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Showing 1 to 20 of 295 for “"European History"”.
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The horse in European history, 1550-1900
… which bears the title ‘The horse in European history, 1550-1900’, breaks new ground in our understanding of European history by making sense out of the history of a continent once dominated by and dependent on horses. By placing the horse at the centre, the PhD, which adopts a broadly …
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Popes, politicians and political theory: The principle of subsidiarity in 20th century European history
… a constitutional article in the 1992 Treaty on European Union has been a source of confusion for scholars of European integration. Political scientists have examined subsidiarity from the perspective of political philosophy to account for its transformation and to determine its impact on …
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Negotiating Modernity: Cultural Reform in 1920s Hungary
"Because other central and eastern European societies have exhibited similar programs and similar debates between ""Westernizers"" and ""nativists,"" my dissertation provides an important comparative perspective. Viewing central and eastern European history as a process of negotiating the …
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Realism and anti-realism in the work of George Lukács
… first looking at Lukács's theory of society and history as expressed in the epochal History and Class Consciousness. The essay firstly attempts to present and criticize the central Lukácsian concept of concrete totality. Totality, for Lukács, is not a static concept but a dynamically evolving, …
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'Street children' and education: a comparative study of European and third world approaches
… investigated in the light of NGO experience. European history depicts a situation equatable with that of the present-day. This provides a basis to compare the relevance of Europe's arrival at a minimised incidence of street existence, with the present third world situation. Current ethnography …
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"Tinseltown as teacher" : a case study of historical feature films as interpretive sources of history within an educational context
… feature films on their audiences' perception of history and offers a model for integrating feature films into the discipline of history. The specific audience examined in this study is a group of Grade Eleven students enrolled in a university level Advanced Placement European history class at St. …
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Resurrecting the Past, Constructing the Future: A Historical Investigation on the Formation of a Greek National Identity in Schools, 1834-1913
… to convey how the adoption of a common national history in Greece, with roots to ancient Greece, assisted in the shaping of a Greek national identity. The timeframe this project examines is significant because it covers an important portion of Modern Greek history. The beginning of the modern …
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Picaresque and romance in Golden Age Spain and postcolonial Britain : a comparative study
Multiculturalism is not a new phenomenon in European history. Neither are its literary and artistic manifestations. This thesis compares and contrasts two distant but similar multicultural contexts: Golden Age Spain and postmodern Britain. Picaresque and romance are chosen to illustrate how authors …
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Empire by Law: Ottoman Sovereignty and the British Occupation of Egypt, 1882-1923
This dissertation is an analysis of the Ottoman-European legal contest over Egypt. I explore the relationship between international law, imperial expansion and state formation in the late Ottoman Empire against the joint reconfiguration of ideas of sovereignty and imperial control during the late …
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Friedrich Schlegel and the Romantic Iconic Turn
… footing while simultaneously reconfiguring its history, resituating the German school of painting in a historical lineage that had its origin in the iconic tradition of medieval Byzantium. As such, I demonstrate that the Romantic iconic turn coincides with the first positive appraisal of …
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The European Heritage Label: a critical review of a new EU policy
… discusses a recent EU cultural policy, the European Heritage Label (EHL), introduced in 2011 to designate sites located in EU member states that have significance and symbolic value for European history and integration. I examine how the concepts of European cultural identity and common …
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Polish political elite opinion on Turkey's EU accession
Recent European history has been defined by the growth and development of the European Union. At first the focus was on the western European countries that helped to create the supranational structure, but in recent years the question of continued expansion has become more and more important. …
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Upon a dangerous design: the public life of Edward Sexby, 1647-1657
Edward Sexby was a figure active during England's Civil War and Interregnum (1642-1660). He is best remembered today for some populist assertions and heated exchanges with Oliver Cromwell during those discussions in parliament's New Model Army on the constitution and future of England known as the …
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Mission Education in Early Sierra Leone, 1793-1820
Mission education helped to transform the small colony at Freetown and mission outposts at Rio Pongo, the Bullom Shore and elsewhere on the upper Guinea coast into a center of regional development. Freetown was a focal point of migration from North America, England and various parts of Africa that …
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Reform of Secondary Education in Post-Communist Estonia: Advancing or Dismantling Social Cohesion
The concept of integration in the most basic of senses refers to intermixing of groups of people that were previously segregated. Estonia, as the focal point of this study as opposed to another post-Soviet nation, is unique in that it is such a small country, and this state possesses a variety of …
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Cologne During the Witch Hunts, 1627--1662
<p>This thesis examined Cologne during the years that witchcraft persecution was the highest in the city, from 1627-1662. By using a microhistorical approach on primary sources it found that strained relationships were the chief causes of the accusations. This thesis also discovered that in …
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Rethinking Modes of Political Influence: Catherine de' Medici and her Female Political Network
Though previous studies on the political career of Catherine de' Medici have been male-centric, focusing primarily on Catherine's relationships with her sons and male noblemen, it is the contention of this thesis that Catherine amassed a female-based political network during her tenure as Queen …
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The Explosion of Ethnic Retributive Violence in Czechoslovakia at the End of the Second World War
… were undesirable. For the first time in Czech history, the traditional state of identity transience between Czech and German no longer existed. German atrocities, including the complete destruction of the village of Lidice as well as the arrest or destruction of all resistance groups pacified …
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