside the patriotic, Republican, emancipationist mould. Plumer’s ordeal also illustrates the challenges of clergy in the border-states who faced divided congregations and the scrutiny of civil and military authorities.
“American Matrons and Daughters”
Authors: Giesberg Judith
Published: January 2019

Judith Giesberg explores the intersection of national loyalty debates and the labor activism of Philadelphia seamstresses in war industries. Women workers understood the vital service they performed sewing military uniforms and equipment but were largely exploited and vulnerable in a system of federal contracting reliant on middle-men and “outwork.” Giesberg argues that the exploitation of women workers, and the denigration of their labor activism, rested on an idealized depiction of female patriotism in supporting roles, as soldiers’ wives and family. Working class women turned the rhetorical tables by laying claim to their own service and patriotism, legitimizing their protests in a republican language of rights and tyranny. In examining seamstresses’ protests at the Schuylkill Arsenal, Giesberg uncovers a forgotten chapter in American labor history, connecting antebellum activism with Gilded Age strife. The author depicts a brief window of opportunity where women challenged the formative stage of the sweatshop system drawing in part on professions of their own loyalty.
“All of That Class That Infest N.Y.”
Authors: Keating Ryan W.
Published: January 2019

Ryan Keating’s work examines the linkages between national loyalty and ethnic identity, turning to the subject of Irish American immigrants. Looking at Irish-American communities in Connecticut and Wisconsin, Keating surveys their response to the infamous 1863 New York City draft riots. People of Irish descent faced severe discrimination and hardship. Their ethnicity and Roman Catholicism caused many non-Irish to doubt their loyalty and assimilation into American life. The many Irish migrants among the rioters was were taken as “evidence of broader ethnic disloyalty,” writes Keating, which “symbolically and intrinsically linked these events to larger issues surrounding the loyalty of Democrats.” Keating shows, however, that there was widespread disapproval of the rioting among Irish-Americans in other communities. It indicates both the complexity of their responses to the war’s divisive issues and the lack of a monolithic character to Irish immigrants living in America. They were eager to demonstrate their national loyalty through such means as military service. Keating argues that their identities became as deeply entwined with their communities and adopted nation as with a common Irish heritage.
“Deeds of Our Own”
Authors: Romansky Thaddeus M.
Published: January 2019

In this essay, Thaddeus Romansky addresses expressions of national loyalty among African-Americans who joined the Union army. African-Americans both in and out of slavery were stigmatized and thought by many to be incapable of loyalty and citizenship. Military service, however, opened a way to take agency in achieving emancipation while laying claim to the status of loyal men in American society. Focusing on military protests of abusive treatment by white officers, Romansky contends that black soldiers saw the loyalty of their military service as entitling them to equal and fair treatment in the ranks. The author characterizes these protests as reflecting the internalization of broadly held notions of rights, liberty, and resistance to tyranny that formed the core of republicanism. In other ways, however, the sensitivity to claims of equality stemmed from long-suffered racial discrimination. Thus notions of loyalty were complicated by the issue of their race.
Introduction
Authors: Harris Laura
Published: January 2019

In Experiments in Exile, I explore and compare projects undertaken by two twentieth-century American intellectuals while they lived in voluntary exiles in the United States: the Trinidadian writer and revolutionary C. L. R. James and the Brazilian visual artist and counterculturalist Hélio Oiticica. James and Oiticica never met. They lived and worked in the United States at different moments. My focus is on James’s stay during the 1940s and on Oiticica’s stay during the 1970s. Given the significant differences between them—not just at the level of nationality but at the level of race (James was black, Oiticica was white), class (James was situated within a precarious middle class, Oiticica was firmly established within an upper middle class), sexuality (James was straight, Oiticica was gay), and disciplinary locations (James is generally situated in the history of radical social theory and practice, and Oiticica is generally situated in the history of avant-garde aesthetic theory and practice)—this is surely an unlikely combination. This study is itself an experiment, one that goes beyond the usual parameters of comparativist or transnational research, to identify, in the surprising resonances between the projects pursued by these two very disparate figures, a common project I believe they, together, bring into relief....
Dialectic of Contact
Authors: Harris Laura
Published: January 2019

