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Showing 1 to 20 of 270 for “"Europeans"”.
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Making Europeans: Pan-European television and the European Community
… of medieval cosmopolitanism. Instead of guiding Europeans towards greater cultural unity and closer identification with supranational institutions, the EC's cultural policies have caused anxieties among national governments and a wider public alike. While some governments resisted their formation …
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Factionalism in the Conservative Party : the 'anti-Europeans' since 1970
The Conservative Parliamentary Party (CPP), traditionally regarded as a party of unity and cohesion by many leading academics, has since the early 1970's, witnessed a public display of internal controversies and disunity amongst its members. In the last twenty-eight years, successive Conservative …
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Borderline Europeans: European Union Citizenship on the Polish -German Frontier
"Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2006 in the border cities of Slubice, Poland and Frankfurt(Oder), Germany, this dissertation is an examination of the meanings and practices of the European Union's transnational citizenship policies. By documenting the …
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Borderline Europeans: European Union Citizenship on the Polish-German Frontier
"Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2006 in the border cities of Slubice, Poland and Frankfurt(Oder), Germany, this dissertation is an examination of the meanings and practices of the European Union's transnational citizenship policies. By documenting the …
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Ancestral Paths: Redefining local genetic ancestry and its inference with application to Europeans
Recently, two new approaches have transformed our understanding of human population history. Firstly, the sequencing of ancient genomes which gives us a snapshot of past genetic variation. We can therefore make inferences from observed genetic signatures present before historical events such as …
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The Narungga and Europeans: cross-cultural relations on Yorke Peninsula in the nineteenth century.
… and relations between the Narungga and Europeans in the nineteenth century. Contemporary Narungga people, hoping to learn about the lives of their forebears, instigated this research. The Narungga have not previously been the focus of serious historical or anthropological investigation. …
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Becoming Good Europeans? Globality, the EU and the Potential to Realize Nietzsche's Idea of Europe
… opportunities in the present to become 'good Europeans', with the aim of realizing Nietzsche’s quasi-cosmopolitan idea of Europe. It is my primary contention that Nietzsche’s diagnosis of Europe’s ailment remains relevant, as does his strategy, via a radically Dionysian affirmation of life, …
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The transition to adulthood revisited: Gender and socio-economic differences in the timing of events among young Europeans
… decades, the transition to adulthood of young Europeans has become increasingly long. Nevertheless, the existing literature has not comprehensively examined the timing at which events are experienced among recent birth cohorts across European countries; further, the composite role played by …
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Bringing Europe Down to Earth
… limits of what it means to be, act and think as Europeans in Europe. In the political process of bringing the nations and peoples of Europe together, Europe is imagined as a distinct community. The aim of this study is to analyse contemporary articulations of what makes Europe ?Europe? in the …
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The construction of ethnic identities in comic books : analysing the (re)presentation of Self and Others in 'The Adventures of Tintin'
… from among various ethnic groups in the series (Europeans, Far-East Asians, sub-Saharan Africans, Native Americans, and Jews), which demonstrates the visual and verbal stereotypes through selected texts. Thus, by combining detailed quantitative and qualitative methods, the analysis of each ethnic …
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Mitochondrial DNA in ancient human populations of Europe.
… of complexity in the population history of Europeans that had remained unknown from the study of modern populations. This justifies the relevance of broadening the sampling of ancient mitochondrial DNA in both time and space. This study aims at filling gaps in the knowledge of the genetic …
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Evolutionary Genomics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
… traders and some abducted for slavery by the Europeans, for forced labour in the European colonies established in the American continent. The barbarous nature of the slavery left significant genetic modifications in the ancestry of modern-day descendants of former slaves (African Americans in …
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Marshall Plan Films and Americanization
… and creating a self sustaining Europe. In film, Europeans could see not only the modernizing techniques, building projects, and examples of Marshall Plan, but they were treated to visions of the American lifestyle as well. This study is an attempt to explicate the meanings and messages in the …
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Pre-cession government in Fiji
… Between the time of the first contact with Europeans at the end of the eighteenth century, and the conversion of the people to Christianity in the fifth decade of the nineteenth, the greater part of the group came within the control of a small number of chiefs who extended their sphere of …
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Pre-cession government in Fiji
… Between the time of the first contact with Europeans at the end of the eighteenth century, and the conversion of the people to Christianity in the fifth decade of the nineteenth, the greater part of the group came within the control of a small number of chiefs who extended their sphere of …
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Visual memory in Australian Aboriginal children and children of European descent : experimental report
… visual memory task involves a mental rotation. Europeans were found to make significantly more correct replacements than Aborigines in experiment 1; otherwise, no significant difference of race were found in either experiments 1 or 2. On the basis of these results, an 'environmental experience' …
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Visual memory in Australian Aboriginal children and children of European descent : experimental report
… visual memory task involves a mental rotation. Europeans were found to make significantly more correct replacements than Aborigines in experiment 1; otherwise, no significant difference of race were found in either experiments 1 or 2. On the basis of these results, an 'environmental experience' …
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European impacts on the Seacow River valley and its hunter-gatherer inhabitants, AD. 1770-1900
When Europeans first began to move into the central portion of the interior of southern Africa in the late eighteenth century, they encountered Bushmen hunter-gatherers who were already occupying the land. The impact which these Europeans had on one geographical region, the Seacow River valley in …
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