• Many of the now classic English writers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries were personally encouraged by the men running these companies, nearly all of whom were also committed, for cultural as well as commercial reasons, to making literature in English accessible to all. (dianepublishing.net)
  • This continued in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries with new initiatives linking basic neuroscience to clinical neurology and psychiatry in the same scientific environment. (bvsalud.org)
  • Laura's main research interest lies in twentieth century Jewish political history, which largely pivots around core questions of Jewish migration from Europe to North America and the Middle East. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • How students found their voice in writing, their talents in athletics, and their taste for school traditions in the early twentieth century. (visi.org)
  • An overview of the major events and movements during the first half of the 'short' twentieth century. (uwindsor.ca)
  • Those that follow will focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century, and the twentieth century. (mellonsawyervisualhistory-vsri.org)
  • and twentieth-century England and America. (amherst.edu)
  • The process of industrialization, which was late in Brazil, made tuberculosis become a real public health problem in urban centers only in the twentieth century when a large human contingent was formed in the cities looking for work opportunities and skill training in industries. (bvsalud.org)
  • Despite the isolation and identification of the causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, since 1882 and the use of specific chemotherapy from the early twentieth century, the disease remains a major public health problem, especially in developing countries. (bvsalud.org)
  • This custom is then expanded by studying the natural history of birds during the Victorian era (19th century). (comeaucomputing.com)
  • Highlighting aspects of his scholarship seldom given sufficient emphasis, this new volume of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye documents Frye's writings on the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (apart from those on William Blake, which are featured in other volumes). (worldcat.org)
  • Smoking bans and prohibitions became rare during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (heartland.org)
  • Caroline works on the neglected history of Indigenous American travellers to Europe in the sixteenth century. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • The pre-modern worl shrank greatly in the sixteenth century after European saviors found a sea route to Asia and also successfully crossed the western ocean to America"- what do they mean by "shrank" here? (topperlearning.com)
  • By focussing on the theme of the heroic individual and the heroic cause, this course will provide an overview from the Mesopotamian establishment of the heroic mould with Gilgamesh in 2500 BCE to the cosmic myths debated during the scientific revolution in the sixteenth century. (uwindsor.ca)
  • Printed almanacs in the Danish language are preserved from the sixteenth century. (lu.se)
  • This form - 40 or 48 pages in sedecimo - characterised the almanac in Denmark from the sixteenth century to the technological changes in the production of paper occurred together with the introduction of the power press in the 1830s. (lu.se)
  • According to the legends spread in seventeenth century Europe, what was the name of the fabled city of gold in South America? (topperlearning.com)
  • Offered as EUST-122 and HIST-122[EU]) This course offers a critical examination of the concept of European civilization from the seventeenth century through the present day. (amherst.edu)
  • In the absence of cookbooks for the region in the 18th century, it uses innovative methodologies relying on a range of hitherto unexplored primary resources, ranging from household accounts and manuscript recipes to local newspapers and gardening manuals that focus on the actuality of the 18th century Provençal table. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Foundation users only) - Full-text access to hundreds of thousands of works published in the U.K. and the Americas during the 18th century. (monticello.org)
  • By the late 18th century Spain was a very backward part of Europe, lagging economically, politically and culturally behind England and France. (marxist.com)
  • For most of the 18th-century there was a view with a court baron in the spring or early summer and occasionally also a special court baron. (british-history.ac.uk)
  • C19 Index draws on the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.4 million books and official publications, 64,891 archival collections and 15.6 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers. (berkeley.edu)
  • The enthusiasm for this, let's say for aesthetic purposes, arose in the late eighteenth century in Britain through the efforts of several English naturalists. (comeaucomputing.com)
  • Archival sources from 19th and 20th century Britain and North America related to Spiritualism, Sensation & Magic, Circuses, Sideshows & Freaks, Music Hall, Theatre & Popular Entertainment, and Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments & the Advent of Cinema. (berkeley.edu)
  • sometimes the view was held in the spring, as became common in the late 17th-century. (british-history.ac.uk)
  • Land transactions, which formed the bulk of the courts' business by the 17th-century, led to several disputes and attempts to define the customs of the manor. (british-history.ac.uk)
  • The history of Danish neuroscience starts with an account of impressive contributions made at the 17th century. (bvsalud.org)
  • This makes it ideal for teaching survey courses on American History, but equally valuable as a platform for undergraduate essay work and postgraduate research. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • For further information on postgraduate research degrees at the UHI Centre for History, please contact us by email . (uhi.ac.uk)
  • However, fifteenth century onwards, China restricted overseas contacts and retreated into isolation. (topperlearning.com)
  • But from the eighteenth century onwards, the disease was pushed back, first in Northern and Western Europe, later also in the South and East. (yahoo.com)
