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Patterning Tuberculosis: Interwar Tuberculosis Research as a Bridge Between Infectious and Risk Factor Epidemiology
The chapter argues that interwar efforts to make sense of and control tuberculosis gave rise to practices and concepts that would prove crucial for...
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Wonderful Changes, Broken Unity: Modernity, Ottoman Past, and National Belonging in the Essays of Robert College Students
This chapter continues to examine the themes addressed in the previous chapter, but this time from the perspective(s) of the native students...
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Libraries, Laboratories, and Learning Spaces
This chapter looks at how interactions between male and female students were not just governed by informal rules, such as a preference for women to...
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Rediscovering the Black Death
In this chapter, it is argued that Black Death memory became newly important in the nineteenth century because of the impact of cholera in European...
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Eastern Colonies: A Melting Pot of Medical Traditions
In 1914 Britain’s Eastern Division of Empire was a disparate collection of colonies that included Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and Ceylon...
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Case Three: Finland-Sweden—The Territorial and the Irredentist Problems of the Åland Islands 1809–1921
The chapter discusses the Åland Islands, situated between Sweden and Finland, emphasizing their strategic importance and the territorial dispute from...
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Class, Commuting, and the City
This chapter explores students’ movements to and from the space of the university campus from their homes, lodgings, or halls of residence. The...
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Conclusion
This chapter concludes that the Church Committee’s long-term success, as shown through the establishment of the Senate Select Committee on...
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“I Am Friends Wt You & Do Entertain No Malice”: Discord, Disputes and Defamation in Ulster Presbyterian Church Courts, c. 1700–1838
Following the example of its parent church in Scotland, the Presbyterian Church courts in Ireland exercised control over all aspects of its members’...
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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: An Ancient Greek Case Study in Retrospective Diagnosis
Within socio-military history, the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder has aroused a lot of attention, with many scholars claiming its...
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The Viking Theory
The first pre-Columbus discovery story to see widespread popularity in North America came in the form of the Norse, or Viking Theory. This held that...
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Provenance
This chapter focuses on Clementina Jacobina Sobieska Macdonald, a staunch Jacobite and collector of Stuart memorabilia, who donated the portrait to...
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The Church Committee at Work
This chapter reveals how public opinion placed boundaries within which the Church Committee could operate. It demonstrates that the public hearings,...
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The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights
Given the ostensibly succinct summary of rape statutes set out in The Lawes Resolutions, and the author’s commentary on the origins of law, it is...
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Jazz
This chapter begins by reminding readers that rock music, despite its obvious roots in black culture, was largely a ‘white’ thing. But this is just a...
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Accepted and Rejected: Late Nineteenth-Century Application for Admission to the Scottish National Institution for the Education of Imbecile Children
Parents and guardians seeking places at the SNI, an institution for their mentally impaired children, represented Scotland’s full social spectrum,...
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Anne Boleyn from 1900 to 1950
As the women’s historical novel became an increasingly popular form, novels about Anne Boleyn proliferated. These novels stressed Anne’s relatability...
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Holocaust Education
This chapter assesses the role of the Imperial War Museum Holocaust exhibition in providing resources for Holocaust education nationally within...
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The Return of the Geneticist: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Edward Chapin, and Museum Taxonomy
In Fall 1939, as war engulfed Europe, the author of one of the most influential texts on genetics and evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, wrote a...
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Gerald Ford and the Rockefeller Commission
This chapter scrutinises the failure of the Ford administration to establish its proposed reforms of intelligence oversight in response to the New...