Edhem Eldem. Review of "Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture" by Mary Roberts.

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

Marginalization of Women's Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Bengal'

Taking all matters into consideration, the poor woman of this country should be an object of compassion rather than of our contempt The stimulus given to India by British example, and capital employed for the education of Indian females, is not among the least of her beneficial operations. The time will come when their worth shall be duly appreciated by the daughters of India; and then, should ...

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...

"Nineteenth-century origins of neuroscientific concepts". By Edwin Clarke and L. S. Jacyna. Essay review.

This is an intriguing book, partly because of its content, partly because of its complex form and style. It is presented as tracing "the origins in the first half of the nineteenth century of certain anatomical and physiological concepts that have proved fundamental in the human neurosciences." By 1850, it is claimed, Galenic and Hallerian concepts had been overthrown and the foundations of mod...