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Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

Showman and Composer Franz Liszt

noted novelist George Sand (women novelists in the nineteenth century often wrote under male pseudonyms). One of his most signific...

'True' Womanhood Visions

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...

America and Free Labor of the Nineteenth Century

slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

20th Century Politics and the Media

medias so-called "flaw" is therefore a relatively recent arrival on the political scene. There is no questioning the fact t...

Romantic Musical Composer Robert Schumann

life" that Schumann was leading in 1834 and he described this and other works done at this time, collectively, as his "summer nove...

Late Nineteenth Century Labor's Rise

that the people should participate (Bennett, 2001). In effect, the government should be run by the people (2001). This is not by a...

Art History and Orientalism

Egypt in the late eighteenth century. French rule of Egypt ensued, but was soon supplanted by the British. This was the beginning ...

Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries' English Feasting History

at the high table (The Table & Table Manners, 2005). This particular table was actually much higher than, or rather raised above, ...

19th Century Neoclassicism's Politics

In four pages this paper focuses on France in this overview of 19th century neoclassicism from a political perspective. Three sou...

A Review of Communist Manifesto

had heretofore been recognized. Marxist theory further claims "of all the classes that confront the bourgeoisie today, the prolet...

1895 Farmer's View of Manifest Destiny

well as the rising tension of the competitive race between the teams from the East and the West" (Rochman, 1998, p. 908). By the ...

Rebellious Femme Fatales in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

New York Tenements and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat" (Riis, 1971,5)....

Film Noir in the Nineteen-Fifties and Nineteen-Nineties

police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...

Women's Rights and the Impact of Technology

little time for themselves, or to think about doing anything rather than staying ahead of what needed to be done. Because ...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Eighteenth Century Canada and Relations Between Great Britain and France

with the Iroquois in the seventeenth century and the Thirteen Colonies in the eighteenth."3 This author also indicates that a larg...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

19th Century Latin America Involvement of Russia

The Latin American trading colonies established by Czarist Russia during the 19th century are examined in 10 pages with the impact...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau and American Individualism

printed word. He said that, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This may not speak well to the concept of cur...

First Seven Chapters of The Revolution of Life by Loubere

The first seven chapters of this text which discussed Europe's 19th century industrial, economic, and political developments are e...

Nineteenth Century Childhood in the Works of Henry James

In eight pages this paper examines how 19th century childhood is reflected in James's What Maisie Knew and The Turn of the Screw. ...

Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills'

This paper of 7 pages considers how the author considered issues of economic inequality, social separations, and class differences...

Photographer and Social Reformer Jacob Riis

16). In 1888, Riis left the Tribune to work for the Evening Sun, at which time he also began work on his first book concerning t...