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Exporting the Holy Land: Artisans and Merchant Migrants in Ottoman-Era Bethlehem [PDF]
Mashriq & Mahjar, 2022 This article explores an aspect of Arab migration in the nineteenth century that is often retold in popular memory but rarely discussed in academic work: that of Bethlehem merchants and the “Holy Land” wares they sold.
Jacob Norris
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“Precocious girls” : age of consent, class and family in late nineteenth-century England [PDF]
, 2020 A fixed legal age of consent is used to determine when a person has the capacity to consent to sex yet in the late Victorian period the idea became a vehicle through which to address varied social concerns, from child prostitution and child sexual abuse ...
Lammasniemi, Laura
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Nineteenth Century French Military Sabre
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2020 Numerous treaties and methods regarding fencing are known today, either written by experts, veterans of sword-masters, or by the ministry or war and its branches: the schools of Joinville and Saumur. Some are destined to horse riders, others to officers.
Julien Garry
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Review of ‘Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope’, Manchester Art Gallery
19, 2019 Emma Merkling reviews ‘Painting Light and Hope’ at Manchester Art Gallery, the first retrospective of artist Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933) in nearly a century.
Emma Merkling
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The politics of historical economics: Wilhelm Roscher on democracy, socialism and Caesarism [PDF]
, 2016 Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Roscher (1817-94) is generally remembered as a significant nineteenth-century German political economist and a contributor to the “German Historical School of Economics.” His work is usually placed in the context of a larger ...
McDaniel, Iain
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Creativity Studies, 2013 The paper introduces some peculiarities of the analysis of the photographic image which emerged in the process of the investigation and preparation for publication of the album of prelate Povilas Januševičius’ the end of 19th – beginning of 20th century.
Vilma Žaltauskaitė, Rytė Žiūrienė
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Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures before ‘Infrastructure’
19, 2023 What is at stake when we bring nineteenth-century projects into dialogue with critical infrastructure studies? This introduction highlights the conceptual, material, and geopolitical stakes of Victorian infrastructure, as explored in contributions to ...
Nicola Kirkby
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Dragons in the Drawing Room: Chinese Embroideries in British Homes [PDF]
, 2008 Chinese embroideries have featured in British domestic interiors since at least the seventeenth century. However, Western imperial interests in China during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century created a particular set of meanings around ...
Baker Muriel +7 more
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Construction of a Census of Companies for the Netherlands in 1896
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2019 To overcome the lack of a representative dataset on the manufacturing sector in the Netherlands before the first census of companies in 1930, we construct an alternative census of companies for 1896.
Robin C.M. Philips
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State, Market and Colonization: Notes on Empire in Nineteenth-Century U.S. History
USAbroad, 2020 The essay offers a critical overview of recent historiographies on the nineteenth-century United States that allows on the one hand to grasp the imperial and colonial character of U.S.
Matteo Rossi
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