... . This tradition would later change with the advent of the Romantic period. The Romantic period started in Europe as a reaction to the jubilant happiness of the classical era. During the nineteenth century there was a lot of tension in Europe as the forces of Nationalism and Militarism gripped Europe. There had been changes in Europe since the advent of Classicism. There were many ... mighty revolutions like the one that started in France in 1789 and spread. These revolutions made for the age of liberalism vs. conservatism. These events put a new fire into the nineteenth century and made...

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... on it changed too. Perhaps the most obvious change was that everything seemed to get bigger, longer and louder. In the nineteenth century, orchestras became standard organisations rather than occasional groupings of people. And as orchestras needed organisers, the nineteenth century was also the age of the impresario, who fixed and promoted tours and concerts. This all suited composers down to the ground ... just expanded at will. The new instruments and bigger orchestras made it possible for composers to employ a wider and richer palette of sounds. Percussion became steadily more import...

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... occurred during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The French Revolution was in process at the turn of the nineteenth century. This was a brilliant time that resulted in newly discovered democratic rights that spread throughout Europe and North America. During the late eighteenth ... has materialized during the revolutionary era and had become a powerful force of change during the first half of the nineteenth century, but it didn't triumph until after 1850. Initially tied to middle class liberals, nationalism appealed to the masses by the end of the ... nineteenth century. In 1...

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... out of the family economy and into large factory mills, though this transition would not be fully realized until the middle of the nineteenth century. With the population boom in Europe and Industrial Revolution on the brink, the transition to a manufacturing economy required more people to ... laborers simultaneously, this was the hallmark of all technological innovations to follow.7 With the discovery of steel and advancements of machinery the nineteenth century came in the midst of new discoveries and structural marvels that could not even have been imagined during the time of the ......

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... far-flung colleagues' progress. Prince Henry of Portugal brought together scientists and laboratories and a library as early as the first half of the fifteenth century, but such institutions became common only during the nineteenth century. The single most important contribution of western science is that it linked science and technology by way of the scientific method, requiring systematic experimentation. Technology ... arena for differing ideas, interests and disputes, settled generally through devastating wars. The Thirty-Years' War (1618-1648) in particular had political and econom...

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... value increased, its trend regarding fashion grew and its place in artistic creation became invasive. In the middle of the thirteenth century, the civilizations open themselves to new colors such as blue, yellow and green. The religion was on of the first ... an example of the chromatic austerity). Catholic painters utilized also diver shades of blue in their painting. During the eighteenth century the notion of primary color took place, some physicians interest themselves to the issue of light and color. The first ... century, a fabricator of color discover by chance the "Prussian blu...

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Daisy Miller Daisy Miller, one of Henry James' first major works, addresses the emergence of the United States as an economic and political world power. In the late nineteenth century, American industry was flourishing, and Americans were becoming more wealthy. With this money came a desire to look successful and aristocratic. For many Americans, Europe provided their only model of wealth ... Daisy's social missteps, followed by discussion of those missteps. Characters constantly refer to their social statuses and are engaged in bettering their places. Such social maneuvering was crucial in ...

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... as 'Growth amongst the European urban hierarchy was selective, Among thousands of small towns, this was a time of recovery after the late medieval contraction' (Clark 128). During the sixteenth-century processes of change there was a notable demographic increase, exacerbated by rural in-migration, and the expansion of trade networks which affected western Europe 's urban social groups in two main ... people by 1550. Conflict across Europe led to urban stagnation, especially during the period 1650-1750. The second half of the Eighteenth century was an era of urban revival. London housed n...

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... companions, had a similar relationship with their war leaders (Harpur 36-37). There are also roots of feudalism as far back as the fifth century during the collapse of the roman empire when waves of Germanic tribes battered the empire and citizens sought for protection. The first traces of actual ... Most serfs" lives were easier when they were more achieved so they would stride for this (Hay 169-174). Most serfdom had ended by the thirteenth century (MacEachern 64-68). The term "feudalism" slowly evolved from many languages over a long period of time giving it a complex history. Original...

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... left out of the consuming society struggled for their share of weatlth. The mechanization of basic goods industries had proceeded slowly and unevenly in the first half of the nineteenth century. To deal with the major changes brought about by industrialization, governments expanded the rolde of the state, strengthening the central power over the diverse interests, regions, classes ... the fact that economic development was extremely uneven, even in advanced industrial states. Industrial work and wealth were unevenly and unequally distributed. During the second half of the century, middl...

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... of the composers. New concepts governed the grammar and syntax of music, new genres came into being, and commercial practices increasingly determined a composer's reputation and by the end of the century, the public's view of the composer had changed substantially. It was during the classical period that the modern orchestra was founded. The full orchestra consisted of flutes, oboes, clarinets, ... professionals, gave concerts for their own pleasure and for others who came to hear them. The concerts of court orchestras were often opened to a paying public. During the late eighteenth cent...

