Essays about: "19th century"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 334 essays containing the words 19th century.
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11. Quantifying the Swiss Custom Strategy and Its Impact on Economic Development from 1870 to 1913
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : The late 19th century witnessed a remarkable surge in globalization, resulting in a substantial flow of goods, labour, and capital across national and continental borders. Switzerland, despite its limited domestic market and resource constraints, capitalized on this era of globalization and transformed itself from a relatively impoverished agrarian state to one of the world's wealthiest nations. READ MORE
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12. A catch-22 scenario in the Swedish food system : –A scientific examination of cyprinid fishingand its management possibilities in Sweden
University essay from SLU/Department of Molecular SciencesAbstract : Cyprinid fish like roach, bream and ide are natural resources in Sweden that were common and consumed in households up to the late 19th century. Due to societal changes during the industrialization cyprinids lost their domestic importance. Today we see an increasing demand for sustainable food sources. READ MORE
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13. Archaeological dental calculus reveals patterns of dietary shifts related to the farming transition in Africa
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildningAbstract : Archaeological dental calculus represents a depositional environment that entraps oral microbes, and debris of dietary, environmental, and cultural material that entered the mouth throughout the host’s life. Hence, they represent valuable archives of information about the host’s lifestyle, health, and environment. READ MORE
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14. Integrity and security discourses in three European countries' AI policies : A study in privacy, political theory and rapidly developing technology
University essay from Södertörns högskola/StatsvetenskapAbstract : The relatively recent developments in AI have caused a lot of discussions surrounding security and privacy, and a consistent theme throughout these discussions have been how privacy as a political and legal term have developed in response. While this isn't necessarily a new phenomenon – privacy concerns have been around since the 19th century when Warren and Brandeis published their seminal paper – the development of AI has marked a new period where privacy has become a socio-political issue. READ MORE
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15. Wild cimarrones: Cuban maroon ecology in the first half of the 19th century and the corporeal rift
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Analyses of enslaved labor and marronage in the Caribbean and beyond abound. As insightful and important as many of these works have been, they have often overlooked the ecological dimension of the maroons’ struggle for their liberation, the relationship between nature and the political struggle for emancipation. READ MORE
