LEGAL CULTURE Review Essay – Freedom of Contract in the 19th Century: Mythology and the Silence of the Sources – Sibylle Hofer’s Freiheit ohne Grenzen? Privatrechtstheoretische Diskussionen im 19. Jahrhundert Sibylle Hofer‚ Freiheit ohne Grenzen? privatrechtstheoretische Diskussionen im 19. Jahrhundert‚ Mohr (Siebeck): Tübingen 2001‚ 313 pp.‚ Jus Publicum Vol. 53‚ ISBN 316-147576-3 By Andreas Abegg and Annemarie Thatcher* “Qui dit contractuel‚ dit juste”.1 This oft-cited quote by Fouillée
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In the late 19th century America went through various transformations‚ with regional changes as well as rural and urban transformations‚ with political movements‚ urbanization‚ labor movements‚ and even Reconstruction and Westward Expansion; these are only a few examples of transformation that America underwent. The Unions victory in the Civil War in 1865 over the Emancipation Proclamation meant that nearly four million slaves gained their freedom‚ leaving the Confederates and southern states upset
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The three main factors of imperialism in the 19th century were economics‚ military/ technological advancements and cultural/social differences. After European countries became industrialized‚ they started to colonize countries in weaker continents like Asia and Africa. The industrial revolution combined with a sense of superiority greatly enabled the expansion of European dominance in countries that were less equipped to protect themselves. The economic differences in Europe and Africa caused imperialism
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mental hospital the moment she began to open up. The treatment women has been completely disrespectful and degrading within that field. While women gained suffrage in the late 19th Century‚ it wasn’t until the late 1960s that women’s roles started being questioned on a larger basis. Throughout the first half of the 20th Century‚ women were expected to go straight into work after finishing school‚ and continue just that until they were married. (Text 8) This attitude towards women supported the belief
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Did you know that in the 19th century there were many different economies throughout the United States. Also this country had a strong love for their nation also known as Nationalism. Today we will be talking about how Alabama gained territory‚ different Economies around the United states‚ and how Nationalism played a major role in the success of the economy. Alabama gained territory and the population of the state went up in the late 1700´s and the early 1800´s. Many immigrants left the country
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During the early 19th century‚ we did not have the medical knowledge we have today and that resulted in using extreme methods which ended in the patients dying. However as time went by more and more discoveries allowed us to have a closer look into our own health and we experimented on new technology and medicine. It is important to retrace the steps in order to move forward with science. There were much advances during the 1800s that led us into the field that we have now as well as new information
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malaria‚ and diphtheria. The average American city during the 19th century was a breeding ground for the frequent epidemics that occurred‚ killing thousands. Port cities were particularly susceptible to epidemics of infectious disease. New York‚ Boston‚ and Philadelphia were places where ships carrying foreign goods-and disease- were unloaded; they were also where potentially infected immigrants disembarked. Toward the end of the 19th century‚ as people searched for a way to control infectious diseases
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wonder of scientists; therefore we owe everything to imagination and wonder. Scientists have used their imagination to come up with some of the craziest ideas and experiments to try and find new discoveries and inventions in the world. During the 19th century‚ there were a lot of these new scientific discoveries. Some of these discoveries include Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures‚ Dalton’s modern Atomic Theory‚ the Doppler Effect‚ James Prescott Joule’s and Helmholtz’s Law of Conservation of energy
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Topic: The immigration of East Indian indentured workers to the Caribbean in the 19th century could be regarded as a new system of slavery. Slavery was the initial labour system used by Europeans on their plantations in the Caribbean. It was implemented in the 1600`s‚ the Europeans forcefully took people from the African continent to the Caribbean on various trips. The path in which the slaves were carried between Africa and the Caribbean is known to historians as the Triangular Trade. These Africans
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reformers would communicate the problems of the men running the society. They tried to reform America for more equality through several movements. These include the temperance movement against alcohol and the abolition movement against slavery. During this time period‚ men were getting excessively drunk just for leisure‚ and the reformers began to see this as dangerous and destructive to the society. It was a social activity; however‚ it was brought back to the home where the wives would suffer. At
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