Letters of the Marquise Du Deffand to the Hon. Horace Walpole, afterwards the Earl of Oxford, from the year 1766 to the year 1780.

Mode of access: Internet.

1970 census of housing : block statistics : San Bernardino-Riverside, Calif. urbanized area.

"Issued September 1971."

The grain tribute system of China, 1845-1911.

"Written as a doctoral dissertation at Harvard University in 1949-50."

Laicidad en la Argentina contemporánea : El caso de Comodoro Rivadavia

En el marco del proyecto colectivo "Representaciones colectivas y poder social: catolicismo y poder económico en la Argentina de los años 60' y 70'", fruto del trabajo realizado en el proyecto "Religión y Estructura Social en la Argentina del Siglo XXI" -posible gracias al esfuerzo conjunto de la Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica y el CEIL-PIETTE del CONICET-, la presente ponencia intenta abordar los resultados correspondientes a la percepción que tienen los habitantes de la ciudad de Comodoro Rivadavia con respecto a las relaciones entre Iglesia y Estado para vincularlo a los conceptos de secularización y laicidad

La educación técnica y el mundo de trabajo petrolero. El impacto de la reforma educativa y la reorganización productiva de los años '90 en Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, Argentina

La educación técnica en Comodoro Rivadavia tuvo, desde sus orígenes, una sostenida articulación con el ámbito laboral de la producción petrolera que resultó fuertemente impactada por la aplicación de las modificaciones implementadas en los ?90. Estas reformas, que en lo referente a la relación Educación / Trabajo aludían discursivamente a la necesidad de articular la educación formal con los nuevos modelos de organización productiva, provocaron una desarticulación profunda entre la educación institucionalizada y el mundo del trabajo petrolero basado en estos nuevos modelos de organización. Las operadoras petroleras, organizadas productivamente a partir de un modelo cercano al toyotismo, han dejado de receptar como trabajadores a los graduados de la Escuela Técnica Las empresas de servicios, más ligadas a un modelo de producción fordista, incorporan eventualmente a graduados de la institución analizada. No obstante, las consideraciones que se hacen acerca de su desempeño laboral ? desde el sindicato, los trabajadores de las empresas y los mismos docentes ? son altamente negativas. La reforma educativa de los ?90 no sólo no ha logrado una formación de trabajadores polivalentes para las nuevas formas de organización productiva, también impactó negativamente en las intencionalidades y logros históricos de la educación técnica ligados a la "producción en masa"

The growth and awareness of health and safety at work, 1780-1900

This thesis examines the growth and awareness of health and safety at work between 1780 and 1900. In this period the hazards at work were increased by the intensification of production brought about by the Industrial Revolution, and new risks to health arose from the wider range of toxic substances in use by manufacturing industry. There is discussion in the thesis of the extent to which the problems were identified in an age of short life expectancy and limited medical knowledge. The sources studied have been largely medical, governmental, trade and press reports. The emphasis is on the first effects seen and recommendations made, and where possible, the extent of the problem and the effectiveness of any preventative measures adopted and examined. There is discussion of the growing involvement of the Government in industrial health and safety. The subject is viewed in the light of modern thinking on industrial health but uses a classification appropriate to historical resources. Psychological and minor afflictions, neglected in the 19th century, are not considered. The available literature is reviewed in each section. Three detailed case studies conclude the thesis, two on the notoriously dangerous occupations of metal grinding and pottery, and one on occupational eye injuries. Each study is based on a different type of source material. The thesis overall shows that there was extensive concern for health and safety at work, but no systematic approach and only ad hoc implementation of preventative measures; and that the rate at which conditions improved varied between different industries and different categories of workers . However, some modern principles of health and safety at work can be seen emerging, and the period laid the necessary medical, technical and legal foundations for developments in the present century.

