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The Late-19th-Century Economy

2021
The United States underwent massive economic change in the four decades following the end of the American Civil War in 1865. A vibrant industrial economy catapulted the nation to a world leader in mining and manufacturing; the agricultural sector overcame organizational and technological challenges to increase productivity; and the innovations in ...
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Late 19th to early 20th century

1995
Cardiac knowledge advanced rapidly in the late 19th and early 20th century, [47] even though this was still the age before therapy, the era of pathologic anatomy. The culmination of this era in the history of pediatric cardiology came with the publication in 1936 of Maude Abbott’s great Atlas of congenital cardiac disease. [2]
Catherine A. Neill, Edward B. Clark
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British Bank Conservatism in the Late 19th Century

Explorations in Economic History, 1995
Abstract A long-running and thus far unresolved issue in British economic history is the part played by the commercial banks in the provision of finance for industry. There have been numerous allegations of failure in the literature, many of which relate to the late 19th century, where it is alleged that the banks became increasingly conservative. We
Forrest H. Capie, Terence C. Mills
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Homoeopathic prescribing in the late 19th century

British Homeopathic Journal, 1994
SummaryThe discovery of the records of the London Homoeopathic Hospital dating from 1889 to 1923 has given the opportunity to study prescribing methods in the pre- and post-Kentian periods. In particular, it has given a detailed insight into late 19th century ideas which has not been available before.
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Late 19th-Century U.S. Indian Policy

2016
As the Civil War ended and U.S. leaders sought ways to reconstruct a devastated nation, many turned to westward expansion as a mechanism to give northerners and southerners a shared goal. Simultaneously, though, the abolitionists and activists who had fought long and hard for an end to slavery saw this moment as one for a new racial politics in the ...
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Reinterpreting Eastlake: Late 19th Century Furniture Styles

2013
It has been accepted that Charles Locke Eastlake through his book, Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery, and Other Details influenced the manufacture of furniture in the late nineteenth century. The immense success of the book in the United States led to a furniture style being called “Eastlake” in the 1870s.
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Tariffs and Growth in the Late 19th Century

The Economic Journal, 2000
The paper estimates the correlation between tariffs and economic growth in the late 19th century, in the context of three types of growth equation: unconditional convergence equations; conditional convergence equations; and factor accumulation models. It does so for a panel of ten countries between 1875 and 1914. Tariffs were positively correlated with
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Communication and Labor in Late 19th Century

1996
Abstract In the 19th-century United States, criticism of communication institutions and practices was rife and often sharp. The widest and most significant antipathetic current, during the century’ s final decades, streamed through labor organizations and oppositional political movements.
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Independent Black Voices from the Late 19th Century

Souls, 2005
Fueled by religious and secular conviction, grounded by political reality, and limited by grinding poverty, African Americans in the 1880s would not allow Democratic Party rule to go unchallenged following the collapse of Reconstruction. Between 1886 and 1898 southern African Americans most of whom had been born into slavery, gained their freedom, but ...
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