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Quaker Education in Ireland 1680 - 1840
In undertaking this research my aim has been to trace the development of Quaker education in Ireland from its beginnings in the late seventeenth century, up to the early decades of the nineteenth. I have begun by placing Quakerism in its historical context, and have examined briefly the origins of …
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Millennialism in American Thought, 1740-1840
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The Post Office in Ireland 1638-1840
… of the island’s postal service down to 1840. It traces how the post in Ireland progressed from being a small scale, ad hoc and expensive service instigated during the Tudor military campaigns of the mid-sixteenth century and dedicated to serving the needs of the ruling elite within the …
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Land and people in Wicklow, 1660-1840
This thesis examines two aspects of County Wicklow’s historical character - its land and its people. Human settlement in Wicklow between the Restoration and the Famine was principally influenced by the region’s distinctive geological makeup. A large ridge of granite runs through the centre of the …
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The Anglo-American: Isthmian Diplomacy 1840-1850
Time shapes the destinies of men while the destinies of nations rise and fall in the tides of diplomacy. Oftentimes to avoid shipwreck in tempestuous undulations, the ship of state drops anchor in less resistant waters, sometimes to lose the hunted treasure at the end of the voyage. |Long ago, …
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Modern life subjects in British painting 1840-60
… can be identified in the exhibitions of the 1840s. During the 1850s such pictures became far more common, particularly in the wake of the success of William Powell Frith's outdoor crowd scene, Ramsgate Sands, exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1854, and distributed as an Art Union engraving in …
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Fiction and travel writing in Ireland, 1750-1840
This thesis aims to show the complex relationship between fiction and travel writing from the middle of the eighteenth century to the eve of the Great Famine. My examination of the intertextuality between novels and travel books including geographical publications and guidebooks reveals how fiction …
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The English Reputation of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1877
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Frances Burney d’Arblay and Anglican Womanhood, 1752 – 1840.
… novelist Frances Burney d’Arblay’s (1752 – 1840) cutting social criticism from the shadow of her near-contemporary Jane Austen. Yet such work has – with the exception of recent work on the colonial contexts of the Burney family as a whole – centred on the standard gendered contexts of elite …
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Company Colonisation and the Settler Revolution, 1820–1840
… to the so-called colonial reform movement, 1820–1840, the role of private enterprise has only been obliquely addressed. This thesis offers the first synoptic account of company colonisation at the dawn of the Pax Britannica. Taking the City as its focus, it shows how institutional and social …
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Party attitudes and American foreign policy 1840 to 1860
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Gendered utopia : women in the Icarian experience, 1840-1898
Etienne Cabet's utopian novel, Voyage en Icarie (1840), depicted a country organized according to the French Revolutionary principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity that he equated with Christ's tutelages. Its National Assembly of citizens exercised the reason that Cabet deemed Nature had …
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The Mormon mission to Wales 1840-49 : a reassessment
… made about the Mormon mission to Wales between 1840 and 1849. It has considered the response to the mission by Nonconformist ministers, and in particular, that of the Baptist minister Revd W. R. Davies, Dowlais, and asked whether the primary explanation for Nonconformist opposition lay in their …
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Elite Women and Material Culture in Ireland, 1770-1840
Through an extensive exploration of the archives of Irish estate houses, the thesis explores the involvement of women in the architecture and design of buildings, rooms and furniture. It documents the interest which women took in drawing and designing buildings and the layout of rooms. It also …
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Os saguis do gênero Leontopithecus Lesson, 1840 (Callithricidae - Primates)
… position of the forms of Leontopithecus Lesson,1840, is reviewed, with comments on the taxonomic history and genetic affinities of the representatives of this genus. Morphological aspects are described as well as the first and only known case of hybridization between two forms of the genus. …
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Freemasons in government in the United States, 1776-1840.
Mason and non-Mason labored side-by-side in their effort to carve out a government of, by, and for, the people from an almost uninhabited wilderness. In a spirit of independence, the American colonists overthrew the rule of the "Mother Country" and established the new American nation. Many of the …
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Urban Water Infrastructure in Britain and China (1600–1840)
… in Britain and China between 1600 and 1840. This period is defined not by Eurocentric periodisation but by the genealogies of technical knowledge and urban governance: from the seventeenth-century emergence of specialised printed works on hydraulic technology to the First Sino-British …
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