Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture.

Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture

AMERICAN ECONOhfIC GROWTH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture

The Cotton Boom and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Rural Egypt

The “staples thesis” argues that institutions in a given region could be explained by the nature of production of its prevailing staples, whereby slavery is likely to emerge in “slave-conducive” crops, such as cotton, rice, and sugarcane. This paper evaluates the thesis using a unique natural experiment from nineteenth-century rural Egypt, the cotton boom that occurred because of the American C...

Langstaff: a nineteenth-century medical life

the state. Caring for the poor in hospitals and during home visits, individual physicians since the Enlightenment got involved in political reform movements, joining their voices to describe the evils of urbanization and industrialization. Other work has exposed the recent political fortunes of the medical profession itself and its struggles to achieve a healing monopoly. As the Porters point o...