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... Chapter 1 explores an early nineteenth-century regional network of newly named “weather observers” across the northeastern United States and the ways in which this network utilized weather measurement to uphold settler claims to territory and build archives of settler environmental knowledge...

... early nineteenth century weather data observers territorial claims Haudenosaunee Confederacy Lenape ...

... From the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century resonance was considered to be the key mechanism governing the physiology of pitch perception. The epistemological hegemony of resonance was, however, never stable, especially during the early nineteenth century when in the wake...

... roles of Christian and Muslim structures in Nigeria’s political and social transformation from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first.  Islamic reformism mission Christianity indigenous religions Sokoto Caliphate Church Missionary Society ...

... Lecture 12, “Second Modernity,” returns to the changing historical context of thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to continue the discussion of European modern thought. second modernity high modernism hermeneutics of suspicion ...

... nineteenth century alongside George Washington Cable’s late nineteenth-century short story “Belles Demoiselles Plantation” (1883). Both authors situate erosion as attached to concerns over a disappearing whiteness via the plantation. As a productive counter to these narratives, the second half of the chapter...

... Indies. Early nineteenth-century ideas of “free trade” were intrinsic both to economic liberty in England, and to the improvisation of new forms of sovereignty in the empire, as Britain moved from mercantilism to expanded worldwide trade, and integrated colonial practices of slavery and conquest with new...

... and religion in the early nineteenth century. It then turns to fascinating moments in The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) and Martin Delany’s Blake; or the Huts of America (1859), where rationalist theories of mind come to the fore. It considers how black women’s antebellum manuscript cultures challenge...

... Napoleon’s invasion of Spain in 1807 and the toppling of the Bourbon monarchy removed the primary factor that had given legitimacy and cohesion to the Spanish colonial system—the Crown. The early nineteenth century in Mexico would be characterized by government penury, political instability...

... The introduction explores the broader history of efficiency in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, placing the medical efficiency movement within this larger context. It offers a brief overview of the sheer variety of activities done in the name...

... Most of the primary source material consulted for this volume was gathered from periodicals, newspapers, official publications, and manuscripts housed in the following archives. Periodicals from the nineteenth century and the early twentieth are unfortunately not easy to locate in Calcutta...

... Most of the primary source material consulted for this volume was gathered from periodicals, newspapers, official publications, and manuscripts housed in the following archives. Periodicals from the nineteenth century and the early twentieth are unfortunately not easy to locate in Calcutta...

... Most of the primary source material consulted for this volume was gathered from periodicals, newspapers, official publications, and manuscripts housed in the following archives. Periodicals from the nineteenth century and the early twentieth are unfortunately not easy to locate in Calcutta...