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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"NAPOLEONIC WARS"”.
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International Capital Movements During the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution in Britain
… debate on the "Crowding-out" effect of the Napoleonic wars on the British economy calls forth more research on the issue of international capital movements of the time. Britain experienced a series of regime shifts, most importantly from a peace to a war (1793), from the gold standard to the …
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Consequential ground: Memorials of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Romantic culture 1793-1877
… we mark the bicentenary of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars what memorials of the wars have we inherited? And who bequeathed that inheritance to posterity? From the Victorian monuments that remain, it would seem that the heritage of war was coherently patriotic and evidence of a pro-war, …
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The impact of the Napoleonic Wars on the development of the cotton industry in Lancashire : A study of the structure and behaviour of firms during the industrial revolution
This dissertation analyses the idea of 'Slower Growth' during British industrialisation, and its relevance for the leading sector of factory cotton production. The techniques used are specifically those of microeconomic theory, notably developing methods used in analysis of the firm. The intention …
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“We Have to Record the Downfall of Tyranny”: The London Times Perspective on Napoleon Bonaparte’s Invasion of Russia
… of how nations indirectly involved in the Napoleonic wars understood the conflict.</p>
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The Unclothed Body in Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War
… (Los Desastres de la Guerra) depicting the Napoleonic Wars in Spain, the famine that subsequently occurred in Madrid, and symbolic representations similar to his print series Los Caprichos (1797-1799). This thesis will consider Goya’s use of the unclothed human body in his series of prints …
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"""To take for truth the test of ridicule"": Public perceptions, political controversy, and English political caricature, 1815-1821"
… half-dozen years that followed the close of the Napoleonic wars, during which time graphic satire on the Prince Regent and his government flourished. Undoubtedly, many of those in positions of power worried that common people might ""take for truth the test of ridicule"" prominent in these …
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British Foreign Policy from the Munich Conference to the Polish Guarantee: A Study in Imponderables
… the opportunities presented by continental wars. During the Napoleonic Wars, the British Empire again was obliged to lead the battle against a nation aspiring to European hegemony; a hegemony that could form a power bloc able to threaten Britain's maritime predominance, and suffer the nation …
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The origins of Prussian conservatism, 1815-56
… however, lie within the experiences of the Napoleonic Wars (1806-15) and the social movements dominant at that time. In this way, early nineteenth-century Prussian conservatism is presented as being bound to a generation unit of young Prussian nobles who had experienced the Napoleonic Wars …
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The Invisible Band: Cultural, Economic, and Societal Issues in Harmoniemusik
… was driven by the financial constraints of the Napoleonic Wars, but I am not convinced that one single event can be held responsible for the downfall of an entire genre. Through my examination of iconography, musical materials, economic trends, and written accounts, it becomes clear that …
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The Impact of the Russian Military System on Nineteenth Century Russian Expansionism in the Caucasus and Central Asia
… explores the Russian military system after the Napoleonic Wars, and the impact the military ideologies developed therein had on Russian expansionist efforts in two separate conflicts. The Russian conquests of the Caucasus and Central Asian regions are the expansionist efforts under focus, and …
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British women’s travel writings in the era of the French Revolution
… the political culture in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era. Part One will discuss those who tried hard to challenge or to correct traditionally-defined femininity and to prove themselves useful in their society. Many of them negotiated with and broadened the traditionally defined femininity …
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… borderland during the Russian-Habsburg-Ottoman wars of 1787-1791/1792, the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), and the Russian-Ottoman war of 1828-1829. These chapters reveal the transformation of forms of European expansion against the Ottoman Empire, as tested on the Danube borderlands: from …
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Maltese emigration in the nineteenth century
… impetus with the first depression following the Napoleonic Wars. Prior to the coming of British Rule, there was never a strong need to emigrate, since Malta lived under the feudal, sort-of-paternalistic rule of the Order of St. John. Here I shall deal with the first attempts made to organise …
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Here we can behold the great machine in motion : the Belfast Monthly Magazine, 1808-1814
… politics and their observations on the ongoing Napoleonic wars were largely informed by their experiences of civil unrest over the previous three decades.
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Patents, machine learning, and war: invention during the British Industrial Revolution
… involvement in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars harmful to industrialisation? Using a combination of machine learning techniques, econometric analysis, and new archival evidence, this thesis finds that: (1) the results of statistical analysis of historical patent data depends on …
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The military career of General Sir Henry Brackenbury 1856-1904
… army move away from the military system of the Napoleonic Wars and the gradual establishment of the system with which the British Army would take the field in 1914. The aim of this thesis is to look at the military career of Sir Henry Brackenbury, rather than be a biography of the man. However …
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Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature
… immediately after the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, and her works reflect and respond to these crises. H. G. Wells, a biologist, wrote his novels as arguments for the threat of evolutionary degeneration, a prevalent concern at the end of the century. I contextualize these four novels …
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The management of corneal graft rejection
… and trachoma brought back by soldiers in the Napoleonic wars. It is uncertain who first suggested the replacement of damaged corneas with living tissue, but the credit is usually attributed to Franz Reisinger6 who also coined the term 11 keratoplasty11 • Reisinger confined his work to rabbits …
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