• In addition to the introductory paper this volume includes 24 papers, covering selected aspects of the history of military geology from the early 19th century through the recent Persian Gulf war, military education and operations, terrain analysis, engineering geology in the military, use of military geology in diplomacy and peace keeping, and the future of military geology. (geoscienceworld.org)
  • Sears, Roebuck and Company is a retail giant with 19th-century roots as a mail-order business operating in rural America. (history.com)
  • Sears and Roebuck quickly expanded the business into a general mail-order catalogue that catered to America's enormous 19th-century rural population-roughly two-thirds of Americans lived in rural areas in the late 1890s. (history.com)
  • Like Sweet's address, much of the March issue coalesces around issues of slavery, trade, and justice over the long 19th century. (historians.org)
  • Hay was the linchpin of the 19th-century US industrial energy regime, he argues, but it was largely ignored by contemporaries. (historians.org)
  • In this article, Robb offers a textual-material analysis of a more diverse range of sources from a family archive, including 18th- and early 19th-century private correspondence in English and Persian as well as a material analysis of paintings, jewelry, textiles, and a penmanship book to offer new insight into the complex and embodied processes of Anglicization under British empire. (historians.org)
  • [1] Most modern forms of communism are grounded at least nominally in Marxism , a theory and method conceived by Karl Marx during the 19th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Netherlands' leading modern and contemporary art and design museum, the Stedelijk, is housed in a 19th century building which, despite its beautiful exterior and striking staircase, remains slightly at odds to the collection of permanent works by the likes of Karel Appel, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. (phaidon.com)
  • From 19th Century gender differences scholarship through 20th century activism this article introduces the gendered history of psychology and health. (bvsalud.org)
  • A wood and aluminum prosthetic arm invented by William Robert Grossmith in the mid-19th century. (medlineplus.gov)
  • From the late 15th century to the 19th century, France and Switzerland were making artificial limbs that could rotate and bend using cables, gears, cranks, and springs. (medlineplus.gov)
  • [7] As of the 21st century, only a small number of Marxist-Leninist states remain, namely China , Cuba , Laos , North Korea and Vietnam . (wikipedia.org)
  • Is it possible for the work of the 21st century to match this prodigious output? (phaidon.com)
  • The research will be used to advance knowledge of the Israeli Jewish community and their society, history, and culture through critical media literacy in a secondary Social Studies classroom and support critical student analysis of current media being used to dehumanize communities in the 21st century, specifically Latin American immigrant groups. (ucla.edu)
  • I studied Chinese, Asian studies, history and other topics at Lund University, where I also received my Ph.D. in Chinese in 1996. (lu.se)
  • Comprehensive world data illustrates the changing economic and political contexts of architectural production throughout the century. (phaidon.com)
  • While the sheer volume of information is breathtaking, what impresses me most is the fascinating view of architecture in the 20th century created by the breadth of the projects and their contexts. (phaidon.com)
  • We encourage South American scholars to take up the call to more thoroughly explore and expand on the histories of gendered health and psychology within regional and historical time sensitive contexts. (bvsalud.org)
  • Three worldwide (pandemic) outbreaks of influenza occurred in the 20th century: in 1918, 1957, and 1968. (cdc.gov)
  • Three worldwide (pandemic) influenza outbreaks occurred in the last century. (cdc.gov)
  • For more information, see the article H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) . (medscape.com)
  • Our editors will review what you've submitted and determine whether to revise the article. (britannica.com)
  • Sweet traces Liverpool's Lace family from their enthusiastic participation in the Atlantic slave trade in the 18th century, through their curation of historical memory of that participation in the 19th and 20th centuries, to the rebranding of the family law firm as"BLM" in 2014. (historians.org)
  • of Pennsylvania) traces the life of a late 18th-century Mughal woman who lived with and bore children by a British East India Company supervisor and later followed him to Britain, changing her name and converting to Christianity. (historians.org)
  • "Zinn as Historian," led by Timothy Naftali , historian and head of the Tamiment Library and featuring historian Michael Kazin , examines Zinn's contributions to scholarship and to public understanding of US history, including a discussion of his seminal book, A People's History of the United States . (nyu.edu)
