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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"Archival sources"”.
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The path to free education: exploration of student revolts in South African Universities from an archival perspective
… public debate. As a result, it often ignores archival sources that provide an opportunity to proclaim a different lens to student protestation in context, and its value to student resistance in its entirety. The mini dissertation seeks to understand and outline the importance of archival …
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Goodsprings: A historical archaeological review of the Yellow Pine Mining District
… indeed confirm historical documentation. Using archival sources combined with an intuitive non-random sampling method, various feature systems associated with mining were recorded in order to discern chronological and historical accuracy. Research questions concerning length of mining …
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Art of the American *South, 1915--1945: Picturing the Past, Portending Regionalism
… art has received little scholarly attention. Archival sources are used here to document the development of regionalism in the South and to examine the work of Frank London, Hobson Pittman and Mary Tannahill from North Carolina; Alfred Hutty, Anna Heyward Taylor and Elizabeth O'Neill Verner …
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A history of the Jewish community of Potchefstroom and environs
This study builds on a range of archival sources and traces the history of Potchefstroom Jewry from the mid-nineteenth century to 2008. Beginning with the immigrant experience the processes of assimilation, acculturation and secularization are explored. The Jewish community developed in parallel …
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Female Doctors and Educator in Sichuan 1900-1930s
… and medical education for local women by using archival sources, missionary reports and books, and personal memoirs. In addition, this thesis analyzes the challenges and breakthroughs of women in medicine, contextualizing their achievements within the broader social and cultural shifts of the …
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The Whole as a Result of Its Parts: Assembly in Aaron Copland's Score for The Red Pony
… the music with the picture. Examination of archival sources shows how the score reflects the acknowledged influence of Igor Stravinsky, the needs of the film medium, and the plot of The Red Pony specifically. Despite Copland's modern style characteristics, the music functions much like a …
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"That mountain is like a drug store": Knowledge and Medicine in Southern Appalachia, 1900-1933
… records, medical school records, and other archival sources, I trace how gender, race, and class shaped knowledge in Appalachian folk medicine and professional medicine during Prohibition and the early twentieth century. Despite the characterization of folk medicine as a victim to …
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The Business of Sculpture in Venice, 1525-1625
… analysis and interpretation of myriad archival sources (unpublished and published), primary texts and key objects, it answers fundamental questions such as: how was sculpture commissioned in Renaissance and Early Modern Venice? Why were some contracts verbal, yet others written? How was …
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A Melting Fossil: Constituting Planetary Time In The Cryosphere, 1815-1980
… the deep past and future of the Earth. Using archival sources that span two centuries and three continents, this project argues that through ice, Earth scientists have refashioned their conceptualization of deep time from something slow, lumbering, and uniform to something much more …
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Radicalism at the Margin : The New Emergence of the Chinese Trotskyist Movement in Hong Kong, 1969-1981
… China prior to 1952, based on newly-available archival sources and other primary materials, this thesis explores the new political emergence of Chinese Trotskyist movement in Hong Kong by investigating the Trotskyists’ role in Hong Kong’s political arena and the political dynamics of the …
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John Bardwell Ebden : his business and political career at the Cape 1806-1849
… period. In addition to a wide range of secondary sources which gave a general indication of Ebden's activities, primary sources in the Cape Archives Depot, Cape Town, such as the archives of the Governor, Colonial Office,Legislative Council, Wine Taster, Notarial Deeds and papers of the Cape Town …
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Conflict and Cooperation: Western Economic Interests in Ottoman Iraq 1894-1914
… dissertation investigates underutilized U.S. archival sources in order to discuss certain aspects of late Ottoman history in Baghdad and Basra, between 1894 and 1914. Since these sources have been underutilized, their inclusion will widen the scope of possible historical investigation in the …
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Holokausto vaizdavimas Icchoko Mero ankstyvojoje kūryboje /
… pre-publication process. Analysing unexamined archival sources, the paper proposes a new interpretation of early Meras' works. The research revealed how the USSR's World War II narrative and the positive hero characteristic of socialist realism undermined and suppressed the suffering of Jewish …
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White Power and Profit in New England School Desegregation, 1964–1972
… sociological methods and draw on more than 1,000 archival sources to challenge the dominant narrative portraying segregation as a Southern issue and desegregation as inherently racially progressive. I introduce the concept of “extractive inclusion” to describe how Black and Indigenous children …
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External and internal pressures on radical social movements: tracing the (de)mobilization of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
… to its demobilization. By consulting primary and archival sources, I identify two external factors of demobilization, resource deprivation and repression, and one internal factor of demobilization, factionalization. It is concluded that as repression and resource deprivation by the auto companies, …
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An American Ambassador in Berlin: Observing Hitler's Gambles in Foreign Policy, 1933-1937
… between August 1933 and December 1937. Using archival sources, this thesis examines Dodd's reactions to and analyses of three events in Nazi German history, with reference to how these episodes altered the landscape of international security. These events are the withdrawal from the …
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Hugh Borton: His Role in American-Japanese Relations.
… Park, Maryland. A good number of secondary sources both in English and Japanese were also used to supplement the archival sources.</p> <p>This study concludes that Borton's missionary experience was decisive in shaping his career, the policies he advocated for postwar Japan, and the …
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Injustice sheltered: Race relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1962
… was the evidence as to its existence. Many rich archival sources were openly-shelved and logically-labeled; many, however, were housed under obscure titles, and it was by chance and much reading that they were discovered.
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The National Committee for Liberation ("ARM"), 1960-1964 : sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
… to transcend this isolation are investigated. Sources: Discussion of the context of the NCL's development depended on secondary historical works by scholars such as Tom Lodge, Paul Rich, C.J. Driver and Janet Robertson as well as archival sources. The analysis of liberal discourse in the 1950s …
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Cechovní řemesla na Slovácku v letech 1450 až 1859
… to previous studies of guilds, the heuristics of archival sources, and the presentation of the questions and objectives of the work. The second part describes the guilds of Slovácko on the basis of sources according to the guild hierarchy of apprentice - journeyman - master, guild self-government. …
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