... One wasthe Luba kingdom in the Katanga region, which disintegrated in the 1870s when coastal traders introduced firearms into a succession conflict The other wasthe Shambaa kingdom in the northeast ... 68297 May 15, 2007 16:0 Regional diversity in thenineteenthcentury 179 southern africa During the early nineteenthcenturythe African peoples of southern Africa used two strategies in attempting ... thenineteenthcentury 185 the Europeans back into the sea Perhaps one-third of Xhosa died and the Cape government seized the opportunity to destroy their society, alienating more than half their...
... 1844).2 The role of assigned to the caixa in the mutual association was clearly ancillary: according to the first statutes of the Montepio, the purpose of the CEMG was to contribute towards the broad ... Directors elected by the General Assembly to whom it was accountable The Board wasthe responsible for the management of the assets of the Montepio following a broad mandate by the General Assembly ... discussions about the financial stability of the institution, before the first years of the twentieth century, when actuarial concerns started to prevail Throughout thenineteenth century, the dominant...
... was one of its students A few years ago a history of the school was published, and a copy of the book was loaned me by the late Mrs Lucius Tuckerman of Washington, whose mother was educated there ... were restored to the good graces of the English throne, and it was Scotland that was compelled to bear the brunt of the royal displeasure The sins of the fathers were visited upon their children, ... deportment There was one of these which was known as the "excellence medal," and the exultant pupil upon whom it was bestowed was allowed the privilege of wearing it for two weeks Upon it was inscribed...
... The omission was deliberate, not accidental, and the grounds for it were given in the preface Blake was not discovered until rather late in thenineteenthcentury He was not a link in the chain ... Abbotsford was his weakness, but it was no ignoble weakness If the ideal of the life which he proposed to himself there was scarcely a heroic one, neither was it vulgar or selfish The artist or the ... not the water that gave interest to the ship but the ship to the water "What was it attracted the thousands to the launch? They might have seen the poetical 'calm water' at Wapping or in the...
... respectively, the improvement of their several tools the telescope and the quadrant on the one side, and the calculus on the other—keeping pace The whole future of the science seemed to be theirs The cessation ... absorb their popularity The rise of Herschel wasthe one conspicuous anomaly in the astronomical history of the eighteenth century It proved decisive of the course of events in thenineteenth It was ... Astronomy—Progress of the Science during the Eighteenth Century Popularity and Rapid Advance during theNineteenthCentury PART I PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THENINETEENTHCENTURY CHAPTER...
... purple, on the top of the catafalque, twenty feet from the ground, was enclosed the coffin of the Emperor; but it was not so The sailors of the "Belle Poule" protested that the catafalque was too ... from their bed, rushed into the main building The noise had proceeded from the duchess's chamber They knocked at the door, but there was no answer, only low moans They consulted together, and then ... to remark that I was three years old when I was baptized, in 1810, in the chapel at Fontainebleau The emperor was my godfather, and the Empress Marie Louise was my godmother Then my memory carries...
... his constant request was hoo it doos." He investigated the course of the water from the duckpond to the river, and the courses of the bell-wires from the pulls to the bells in the kitchen, " action ... to the Cambridge and THE ORCE RF JAMES CLERK MAXWELL 13 Dublin Mathematical Journal; he was also elected into the Apostles' Club; so-called from the number of the members; their object wasthe ... him to the Edinburgh Academy, one of the a tutor was best secondary schools of the Scottish metropolis He entered the Academy in the middle of a term, and his reception by the other boys was not...
... Robin Small Dilthey Michael Lessnoff Logic and the philosophy of mathematics in thenineteenthcentury John Stillwell Philosophy of biology in thenineteenthcentury Jagdish Hattiangadi The separation ... harmful to others even though the views expressed, or the acts in question, were those towards which theThenineteenthcentury majority felt repugnance Utilitarian theory was developed further by ... where it cannot work to prevent mischief; where it is unprofitable, wherethe cost is too great; and where it is needless, where other means would as well At the heart of the perspective is the...
... impact on the Others as Britain and France did in thenineteenthcenturyThe history of thenineteenthcenturywas made in and by Europe, to an extent that cannot be said of either the eighteenth ... works in the 1880s The historical memory of thenineteenthcentury casts a similar spell in the United States, wherethe Civil War of 186165 stands alongside the formation of the Union in the late ... thenineteenthwasthe age of their global application As a result of these persistent efforts, it became possible to grasp the world in its entirety The maps produced around the end of the century...
