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Until the nineteenth century, when the Fourth of July caught on as a holiday, Commencement was the seasonal excuse for feasts and New England-style bacchanalia, much to the chagrin of past Harvard President Increase Mather...
...Computer of the Sahara: The story of France's Romantic, Bold, Frequently Foolhardy Attempt in the Late Nineteenth Century to Explore and Dominate the World's Greatest Desert...
Drawing on quotes from Captain James Cook's diary, the current exhibit details the history of the "changing trade relations" in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries between the Indians and the white men, according to museum officials...
...shocking in ours; such criticism has been along on the march of progress for quite a while--even if it often sounds like short- order disapproval, whipped up automatically for predictable occasions. The computer is born, the computer is pilloried. An oil rig goes up, conservationists marshal their forces. Nineteenth century minds may have planted the seeds of our deterioration alongside our advancement, but they also--in people like Freud, Carlyle, Ruskin and Arnold himself--taught us how to worry. At the same time, critics, grown somewhat more compromising, are no longer certain that science and technology signal...
India's modern military tradition begins, somewhat ironically, after the mid-nineteenth century British conquest of the subcontinent. Before the Imperial era the various Indian nations maintained essentially feudal, personal armies. Each prince, oligarch king, or head of state led armed forces with personal allegiance to, and often clan relationships with, the leader. The "officers" were almost always members of the ruling family or clan...