Sökning: "eighteenth and nineteenth century"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 29 avhandlingar innehållade orden eighteenth and nineteenth century.
1. Negotiating Imperial Rule : Colonists and Marriage in the Nineteenth-century Black Sea Steppe
Sammanfattning : After falling under the power of the Russian Crown, the Northern Black Sea steppe from the end of eighteenth century crystallized as the Russian government’s prime venue for socioeconomic and sociocultural reinvention and colonization. Vast ethnic, sociocultural and even ecological changes followed. LÄS MER
2. Berättelser om 1700-talet : frihetstiden och Gustav III:s regeringstid i svensk historiekultur från 1870-tal till 1990-tal
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyses historical-cultural change in Sweden during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The study focuses on historical narratives concerning the eighteenth-century epoch called the Age of Liberty and the subsequent reign of Gustav III. LÄS MER
3. Care and Coercion : medical knowledge, social policy and patients with venereal disease in Sweden 1785-1903
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the history of venereal diseases in Sweden in the period from 1785 to 1903. Medical and political perceptions of these diseases as well as the patients and their continued lives have been studied. Venereal diseases were considered a significant threat to the growth of the population throughout the period. LÄS MER
4. The two faces of smallpox : a disease and its prevention in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sweden
Sammanfattning : This study deals with the history of smallpox in Sweden between 1750 and 1900 and the two preventive measures that were used against it: inoculation during the eighteenth and vaccination during the nineteenth Century. Between 1750 and 1800 300,000 children died from smallpox in Sweden. LÄS MER
5. The Discourse of Oratory : The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Sammanfattning : The Discourse of Oratory: The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing is a study of the cultural anxieties about the power of public speaking that pervaded the mid eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Its argument is that those anxieties formed a discursive center for two of the most important forces in the history of British letters and literary studies -- Romanticism and the New Rhetoric -- and that those forces engaged it primarily through a shared concern with the rise of religious evangelism. LÄS MER
