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No gold‐diggers here: Women investors in colonial Australian mining
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We draw upon an extensive database of investors in colonial Australian mining, during the 1850s–80s, to provide the first historical analysis of the nature of women's share investing in Australia. Women were a minority of investors by number and value of holdings and faced a series of obstacles, yet their presence grew throughout the period ...
Grant Fleming +3 more
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Indigenous Mathematics I. Smoke Telegraphy [PDF]
arXivThis article is the first in an occasional series for the Australian Mathematical Society Gazette on diverse aspects and topics of Indigenous mathematical knowledge. This is an important, but neglected, part of the mathematical heritage of humankind, and as such is the concern of the mathematics community as a whole.
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Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871–81
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We explore which business forms were predominant in the later Victorian economy and why some forms were more effective among large British manufacturing firms during this period. With a dataset of 483 manufacturing firms in 1881 that either employed at least 1000 or had done so a decade earlier, we find that the great majority were ...
James Foreman‐Peck, Leslie Hannah
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Application of the Generalized Method of Moving Coordinates to Calculating Stress Fields near an Elliptical Hole. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2022 Alexandrov S, Rynkovskaya M, Tsai SN.
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LIII. The energy relations of certain detectors used in wireless telegraphy [PDF]
, 1910 W.H. Eccles
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study advances a new approach to investigating the resilience of regional banking systems by reconstructing the co‐evolving branch and interbank networks in post‐Confederation Canada (1879–1900). By digitizing annual banking registers, this study employed a microgeographic approach to constructing a novel longitudinal dataset on city ...
Alena V. Pivavarava
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Nietzsche and Schiller on Aesthetic Distance
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract A key contention of Nietzsche's philosophy is that art helps us affirm life. A common reading holds that it does so by paving over, concealing, or beautifying life's undesirable features. This interpretation is unsatisfactory for two main reasons: Nietzsche suggests that art should foreground what is ‘ugly’ about existence, and he sees ...
Timothy Stoll
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