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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"19th Century American"”.
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Jeffersonianism and 19th Century American Maritime Defense Policy.
… the same time and conclude with the end of the American Civil War.</p>
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Furniture ornamentation with inlay and marquetry emphasizing 19th century American furniture
… about the meanings of the terms. A twentieth century British wood enthusiast, Edward H. Pinto, stated the problem well when he said "unfortunately, loose words and writing have tended to confuse what was already a difficult division." In addition, the mix of Italian, French, German, Arabic, …
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The 19th-century American country house : a prototype for multi-family housing.
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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'Once Famous in an Odd Way': Curiosity and Queerness in Late 19th-Century American Male Impersonation
… the popular female actor within 19<sup>th</sup> century performance, the male impersonator, and identifies the ways in which this theatrical expression was related to and affected by similar amusements of the period. Public amusements of this period include a diversity of experiential …
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Of stars and standards: Actress-managers of Philadelphia and New York, 1855-1880
This study of 19th century American theatre examines in depth the managerial careers of four women: Mrs. D. P Bowers and Mrs. John Drew in Philadelphia, Mrs. John Wood in New York and Mrs. F. B. Conway in Brooklyn. In each chapter, one woman is profiled and the actors, plays and policies of her …
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Freedom in Existence: A Comparative Study of the Poetics of Emily Dickinson and Sohrab Sepehri
… conducting a comparative study of two poets, the 19th-century American poet, Emily Dickinson, and the 20th-century Iranian poet, Sohrab Sepehri. What at first may seem as their many differences, a 19th-century American poetess and a 20th-century Iranian poet, is also what unifies them as they are …
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Shooting a mule (and other stories)
… representations, photographs, and ephemera from American equestrian culture during the late 19th century through the mid 20th century. It includes stories featuring P.T. Barnum, Roy Rogers, Lucille Mulhall, Eben Byers, Fred W. Loring, and other notable historical figures. The fiction is preceded …
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Describing Chaos: Willem de Kooning's Collage Painting Asheville and its Relationship to Traditions of Description and Illusionism in Western Art
… art exemplified by the letter rack paintings of 19th century American art and 17th century Dutch art. Finally, as the contentious debate over meaning in Dutch painting illustrate, descriptive works of art, because of the ambivalent way they engage disordered aspects of visual experience, are …
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Form follows flow : re-imagining the skyscraper
Skyscraper is a by-product of 19th century American industrialism. spirit, and disaster. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophe that necessitated dense and rapid reconstruction, both of which the high-rise provided. The accidental discovery of this new typology forever changed the …
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Cloverdale Furnace: a century of iron manufacture in Botetourt County Virginia, 1789-1889
… broad, contextual questions concerning early 19th Century American industrial history, it is often necessary to supplement generally accepted premises with observations of particular instances. This study of Cloverdale Furnace constitutes such an observation. Particular attention has been paid …
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Ever-Evolving Art of Self-Reliant Reading
Self-reliance is a significant component of contemporary Emerson scholarship, but few scholars have examined the way in which reading--almost unarguably Emerson's favorite pastime--can contribute to this canonical Emersonian idea. By delineating a passage in Emerson's journal which purports to …
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Diasporic Reasoning: The Idea of Africa and the Production of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
… space and as an imagined or symbolic space) in 19th century American intellectual and literary culture. I argue that when nineteenth-century intellectuals grappled with the institution of slavery, the significance of slave revolt, and the extent of black intellectual capacities, they dealt not …
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Reforming Tastes: Taste as a Print Aesthetic in American Cookery Writing
Many eighteenth-century philosophers such as Kant and Hume worked to develop discourses of taste as a means of standardizing cultural behaviors. Using physical taste as a metaphor for aesthetic perception and judgment, these writers could both define and abstract group boundaries. As American …
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The Rhetoric of Persecution: Mormon Crisis Rhetoric from 1838-1871
… the historical study of rhetoric in nineteenth-century America. Since the Mormon Church's establishment in 1830, sermons have been a vital part of the Church's development into a worldwide institution. From the simple testimonial to the more complex doctrinal explication, early Mormon leaders …
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American Choral Music in Late 19th Century New Haven: The Gounod and New Haven Oratorio Societies
This study examines two of the smaller American choral societies that together existed for just over 30 years, 1888 to 1919: The Gounod and New Haven Oratorio Societies of New Haven, Connecticut. These societies are important because, especially in the case of the New Haven Society, they were …
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White nation building and sex between men in the British Columbia and Washington press, 1866 to 1910
This thesis examines the representations of sex between men in the British Columbia and Washington press from 1866 to 1910. During this period, B.C. and Washington newspapers covered both local and international sex scandals involving men engaging in sex with other men or boys. I explore the way …