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1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-375
Author(s):  
Sumit Guha
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Food Crops ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Changing Economy ◽  
Selection Of

From Home to Hospital

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Agnes Arnold-Forster
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Patient Voice ◽  
Middlesex Hospital ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter explores the senses and emotions that attended living with and dying from cancer in the early nineteenth century. The archives of The Middlesex Hospital consist of registers of cancer patients from 1792 through to the twentieth century, and a potted selection of casebooks. This chapter, therefore, tells the stories of sixty patients from 1805 to 1836. From these case notes, flesh and blood can be added to the lived experience of cancer and go some way towards recovering the patient voice. We can follow in their footsteps from home to hospital, and in multiple literal and metaphorical ways appreciate the distances they travelled in their ‘cancer journeys’.

Geographical Texts

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-37
Author(s):  
Paul Stock
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Principal Source ◽  
Literate Culture

Chapter 1 explains the characteristics and significance of the book’s principal source material: late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British geography books. These works have been largely neglected by historians, but their popularity and summative nature means that they can reveal the formative, commonplace ideas circulating in British literate culture. However, due to their opaque authorships, plagiaristic contents, and complex publication histories, geographical texts pose specific methodological challenges. The chapter therefore argues that we need to adopt different conceptual and procedural priorities in order to discern popular mentalities from these works.

Nelson and the bear: the making of an Arctic myth

Polar Record ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-353
Author(s):  
Huw W.G. Lewis-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Polar Bear ◽  
Juvenile Literature ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Secondary Materials ◽  
Selection Of

Recent biographers of Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) have begun the job of attempting to differentiate the man from the ‘myth.’ A necessary stage in the assessment of any historical figure is the identification of the legendary aspects that make up that figure's reputation. The tale of the young Nelson engaging a huge polar bear on an ice floe off Spitsbergen in 1773 has been met with varying degrees of delight and dismissal through the years, and is one of the events an examination of which could improve an understanding of Nelson and his reputation. This paper draws upon a study of primary and secondary materials: original manuscripts and correspondence, early nineteenth-century popular biographies, souvenirs and pamphlets, periodical reviews, and a wide selection of adult and juvenile literature. This paper examines the developments of Nelsonian biography and hagiography. In a broader sense, an extended examination of the literary and visual manifestations of Nelson's encounter with the bear becomes a useful historiographical exercise into the genesis of a myth.

The Mir and the Military Draft

Slavic Review ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 652-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney D. Bohac
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Member ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Peasant Communities ◽  
Military Draft ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Village ◽  
Selection Of

Early nineteenth century military drafts severely tested the cohesiveness of Russia’s peasant communities. Because a conscript served for twenty-five years, he rarely returned to his community. His household lost a family member, a worker, and often part of its land allotment. The threat of such losses heightened the potential for abuse of community rules determining the selection of conscripts. A serf owner observed this problem when visiting his new estate in 1837: “The draft duties were determined by some sort of calculation, that, in spite of all my desire and mental exercises, I could not master. I only knew that it worked to the profit of the village head and to the loss of the peasants”.

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