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An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe
A masterful survey that puts the history back in economic history. It will make an outstanding textbook for undergraduate courses in nineteenth-century European economic history.' George Grantham, ...
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These Stunning 19th-Century Artworks Reveal the Contradictions of the Modern Woman
A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...
Beyond evolution: Alfred Russel Wallace's critique of the 19th century world
Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist renowned for co-developing the theory of evolution alongside Charles Darwin—and for mapping out the biodiversity of the Indonesian Archipelago. However, ...
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Europe and Egypt in the 19th Century
Since the end of the eighteenth century Egypt has been a vital factor in European power politics. Its value as a bridge between Europe and the East was impressed upon British strategists and the world ...
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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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Arts of 19th Century Europe: Realism to Fauvism
A lecturer specialising in 19th-century art history, she is currently a course director at ... patronage and the art market. European society was affected by the Industrial Revolution and by the late ...
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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 ...