Embodying the West: Lyrics from the U.S.-Mexican War [PDF]
, 2005 Tinnemeyer, Andrea
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Tangible and Intangible Heritage in the Age of Globalisation [PDF]
This book offers a rich collection of perspectives on the complex interplay between tangible and intangible heritage. Offering a close and critical examination of heritage preservation in countries including Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile ...
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Archaeological and Dendrochronological Investigations at Cagle Saltpetre Cave, Van Buren County, Tennessee [PDF]
, 2007 During the 19th century, the increasing demand for saltpeter, a vital ingredient in gunpowder, led to both large- and small-scale saltpeter-mining operations in caves throughout Tennessee.
Blankenship, Sarah Anne
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"Neither of meate nor drinke, but what the Doctor alloweth": medicine amidst war and commerce in eighteenth-century Madras. [PDF]
Bull Hist Med, 2006 Chakrabarti P.
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Coveted Lands: Agriculture, Timber, Mining, and Transportation in Cherokee Country Before and After Removal [PDF]
, 2012 Covering a period from approximately 1779 to 1850, this dissertation studies natural resources and land use in Cherokee country before and after forced Cherokee removal from east of the Mississippi.
Rozema, Vicki Bell
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“Anatomy, Grave-Robbing, and Spiritualism in Antebellum St. Louis” [PDF]
, 2012 Dr. Joseph Nash Smith’s Missouri Medical College was a leading school for physicians and part of the professionalization of medicine before the Civil War. He also required human dissection that, along with being a St. Louis character, made him one of the
Ritter, Luke
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Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910 [PDF]
This paper examines the effect of government intervention via taxation on domestic welfare. A case-study of Brazilian market power on rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax ...
Felipe Tâmega Fernandes
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Deep South: Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and Environmental Knowledge, 1800-1974 [PDF]
, 2017 Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is the longest known cave in the world. This dissertation examines the history of how scientists and non-scientists alike contributed to a growing body of knowledge about Mammoth Cave and how that knowledge in turn affected land ...
Warrick, Alyssa Diane
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Áfricas contemporâneas : Contemporary africas [PDF]
, 2010 Este livro representa uma das metas alcançadas ao longo do percurso desenvolvido pelo GruPocLi-Grupo de investigação em Estudos Pós -Coloniais e Literaturas de Intervenção - do CEHUM que nasce do encontro entre investigadores com percurso académicos ...
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Stirring Times in Austria, 1898
, 1898 Article, 27 pagesMark Twain spent two years (1897-1899) traveling in Central Europe, staying mostly in Vienna. While there, he reported on the famous sittings of the Austrian House in 1897 during which the conservative government sought to push through ...
Clemens, Samuel, Twain, Mark
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