Colonial-Vernacular Houses of Java, Malaya, and Singapore in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Occupational status in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

As contemporary and historical studies of occupational the latter problem satisfactorily, though one might exstratification multiply, social scientists display continupect many sources of historical data to be at least as ing ambivalence about the invariance of occupational susceptible to response variability as are contemporary status hierarchies across time and space. On one hand, social surv...

The medical mandarins: the French Academy of Medicine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

The title of this carefully researched book may conjure up images of an intellectual corporation, richly endowed and ceremoniously inscribed in the ruling elite-a picture typified by the physician Rene Laennec, who became a great figurehead for the Academy. A classical scholar and royal favourite, Laennec visited his patient, Cardinal Fesch-Napoleon's uncle, in "costume de cour" and sword. A me...

Organic memory: history and the body in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

gloss over and disguise the very real sense of social effort required in the transition from one theory to another. On another level, much of the information in this volume also remains hidden. The book's organization, which combines Oxford notation with conventional footnotes and individual bibliographies, disrupts the natural flow of reading. The footnotes and bibliographies, which demonstrat...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Dental caries in a Portuguese identified skeletal sample from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries