• Nevertheless, twentieth century Chinese historians have chosen to view the local rulers of this region as if they had always been part of this "system," a position to which I take strong exception. (thlib.org)
  • Cyril Lionel Robert James , a West Indian historian , was one of the preeminent political intellectuals of the Caribbean in the twentieth century, and his papers had been acquired by Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • He first became known in 1863 with Alexander Gilchrist's biography "Life" and only fully appreciated and recognised at the beginning of the twentieth century. (poetrynook.com)
  • At its greatest extent, Amdo covers a region roughly the size of France, but it is not at all clear that such a conception of a single cultural territory of this vast scope predates the rise of the Gelukpa dominance of this area in the 16th century. (thlib.org)
  • Instead Amdo as a term seems to have accompanied the rise of the Gelukpa religious tradition in the region since the 17th century, and the territorial extent of Amdo seems to have kept pace to some degree (at least in historic texts) with the expansion of Gelukpa monasteries. (thlib.org)
  • Dr. Waller's research has largely focused on nineteenth-century medical science and society. (msu.edu)
  • Health and Wellness in Nineteenth-Century America (ABC-Clio, 2014) explores changes in medical theory and practice as well as the terrible disease burden of America in the 1800s. (msu.edu)
  • It seems his art had been too adventurous and unconventional for the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, maybe you could even say he was ahead of his time? (poetrynook.com)
  • This image of Scandinavia did not change much during the nineteenth century. (lu.se)
  • They expected adventure and solitude, but travelling also became a search for identity within a bigger context, as documented in the accounts of these early nineteenth-century travellers. (lu.se)
  • Eighteenth-Century Life 22, (1998) 95-110 "Geri Walton Unique histories from the 18th and 19th centuries. (wikipedia.org)
  • More than any other among his contemporaries, Donelaitis absorbed the economic, cultural, and religious life of eighteenth century Lithuania Minor and expressed the pulse of this life through a powerful suggestivity of language and imagery. (lituanus.org)
  • By the eighteenth century the original Prussians were extinct. (lituanus.org)
  • During the eighteenth century, Norway and Sweden and partly Denmark represented the northern boundaries of Europe. (lu.se)
  • Unlike Central Tibet (especially dbus gtsang since the rise of sa skya power in the 13th century), the whole of Amdo as cultural region has never been ruled by a single regional Tibetan power. (thlib.org)
  • Because we have little detailed information about the institutional structure of power in Amdo (aside from a few titles from the imperial period and the Tsongkha kingdom that flourished in the late 10th and early 11th centuries) before the arrival of the Mongols in the 13th century, I will start my study in this period. (thlib.org)
  • The Date List Series is subdivided by century for Haggadot published from the 13th through the 19th centuries and by decade (e.g., 1910-1919) for those Haggadot created during the 20th and 21st centuries. (duke.edu)
  • A bibliography covering all the studies on Aquinas and his doctrine, from the 13th century through our days. (lu.se)
  • Jvala tells Seth how he met his teacher, his work translating tales of the ten Gurus from the 19th century Sūraj Prakāś , the joys of podcasting, and the publication of Jvala's recent book 54 Punjabi Proverbs (2019, Tattva). (yogicstudies.com)
  • That meant mostly the 19th century, since there were only 2 presidents in the 18th century and I already know almost all the 20th and 21st century presidents. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • He is currently professor of History and Politics at the University of Warwick working on political corruption and the standards of public life, as well as democratic thought in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • In this article, I suggest that if approached in the aggregate, the long-term provenance of Arabic manuscript collections like this one have a fascinating story to tell about their social histories. (zenodo.org)
  • I then demonstrate how the production and circulation of these texts speaks to widespread intellectual networks of a Muslim minority community and its manuscript culture in the Maghrib during the 18th and 19th centuries when the Ottoman empire attempted to exercise influence over the region. (zenodo.org)
  • By placing the aggregated biographies of the manuscripts in dialogue with the history of the broader Mediterranean world, I show how Arabic manuscript collections like this one have much to offer historians. (zenodo.org)
  • A Codicology of the Oldest Extant Manuscript Containing the Arabic Lives of Antony the Great and Paul the First Hermit. (lacopts.org)
  • Mr. Beaver became in gunstock war clubs and saw a need to preserve his Nation's history. (ndigi.world)
  • Francisco de Goya was a significant Spanish artist from the 18th and 19th century, who continued this nation's success within the art world, after the earlier contributions of Diego Velazquez, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Francisco de Zurbarán. (thehistoryofart.org)
  • They include documents dating from the 15th to the 21st centuries. (uzh.ch)
  • Dr. Waller has also published a number of peer-reviewed articles on the history of heredity, eugenics, Victorian science and psychic epidemics. (msu.edu)