  • Courses taught include: Performing Identities, Race and Performance, Advanced Directing: Actor-Director Dialog, Making Your Own Solo Show, Edward Said: Scholar Vs Empire, Performing Arabs, Introduction to Comparative Race and Ethnicity, New Play Development, and World Theater History. (stanford.edu)
  • Science, Governance, and Empire in the 18th- and 19th-c. (dissertationreviews.org)
  • By focusing on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Dutch science Andreas Weber's doctoral thesis, Hybrid Ambitions: Science, Governance, and the Empire in the Career of Caspar G.C. Reinwardt (1773-1854) , bridges two periods which historians often analyze separately from each other. (dissertationreviews.org)
  • Our areas of expertise reach from ancient history to contemporary history, encompassing European, Asian, African and American history and including history of the Humanities and epistemology. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • Areas of study may include the history of historical thought, analysis of various contemporary approaches, working with secondary sources, and deploying bibliographical tools. (uwindsor.ca)
  • A sixth workshop will consider one medium across time: the serial visual history, from the Middle Ages to contemporary graphic novels. (mellonsawyervisualhistory-vsri.org)
  • The images are presented in collaboration with the London-based Wellcome Trust , whose library features visual collections with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science. (stanford.edu)
  • Ours is a program where students can study both contemporary analytic and contemporary European philosophy, where there is a strong presence in the history of philosophy, and where no rigid barriers between these different areas of philosophy exist. (ucr.edu)
  • The Division for Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University conducts research about older, modern and contemporary art, from historical, social and aesthetic angles of approach. (lu.se)
  • Digitized archive of selected 19th century newspapers. (berkeley.edu)
  • Charity school emerged in the 16th century with the purpose of educating poor children. (wikipedia.org)
  • By the beginning of the second half of the 16th century, Spain had already begun to decline. (marxist.com)
  • Claiming that history isn't constructed is like claiming that literature isn't interpreted, or that science isn't based on hypotheses. (hnn.us)
  • Why has Arthurian literature proved so enchanting to centuries of poets, novelists, and recently, filmmakers? (amherst.edu)
  • While Starkey incorporates Arabic-written literature as a widely valid criterion in his definition, he further problematizes it through the political history of the Middle East, which he says entailed "an at times aggressive Western colonialism" when literature in Arabic was "eclipsed" in favour of writings in French. (lu.se)
  • Following the 19th Amendment and the feminist movement, modern Americans interpret the Declaration's word "men" to mean "adult humans. (hnn.us)
  • Explore five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes and decades-long search and rescue attempts in this multi-archive collection dedicated to the history of exploration. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • By contrast, factional strife riveted the political narrative of Florence during the first part of the fourteenth century to the extent that on two occasions its ruling elites forfeited their independence for stability by handing the government over to foreign rulers-Charles of Calabria in the 1320s and Walter of Brienne in 1342. (historycooperative.org)
  • Since the fourteenth century, quarantine has been the cornerstone of a coordinated disease-control strategy, including isolation, sanitary cordons, bills of health issued to ships, fumigation, disinfection, and regulation of groups of persons who were believed to be responsible for spreading the infection ( 4 , 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • To the frustration of both self-made men and plebeians, certain eighteenth-century elitist republican assumptions remained strong, especially in the seaboard states, mandating that government be left to a natural aristocracy of virtuous, propertied gentlemen. (history.com)
  • Against the assumptions of historians and scientists for over a century and what continues to be inscribed in medical and history texts alike, the Black Death was not the same disease as that rat-based bubonic plague whose agent (Yersinia pestis) was first cultured at Hong Kong in 1894. (historycooperative.org)
  • Notions of Jewish belonging and Jewish homelessness have traditionally co-defined what it meant to be a Jew, rendering Jewish history an excellent gateway into investigating the relationship between migration and (national) identity formation. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • In terms of world history, the Jewish people and this prophet from Nazareth was background noise for Rome. (erlc.com)
  • Subjects range from inoculation to animal magnetism to Jewish migrants in the eighteenth century. (dianepublishing.net)
  • Current Research and Scholarly Interests Aileen K. Robinson is a historian of performance and technology with specializations in 18th and 19th century British theatre and Black cultural performances. (stanford.edu)
  • Nineteenth century reforms expanded education provision and introduced widespread state-funded schools. (wikipedia.org)
  • While each city's history is unique, city officials took similar approaches to defining public and private with regard to water provision by gradually eliminating private water companies and by increasing funding for public works. (oxfordre.com)
  • In the 19th century , city governments, prompted by fires, disease, and the increased pollution of local water sources, began to tackle the challenges of water provision, drawing on water sources outside city centers. (oxfordre.com)
  • Apr 26, 2022 · Cite Permissions Share Abstract One major legacy of the bacteriological revolution of the later nineteenth century is a simplified model of cause and effect. (yahoo.com)
  • How highly educated nuns nurtured young intellects in the late nineteenth century in the nation's capital. (visi.org)