In this chapter I examine James’s and Oiticica’s entries into the U.S. and their attempts to situate themselves there. Cut off from the contact they had once had with this aesthetic sociality, contact that had radicalized their earlier work, they try to reconstruct the conditions of possibility for something like it in the U.S. They both imagine a kind of communion with the population at large, in communal modes of reception of popular art, but the opportunity for such reception is elusive, already lost or still anticipated, or only temporary, fleeting. In the face of this inconstancy, they work toward the construction of new apparatuses—the Correspondence organization and organ and living and working spaces called “nests”—in and through which they hoped to invite and structure contact, including contact with and between those forces they found most vital in the U.S., the disenfranchised, the marginal, the queer, the ones who precariously inhabit citizenship’s outer edge in modes of aesthetic sociality that were both severely constrained and unprecedentedly open. The new forms of aesthetic sociality James and Oiticica sought would take shape in and through new experimental practices that attempted to reformulate the very idea of work or working as their bases.
The Mediated Mind
Authors: Zieger Susan
Published: January 2019

The latter half of the nineteenth century witnessed a mass media revolution in the widespread explosion of print; this book shows how the habits of consuming printed ephemera are still with us, even as pixels supersede paper. Trivial, disposable printed items, from temperance medals and cigarette cards to cartoons and even novels tell us much about nineteenth-century mediated experience, and our own. For a fresh perspective on media consumption, the book examines affect, a dynamic quality of human mind and body that links emotion to cognition, self to other, and self to environment. Affect shows how mass-mediated material began to dwell in the mind – less so the rational mind of egoistic cognition, than the embodied mind of daydreaming, reverie, and feeling. In such fugitive spaces, the sovereign individual gives way to community and inter-subjectivity as he or she recreates the social body. The book makes visible an array of positions, habitable by people of different classes, genders, ages, and sexualities, such as the mass live audience member, the enchanted viewer, the information “addict,” the self-fashioner, the collector, and the re-player of experience. These positions characterize an earlier moment in a genealogy of media consumption that endures today. The book describes them by putting disposable print forms into conversation with performance, visual culture, literary fantasy, and media theories. Demonstrating the recursive relations between affects and mass media, it reveals the cultural and psychological contours of ephemeral experience.
Introduction: “Long Live the Glorious Union”
Authors: Brodrecht Grant R.
Published: January 2019

The introduction states the book’s thesis—that throughout the Civil War and Reconstruction many northern white evangelicals subordinated particular concern for the four million African-American slaves (and then ex-slaves) to a larger vision for the Union’s persistence and continued flourishing as a specifically Christian nation. It defines evangelicalism, which was centrally important to both North and South, and suggests that the Civil War may be understood in part as a clash of competing visions for a properly Christian America. The introduction then situates the book within the context of current scholarship on northern evangelicalism and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Finally, the introduction relates northern evangelicalism to the concept of Union and contends that evangelical devotion to it may be understood more as a form of ethno-cultural nationalism than civic nationalism.
“The Harvest of Death Is Complete”
Authors: Brodrecht Grant R.
Published: January 2019

Following upon Abraham Lincoln’s electoral victory in 1864, chapter three portrays northern evangelicals anticipating military victory and emergent national oneness. The chapter looks particularly at northern evangelical intersection with Lincoln’s second inaugural address, their initial hopes following the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, and then their reaction to Lincoln’s assassination. Northern evangelicals were ecstatic when the war ended and the Union was preserved, and, despite Lincoln’s assassination and the anger that followed, they looked ahead to Reconstruction as a moment during which affective national Christian oneness would be more fully and strongly attained than ever before in American history. The northern evangelical vision for the Union was intact and optimistic. Northern white evangelicals had never been primarily energized by radical advocacy for racial justice; thus they did not desire or envision the long-term need for strong federal reconstructive efforts in the South.
Humans, Jews, and the Other Others
Authors: Dolgopolski Sergey
Published: January 2019