... seems to them for the good of the republic or the prince, regardless of the consequences to themselves, then they fail of their duty; and if they advise it, then it is at the risk of their position ... on the brain of the living —Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte1 Concern with the philosopher’s voice did not originate ex nihilo with the dawning of thenineteenthcentury Rather, the ... leads them to make the dilemma posed by the rhetorical and political nature of philosophy a central focal point of their political theory and practice The philosophers of thenineteenth century...
... warehouse The smell is the smell of new-mown hay, but the look is the look of tar Later, in the dry weather before the rains come and in the dry weather after, the drug is taken out of the vats ... by the time the English bought the Kiying, it was already clear that the process, for some time at least, was irreversible China was going to open further This book is about the first step in the ... China was a simple step; once the Chinese had fallen into the habit of buying Indian opium, there was very little to induce them to stop In the end they came to prefer the Indian product to their...
... harm, their contribution to the ‘security and improvement of the savings of persons in humble life’56 was rather limited To the limited extent that they served the poor, the new institutions put their ... outlines the early history of savings banks on both sides of the Atlantic Part describes the records of the TSB and the EISB Part describes the savings behaviour they imply Part profiles the savers, ... accounts The average sum on deposit, £35 13s 4d, was on the high side, exceeded by only seven of a total of seventy-six banks (the average for the country as a whole was £30 8s) A feature was the...
... During the early and mid -nineteenth century these questions were widely debated and were made all the more contentious by the recent evolution in the understanding of the word ‘genius’ The importance ... by advocates of the Laplacians and the corpuscular theory These included Henry (later Lord) Brougham ( 1778 –1868), the Whig politician who was founder and Chairman of the SDUK The controversial ... 1831 By the second half of thenineteenth century, the gap between the ‘historical’ Newton, created by the expert community, and the ‘mythical’ Newton, celebrated by men of science and the public...
... eighteenth century by aesthetic theorists such as Joseph Addison at the beginning of thecentury and Immanuel Kant at the end More specifically, the cult of the Sublime was given major impetus ... of the British visual, artistic and aesthetic engagement with the landscape presented by Southern Africa The example of William Burchell illustrates the operation of the Picturesque in Southern ... of Africa The impact of the landscape was not always submerged beneath a welter of pleasing associations For George Thompson, another traveller in the first quarter of thenineteenth century, ...
... what wasthe Theology of their Fathers’ (VM i, p i) In fact, the generations between Routh and Newman were Xuent in the Fathers.23 The diVerence was that Routh remained a constant friend of the ... in the Anglican Church, his Wrst theological formation owed little to the scholastics [rather,] owing to him, the great theological style of the Fathers has been worthily revived in thenineteenth ... encourage others to the same.’ After the Wrst twelve Records, there was a shift in theme made possible by the fact the early martyr Justin also left an ‘account of Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and the...
... in theNineteenthCenturythe end of thenineteenth century, a number of groups claimed that they had come up with novel theories which were going to alter deeply the state of the art in the ... around the mid nineteenthcenturythe past undisputedly acknowledged as at the root of the nation was classical antiquity, its monuments and other remains From the second half of the century, ... of the modern state in the early modern era and the appropriation of antiquity from the Renaissance to the Reformation, Wrst by the elites and then, by the end of the eighteenth century, by the...
... ascribe the cause of the anti-Christian movement solely to the missionaries Another explanation of the anti-Christian movement in the late nineteenthcentury China is that Anti-foreignism wasthe ... the dwellers either Most people could only cultivate the poor land near the mountains Furthermore, most of the land was owned by landlords Although the system of hereditary local chieftains was ... evolution, there was obvious mark of multi-God worship among people there.74 During late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the research period of this thesis, what the missionaries saw was a...
... on the relevant aspects Chronically, the thesis research focuses on the period from the sixteenth century, when the Habsburgs dynasty was established, to the early nineteenth century, when the ... country wherethe Inca, Maya and the highlands of Mexico (the country of the Aztecs) Here appeared the first state form earlier than other areas in the Americas, and also wherethe formation of the ... economic thought first of the bourgeoisie, was born first in the UK, around the 1450, developed to the XVII century, then degenerated It was born in the context of the feudal mode of production,...