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In the first half of the nineteenth century all this changed.
In the nineteenth century the proportion reached an all-time low of less than 3 per cent.
Feminist historians have noted the connection made between a woman's responsibilities in her home and to her nation in the nineteenth century as well.
The restoration of old temples, and the construction of new ones in the fort, had already started in the early nineteenth century.
Until the early nineteenth century, the distance of the residence from the palace building showed the proximity of a person to the king.
Starting in the late nineteenth century, farmers began using groundwater from this extensive aquifer to supplement the highly variable surface supplies.
In the nineteenth century there is some evidence that its use in certain collocations came to be associated with women and children.
A series of reviews, some of them newly uncovered, brings to light successful productions from the second decade of the nineteenth century.
Concern about these problems surfaced well before the end of the nineteenth century.
Oddly, however, there is nothing which tackles directly the important controversies of the nineteenth century.
The authors' account of the knights' decline and partial revival in the nineteenth century makes an argument about institutional continuity.
In the nineteenth century a different picture emerged.
Nineteenth-century usage guides do not advise against the passive, though some do warn writers not to change voice in midsentence.
Section two addresses the institutional changes that occurred in congress during the nineteenth century.
Indeed, failure, particularly in business enterprises, became the common fate for middle-class men in the nineteenth century, hence, the necessity for struggle.
The text is marred by the author's uncritical acceptance of the accounts and attitudes of his nineteenth-century sources.
An unfortunate gulf between these research workers and the biologists existed then, for the latter part of the nineteenth century.
The land plan actually deserves to be seen as one of the most significant co-operative experiments of the nineteenth century.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century the processing of tobacco diffused into the countryside.
Intertextual reference presented rhetorical problems to the nineteenth-century mathematician that are absent in modern science.
Indeed, the process of adjustment continued unabated through the end of the nineteenth century and into the modern era.
Saloons were the most important gathering places for immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century and thus primary centers for their political mobilization as voters.
Only the rudiments of independent historiography of the natural sciences existed in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, pragmatism challenged this division, pointing to numerous interconnections between facts, values, and linguistic and cultural contexts.
Questions of natality and birthrate had been at the top of the national agenda from the end of the nineteenth century.
Only from the early nineteenth century on was this law seen as a proven fact.
My intention has not been to pursue late-nineteenth-century developments in physics and chemistry as such.
Rather than a continuation of an earlier debate, this nineteenth-century conversation was an independent rediscovery of the theological usefulness of moral progress.
Already in the early decades of the nineteenth century however, accidents caused by industrial technologies were beginning to challenge traditional ways of dealing with risk.
The paper continues by considering the changes which elites began to undergo in the transitional conditions of the late nineteenth century.
The competition for this designation in the mid-nineteenth century is strong.
In the nineteenth century, trousers were worn by men, some working women, and reform dressers like the bloomerites.
In nineteenth-century accounts of travel among the islands and atolls, one comes across passage after passage about the dress and ornamentation of the inhabitants.
Transport improvements in the course of the nineteenth century, accompanied by a significant reduction in unit transport costs, essentially reinforced this pattern of trade.
Many of the constraints which militated against the settlement of in-migrant women also continued to operate throughout most of the nineteenth century.
Throughout the nineteenth century, local government was responsible for enforcement of nuisance laws.
Since the late nineteenth century, some traditional merchants had attempted to reform their business to adapt to changing market conditions.
The general absence of modern manufacturing revealed in the census was recognized by early nineteenth-century commentators.
Until the late nineteenth century no town was eligible for city status if it lacked 'architectural distinction'.
Let us thus start with references from the late nineteenth century.
Until the middle of the nineteenth century this region had extensive areas of moorland and a very modest rural population.
A variety of late nineteenth-century social commentators were convinced that a growing 'residuum' existed in densely populated urban areas.
By the end of the nineteenth century, there were far more extensive and specialized codes regarding business corporations.
