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Showing 1 to 20 of 187 for “"1894"”.
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Place, Disease and Mortality: Trimble County, Kentucky 1849-1894
<p>This researcher describes the characteristics of place...physical, cultural and human...of a small Kentucky county and looks at the incidence of disease and dying that occurred in that place in the last half of the nineteenth century. The impact of death on particular subsets of the general …
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The Avondale School and Adventist Educational Goals, 1894-1900
… was to trace the history of the Avondale school (1894-1900) and thus provide a gestalt for an analysis of the fundamental educational goals enunciated by the pioneers.</p> <p>Method. This study utilized the historical research method. The problem was approached by reading the letters, diaries, …
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Fall from grace: United States images of Japan, 1894--1921
This thesis examines the shifting American perceptions of Japan in the period from the Sino-Japanese War to the Washington Naval Conference, as expressed in the popular press, government statements, missionary speeches, and other printed materials. During this period, the American image of Japan …
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Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894): A Victorian Musician in Dublin
… positions, Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894) was held in high regard by Dublin’s musical public and was seen as the ‘figurehead’ of music in Ireland by his English contemporaries. His career as an organist of exceptional talent saw a lengthy association with the cathedrals of Christ …
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"The congressional history of the Wilson-Gorman revenue act of 1894"
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1937
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Conflict and Cooperation: Western Economic Interests in Ottoman Iraq 1894-1914
… Ottoman history in Baghdad and Basra, between 1894 and 1914. Since these sources have been underutilized, their inclusion will widen the scope of possible historical investigation in the study of Late Ottoman Baghdad and Basra. This research will suggest that, in this period, there was an …
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Historicist Composition for the Catholic Church: France and Belgium, 1894–1937
This thesis explores efforts to “reform” the composition of Catholic church music by imitating medieval and Renaissance models, with a focus on francophone Europe from the zenith of this historicism at the turn of the century to its gradual sublimation between the World Wars. Chapter 1 describes …
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Approaching Africa: The Reception of African Visual Culture in Germany 1894-1915
… visual culture in German publications between 1894 and 1915. Considering the development from a purely ethnographic analysis towards an art historical and art scientific discourse, it brings together formerly unconnected fields of research. By introducing theories from translation studies this …
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Future Nelsons: A quantitative social history study of British naval cadets, 1884-1894
This dissertation is a quantitative study of naval cadets who joined the Royal Navy in the final two decades of the nineteenth century via the training institution H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship). The focus of the study is on the backgrounds of cadets, geographical and social, and how they …
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The Illinois Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1854-1894, a Study in Educational Leadership
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:25:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6901391.pdf: 12840944 bytes, checksum: 029eb5214f32b73ede455c9aa03d0427 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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George Eliot’s Generative Economies: transactional maternal sacrifice in social realist fiction, 1853-1894
… define twentieth-century fiction. Published in 1894 and continuously revised until 1930, Esther Waters straddles the changing century, and so demonstrates the importance of maternity to this broader paradigm shift: the illegitimate mother survives, and the bodies sacrificed to the text are those …
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A Matter of Imperial Defence: Arthur Balfour and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1894-1923
… Japan and the Anglo-Japanese alliance from 1894 to 1923. Although Balfour was involved in the Anglo-Japanese alliance from its signing to termination, no comprehensive analysis of his role in the alliance has been carried out. Utilising unpublished materials and academic books, this thesis …
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Marking Territory: demarcation of the DRC-Zambia boundary from 1894 to the present day
From 1911 to 1914 an Anglo-Belgian boundary commission demarcated some 800 km of the boundary between the Congo Free State and Northern Rhodesia with 46 boundary markers. As was common practice across most British colonial boundaries in Africa prior to 1914, the process of demarcation was an …
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"Advancing the material interests of the Redeemer's Kingdom" : the Erskine Presbyterian Church, Montreal, 1894
This thesis takes Montreal's 1894 Erskine Presbyterian Church, by Montreal architect Alexander Cowper Hutchison (1838-1922), as a specific example of the building of an Akron-auditorium combination plan church. Although relatively rare in Montreal, this American church type was perhaps the most …
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