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Recognizing religion: Politics, history, and the “long 19th century”

, 2017
Analyses of religion and international politics routinely concern the persistence of religion as a critical element in world affairs. However, they tend to neglect the constitutive interconnections between religion and political life.
Jonathan C. Agensky
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Universalization, Particularization, and Discrimination. European Perspectives on a Cultural History of 19th century International Law

, 2012
International law claims to be the most universal field of law: one law for all sovereign nations of the world. This article is discussing some issues of this process of universalization of international law in the 19th century: Which were the ...
Milo Vec
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Delirium and Confusion in the 19th Century: A Conceptual History

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1981
Summary Delirium remained a stable psychiatric category until the early 19th century when it underwent aetiological and phenomenological redefinition, precipitating the transformation of the functional insanities into psychoses.
G. Berríos
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Hay fever, a post industrial revolution epidemic: a history of its growth during the 19th century

Clinical allergy, 1988
Although other forms of allergic disease were described in antiquity, hay fever is surprisingly modern. Very rare descriptions can be traced back to Islamic texts of the 9th century and European texts of the 16th century.
M. Emanuel
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The history of palaeobotany in Argentina during the 19th century [PDF]

Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2005
The first records of fossil plants in Argentina were related to the visits of the naturalist-explorers Azara, d'Orbigny, Darwin, de Moussy, Burmeister and Bonpland during the 19th century. The settlement of Burmeister in Buenos Aires in 1862 fostered the arrival, of foreign, mostly German, scientists to work in, or closely related to, the School of ...
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The history and transformation of a Scandinavian boreal forest landscape since the 19th century

, 1997
Les auteurs ont etudie la transformation d'un vaste paysage forestier de 135 000 ha de la Suede boreale, de la fin du 19 e a la fin du 20 e siecle. Des documents historiques ont ete utilises pour obtenir des donnees quantitatives sur l'influence du feu ...
L. Östlund, O. Zackrisson, A. Axelsson
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Medical history of the representation of rosacea in the 19th century

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2013
Throughout the 1800s, clinical illustrations helped to formalize what was then the recently developed field of dermatology. Knowledge of skin diseases was given new dimension as artists and clinicians alike strove to accurately document the physical characteristics of numerous dermatoses.
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Part 1: The history of 19th century neurology and the American Neurological Association

Annals of Neurology, 2003
Emergence of Neurology as a Specialty in the United States As a new medical specialty, American neurology developed in the midand late-19th century under the influence of three primary forces: European Medicine and Scientific Advances, the American Civil
C. Goetz, Teresa A. Chmura, D. Lanska
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Epilepsy and insanity during the early 19th century. A conceptual history.

Archives of Neurology, 1984
During the first half of the 19th century, epilepsy and the insanities were considered as closely related "neurotic" disorders. Under the influence of factors such as the decline of the 18th-century Cullean concept of neurosis, the development of the new
G. Berríos
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Whooping Cough: A Brief History to the 19th Century

Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 2012
This paper examines the history of whooping cough (pertussis) from its first recorded mention in 1190 to the time when its microbial cause was identified. The historical records of the disease are complicated by the variation in the nomenclature employed and through using the same name for disorders with different symptoms.
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