mid-eighteenth

• “Just as Gluck at mid-eighteenth century had scraped off the excesses of ornamented Baroque opera to prepare for the truer-to-life operas of Mozart, so Cherubini was to abandon the relatively polite manners of Mozart's high classical style in favor of the more emotionally charged sound-worlds in the era of the French Revolution.”

  The Huffington Post: Rodney Punt: Medea Takes Revenge in an Abandoned Warehouse

• “By the mid-eighteenth century Shanghai had become an important area for cotton growing and within a century, it was becoming the largest and fastest growing city in China.”

  Fictionaut: A rainy day in Shanghai

• “Objects in the exhibit are grouped by the time of day they would be in use, allowing for a more complete look at mid-eighteenth century Parisian life.”

  The Huffington Post: 'Paris Life and Luxury' Exhibition At The Getty Museum In Los Angeles

• “The Getty Museum's exhibition "Paris Life and Luxury" is a chance to experience the opulence which filled the parlors of Paris in the mid-eighteenth century.”

  The Huffington Post: 'Paris Life and Luxury' Exhibition At The Getty Museum In Los Angeles

• “Tactics in the mid-eighteenth century reflected the fact that the smoothbore musket was not only limited in range but inaccurate; the excitement and stress of combat just made things worse.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “In the mid-eighteenth century, life in Philadelphia had much to offer a rising member of its civic elite.”

  Simon & Schuster: Robert Morris

• “The state structure that took shape in and around Qandahar under the direction of Ahmad Shah Abdali/Durrani in the mid-eighteenth century had deep roots in both Iran and India.”

  Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

• “Note 60: See Bayly (1988), chs. 10 and 11, for treatment of merchant family firms in North India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Levi, ch. 4, for an overview of Indian family firms, and Dale, pp. 112 – 20, for a consideration of an Indian "firm" (Dale's quotes) in Astrakhan in the mid-eighteenth century.”

  Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier

• “The Cedarberg region lies 250 kilometers north of Cape Town — about nine days 'travel in an ox wagon during the mid-eighteenth century.”

  Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa

• “By age 16, schoolkids have learned almost no math beyond what was already known in the mid-seventeenth century, and likewise by the time they are 18 they have not gone beyond the mid-eighteenth century.”

  Simon & Schuster: HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID

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