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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Nazera Sadiq WrightPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209901X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship.
Capital in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Robert E. GallmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022663311X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the numbers? What do the data tell us about what was, what is, and how things changed over time? Economist Robert E. Gallman (1926–98) gathered extensive data on US capital stock and created a legacy that has, until now, been difficult for researchers to access and appraise in its entirety. Gallman measured American capital stock from a range of perspectives, viewing it as the accumulation of income saved and invested, and as an input into the production process. He used the level and change in the capital stock as proxy measures for long-run economic performance. Analyzing data in this way from the end of the US colonial period to the turn of the twentieth century, Gallman placed our knowledge of the long nineteenth century—the period during which the United States began to experience per capita income growth and became a global economic leader—on a strong empirical foundation. Gallman’s research was painstaking and his analysis meticulous, but he did not publish the material backing to his findings in his lifetime. Here Paul W. Rhode completes this project, giving permanence to a great economist’s insights and craftsmanship. Gallman’s data speak to the role of capital in the economy, which lies at the heart of many of the most pressing issues today.
The XIX Century
Author: Europe in the XIX Century (1815–1914)
Author: John E. MorrisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107585759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A guide to the history of Europe from the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo up until the outbreak of World War One.
Spirit of the XIX. Century
Author: Foreign Secretaries of the XIX. Century to 1834
Author: Percy Melville ThorntonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385427185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Papism in the XIX. Century, in the United States
Author: Robert Jefferson BreckinridgePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Notes Upon Certain Masters of the XIX Century
Author: Albert WolffPublisher:
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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The Guitar in Venezuela During the XIX Century: History and References
Author: Erick IbarraPublisher: Erick Ibarra
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
This work synthesizes through oral tradition that during the nineteenth century there are findings of the guitar in historical musical documentation centers in Venezuela. Furthermore, at the same time, it fills a void in the knowledge of musicological research since there has been a misconception for many years that the guitar has been considered null and void in the nineteenth century for the country Venezuela.
Author: William Chismon