Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: a zooarchaeological perspective

Marrying out of the lower classes in nineteenth-century Belgium

In this article we address one of the most prominent questions in historical sociology: did economic modernization in the nineteenth century lead to societal openness? In an attempt to answer the question we examine the chances for lowerclass grooms of marrying upwardly in five Belgian cities (Aalst, Leuven, Ghent, Verviers, and Liège). Our findings show that there is no support for a meritocra...

The Local Limit Theorem: A Historical Perspective

The local limit theorem describes how the density of a sum of random variables follows the normal curve. However the local limit theorem is often seen as a curiosity of no particular importance when compared with the central limit theorem. Nevertheless the local limit theorem came first and is in fact associated with the foundation of probability theory by Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fer...

Differential Maya Economies: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Study of Political Economies at the Postclassic Site of Mayapán

Acknowledgements I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Dr. Marilyn Masson, who so kindly took me under her wing during my sophomore year as a member of her Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project, not once but on four separate occasions. She taught me the value and enjoyment of archaeology in a world increasingly unconnected to its past; what it means to collaborate in a multicultural...

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...

The nineteenth-century quarantine narrative.