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Exporting the Holy Land: Artisans and Merchant Migrants in Ottoman-Era Bethlehem [PDF]

open access: yesMashriq & 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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Nineteenth Century French Military Sabre

open access: yesActa 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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“Precocious girls” : age of consent, class and family in late nineteenth-century England [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Review of ‘Annie Swynnerton: Painting Light and Hope’, Manchester Art Gallery

open access: yes19, 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]

open access: yes, 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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The beginning of time? Evidence for catastrophic drought in Baringo in the early nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
New developments in the collection of palaeo-data over the past two decades have transformed our understanding of climate and environmental history in eastern Africa.
Anacleti A. Odhiambo   +47 more
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Concerning a flowery tablecloth and the computer-aided analysis of a 19th-century photographic image / Apie gėlėtą staltiesę ir XIX amžiaus fotografijos kompiuterinę vaizdo analizę

open access: yesCreativity 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’

open access: yes19, 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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State, Market and Colonization: Notes on Empire in Nineteenth-Century U.S. History

open access: yesUSAbroad, 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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Accessing the content of nineteenth-century periodicals: the Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Nineteenth-century periodicals significantly outnumber books from that era, and present historians with an immensely valuable set of sources, but their use is constrained by the difficulty of identifying relevant material.
Topham, J.
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