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Showing 1 to 20 of 1763 for “""global history""”.
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A Global History of Australian Women's Liberation, 1968-1985
This dissertation offers a global history of the Australian women’s liberation movement. It begins in the 1950s and concludes in the mid-1980s, with most attention being given to the period 1968-1985. Throughout this period the Australian women’s liberation movement changed the fabric of Australian …
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Cultural Translations: A Global history of the chili pepper in Architecture
The chili pepper came to occupy global cuisine in variegated ways through performative negotiations of cultural differences. From the Inca royal garden, Moyas, a locus of power where doves feed on chilies to the swidden farms of the Carribean in which the chili grows wild; from the formalized …
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How "global" are global history teachers? Secondary social studies teachers' understandings of global awareness and global education
<p>Although global history has been a part of the discipline of social studies in New York State for a number of years, the inclusion of global education and skills has been less prevalent in the discipline. This lack of global perspectives in education has proven to be detrimental to the global …
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Script, Empire, and Business: A Global History of Japanese Script Reform, 1920-1945
… in the early twentieth century from economic and global historical perspectives and sheds new light on the history of the relationships among script, business, and the Japanese empire. Specifically, it examines the campaigns of the Kanamoji Association (Kanamoji-kai) in not only Japan but also …
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The Nitrate That Shaped the World: A Global History of Indian Saltpetre (1700-1850)
… The demand for gunpowder, a key commodity in global trade including the African and American trades, surged after the 1700s. Concomitantly, the increase also boosted the demand for saltpetre. This project argues that following this great global demand for saltpetre, Indian saltpetre entered …
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AGGREGATIVE EXPERTISE: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF HOUSING, INFORMATION SCIENCE, AND THE DEPROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE ARCHITECT, 1973-82
In the 1970s, between the oil crisis (1973) and the debt crisis (1982), housing became the primary strategy pushed by international agencies and economists looking to promote national development and manage rural-urban migration. Despite what seemed to be the perfect outlet for architectural …
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Professional medicine and race: Medical missionaries in Qing China and global history of modern medicine, 1807-1912
The student, Yun Young Hur, accepted the attached license on 2019-11-27 at 15:29.
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The Tide of History: Australian Native Title Discourse in Global Perspective
… of the claim within the metaphor of the 'tide of history'. To make his decision, Justice Olney reconstructed the Yorta Yorta people's ancestors as native inhabitants from within expansionist ideology. Within that ideology, the term 'native inhabitant' is synonymous with inferiority, incompetence …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
Thinking about cities became increasingly global during and after WWII. 'Global' here refers to how, in the context of the war, the roles and meanings of cities in the world were beginning to be understood differently. This dissertation investigates urban histories since the 1940s in their …
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False Universalism of Global Governance Theories: Global Constitutionalism, Global Administrative Law, International Criminal Institutions and the Global South
Why are theories of global governance unsatisfactory? Why are theories of global governance unable to integrate the lived realities of the people of the global South? International law and its institutions are growing at an unprecedented speed and this expansion has captured the curiosity of …
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Geomechanical and tectonic investigations into the geologic history of Mars at local, regional, and global scales
… this dissertation is to understand the geologic history of Mars through the use of geomechanical techniques to investigate tectonic deformation of the lithosphere at local, regional, and global scales. Techniques that have their origins in terrestrial geology are applied to Mars to analyze …
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PUBLICIZING THE AFRICAN CAUSE: EVALUATING GLOBAL MEDIA DISCOURSES REGARDING THE CELEBRITY-LED "MAKE POVERTY HISTORY" CAMPAIGN
ABSTRACT This study examined global media discourses regarding the coverage of an anti-poverty campaign for Africa by celebrities in Europe by comparing media coverage of this event in the UK, US, and African press. The Make Poverty History campaign was organized in 2005 to pressure G8 leaders …
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AN INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL HEALTH AND GLOBAL HEALTH ETHICS: SEVEN TOPICS FOR STUDENTS
This is a practicum thesis to develop global health curriculum for students. The thesis includes seven articles that provide an introduction to global health and global health ethics. Topics for the articles were developed through research, discussions with current students and the author’s …
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Crustal History Indicators on Mercury
… would be likely to be underrepresented in the global population. Using shaded-relief models with alternative artificial illumination to complete resurveys, I found that my global survey of basinedge scarps has been affected. Consequently, I advise the use of shaded-relief models in addition to …
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A Fragile New World: An Analysis of the History, Present, and Future of the U.S. Global Fragility Act
<p>In 2019, the U.S. Congress passed the Global Fragility Act with bipartisan support. (GFA). The act aimed to reform U.S. foreign aid and development, focusing on stabilization initiatives that proactively address the root causes of conflict before they escalate into full-blown violence. Despite …
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Forms of Global Health
… critical medical humanities and a literature of global health by first investigating the function of literature in the development of earlier specialties in international health, with tropical medicine at the turn of the twentieth century as a key example. Scholarship in history and rhetoric of …
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Climate Change and the Great Plague Pandemics of History: Causal Link between Global Climate Fluctuations and Yersinia Pestis Contagion?
The two great bubonic plague outbreaks of history, Justinian's Plague and the Black Death were responsible for the deaths of over one hundred million individuals across Eurasia and Africa. Both occurrences of the plague coincided with climatic shifts that are well documented by both literary and …
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Difficult history : saving Yangon from colonial nostalgia
… and enslavement, linking together the global stories of oppression through colonialism and slavery to the global tourism and pressure for economic growth today. I focus on Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma), which has the world's largest collection of Victorian and Edwardian colonial …
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