Essays about: "early 19th century"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 68 essays containing the words early 19th century.

  1. 21. Potatislök, johanneslök eller nordisk schalotten? : Historiska odlingssystem, namnbruk och introduktion för Allium cepa Aggregatum-Gruppen

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Erik De Vahl; [2020]
    Keywords : lök; allium; kulturarv; schalottenlök; potatislök; trädgårdshistoria;

    Abstract : Denna uppsats gör ett tvärvetenskapligt försök att besvara huruvida sen höstplantering i enlighet med äldre odlingsbeskrivningar påverkar skördenivåer och blominducering hos fem svenska lokalsorter av potatislök, Allium cepa AggregatumGruppen. Uppsatsen frågar hur historiska odlingsmetoder kan bidra till förståelsen av den genetiska spännvidden i det bevarade växtmaterialet och om kunskap om introduktionshistoria och folklig taxonomi kan bidra när bevarandevärden formuleras och utvärderas. READ MORE

  3. 22. 1900- talets skogsbruk i kronoparksskogar : en skogshistorisk studie om Håckren och Bjurfors kronoparker

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Therese Prestberg; [2020]
    Keywords : skogshistoria; Domänverket; skogsskötsel; skogsstruktur; Jämtland; Västmanland;

    Abstract : Industrialiseringen av Västeuropa och den efterföljande sågverksexpansion som inträffade i Sverige under 1800-talet påverkade de svenska skogarnas skötsel, struktur och funktion markant. Därmed introducerades nya avverkningsmetoder och debatter om den bästa skogsskötseln drevs. READ MORE

  4. 23. Egyptology in the Periphery. Valdemar Schmidt and the making of Egyptology in Denmark 1872–1925

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

    Author : Andreas Alm; [2019]
    Keywords : Egyptology; History of Egyptology; Archaeology; Denmark; Scandinavia; Egypt; History of Humanities; Periphery; 19th Century; 20th Century; World War I; Mummies; Museums; Mummy unwrapping; Egyptomania; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : Egyptology in the 19th and early 20th centuries developed simultaneously with increased imperial presence in Egypt by the European imperial powers, which would have influence on how the discipline was practised. The history of Egyptology has for this reason primarily focused on the big four – Great Britain, France, Germany and USA – and on Egypt itself. READ MORE

  5. 24. What defines a Parent? : A Corpus Study of the Shift in Meaning of the Word Parent in American English during the 19th and 20th Centuries

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Karin Persson; [2019]
    Keywords : Parent; Corpus Linguistics; Corpus Studies; the Corpus of Historical American English; COHA; Semantic Change;

    Abstract : This essay examines how the sense of the word parent has developed and possibly changed during the 19th and 20th centuries. The hypothesis is that father was the most common meaning in the early 1800s and that by the end of the 20th century it had changed into having a more general sense, denoting all caregivers of a child. READ MORE

  6. 25. “I’ve a right to think” : A Reading of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as a Reflection of Early Feminism in the Victorian Era

    University essay from

    Author : Josephine Flottrong; [2019]
    Keywords : Alice’s adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll; the Victorian era; early feminism; education; equality; emancipation;

    Abstract : In this essay I claim that Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a character who reflects the early feminist movement in the 19th century. By reading Alice in terms of a resemblance to the early feminist activists and the first modern feminist text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, I explore the idea of Alice’s characteristics being comparable to those values and thoughts which the feminist movement expressed. READ MORE