The Atlantic Economy during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, and Personnel

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...

formation and evolution of regional organizations: the case study of the economic cooperation organization (eco)

abstract because of the many geopolitical, geo economical and geo strategically potentials and communicational capabilities of eco region, members can expand the convergence and the integration in base of this organization that have important impact on members development and expanding peace in international and regional level. based on quality analyzing of library findings and experts interv...

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

The dissenting tradition in English medicine of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

In England, medicine has always been something of a refuge for individuals whose lives have been dislocated by religious and political strife. This was particularly true in the seventeenth century when changes in Church and State were occurring at a blinding speed. In his book The experience of defeat, Christopher Hill has described the erratic careers of a number of radical clergy and intellec...