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Calcutta and J.Z. Holwell, a man on the periphery
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Author
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Branch, William
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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WILLIAM ARMSTRONG BRANCH. J. Z. Holwell, a peripheral man. (Under the direction of Dr. David Johnson) In the middle of the eighteenth century the trading city of Calcutta flourished by exporting three categories of goods; textiles, opium, and salt...
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Man's Best Friend: Britain, the Great War, and the Making of the Modern Dog
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Author
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Brotze, Blake
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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The long nineteenth century and World War I greatly changed people's lives across Europe. The birth and subsequent rise of the middle class in industrialized nations significantly altered societies and cultures. In countries such as the British Em...
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Tea culture and the British Empire, 1600-1900
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Author
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Ashby, Brittany
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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At the end of the fifteenth century, the consumption of tea remained predominantly in the East, and only a few wealthy western aristocrats knew of the tea plant. Only one hundred years later, tea sparked the interests of many nations and consumpti...
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“PIONEER AMERICANAS”: AMERICAN PROTESTANT MISSIONARY WOMEN IN THE PHILIPPINES, 1898-1910
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Author
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Whittington, Joseph
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, History--Religious aspects, History
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Description
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In 1898, the United States intervened in conflicts between Spain and its colonial holdings in the Pacific Ocean. The nation rationalized its actions as a humanitarian mission to free the native peoples of the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Gu...