... competition. Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.zaAfricanIntellectuals in 19th and early 20th century south africa Free download from www.hsrcpress.ac.zaviiThe 1998 Nobel Prize Laureate ... consistent reader-ship. Only three African-focused newspapers in the Cape survived into the twentieth century: Imvo, Izwi and Christian Express.Education among Africans received a colonial boost from...
... higher average levels of capital intensity in LSF grain farming throughout most of the 20th century in Southern Rhodesia/Zimba-bwe, and to a lesser extent Kenya, than in South Africa. These ... flowers did not become significantly less labour intensive over time prior to the end of the 20th century. Where reductions in la-bour costs were sought for these crops, this was mainly by methods ... figures compare to Southern African LSF maize production costs towards the end of the 20th century, that were almost certainly below USD 200/ha. Differences in labour intensity are of course...
... mano-a-mano became less necessary…and legal. With the closingof the American frontier, vigilantism was no longer tolerated. In the 19th century, in both theNorth and South, men had shot and killed ... Between Conscience and HonorAs we have explored in previous posts, during the 19th century in England and the American will find it hard to say that because of his refusal to accept the challenge ... personal interests for the sake of the common good.In the increasingly diverse society of the 20th century, ideas of what constituted the commongood splintered. And with that splintering came uncertainty...
... number of seats available and thus the number of20 The Microstructure of the Bond Market in the 20th Century ∗Bruno Biais†andRichard C. Green‡August 29, 2007∗Part of this paper was written ... decreasethroughout the century. The tax-exempt status of municipal bonds makes them relatively attractivefor individual investors, and tax rates rose over the course of the century, from the imposition ... 20 0.208715-29K 10 0.325> 30K 4 0.299235 The Microstructure of the Bond Market i n the 20th Century AbstractBonds are traded in over-the-counter markets, where opacity and fragmentation...
... of modernisation and profes-sionalisation took place in science mostly in the 19th century and early 20th century. Mod-ernisation means here a gradual change from descriptive natural philosophy ... Helsinki in the 20th century. MaterialandmethodsWe collected all published and unpublished reports and material on the water research done in the city of Helsinki. For most of the 20th cen-tury, ... of the methods that were used during the 20thcentury to study the state of the urban sea area in Helsinki, Finland. From the beginning of the past century, the methodological basis of municipal...
... PREFACEThe first year of a new century always appears auspicious. The year 1900 was no exception. Americanswelcomed it in with the three Ps: Peace, Prosperity, ... outstanding achievements and looked for-ward, with great confidence, to a century of continued progress. Thetwentieth century would be an age of knowledge and certainty. Ironi-cally it ended ... could be knownwas, in principle at least, already known. The president could lookahead to a new century with total conviction. Newton’s theory ofixQue sais-je? (What do I know?) Montaigne 2...
... More attention is paid to Anglo -American work,and particularly to American views, since arguably they set the tone and parameters of thefield through much of the century. This account should be ... Russia’sTwentieth Century: The Collapse of the Soviet System (London: Verso, 2005).37 Cambridge Histories Online â Cambridge University Press, 20081Reading Russia and the Soviet Union inthe twentieth century: ... LievenVolume IIIThe Twentieth Century Edited by Ronald Grigor Suny Cambridge Histories Online â Cambridge University Press, 2008Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century sole repository...
... 20TH-21ST CENTURY . 3 individual who is a native speaker of Spanish or is of Spanish descent—including Hispanic-Americans. As a consequence, the term “Spanish- American may apply to all Hispanic-Americans, ... Hispanic -American refer to all the inhabitants of the Hispanic American countries of South America, Central America, and the Caribbean, or more narrowly to individuals from only those American ... wide-ranging concept which may include terms such as Spanish, Spanish -American, Latino, Latin -American, Hispanic, Hispanic -American, and Iberian. Indeed, these are terms that are clearly related,...
... operations, American. 5. Afghan War, 2001—Naval operations, American. 6. War on Terrorism, 2001– 7. Iraq War, 2003–—Aerial operations, American. 8. Iraq War, 2003–— Naval operations, American. ... Scheduled toDeploy Wednesday,” Inside the Navy, September 17, 2001. 16 American Carrier Air Power at the Dawn of a New Century ever, remained the LGB, since it was all but impossible to hit suchtargets ... Fourth Carrier to Afghanistan,”Washington Times, November 8, 2001. x American Carrier Air Power at the Dawn of a New Century northern Afghanistan made for sorties lasting up to ten hours, oftenwith...
... +AS I REMEMBER[Illustration: MRS. GOUVERNEUR.]AS I REMEMBERRecollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century BYMARIAN GOUVERNEURILLUSTRATEDNEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND ... but she was a broad-minded woman and herknowledge of American affairs was as great as that of her own country. She rounded out nearly a century oflife, the greater part of which was devoted ... A few years after we separated in Boston Mr. and Mrs. Curry went toSpain to reside, where, as American Minister, he was present at the birth of King Alfonso of Spain.About fifteen years later...
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... Scientific American, Inc. The Transistor Scientific American: The Solid-State Century 21ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES LEWICKICopyright 1997 Scientific American, Inc. COPYRIGHT 1998 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, ... FameCopyright 1997 Scientific American, Inc. 21THE TRANSISTORSPECIAL ISSUE/1997THE SOLID-STATE CENTURY 710182424C344446Scientific American The Solid-State Century (ISSN 1048-0943), Special ... transistorDISPLAY UNTIL JANUARY 22,1998$4.95Copyright 1997 Scientific American, Inc. Birth of an Era12 Scientific American: The Solid-State Century In the weeks that followed, however,Shockley was torn...