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The nineteenth-century English economist William Stanley Jevons noted that more fuel-efficient steam engines didn’t lead to less coal consumption.

Feudalism combined with modern technology has only been tried — to the best of my knowledge — once, in nineteenth century America.

This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century.

He has an interesting story about how they were modelled on the post office originally, when large businesses arose in the late nineteenth century.

You seem to forget that the nineteenth century was extremely harsh (sorry, I lack a better word) for the working class.

Not to mention the humoural theory of medicine was still prevalent into the eighteenth and nineteenth century in some parts (in particular the antipodes and Canada).

Indeed, there is good reason to believe that working hours in the mid-nineteenth century constitute the most prodigious work effort in the entire history of humankind.

For one thing, we're nowhere near the plutocracy of the pre-income-tax, late nineteenth century.

This mentality, which personifies American corporate culture, about extroversion being good and introversion being bad, started with Cale Carnegie in the early part of the nineteenth century.

The whole point was to prevent Germany and France from going to war again as they had twice in the twentieth century and twice in the nineteenth century.

Proudhon's nineteenth century opinion is itself conflicted.

I even followed Spencerian methods from the the nineteenth century.

The "promenade" (a town or two would meet up, single boys circled clockwise around a circle of anti-clockwise girls) was commonplace in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe.

In the city of Abomey, according to one nineteenth-century visitor, “it would be difficult to find Dahomeans who were not descended from royalty.” The connection between sex and power is a long one.

I don't think a pattern of questionable decisions made mostly in the nineteenth century is good evidence for it being "the only real way it can work at that size."

I really recommend the book "New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century" for an in depth history of zoos amd treatment of that colonialism connection, it's fascinating.

Nineteenth-Century Mortality in West Africa Philip D.