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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Historical Consciousness"”.
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Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory and Historical Consciousness
… the end of slavery in 1865--require careful historical analysis and critique. </p><p>This dissertation considers Somerset's history and varying interpretations since the end of Reconstruction. It examines the gradual invention of Somerset Place State Historic Site in order to explore the …
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The historical consciousness of Ulysses: James Joyce's gendered, national aesthetics
Through a Bakhtinian aesthetic paradigm this study ainis to explore the radical modernist space of James Joyce's U4vsses. By contextualizing Ulysses through a gendered version of Baklitin's theorization of modernism, I have endeavoured to deliver readings which take full account of English and …
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Selfhood, Historical Consciousness, and the State in International Relations Theory
… can find a more comprehensive theoretical and historical foundation.</p> <p>Instead, to date, the field has simply utilized social contractarian and utilitarian-rationalist models of individual rationality to describe states in an anarchic system. The 'state' of nature serves as the central …
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The demise of the dialectic: historical consciousness and the American experience
… categories of Critical Theory with a concrete historical content, and I have sought to demonstrate the absolute necessity of including these categories in any historical investigation that seeks to convey the ultimate meaning of the history that it studies.</p> <p>The thesis itself is divided …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
“Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain” examines the relationship between romance and partisan history-writing in Britain following the English Civil War and 1688 Revolution. Considering works of fiction by Delarivier Manley, Marie-Catherine …
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Projecting Ireland : the historical consciousness of Irish film in the 1990's
… evident, as I discuss in the section on the historical importance of land, which is expressed not only in the "rural idyll" films, but in those which deal with the move to the urban lure and squalor of Dublin. Finally I look at how the traditional and mythical still exist in modern Ireland, …
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Chivalric Lieux De Memoire: Nostalgia, Communal Memory, And The Burden Of Historical Consciousness In Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
… social change are accelerating a process whereby historical consciousness is replacing authentic memory, and it is this dynamic that energizes the Morte. Through close reading of the text, I argue that Malory turns nostalgically to the past in order to resist the corrosive influence of historical …
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The making of a historical consciousness in Henry County, Indiana: a case study of the Henry County Historical Society, 1887-1950
… organized and developed a sustainable local historical society. The 1902 dedication ceremony, which signaled the beginning of the “museum” chapter of the HCHS, was only one of many steps in the institutionalization of local history in Henry County. The foundation of a sustainable local …
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Controlling the Dragon: An ethno-historical analysis of social engagement among the Kamoro of South-West New Guinea (Indonesian Papua/Irian Jaya)
… with outsiders. More specifically, it is an ethnohistorical analysis of Kamoro strategies of engagement dating back to the seventeenth century, but focusing on the twentieth century. Taking ethnohistory to most generally refer to the investigation of the social and cultural distinctiveness of …
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Controlling the Dragon: An ethno-historical analysis of social engagement among the Kamoro of South-West New Guinea (Indonesian Papua/Irian Jaya)
… with outsiders. More specifically, it is an ethnohistorical analysis of Kamoro strategies of engagement dating back to the seventeenth century, but focusing on the twentieth century. Taking ethnohistory to most generally refer to the investigation of the social and cultural distinctiveness of …
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Moving Forward Into the Past: The Role of the Belvedere Museum in the Construction and Representation of Austrian Identity
… the country's history and alters a community's historical consciousness. Yet in the long-term development of pluralistic, national identities, an easily recognizable heritage product is unsatisfactory for visitors. Indeed, the Belvedere carries ideas of inequalities. Hence, it is important that …
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Historical perceptions of Roman Catholicism and national identity, 1869-1919
… had hitherto been maintained by an anti-Catholic historical narrative, was challenged by the development of a confident Roman Catholic historical consciousness which was believed to be based on an authoritative, 'scientific' appreciation of England's medieval past. The thesis offers the first …
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
… become part of the mainstream media influence historical consciousness. My discussion therefore analyzes both popular literature and television as well as their official and vernacular reception.</p> <p>After contextualizing the dissertation in the increasingly expansive discourse of cultural …
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Nem só de História vive o Ensino de História: a trajetória em busca da interdisciplinaridade no CEEP Professora Lourdinha Guerra (ParnamirimRN)
… present and past, as well as the notions of historical consciousness worked by White, Lee, Gadamer and Cerri. Regarding interdisciplinarity, the narrative discusses some perspectives found in the BNCC and in works based on Japiassu and Ivani Fazenda.
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
… 1630s. Unlike previous literary critics who view historical narratives primarily as source texts for history plays, I treat the narratives and plays as intertexts whose disjunctions have real effects on audiences and readers. I analyze Richard III, The True Tragedy of Richard III, Edward IV, Henry …
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The role of national museums in South Africa: A critical investigation into Iziko Museums of South Africa focusing on the representation of slavery
… before the demise of Apartheid and looks the historical and socio-political changes that lead to its emergence in South African historical consciousness. It is a study of the history of museums as well as the ways in which history has been used in museums. It looks at the ways Iziko, as a …
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The Legacies of Marcel Duchamp and Vladimir Tatlin in Dan Flavin's Fluorescent Light Installations of the 1960s
"The historical reception of the two predecessors' art and its critical ramifications for the New York art world in the late 1950s and early 1960s constitute a more specific framework of my investigation. I shed critical light on the New York art scenes in which young artists revisited Duchamp's …
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Cultivating Lost Land: Livelihood and Depopulation on São Jorge Island, Azores
… and their understandings of their overall historical and social condition. Following decades of transatlantic outmigration and demographic decline, subsistence farmers in my main fieldsite, the village of ‘Fajã’, shared a focus on overall decay. However, they evaluated and lived out what I …
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Narrative, Context, and Conversion: An Application of Paul Ricoeur's Theory of Narrative to the New Catholic Evangelization in the Postconciliar United States
… imagination. In the reciprocal dialectic between historical consciousness and personal identity, story informs each and is informed by each--an epistemological circle which allows for multiple reconfigurations when narratives engage imagination. My application of Ricoeur's theory will indicate …
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Assessing Social Capital and Community Involvement: Social Network Analysis for the Sustainable Amish Community Tourism Development
… of the supports of community. Local knowledge, historical consciousness, and everyday experience of the insiders were acknowledged by the qualitative method. At the same time my skills in research procedures, quantitative data that I had access to, and comparative knowledge of the subject were …
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