All this pointed the way to a final defiant reply to the therapeutic nihilism of his nineteenth-century heritage.
By the late nineteenth century, inhibition had clearly become a secular principle of order.
The idea itself, however, was already known in the nineteenth century.
The university reforms and extensions of the nineteenth century represented in many ways a continuation of these trends.
The distance between the levels of disciplinary communication and of scientific communities increased during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The competing party-based models of popular leadership in the nineteenth century were tied to the parties' opposing stances toward the state.
One cannot identify, however, the cultural constitution of tradition even in the nineteenth-century natural sciences with the relevant characteristics of their present practice.
The construction of economic behavior as criminal, the imagination of the "criminaloid," was novel and striking to late nineteenth-century commenta42.
During the nineteenth century, medicine made an important progress and became a natural science.
Until the adoption of synthetic mesh in the 1990s, methods of hernia repair had changed little since the nineteenth century.
There is sometimes a surprisingly naive willingness to blame nineteenth-century women for failing to have late-twentieth-century attitudes about race or class or sexuality.
The illustrated papers of the nineteenth century not only followed closely developments in the arts, they often included reproductions meant for display.
Thus, the woman at the center of nineteenth-century domestic discourse is characterized, first and foremost, by her separation from the economic world.
European social surveys up to the end of the nineteenth century were, with very few exceptions, locally orientated.
The basis for the proposed typology is provided by the dream knowledge in circulation toward the end of the nineteenth century.
A nineteenth-century reader could not have missed this reference to the human origins question.
By the late nineteenth century, the role of church groups in founding and maintaining such institutions had largely been supplanted by the state.
As actuaries would discover by the mid-nineteenth century, too much competition also could be a threat to professional status.
By the nineteenth century the priority had been reversed; probability became a branch of mathematics with some possibility of application to practical decisions.
We shall start with some observations on the change of mathematical style in the early nineteenth century.
The authors found that using their invar iants they could ver ify the nineteenth-centur y listings with ver y few exceptions.
One imperative of the nineteenth-century discourse of money is that origin, like ownership, should remain clear at all times.
All six had their own civic authority and, by the late nineteenth century, their own town council and town hall.
All nineteenth-century melodramas suggest a need for radical change in the lives of the powerless and the oppressed, and in this they are inherently radical.
Two questions, one aesthetic and the other political, thus become inextricably linked in late nineteenth-century socialist debate.
As a result of this double-sidedness, it was available for almost any nineteenth-century argument concerning the place, role, and value of any group or person.
A further example of this process can be found in the concept of circulation that dominated the industrial development of the nineteenth-century metropolis.
Even so, we may see in the nineteenth century, in differing forms and situations, concerns that still dominate the cultural imaginary.
His words also differentiate between educated and "vulgar" readers, a distinction that would be maintained in the nineteenth century, when literacy rose even further.
By aping the discourse of nineteenth-century materialistic science, it acted out its hidden tensions, exaggerating them into unresolvable paradoxes.
I might note here that the nineteenth-century beliefs of the effluvists have had a long afterlife.
Just how interdisciplinary can we be and still hold on to the distinctiveness of nineteenth- century literature and culture?
As a consequence, we are in a position to trace afresh the publication history of much nineteenth-century literary work.
The courts' exploration of the meaning of citizenship pointed to the issues that were at the heart of the political controversies of the mid-nineteenth century.
One chapter illuminates the colonial era, eight the nineteenth century, and four the twentieth century.
Much of the scholarship that addresses this question compares late nineteenth and early twentieth-century identities with pre-colonial patterns of social differentiation.
The author brings forward various answers : the relative peacefulness of the nineteenth century made it possible for monarchs to meet.
The explanation may lie in the paucity of private collections or in their loss during the upheavals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The boundary ballads that were cited in this paper were still in use in the later nineteenth century.
Unmistakable and identifiable imperial ideologies, it was often assumed, developed only in the later nineteenth century.
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