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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects::History subjects::History"”.
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A War of Words: Jacobitism as a Language of Dissent in England during the Reign of William III, 1688-1702
… settlement following the Glorious Revolution and how this movement functioned as a language of dissent utilized by those opposed to the new Williamite regime. In doing so, this thesis challenges the Whiggish historical narrative that William III’s Glorious Revolution enjoyed overwhelming …
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The personalism of Denis de Rougemont: spirituality and politics in 1930s Europe
… relation}$ to others – as the foundation and aim of society. Yet, because of the impossibility of subjecting the human person to a systematic definition, personalism remains complex and multifaceted, to the extent that it might be best to speak of ‘personalisms’ in the plural. The various …
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Critiquing the teaching of history in Zambian secondary schools through Basil Bernstein's lens: a study of selected schools in Lusaka district.
This study sought to critique the teaching of history in Zambian secondary schools. The study used Basil Bernstein’s theoretical framework on power and control. This study used a mixed-method approach in order to get a deeper insight into understanding the teaching of history in Zambian secondary …
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Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
… to light a rich textual tradition, of treatises and tables composed and computed, transmitted and translated across Europe and beyond. These have been supplemented by fruitful inquiry into the material culture of astronomy, especially the instruments that served as models of the heavens, for …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… assumed that a reaction against the Marxist and structuralist theories of the 1960s and 1970s led to embrace of liberalism and an intellectual drift to the right in France from the 1980s onwards: whilst largely supporting this account, the thesis attempts to nuance this narrative of the fate …