  • Anti-tobacco policies were revived in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a movement that paralleled the then-popular alcohol prohibition movement. (heartland.org)
  • The stories of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War through their oral histories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, artefacts and military records. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • While migration is being reassessed against the background of a turn to representations in the Humanities, history as a discipline traditionally involved with the Social Sciences has a key role to play in the necessary conversation between the renewed Humanities and Social Sciences. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • The Centre for History is a full member of the Scottish Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities Doctoral Training Partnership. (uhi.ac.uk)
  • The history of quarantine-not in its narrower sense, but in the larger sense of restraining the movement of persons or goods on land or sea because of a contagious disease-has not been given much attention by historians of public health. (cdc.gov)
  • Describe how the trade of meat went through a transformation in the late 19th century. (topperlearning.com)
  • In the chapter I concentrate on the transformation of the almanacs from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century as a medium for enlighten¬ment and politics in new texts and woodcuts. (lu.se)
  • For centuries, these practices have been the cornerstone of organized responses to infectious disease outbreaks. (cdc.gov)
  • Explain how Europe emerged as the centre of the world trade post eighteenth century. (topperlearning.com)
  • The Centre for History has a thriving postgraduate community that is the cornerstone of our excellent research environment. (uhi.ac.uk)
  • Centre for History research students play a full role in the life of the department, including our vibrant seminar series and our annual postgraduate training event - you can read more about this and the exciting research being done by our students below. (uhi.ac.uk)
  • Centre for History research students can take advantage of a wide range of training opportunities. (uhi.ac.uk)
  • 3] But few have gone beyond recounting dramatic episodes taken almost exclusively from the first wave of plague to compare levels of violence before and after the Black Death, and few have hinted at differences in reactions between the Black Death of 1348 and its subsequent strikes in the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries. (historycooperative.org)
  • In Florence, Genoa, Venice, and most of northern Italy, expenditures on warfare increased exponentially after the Black Death to the fifteenth century, as shown by the soaring of state indebtedness. (historycooperative.org)
  • 8] After the plague, Florence's political history changed: the Albizzi reforms of 1393 heralded a new constitution and structure of political control that endured through most of the fifteenth century. (historycooperative.org)
  • Indigenous (especially Aztec-Mexica), Spanish American and Atlantic history. (sheffield.ac.uk)
  • Discover North American Indigenous journalism spanning two centuries with this major digital resource. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • Science in the nineteenth century saw the emergence of new scientific professions and a range of scientific disciplines, many of which flourished in national and imperial contexts. (dissertationreviews.org)
  • This course covers those women painting in the late 19th century and during the 20th century exploring their significance within the artistic and social context. (wea.org.uk)
  • Explore a range of British women artists working in the late 19th century and through the 20th century, relating their significance to the artistic, social & cultural context in which they worked. (wea.org.uk)
  • Eighteenth century Spain was not like other European countries. (marxist.com)
  • Causes of Cholera For much of the century, most European and American physicians believed cholera was a locally produced miasmatic disease -an illness brought about by direct exposure to the products of filth and decay. (yahoo.com)
  • We have strengths in specific areas of analytic philosophy, 19th and 20th-century European philosophy, and the history of philosophy (especially the eighteenth and nineteenth century). (ucr.edu)
  • For the last several years we have been ranked near the top worldwide in Agency Theory (or Philosophy of Action) and in 19th/20th Century Continental Philosophy, and we have strengths in Kant, the philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, the history of analytic philosophy, moral theory, legal theory and philosophy of religion. (ucr.edu)
  • In the early eighteenth century, Peter the Great invited Swiss engineers, architects a. (rusartnet.com)
  • This article will explore the interface between two urban workhouses in the West Midlands of England and their local asylums from the late eighteenth until the end of the nineteenth century. (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition to traditional military history, this course will introduce many facets of the New Military History, such as the social history of soldiers, life on the homefront, gender and war, etc. (3 lecture hours, or 2 lecture hours and 1 tutorial hour per week. (uwindsor.ca)
  • What is "Social" about Robert Taft's "Social History" of American Photography? (mellonsawyervisualhistory-vsri.org)
  • The cultural ties between Russia and Switzerland enjoy a long history, stretching back over three hundred years. (rusartnet.com)
  • Comprised of original manuscripts, rare printed books, maps and ephemeral material from the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana at the Newberry Library in Chicago, American West is a source for the study of westward US expansion from the 18th to the 20th century. (amdigital.co.uk)
  • Mar 28, 2008 · Cite Summary In his study of world population published more than 50 years ago, A. M. Carr-Saunders (1936) observed that the population of western Europe had begun to increase by the early eighteenth century, if not earlier, as a result of a growing gap between births and deaths. (yahoo.com)
  • The apogee of this disease occurred in Europe in the eighteenth century. (bvsalud.org)