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Hace 3 días · The 19th century was an era of rapidly accelerating scientific discovery and invention, with significant developments in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electricity, and metallurgy that laid the groundwork for the technological advances of the 20th century.
Hace 4 días · Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), ordinary subject matter, unusual visual angles, and inclusion of movement as a ...
Hace 2 días · Romantic architecture reached its peak in the mid-19th century, and continued to appear until the end of the 19th century. It was designed to evoke an emotional reaction, either respect for tradition or nostalgia for a bucolic past.
Hace 5 días · Through a language of anxiety, ‘Victorians confronted and internalized their own sense of modernity’ (p. 221). For this innovative study, the writings of critics such as Bulwer-Lytton, polemicists, physicians and journalists provide the main windows into anxious mind-sets of 19th-century Britain.
Hace 5 días · Bourgeois revolution is motivated by, and eventuates in, a settlement that seeks to discipline the state via constitutionalism and the enveloping fiscal mesh that connects government, national debt, and capitalist markets. True, exasperated middle class loyalty to constitutionalism has often been brought to the brink and beyond of repudiation.
Hace 4 días · The traditional focus point for historians interested in female political activity in the 19th century has been the legal and ideological exclusions women faced in local and national politics. Rather than focusing on the restrictions women faced, Richardson actively seeks to chart ‘positive evidence of female agency in a counter ...
Hace 5 días · History of medicine, the development of the prevention and treatment of disease from prehistoric times to the 21st century. Learn about medicine and surgery before 1800, the rise of scientific medicine in the 19th century, and developments in the 20th and 21st centuries.