The “Introduction” formulates the question of the political, and in particular of the emergence and erasure of the political from the horizon of currently predominant political thought in political theology and political ontology. The “Introduction” further attunes the readers to the dynamic key of “effacement” as both emergence and erasure, thereby defining the main register in which the book is proceeding -- as distinct from the keys of chronological periodisation, linear history, paradigm shifts, or other stabilizing approaches. The “Introduction” further draws a distinction between politics and the political, and advances the question of the political in relation to the Talmud as both a text and a discipline of thinking able to shed a new, contrasting, light on the paradox driven modern political notions of a singularizing and even singling out notion of a “Jew,” and a universalizing notion of the “human being.” The “Introduction” concludes by gesturing towards a much closer connection between the question of the political in the Talmud, the notions of the Jews and of the human beings in modernity, and the question of earth and territory as a part of political equation these concepts spell out.
Jews, in Theory
Authors: Dolgopolski Sergey
Published: January 2019

The chapter analyses the modern political notion of the “Jews,” and the role of that notion in both political ontology and political theology versions of the political. The key notion of the effacement of the political in political theology and political ontology develops further in the argument in the chapter. The political becomes “effaced” that is both dynamically articulated and lost in political ontology and political theology. The chapter introduces the role of a Talmudic notion of refuting as opposed to both Greek (Aristotelian) and Latin (Quintilian) notions of refutation; and spells out how that notion of refuting emerges, by the paradoxical logic of effacement, in the analysis of the political in the Talmud. The argument advances in conversation with Hannah Arendt, Jean-François Lyotard, and Pavel Florensky.
Apodictic Irony and the Production of Well-Structured Uncertainty: Tosafot Gornish and the Talmud as the Political after Kant
Authors: Dolgopolski Sergey
Published: January 2019

This chapter addresses an early modern instantiation of the effacement of the interpersonal political in the Talmud by conceptions of universal (inter)subjectivity and logical-apodictic reasoning. This process first tacitly erases the interpersonal political in the late ancient Talmud by reducing it to dialectical irony. In a second step, the erasure advances from irony, a Platonic concept, to logical-apodictic reading of it in the Aristotelian tradition. Only when viewed through a post-Kantian lens could it become clear that this was not merely a Platonic interpretation of the late ancient Talmud in early modernity, followed by an Aristotelian interpretation, but rather a complex and multistep process of the effacement of the interpersonal at the advent of intersubjective. The chapter arrives to that result through a case-study of staging and analyzing of a fourteenth century logical commentary on the thirteenth century rhetorical interpretation of a discussion in a late ancient text in the Talmud.
Formally Human (Jewish Responses to Kant I)
Authors: Dolgopolski Sergey
Published: January 2019

The chapter shows how among tradition-oriented scholars of the 20th and early 21st century, the interpersonal in the Talmud became effaced in the notion of a universal subject of reason, ultimately conceived of as pure thought and denying any intrinsic necessity of the intersubjective, let alone the interpersonal. At the center of the discussion is post-Kantian formal transcendental definition of what it means to be human as opposed to any phenomenal description of humanity in external phenomenal terms of a physical, biological, or other objectifying terms. The chapter follows the Jewish thinkers who, in response to Kant’s critique of Jewish law as positive law, argue that Rabbinic law – the Talmud and its interpretation – entail a transcendental rather than positive notion of the law, and a transcendental rather than empirical notion of universal humanity in each human being. The chapter further shows, how for the sake of that argument, modern Jewish thinkers reinvent Jewish law. The chapter displays how that process entails both construction and denial of the Talmud as an allegedly empty form of merely rhetorical arguments to be translated into, and according to the principles of a universal humanity, build, as it is for these Jewish thinkers after Kant, on the principles of intersubjective transcendentalism, and on the resulting understanding of the political in their work.
The Earth for the Other Others
Authors: Dolgopolski Sergey
Published: January 2019

