...vice versa.71 The handicrafts were not perceptibly nearer an adjustment of the controverted points at the end of the century than they had been at the beginning. But then, in considering the carpenters' side of the controversy outlined in 1672, when the two groups...

...more alarming, however, it impoverished the majority of the Latin Americans, who were no better off at the end of the century than they had been at the beginning. In fact, the argument can be put forth that they were worse off. Profoundly altering the concepts of...

...the process left sex as the principal ground for disqualification. Women were thus more isolated at the end of the century than they had been at the beginning. After 1 884 the debates around 'fitness' for citizenship that had previously taken place in terms of...

...armies' losses with Isaurians, but even so the field armies seem to have been almost a tenth smaller at the end of the century than they had been at the beginning. Zeno finally won the struggle with the Ostrogoths not by defeating them in the field but by persuading...

...division of labor, and women's access to political rights and education were often quite different at the end of the century than they had been at the beginning, but change was not uniform or unidirectional. For members of political and economic elites throughout...

...dropped by around 1 0 per cent after the middle of the century. These people were not much better off at the end of the century than they had been at the beginning. Their situation contrasts sharply with the picture presented by the wealthy, that is to say, people...