... 16:0Regional diversity inthenineteenthcentury 179southern africaDuring the early nineteenthcenturythe African peoples of southern Africaused two strategies in attempting to overcome segmentation ... during the 1860s. Inthe north, the Ngoni role was takenby the pastoral Maasai. After gaining control of the Rift Valley, Maasai groupsspent much of thenineteenthcentury fighting one another ... of Oman on the PersianGulf to convert into real authority the nominal overlordship of the coast thatthey had claimed since leading opposition tothe Portuguese there in 1698.They took control...
... eye to personal gain. This was certainly more a factor inthe U.S. than inthe U.K. Some of the main movers behind the New York Bank for Savings (established in 1819) were also supporters of the ... in establishing and running banks inthe New World setting than in the Old. Even when—as inthe case of the EISB—clergymen were instrumental in a bank’s foundation, they tended to keep well ... males declaring no occupation. Whether the founders of the TSB ever intended to target the poor specifically must remain a moot point. In evidence tothe Irish Poor Inquiry51 in 1835 local...
... habits? The dilemma was whether to increase incentives to large depositors inthe CEMG and invest inthe booming market, running the risk of illiquidity, or to persist inthe policy of favoring ... the Growing from Crises. The Portuguese Saving Bank Montepio Geral inthe nineteenth- century Introduction We started inthe last fall a doctoral thesis dedicated to savings banks in Portugal ... tothe advance of these queries. Indeed, by analyzing the behavior of CEMG during the two major economic events that occurred in Portugal inthe second half of nineteenth century, we intend to...
... Rimini in which the lovers used to meet CHAPTER III. 43 A History of English Romanticism in the NineteenthCentury The Project Gutenberg eBook, A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth ... exaggerating to say that there is more public mention of Dante now in a single year than in all the years of the eighteenth century together. It would be interesting, if it were possible, to count the ... is the prettyturn which Hunt gave tothe story. Inthe original it had a coarser ending. There are also, among thesetranslations from mediaeval sources, the Latin drinking song attributed to...
... o'clock inthe morning they wereawakened by screams; but they lay still, imagining that the noise came from the Champs Elysées. Then theyheard the loud ringing of a bell, and starting from their ... about to do the most audacious thing in modern history; but noman can deny them the praise awarded tothe unjust steward. If the thing was to be done, or, inthe languageof Victor Hugo, if the ... asthey grew up to fulfil their appointed destinies. The second son went into the Church, and rose to be a bishop. The third son, M. le Chevalier, went into the army. The sisters adopted the...
... riceplanter in South Carolina. The beautiful Christmas flower, the poinsettia, was named in compliment to Mr.Poinsett. These interesting women for many years were inthe habit of leaving what they ... MARRIAGE AND CONTINUED LIFE IN WASHINGTON 256XII SOJOURN IN CHINA AND RETURN 288XIII THE CIVIL WAR AND LIFE IN MARYLAND 312XIV VISIT TOTHE FAR SOUTH AND RETURN TO WASHINGTON 335XV TOTHE PRESENT ... in London and that George Astor, an elder brotherof John Jacob Astor, was associated with the latter in their sale. Indeed, one of them, formerly owned by the Clinton family and now in Washington's...
... in science. It was the first earnest attempt to bring solar phenomena within the compass of a rational system; to put together into a consistent whole the facts ascertained; to fabricate, in ... conspicuous inthe living kingdoms of Nature, was seen to prevail no less inthe celestial spaces; and some faint preliminary notion was afforded of the indefinite complexity of relations underlying the ... heaven tothe model of our insignificant planet, and to extend the brotherhood of our system and our species tothe farthest limit of the visible or imaginable universe. In later times we find...
... timeenteredon the studyof the ConicSections,andhetookup the problem in hislaboratory.He modified the manner oftracinganellipseby doubling the cordfrom the tracing-point to one of the foci; the ... ofexamplesonQuaternions.Therewere, however, to Tait'smind numerous obscurepoints in the theory,and to elucidatethemhewished to correspondwith Hamiltondirectly.HisfriendAndrews wrote to Hamiltonasking the favor; in thiswayacorrespondenceoriginatedwhichwaskept ... the cityofEdinburghisdefective.Whileengaged in engineeringwork in Ireland,he hadthoughtmuch on the mechanical nature ofheat,a doctrinewhich wasthenengaging the attentionof the scientificworld. In reading the PrincipiaofNewton,Rankinemusthaveobservedhow...
... sentence containing those terms would be translated into one explaining for what the law makes usliable to punishment, for doing or not doing, and punishment is then further explained in The early ... least their influentialadvisers. Inthe 1780s he spent two years in Russia with some hope of convincingCatherine the Great, but with his failure to gain influence amongst the powerful, whetherover ... reference to their context the sentence; whether or not the sentence can be paraphrased into one which contains real terms is the decidingfactor with regard to its sense or nonsense. In a sense the...
... impact on the Others” as Britain and France did in thenineteenth century. The history of thenineteenthcentury was made in and by Europe, to anextent that cannot be said of either the eighteenth ... searching for the roots of their own culture; others, most prominently MarkTwain, went inthe assurance of belonging to a younger and better world. Inthe second half of the nineteenth century, ... the opening of the first large Western-style theater.14 The figure of the itinerant stage celebrity active in various parts of the world also originated in thenineteenth century. 15 In 1850...