  • Lively and well written this biography will appeal to both the historian and the general reader. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • Richard Kigel is a historian and educator with an interest in 18th and 19th-century American history. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • Tristram Hunt, a British historian and MP who sits on the all-party Parliamentary group on archives and history, once said: "History is an asset in this country. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • Historian William Bell Clark noted that "Passing reference to him may be found in few histories and biographies. (usni.org)
  • Mark Philp is a British political philosopher and historian of political thought who specialises in British political thought in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • Henry Louis Gates has said, "With this masterful biography, she will be restored to her rightful place as a major figure in the intellectual history of the fledgling American Republic. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of Korean history and of Asian intellectual history more broadly. (routledge.com)
  • Is global intellectual history possible and meaningful before modern globalising processes? (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • Dr. Neumann has published widely on the cultural, political, and intellectual history of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. (sfu.ca)
  • I didn't really know very much about her other than her name and some basic facts about her life-she was a slave who wrote poetry. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • No record of Morris's life exists before her marriage, at a date unknown, to Owen Morris, an actor in Lewis Hallam's traveling American Company. (britannica.com)
  • He received his Bachelor's degree with Honors in English from the University of Florida and later earned a MA in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut specializing in literature, Latin and history. (seminolestate.edu)
  • Serena Ferente is full professor of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • From 2006 until her appointment at the UvA, she has been, successively, a lecturer, senior lecturer and reader in Medieval and Renaissance History at King's College London. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • She is currently working on a book on the history of 15th century Europe and starting a project on the late medieval Black Sea as a primary border region of Eurasia. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • Our present memoir-mad, confessional, and celebrity-obsessed culture had its counterpart in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, in the literary period known as Romanticism. (gmu.edu)
  • Their work at times can mirror 18th and 19th century paintings, with images of distinct reference to history, myths, and cultural heritage. (jacksonfineart.com)
  • This Spanish artist marked the change from the old to the new within European art and all of his most impressive oil paintings are included here within this website which has additional information on the life of the artist alongside each of his works. (thehistoryofart.org)
  • Several of his best known paintings , drawings and etchings have extreme importance to the political history of Spain and depict the struggles of his country against the supressive French who at that time were in charge of parts of Spain. (thehistoryofart.org)
  • Francisco de Goya's paintings are popular well beyond the boundaries of his native Spain and the centuries which have passed since his career ended have enabled his reputation to grow as well as spread to new areas, helped increasingly by the exhibitions of his paintings that consistently appear in major art galleries and museums around Europe and North America. (thehistoryofart.org)
  • His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of both the Romantic movement and "Pre-Romantic",[6] for its large appearance in the 18th century. (poetrynook.com)
  • Dr. Waller is also currently completing a history of ideas of innate difference from classical antiquity to the present, entitled Breeding: A History of Heredity, Sex and Race (to be published by OUP) and a Very Short History of Heredity (also to be published by OUP). (msu.edu)
  • His first book, Becoming Abraham Lincoln: The Coming of Age of Our Greatest President , recounts Lincoln's early life using firsthand accounts. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • That made me acquainted, to some extent, with James Buchanan, and of course Abraham Lincoln - the greatest man of the century - perhaps the millenium. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • Although he converted to Christianity, his pastor (and later scholars) conclude that he also maintained his Muslim faith throughout his life. (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • At a time of uncertainty and fear, with world history and world spirit on a collision course, there was no telling how things would develop. (macmillan.com)
  • But it is only from the 19th century that widowhood - or widowerhood - came to be regarded as a recognised life stage, one defined by the experience of isolation, depression and uncertainty. (historytoday.com)
  • Jackson Fine Art is an internationally known photography gallery based in Atlanta, specializing in 20th century & contemporary photography. (jacksonfineart.com)
  • I interviewed Richard Kigel about the book, some surprises encountered during his research, Phillis' life, and what she has to teach us today. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • His research was devoted to an ethnographic approach to everyday life combined with historical analysis based on oral and documentary sources. (vozesnegras.com)
