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In the 19th century, Americans in the southern United States employed the word in reference to Americans from the northern United States ( though not to recent immigrants from Europe ; thus a visitor to Richmond, Virginia, in 1818 commented, " The enterprising people are mostly strangers ; Scots, Irish, and especially New England men, or Yankees, as they are called ").
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Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.
This Europeanization of the law was made explicit by a number of 19th century scholars.
The Civil War was a significant force in the eventual dominance of the singular usage by the end of the 19th century.
In the zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the 19th century.
His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.
With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.
The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.
From its beginnings in the early 19th century through the early 20th century, anthropology in the United States was influenced by the presence of Native American societies.
In Greece, there was since the 19th century a science of the folklore called laographia ( laography ), in the form of " a science of the interior ", although theoretically weak ; but the connotation of the field deeply changed after World War II, when a wave of Anglo-American anthropologists introduced a science " of the outside ".
The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.
Early 19th century.
In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.
From the 19th century it once again became more and more popular.
Yombe people | Yombe-sculpture, 19th century
Portugal has been present in Angola for 400 years, occupied the territory in the 19th and early 20th century, and ruled over it for about 50 years.
Distinctions in vocabulary persist, for example, in culinary terms, where communication with Germans is frequently difficult, and administrative and legal language, which is due to Austria's exclusion from the development of a German nation-state in the late 19th century and its manifold particular traditions.
Until the late 19th century, the axiom of choice was often used implicitly, although it had not yet been formally stated.
The Iron is a famous 19th century landmark in central Norrköping
The museum can be found in the 19th century building The Iron in the Motala ström river in central Norrköping.
With the beginning of the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and as a result of the expansionist policies of Czarist Russia in the Caucasus, many Muslim nations and groups in that region, mainly Circassians, Tatars, Azeris, Lezgis, Chechens, and several Turkic groups left their ancestral homelands and settled in Anatolia.
Later in the 19th century, other missionaries adapted Evans ' system to other Canadian aboriginal languages.
Charles Dickens was a prominent English author of the 19th century.
Leo Tolstoy was a prominent Russian author of the 19th century.
19th and Americans
They enforced this by a combination of violence, late 19th century laws imposing segregation and a concerted effort to disfranchise African Americans.
Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State.
One criticism leveled at Gone with the Wind is for its portrayal of African Americans in the 19th century South.
* Bonneville Collection of 19th century photographs of Native Americans, University of South Carolina Library's Digital Collections Page
Immigration to Panama are represented by ethnic groups in the 19th and 20th centuries: British and Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians, Portuguese, Poles, Russians or Ukrainians ( a large number are Jews ), U. S. Americans and West Indies / Caribbean ( esp.
During the late 19th century and early 20th century, Italian Americans were the second minority group ( next to African Americans ) most likely to be lynched.
His most ambitious book was the four volume narrative The Winning of the West, which connected the origin of a new " race " of Americans ( i. e. what he considered the present population of the United States to be ) to the frontier conditions their ancestors endured throughout the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.
To Americans, it can sometimes represent elitism and power politics, and its role has been a source of controversy throughout the nation's history, particularly beginning around the Gilded Age period in the late 19th century.
After the Indian Wars and removals of the early 19th century forced most Native Americans out of the state, white settlers arrived in large numbers.
According to tradition, Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans on May 24, 1626 for goods to the value of 60 Dutch guilders, which in the 19th century was estimated to be the equivalent of $ 1000 USD.
It was not until the late 18th and the early 19th century that the first European Americans explored the remote and hard-to-reach area.
By the late 19th century, the government believed that Native Americans would be better off if each family owned its own land.
Intermarriage with European Americans had occurred before the 19th century, generally between male traders and high-status Cherokee women whose families were seeking joint alliances.
Some individuals and religious groups, for example, retain beliefs or practices which involve acts contrary to established law, such as the use of cannabis by members of the Rastafari movement, the religious use of eagle feathers by non-Native Americans ( contrary to the eagle feather law, 50 CFR 22 ), or the practice of polygamy amongst Mormons in the 19th century.
The book takes up consciously many of the themes of the 19th century American frontier and homesteading-but without the moral stain of dispossessing the Native Americans.
The novel's creation and use of common stereotypes about African Americans is significant because Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel in the world during the 19th century.
Even though Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, far more Americans of that time saw the story as a stage play or musical than read the book.
Conflict over land was a somewhat common occurrence in the development of the American West but was particularly prevalent during the late 19th century and early 20th century when large portions of the west were being settled by Americans for the first time.
Manifest Destiny was the belief widely held by Americans in the 19th century that the United States was destined to expand across the continent.
To some 19th &# 8209 ; century Americans his presence rested upon the " whole territory " from the valleys of Oregon to the frontier of the Rio Grande.
Calhoun County was settled by European Americans during the 19th century, and organized in 1825.
At the time of the arrival of Europeans in the early 19th century, the present-day county was occupied by Native Americans, with the Utes occupying the mountainous areas and the Cheyenne and Arapaho living on the piedmont areas along the base of the foothills.
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