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The eighteenth century was a period of transition for India. A new economy emerged based on peasant exports and global industrial enterprise. Globalization and colonialism penetrated almost every aspect of the Indian economy. Export-oriented enterprise moved from the littoral to the interior, from the handicrafts to the peasants, and from ...
Abstract. This chapter looks at the novel in the 1750s. The genre had started the decade with its reputation riding high on the remarkable success of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748–9), Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random (1748), and especially Tom Jones (1749) by Henry Fielding.
He has been the author or editor of 11 books, including the award-winning graphic history Abina and the Important Men, and has coproduced several prize-winning documentaries. Trevor is also the author of A Primer for Teaching African History , which explores questions about how we should teach the history of Africa in high school and university classes.
The women's sack-back gowns and the men's coats over long waistcoats are characteristic of this period. Fashion in the years 1750–1775 in European countries and the colonial Americas was characterised by greater abundance, elaboration and intricacy in clothing designs, loved by the Rococo artistic trends of the period.
3 de may. de 2019 · Timeline of Battery History. 1748 — Benjamin Franklin first coined the term "battery" to describe an array of charged glass plates. 1780 to 1786 — Luigi Galvani demonstrated what we now understand to be the electrical basis of nerve impulses and provided the cornerstone of research for later inventors like Volta to create batteries. 1800 ...
1750s Join, or Die woodcut by Benjamin Franklin, 1754 1754. Albany Congress, the first time in the 18th century that American colonial representatives meet to discuss some manner of formal union (June 18–July 11) 1760s 1760. Pierre de Rigaud, Governor of New France, capitulates to Field Marshal Jeffrey Amherst.
30 de nov. de 2023 · The Treaty of Kanagawa, negotiated in 1854 between the United States and Japan, was a landmark agreement that marked Japan’s departure from centuries of isolationism. Under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry, the United States sought to establish diplomatic and trade relations with Japan. The treaty, signed in Kanagawa Bay, near present ...
