Economic Sophistication in Nineteenth Century Congressional Tariff Debates

Economic Sophistication in Nineteenth Century Congressional Tariff Debates

Timing and Sequence in Congressional Elections: Interstate Contagion and America’s Nineteenth-Century Scheduling Regime

. . . [T]he advantages of uniformity are incontestable. The exaggerated and unreasonable influence of the September-voting States upon the October-voting States, and of these in turn upon the November-voting States, has for many years been notorious. It is, of course, absurd that elections in one part of the country, which may have turned on special causes, should influence all the rest of the ...

Two nineteenth century surgeons.

the biggest problem in guerilla warfare and at one time we were carrying so many wounded on stretchers, with two men carrying, that there were few left to fight. Food was very scarce; we seemed to live on boiled billy goat-which tastes as the billy goat smells-and a rock hard maize bread "chicken mash," equally unpalatable. Vegetables were never seen. Later we could get sheep milk yogurt and in...

Nineteenth-century scientific instruments

The first thing to be said about this book is that it is an excellent survey of nineteenth-century scientific instruments. Its excellence lies in its value as a guide to the identification of objects. The volume is extremely well produced; the illustrations, which are mainly photographs of instruments, are first class; and Dr. Turner's detailed text irreproachably sound. The book is a general a...

The Nineteenth Psalm in the Criticism of the Nineteenth Century

2 The heavens declare the glory of God, And the firmament showeth his handiwork. 3 Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge. 4 There is no speech nor language, Their voice is unheard. 5 Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 6 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamb...