...patricians of Geneva since the middle of the seventeenth century, in the English village of Colyton at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, and among the patricians of Zierikzee in the eighteenth century." The dates of birth of children of...

...dominant labor system and thereby influenced all other social relations. This fateful transition occurred at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries in 113 the two Southern slave systems, but it never happened in the North. From this perspective, the...

...the benevolent intervention of the church. The results of this study of European children's Bibles at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries suggest that caution is necessary in discussions of the history of childhood, child-reading, or the...

...static society, no provision had been made for correcting the documents as village populations grew at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. With each succeeding generation the cadaster became a more distorted picture of economic and social...

...Dalmatia and Croatia, as well as Slavonia and Voivodine, was occupied by the Ottoman Empire for some time. At the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, following the Habsburgs' defeat of the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Habsburgs sought to gain power...

...and private mills, many other illegal obrajes existed. Tyrer suggests that in the Audiencia of Quito at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries, at least fifty-seven obrajes were operating illegally,52 though most were probably small urban workshops....

...societies of the Amazon floodplain, but the majority of the Rio Negro societies, contacted only toward the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries when the driving forces behind expansion were intense, generated little ethnographic curiosity. Furthermore...

...subject into topical prominence; and the sustained outbreak of ecstatic prophecy among the Camisards at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries was well remembered in Europe. 72. E. Teocmi, Le 'Liore des Actes' et L'Histoire, Paris 1957, p. 204;...

...1720. A number of other fire offices, both mutual societies and joint-stock companies, were established at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. Some of the longest survivors of these included a mutual society, the Amicable Contributorship (also...

...colonized to supply the growing Bengali production and export of textiles in the sixteenth and again at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries. However, all of these, including the initial clearing of the jungle (as in the Amazon today) were financed...