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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"19TH AND 20TH CENTURY"”.
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A Shifting Island Landscape: Changes in Land Use and Daily Life in the 19th and 20th Century Village of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland
… changes to village spatial arrangement and land use patterns in the nineteenth and twentieth century village of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. To understand how spatial changes within the historic village were shaped by interactions between villagers and outside groups, including …
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Changes in the status and distribution of mammals of the order Carnivora in Yorkshire from 1600. County history of the fox, badger, otter, pine marten, stoat, weasel, polecat, American mink, wildcat and domestic cat.
… statistics, local scientific society records and 19th and 20th century literature sources from a wide range of published material, have provided detailed evidence of the status and changes in distribution over the past four centuries in Yorkshire for fox (Vulpes vulpes), badger (Meles meles), …
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Teaching the biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder: fostering a media literacy approach for multilingual writers
… journal responses, student sample essays and assignments were collected. Within these pages, several student samples will be provided to demonstrate the effectiveness and importance of giving students an opportunity to express their voice through the use of media literacy . By honoring and …
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Historical Local Knowledge and Cartography:Within GIS: Kaua`i, Hawai`i
There is no easy way to get historic data and maps into Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Maps remain an important and convenient source, snapshots in time that portray landscapes of the past, containing information that has been compiled, filtered and summarized. Maps as historic documents are …
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Transitional subjects: gender, race, and the politics of temporality
… between continental philosophy, feminist and queer theory, and transgender studies. Despite their related genealogies, these theoretical frameworks often give different accounts of the claim to an essential or real identity, as well as the relationship between identity, embodiment, and …
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“THE HOODOO YOU KNEW”: AN AFROCENTRIC (RE)LOCATION OF CONJURE AND HOODOO COSMOLOGY
… to the ongoing discourse on African spirituality and its contemporary relevance to African peoples in the Diaspora by exploring Hoodoo through an Afrocentric lens. By adopting this perspective, the researcher aims to normalize Hoodoo as a living spiritual system and shed light on the influence of …
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The World That Was : An investigation of lost cities, hidden empires, and their role in online pseudoarchaeological communities.
… conspiracies, their uptake on social media, and their impact on heritage identity has largely been ignored amongst archaeologists and heritage professionals with exceptions being studies of online communities, discussions of how pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past, and most recently the …
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The Map Is Not the Territory: Indigenous Climate Sovereignty in the Age of Apocalypse
… issues: Indigenous climate sovereignty and the imagination of climate apocalypse. It is particularly concerned with how these two themes intersect in the High North, a landscape continually constructed as a periphery and frontier. In the pages that follow, I explore the misalignments …
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Hydrologic Controls on Ecosystem Structure and Function in the Great Dismal Swamp
Forested peatlands of the Great Dismal Swamp (GDS) have been greatly altered since colonial times, motivating recent restoration efforts. Community structure and function were hydrologically altered by 19th and 20th century ditches installed to lower water levels and enable early timber harvesting. …
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An Analysis of Commerce and Personal Identities at the Pearl Fishing Settlement of Muharraq Town, Bahrain, 1600-1950 AD.
… was the most prominent urban centre in Bahrain and was reliant on the pearl fishing industry. Pearl fishing was the most economically important industry of the Arabian Gulf, with Bahrain as its centre since the beginning of the pearl trade. 1600-1950 AD saw the intensification of Gulf pearl …
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La subjetividad femenina y la modernidad en Puerto Rico y Brasil (siglos XIX y XX)
My dissertation, Feminine Subjectivity and Discourses of Modernity in Puerto Rico and Brazil (19th and 20th century), explores the construction of modern feminine subjectivities during the social, cultural and industrial modernization of Puerto Rico and Brazil throughout the 19th century. With this …
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The Black Body in Arctic Space: Revisioning Racialised Landscapes in the Films of John Akomfrah and Isaac Julien
… constructions of the Arctic as a literal and symbolic white space through an investigation of two films: John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010) and Isaac Julien’s True North (2004). Framed within the context of Euro-American constructions of the territory through 19th and 20th century …
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Illuminating the path of darkness: social and sacred power of artificial light in Pharaonic Period Egypt
… evidence for lighting equipment prior to the 7th century BC. However, 19th and 20th century lychnological studies have exaggerated this point by placing an overwhelming emphasis on decorated lamps from the Greco-Roman Period. In an attempt to move beyond these antiquarian roots, recent scholarship …
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Piano sonatas by South African composers, 1900-2015: a catalogue and compositional analyses of selected works
… art music is reflected in both its long history and its presence in the oeuvres of composers from across the globe. While some information on piano sonatas by South African composers has been included in academic literature, no comprehensive research has been done in the field. This lacuna is …
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Building to power : architecture of Tehran 1921-1941
Between 1921 and 1941, Reza Shah Pahlavi orchestrated the transformation of Tehran from a traditional Iranian Islamic city into a modern capital. The urban grid, public spaces, state institutions and housing typologies introduced during his reign permanently altered the character of Tehran. Through …
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Greenlandic ice archives of North Atlantic Common Era climate
… domineering force in shaping Earth’s landscape, climate, and ecology. Direct, quantifiable records of climatic phenomena are severely limited over much of the Common Era, necessitating high-resolution, naturally-derived proxies to extend climatic insights beyond the satellite and …
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The Multivalence of the Image Within Baroque Painting
… project functions as a journey into understanding the multivalence of the image through the process of experiencing the materiality of Baroque paintings and by exploring the physical reconstitution of the image through practice-based research.<br/>The project investigates the effects of the …
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“Pay, Protection, and Professionalism”: The History of Domestic Worker Organizing and the Future of Home Health Care in the United States
… I analyze the socio-economic, political, and historical factors that led to the current state of home health care in the United States. The legacy of slavery and the devaluing of so-called “women’s work” explain how the field of domestic work has been historically excluded from protection …
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Most uncommon common men: craft, culture, and conflict in a Canadian community, 1860-1914
… skilled workingman as an historical presence, and to outline the essential context within which the craftsman assumed this importance, that of industrial-capitalist development. Secondly, the study seeks to explore the culture of the skilled worker, as manifested in various forms of …
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The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel
… proposes that the spread of photography and popular cinema in 19th- and 20th-century-India have shaped an aesthetic and affective code integral to the reading and interpretation of Indian English novels, particularly when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the …
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