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Gerachenkron's spring half course, entitled "The Political Element in Economic History," will "attempt to assess the significance of the political element in economic development," Gerschenkron said. It will draw its examples of economic development from the history of nineteenth century Europe...
...Nineteenth Century Dallas prospered as both a western and a southern city. On the western edge of the cotton-rich East Texas "Black Belt", Dallas became the largest inland cotton market in the world. And while West Texas cattlemen transacted business in the stockyards of Ft. Worth, their wives travelled thirty miles East to the shops and culture of Dallas. By the first decades of the Twentieth Century, Dallas was undisputed mercantile and cultural capital of the Southwest. To Texans it was "where the East begins...
...French woman's walking costume with robe a l'anglaise reflects the rage for English styles that prevailed during the late 1700's. The costume's bonnett is bigger than any lampshade I've ever seen. A mania for classical antiquity around the turn of the nineteenth century produced, among other items in the exhibit, a French promenade dress with a very high empire waist and very, very low decolletage. This is a particularly interesting specimen because of the strikingly French robe effect attained by the use of shirring, folds, and trains. The mannequins sporting low necklines are invariably placed...
...Nineteenth-century France produced few greater sculptors than Antoine Bourdelle, and fewer still who had greater effect on sculptors of the twentieth century. Rodin, his longtime friend and teacher, called him a "pathfinder of the future." Bourdelle spread his influence by teaching and writing, and both Giacometti and Germaine Richier served apprenticeships in his studio...
Modern rugby involves rules and terms far more complicated than the nineteenth century Englishman knew. The field itself is 75 yards wide and 150 yards long, almost twice the area of an American football gridiron. The two fields are laid out similarly except that the rugby goal posts are set right on the goal line...