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Jackson
Jackson State capital and largest city of Mississippi, USA, on the Pearl River, sw Mississippi. Established as a trading post in the 1790s, it was chosen as state capital in 1821. Industries: natural gas, glass, textiles. Pop. (2000) 184,256.... Read more
absinthe
absinthe , an emerald-green liqueur distilled from wormwood and other aromatics, including angelica root, sweet-flag root, star anise, and dittany, which have been macerated and steeped in alcohol. It was invented in the 1790s by a Dr. Pierre Ordinaire, a Frenchman who lived in Switzerland, and ... Read more
Hokusai
Hokusai (Katsushika Hokusai) , 1760-1849, Japanese painter, draftsman, and wood engraver, one of the foremost ukiyo-e print designers. After producing wood engravings for several years, he became a pupil of the celebrated artisan Shunsho , adopting the name Shunro. In the 1790s he illustrated boo... Read more
Postal Service, U.S.
Postal Service, U.S. For most of its history, the postal service was the nation's largest civilian institution and the federal government's most visible manifestation in Americans’ everyday lives. Empowered by the Constitution to “establish Post Offices and post Roads,” Congress... Read more
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven , 1770-1827, German composer. He is universally recognized as one of the greatest composers of the Western European music tradition. Beethoven's work crowned the classical period and also effectively initiated the romantic era in music. He is one of the few artists who genuinely... Read more
Native Americans, U.S. Military Relations with

Gall , c.1840-1894, war chief of the Sioux, b. South Dakota. He refused to accept the treaty of 1868 (by which he would have been confined to a reservation), joined Sitting Bull and other dissident chiefs, and was the chief military lieutenant of Sitting Bull in the great defeat of George A... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "1790s"

steam-engines
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...his principles were still in use in the 1790s, Newcomen's atmospheric cylinder/piston...itself in economy of coal use: by the 1790s Watt engines consumed 70 per cent of the...machinery. Wider applications from the 1790s owed more to Trevithick's high-pressure...
Refugee Policies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ...migrants to the United States emerged in the 1790s. First was the French Revolution (1789...to win independence for Ireland in the 1790s. The first test of the nation's policy...uprising in St. Domingue (Haiti) in the 1790s. The revolt erupted in 1791, three years...
Romanticism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Britain among the poetic avant-garde in the 1790s) or reactionary and traditional (as it...Romanticisms are held to be well under way in the 1790s; French and other European Romanticisms...they repeat a common assumption of the 1790s whereby massive historical changes were...
canal system
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...of iron and coal in the valleys from the 1790s. No significant trunk routes were initiated...trunk route as a whole in 1815. From the 1790s the directness of the Grand Junction route...example—and created in the 1790s the financial precursors of the railway...
Orange Order
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...of the order lay in the heightened sectarian animosity of the 1790s, it benefited from a longer 18th‐century tradition...order spread rapidly through south and west Ulster in the late 1790s, penetrating both the yeomanry and regular army: in addition...
Paterson, William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ...important and active member of the Supreme Court during the 1790s and the early years of the Marshall Court. Though born in Ireland...played a key role in almost all the important decisions of the 1790s. In them he always argued for the supremacy of the federal...
religious conflict
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History ...increasingly assertive tactics of the Catholic Committee . During the 1790s localized sectarian animosities became intertwined with the...tradition of sectarian feuding established in the 1780s and 1790s was continued in episodes like the clashes between Ribbonmen...
Taxation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...and financed the Quasi‐War with France in the late 1790s and President Thomas Jefferson 's war against the Barbary pirates...reliance on low tariffs. One exception occurred in the early 1790s, when Congress followed the recommendation of President George...
Commemoration and Public Ritual
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...to bolster their ideologies and social positions. During the 1790s, for example, Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans held...antebellum period, monuments—controversial in the 1790s because of their association with monarchical Europe—...
Radcliffe, Ann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Ann Radcliffe English novelist Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) wrote a series of Gothic tales in the 1790s just as the literary genre was reaching its peak of popularity among middleand upper-class women readers in England and America...

