imperialism in america during the 19th century

Regional diversity in the nineteenth century

Regional diversity in the nineteenth century

... coun- tryeach year during the late nineteenth century. The main export was ivory, whose continuously rising price drove the traders ever deeper inland. Slave exports rose to rival it during the mid -century, ... himself’. 11 The western savanna also experienced two jihads during the nineteenth century, but they created less stability. The first, in 1818, was in the internal delta of the Niger, hitherto controlled ... 16:0 Regional diversity in the nineteenth century 179 southern africa During the early nineteenth century the African peoples of southern Africa used two strategies in attempting to overcome segmentation...

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Troubling others - representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around mid-century

Troubling others - representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around mid-century

... Carlyle, as a result of the contagion passed from one to another through the air they both breathe or the water they both drink, then in Engels, as in Gaskell, it is the interpenetration of English ... from the millowners themselves, who at one point had the Representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around mid -century [the working-man] can protest with most violent passion against the ... English bodies, linking the imperial and industrial feats of the nineteenth century to an aboriginal ethnic principle. Inspired by Alton’s viewing of a boat race at Cambridge – in which ‘‘some...

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The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last glacial cycle

The conditions in Africa and Eurasia during the last glacial cycle

... at the time. The vegetation of the Eurasian Plain during OIS 3, in the west at least, seems to have oscillated between conifer woodland, with shrub tundra in the north, during warm parts of the ... the Russian Plain during the Briansk Interstadial with the southern limit of the range of a number of Arctic plants being 1200 km further south than today (and a further 600 km during OIS 2). Steppe ... forest intrusions during warm and wet climate; <S, steppe intrusions during cold and arid climate; T V, tundra intrusions during cold and arid climate. The significance of these changes was in the...

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Tài liệu Health sector reform and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean: strengthening the links pptx

Tài liệu Health sector reform and reproductive health in Latin America and the Caribbean: strengthening the links pptx

... (2). Growth in the size and influence of civil society in Brazil since the 1980s has facilitated the positive change. Increasingly democratic processes have lengthened the policy decision-making process, ... assessment of existing capacity for these functions and to help in strengthening such capacity when necessary (7). Continue building on the important role of NGOs. Changes in financing and decentralization ... very broadly in terms of policy, financing, administration, and programming at the country level. The process is intended to be part of a larger shift towards democratization. In Paraguay, as in Argentina,...

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Tài liệu Investigation of Organic Chemicals Potentially Responsible for Mortality and Intersex in Fish of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, Virginia, during Spring of 2007 ppt

Tài liệu Investigation of Organic Chemicals Potentially Responsible for Mortality and Intersex in Fish of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, Virginia, during Spring of 2007 ppt

... observa- tions of intersex in fish have been increasing in regularity in the Shenandoah River and Potomac River basins in Virginia (Blazer and others, 2007). The fish kills and observations of intersex ... rate-limiting barriers allow- ing the use of the same models to determine ambient water concentrations. Previous data indicate that many chemicals of interest remain in the linear phase of sampling ... greater in the second deployment and likely were related to increased pesticide application during the spring crop planting in the largely agri- cultural reaches of the watershed. Desethylatrazine,...

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Tài liệu Noblewoman aristocracy and power in the twelfth century anglo norman realm pptx

Tài liệu Noblewoman aristocracy and power in the twelfth century anglo norman realm pptx

... her tenacity in holding the castle in 1217. Indeed, Nichola’s defence of power and portrayal  23  Lincoln in 1217 was a significant factor in turning the tide of events in favour of King John. According ... applies to other twelfth -century saints. 44 Women’s testimony and role as sources of information on the saint are therefore one way in which they could in uence the shape and content of the text. ... research into the history of women and gender since the 1970s has changed the face of history. Using the insights of feminist theory and of historians of women, gender historians have explored the...

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Tài liệu Impact Evaluation Of Small And Medium Enterprise Programs In Latin America And The Caribbean pptx

Tài liệu Impact Evaluation Of Small And Medium Enterprise Programs In Latin America And The Caribbean pptx

... increased R&D spending and R&D intensity (of about 3%) in both the full sample of firms and in the sub-sample of innovative firms, and they rejected the hypothesis of subsidies crowding ... commercial information, hiring and training of specialized staff, and increased investments in export promo- tion activities. In quantitative terms, participation in PROCHILE increased by one the ... ndings suggest that SME programs are having tangible impacts on the short and medium term intermediate outcomes that they are targeting. Do these gains in intermediate outcomes translate into...

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Tài liệu Social and Economic Control of Alcohol The 21st Amendment in the 21st Century docx

Tài liệu Social and Economic Control of Alcohol The 21st Amendment in the 21st Century docx

... be justified depend- ing on the willingness of policy makers to intervene into family life. In addition, there is an argument to be made to intervene on the well-being of the individual. Although ... through the interjection of a reverse economic model originally intended to give the middle tier the monopoly of economic control. As authors in the original text point out, in an ever-expanding ... and in ames sin- ners, then I am against it,” the congressman said. “But if you mean the elixir of Christmas cheer, the shield against winter chill, the taxable potion that puts needed funds into...

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Tài liệu The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America doc

Tài liệu The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America doc

... is on the bell-boy, by having the guest refrain from tipping. Then the spectators laugh at the bell-boy's disappointment again finding humor in misfortune. TIPS IN THE MOVIES With the development ... servitors in order to stimulate tipping has brought out the opposite quality of domineering pride in the patron. THE SORE SPOT No feeling so rankles in the mind as the sense of uncompensated labor. The ... tribute. XVII THE WAY OUT Summarizing the case against tipping, the following facts stand out prominently: 1. Flunkyism is rampant in the American democracy and this aristocratic influence is undermining...

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