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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Georgian"”.
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The Georgian Crisis and U.S.-Russian Relations
… and even by military means, like in 2008 Russo-Georgian war. This thesis will analyze the development of the post-Soviet U.S.-Russian relations in light of the Georgian crisis. Russia’s complex foreign policy will be discussed based on Neil MacFarlane’s course of reasoning, which maintains …
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Gothic Stirrings on the Georgian Stage, 1740-1780
This dissertation explores the role of theatre in the development of the Gothic genre between 1740 - 1780. The study centres around five plays, which are John Home's Douglas [1756], Hall Hartson's The Countess of Salisbury [1765 ]. Arthur Murphy's The Grecian Daughter [1772], John Jackson's Eldred …
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Georgian Polyphonic Imaginaries: The Politics of Representation in the Caucasus
… Saakashvili and reflect his reimagining of the Georgian nation in civic terms rather than ethnonationalist ones. I recognize the unique and ambitious nature of this project and believe that Georgia's leaders are keenly aware of the constraints on their small nation in the context of late …
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“Leisure with Decorum”: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian era
… project examines the musical activities of Georgian gentlemen with the goal of illustrating the ways that recreational music-making tested the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. While the English nobility could respectably engage in music-making, socialize with professional …
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Masculinity and The Plebeian Honour Fight: Dispute Resolution in Georgian England
… of plebeian male fighting in England during the Georgian period which has been coined by this study as a ‘plebeian honour fight’. The fight not only embodied ideas of justice and fairness but performed an important social role, serving both as a utility for dispute resolution as well as a means …
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Coming Together Over Table: The Role of Food in Georgian Conflict Resolution Practices
… frames. Because of the centrality of food in Georgian culture, I interviewed Georgian mediators to study their perspectives and experiences with the role of food in both traditional and contemporary Georgian conflict resolution efforts. The findings concur that food is used to shift the tone …
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Mountains of discontent: Georgian alpinism and the limits of Soviet equality, 1923-1955
… post-Stalin period. In 1923, a group of Georgian students led by the mathematician Giorgi Nikoladze and the local guide Iagor Kazalikashvili summited the Kazbegi peak, an imposing 5000-meter high mountain located along the Georgian military highway. This ascent served as the foundation …
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"Palatial Homes, Now Hovels": The Changing Use Values and Soft Theming of Georgian Dublin
This research provides a visual analysis of Georgian Dublin, the small space within the city centre, as a case study into theming. Drawing on Marx’s Grundrisse (1986) (1987) to create a theoretical framework which expands on the work of Mark Gottdiener (2001), it brings in and unpacks the concept …
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Tradition And Satisfaction: The Mob And Lynching In The Georgian Cotton Belt, 1890-1899
Control and order have been among the defining traits of all societies. Exuding those traits despite a collapsing relevance within their rapidly changing society was modus operandi of most middle-class white southern men at the confluence of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By understanding …
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The effect on family life during the late Georgian period of indisposition, medication, treatments and the resultant outcomes.
… to the effect of ill health upon the late Georgian family. While historians of medicine have failed to adequately address questions relating to the family, so family historians have not fully considered the effects that ill health had upon family life. To deal with such intimate questions …
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Palynology of late-glacial and postglacial sediments in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada, as related to the Great Lakes history /
… of pollen, spores and other palynomorphs in Georgian Bay bottom sediments and a comparison of these data with the contemporary vegetation, (2) the relative significance of fluvial transportation of pollen and spores, and (3) the late- and postglacial history of vegetational and climatic …
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NAVIGATING ‘NATIONAL FORM’ AND ‘SOCIALIST CONTENT’ IN THE GREAT LEADER’S HOMELAND: GEORGIAN PAINTING AND NATIONAL POLITICS UNDER STALIN, 1921-39
This thesis examines the interaction of Georgian painting and national politics in the first two decades of Soviet power in Georgia, 1921-1939, focussing in particular on the period following the consolidation of Stalin’s power at the helm of the Communist Party in 1926-7. In the Stalin era, …
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Truth and Reconciliation at the Bay: Environmental Discourse, Contested Notions of Human-Creation Relations in Mnidoo Gaamii/Georgian Bay, and Indigenous-Cottager Relations
… peoples from their lands/waters in Mnidoo Gamii/Georgian Bay? Through an exploration of the links between environmental planning, cottager conservation activism, and colonialism in Georgian Bay (and North America, broadly speaking), my dissertation explores the ways that conservation land use …
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Netolimos praeities reprezentacija ir istorinės atminties formavimas: šiuolaikinio Gruzijos kino atvejis /
… Formation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Film The Representation of Recent Past and the Formation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Films Memory studies are gradually developing into a very important tool for historical research in international humanities. Visual art …
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SOCIO-SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF MIGRANT WOMEN’S LIVES IN TBILISI, GEORGIA
… into the experiences and perspectives of Georgian rural women who have migrated to Tbilisi, Georgia. The aim of this paper is to understand the affects of this mobility and migration on Georgian women’s socio-spatial dimensions and what this means for the economic and cultural survival of …
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SOCIO-SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF MIGRANT WOMEN’S LIVES IN TBILISI, GEORGIA
… into the experiences and perspectives of Georgian rural women who have migrated to Tbilisi, Georgia. The aim of this paper is to understand the affects of this mobility and migration on Georgian women’s socio-spatial dimensions and what this means for the economic and cultural survival of …
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Essays in Experimental Economics: Discrimination and Education
… the extent and nature of discrimination in the Georgian land market. The experiment is designed to uncover sources of statistical discrimination due to different beliefs about foreign investors. Discrimination is measured by the difference in price offers to foreign and Georgian investors. I …
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Constructing Irishness: nationalism, archaeology and the historic built environment in an independent state
… of this was the destruction of Dublin’s Georgian architecture in the 1960s and 70s. Such architecture has been naturally associated with British imperialism: formal architecture represented the British Protestant upper classes, a division of society to which the native Catholic Irish did …
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