For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

By the mid-19th century, popular media depicted the “True Woman” as one who could competently ... Women's visibility as wage earners during the early Industrial Revolution was precedent setting, and ...

Modern industry started in the 18th century, and its growth accelerated throughout the 19th as production switched from metal to coal mining. By the early 20th century, about one in four Welsh workers ...

In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku (19th-Century Polish Life), he wrote ... The January Uprising was preceded by what Franciszek Ziejka termed a ‘mystical revolution’ ...

But the industry as we understand it today really has its origins in the second half of the 19th century. Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and ...

Fueled by the Industrial Revolution, the speed and scope of ... because of train travel,” says Hunter, a specialist in 19th-century French art who researches theories of time, among other ...