  • Recovering the complex histories of cultural repatriation are among the subjects that have more recently pushed international and transnational historians to develop novel conceptual and methodological approaches in their research and scholarship. (historians.org)
  • These historical tides provided fertile ground for national-level development of occupational epidemiology midway through the 20th century. (cdc.gov)
  • Although Spain began to occupy strategic parts of the Moroccan coastline in the mid-15th and 16th centuries, her interest for colonizing the area across the Straits of Gibraltar perhaps did not completely start until the Spanish-American war of 1898. (allempires.com)
  • And in the 16th century, the French surgeon Ambroise Paré designed some of the first purely functional prosthetics for soldiers coming off the battlefield. (medlineplus.gov)
  • [4] The failure of these governments to live up to the ideal of a communist society , their general trend towards increasing authoritarianism , their bureaucracy, and the inherent inefficiencies in their economies has been linked to the decline of communism in the late 20th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • During the first part of the twentieth century, 32 U.S. states passed laws that resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 64,000 Americans including immigrants, people of color, unmarried mothers and the mentally ill. (history.com)
  • Sears took advantage of new homebuilding materials and construction techniques at the turn of the twentieth century. (history.com)
  • Innovations in health and medicine : diffusion and resistance in the twentieth century / edited by Jennifer Stanton. (who.int)
  • In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there was some dissension in the ANA's ranks about the role of dealers in the organization. (coinbooks.org)
  • Beginning of the 20th century is known as the hardest transitional period causing destruction of historical and cultural paradigms throughout the Europe. (ceeol.com)
  • Mike works on French cultural history in the 20th century, especially the history of ideas and intellectuals. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Topics may include Svalbard's flora and fauna, climate, cultural artefacts, geology and exploration history. (hurtigruten.com)
  • The ensuing Black Death may have killed up to 25 million total, including China and roughly a third of the population of Europe and in the next decades, changing the course of Asian and European history. (wikipedia.org)
  • and his influence on the Italian architecture of the early decades of the last century (L. Marcucci). (ajaonline.org)
  • Author of several books and hundreds of articles. (blogspot.com)
  • "Zinn as Activist," led by Marilyn Young , Professor of History, NYU and featuring Alice Walker , author, activist, and former student of Zinn's, examines his political activism in, among others, the civil rights and anti-war movements. (nyu.edu)
  • Regardless of the causes for Spain's interventions in Morocco after 1900, her military operations in the country were to lead to, perhaps, the most important war in Spain's modern history. (allempires.com)
  • The Phaidon Atlas of 20th Century World Architecture portrays, for the first time in one volume, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999. (phaidon.com)
  • At a hefty 832 pages, 20th Century World Architecture: The Phaidon Atlas takes a truly global and remarkably comprehensive look at projects constructed between 1900 - 1999. (phaidon.com)
  • When the multiple strands of research in that second half-century are examined, what balance between modernist and countermodern impulses will we find? (maa.org)
  • Her research interests are religion and sports in 20th century US, European and transnational history, Us evangelicanism. (eurozine.com)
  • The historical analysis of the volatile entrepreneurial ecosystem and formal institutions in Azerbaijan throughout history delivers new insights for research and policy makers on how deeply this affects entrepreneurship evolvement. (springer.com)
  • Thus, this paper poses the research question, what happens to entrepreneurial activities over time using the lens of history, where the factors underlying the ecosystem change? (springer.com)
  • The project is part of Abramson's doctoral research which investigates the history of the Maronites of Israel, with special emphasis on the complexities-social, political, and sectarian-with which citizenship in the Jewish state has confronted them. (ucla.edu)
  • This research in Los Angeles, Germany, and Israel involves collecting archival information, primary and secondary testimony and oral histories from Holocaust survivors and families of survivors. (ucla.edu)
