Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 1063 for “"Imperial"”.
-
Imperial Green
Imperial Green is a 66-minute experimental autofiction film by filmmaker Zachary Lacosse, loosely structured as a reimagining of his life prior to relocating to Toronto. Set in Metrotown, a suburban district of Burnaby, British Columbia, the film foregrounds a place that has exerted a formative …
-
Imperial Butterfly
… come to call “sonic nourishment.”</p> <p><em>Imperial Butterfly</em> follows one character, a woman (whom I call the “narrator”), through this process of transformation; a musical and emotional odyssey. This odyssey is my main character’s journey toward wholeness, which develops in the course …
-
Mother’s Ruin: Refracting the imperial gaze
… and Ann Stoler about ideology, violence and imperial debris. With Žižek, we consider the operation of ideology and violence. With Ann Stoler's concept of imperial debris and ruination, we expand our gaze beyond physical structures to the effects of colonial legacies that shape contemporary …
-
Theaters of Power: Inka Imperial Performance
… systems, ignoring the roles of performances in imperial expansion, which have often been considered epiphenomenal. My own research has focused on one of these empires, the Inka, and how it grew from a small single valley in Peru to a powerful polity ranging north to Ecuador and Colombia, south …
-
Constructing Home Economics in Imperial Japan
This dissertation explores the life and work of two Japanese women, Miyakawa Sumi (1875-1948) and Inoue Hide (1875-1963), who became pioneers of domestic education in Japan in the first half of the twentieth century. They discovered home economics as a field of study, went to the Western nations in …
-
"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… in Wallachia and Moldavia to explore how local, imperial and inter-imperial politics interacted on this Ottoman borderland between the 1780s and 1850s and promoted European imperialist aims in the Ottoman Empire. For this purpose, it provides an analysis of Ottoman rule on a borderland inhabited …
-
Creek diplomacy in an imperial Atlantic world
<p>"Creek Diplomacy in an Imperial Atlantic World," argues that Creek leaders saw opportunities for Creek peoples to play an important political and economic role in the Atlantic world even while the Confederacy itself was still forming. This study explores Creek participation in the Atlantic world …
-
Constructing the Coast in Imperial Greek Periplography
… the first serious study of the extant corpus of imperial Greek periplographic literature. It focusses, in particular, on the way that these texts construct coastal space, arguing that they are bound together by a shared recognition of the shore as a symbol of the territorial limitation of the …
-
The Colonial and Imperial Conferences, 1887-1937
… in 1887. The Conference was an experiment in imperial and international political consultation and came after years of lobbying by the Imperial Federation League (IFL) and the broader imperial unity movement which sought to reform Britain’s relations with its self-governing settler colonies. …
-
Imperial and Post-Colonial Identities:Zimbabwean Communities in Britain
This comparative study of Zimbabwean immigrants in Britain illustrates why they should not be viewed as reified communities with fixed essence, but as a product of ethno-racial identities and prejudices developed and nurtured during the phases of Zimbabwe’s history. Through an analysis of personal …
-
The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
"The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China" argues that Romantic literature shaped nineteenth-century interimperial exchanges between Britain and China. This project bridges two bodies of literary scholarship immersed in Anglo-Sino discourse: eighteenth-century scholarship, which reveals British …
-
The Technological Imaginary of Imperial Japan, 1931-1945
"Technology" has often served as a signifier of development, progress, and innovation in the narrative of Japan's transformation into an economic superpower. Few histories, however, treat technology as a system of power and mobilization. This dissertation examines an important shift in the …
-
Pax Australis: The History of Australia's Imperial Internationalism
… the history of Australia's tradition of Imperial Internationalism, which guided Australia's approach to the world from Federation to the late 1960s. This history demonstrates a remarkable ambition and ideological consistency at the heart of Australia's approach to the world. By exploring …
-
Pax Australis: The History of Australia's Imperial Internationalism
… the history of Australia's tradition of Imperial Internationalism, which guided Australia's approach to the world from Federation to the late 1960s. This history demonstrates a remarkable ambition and ideological consistency at the heart of Australia's approach to the world. By exploring …
-
Colonial Reformers as an Imperial Factor, 1815-1855
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T18:01:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6801708.pdf: 23644936 bytes, checksum: d29d89aae7aada8e40f3649f22d59644 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
-
The Development of British Imperial Nationality 1900-1948
… Historians agree that by reaffirming an imperial model of British nationality, the Act facilitated unprecedented levels of Commonwealth migration to Britain. Yet, this outcome was unintentional, they show. Drafters of the BNA did not anticipate that significant numbers of Commonwealth …
Page 1 of 54