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Creole women traders in the nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 27This paper focuses on how the Sierra Leone women organized their West African trade and how they responded to the special obstacles faced by female traders.
White, E. Frances
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Conjugated Polymers Engineered for Flexible/Stretchable Electronics

open access: yesJournal of Polymer Science, EarlyView.
This review highlights glass transition temperature (Tg) as the central parameter linking molecular structure to device performance in conjugated polymers. By tuning backbone rigidity, side‐chain architecture, and dynamic bonding, Tg governs the balance between π–π stacking–enabled charge transport and mechanical compliance.
Yunchong Yang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: the Scottish diaspora: understanding the forces which stimulate emigration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There are many detailed accounts of nineteenth-century emigrants, of their journeys and settlements abroad – but what of those they left behind? This book delves into the heart of Georgian Britain to explore the role that the men and women of the ...
Cameron, Ewen
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Arctic marine climate of the early nineteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The climate of the early nineteenth century is likely to have been significantly cooler than that of today, as it was a period of low solar activity (the Dalton minimum) and followed a series of large volcanic eruptions.
Allan, R   +5 more
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Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Blonda själar: Johan Runius, maskulinitet, nation och genre i litteraturhistorien

open access: yesSjuttonhundratal, 2018
‘Blond Souls’: Johan Runius, Masculinity, Nation and Genre in Literary History This paper shows that the historiographical accounts of Johan Runius (1679–1713) remain remarkably stable, from the early stages of national literary history of the nineteenth
Anna Cullhed
doaj   +1 more source

A Thaddeus Stevens Musical: A 19th Century Hamilton?

open access: yes, 2016
If you read my last post on the Broadway musical Hamilton, you’ve already read my waxing admiration of the show and might also remember that I listen to the soundtrack non-stop. The musical has shown the world the power that music has as a teaching tool.
McNish, Megan E.
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Women and the art of fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Women wrote about art in the nineteenth century in a variety of genres, ranging from the formal historical or technical treatise and professional art journalism, to travel writing, poetry, and fiction.
Fraser, Hilary
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Who Benefits From Green Tech? How Eco‐Innovation and Process Eco‐Innovation Shape Emissions Inequality Across G7 Economies

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the asymmetric effects of eco‐innovation on income‐based carbon emissions inequality within G7 economies over the period 1990–2023. Theoretically grounded in innovation diffusion theory and political economy frameworks, we argue that green technological advancements exert non‐linear, directional effects on emissions ...
Brahim Bergougui   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Minds, Bodies, Machines

open access: yes19, 2008
This issue of 19 brings together a selection of essays from an interdisciplinary conference on 'Minds, Bodies, Machines' convened last year by Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of London, in partnership with the English ...
Deirdre Coleman, Hilary Fraser
doaj   +2 more sources

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