  • She has a variety of research interests that include the evolution of Buddhism in Asia, The Grand Tour of the 18th and 19th Centuries, and many film-related topics, including Hong Kong Cinema, women in film history, and international new wave film movements. (seminolestate.edu)
  • Her current research involves recovering the life and works of female filmmakers around the world, and their contributions to feminist movements, gender equality, and social justice. (seminolestate.edu)
  • That biography, I would guess, is the result of excellent research. (earlywritings.com)
  • Ferente's research focuses on Europe and the Mediterranean in the 14th to 16th centuries, particularly the history of politics and society in Italy, the history of European political discourse, and gender history. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • In this paper Mark Philp will discuss two strands of research that he has followed for more than 20 years - on democracy and on political corruption - as a way of reflecting on Nietszche's comment and on its implications for the belief that history retains a relevance to our understanding and analysis of the modern world. (globalintellectualhistory.org)
  • Whether you are an old hand at family history or just setting out on your quest to learn more about your family, it's important to explore a wide range of sources to get the most from your research and ensure you are tracing the right family line. (family-tree.co.uk)
  • As you begin your family history research it is essential to ascertain if there are any records already held by the family which may kick-start your research. (family-tree.co.uk)
  • His research explores literature in Punjabi and Brajbhāṣā from the 18th and 19th centuries, building off his previous M.A. research completed at the University of Toronto, where he focused on Sikh Brajbhāṣā versions of Sanskrit epics, such as the Rāmāyaṇa . (yogicstudies.com)
  • Following his graduate work, he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard and as a Research Fellow and Part-time Lecturer at University College, London, and then became a Lecturer in History of Medicine and Biology at the University of Melbourne (Australia). (msu.edu)
  • Thomas J. Schaeper , Professor of History at St. Bonaventure University and a member of the board of French Historical Studies. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • 21 years ago, Jonathan Israel-professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies-revolutionized the history of secularism and modernity with his book Radical Enlightenment (2002), which argued that Spinoza's two great books of the 1670s ( Tractatus Theologico-Politicu s and Ethica ) were uniquely impactful in the emergence of modern secular Europe, aka the Enlightenment. (earlywritings.com)
  • Dr. John Waller, Associate Professor of the History of Medicine, received his B.A. in Modern History and his M.Sc. (msu.edu)
  • While the bulk of their content may be known to historians, the objects themselves have led rich social lives that merit attention. (zenodo.org)
  • I usually read Novels dated around the late 18th Century / Early-Mid 19th Century to get an idea of what life was like for them growing up. (charlottebetts.com)
  • The later Durtal novels, En Route (1895), La Cath drale (1898) and L'Oblat (1903), trace Durtal/Huysmans' conversion to Roman Catholicism. (bookyards.com)
  • He has also contributed to the Cambridge History of Turkey , and has translated novels by Orhan Pamuk and Ahmed Hamdi Tanpinar. (sfu.ca)
  • The biography published about his life in 1881 offers great insight into the early 19th century free black community of Baltimore. (steinershow.org)
  • A fascinating insight into the largely overlooked story of how globalization affected intellectual life in Korea before the 20th century. (routledge.com)
  • This was a way for them to safeguard their memory and offer those interested an insight into their history. (uzh.ch)
  • ARTURO TOSCANINI'S REPUTATION, including the impact of his career on the classical music world, has undergone radical questioning since Harvey Sachs published his first biography of the Italian conductor in 1978. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • I begin by showing how these manuscripts at the UNO started their lives as Italian papers, situating them in the world of maritime and terrestrial trade that linked the northern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean from the 17th-20th centuries. (zenodo.org)
  • Kigel's second book, the exhaustively researched biography of African American poet Phillis Wheatley, Heav'nly Tidings from the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley , was published in 2017 by Paragon House. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • Her books are set in various eras between the Restoration and the Great War and she draws inspiration from the stories of strong women at turning points in history. (charlottebetts.com)
  • Thanks for a wonderful history of the time and place, and a great story as well. (charlottebetts.com)
  • History is peopled mostly by the rich and great. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • Although the first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was not published until 1952, there is a great deal of history and a collection of driving forces that are responsible for its publication. (bvsalud.org)
  • Despite the disabling and chronic illness, he produced several works of great expression in the 18th and 19th centuries. (bvsalud.org)
  • He lives and works in Paris, France. (jacksonfineart.com)
  • Querino published several works on African contributions to the country's culture, art, and history. (vozesnegras.com)
