Nineteenth Century Britain
Translation as a socially symbolic act : translations of the ancient Greek concept of 'democracy' in nineteenth century Britain
... case nineteenth-century Britain - may well consist of groups whose interests are not merely diverse and still minimally communal, but diametrically oppositional and antagonistic; in which case norms ...
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The Malthusian and the anti Malthusian: the use of economic ideas and language in the public discourse of nineteenth century Britain
... of nineteenth century Britain, these case studies also speak to the broader issue of public engagement with economics, both in the past and today, and indicate some avenues for future research in the ...
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Visualizing the islands of Napoleon : Napoleonic lieux de mémoire in nineteenth-century Britain
... in Britain continued to produce images of the ...in nineteenth-century ...the nineteenth-century concerns for representing the past, focusing on the way that the memories of Napoleon ...
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Death or Taxes? The Political Economy of Sanitation Expenditure in Nineteenth Century Britain
... For instance, if greater town wealth leads to greater expenditure on sanitary goods, the effect may be captured by the measure of tax base per capita, even though the spending that resul[r] ...
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Slave trade suppression and the culture of anti slavery in nineteenth century Britain
... The positive impact upon sailors of service in the African Squadron was nonetheless claimed in popular fictions of the nineteenth century. Conversion generally took the secular form of characters’ ...
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Myths of the medical methods exclusion: medicine and patents in nineteenth century Britain
... the nineteenth century medical profession was opposed to patenting of medical ...the nineteenth century that it would be unethical for a medical practitioner to seek to patent a method of ...
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Excavating the borders of literary Anglo Saxonism in nineteenth century Britain and Australia
... of nineteenth- century Anglo-Saxonism can be seen to be divided, polyvalent, and self- contesting, while the categories ‘‘native’’ and ‘‘alien’’ were already highly tractable even before they traveled to ...
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When “perverts” were religious: the Protestant sexualisation of asceticism in nineteenth century Britain, India and Ireland
... The word ‘pervert’ gained its contemporary association with sexuality in the mid-nineteenth century. The primary meaning of this term before that time was, in the words of the Oxford English Dictionary, ‘a ...
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Scientific publishing and the reading of science in nineteenth-century Britain: a historiographical survey and guide to sources
... in Britain or in English in the field of mathematics, and its applications’, up to ...the nineteenth century, the clerical author Ebenezer Cobham Brewer’s Guide to the scientific knowledge of things ...
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Private property, public interest, and the role of the state in nineteenth century Britain: the case of the lighthouses
... sixteenth century, including the regulation of pilotage, and the provision and regulation of navigational aids on land and at sea, setting it apart from the other ...
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A History of Attitudes and Behaviours toward Animals in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain Anthropocentrism and the Emergence of Animals
... The title and sub-title of this work promised much, suggesting – to this reader at least – that we would be presented with a monograph that could help take forward the growing international and inter-disciplinary ...
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Kill Your Darlings: Birth Control, Child Abandonment, and Infanticide in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
... Both Roxana and Defoe’s Treatise were written in the 1720s; as Figure 2 shows, much of the textual material I have discussed thus far was written after the London Foundling Hospital was founded, but naturally one assumes ...
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Petticoat politics in eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain : female citizenship revealed by the Digital Archive
... community. But were women included? Goldie and Hindle both argue to the contrary, alleging that early modern parish government was exclusive male. However, they both cite a number of examples of female office-holding. In ...
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Embroidery, business enterprise and philanthropic ventures in Nineteenth Century Britain
... The Leek Embroidery Society and school will be investigated to determine the organisational structure of each and the extent of Elizabeth Wardle’s involvement. Elizabeth’s motives require analysis, to question whether ...
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White collar crime and the law in nineteenth century Britain
... late nineteenth century by more collectivist approaches, and second, the class bias of the criminal justice system: the net of the law was designed to catch the small fry, but to let the big fish – such as ...
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Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth Century Britain
... exacerbated concern about the havoc caused on young bodies by the education system. Anxieties often revealed underlying moral judgments, that were themselves caught up with ideas of modernity. Chapter four, which ...
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TWENTIETH CENTURY CAPITALISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: THE BALANCE SHEET
... In the nineteenth century Britain, France, Holland and towards the end of that century the United States of America colonialized the Kingdom of Burma, the Malay Sultanates of the Ma[r] ...
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The Great Famine and Beyond: Irish Migrants in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
... in nineteenth-century Britain have drawn attention to the small-town perspective, pointing out that significant numbers of the Irish settled in small numbers in towns like Chester and Stafford, where ...
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Nineteenth century beginnings
... All societies have social policies of some kind, even if the state only plays a minor role in welfare provision. However, nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a series of changes which had a major ...
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The language of portraiture in the early nineteenth century novel: a study in Opie and Austen
... early nineteenth century, Amelia Opie and Jane Austen, incorporate and adapt the language of portraiture, as well as discussion of actual portraits, in their fiction, and examines the effects ...
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