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, 2000 A ‘late developer’ argument, common to Psychology and Economic History, can be used to explain cultural innovation. It argues that the 19th century theory of natural selection arose in England and not Germany because of – and not in spite of – England’s ...
Finkelstein, Gabriel
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A larger grain of sense. Making early non-Western sociological thought visible
Sociedade e Estado, 2022 There are different ways to read sociological theory “against the grain”, as Walter Benjamin put it in 1940. The issue of invisibility - or invisibilization - is certainly the most important one.
Stéphane Dufoix
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Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics
Angles, 2017 In his 1993 book retracing the history of synthetic dyestuffs, Anthony S. Travis describes the 19th century chemists who devised new aniline dyes for the expanding textile industry as “rainbow makers”.
Charlotte Ribeyrol
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Klęska kubańska i jej wpływ na hiszpańską scenę polityczną
Klio, 2018 This case study focuses on Spanish political and social life after Cuba defeat in 1898. Artical describes social and political movements in late 19th century and early 20th century which was specifically a reaction against the political system of ...
Dominika Gołaszewska-Rusinowska
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Paths to and from poverty in late 19th century novels [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006 Late 19th century novels provide graphic descriptions of working and living conditions and their impact on population health, in particular the detrimental effects of hunger, poor housing, environmental conditions, hazardous work and poor pay, smoking and alcohol and crime, but also the transformative possibilities of social and political action.
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Sr/Ca ratios and oxygen isotopes from sclerosponges: Temperature history of the Carribean mixed layer and thermocline during the Little Ice Age [PDF]
, 2003 We investigate aragonitic skeletons of the Caribbean sclerosponge Ceratoporella nicholsoni from Jamaica, 20 m below sea level (mbsl), and Pedro Bank, 125 mbsl. We use d18O and Sr/Ca ratios as temperature proxies to reconstruct the Caribbean mixed layer
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Historical Life Course Studies, 2017 The paper examines the fall of marital fertility in Tasmania, the second settled Australian colony, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The paper investigates when marital fertility fell, whether the fall was mainly due to stopping or spacing ...
Helen Moyle
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Morphosyntactic Features in Late 19th Century African American Vernacular English [PDF]
Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2022 This paper discusses the use of African American Vernacular English as a literary dialect. The analysis is based on a corpus containing data collected from two 19th century American novels: ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ by Mark Twain and ‘Uncle
Costin-Valentin Oancea
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Sea-Level Rise from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century
, 2011 We estimate the rise in global average sea level from satellite altimeter data for 1993–2009 and from coastal and island sea-level measurements from 1880 to 2009.
J. Church, N. White
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Accounting in selected scientific and educational publications from the period of the Partitions [PDF]
Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości, 2015 The aim of the article is to present scientific and didactic achievements of Polish accounting at the turn of the 19th century. The first part of the study addresses key issues in the development of accounting science and practice on Polish territory ...
Renata Biadacz
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