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 | | Household Roles of Men and Women | | by Joel18Wolters08, Oct 26, 2008 | | Discusses 19th century household roles of men and women through a primary source. "A Husband's Letter to His Wife" is the primary source, the essay summarizes and analyzes the story and how it relates to gender roles. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Belgium in 19th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 29, 2008 | | A country the size of the state of Maryland situated in northwest Europe and surrounded by the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, France, and the North Sea. It was an advanced industrial economy and secondary imperial power by the late nineteenth century. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Australia: German Relationship in 19th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | The German annexation of part of New Guinea in 1884 led to a minor rift between the Australian colonies and the British Government. Since the 1870s, Australians had perceived all nearby Pacific Islands as their sphere of influence and wanted the region under the British flag. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Australia-Japan Relations in the Early 20th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | Although Australia was part of the British Empire, and Japan had signed a treaty of alliance with Britain in 1902, these two nations had a strained relationship in the period immediately before the World War I. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Australia in 19th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | Originally Terra Australis Incognita, or the unknown southern continent, Australia was first claimed for Britain by Captain James Cook on August 22, 1770. Although the Dutch navigator Tasman had first explored what is now Tasmania in the seventeenth century, and the French were active in eighteenth century Pacific exploration, the British claim to Australia and many adjacent islands was within a short number of decades widely accepted. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Argentina in the 19th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 14, 2008 | | In 1800, Argentina was part of the recently created Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires served as the capital of this administrative section of Spanish America that the Crown split off from Viceroyalty of Lima. Its bureaucracy supervised the mining regions of Upper Peru (Bolivia), Paraguay, and the Banda Oriental(Uruguay). | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Antarctica in 19th Century | | by balisunset, Jul 30, 2008 | | The continent of Antarctica at the southern pole of the earth is last part of the globe to be conquered by humans. The earliest recorded sighting of the continent was made in 1820, as both British naval officers Edward Bransfield and William Smith, as well as American whaler Nathaniel Palmer reported spotting the continent that year. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Afghanistan in 19th Century | | by balisunset, Jul 28, 2008 | | A landlocked, mountainous, and arid country of Central Asia on the northwestern frontier of India. Afghanistan was a principal object in the Great Game of imperial rivalry between Great Britain and tsarist Russia. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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