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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Nineteenth-Century History"”.
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An archaeological perspective on the nineteenth century development of land, landscape and sheep farming in the Karoo
The nineteenth century was one of considerable change within the Cape Colony. There was the change from Dutch VOC control to a British government early in the nineteenth century which exposed small scale Trekboer sheep farmers of the Karoo to a wider mercantile capitalism, especially with the …
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Johanna Kinkel’s Lieder Compositions as a Socio-Political and Cultural Mirror of Her Time: A Reflective Interpretation
… one hand and the self-perception of a typical nineteenth-century mother on the other. This dissertation seeks to examine the relationship between Johanna Kinkel’s artistic and theoretical oeuvre and her unconventional personality, her biography as a wife to the German revolutionary Gottfried …
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The evolution of global politics and the pacific settlement of international disputes, 1794–1907
The nineteenth century witnessed a major effort amongst key historical actors at applying international arbitration to settle a range of questions between states. An increasingly globalized public sphere took great interest in arbitration and how it might be used to supplant war in what they called …
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Nancy Spero: printing, writing, collaging
… Chapter Three considers her connection to nineteenth-century history painting methods to create moralizing feminist narratives. I argue that she constructs a new kind of historical record within individual works, for example in her epic multi-paneled collage Notes in Time on Women …
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Capturing the soul : encounters between Berlin missionaries and Tshivenda-speakers in the late nineteenth century
… Society as a source of new insights into the history of V endaJand (today part of the Northern Province of South Africa). In contrast to previous worlcs, which have "gutted" them for "facts", I have used them to engage with the view into the past provided by the missionaries. The main body of …
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Domingo Dulce y Garay (1808-1869). Guerra y política a ambos lados del Atlántico
… of Isabella II (1833–1868)—and, more broadly, nineteenth-century Spain—was marked by two interconnected vectors: the prominence of military actors in politics and the process of de-imperialization, set in motion by the mainland American independences and culminating in 1898. Among the …
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The German Moment in English Musical Culture, 1820-1859
… social, cultural, and intellectual approaches to history, this dissertation tells the story of how this transformation took place. It considers how the efforts of critics, composers, impresarios, set-designers, publishers, music scholars, religious groups, and migrant communities converged to …
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“To Happily Lay the Foundation of Patriotism in One Single Englishman”: Women, History Texts, and the Construction of English National Identity, 1820-1870
… historiography on nationalist pedagogy in nineteenth century England has not focused on women as major contributors to this process through their authorship of historical texts. This dissertation argues that school history texts authored by women in Romantic and Victorian England imbued an …
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Memoried flesh: shock and trauma in late nineteenth-century Russian fiction
… representations of nervous shock and trauma in nineteenth-century Russian literature, with special focus on the works by Fedor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. The current genealogy of trauma relies heavily on the work of Sigmund Freud and of subsequent scholars and is often retrospectively …
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Imprisoning Chicago: Incarceration, The Chicago City Council, Prisoners, and Reform, 1832-1915
… institutions which illuminate the development of nineteenth-century city incarceration from a fluid to a rigid status. Both institutions detained misdemeanants and violators of city ordinances. They shared similarities with jails and prisons, but emerged as a hybrid institution: a city …
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A Social History of the Brooklyn Irish, 1850-1900
A full understanding of nineteenth century Irish America requires close examination of emigration as well as immigration. Knowledge of Irish pre-emigration experiences is a key to making sense of their post-emigration lives. This work analyzes the regional origins, the migration and settlement …