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Showing 1 to 20 of 446 for “"Civilization"”.
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Civilization on the Colorado to 1860
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Global Islamism: The Threat to Western Civilization
… fundamentalist movement to infiltrate Western civilization as a means to destroy it, implement their brand of Islamic law, and establish their worldwide Islamic fundamentalist movement to infiltrate Western civilization as a means to destroy it, implement their brand of Islamic law, and …
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Affirming ‘civilization’ in exile: Chŏng Yagyong (1762-1836)
This dissertation explores the work of Tasan Chŏng Yagyong (1762-1836), one of the most influential premodern Korean scholars, as that of an exile. I especially question how Tasan’s long years of exile and the anti-Western socio-intellectual atmosphere of the times led him to reformulate his later …
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Accountability in the context of civilization change in China
… of accountability in the context of civilization change in China. Using a Foucaultian epistemic framework and archaeological method, data has been gathered from four sources: textual, interviews, case studies and surveys. Each source has been considered in terms of the viability of …
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Discourse on civilization: postliberal postsecular histories of the ghetto
This work is a psychoanalytic anthropology of the city in the postcolony. It is located in Europe's most fragile settler colony in the South of Africa, and set within Apartheid's most privileged multi–culture, the Oriental Ghetto of Bo– Kaap, Cape Town. The project introduces the theoretical …
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Historical Narrative in the Music of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
<p><em>Sid Meier’s Civilization VI</em> is a 2016 strategy video game in which the player leads a historical civilization from 4000 BC to the present. The <em>Civilization</em> series is the subject of much scholarly writing, especially its representation of history and non- Western cultures. My …
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The nature of Canaanitic civilization in the light of archaeology
Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University Bibliography: p. 104-106.
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Daisaku Ikeda's philosophy of peace: Human revolution, dialogue and global civilization.
… (Dialogue) and Cosmopolitan Democracy (Global Civilization). It is also argued that while being inspired by Ikeda's Buddhist spirituality and his loyalty to his mentor Josei Toda, this secular humanist approach to peace offers an effective and original way for all people to participate in the …
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The Positioning Of Iran And Iranians In The Origins Of Western Civilization
… Iran and Iranians in the origins of Western Civilization. Western Civilization history marginalizes, misrepresents, misappropriates, and/or omits Iran’s positioning (Kincheloe, 2004; Daryaee, 2005; Anvarinejad, 2007; Daragahi, 2010; Ahkami, 2014; Vahdati, 2014). Further, the mainstream …
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Gospel power for civilization: the CMS missionary perspective on Maori Culture 1830-1860.
… of the meaning and role of the Christianity-Civilization nexus in missionary thinking. The following pages explore the relationship between the two terms: why and how they were linked, both in general, and in a New Zealand-specific context. The arguments of this thesis are put forward through …
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Hagfræði tölvuleikja : hvaða hagfræði má læra af aðgerðaskiptum tölvuleikjum líkt og Colonization og Civilization
… vel í raunheimum. Leikirnir Colonization og Civilization eru báðir leikir sem taka langan tíma í spilun og byggja á langtíma stefnu, yfirsýn og skipulagningu. Leikirnir eru báðir mjög skemmtilegir og hafa milljónir notenda um allann heim, vegna þessa eru þeir líklegir til að skila af sér …
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Civilized people in uncivilized places : rubber, race, and civilization during the Amazonian rubber boom
… and its necessary role as the bearer of civilization for the tropical world. Perhaps the most powerful characteristic of tropicality was its inherent ambivalence. The Amazon basin has been a particularly important source for the creation and maintenance of these stereotypes about the …
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Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
… labor training to speed the conversion and civilization of ""heathen"" populations, who would then be equal to whites. Native Hawaiians and Creeks attending these boarding schools sought the knowledge of whites to preserve their sovereignty and to adapt to the many upheavals that accompanied …
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The Influence of Italian Renaissance Civilization in Fifteenth Century Spain: A Study in Cultural Transmission
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T18:01:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7021057.pdf: 10322239 bytes, checksum: 8f7e5f10e23cf534eb5db542f185b73a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Ringers of Bells and Teachers of Civilization : the Work of the California Franciscan Missionaries, 1769-1821
… ways they were the legitimate conveyors of civilization to California.</p> <p>Through the use of letters, reports, books, and archival documents an accurate vision of the missionaries emerges. The picture is one that reveals their well-rounded personalities. It is hoped that the obscure …
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Sport/utility vehicles as technologies of the suburban self: The only civilized way to leave civilization
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the transactional and transformative relationships between automobiles and their owners/drivers. Using the sport/utility vehicle as a case study, I show how both the automobile and its user go through transformations of meaning. These transformations take …
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Beneath the "Thin Veneer of Civilization": Evolution, Masculinity, and Race in the Early Twentieth Century United States
… literature, seemed at odds with modern civilization. Their grand narrative of natural history stressed the need to engage with nature to embrace one’s authentic identity as a man, in contrast to the degenerative influences of civilization—which had been compromised, they believed, by the …
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The Marvel of Civilization: A Missiological History of the Evangelical Missionaries to California During the Gold Rush Era (1848 - 1861)
… synthesis of Great Commission Theology, American civilization, and California exceptionalism. The missionaries viewed their mission as exceptional, believing they played a providential role in advancing American continental expansion to California and a prophetic role in preserving American …
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