  • It followed the 1904 book titled The Geographic Pivot of the History, and presented his theory of the Heartland and made a case for fully taking into account geopolitical factors at the Paris Peace conference and contrasted (geographical) reality with Woodrow Wilson's idealism. (wikipedia.org)
  • Film, music and comic book history expert. (blogspot.com)
  • This book is an atlas but it's also a snapshot: the 20th century as seen from 2012. (phaidon.com)
  • Unpack the book and you'll float into a perspective-altering history of 750 era-defining buildings. (phaidon.com)
  • Ole Birk Laursen describes the biography as a mix of an academic book and a popular history novel. (lu.se)
  • This collection of scholarly articles traces the history of book illustration from its first notion in cave art to the early 20th century. (lu.se)
  • Its 130-year history embodies the rise and fall of American consumer culture. (history.com)
  • Teddy Roosevelt became the youngest president in American history when he assumed office in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley. (worldatlas.com)
  • An article in an issue from 1981 American Shipper magazine claims bribery was common in shipping back then. (freightwaves.com)
  • American, 20th century, male. (oxfordartonline.com)
  • Jack Rakove, William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science, emeritus, at Stanford University, is a leading scholar of the American Revolution and the framing of the Constitution, whose books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution , and Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America. (hnn.us)
  • It wasn't about American history per se. (hnn.us)
  • Well, that's because the Early American History seminar had nothing to do with early American history. (hnn.us)
  • Story of American Agriculture - interactive multimedia site that tells the story of American agriculture and it's influence in American History. (internet4classrooms.com)
  • According to Katherine Ott, Ph.D., curator for the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, this is partly because different cultures have their own ideas about what makes a person whole. (medlineplus.gov)
  • theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/a. (aol.com)
  • Despite his absenteeism, he oversaw significant developments in the institution including the founding of the Columbia Center for Oral History. (worldatlas.com)
  • Centering on the oral history of the House of Israel, a Jewish community that (re)emerged in western Ghana in 1976, the project analyzes how a Jewish iddentity was constructed through oral histories that relayed a Jewish heritage and ancestral practices associated with Jewish ritual, but also through encounters with normative Judaism in the 20th and 21st centuries. (ucla.edu)
  • For the first time in its 50-year history, the folly was now functional. (aol.com)
  • While prosthetics were still made of combinations of wood, metal, glue, and leather even up to the 20th century, they were becoming more functional. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The Tamiment Library is home to the Howard Zinn Papers , containing personal correspondence, school and military records, datebooks, biographical articles and interviews. (nyu.edu)
  • The first panel, "Zinn at Tamiment," led by Robert Cohen , Professor of History and Social Studies, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, illustrates the value of the Zinn papers by highlighting new work done by NYU students with commentary by Frances Fox Piven. (nyu.edu)
  • The last panel of the day, "Teaching Zinn," moderated by Carl Mirra, and featuring Julian Hipkins , U.S. history teacher at Capital City Public Charter School, Washington, DC, will look at how Zinn's writings and activism are used in curricula across the country. (nyu.edu)
  • A history professor looks to the past to remind us to do what we can in the face of the unthinkable. (inthesetimes.com)
  • My hope of using Confederate monuments as teaching devices was never going to work," Harry Watson, a professor of history at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says he realized. (chronicle.com)
  • To Harry L. Watson, a professor of history at Chapel Hill, the reason seemed obvious: Try removing it, and there would be hell to pay. (chronicle.com)
  • This article sees the development of the institute as a reflection of the visions of its directors from the founder Professor Rudolf Geigy to Professor Jürg Utzinger, who is the current Swiss TPH director. (lu.se)
  • Mecca before Islam: The town of Mecca, in a rocky valley with no agricultural resources, develops in the centuries immediately preceding Islam into a place of considerable prosperity. (newideas.net)
  • This project examines the historical precedent behind the development of Jewish communities in Western Africa in the 20th century. (ucla.edu)
  • Means for their creation and development , to which this article is dedicated. (bvsalud.org)
