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Gender &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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Historiske toll- og skipsanløpslister – tollregnskap som kilde
Heimen, 2017 Eighteenth century trade statistics can help cast new light on economic, cultural and social aspects of the eighteenth century, as well as show international and global interconnection.
Ragnhild Hutchison
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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MAGNIFYING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MICROSCOPY
Nuncius, 2010 Contains fulltext : 83579.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Journal of European Periodical Studies, 2017 This article discusses the late eighteenth-century Dutch periodical Lanterne Magique of Toverlantaern. This political journal is analyzed from the perspective of its sense of humour and its rhetoric.
Jasper Schelstraete
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Scots songs in the Kitty Hartley manuscript [PDF]
, 2007 A review of contents of an eighteenth century song ...
Bold, V.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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[Review of] Marina E. Espina. Filipinos in Louisiana [PDF]
, 1989 Marina E. Espina\u27s Filipinos in Louisiana is her long awaited, first collection; it is also an announcement of her book on eighteenth-century Filipino settlement in Louisiana and the United States, Manilamen in the New World. The chapters of Filipinos
Oandasan, William
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The Dublin society in eighteenth-century Irish political thought [PDF]
, 2004 Through an analysis of the debate between Charles Davenant in England, and Arthur Dobbs, Thomas Prior, and Samuel Madden in Ireland, it establishes that the founders saw the society as a response to Ireland's dependent status in the emerging British ...
Livesey, Jim
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