Business cycles, long waves, and company langevity in Birmingham area metal industries 1780-1980

This doctoral thesis originates from an observational incongruence between the perennial aims and aspirations of economic endeavour and actually recorded outcomes, which frequently seem contrary to those intended and of a recurrent, cyclical type. The research hypothesizes parallel movement between unstable business environments through time, as expressed by periodically fluctuating levels of economic activity, and the precipitation rates of industrial production companies. A major problem arose from the need to provide theoretical and empirical cohesion from the conflicting, partial and fragmented interpretations of several hundred historians and economists, without which the research question would remain unanswerable. An attempt to discover a master cycle, or superimposition theorem, failed, but was replaced by minute analysis of both the concept of cycles and their underlying data-bases. A novel technique of congregational analysis emerged, resulting in an integrated matrix of numerical history. Two centuries of industrial revolution history in England and Wales was then explored and recomposed for the first time in a single account of change, thereby providing a factual basis for the matrix. The accompanying history of the Birmingham area provided the context of research into the failure rates and longevities of firms in the city's staple metal industries. Sample specific results are obtained for company longevities in the Birmingham area. Some novel presentational forms are deployed for results of a postal questionnaire to surviving firms. Practical demonstration of the new index of national economic activity (INEA) in relation to company insolvencies leads to conclusions and suggestions for further applications of research into the tempo of change, substantial Appendices support the thesis and provide a compendium of information covering immediately contiguous domains.

Hs. Rothschild 4° 107 - Testament der Gutle Wb. Mayer Rothschild mit Nachtrag und Codicill aus den Jahren 1829 - 1845 (Abschrift)

Vorbesitzer: Freiherrlich Carl von Rothschild'sche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main; alte Signatur: Hs. in Quart 107

Hs. Rothschild 4° 106 - Testament der Gutle Wb. Mayer Rothschild mit Nachtrag und Codicill aus den Jahren 1829 - 1845 (Abschrift)

Vorbesitzer: Freiherrlich Carl von Rothschild'sche Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main; alte Signatur: Hs. in Quart 106

Frederick Douglass and Ireland, 1845: The "Vertiginous Twist[s]" of an Irish Encounter

Frederick Douglas was a reader of and writer on the nineteenth-century political and social texts and contexts of oppression, which he experienced at home and witnesed while in Ireland and Britain, 1845-47. This thesis is unique in its identification of several surprising lacunae in the research and critical evaluation of Frederick Douglass’ activities of reading and writing and the texts and contexts that supported these activities. This thesis takes Douglass’ relationship with Ireland and the Irish as its starting point, and offers several moments in the transnational space engendered by Douglass’ readerly and writerly experience of the transatlantic axes of Ireland, Britain and America. This thesis draws upon archival research to recover information regarding Douglass’ trip and subjects his reading and writing on Ireland and the Irish to the critical rigours of narratolgical, cultural and discourse analysis. One lacuna is Douglass’ favourite and neglected school primer, the Columbian Orator, which Douglass signified upon across his autobiographical project. The speech by the Irish patriot and exile, Arthur O’Connor, included in the Orator, is crucial to Douglass’ understanding and expression of justice and equality. Genette’s narratological analysis gives theoretical traction to the ways in which, in his autobiographical representations of his British trip, Douglass recalibrates his autobiographies to reflect his changing perspectives on his life and work. Contrary to popular assumptions, Douglass did, in two letters to Garrison address and comment on Irish poverty. This thesis interrogates the strategic anglophilia of these letters. While the World’s Temperance Convention (WTC) refused to discuss African- American slavery, analysis of Douglass’ speech in Covent Garden and of the paratextual apparatus of the published proceedings of the WTC demonstrates the impossibility of separating these closely interrelated reform causes. When a newly discovered poem from Waterford that admonished the city for its disregard for Douglass’ message is juxtaposed with an uncomfortable moment in Cork, we understand that Douglass became a pawn to bolster sectarian rivalries between nationalist and establishment factions. Though Douglass believed imperial politics was the best vehicle for modernity, he recognised that it had failed Ireland: consequently, in Thoughts and Recollections of a Trip to Ireland (1886), he advocates for Home Rule for Ireland.

Around the Origin of the Images in the Veintena Section of the "Primeros Memoriales" by fray Bernardino de Sahagún

By examining the pictorial content of the veintena section of the Primeros Memoriales, the manusctipt compiled by fray Bernardino de Sahagún, I identify new pieces of evidence on the origin of these illustrations and their authors. A carefull analisis of this material suggests that it is strongly embedded in the pre-Hispanic tradition and that it is doubtful that their iconographic sources originated in Tepeopolco, as it is widely believed.