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The Russian judicial reform of 1864; its origins and development, 1825-1864
<p>The Russian Judicial Reform of 1864 has been hailed as one of Alexander II's “Great Reforms.” For it, along with the emancipation of the serfs, the creation of the zemstvos and, somewhat later, the military reforms, he inherited the appellation “Tsar-Liberator.” Most historians have regarded him …
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California Opinion on Lincoln to 1864
<p>In his History of the United States under the Constitution. James Schouler wrote: “The farther we recede from the era of our great civil strife, the more colossal stands out the figure of Abraham Lincoln.” In recent years this recognition in retrospect has been supplemented in periodical …
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Hans Reichenbach (1864 - 1937), Hygieniker und Wissenschaftler
… Werk des Hygiene Professors, Hans Reichenbach (1864-1937). Ziel der Arbeit war es einen zusammenfassenden Überblick über den Wissenschaftler zu geben. Hierzu wurde zum einen sein Leben anhand von Aktennotizen beleuchtet, zum anderen wurden exemplarisch Veröffentlichungen des Wissenschaftlers …
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Unconquerable Defiance: Richmond Newspapers and Confederate Defeat, 1864-1865
This thesis describes and analyses how the Richmond press operated as a propaganda machine during the final year of the Civil War. It argues that the newspapers of the Confederate capital regularly exploited the propaganda value of the news they reported, employing methods including distortion of …
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Sir Richard Griffith's Three Valuations of Ireland 1826-1864
… of rateable property in Ireland between 1852 and 1864. Commonly known as ‘Griffith’s valuation’ – in deference to its architect and compiler Sir Richard Griffith (17861874) – it lists the occupier and his/her immediate landlord of every property in midnineteenth century Ireland as well as the …
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The establishment of the national banking system, 1863-1864
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1929.
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The first battles for Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864
During June 15-18, 1864, the Federal Army of the Potomac launched a series of attacks against the vital Confederate rail center of Petersburg, Virginia. Union leaders believed that capturing Petersburg would force the abandonment of the Rebel capital at Richmond. The assaults failed, however, and …
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KIT CARSON'S LAST FIGHT: THE ADOBE WALLS CAMPAIGN OF 1864
<p>In the fall of 1864, Brigadier General James H. Carleton sent Kit Carson and about four hundred men on a punitive campaign against the Kiowa and Comanche Indians of the high plains. The resulting battle was one of the largest in the history of North American Indian Wars. Yet this conflict has …
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John Williams: A Merchant Banker in Springfield, Illinois, 1824-1864
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T19:31:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6406039.pdf: 10825485 bytes, checksum: bf0786baf147fcd52fb849433b243d48 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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Beyond the outfield: Baseball fiction and historical fantasy, 1864-present
… Baseball Fiction and Historical Fantasy, 1864-Present considers baseball’s imperial and racist past and traces the ways in which fiction from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries imagines alternative possibilities within this history. My goal is, in part, to materially …
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Natural history of the social millipede Brachycybe lecontii (Wood, 1864)
The millipede Brachycybe lecontii Wood, 1864 is a social millipede known for forming pinwheel-shaped groups and for paternal care of eggs. Brachycybe lecontii is endemic to the eastern U.S., and its distribution overlaps with another species within the genus, Brachycybe petasata, from the Southern …
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Unconquerable Monsters Of The Imperial Periphery: Early Dinosaur Fiction, 1864-1912
… to the emergent period of dinosaur fiction, 1864-1912, for patterns of representational practices and ideologies. An analysis of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, James De Mille's A Strange Manuscript in a Copper Cylinder, Frank Savile's Beyond the Great South Wall, and Arthur …
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Avatars of Memory. Rituals and Commemorative Practices in Colombia, 1864-1913
This study shows how Antioquia elites re-imagined, through commemorations, their collective past and invented their region, as a symbolic appropriation of the space – the highlands – that they inhabited. The identity that emerged from that process was the basis on which Antioqueño elites negotiated …
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Relations Between Government and Zemstvos Under Valuev and Timashev, 1864-1876
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7121126.pdf: 10121489 bytes, checksum: a75196958e164db31a676b24692e91a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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The Emerging Woman: Tension Between Anthony Trollope's Theory and Art, 1864-1880
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405698.pdf: 5882686 bytes, checksum: 770d719a28b8a460ffc4fe9b3ffef6ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Maneuver as a response to technological innovation: Sherman's Georgia campaign of 1864
With the advent of the rifled musket onto Civil War battlefields, the ability of a soldier on the defense to kill his attacking enemy rose dramatically. The former standard weapon had been the smoothbore musket. Such smoothbores had a maximum effective range of seventy-five meters. The new standard …
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