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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Historical materials"”.
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SITUS: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF NETWORK CONNECTIONS ON STRATIFICATION USING HISTORICAL MATERIALS (NEW HAMPSHIRE)
<p>This dissertation examines the influence of network connections within occupations on intergenerational mobility. Defining situs as the network aspect of an occupation, encompassing both itself and all occupations connected to it through effective networks, the situs of all occupations in late …
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The brain-based theory of learning and multimedia
… was then selected as the vehicle to present historical materials to students.</p>
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The brain-based theory of learning and multimedia
… was then selected as the vehicle to present historical materials to students.</p>
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Making digital history: The impact of digitality on public participation and scholarly practices in historical research
… public participation and scholarly practices in historical research? Analysing the impact of design on participant experiences and the reception of digital historiography by demonstrating the value of methods drawn from human-computer interaction, including heuristic evaluation, trace ethnography …
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Modern Slavery: A Thorough Examination on Human Trafficking of Indigenous Women and Children in Mexico
… data. Qualitative data is used to analyze historical materials related to Spanish colonialism in Mexico, while quantitative data is used to measure poverty, numbers of trafficked victims, and to establish the overall scope of the problem. This research also examines the role of organized …
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Homes of Capital: Merchants and Mobility across Indian Ocean Gujarat
… of collective and personal ethnographic and historical materials within homes, including architectural form; material objects; private journals, datebooks and travelogues; visual media; and merchant memory, my project brings into view a mercantile space-time on ocean's edge. Though emerging …
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Intersecting religion and culture: A comparative study of circumcision rites in the Old Testament and Yorùbá culture
… sources alongside anthropological and historical materials on Yorùbá culture. Social Identity Theory and contextual theology provide interpretive lenses for analyzing circumcision both as a social boundary-marker and as a theological construct. While the Old Testament presents …
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From indigenous to colonised: the recruitment practice of the British colonial administration in Hong Kong, 1845 – 1932
… other hand, qualitative analysis towards related historical materials facilitates the understanding of influencing elements. Suggested by the results, the HK Government typically utilised ethnocentric staffing approach in the whole period. However, the more interesting findings show the government …
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The French in Australia : with special emphasis on the period 1788-1947
… 1947-1976. It uses various statistical and historical materials, both published and unpublished; the former reveal the patterns of immigration and settlement, the latter illustrate these patterns and bring to light both the reasons for the presence of the French in Australia and their …
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The French in Australia : with special emphasis on the period 1788-1947
… 1947-1976. It uses various statistical and historical materials, both published and unpublished; the former reveal the patterns of immigration and settlement, the latter illustrate these patterns and bring to light both the reasons for the presence of the French in Australia and their …
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EARTH & FIBERS. Local Technologies Earthen Composites (LoTEC). Local reuse of by-products for zero-waste building materials. Appropriate building solutions in vernacular and contemporary architecture.
… of the construction sector by re-examining local materials and traditional knowledge, through scientific experimentation. Entitled EARTH & FIBERS Local Technologies Earthen Composites (LoTEC), the thesis investigates earth and vegetal-fiber composites derived from agricultural and excavation …
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Through the Fog of History: The Nanjing Massacre through the Lens of Documentary Modes
… of the Nanjing Massacre documentary films: the historical representation and the construction of the collective memory through these documentaries. By following documentary forms across time, my research engages three modes － compilation films, expository mode, and oral history mode － to …
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The Worlds of Samuel Felsted: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica
… history. It also demonstrates more generally how historical materials can be used to explore, complicate and de-centre received perspectives on colonial-era musical activity.
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Affirmative Action Reconceived: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Precommitments to Group Preferences for Racial Minorities and Women
… textual analysis and secondary source historical materials. Finally, this study compares affirmative action precommitments – both inter-group and intra-group – for racial/ethnic minorities and women across the sample. There are three principal substantive findings. First, although …
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Unbreakable bones: Christian mission and the resilience of Temi culture
… material, interviews, participant observation, historical materials, and on the insights gained from discussions with Temi contributors. The investigation combines primary data revealing the Batemi’s insights and interpretations of their culture along with my own reflections and understanding of …
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Valerie Desmore s refusal(s): art practice as biomythography
… for any meaningful undertaking of art-historical writing. As such, the methodology and theoretical framework of refusal and biomythography combined illuminate a multitude of the artist's complex experiences, showing how significant multivocality has become in contemporary art historical …
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The Presidential Library System: A Quiescent Policy Subsystem
… researchers access to presidential papers and historical materials, and 2) providing museums and educational programming designed to give the general public a better understanding of the individual Presidents, the institution of the Presidency, and the American political system as a whole?
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A history of Black women faculty at Michigan State University, 1968 - 2009
… Press; unpublished writings, and other relevant historical materials relating to the MSU community during the 1960s to 2009. This dissertation illuminates some of the concerns, challenges as well as barriers broken down by MSU's Black women faculty. Implications for future research suggest that …
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Archiving Transgender: Affects, Logics, and the Power of Queer History
… of approaches possible for archiving transgender materials. Specifically, I investigate three sites with sizable transgender holdings: The Sexual Minorities Archives in Northampton, Massachusetts; The GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, California; and The National Transgender Library and …
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Not in your backyard : transitive compellence, base states, and violent non-state groups
… to extensive archival research, secondary historical materials, and media accounts. An analysis, within and across these cases, reveals strong support for the theory.
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