Results 71 to 80 of about 324,055 (338)
Seventeenth-century Scotland: the musical sources [PDF]
, 2007 Here I offer a concise but comprehensive survey of primary seventeenth-century Scots musical sources, both traced and untraced, citing significant secondary literature, summarizing knowledge to date, calling attention to errors of fact or logic, and ...
Edwards, W.
core
Adult mortality and investment: a new explanation of the English agricultural productivity in the 18th century [PDF]
, 2001 We claim that the exogenous decline of adult mortality at the end of the seventeenth century can be one of the causes driving both the decline of interest rate and the increase in agricultural production per acre in preindustrial England.
Nicolini Alessi, Esteban
core +6 more sources
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley +1 more source
Violencia y mujer en Granada en la primera mitad del siglo xvii
Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2012 The seventeenth-century urban chronicles are full of dramatic events that reflect the existence of a structural violence. Regarding the city of Granada the Anales written by Henríquez de Jorquera show many cases of violence.
Miguel Luis López-Guadalupe Muñoz
doaj +1 more source
American ambivalence toward academic freedom [PDF]
, 2006 Why are U.S. academics, even after tenure and promotion, so timid in their exercise of academic freedom? Part of the problem is institutional – academics are subject to a long probationary period under tight collegial control – but part of the problem is
Fuller, Steve
core +1 more source
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley +1 more source
Beauty and lack thereof in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travelogues [PDF]
, 2013 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Malta attracted several travellers, eager to discover this small State in the Mediterranean. In spite of the harsh travelling conditions, the traveller did not lose heart and bravely undertook the discovery
Micallef, Patricia
core
The origins of early modern experimental philosophy [PDF]
, 2012 This paper argues that early modern experimental philosophy emerged as the dominant member of a pair of methods in natural philosophy, the speculative versus the experimental, and that this pairing derives from an overarching distinction between ...
Anstey, Peter R., Vanzo, Alberto
core +2 more sources
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley +1 more source
Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley +1 more source