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Marginal perspectives on early modern Ottoman culture : missionaries, travellers, booksellers

open access: yes, 2013
Herausgeber Ralf Elger, Ute PietruschkaThe papers published in this volume date back to a conference entitled “Middle Eastern Literatures of the 18th Century.
Middle Eastern Literatures of the 18th Century
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Belle of 18th Century Dover exhibit

open access: yes, 1951
This negative shows the Belle of 18th Century Dover exhibit at the Delaware State Museum in Building 2.
Department of State, Delaware Public Archives; Dickens, C.W.
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Remnants from the Past: From an 18th Century Manuscript to 21st Century Ethnobotany in Valle Imagna (Bergamo, Italy). [PDF]

open access: yesPlants (Basel), 2023
Milani F   +7 more
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Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England Volume 2 New Essays

open access: yes
This collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences.
Rivers, Isabel.
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The quality of slave trade investment in eighteenth century France [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper studies the characteristics of investment in slave trade and associated trades in France during the eighteenth century. The study of the accounts of an investor from Nantes, Bertrand de Cœuvre, shows that his investment compared favourably ...
Guillaume Daudin
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Late 18th Century Stays

open access: yes, 2020
Certain clothing styles have become synonymous with the 18th century, such as the conical torso and large skirts. Stays, a structured 17th and 18th century garment that created the classic conical shape, supporting the back and bust, were worn over a ...
Flood, Jillian
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18th century stocking knitting frame

open access: yes, 2023
18th century stocking knitting frame, pictured inside Reichlin House ( White House ).https://jdc.jefferson.edu/historical_photos_ef/1234/thumbnail ...

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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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