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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Comparative history"”.
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Constructing Historical Realism : International Relations as Comparative History
In this study the author seeks to develop Historical Realism as a new approach to International Relations. Drawing on recent theoretical developments in International Relations and Historical Sociology it is argued, first, that a distinction between constitutive and causal theory is necessary and, …
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A Comparative History of Gender and Factory Labour in Ottoman Bursa and Colonial Bombay, c.1850-1910
… male-centric approaches to the global history of economy, labour and technology.
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A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE CORE IDEAS OF SECURITY OVER TANGIBLE MOVABLES IN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND GERMANY
This thesis seeks to contribute to the comparative history of security over tangible movables by tracing the development of various forms of security in the three principal European jurisdictions: England, France and Germany. Although secured transactions law has come to the forefront of research …
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An International Comparative History of Youth Football in France and the United States (C.1920-C.2000): The Age Paradigm and the Demarcation of the Youth Game as a Separate Sector of the Sport
… is broadly thematic and chronological. This comparative approach attempts to remain coherent across both countries with a goal of outlining the core issues and major shifts which occurred over the chosen period. Youth football underwent a process of demarcation from the adult or elite game …
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In Pursuit of Nativism: Is it in Arizona?
Threading together Blackian analysis and comparative history, this study seeks to determine whether there is a resurgence of nativism in modern day Arizona. At the center of this study is Arizona Senate Bill 1070. Its anti-immigration laws, when coupled with involvement by privatized prison …
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Nazis into Germans : re-education and democratisation in the British and French occupation zones, 1945-1949
… this dissertation is an exercise in comparative history. Significantly, in spite of the rather large body of secondary material on the topic, no detailed comparison exists to date. Applying the paradigms developed by theoretical historians on comparative history and the history of …
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The socialist sacred: atheism, religion, and mass culture in Romania, 1948-1989
… dissertation combines approaches from cultural history, anthropology, and sociology to reveal key sites of conceptual labor and expert power within purportedly monolithic party-states. I also historicize the re-composition of lived religion by examining how religious majorities and minorities …
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Computers, cut-ups and combinatory volvelles : an archaeology of text-generating mechanisms
… mechanisms, the present work excavates the deep history of reading and writing as material, combinatory practices. On the one hand, by positing the physical manipulation of language as a form of reading and writing, this archaeology answers Roger Chartier's call for book historians to "take on …
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A policy story of continuity and change : reflections on the Obama Administration's Metropolitan Agenda
… was. This thesis is an exploration of policy history and transformation purposed to address the following question: where did the Obama Metropolitan Agenda come from and how is this effort different from past ones that aimed to achieve similar goals? By understanding the evolution and …
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<i>‘There is only one P in Perth - And, it stands for Pullars!'</i>: the Labour, Trade-Union, and Co-operative Movements in Perth, c. 1867 to c. 1922
… years a number of studies within Scottish labour history have added to the discipline’s understanding and knowledge of the history of the labour and trade-union movements of several Scottish towns/cities hitherto neglected by a historiography traditionally dominated by research into the …
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"""Painting with faces"": The casting director in American theatre, cinema, and television"
… scholarly analysis of the profession. This comparative history broadens the concept of what constitutes a decision-maker in three major culture industries by arguing that casting directors, often devalued as feminized clerical labor, exercise more control over the creative and economic …
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The evolution of British imperial perceptions in Ireland and India c. 1650 - 1800
… would suggest diverse imperial encounters, a comparative analysis of the two shows significant similarities. Temporal and/or geographical distances notwithstanding, the study’s thematic approach reveals recurring patterns regarding the relationships between colonisers and the colonised. The …
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Racism in novels : a comparative study of Brazilian and South African cultural history
… literature as a source for social and cultural history. The selected novels are used as primary sources, supported by historiography and other secondary sources. Paton’s novels Cry, the beloved country and Too late, the Phalarope use the theme of racial segregation in South Africa and its …
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Child Kingship in England, Scotland, France, and Germany, c.1050 - c.1250
This dissertation is a comparative study of children who succeeded as kings of England, Scotland, France, and Germany as boys under the age of fifteen in the central Middle Ages. Children are often disregarded in the historical record, even those divinely-ordained as king. The research undertaken …
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The European Presence in Africa: A Historical and Literary Study (Britain, France)
Literature devoted to the European experience in Africa has contributed both to justify colonialism and to undermine its tenets and presuppositions.
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The Harlem Renaissance and The Negritude Movement: Literary Relations and Influences (New York City)
Historical circumstances indicate that literary relations between the writers of the Harlem Renaissance of those of the Negritude Movement are based upon thematic and stylistic similarities as well as mere literary analogies.