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Showing 1 to 20 of 1209 for “"19th"”.
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Slumming and the 19th century geographical imagination
… act of slumming helped define and partition the 19th century US city. Intimately connected with slumming was its representation in prose works. By writing about slumming, or going slumming themselves, 19th century US writers contributed to the development of a geographical imagination, or a …
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Jeffersonianism and 19th Century American Maritime Defense Policy.
<p>This paper analyzes the fundamental maritime defense mentality that permeated America throughout the early part of the Republic. For fear of economic debt and foreign wars, Thomas Jefferson and his Republican party, opposed the construction of a formidable blue water naval force. Instead, they …
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Leisure and Modernity in late 19th Century Shanghai
… associated with modernity of the city in late 19th century and how it reflected urban social and culture change.
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Environmentalism : philosophical sources of 19th century urban thought
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century
During the late 19th century, arts and literature had a surge of sensory awareness, made manifest through sensory analogy, intersensory metaphor, and synaesthesia. This dissertation explores this phenomenon through a study of five poets and artists: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Dante Gabriel …
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Web service for 19th century Irish personal name matching
… important in the process. Unfortunately, in the 19th century, in Ireland, there was no standard spelling of names, handwriting could be difficult to read and contractions or abbreviations were often used. The names with the same pronunciation and for the same individual could be written in many …
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The faithful and/or flattering in 19th Century portraiture
The nineteenth century's creation of different optical devices such as the camera obscura, the kaleidoscope and the thaumatrope signifies a change in the perception of vision at the time. The aim of this dissertation is to examine the work of four artists with reference to nineteenth century …
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The Representation of Jewelry in 19th-Century French Literature
… functions and representations throughout the 19th century, one discovers its ability to also blur and reinforce boundaries that so typifies the tensions and redefinitions happening throughout this era. With the rise of the bourgeoisie and industrial production, jewelry became more available to …
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An Environmental History Of The 19th Century Marquette Iron Range
<p>The history of the Marquette Iron Range in the upper peninsula of Michigan is integrally linked to the environment. The natural features of the Marquette Range defined the mode of production on the Range, and conversely, as human systems became more adept in these modes of production they became …
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Emily Dickinson: 19th Century Poet in a 21st Century World
<p>This capstone will discuss what channels mediate public access to literary content in the case of Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters. The discussion continues with how this was a problem for Dickinson while she was alive due to her reclusiveness and unorthodox punctuation. The capstone then …
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19th Century Gothic Inspiration: Investigating the Next Generation of Poes
<p>The objective of my study is to examine specific works by Edgar Allan Poe that best emulate his literary obsession with insanity and the grotesque, arguing that these elements of his literature serve as the source of inspiration for many 20<sup>th </sup>and 21<sup>st</sup> century gothic …
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Collecting as Self-Exploration in Late 19th-Century French Literature
… developed in French literature at the end of the 19th century. I consider how collecting investigates the self, exercises the powers of the mind, inquires into the individual's relationship to society and to texts. The study takes, as its point of departure, comments about the cultural …
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A Biological Distance Analysis of 19th -20th -Century Individuals From Myanmar
Myanmar (Burma) is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia that is an optimal region for studies in human migration patterns in the geographic area. However, owing to a regime under an isolationist military dictatorship for the last half-century, Myanmar is a relatively underrepresented …
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“Reckoning the nation: 19th century statistics, probability theory and nation-building.”
… history: the national statistics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. My research question asks: how were statistical techniques - including list-making, social category standardization and quantitative metrics - justified and developed by statisticians for the study and management of …
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Furniture ornamentation with inlay and marquetry emphasizing 19th century American furniture
"Ornamentation of furniture is often more expressive of the individual cabinetmaker than anything else about the piece. The ornament expresses the design abilities of the maker and may, if the piece is custom made, tell something about the person for whom it was designed. In addition, it is often …
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Interpersonal violence and fracture patterns in 18th and 19th century London.
… violence in London during the 18th and 19th centuries by analysing the fracture patterns observed on six skeletal collections from the geographical area and characterised by various social and economic contexts. The contextualisation of each burial ground proved to be imperative to the …
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Negotiated ecologies: Indigeneity and ecocriticism in 19th century Bolivia and Chile
… examines four themes which underscore how the 19th century was, in a number of ways, a pivotal time period with regards to ecological relations in the Andean region. During the 19th century, food production became more mechanized, the introduction of the steam engine led to faster …
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