During the 1980s and 1990s advocates of a social history of medicine argued that it should focus on the history of health. They underlined how, in George Bernard Shaw’s words, the sick poor child ‘needs … not medicine, but … better clothes, better food, and a better drained … house...
By the mid-1800s, an antiregulatory movement in the country had opened the medical profession essentially to anyone who chose to hang a shingle. Only after the turn of the century did licensing laws emerge. See D. B. Hogan, “The Effectiveness of Licensing: History, Evidence, and ...
Turnpikes In The 1800s Livingston secured all the rights to steamboats and quickly took over water transportation because no one else had any ship to compete with the at the time all superior steamboat. Robert Fulton had hundreds of steamboat making trips from New York City to Albany New York...
Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World Since 1800 by Richard S. Grossman (review) The recent financial crisis has renewed interest in the history of banking among scholars and policymakers, in the hopes of finding insights into the appro... E Hilt - 《Enterprise...
16 In addition to extending the mail system to a new class of users in the mid-1800s by lowering the cost of using it, the Post Office Department also made it easier to use the system by increasing access points. Whereas initially all postal transactions took place at the local Post ...
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The love letters of history's famous women are just as sad, passionate, unrequited, and sizzling as those produced by their male counterparts — so much so that they just may inspire you to take up your own pen (or keyboard). And these love letters do more than ...