The BBC television programme Right Hand, Left Hand, broadcast in August 1953, used a postal questionnaire to ask viewers about their handedness. Respondents were born between 1864 and 1948, and in principle therefore the study provides information on rates of left-handedness in those born in the nineteenth century, a group for which few data are otherwise available. A total of 6,549 responses w...

ends of the earth. In response, trade flows grew enormously as did international movements of labor and capital. The prospect of a global marketplace for goods, labor, and capital that appeared was dashed by the disruptions of World War I. In its aftermath, the peace treaties created a series of new nation-states intent on attaining, or maintaining, a distinctive role within well-defined trade ...

The Diverse Japanese: Local History's Challenge to National Narratives in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction Jonathan Dresner 2 Community and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Re-consideration Edward Pratt 5 Lost in History: Aizu and the Meiji Restoration John E. Van Sant 14 Meiji Education and the Uses of Local History Brian Platt 20 Sacred Sites and the Dynamics of Identity Sarah T...

Epidemic Meningococcal meningitis first made its definite appearance in Europe in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The first recorded epidemic in the Maltese Islands, which straddled the sea-routes of the Mediterranean, occurred in the late nineteenth century. This paper describes a manuscript report prepared at the request of the Lieutenant Governor regarding this epidemic in the light...

The aim of this text is to analyze how issues relating to the communication of science to the public were treated in a Brazilian periodical, Revista Popular, published by Livraria e casa editorial Garnier between 1859 and 1862. The science-related sections are investigated, the prologues are analyzed, the topics included in the magazine’s coverage of scientific commissions and expeditions aroun...

Annual and seasonal statistics of local air pressure characteristics have already been used as proxies for storminess across Northern Europe. We present an update of such proxies for Northern Europe and an unprecedented analysis for Central Europe which together considerably extends the current knowledge of European storminess. Calculations are completed for three sets of stations, located in N...

the state. Caring for the poor in hospitals and during home visits, individual physicians since the Enlightenment got involved in political reform movements, joining their voices to describe the evils of urbanization and industrialization. Other work has exposed the recent political fortunes of the medical profession itself and its struggles to achieve a healing monopoly. As the Porters point o...

a pre-nineteenth-century or fabulous age, a Victorian heroic era and a modern age of triumph. Unlike Conrad who saw "geography triumphant" as cause for melancholy, the doctors perceived modem medicine as a source of celebration. Like geography too, nineteenth-century medicine was riven by arguments about where medical knowledge was to be made: was it in the ward, the museum or the laboratory? S...

It is customary to regard 'tropical medicine' as a product of the late nineteenth century, 'its instrument the microscope, its epistemology the germ theory of disease'. The accepted interpretation is that tropical medicine was a European concept: originating in Britain and France and exported to the colonies by pioneering medical scientists. This interpretation is useful inasmuch as 'tropical m...