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Commercial architecture of a British trading firm in the Far East, 1830s-1930s: building of Jardine Matheson & Co. offices and warehouses

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023
This paper’s exploration of the architecture of Jardine Matheson & Co. a British mercantile firm in nineteenth century China and Japan, contributes to the socio-spatial examination of western-style architecture in East Asia from the cross-national ...
Susumu Mizuta
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Weber’s ‘Ackerbürgerstadt’ in the Nineteenth Century

Historical Studies on Central Europe, 2021
In his treatise “The City”, Max Weber introduced the concept of the Ackerbürgerstadt (agrarian city), a type of city whose economic system is primarily rooted in agricultural production.
Maximilian Martsch
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Legal Madness in the Nineteenth Century [PDF]

Social History of Medicine, 2001
Legal sources remain under-exploited in the history of madness, and the legal character of some documents is sometimes unrecognized. This article examines the inter-relations between legal and medical histories of madness, and discusses use and availability of nineteenth-century legal source material relating to criminal insanity, mental incapacity ...
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Introduction: The Victorian Tactile Imagination

19, 2014
This introduction reflects on the recent critical privileging of the visual in nineteenth-century studies, and considers the emergence of alternative readings of nineteenth-century culture that have focused on the wider human sensorium, and, in ...
Heather Tilley
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How long was the nineteenth century? [PDF]

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2000
This paper reviews the problems of the deterministic and predictive view of language change initiated by nineteenth century linguists and shows that such a view is still present in many analyses proposed by twentieth century linguists.
David LIGHTFOOT
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Review: Sarah Bartels, The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture [PDF]

, 2023
Book review of Sarah Bartels, The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English ...
Smith, H.
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Distribution and types of windmills in Pomerania across the 19th century in the light of cartographic sources

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2019
The aim of this text is to evaluate the distribution of windmills in Pomerania, an area which stretches from Gdańsk to Toruń, over the period of the nineteenth century.
Prarat Maciej
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From the editor

, 2008
The present number (35/2) of Nineteenth-Century Prose is a general issue that includes a broad range of articles, review articles, and reviews from both American and British literature.
Tharaud, Barry
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Nineteenth Century Style, Ornament and Colour

MDCCC 1800, 2021
James Cavanah Murphy (1760-1814), one of Ireland’s foremost antiquarian architects, is considered as a protagonist of the Gothic and Moorish Revival. His work was a catalyst on reception and dissemination of architectural styles in continental Europe.
Mulvin, Lynda
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Master narratives as “colonial propaganda” and counternarratives as “refusal”: How African Australians reimagine racial dignity in Australia

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper utilizes the concept of “colonial master narratives” to examine how racial propaganda is mobilized in the Australian imaginary to “flatten” the stories of Blac/k people and how African Australians deploy counternarratives to reject these racialized projections.
Kathomi Gatwiri, Samara Kim
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