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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"19th and early 20th century"”.
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An assessment of the health status of late 19th and early 20th century Khoesan
… populations were subjected to severe political and economical marginalization and often fell prey to racial conflict and genocide. These circumstances persisted until the early 20th century, during which an astonishing number of Khoesan skeletons were transported from South Africa to various …
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The Theosophical Society and politics: esoteric discourse, esoteric monism, and theosophical identity in late 19th and early 20th century Britain and Ireland
… addresses the connection between esotericism and political ideas in the formative decades of the Theosophical Society, including Irish dimensions. The Theosophical Society provided the most influential and widespread forum for esoteric discourse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This …
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An archaeology of artisan identities and global relationships: Case studies of 19th and early 20th century weavers and carvers from Pohnpei and Kosrae, Micronesia
Pacific islanders have interacted for millennia. From the 16th century, foreigners arrived, and Islanders’ interconnectivity further increased. Archaeologists have fruitfully investigated such multicultural interactions by researching processes such as globalisation. However, as a descriptive …
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BLOOD DISORDERS: A TRANSATLANTIC STUDY OF THE VAMPIRE AS AN EXPRESSION OF IDEOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC TENSIONS IN LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY HISPANIC SHORT FICTION
… Hispanic short fiction of the last decade of the 19th century and first three decades of the 20th century, and is thus a comparative study; not simply between Spanish and Latin American literary production, but also between Hispanic and European literary traditions. As such, this study not only …
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Scientific racism, mass collecting, and NAGPRA : a study of the transformation of relationships between museums, anthropology, and the public from the late 19th century to the 21st century.
Humankind has collected materials and remains for centuries as a way to depict social status, educate, and fascinate. The relationships between anthropologists and museums in the late 19th and early 20th century set the foundation for both disciplines to make their mark in academia and public …
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”Fullständigt otillförlitlig, men absolut oumbärlig”. En historiografisk undersökning av projektet Svensk Stad
… Paulsson (1889-1977), included about 20 members and was conducted between 1940 and 1953. The interdisciplinary studies ot the Swedish towns of the 19th and early 20th century combined methods and perspectives from art history, sociology, cultural geography and european ethnology. The dissertation …
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Did bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) from the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas undergo a genetic bottleneck? A test using nuclear microsatellite loci
… underwent a genetic bottleneck as a result of 19th and early 20th Century commercial whaling. This investigation used more accurate laboratory techniques to score alleles, had a larger sample size that was divided into two groups (mainland Alaska and St. Lawrence Island (SLI)), and used a …
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The Dark Ride
… intersection of vernacular architecture studies and American studies, "The Dark Ride" defines the standard amusement park attraction both generally within the contexts of horrific iconography and the history of amusement devices and structures, and also specifically within the contexts of five …
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Visual humor : female photographers and modern American womanhood, 1860-1915
The late 19th and early 20th century was a period of humor, photography, and rampant gender debates. This dissertation was founded on an attempt to make sense of a period in American history that was messy and confusing. The United States was going through a growth spurt that, at times, as been …
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To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival
… music brought to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century, originally functioned as accompaniment to Jewish wedding ritual celebrations. In the late 1970s, a group of primarily Jewish musicians sought inspiration for a renewal of this early 20th century American klezmer by …
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Colonial Policy, Social Trust, and Economic Resilience: The Long-term Impacts of Imperial Russian Settlement in Southern Kazakhstan
… Yet scholars still do not fully understand how differential experiences of colonialism affect social and economic processes in the long-term. In this dissertation, I focus on the impacts of colonialism on two linked outcomes: social trust and rural resilience. How do colonial legacies …
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Hydrodynamic and structural constraints on ammonoid shell shape
… ammonoid shell in supporting hydrostatic load and the role of shell shape in facilitating swimming. The history of studies of the role of the shell in supporting hydrostatic load is discussed first, and is followed by an analysis of the function of the septal suture. The discussion of swimming …
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An historical and analytical survey of the Transcendental Etudes by Sergei Liapunov.
… was a distinguished Russian composer, pianist and teacher of the late 19th and early 20th century whose works are relatively unknown. His piano pieces were highly regarded and performed by pianists such as Konstantin Igumnov, Josef Hofmann, Josef Lhévinne, Ferruccio Busoni, and Vladimir …
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Disciples of the state : secularization and state building in the former Ottoman World
… succeeded in effectively secularizing schooling and law and regulating religion upon independence - thereby consolidating state power- whereas others did not. The bulk of the project centers on a detailed investigation of three former-Ottoman country cases: Turkey, Greece, and Egypt. The main …
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Fort Owen: The History and Archaeology of a Contact Period Site in Western Montana
… into Montana, influencing both the cultural and environmental landscape of the state and the fort’s own existence. The Fort Owen collection provided the opportunity to research the history and archaeology of Fort Owen as a contact period site and as the first historic-period agricultural …
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Fort Owen: The History and Archaeology of a Contact Period Site in Western Montana
… into Montana, influencing both the cultural and environmental landscape of the state and the fort’s own existence. The Fort Owen collection provided the opportunity to research the history and archaeology of Fort Owen as a contact period site and as the first historic-period agricultural …
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Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement
… why there has been persistent conflict over land in Africa, with reference to Kibaale district in western Uganda. The land conflicts, especially in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa, are attributed to such factors as the colonial legacy which has contributed to unequal access and conflicting …
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Casting Bread Upon the Waters: American Farming and the International Wheat Market, 1880-1920
In the late 19th and early 20th century, as wheat production and marketing were transformed in scale and in practice, American farmers tried to make sense of how they were positioned within a rapidly growing and changing international market. They tried to formulate a response that would gain them …
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From Lancashire to Bombay: Commercial Networks, Technology Diffusion, and Business Strategy in the Bombay Textile Industry
… thesis is an analysis of technology diffusion and the long-run institutional impact of the nature of that diffusion. It examines how a growing commercial trading relationship with Lancashire-based millwrights enabled textile industrialisation in late 19th century Bombay, and reflects upon the …
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The Development of the Justice in Ancient Egypt from the Old to the Middle Kingdom
… earlier periods of its history, namely the Old and Middle Kingdoms (c.2700-1700BCE). In doing so, it adopts a multifaceted approach encompassing not only detailed analysis of Egyptian textual sources, but also harnessing recent theoretical developments in legal anthropology and ethnographic …
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