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A New History of the Stowe Missal: Towards an Edition of the Stowe John and the Irish Tract on the Mass
… This thesis investigates the origins and history of the Stowe Missal by means of a close study of the manuscript and its scribes. Chapter 1 sets out the manuscript’s contents and the makeup of its quires, and offers a detailed discussion of the Stowe Missal’s scribes. The relative order of …
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The development of a new history curriculum for the secondary level in South Africa : considerations related to the possible inclusion of themes drawn from Unity Movement history
… content and perspectives provided in popular history traditions as a "necessary condition" for the development of a new history for secondary school in South Africa. In arguing for this recognition, research on the Unity Movement historical and dialectical materialist historiographical …
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From Premodern Xiaoshuo To A Modern Sino-Japanese Discourse On Fiction: A New History Of Xiaoshuo From The Warring States To The Twentieth Century
The first modern Chinese study of the history of premodern Chinese fiction is Lu Xun’s 魯迅 (1881-1936) A Brief History of Chinese Fiction 中國小說史略 (A Brief History hereafter), a work of fundamental importance in Western and Chinese academia. Lu’s influence on the study of premodern Chinese fiction is …
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The critical history of the New Group
This research had two aims; to clarify the history of the New Group, and to examine the way in which this history has been constructed and distorted. The first section of the dissertation presented a history of the New Group. Chapter One discussed general aspects of the Group's history such as …
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A More Updated Union: A History of New Liberals and Their New Computers in the New New South
… computer systems—inspired and confined new liberal policy and politics. It would strengthen racialized systems of power by transforming normative policy choices about classes of people into technological problems. Technical administrative institutions such as Mississippi’s Central Data …
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New constraints on the late Cenozoic incision history of the New River, Virginia
The New River crosses the core of the ancient, tectonically quiescent Appalachian orogen as it follows its course through North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. It is ideally situated to record the changes in geomorphic process rates that occur in the Appalachians as a response to late …
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History as database: bioshock and the new design source
… thesis contends that the game’s artists used history as a database from which they gathered visual elements to create composite digital works that not only supported a cohesive visual aesthetic, but additionally reinforced the game’s themes. In support of this claim, this thesis looks closely …
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Erosional history of the New River, southern Appalachians, Virginia
… geology of a 60-km<sup>2</sup> area of the New River drainage system was mapped at a scale of 1:24,000. The area is located within the Eggleston and Newport 7 ½-minute topographic quadrangles in Giles County, southwest Virginia. The data derived from mapping the surficial geology …
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A report on a new home for the New England Museum of Natural History
Thesis (M. Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1940.
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Milneburg, New Orleans: An Anthropological History of a Troubled Neighborhood
… 200 years, there has been a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana named Milneburg, which has been constantly reimagined by its inhabitants and others. From its inception as a port of entry in 1832 until the 2011, it has been called a world-class resort, the poor-man's Riviera, a seedy …
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Uncommon Knowledge: A History of Queer New Mexico, 1920s-1980s
<p>New Mexico, the heart of the American Southwest, has been home to countless gay men and lesbians throughout the twentieth century. This dissertation explores the states LGBTQ past and investigates the connections and exchanges between urban and rural gay and lesbian identities, cultures, and …
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Geologic and limnologic history of Glovers Pond, northwestern New Jersey
… Blairstown 7.5' Quadrangle, northwestern New Jersey. The Paleozoic Kittatinny, Jacksonburg, and Martinsburg Formations, in fault contact with each other, crop out in the vicinity of the lake. The lake has a maximum depth of 9.5 meters and occupies a glacially modified and dammed fault …
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The history of secondary school science education in New Zealand
This thesis is an account of the history of secondary school science education in New Zealand. Three interdependent empirical studies were used to examine the hypothesis that the value given to modern science1 within education policy has changed from the late nineteenth century to the present. In …
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A "new literary history" of modern poetry: history and deconstruction in the works of Whitman, Stevens, and Olson
<p>The literary history of Modern and Postmodern poetry needs to be rewritten because much of this poetry throws into doubt the very language which critics normally use to write such histories. Furthermore, Modern poetry provides a more adequate, because less rigid, sense of poetic “tradition” upon …
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Polyphase Proterozoic tectonometamorphic history of the Taos Range, northern New Mexico
Proterozoic rocks in the Taos Range of northern New Mexico preserve components of a protracted tectonic history involving pre-1.7 Ga, 1.65 Ga, 1.4 Ga, and possible 1.1 Ga tectonism. The southern Taos Range is a 1.76 – 1.7 Ga volcano-plutonic complex with tectonically interlayered remnants of the …
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An Environmental History of the New Deal in Mississippi and Florida
Keywords: New Deal, Environmental History, United States South, Mississippi, Florida, Gulf Coast, TVA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, landscape, lumber industry, CCC, WPA, state parks. The 1930s represented a time of distinct and encompassing change in the United States South. In assessing the impact …
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Unreinforced Masonry Precincts in New Zealand: History, Heritage, and Seismic Retrofit
New Zealand’s built heritage tradition is one of persistence and innovation, that continues to evolve in response to social and environmental conditions. Extensive damage caused by natural disasters such as the Canterbury earthquake sequence (2010-2011) focused public sentiment on an overlooked …
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