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An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe
George Grantham, McGill University "After his masterful Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe, Ivan Berend gives us the indispensible companion volume on the 19th century, another masterpiece ...
The Socialists Did Migrate, but They Were Assimilated
Our enormous country acted as a saucer to cool and isolate extremist agitation.
The health lessons of 19th-century literature
Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today ...
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Welsh and 19th century education
The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history. Popular risings and riots broke out across the country. Questions were raised in Westminster as to why the Welsh people were prone to ...
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19th Century White Missionaries
At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were ... freed slaves became a powerful motive for setting up European Christian missions. Human compassion in Europe for the ...
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Reading Jewish Women: Marginality and Modernization in Nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish Society
This deceptively simple thesis dramatically challenges and revamps both scholarly and popular notions of Jewish life and learning in 19th-century Eastern Europe. While scholars of European women’s ...
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A 19th-Century Encyclopedia Gets a Modern Makeover
Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History belonged to Baird himself ... Rougeux has transformed the static pages of a 19th-century book into an interactive resource. Users can browse across ...
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Parties, Gossip and Too Much Brew: How 19th Century Brooklynites Celebrated the New Year
Of course, in the late 19th century, your ability to celebrate depended on your social class. New Year’s was one of the four traditional holidays off, the others being July 4th, Thanksgiving, and ...