Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold began in the late 19th century? Or that South Africa became integrated into a ...

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

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 ...

Series in which Suzy Klein explores the transformation of music in the 19th century. In an age of political and industrial revolution, she tells how music became the leading art form.

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 ...

The debate about whether the industrial revolution was a good or a bad thing ... they tended to learn the language. As the 19th century progressed, the rate of immigration from outside Wales ...

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 ...

In the 19th century, Wallace's observations were striking. British imperialism was at its zenith, and the Industrial Revolution was fueling a titanic amplification of human impact upon nature.

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’ ...