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... industrial city in America. The system of factories and power canals created here surpassed previous engineering schemes in both scale and level of sophistication. By the beginning of the eighteenth century in England, the use of machines in manufacturing was already widespread. In 1762 Matthew Boulton built a factory, which employed more than six hundred workers, and installed a steam engine to ... process. It was not until 1873 that dynamo capable of prolonged operation was developed, but as early as 1831 Michael Faraday demonstrated how electricity could be mechanically produced. Thro...

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... it is still a subject a vast historical debate over origins, developments, growth and end results. It began sometime after the middle of the 18th century. England wanted to keep their industrialization in secret, so they prohibited anyone who had worked in a factory to leave the country. Meanwhile, Americans ... England faced increasing pressure to produce more manufactured goods due to this population explosion - England's population nearly doubled over the course of the century. Living conditions were terrible in these towns. People had to work long hours, often in dangerous condition...

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... outbreak of the war. All of these factors where established in many of Europe's "Great Powers" which consisted of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia. During the late nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries, Nationalism was a prominent movement that had spread itself across Europe. All major powers had strong feelings toward the concepts of supporting their own nation. Nationalists ... another historian, Gilbert, believes provoked war, saying that "The Austrian foreign minister was "fired up" for war against Serbia, but needed Germanys support. In the early par...

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... , people had the most peculiar ideas of the perfect body. In the already mentioned early cultures an obese woman was the common female ideal. A similar look developed in the 14th century: small breasts, a large belly, fat thighs and short legs described the perfect woman. The Greeks loved long upper parts of the body, where the navel was exactly in the middle ... and the genitals. During their cultural reign over the rest of Europe, the well known sentence "blondes have more fun" was created Greeks preferred fair haired ladies. In the 19th century, the cadaverous and fragile look was mod...

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... of people and of livestock and it reoccurred in four main stages throughout the Middle Ages. Firstly, the Justinian plague in the sixth century then the 1260 plague and later the Black Death plague followed by the nineteenth to twentieth century plague, conveys that the disease was never fully gone during the Medieval period. There were Great European epidemics and famine and it ... ...

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Nationalism is a political doctrine based on the principle that the boundaries between a nation and state should agree. It emerged as a historical movement in the nineteenth century, rooted in the ambition of different peoples for self-determination. An example of why it can be argued that nationalism is aggressive and expansionist is through its tendency to create a ' ... be argued that Anti-colonial nationalism is not aggressive and expansionist. The experience of colonial rule helped to forge a sense of nationhood and a desire for national liberation. During the 20th century, the political...

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... has one of the best-known faces in Japan, as his portrait appears on 10,000 yen bank notes. He was a leading intellectual figure and educational reformer of the later nineteenth century. This was the period known in Japanese history as the Meiji Restoration; after centuries of military governments which had followed a policy of enforced isolation from the outside world a revolution led ... was one of the first experts on the West in modern Japan, who was generally looked on positively as having played an important role in the modernization of late 19th-century Japan. It can be concluded...

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... increased output of these goods made them more inexpensive and affordable to consumers.(Madrick) There were many factors that contributed to the development of industry in England in the eighteenth century. At the time England had the most powerful navy in the world and had built strong colonial empires in lands such as America, Latin America, and Africa. In England's mercantilist ... make. The Industrial Revolution was in no way limited to just England. Industrialization was beginning to take place all over Europe and in many places around the world. By the nineteenth century all Europ...

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... , ships and divisions proudly. Tattoo shops were located on docks and near military bases and tattooing flourished. The popularity of tattooing during the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century owed much to the circus. When circuses prospered, tattooing prospered. When circuses went bankrupt, tattooed people and tattoo artists were out of work. For over 70 ... ...

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... neglected. Statutes permitted town and parish authorities to remove children from bad homes and place them in master's homes that would use them for labor. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the number of adoptions increased. In addition to informal and testamentary adoption, many private bills providing for adoption of children by adults were enacted by state legislatures. To avoid dealing ... ...

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... . He spread the values of the French Revolution as his armies marched through Europe. Through his military and political policies he started the social and political changes that dominated the nineteenth century. By his foreign policies he started modern Latin American history and enabled the United States to double in size with the Louisiana Purchase. He rearranged the Holy Roman Empire and ... ...

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... said to have the "darkness" in him. Because of this stereotype, the uneducated people continued to see them as inferiors until slavery began its decline in the mid to late nineteenth century. Literature was not the only form of discrimination against other civilizations. Both Pear's Soap and Time's Waxworks published pictures showing discrimination in some form. One Pear's Soap picture showed a child ... ...

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... neglected. Statutes permitted town and parish authorities to remove children from bad homes and place them in master's homes that would use them for labor. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the number of adoptions increased. In addition to informal and testamentary adoption, many private bills providing for adoption of children by adults were enacted by state legislatures. To avoid dealing ... ...

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... whilst avoiding the tyranny of the majority. Since its inception, the USA has largely succeeded in maintaining this raison d"etre. This is no small achievement when set against a backdrop of nineteenth century revolutions in Europe, and in a context where repressive government was the norm. However, in an advanced and mature society as the US now undoubtedly is, it seems reasonable to aspire ... ...

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