著者
天野 由莉
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
雑誌
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies (ISSN:13462989)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.14, pp.95-108, 2014-03

This article is about American attitude toward white refugees from Saint Domingue during the early years of the Haitian Revolution. It focuses on the charity project taken place in 1793. In the summer of that year, about 15000 refugees rushed into American cities because of the turmoil of the capital of Saint Domingue. This article pays special attention to the surge of interest in "sensiblity" during the 18th century. The term sensibility denoted an innate susceptibility to others' suffering. This article shows how the pitiful state of the refugees appealed to Americans' sensibility. American newspapers at that time depicted the situation of the distressed refugees sentimentally. In result, the slave rebellion which was going on in Saint Domingue was drained of political implications and perceived as a mere tragedy. This transition resulted in three outcomes. First, white Saint Dominguans, who had been blamed for the devastation of Saint Domingue, were suddenly victimized after the summer of 1793 and gained Americans' sympathy. Second, shared compassion and the relief project toward refugees appealed to patriotic sentiment in American society. Third, shared sensibility toward refugees' plight made the federal government assist voluntary associations under public funding, regardless of the French officials' objection. However, sensibility toward the whites' suffering obscured the cause of the slaves who stood up for their freedom in Saint Domingue. Thus, this article offeres a nuanced explanation of the Americans' disregard of the revolutionary meaning of the Haitian Revolution in its early stage.論文Articles
著者
廣部 泉
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
雑誌
アメリカ太平洋研究 (ISSN:13462989)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.13, pp.14-21, 2013-03

特集 : 太平洋関係のなかのアメリカと日本 : 歴史からの問い
著者
三牧 聖子
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
雑誌
アメリカ太平洋研究 (ISSN:13462989)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.13, pp.22-31, 2013-03

特集 : 太平洋関係のなかのアメリカと日本 : 歴史からの問い
著者
入江 哲朗
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
雑誌
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies (ISSN:13462989)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.20, pp.57-73, 2020-03

In marked contrast to his father Benjamin Peirce, a leading scientist in the nineteenth-century US, and his younger brother Charles Sanders Peirce, one of the greatest American philosophers, James Mills Peirce has seldom received substantial treatment in historical research, though he succeeded to his father's chair, Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics, at Harvard in 1885. Thus little attention has been paid to the fact that his 1893–94 lectures on quaternions were attended by a Japanese graduate student, Shunkichi Kimura. This paper sheds a new light on the achievements of J. M. Peirce through a close reading of Kimura's letter dated October 7, 1894, which described his life at Harvard to Aikitsu Tanakadate, professor of Imperial University, Japan.\n From his promotion to professor in 1869 until his death in 1906, particularly for the 1872–95 period when he was in charge of the incipient graduate education, Peirce had cooperated closely with President Charles William Eliot in the reform of Harvard aiming for its enlargement and professionalization. In the 1894 letter, however, Kimura suggested to Tanakadate that three Harvard professors of mathematical physics were of poor quality as professional scholars, whereas Peirce wrote in the following year an official report boasting the development of graduate education at Harvard. On the other hand, Kimura greatly admired Peirce's dedication to quaternions, in which latter-day Harvard mathematicians had little interest. Kimura's letter provides a valuable point of view for fully appreciating the administrative and academic career of Peirce.
著者
Kaufmann Peter
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
雑誌
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies (ISSN:13462989)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.16, pp.7-12, 2016-03

特集 : 『渚にて』再訪 : 核・ハリウッド・オーストラリアSpecial Topic : Revisiting "On the Beach" : Nuclear Weapons, Hollywood, Australia
著者
中尾 秀博
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
雑誌
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies (ISSN:13462989)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.16, pp.13-22, 2016-03

特集 : 『渚にて』再訪 : 核・ハリウッド・オーストラリアSpecial Topic : Revisiting "On the Beach" : Nuclear Weapons, Hollywood, Australia
著者
三浦 順子
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
雑誌
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies (ISSN:13462989)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.16, pp.93-110, 2016-03

論文ArticlesThe phrase "the Mexican Problem" was invented in Texas during turn of the twentieth century, and it spread throughout the American political and social cultures through the 1910s and 1920s. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the creation of "the Mexican Problem" by focusing on the movement of changing social order in Texas during the 1910s. Since the turn of the twentieth century, Texas faced drastic social changes in its social, political, and economic structures. The rise of the political career of James E. Ferguson, governor of Texas, from 1914 to the middle of 1917 was seen as a symbol of those changes. Ferguson stated the importance of the Farming in Texas development and claimed to turn sharecroppers into independent capitalists. Also, he left the topic of prohibition out of political account and placed breweries that were mainly operated by German Americans in Texas urban areas, turning them into an industry that significantly contributed to the state's economic resources. On the other hand, Mexicans were treated as cheap laborers and temporary commuters working in Texas. Their numbers were huge, but they had limited functions as members of society. World War I institutionalized those Mexicans positioned in Texas during their Americanization program, and eventually they were spread throughout the entire country. Mexicans were identified and problematized, which had nothing to do with racial integration with Whites or their assimilation as immigrants; rather, it was a question of socially locating them as illegitimate citizens of American society.
著者
廣部 泉
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
雑誌
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies (ISSN:13462989)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.13, pp.14-21, 2013-03

特集 : 太平洋関係のなかのアメリカと日本 : 歴史からの問いSpecial Topic : The U.S. and Japan in the Pacific Relations : Considering from Historical Perspectives