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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"1840s"”.
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Savage reds: US settler colonialism, anarchist scares, and anticommunism, 1840s-1920s
"This dissertation is a study of the development of US domestic political repression, labor control, counterinsurgency, and anticommunism. ""The only good Indian is a dead Indian"" went General Sheridan's genocidal axiom. By the 1880s, US politicians, industrialists, and their media organs were …
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The Origin, Development, and History of the Norwegian Seventh-day Adventist Church from the 1840s to 1889
<p>This dissertation reconstructs chronologically the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Norway from the Haugian Pietist revival in the early 1800s to the establishment of the first Seventh-day Adventist Conference in Norway in 1887.</p> <p>The present study has been based as far as …
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Hunters and After Riders: A History of Hunting and the Making of Race in the Waterberg, 1840s-Present
… hunting narratives and policies from the 1840s into the post-apartheid present to show how they discursively produced social difference as racial through ordering hunting practices between black African/English/Afrikaner and their narration and representation. Identified early in the 19th …
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A Variety of Proofs of the Steiner-Lehmus Theorem
… much attention since its conception in the 1840s. A variety of proofs resulting from the posing of the theorem are still appearing today, well over 100 years later. There are some amazing similarities among these proofs, as different as they seem to be. These characteristics allow for some …
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The Port Phillip magistrates, 1835-1851
… as Victoria was then known, in the 1830s and 1840s. Extant magisterial records demonstrate the crucial importance of these 'gentlemen', so styled, in enforcing collective norms of behaviour, stabilising an otherwise disorderly population in raw conditions, and thereby providing a bridge …
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Analysis of sediment dynamics in intensively managed landscapes
… of mobilized sediment significantly changed from 1840s to 2000s, and the agricultural uplands have become the major source of suspended sediment in the stream. The model estimates that sediment supply from uplands increased 11-fold from the 1840s to 2000s, and sediment yield in 2000s is 9 times of …
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The theatrical strategies of James Robinson Planché
… War. American slavery, the Railway Bubble of the 1840s, and the revolutions of 1848 are typical of other major concerns upon which the plays commented. Beyond politics, current events (including scientific and technological advances, trends in entertainment, and even health fads and advertising), …
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From Partisan Banking to Open Access - A Study on the Emergence of Free Banking in Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
… than other wealthy citizens in the 1830s and 1840s, but their relative wealth inequality remained stable. New banks chartered in the 1840s and 1850s were smaller banks. The sixth chapter provides an explanation of the transition from limited to open access banking based on the idea of …
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Cracked Cans, Bent Wire: Dating Historical Metal at Biry/Ahr House, Castroville, Texas
… County as part of the empresario system of the 1840s. Biry/Ahr House was home to two families, the Birys (1844-1921) and the Groff/Tschirharts (1921-1972). Using vibrant materialism, consumerism, and collections-based research, I address the ways in which metal usage changed over time at the …
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A.W.N. Pugin's English residential architecture in its context
… small houses designed between 1800 and the mid-1840s were overwhelmingly based on a limited number of conventionalised plans. It will show that Pugin’s residential planning was inherently different from that of these conventional buildings, and that it is classifiable into a number of distinct …
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"It was by reason of being Mormons that we were kept at arms length" : Mormonism, Freemasonry, and conflicting interests on the Illinois frontier.
… the Mormon Masons during the first half of the 1840s.
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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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Parisian Social Studies: Positivism and the Novels of Balzac, Paul de Kock and Zola
… texts whose popularity peaked in the early 1840s, the progressive theories of Auguste Comte (collected, in particular, in his Cours de philosophie positive from 1830-1842) promulgated a scientific, observational approach to the study of society. Throughout the five chapters of this project, …
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A Port and Its Hinterland: An Environmental History of Izmir in the Late-Ottoman Period
… this period, roughly in the decades between the 1840s and 1890s, Izmir, thanks to the human and natural resources in its hinterland, grew rapidly in export trade and evolved into a gateway city, linking the fertile Western Anatolian valleys to world markets. By discussing the economic and …
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Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Exhibit Making: “On the Gold Mountain: Chinese Mining History and Heritage of Idaho” at the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology
… people who emigrated to the US between the 1840s and 1880. To rectify this, the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology (IMMG), in collaboration with members of the Payette National Forest, the Asian American Comparative Collection, Boise State University/US Army Corps of Engineers, and the …
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Render unto Caesar, render unto God : Texas denominational colleges and universities and the politics of the Civil War era.
… War era, which includes the period from the 1840s to the 1880s. The actors in this study are the state of Texas, Texas denominational colleges and universities, church leaders, and key educational pioneers. Analysis is limited to three specific denominations: the Baptists, the Methodists, and …
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Sketching Tom Gill: Art, history, and a creative exploration beyond the frame of ST Gill's utopian visions of colonial South Australia.
The 1840s paintings of the emigrant artist Samuel Thomas (ST) Gill are frequently used to depict Adelaide’s earliest years. ST Gill’s works are enduringly popular, and the compositions show a peaceful version of the colonising of South Australia in an era before the advent of photography could …
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To labor as an Indian travels: what the Spokan Indians taught the Eells and Walkers, early missionaries on the Columbia Plateau
… in the Oregon Country during the 1830s and 1840s, but its telling gives a fuller and thus a more accurate picture of what took place during the missionary era of the West. The research involved in the telling of this story comes primarily from the written words of the Walkers and Eells. The …
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A trade so uncontrollably uncertain : a study of the English southern whale fishery from 1815 to 1860
… then later squeezed it out of existence. By the 1840s the southern whaling trade was a matter insignificant in the Government's trade policy. The thesis al so charts the price of sperm oil between 1 81 0 and 1860 and examines the demand for oil over the period. The need for oil to lubricate …
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A trade so uncontrollably uncertain : a study of the English southern whale fishery from 1815 to 1860
… then later squeezed it out of existence. By the 1840s the southern whaling trade was a matter insignificant in the Government's trade policy. The thesis al so charts the price of sperm oil between 1 81 0 and 1860 and examines the demand for oil over the period. The need for oil to lubricate …
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