Lenin argued that late-nineteenth century imperialism was driven by the economic logic of late-capitalism. From Wordnik.com. [Colonialism] Reference
By the late-nineteenth century, there were so many Syrian and Lebanese immigrants that the area became known as “Little Syria.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Country Called AMREEKA] Reference
The introduction of domestic livestock grazing in the mid - to late-nineteenth century has had significant ecological and hydrological effects. From Wordnik.com. [North American Deserts ecoregion (CEC)] Reference
But there is a late-nineteenth - and/or twentieth-century concentration in this literature and a focus on ethnic minorities and urban experiences. From Wordnik.com. [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference
The British Museum has the best collection of American prints from the late-nineteenth century up to 1960 of any museum outside the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
She describes the ambivalence many late-nineteenth - and early-twentieth-century wives exhibited toward having their husbands prosecuted for assaulting them. From Wordnik.com. ['Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.] Reference
This kind of commentary distinguishes Salt's writings on Shelley even from those of other champions whose works first appeared in the late-nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity] Reference
As a result, Aquinas enjoyed a far greater authority in the late-nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century than perhaps he ever did in the Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Philosophy] Reference
Subordination and deference to male leadership was the lot of most women in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century China, regardless of their station in society. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empress] Reference
Most importantly, Clarke devised the distinguishing statement of late-nineteenth century Unitarianism faith: the belief in the "progress of mankind onward and upward forever" 105. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Authority in the Spirit: Developing a doctrine of the liberal church.] Reference
Throughout the novel, there are references to many important political and social events that occurred during the mid - to late-nineteenth century, a rich time in American history. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O'Brien: Questions] Reference
I was busy following the story's leaps back and forth in Koenig's personal history, in the connections it was drawing among a multitude of late-nineteenth century figures and events. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Sigmund Freud cultivated a very dark perception of humanity as he assessed the baser instincts largely repressed in the human unconscious. From Wordnik.com. [When Facing Reality Is Not 'Negative Thinking'] Reference
We cannot use late-nineteenth - and twentieth-century western European structures to describe the social and intellectual worlds of this earlier era and, in particular, to define their junctures. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
When I teach the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century periods of U.S. history, students rarely know that working people at the time were subjected to ghastly mistreatment by management with no laws to protect them. From Wordnik.com. [Truth is Speaking....Is Power Listening?] Reference
Likewise, as her skills developed, she was given the freedom to satisfy her desires by reading the secular publications of Hebrew authors and poets that began to appear with great frequency by the late-nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Miriam Markel-Mosessohn.] Reference
When we survey the spiritual landscape of the Western world a century later we find that there is wide interest in a movement that has its origins among these late-nineteenth - and early-twentieth-century Nietzschean currents. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
German immigrants and African Americans enjoyed relatively positive social, economic, and political relations during the mid - to late-nineteenth century, especially when compared to relations between white and black southerners. From Wordnik.com. [Terrance Heath: Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard, Pt. 2] Reference
Mechanist versions of Lamarckism, which were fairly common from the late-nineteenth century through the 1920's, have vanished, for genetics has proved itself capable of solving the problems that gave rise to mechanistic Lamarckism in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The prevailing view in the late-nineteenth century, shared by legal thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic, was that governmental power ought to be circumscribed in deference to the primacy of private property and for the sake of the greater productivity of society. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
Here's the abstract: The author argues that late-nineteenth century judicial review of the British North America Act, 1867 was not limited solely to the task of determining which level of government was entitled to jurisdictional authority in division of powers disputes. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
They decided to name their vineyard after Gary's German ancestors who migrated to Nebraska from Russia in the late-nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [McCook Daily Gazette Headlines] Reference
Is there entertainment value in a late-nineteenth century diary when any "nobody" has the ability to instantly publish his or her daily comings and goings?. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Verdict] Reference
The only exception came in the late-nineteenth century, when a few women were allowed to hold a life class inside the Academy but no men were allowed in the room. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
Setting a Western in 1911 may seem an odd choice given that normally the height of the Wild, Wild West is seen as belonging more a mid - to late-nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
It has long been a truism of American constitutional history that the late-nineteenth century proponents of laissez-faire constitutionalism grounded themselves in natural law jurisprudence. From Wordnik.com. [ADF Alliance Alert] Reference
These images were painted in the mid - to late-nineteenth century; now, thanks to high-quality color reproduction, they provide our textbooks with visual "evidence" of a female presence in the. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Unfortunately, this truism is an oversimplification that limits our understanding of constitutional jurisprudence in late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the jurisprudence of Lochner-era. From Wordnik.com. [ADF Alliance Alert] Reference
The genteel aestheticism of the late-nineteenth - century American painters who seized on japonisme seems a shallow sort of artificial paradise in the face of the depredations of the Gilded Age. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference
Stephen C. Meyer offers the following statement regarding the design of the biological world: molecular biology has revealed a complexity and intricacy of design that exceeds anything that was imaginable during the late-nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
He owns one of the finest collections of late-nineteenth - and early-twentieth-century paintings in existence …”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Apparition]
I'm well aware that the great labor organizer, Joe Hill, is famous for his adage, ... quot; Don't mourn, organize ", but Joe's late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century world was quite different from ours. From Wordnik.com. [CELEBRATING AMERICAN TEARS: Responding To Naomi Wolf's Recent Missive] Reference
In general the late-nineteenth - century. From Wordnik.com. [Who Do Men Say That I Am?] Reference
To observers of late-nineteenth century legislatures (including the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Charcot's innovative work, the male victim of hysteria in late-nineteenth century French medical imagination was still frequently envisioned as an effeminate heterosexual, an overt homosexual, or a physical or emotional hermaphrodite. ". From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
) and it's not the case either that it's a matter of how hard you work (the "labour theory of value" behind economics '"marginalist revolution" of the late-nineteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Not PC] Reference
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