How did intellectuals conquer fashion? Nineteenth-century discourses

The Author of Her Trouble: Abortion in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth- Century Judicial Discourses

Introduction .................................................... 431 I. Background: Common Law and Criminalization ........... 433 II. Women in the Courts: "Victim" Explained ................. 438 A . Consent ................ ............................ 439 B. Accomplice Liability, Agency, and Necessity of Testim ony ........................................... 443 C. Dying Declarations .........

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...

Did Steam Engines Fuel Urban Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century ? Less Sanguine Results

There exists general agreement that the steam engine's rise in importance occurred at the same time as large increases in firm size and growing urbanization, but no consensus concerning the degree to which the steam engine served as an exogenous fo rce fueling urban growth. We reexamine the hypothesis that a leading brand of steam engine made by the Corliss Company fue led urbanization in the l...

The nineteenth-century quarantine narrative.