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Financial markets leaped forward in eighteenth-century Great Britain, and in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Japan and the US – a time when several key institutions, such as corporate law and the court system, were woefully substandard.

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This was discovered by Francis Galton in the nineteenth century.

Although he’s best known for his short horror stories, Poe was actually one of the most versatile and experimental writers of the nineteenth century.

Written in the early nineteenth century, Austen's novels decode the sheltered lives of the upper classes in rural England.

However, even as released on DVD, the film is still one of the better depictions of bushranger life in nineteenth century Australia.

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