Quo patet orbis Dei: Dutch Deputies for maritime affairs and their global network in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Medical travellers. Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

investment is credited with promoting further improvement until the late 1930s. Thereafter, the economy lagged, but mortality continued to decline; a circumstance that argues for the success of modern medicine in fighting disease. The data on mortality since Castro's coming to power is also revealing. Between 1959 and 1980, average life expectancy increased eight to nine years, to the point tha...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Counting the population. The multiplier method in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

idea of counting the population from house to house, recording the list of members of each family, had been around for a long time. However, the authorities f e a red adverse reactions from the population, who w e re wary of censuses conducted for tax or military purposes. Consequently, the idea emerged in the eighteenth century of conducting partial, localized censuses and then extrapolating t...

"La femminil pazienza": Women Painters and Natural History in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries