Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America

European storminess: late nineteenth century to present

Annual and seasonal statistics of local air pressure characteristics have already been used as proxies for storminess across Northern Europe. We present an update of such proxies for Northern Europe and an unprecedented analysis for Central Europe which together considerably extends the current knowledge of European storminess. Calculations are completed for three sets of stations, located in N...

Exercise, physical capability, and the eternally wounded woman in late nineteenth century North America.

During the latter part of the nineteenth century, arguments about women’s limited physical and mental capacity and the centrality of reproduction for understanding women’s bodies defined medical views of women’s health and the productive boundaries of their lives. Ostensibly basing their views upon new scientific evidence, influential medical practitioners, many of whom were men, utilized pseud...

Commentary on " Were Banks Special Intermediaries in Late Nineteenth Century America?

O ne of the hallmarks of Eugene White’s scholarship is his knack for using detailed historical examples to raise large, thought-provoking questions. “Were Banks Special Intermediaries in Late Nineteenth Century America?” is no exception. White combines case studies of two small financial institutions, the Bank of A. Levy and the Emigrant Savings Bank, with other information on nineteenth-centur...

The meanings of blindness in nineteenth-century America.

GEORGE HENRY spent only one day at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, but the experience made a profound impression on him. Midway through a colorful career as a canal builder and bell maker, Henry developed an inflammation of the eyes that gradually destroyed his vision. Desperate to find some new way to support his family, in the late 1830s he went to the school's workshop in Philade...

Constructions of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America