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Migrations and origin of the population in the Jadar region - western Serbia [PDF]

Glasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2004
Complete population of Jadar region was disturbed by migrations and re-migrations during the 18th and 19th century. Great majority of the population do not originate from Jadar, but represent a kind of "complex", population settled in certain historical ...
Grčić Mirko D.
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“Civilization”—Etymology and Early Meanings in the French Tradition [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana
The term civilisation initially had a legal meaning but gradually expanded to include social refinement, cultural progress, and historical development.
Wojciech Daszkiewicz
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Daily precipitation variability in the southern Alps since the late 19th century

International Journal of Climatology, 2019
We analysed a data set of 18 homogenized daily precipitation series from the southern European Alps, covering approximately the last 150 years.
Y. Brugnara, M. Maugeri
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Cultural heritage and fortifications built for defence of the Strait of Messina in the late 19th century

Budownictwo i Architektura, 2010
Cultural heritage and fortifications built for defence of the Strait of Messina in the late 19th ...
Massimo Lo Curzio
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The Force Publique and frontier warfare in the late 19th Century Congo Free State

Historical Encounters: A Journal of Historical Consciousness, Historical Cultures, and History Education, 2023
During the late 19th Century, the Force Publique of the Congo Free State (1878-1908) found itself engaged in almost continuous fighting. Its campaigns against indigenous peoples, mutineers, interloping African Empires, and wars of expansion ...
Mario Draper
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African adventure and metropolitan dissent in Thomas Hardy’s Two on a Tower (1882) [PDF]

, 2019
Recent studies of late 19th-century imperialism have challenged postcolonial arguments for the existence of a uniform imperial culture in colonial Britain that unquestioningly supported its overseas expansionist agenda.
Jackson, R
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The Contribution of Choral Cultural-Artistic Amateurism in Slavonia to the Development of the Cultural Life of Towns in Eastern Croatia, in the Past and Today

Diacovensia, 2022
Since the times of intensive development of the movement of cultural-artistic amateurism in Croatia, in the late 19th century, choral cultural-artistic amateurism has been considered extremely important because of its considerable implications beyond ...
Antoaneta Radočaj-Jerković, Martina Proleta, Berislav Jerković   +2 more
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The ‘discovery’ of anorexia nervosa: Discourses of the late 19th Century [PDF]

Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 1990
'Anorexia nervosa' appeared in the medical literature of the late nineteenth Century as a term used to describe self-starvation in young women of the upper and middle classes in Western societies. This paper presents a discourse analysis of texts by the two physicians usually associated with the 'discovery' of anorexia: W.W. Gull and E.C. Laseque.
Hepworth, Julie, Griffin, Christine
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Why Darwin was English [PDF]

, 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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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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