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Nineteenth-Century Technologies, Contemporary Stakes 

19
Our introducton to this issue of 19 situates nineteenth-century visual technologies within contemporary scholarship, art, and heritage practice, highlighting their ongoing relevance.
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Convergence (and Divergence) in the Biological Standard of Living in the United States, 1820-1900 [PDF]

Standard economic indicators suggest that the United States experienced long-run economic growth throughout the nineteenth century. However, biological indicators, including human stature, offer a different picture, rising early in the century, falling ...
Areendam Chanda, Julianne Treme, Lee A. Craig   +2 more
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The Quest for Women\u27s Rights in Turn-of-the-Century Japan [PDF]

, 2005
This chapter will discuss the goals of women\u27s rights advocates and the meaning of their demands in the context of turn-of-the-century state and society formation.
Molony, Barbara
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Encounters with Valletta : a baroque city through the ages [PDF]

, 2018
This article explores life in nineteenth-century Valletta, and the cross-currents between British and Maltese culture which developed at this period. The first century of British colonial policies and influence in Malta left a deep mark on all aspects of
Caruana Dingli, Petra
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The medical management of lower urinary tract symptoms during the nineteenth century

Continence Reports
Medical management and lifestyle changes rather than surgical interventions, are used for many urological problems. This was also the case in the past. The use of herbal medication for urinary symptoms in the nineteenth century is reviewed as well as the
Srusthti Bhat, Jonathan Charles Goddard
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The Priesthood of All Believers and Other Pious Myths [PDF]

, 2005
(excerpt) Now, to be sure, this was not the first time this had happened to me. I looked for the friendship between Luther and Melanchthon and discovered that they were colleagues not friends.
Wengert, Timothy
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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The naval career of Sir Thomas Spencer Wells in the Mediterranean : 1842-1853 [PDF]

, 1998
The British naval connection to the Maltese Islands saw the arrival during the nineteenth century of a number of British medical practitioners. Some of these were noteworthy either because of their contribution to local medical and social history, or ...
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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Brigitte Bailey, Associate Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, Travels to England [PDF]

, 2009
Professor Brigitte Bailey traveled to England in July to attend a conference she helped organize on Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers in Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe, and to present a paper on her own ...
Bailey, Brigitte
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