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Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century
2017This book describes the remarkable path which led to the Swiss Franc becoming the strong international currency that it is today. Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler use Swiss monetary history to provide valuable insights into a number of issues concerning the organization and development of monetary institutions and currency that shaped the structure
Baltensperger, Ernst, Kugler, Peter
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Whooping Cough: A Brief History to the 19th Century
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 2012This 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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Literary History of Bengal, 8th-19th century AD
2018The literary history of Bengal is characterized by a multilingual ecology that nurtured the development of Middle Bengali literature. It is around the turn of the second millennium, during the Pāla period (c. 8th–12th century), that eastern South Asia became a major region for the production of literary texts in Sanskrit and Apabhramsha.
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Melancholia and Depression During the 19th Century: a Conceptual History
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1988The meaning of ‘melancholia’ in classical antiquity is opaque and has little in common with 20th-century psychiatric usage (Drabkin, 1955; Heiberg, 1927). At that time, melancholia and mania were not polar opposites (i.e. one was not defined as having opposite features to the other).
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Delirium and Confusion in the 19th Century: A Conceptual History
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1981SummaryDelirium 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.Confusion, introduced by French workers during the second half of the century, referred to a syndrome wider than (but including)
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History or tradition? : exploring Adivasi pasts in 19th century Jharkhand
Rivista degli studi orientali, 2018Scholars of colonial and post-colonial India have widely agreed that the earliest Indian manifestation of history as a rational-positivist discipline occurred in the nationalist historiography of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The British colonizers’ use of history as a tool of self-legitimation rested on the stereotypical assumption that ...
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Biological Evolution and History in 19th Century Portugal
1984Studies of interpopulation differences in non-metric morphological characters (also termed “discrete” and “epigenetic”) of the skeleton raise problems which are both biological and statistical.
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The History of Cybernetics in the 19th Century
1971The word “cybernetics” was coined in the year 1948 by Wiener: “I first looked for a Greek word signifying ‘messenger’, but the only one I knew was angelos. This has in English the specific meaning ‘angel’, a messenger for God. The word was thus pre-empted and would not give me the right context. Then I looked for an appropriate word from the field of
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