Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cover of McGuffey's First Reader. The Eclectic Readers (commonly, but informally known as the McGuffey Readers) were a series of graded primers for grade levels 1–6. They were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and homeschooling.
View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; ... 19th-century publishers (people) (9 C, 28 P) T. 19th-century theatre managers ...
Pages in category "19th-century American businesspeople" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,816 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second; The History of Rome (Mommsen) A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James II; A History of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America; The History of the Norman Conquest of England; History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution
A Hokkien by his paternal ancestry with ancestry from Quanzhou, Wu was known to the West as Howqua, as was his father, Wu Guorong, the founder of the family business or hong. The name "Howqua" is a romanization, in his native Hokkien language , of the business name under which he traded, "浩官" ( Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Hō-koaⁿ ). [ 8 ]
Advances in medicine and the understanding of human anatomy and disease prevention took place in the 19th century, and were partly responsible for rapidly accelerating population growth in the Western world. Europe's population doubled during the 19th century, from approximately 200 million to more than 400 million. [7]
The Notebook: a history of thinking on paper. Profile Books. Burke, Victoria E. Recent Studies in Commonplace Books. English Literary Renaissance. The University of Chicago Press. 43 (1 (Winter 2013)): 153–177. doi:10.2307/43607607. Retrieved 3 August 2021. A thorough bibliography of research and writing on commonplace books with associated ...
The Mughal India, worth a quarter of world GDP in the 17th century and early 18th century, especially its largest and economically most developed province Bengal Subah consist of its 40%, were responsible for 25% of global output, that led to an unprecedented rise in the rate of population growth, ultimately leading to the proto-industrialization.