  • The most substantial of his posthumous works grew out of the project that occupied his final years, a history of France. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • He currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada as a learning disabilities specialist for kids. (natureartists.com)
  • William Blake and his works have been extensively discussed and criticised over the twentieth and now this century, however previous to that he was barely known. (poetrynook.com)
  • Thus, it was desirable to call the kingdom Prussia and not Brandenburg and to show interest in the history of the autochtons of East Prussia, i.e. the Baltic tribes of Prussians and Lithuanians. (lituanus.org)
  • Their influence can still today be traced linguistically - in the relation between Lowland Scotch4 and the Scandinavian languages as well as various place and family names of Scandinavian descent.5 The interest in this shared history with Scandinavia is not necessarily a new development. (lu.se)
  • The interested reader may find the familiar themes in Munsche and Whitaker's (2012) review of 18th century classifications of mental disease of interest in this regard. (bvsalud.org)
  • The collections are a panopticon of Zurich society and family life. (uzh.ch)
  • The family archives document the history of Zurich as a city of guilds, its high society and its class system. (uzh.ch)
  • As Sachs shows, Toscanini's career as a conductor and his public role as one of the most prominent dissenters to the dictators of the 1930s became so closely associated that, toward the end of his life, classical music appeared to have the potential to transform society by spreading and inculcating humanistic values. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • it was shortlisted for the Dingle Prize of the British Society for the History of Science. (msu.edu)
  • The question remains among scholars-how much of African spiritual belief and practice was retained in African American religious life? (nationalhumanitiescenter.org)
  • Through looking at the activities of this intriguing individual the author is able to offer many new insights into both American and French history. (berghahnbooks.com)
  • That was the first time I realized that a huge area of American history was basically hidden. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • Black History became a thing and I came to the conclusion it is all part of American history. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • U.S.), leading actress of the late 18th- and early 19th-century American stage. (britannica.com)
  • Various histories record her as a sloop, ship sloop (the Navy's official Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships refers to her as both), brig, brigantine, ship, and sloop-of-war. (usni.org)
  • His art has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute of Native American History Museum in Washington D.C. and in many prestigious museums across the country. (ndigi.world)
  • She was romantically involved with both men and women throughout her life, and actively sought out lovers of all genders. (canadianoperaresource.com)
  • Les Soeurs Vatard deals with the lives of women in a bookbindery. (bookyards.com)
  • By the end of the 19th century my grandmothers, whom I knew well and admired, were young married women. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • She may have acted as late as 1815, but in her last years she was in private life notoriously reclusive. (britannica.com)
  • The new biography, more than double the length of the earlier version, is a major achievement, chronicling Toscanini's life from his school days in the Parma Conservatory to his death almost 80 years later. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • I am 82 years old and, though I call myself 20thcentury Woman, sometimes the 19th century seems less strange to me, more like my own century. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • Cushing didn't invent neurosurgery per se - penetrating the skull surgically dates back thousands of years - but he did bring it into the 20th century, making it safer, more practical, and more effective. (medscape.com)
  • Kigel gives us a servant of language, a truth-teller who survived with an amazing grace, and whose dynamic work continues to challenge us across centuries. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • I became curious about her life and her work. (emptymirrorbooks.com)
  • The first historical work to take this region as its central focus was the 1652 Amdo Religious History of Rebgong's Kelden Gyatso, and like this present essay, it was focused mostly on the settled (agricultural) regions of what might be called northern-eastern Amdo. (thlib.org)
  • In his books, he dedicated himself to recording the biographies of Black artists, including those whose work remained anonymous and ignored by the Brazilian elites from the 18th-19th century. (vozesnegras.com)
  • Huysmans' work expresses a disgust with modern life and a deep pessimism, which led the author first to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer then to the teachings of the Catholic Church. (bookyards.com)
  • He wrote about his personal life as well as his professional activities, which included his work as a shopkeeper, an undertaker, a schoolmaster and a surveyor and overseer of the poor in addition to writing wills and helping with taxes. (historytoday.com)
  • Petrarch published his correspondence, but throughout his life he edited his letters. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • Investigating the roots of western civilization (ye olde BC&H forum of IIDB lives on. (earlywritings.com)
  • The idea of strengthening the Scottish connection with the North3 has roots in a shared history and heritage. (lu.se)
