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Nineteenth Century French Military Sabre
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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Exporting the Holy Land: Artisans and Merchant Migrants in Ottoman-Era Bethlehem
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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Review of ‘Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope’, Manchester Art Gallery
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 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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THE BIBLE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY [PDF]
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THE SURGEON OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. [PDF]
The surgeon of one hundred years ago was but a sorry element in social life. In the great towns and cities there were a few practitioners of surgery who were eminent by reason of their scientific work and successful practice. London was then the center of surgical activity, and the prominent exponents of the art were John Abernethy, Henry Cline, Sir ...
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Construction of a Census of Companies for the Netherlands in 1896
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
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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Nineteenth-Century Infrastructures before ‘Infrastructure’
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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Reframing the Nineteenth Century
No longer determined exclusively by the economic fortunes of the empire, the history of the nineteenth‑century Portuguese colonies in India and the Indian Ocean region has been sufficiently elaborated for some heuristic frameworks to emerge. Histories of
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