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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"1850s"”.
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The Role of Medicinal Plants in New Zealand's Settler Medical Culture, 1850s-1920s
Throughout history, medicinal plants have been important components of medical practices in almost all cultures of the world. This thesis focuses specifically on the changing uses and understandings of medicinal plants in New Zealand‘s settler medical culture from 1850 to 1920. Using a wide range …
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Female Bodies Under Surveillance: Gender Fictions and the Discourse of Hygiene (Spain, 1850s--1930s)
"From the mid nineteenth century onwards, the publication of prescriptive literature for and about women increased in Spain and reached its peak by the turn of the century, when manuals, essays, treatises and textbooks for girls experienced an unprecedented boom. This project studies the diachronic …
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Female bodies under surveillance: gender fictions and the discourse of hygiene (Spain, 1850s-1930s)
From the mid nineteenth century onwards, the publication of prescriptive literature for and about women increased in Spain and reached its peak by the turn of the century, when manuals, essays, treatises and textbooks for girls experienced an unprecedented boom. This project studies the diachronic …
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Nativism as an Influencing Force on Immigration Policy in North America from the 1850s to the 1930s
… and Mexico alike in the period between the 1850s and the 1930s. Observing immigration waves and their reception in the aforementioned countries proves that certain immigrant groups that were considered to be undesirable were received with discrimination, based on nativist grounds.
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… on this Ottoman borderland between the 1780s and 1850s and promoted European imperialist aims in the Ottoman Empire. For this purpose, it provides an analysis of Ottoman rule on a borderland inhabited by a Christian population and located near two Christian empires, the Habsburg and the Russian, …
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Henry S. Lane and the birth of the Indiana Republican Party, 1854-1861
… of Indiana and national politics in the 1850s. This thesis studies the development of the Hoosier Republican Party and the obstacles the young organization experienced as it transformed into a major political party. Party leaders generally focused on states like New York and Pennsylvania …
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Race, class and marginality : a Métis settlement in the Manitoba Interlake, 1850-1914
This dissertation examines how, since the 1850s, capitalist development in Manitoba's Interlake area and the interpretation of this region's history have been heavily influenced by western racist ideology. This ideology, coupled with the other political-social-economic dynamics of capitalism, led …
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The development and growth of British photographic manufacturing and retailing, 1839-1914
… opticians and chemists from 1839 to the early 1850s; the growth of specialised photographic manufacturers and retailers; and the dramatic expansion in their number in response to the demands of a mass market for photography from the late1870s. The research discusses the role of technological …
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Capitalisation and proletarianization on a Western Cape farm: Klaver Valley 1812-1898
… mechanisation of harvesting in the 1820s and 1850s. Chapter Three explores the notion of a capitalist farmer and argues that Duckitt and later Ruperti can be categorised as capitalist farmers. The main thrust of their progressive capitalization occurred before the 1850s and it did so as a …
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The abundances and distribution of some trace elements in some selected South African shales
… mechanisation of harvesting in the 1820s and 1850s. Chapter Three explores the notion of a capitalist farmer and argues that Duckitt and later Ruperti can be categorised as capitalist farmers. The main thrust of their progressive capitalization occurred before the 1850s and it did so as a …
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Secession Diplomacy: A Study of Thomas Butler King, Commissioner of Georgia to Europe, 1861
… investigate the direct trade movement of the 1850s and its effect on the southern diplomatic effort.
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California Printing History and the Shakespeare Press Museum
… printing presses and equipment dating from the 1850s to the 1970s. Although the museum has been at Cal Poly since the 1960s, little work was completed on the historical context of the collections or to address the archival and educational frameworks of the museum’s collection. This thesis has …
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Creoles, Indian Immigrants and the Restructuring of Society and Economy in Mauritius, 1767-1885
… revolutionzed Mauritian agriculture. By the mid-1850s the fortunes of the colony's economy were linked irrevocably to those of sugar. The demand for labor caused by the rapid growth of the sugar industry, together with the abolition of slavery and the collapse of the apprenticeship system, led to …
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Southwest Virginia, the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and the Union, 1816-1865
… resulted in an east-southwest alliance in the 1850s. While the ideological rapproachement collapsed during the Civil War, the economic ties survived, setting the stage for rapid industrial development in the Southern Appalachain Mountains."
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From Partisan Banking to Open Access - A Study on the Emergence of Free Banking in Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
… elites (i.e. the legislators) in the 1830s-1850s. The fourth chapter shows that for people who were ever legislators at some point in their life, they were more likely to be legislators and bankers at the same time in the late 1790s and early 1800s than afterwards. The fifth chapter collects …
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Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo
… Obispo, California was a violent place in the 1850s with numerous murders and lynchings in staggering proportions. This thesis studies the rise of violence in SLO, its causation, and effects. The vigilance committee of 1858 represents the culmination of the violence that came from sweeping …
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Printing Politics: The Emergence of Political Parties in Florida, 1821-1861
… on personal loyalties than on ideology. By the 1850s party loyalty became paramount over personal or regional loyalties. In the last years before the Civil War Democrats linked Southern loyalty to the Democratic party and accused their opposition of treason against the South leading Florida and …
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David Gilmour Blythe's Street Urchins and American Nativism
… street urchin paintings created during the 1850s are disturbing and often grotesque. The image of childhood that he created was quite different from that of his American contemporaries who adapted the romantic notion of the child from eighteenth-century English painters. Previous scholars …
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Imperial precedents in the Home Rule Debates, 1867-1914
… business in a significant manner. During the 1850s and 1860s, constitutional nationalist agitation was greatly muted, and the repeal tendency within Irish politics was generally subsumed within the Liberal party. The Fenian movement, founded in 1865, which advocated total separation from …
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Modern life subjects in British painting 1840-60
… 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 1859. This thesis …
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