Public Wife: The Life of Jessie Benton Fremont [PDF]
, 2022 This dissertation focuses on the life of Jessie Benton Frémont (1824-1902) and the ways in which she performed the role of a “public wife” through her marriage to John C. Frémont. This re-examination of a woman immensely popular in the nineteenth century
Herbon, Lorraine D
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Southeasterly Town Lot Histories of Fairfield, Pennsylvania
, 2013 Each lot history give the original lot number, original owner, the current address, the owner of the lot in 1860, a description of the lot or dwelling in 1860, a recital of ownership with as much detail as is known, a comprehensive lot history, any known
Smith, Timothy H.
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Allegiance and betrayal: British residents in Russia during the Crimean War [PDF]
, 2016 This article reveals an unsuspected instance of a problem that has troubled most states: the transposition of 'resident aliens' into 'enemy aliens'. Acknowledging that many British residents in Russia remained undisturbed during the Crimean War, the ...
Dixon, S
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Indiana\u27s Southern Senator: Jesse Bright and the Hoosier Democracy [PDF]
, 2013 Without northern doughface Democrats, and northern states like Indiana, the South could not have held dominance in American politics during the sectional crisis.
Wickre, John J
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Pure Americanism : building a modern St. Louis and the reign of Know Nothingism [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis will explore the relationship between the rise of the Know Nothing Party and the modernization of St. Louis, the first Western metropolis. By the mid-1850s, two distinct visions of St. Louis existed.
Varin, Vanessa
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Is the Torrens System German? [PDF]
, 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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A new survey of variability in the core of M15 with TRIFFID-2 [PDF]
arXiv, 2002 A two-week campaign of high-resolution imaging of the centre of M15 using the tip/tilt correcting TRIFFID-2 camera, followed by analysis with ISIS (image matching & subtraction software), has produced the most sensitive survey to date of variable stars in the central ~1x1 arcmin^2 - a total of 48 were detected -, and constrains the size of the dwarf ...
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The letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) edited by Charlotte Mitchell, Ellen Jordan and Helen Schinske. [PDF]
, 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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Pioneers in the Victorian provinces: veterinarians, public health and the urban animal economy [PDF]
, 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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Exploring Media Bias and Toxicity in South Asian Political Discourse [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Media outlets and political campaigners recognise social media as a means for widely disseminating news and opinions. In particular, Twitter is used by political groups all over the world to spread political messages, engage their supporters, drive election campaigns, and challenge their critics.
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