Robert Owen and the development of good citizenship in 19th century New Lanark: enlightened reform or social control? [PDF]
, 2008 This chapter examines the ideological significance of the early 19th century experiment in education introduced by Robert Owen at New Lanark and its implications for contemporary students and educators.
O'Hagan, F.J.
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Scrivere e riscrivere. Modi della citazione nelle “Confessioni d'un italiano" [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2015 This article explores some of Ippolito Nievo’s intertextual strategies (reuse, rewriting, reinterpretation) in Confessioni d’un Italiano (1867). In his work, Nievo draws on different materials, such as fictional documents with a narrative structure ...
Sara Garau
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“Una frontera en movimiento”. La conformación del puerto de Riohacha en el siglo diecinueve
Études Caribéennes, 2018 This article presents an analysis of the port space of Riohacha (Colombian Caribbean) and how it was formed at the border from the traffic of the Brazilwood (Caesalpinia echinata) towards the middle of the 19th century, when the merchants of the Dutch ...
Hugo Carrillo Ferreira
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Past Influenza pandemics and their effect in Malta [PDF]
, 2005 The influenza virus type A has caused repeated pandemics throughout the 19th and 20 th century causing significant morbidity and mortality on a worldwide scale.
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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Reminiscenze e citazioni letterarie in “Piccolo mondo antico” [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2015 Aiming to explore both implicit and explicit quotations in Antonio Fogazzaro’s Piccolo mondo antico (1895), this article focuses on citations of prose, patriotic literature, and opera librettos.
Tiziana Piras
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Geography and Insolation in 19th Century US African-American and White Statures [PDF]
The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. Moreover, while much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century institutional ...
Scott A. Carson
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Citazioni e autocitazioni nel “Mastro-don Gesualdo” [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2015 This essay focuses on the use of autocitation in Giovanni Verga’s Mastro-don Gesualdo (1889) and analyses echoes of characters and scenes already outlined by the writer in Novelle rusticane (specifically, I galantuomini, Il reverendo, Pane nero, La roba)
Gian Paolo Marchi
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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century African-American Body Mass Index Values [PDF]
Little research exists on the body mass index values of late 19th and early 20th century African-Americans. Using a new BMI data set and robust statistics, this paper demonstrates that late 19th and early 20th century black BMI variation by age increased
Scott A. Carson
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Ground Truth for training OCR engines on historical documents in German Fraktur and Early Modern Latin [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper we describe a dataset of German and Latin \textit{ground truth} (GT) for historical OCR in the form of printed text line images paired with their transcription.
Baiter, Johannes +3 more
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Il linguaggio degli affetti. “Fede e bellezza” e il romanzo di Gertrude [PDF]
Parole Rubate, 2015 The relationship between Niccolò Tommaseo and Alessandro Manzoni – a relationship with literary, linguistic, political, historical and cultural implications – represents the focus of this article.
Donatella Martinelli
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