The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750 1850

N ° 2009 - 16 Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France , 1750 - 1850

The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility life histories to wealth at death data for four rural villages in transition-era France, 1750-1850. ...

Medical fringe and medical orthodoxy 1750–1850

W. F. BYNUM and ROY PORTER (editors), Medicalfringe andmedical orthodoxy 1750-1850, London, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. ix, 274, £30.00. In their neat introduction to this volume the editors state its programme: to examine "how the relations between regular and irregular medicine have been constituted in particular fields at particular times". Or more specifically: "the essays in this book are n...

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...

Pressure reconstruction for the North Atlantic 1750--1850

Seasonal mean pressure reconstruction for the North Atlantic (1750–1850) based on early marine data D. Gallego, R. Garcia-Herrera, P. Ribera, and P. D. Jones Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain Departamento de Fisica de la Tierra II, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Received: 14 J...

New estimates of land productivity in Belgium, 1750-1850.