matrilineal descent

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      10 words ...matrilineal descent Descent or inheritance through the female line.

Iranian Textile Handicrafts in the Nineteenth Century: A Note.

Middle Eastern Studies;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......true that the economy of Iran in the nineteenth century was predominantly agrarian based...the late eighteenth and during the nineteenth century, external factors have also contributed...became apparent in the course of the nineteenth century which could be summarized in the...

MATRILINEAL DESCENT

Jerusalem Post;  May 6, 1997 ;     249 words ......have sought to change rules concerning conversion and matrilineal descent that have been in force for 3,000 years. However, Rabbi...falls. The rigors of Orthodox conversion and the rule of matrilineal descent are both relatively recent responses to the trials and...

Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics, Race, and Class in...

Journal of Third World Studies;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. Durham, NC: Duke University...historians have viewed Colombia's nineteenth century historical experience as a period...order and progress came early. By mid-nineteenth century, Chile and Brazil's elites were able...

A typology of nineteenth century concepts of nationhood. (part 1)

East European Quarterly;  March 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Nineteenth century nationalisms can be construed...basic approach to interpreting nineteenth century nationalisms lies in the analysis...of Hungarian nationalism in the nineteenth century lies in the fact that its ideological...

Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century.(Book...

Shakespeare Bulletin;  December 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century. By Richard W. Schoch...Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century continues Richard W. Schoch...investigation of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, begun in his Shakespeare...

She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Transformations;  September 30, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. In the preface to She Wields a Pen...concerns, and social complexities of Nineteenth Century women than do the 3,000 page anthologies...surprise while also assuring us that the Nineteenth Century (or perhaps we should say certain...

Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London.(Book...

Canadian Journal of History;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London, by Heather Shore. Royal Historical...youthful delinquency in the early nineteenth century will be more easily available to...mid-Victorian England. Students of nineteenth-century English literature and those interested...

Anglican Women and the Bible in Nineteenth-century Britain

Anglican and Episcopal History;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......range of books on the Bible in the nineteenth century, but these women have been lost from...the variety of books published by nineteenth-century British Anglican women. Standard...interpretation of the Bible in the nineteenth century focus exclusively on the rise of...

The secular beyond: free religious dissent and debates over the afterlife...

Church History;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the end of the first third of the nineteenth century, German writers began to favor a...of pressure on the fault lines of nineteenth-century German religious thought. (3) A comparison...and its wide popularization in the nineteenth century, correspond to the gradual secularization...

Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs...

The Catholic Historical Review;  July 1, 2007 ;     618 words ......and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century. By Ryan K. Smith. (Chapel Hill...difficult to recall that in the early nineteenth century most Protestant denominations regarded...and American Church Designs In the Nineteenth Century, Ryan K. Smith traces the often ...

Railways and the Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth...

Canadian Journal of History;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Formation of the Italian State in the Nineteenth Century, by Albert Schram. New York, Cambridge...divisive than unifying throughout the nineteenth century. Not only did the railways provide...key political issues throughout the nineteenth century. The Parliament, after long and ...

The measurement of nineteenth century accounting error: Cases from the...

Accounting History;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......economic historians of utilising nineteenth century company financial reports as a primary...companies during the second half of the nineteenth century and attempts to develop a methodology...Introduction Recurring criticism of nineteenth century company financial reports surrounds...

Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to a...

Albion;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Rowan Strong. Episcopalianism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Religious Responses to...new forces that appeared during the nineteenth century? Industrialization did create new...the new industrial society of the nineteenth century, a force over which it had little...

The Gospel Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century...

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography;  January 1, 2001 ;     642 words ......Working Up: Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia. By BETH BARTON SCHWEIGER...usually associated with studies of the nineteenth-century South should ensure a fair amount...churches and clergymen during the nineteenth century is that they were proslavery, ...