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A collection of digital archives covering British government records during the Age of Enlightenment, linked to their fully text-searchable calendars.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Northern Lights and The Things They Carried.
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Much of the rise in literacy was brought about through increases in the provision of schooling during the nineteenth century—especially for working-class children. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, education for the working classes was available on a haphazard basis in England and Wales.
An essay on the Daily Mirror, which broke the mould in its fourt decade by moving away from conservative world-views promoted by other papers.
"The first African slaves appeared in the English colonies in 1619. Native Americans too were often enslaved in the seventeenth century, frequently being shipped…"
"It is clear that all post-Renaissance states were drawn to the concept of statecraft. At least in its English context, this statecraft drew its evidence from…"
"The nineteenth century is often characterised as a century of progress as Britain became increasingly urban, industrial, commercial and "modern". However…"
With the abolition of the duty on paper in 1861, the state-led constraints upon the production and sale of newspapers were finally lifted. Equally important was the relative restraint of the government, which did not seek to use the existing libel laws as an instrument of censorship.
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The word “race” meant different things to different people in the nineteenth century. In its broadest sense, “race” referred to the common ancestry of a group of humans who shared characteristics that had developed over time.… Many nineteenth-century references to race reflect this ambiguity.
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View samples from a selection of notable contributors featured in American Fiction, part of Gale Primary Sources.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Death of a River Guide and Wanting.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the time of Cholera.