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Showing 1 to 20 of 499 for “"Cultural History"”.
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Undesirable Practice: A Cultural History of Lawyers and Advertising
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983.
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Vocal analogues: A Cultural History of Technological Voice Imitation
… simulate human voices with machines has a long history. In exploring concepts of human authenticity and simulation within mechanical and digital representations of vocality, this thesis traces the cultural history and logic of vocal imitations up to the deepfake. From the vocal analogues of the …
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American Arctic Exploration: A Social and Cultural History, 1890-1930
The Arctic has long held power over the American imagination as a place of otherworldly beauty, life-threatening elements, and dangerous wildlife. Nearing the end of the nineteenth century, in a time of great anxiety about the direction of American society, the region took on new significance. As a …
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Wilderness Returns: A Natural & Cultural History of the Rattlesnake Wilderness
… animals, and significant exposure to places and history of the Rattlesnake Wilderness. In managing these varied topics, I debated on the most suitable method of organization. I tinkered with the idea of a seasonal cycle, but I did not learn about this place in such neat order. Then I thought …
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Wilderness Returns: A Natural & Cultural History of the Rattlesnake Wilderness
… animals, and significant exposure to places and history of the Rattlesnake Wilderness. In managing these varied topics, I debated on the most suitable method of organization. I tinkered with the idea of a seasonal cycle, but I did not learn about this place in such neat order. Then I thought …
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Rigorous Honesty: A Cultural History of Alcoholics Anonymous 1935-1960
<p>Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 and a great deal has been written about the program and its membership, but little has been done on how it reflects the 1930s and Depression Era culture. Using Warren Susman's writings as a starting point, this dissertation investigates how AA reflects …
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Quantitative Geographic Analysis: A Cultural History of Australian Bushfire Narratives
… the need for a critical reassessment of cultural representations of bushfires and their associated national values. This task, however, is complicated by the limited historical research on 19th-century bushfires. While major fire disasters such as Black Thursday (1851) and Red Tuesday …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
… strategy of plurality uses sources from oral history, archival methods, nature writing, theoretical analysis and cultural references to address the significance of the historical, geographical, social and meteorological contexts in which the foghorn sounds. Original archival material and first …
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Quantitative Geographic Analysis: A Cultural History of Australian Bushfire Narratives
… the need for a critical reassessment of cultural representations of bushfires and their associated national values. This task, however, is complicated by the limited historical research on 19th-century bushfires. While major fire disasters such as Black Thursday (1851) and Red Tuesday …
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A Cultural History of Frontier Sport in Illinois, 1673-1820
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Play and Prestige: A Cultural History of Early Medieval China
This dissertation is a practice of New Cultural History that draws on the analytical framework of play and prestige to explore the concept of the sociocultural model of distinguished gentlemen called mingshi 名士 in the Wei-Jin period (220–420 CE). I argue that mingshi was a status of prestige …
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Propheteering : a cultural history of prediction in the Gilded Age
… which Americans came to rationalize economic and cultural uncertainty into modern life. Forecasts of all kinds were ubiquitous in the late nineteenth century; as the United States fashioned itself into an urban-industrial power with a national economy and an increasingly corporate and bureaucratic …
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Towards A Cultural History of Archaeology: British Archaeology Between the Wars
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The Social and Cultural History of Irish Musical Societies, 1890-1990
A brief explanation as to why the author took up the research for this thesis. She grew up in a family that on both sides was enamoured of musical theatre. Singing round the piano, with excerpts from operettas and musicals, was a regular occurrence. The author took part in her first school musical …
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Pain, childhood, and the emotions: a cultural history c. 1870-1950
… and performative dimensions of pain from a cultural perspective, analysing written documents and visual material and comparing the perspectives of disciplines including physiology, paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis. Successive chapters focus on: Depictions of pain by …
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A cultural history of professional teacher preparation at Bethune-Cookman College
… Through the pragmatic method of writing history, the study proceeds thematically as follows: 1. It defines the influences of the plantation society of the ante-bellum period and the educational efforts of the postbellum period as they are residual in the present-day social-cultural …
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