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The transportation of Narain Sing: punishment, honour and identity from the Anglo–Sikh Wars to the Great Revolt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper examines fragments from the life of Narain Sing as a means of exploring punishment, labour, society and social transformation in the aftermath of the Anglo–Sikh Wars (1845–1846, 1848–1849).
Arnold   +8 more
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Is the Torrens System German? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Recently support has grown for the view that the Torrens system of lands titles registration, which has now spread to numerous jurisdictions throughout the world, was actually not Torrens's work at all, but a copy of a German system passed off by him as ...
Taylor, G.
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Pioneers in the Victorian provinces: veterinarians, public health and the urban animal economy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
From the 1850s in Britain, concerns were growing about the role of animals in transmitting disease to man, whether through the food chain or through infection.
Hardy, A
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'Penny banks' in Glasgow, 1850-1914 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper explores the extent and nature of ‘Penny bank’ saving in Glasgow during the second half of the nineteenth century. Penny banks existed as part of the network of philanthropic organisations in the quintessential industrial city, and they were ...
Ross, D.
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Discursos sobre del centenario de la campaña nacional de 1856.

open access: yes, 2012
Some of the speeches issued on the 100th anniversary of the National Campaign of 1856 focused on the importance of this fact in the central American integration and hemispheric with the United States.
Chester Urbina Gaitán
semanticscholar   +1 more source

'Ibadan - a model of historical facts': militarism and civic culture in a Yoruba city [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The article focuses on an historical relationship between the political institution of chieftaincy and civic pride in Ibadan, a Yoruba city in south-western Nigeria.
Watson, Ruth
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Idealism and materialism in antebellum southern political history : a review essay [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
Although the mainstream "new political historians" have largely ignored the South, historians of the antebellum South have produced some of the most interesting recent works in political history.
Kousser, J. Morgan
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Cluskey, Michael Walsh, 1833?-1873 (MSS 23) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 23. Correspondence and writings of Michael Walsh Cluskey, who was postmaster of the National House of Representaitves, 1851-1859; editor of Memphis Avalanche and Louisville Daily Ledger; and a Confederate ...
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &
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Mission Santa Clara in a Changing Urban Environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Since its secularization in the 1830s, Mission Santa Clara de Asís and its associated grounds have seen major transformations. These changes include the gradual abandonment of the mission by its native inhabitants, the Californio and early Anglo-American
Panich, Lee M
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The letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Charlotte Yonge is one of the most influential and important of Victorian women writers; but study of her work has been handicapped by a tendency to patronise both her and her writing, by the vast number of her publications and by a shortage of ...
Jordan, E., Mitchell, C., Schinske, H.
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