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La épica cercenada relativa a la guerra contra William Walker en las literaturas centroamericanas (1855-1934) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The Central American conflict against William Walker (1856-1857) is Costa Rica and Nicaragua’s first glimpse of epic. This article presents the first systematization of the literary production on the subject written in both countries between 1855 and ...
Verónica Ríos Quesada
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

The Tribals and the National Uprising of 1857 in Rajputana States

The Indian Historical Review, 2022
The scholars have paid scant attention to the role of the Bhil and the Mina tribes of southern Rajputana States of Mewar, Banswara and Partapgarh in the 1857 national war of independence.
V. K. Vashishtha
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Revisiting the Early Anti-colonial Rebellions in Bengal and Odisha, 1760–1856

The Indian Historical Review, 2022
This is an outline of the early rebellions against the East India Company that broke out in the region, comprised of the present-day Bangladesh, and Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha.
Smritikumar Sarkar
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Four feral women and the rise of sectionalism in the 1850s

American Nineteenth Century History, 2022
This article studies how the national media reacted to four feral woman episodes between 1843 and 1857. In 1843 and 1848, newspapers reprinted stories about two feral women without sectional variations in coverage. This national consensus collapsed after
M. Pierson
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Ergatandromorphism in the Ant Myrmica lobulicornis Nylander, 1857 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae)

, 2020
Ergatandromorphism is the result of an aberrant development in which part of the body of a social insect shows the traits of the worker caste, while the other resembles a male. It is considered a specific case of gynandromorphism.
E. Schifani   +7 more
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La Campaña Nacional 1856-1857 y La Construcción del Estado Nación

, 2016
This article argues that in the decade of the 1850s the National Campaign prompted the nation state building process in Costa Rica. President Mora's and Bishop Monsignor Anselmo Llorente's proclamations calling to take arms in defense of fatherland ...
Carmen María Fallas
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The People's Revolution of 1856: Antislavery Populism, National Politics, and the Emergence of the Republican Party

The Journal of the Civil War Era, 2019
:The election of 1856 saw the emergence of the Republican Party and the political realignment that produced the Civil War. While these events are often interpreted as a defensive response to proslavery aggression, in Kansas and elsewhere, this essay ...
M. Karp
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Costa Rica: Demilitarization and Democratization

, 2021
An isolated Spanish frontier settlement with little or no significant mineral wealth, exportable crops, or exploitable indigenous population, colonial Costa Rica had only a rudimentary military.
J. Booth
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Persian war of 1856–1857

, 1966
In making a brief military appreciation of this Persian campaign Colonel Wylly stated that with much truth it had been said that it 'arose out of circumstances so complicated that it is difficult to bear in mind the relations of one to another.
J. Standish
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Three memoirs of Hugh Miller (1802–1856) by his son Hugh Miller FGS

Archives of Natural History, 2019
Hugh Miller FGS (1850–1896) wrote a set of three memoirs on his father Hugh Miller (1802–1856), geologist, writer and newspaper editor. The first two are successive versions of a text written about 1883 to accompany a portrait of the elder Miller by the ...
Michael A. Taylor
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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