This chapter explores an implication of the question of effacement of the other others, which this book advanced, for and in thinking the Earth. Mobilizing the question of the other others to think the Earth anew is no more but also no less than an articulation of yet another, perhaps the most important part of the question: How, or is it possible, to think the Earth in the first place? Advancing this problem moves the argument in the chapters beyond the hitherto predominant paradigms of linear otherness, in which the other and the question of belonging to a territory have been inextricably connected one to another. Is that connection between other and territory necessary, and what does that connection preclude from the view? To formulate and advance these questions the chapter engages with Gilles Deleuze’s notion of territorialization, and in particular with his questioning of the relationships between territorialization and existence, as well as between earth and being. The argument shows both necessity and insufficiency of Deleuze’s analysis of territorialization in relation to otherness in order to ask about of those others who remain in an intrinsically necessary relationship to the earth without ever finalizing their relation with a particular territory. In that way, the chapter provides a view of the political before it locks into either political ontology or political theology -- now extending the question of the effacement of the political beyond its exemplification as the political in the Talmud.
Cross-Border Banking Services and Determinants of Bank Selection from Corporate Customer’s Perspective: Evidence from Vietnam
Authors: Nhung Nguyen Thi , Thanh Tu Tran Thi , Anh Tran Minh
Published: January 2019

This paper focuses on assessment of cross-border services in the Vietnam banking system in the context of international integration from customer’s perspective. The authors used Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) in SPSS from survey of 153 corporate clients of Vietnamese banks in 2018 to evaluate the current situation of offering cross-border services as well as competitiveness of banking system in Vietnam. Research results show that from customers’ perspective three key factors relating to marketing policy, infrastructure and financial capacity of banks are the most important factors in selection of using cross-border banking services in Vietnam. Survey results show that competitiveness of Vietnamese banks is reaching medium level but much lower than the expectation of customers. Therefore, the authors propose to Vietnam banking system some recommendations including: (i) Improving the services’ quality, especially in terms of technology and depth of cross-border banking services; (ii) Focusing more on customer care activities by developing more useful applications on smartphones, tablets and computers, create the linkage among banks and end-users, develop digital marketing instead of traditional marketing methods; (iii) Maintaining domestic market as well as finding new markets abroad, especially in the ASEAN countries, in order to gradually increase the diversification as well as the quality of cross-border financial and banking services.
Analysis of Market Participation Behavior Among Smallholder Dairy Farmers in Uganda
Authors: Balirwa Elizabeth K. , Waholi Emmanuel
Published: January 2019

Market participation of smallholder farming has gained priority in the policy agenda of many developing countries as an engine for economic growth. In Uganda, smallholder dairy farming has been adopted as a strategy for the country’s economic transformation through commercialization but efforts to improve dairy market sales have not been successful. Without appropriate interventions, Uganda may fail to take advantage of the anticipated increase in demand for livestock products. A study to analyze determinants of dairy farmers’ market participation and percentage of milk sales was therefore undertaken in Uganda’s three main milk producing regions. Multistage sampling and purposive sampling procedures were used to select a study sample of 171 representative dairy farming households, with at least one milking cow based on data derived from the REPEAT Survey of 2012. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and Heckman two-stage selection econometric model. Results show that milk market entry decision was significantly influenced by improved lactating cows (1%), number of lactating cows (1%), milk yield (1%), information access (5%), access to veterinary services (5%) and children less than 6 years (10%). Percentage of milk sales was influenced by information access (1%), number of lactating cows (5%), improved milking breeds (5%) and quantity of milk consumed. Three variables critical to policy intervention in enhancing smallholder dairy farmer participation and intensification are number of lactating cows, improved lactating cows and information access. Quantity of milk consumed suggests supplementation of milk with other protein foods among dairy farmers in Uganda.