  • With twenty-three seasons, 413 episodes and eight unnumbered special episodes it is also the longest running scripted prime-time Spanish series in the history of television. (wikipedia.org)
  • Biologicals were extensively used in many parts of Africa from the sixteenth century AD, most of the time in the form of poisoned arrows, or powder spread on the war front as well as poisoning of horses and water supply of the enemy forces. (wikipedia.org)
  • Spend more time with long articles. (inthesetimes.com)
  • In collaboration with his comrade Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Acharya published articles in Swedish newspapers Dagens Nyheter , Svenska Dagbladet , and Aftonbladet and engaged with several political figures of the time, including Ellen Key, Hjalmar Branting, and Carl Lindhagen. (lu.se)
  • The 1950s is not only an important time in my family's history but is also a period of key advances in population health. (cdc.gov)
  • To this brief history could be added the major scientific advances in the invention and commercialization of synthetic organic chemicals, such as organic dyes that caused epidemics of bladder cancer among industrial workers and anemia and leukemia among benzene-exposed workers. (cdc.gov)
  • Pictorial Victorians focuses on two of the most popular mid-nineteenth-century genres - illustration and narrative painting - that blurred the line between the visual and the textual. (lu.se)
  • The conceptual distinction between collector and dealer was the subject of articles and debates in this period, with some writers pointing out that most collectors have some commercial - in some instances, near mercenary - instincts and would be more than willing to part with coins from their collections if there was a profit to be made. (coinbooks.org)
  • In the present article, I target the debates about the history of human rights, both theoretically and historically. (lu.se)
  • This article is written by a master student and reflects their individual perspectives and opinions. (lu.se)
  • U nited States poet laureate Robert Pinsky said in a recent interview, "The history of my century is a history in which the visionary has repeatedly collapsed into nightmare. (christianitytoday.com)
  • A few pages in among ads for home furnishings, Clark's thread, and cotton pillowcases was an article by noted journalist William T. Ellis detailing his recent visit to Mukti, a Christian community in western India. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Santos-Cabalgante, Beatriz and Garcia Osma, Beatriz and Romero, Domi, Accounting Quality in Railway Companies During the 19th and 20th Centuries: The Case of Spanish NORTE and MZA (May 22, 2018). (ssrn.com)
  • He thinks the Viking age virus type was less deadly than the 20th-century one. (newscientist.com)
  • Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half. (history.com)
  • The economic recovery in the first decade of the 20th century may also have factored into Spain's renewed interests to maintain colonies, and is certainly what funded Spanish military operations in Morocco. (allempires.com)
  • Focusing on new forms of juridical arbitration in Mexico under the 1812 Cádiz Constitution, she uses microeconomic history-the study of the economic relationships, decisions, and actions of people, households, and small enterprise-to examine the cases of tens of thousands of residents in Mexico City from 1813 to 1863. (historians.org)
  • The history of communism encompasses a wide variety of ideologies and political movements sharing the core theoretical values of common ownership of wealth , economic enterprise , and property . (wikipedia.org)
  • Health and society in Britain since 1939 / prepared for the Economic History Society by Virginia Berridge. (who.int)
  • Economic History Society (U.K. (who.int)
  • Moreover, by studying the rarely noticed labor decrees alongside canonized movement texts, the article contributes with a combined focus on rights and inequality. (lu.se)
  • [2] [3] This was to have a phenomenal impact on the spread of communism during the 20th century as the Soviet Union installed new Marxist-Leninist governments in Central and Eastern Europe following World War II and indirectly backed the ascension of others in the Americas, Asia and Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • He has also published several articles on relations between Britain and France in culture and ideas. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Hjalmar Branting, Ellen Key, and Carl Lindhagen - Swedish political figures of the early 20th century, with whom M.P.T. Acharya met. (lu.se)
  • Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). (britannica.com)
  • This is where a selection of articles, written by our faculty, regularly get highlighted. (lu.se)
  • This article was written by Emīlija Branda. (lu.se)
  • The article points out a problematic aspect of pandemic restrictions that has not been wholly recognised. (lu.se)