  • Kirk established Dundurn Press in 1972 as a publisher of books on Canadian history. (dundurn.com)
  • He is known for emphasizing the unique causal importance of books and ideas in cultural change across many European nations, from the Reformation era to 19th century, but above all the 18th century and French Revolution. (earlywritings.com)
  • One of his early books was a history of the Dutch Republic, which as Americans we know nothing about, even though it was a crucible of modern capitalism, toleration, spirituality, religion, theology, and republican government (as opposed to monarchy). (earlywritings.com)
  • The Real Oliver Twist: Robert Blincoe, a Life that Illuminates a Violent Age (Cambridge: Icon Books, 2005) is a social biography which explores the lives of parish apprentices and child factory workers in the early 19th century. (msu.edu)
  • Students used to hearing lectures about logic and metaphysics, debating the merits of one philosophical system or another, and discussing literature, art, history, and the philosophy of nature, awoke to the sounds and sights of famished, torch-bearing soldiers prowling the streets in the early morning hours on October 13, 1806. (macmillan.com)
  • Biological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. (brill.com)
  • All interested in French and German 19th century literature, in the relationship between literature and sciences, and in the history of the concept of time. (brill.com)
  • Woudt studied the history of photography through devouring photobooks and visiting museums and fairs along with experimenting with modern photography techniques. (jacksonfineart.com)
  • In this way, the lecture challenges exclusivist assumptions about both Western modernity and modern Islamic ways of life. (sfu.ca)
  • Jerry and I watch Teaching Company lectures on history - from ancient to modern and all the in betweens. (20thcenturywoman.com)
  • Although nosologies of mental illness have been published since the 18th century (Munsche & Whitaker, 2012), Kraepelin's classification system was one of the first of the 19th century to move toward a modern generalized notion of insanity and away from individual characteristics of mental illness. (bvsalud.org)
  • The cultural region known as Amdo seems to have developed into its current shape from the middle of the 17th to the 19th century, and this historical understanding of the scope of its territory seems to mostly agree with the understanding of Amdo that persists today. (thlib.org)
  • Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains - medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation - are investigated. (brill.com)
  • In furthering the accessibility of pre-colonial Sikh Brajbhāṣā texts, Singh runs the Suraj Podcast , where each episode is a chapter summary in English of the voluminous Sūraj Prakāś (1843 CE)-a historical narrative covering the lives of the ten Sikh Gurus written by Santokh Singh (1787-1844). (yogicstudies.com)
  • Some literary secondary sources provide background information on literary texts, such as a text's reception by critics on its publication, or events in the author's life that may have influenced the text, and so on. (essaywriter.guru)
  • And many of these writers had gripping stories to tell of lives that challenged norms. (gmu.edu)
  • Cushing found himself at Massachusetts General Hospital, home of the famous Ether Dome, where surgical anesthesia had begun a half-century earlier. (medscape.com)
  • This detailed study of how institutional (mostly political, but often religio-poltical) power was wielded in Amdo complements the narrative history of Amdo by Françoise Robin. (thlib.org)
  • I aimed to understand these major political developments through the lens of Acharya's life", says Ole Birk Laursen. (lu.se)
  • Hjalmar Branting, Ellen Key, and Carl Lindhagen - Swedish political figures of the early 20th century, with whom M.P.T. Acharya met. (lu.se)
  • In fact, as Ro argues in this book, Korean intellectuals were heavily influenced by both Chinese Neo-Confucianism and the European Enlightenment in the late 18th and 19th centuries. (routledge.com)
  • Later, Sadye Wier worked with a librarian to produce a book of remembrances about her own life. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • NBD1849 A Naval Biographical Dictionary 1849 O'Brien, Digital Book. (cichlidresearch.com)
  • His co-authored book Kleine Geschichte der Türkei (A Short History of Turkey) (Philipp Reclam, second edition 2008) was translated into Turkish, Czech and Italian. (sfu.ca)
  • It is not, of course, incumbent on biographers to tackle their subjects' posthumous reputations, and Sachs's new biography, Toscanini: Musician of Conscience , only acknowledges this shift of opinion away from the near-universal adulation Toscanini aroused in his lifetime in the closing pages of the book. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • Ole Birk Laursen describes the biography as a mix of an academic book and a popular history novel. (lu.se)
  • Discover the 15 essential record collections and numerous invaluable websites that could take your family history back to the 1500s - or earlier. (family-tree.co.uk)
  • Born in 1955 in Montreal, Canada, Yves Laurent is one of a generation artists influenced by 18th- and 19th-century fish trophy carvers Malloch and Tully. (natureartists.com)
  • It was left to artists such as Goya to capture history within their art and use their own reputations to get exposure to each finished painting. (thehistoryofart.org)
  • So, at the age of sixteen, he studied evolution, and became completely detached from religion and embraced the idea that evolution could account for the complexity of life in purely material terms. (history-biography.com)