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steam‐engines
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...and while engines on his principles were still in use in the 1790s, Newcomen's atmospheric cylinder/piston engine in 1712...supply, and textiles following. Wider applications from the 1790s owed more to Trevithick's high‐pressure non...
Naturphilosophie
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...philosopher's role as a lawgiver to nature. Others from the 1790s who independently of Schelling addressed for various reasons...philosophical examination of Kant's system that was underway in the 1790s. In addition to those largely sympathetic to Kant, there were...
Land Companies
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...from the state of Georgia for less than one cent an acre in the 1790s. The resulting confusion over title to western Georgia lands...the Pacific. Alexander Hamilton and George Washington in the 1790s saw a need for land companies as brokers between the federal...
Shipbuilding
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Independence, shipbuilding stagnated until European wars in the 1790s enabled American shipyards to launch neutral vessels for their...During the Golden Age of American shipbuilding, from the mid-1790s through the mid-1850s, shipping reached its highest proportional...
Arms Race and Disarmament
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...called a rudimentary "military-industrial complex." In the 1790s part-time soldiers proved embarrassingly likely to run in...given the long lead time associated with shipbuilding. In the 1790s the Federalists authorized the creation of a substantial force...
Pollack, Leopoldo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Piermarini on the Palazzo Ducale. He designed the Villa Casati, Muggiò, (1790s), and the Villa Rocca-Saporiti, called La Rotonda, Borgovico, (again 1790s), each of which has an elliptical salon. His greatest work was the Villa...
Neutral Rights
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Great Britain and France — a right, among other claims, for which it fought an undeclared war with France in the 1790s and a declared war with Great Britain between 1812 and 1815. Neither conflict, however, led to a resolution of the American...
Postal Service, U.S
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...department was quickly politicized, and remained so through the Age of Jackson. The Federalist Party built its organization in the 1790s around federal government employees in the states. The party also introduced politically oriented partisan newspapers everywhere...
Potawatomi
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Potawatomis joined the Indian coalition that resisted the American occupation of Ohio and participated in the border warfare of the 1790s. Many Potawatomis later became followers of Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet and fought with the British during the War of...
Primary, Direct
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...basis in the twentieth century, political parties nominated candidates for office at party conventions and caucuses. From the 1790s to the 1830s, the congressional and legislative caucuses made nominations for public office. From the 1830s until the early...

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Susan Manly. Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Manly. Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth...In Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s, Susan Manly demonstrates how a populist...the radical 'Jacobin' poetics of the 1790s, and the concept of a 'revolutionary...
Beckford, Godwin, Austen, and the divisive 1790s.(Conference Papers)(Jane Austen, William Beckford, William Godwin)
Magazine article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Jane Austen. I have been doing research on two men that the 1790s regarded as scoundrels, and the opinion of the 1790s tells us more about the times than the writers. Since the 1790s and the following two decades are Jane Austen's times, I...
Linda Lang-Peralta, ed., Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Romanticism; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...novel shop." The gothic novels of the 1790s may have filled the bookshops, but they...pernicious habit." Indeed, the novels of the 1790s, with a few notable exceptions, received...Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s is a welcome addition to the ongoing debate...
Joseph Johnson in the 1790s.
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Johnson, his firm, and his circle in the 1790s has several aims. (1) Marilyn Gaull...and his standing in the trade through the 1790s, in the process characterizing the man...evaluate and edit manuscripts. In the 1790s, Johnson's life took several turns...
The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s.(Trials for Treason and Sedition, 1792-1794. 5 vols.)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s (Oxford Univ. Pr. 2006) xiv + 278...growing interest in the decade of the British 1790s as crucial to understanding the French...scholars for whom the big story of the 1790s is the "rise of Romanticism," these...
Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s.
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Although concentrating on the work of the 1790s (excluding, however, The Four Zoas...thesis is that Blake is representative of 1790s radicalism. Hardly idiosyncratic, as...Enlightenment lineage, at least in the 1790s work, but Mee is making unusually strenuous...
The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; The House and Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional...postal routes and roads on Congress in the 1790s, finding that such petitioning established...Federalist mercantilism in the early 1790s to the beginnings of modern economic...
"Enough! or Too much": Probable, Possible, and Impossible Histories of the 1790s.(William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790's)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...of the literary works published in the 1790s by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and...reputation rests. On the other hand, while the 1790s are chronologically part of the eighteenth...revolution at home, particularly in the 1790s, it also became the leading anti-revolutionary...
Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold & Revolution, Counter-revolution, and Union: Ireland in the 1790s.
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...revolution, and Union: Ireland in the 1790s. (Cambridge University Press, 2000...Revolution, and Union, concentrating on the 1790s in Ireland participate in and advance the...radical ideas and reform agendas in the 1790s differ from the English? Did the Irish...
Political Writings of the 1790s.
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Revolution bad on British history. The 1790s in Britain were a time of new opportunities...Thomas Paine during the early years of the 1790s, continued unabated until the turn of...primary sources and Political Writings of the 1790s is yet another example of their achievements...