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...with Titians, like a few of their modern counterparts? Or that their ideology of cultural property was underwritten by their power to hang men for poaching a stag or breaking down an ornamental shrub? Or even that England, particularly from the Civil War to the rural riots of the 1830s, was by no means the serene garden of precedence and patronage suggested by the masterpieces of Gainsborough or Robert Adam...
...poet notices something else: not just that seeing how things go together reassures, but that reassurance was needed in the first place. There was an anxiety in adolescent California, a nervous need for place and careful planning, a twitching spring from the England of the 1830s and 40s which had replaced old wealth and property with active capital as the shield against uncertainty...
...nineteenth century, and with thoughtfulness and clarity, connects the dilemmas of this period to those of the twentieth century. When the author declares that "America has become a collection of self-interested combattants swirling about one another," he could easily be describing our own time as well as the 1830s...
...disjointed as the hamburger stand business was before the advent of McDonald's. A hodgepodge of state and federal regulations has been erected to protect small banks around the country by keeping out their big-city brothers. The origin of the geographic restrictions goes back to the 1830s, when Andrew Jackson was fighting Nicholas Biddle over the charter of the Bank of the United States. Populist politicians have always fought nationwide banking on the grounds that small-town financial decisions should be made locally. Smaller banks also claim they would be run out of business if large banks from...
...subway kiosk rests on the remains of an early 18th-century meeting house that was converted to a dumping ground when fire destroyed it in the 1830s. Artifacts from the dump site may be important because they could reveal the socio-economic backgrounds of local inhabitants, Russell Barber, the research director for the ICA, said last week...