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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"MONTAGU"”.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: the Trapped 'Other'
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters have been widely read and recognized for their early contribution to feminist literature; however, critics have also defined her masculine persona as contradictory to her overall feminist leanings. Using Mikhail Bahktin's theories on the relationship between …
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The Architectural Patronage of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749)
… English domestic architectural projects of John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749). Montagu held key offices at court and in the military as Master of the Great Wardrobe (1709-49) and Master-General of the Board of Ordnance (1740-42, 1742-49), and was an important patron of learned …
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Montagu : urban conservation in a small town : the role of voluntary conservation groups and planning law in heritage resource management
Conservation in Montagu started in the early 1970s, with the rescuing and restoration of significant buildings and the declaration of 21 National Monuments (now called Provincial Heritage Sites), which safeguarded those buildings when no other heritage protections were in place. This was followed …
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The impacts of indigenous herbivore grazing over five years (2004 - 2008) on vegetation dynamics in four distinct vegetation types of the winter-rainfall Little Karoo
… Karoo Quartz Vygieveld, Western Little Karoo, Montagu Shale Renosterveld and previously transformed Renosterveld classified here as Old Lands. There was no significant change in vegetation dynamics between the fenced or open plots. There were significant differences between years in some …
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Change of Condition: Women's Rhetorical Strategies on Marriage, 1710-1756
… might increase that impact. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Mulso Chapone, Mary Delany, and Eliza Haywood recorded their anxieties about and their criticisms of marriage in public and private writings from the early years of the century into the 1750s. They often elide their own complex …
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Lord Byron and women's writing
… Particular case studies – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Madame de Staël, Joanne Baillie, and Mary Shelley – are framed within wider considerations of Byron’s engagement with women writers. Building upon formative inquiries into the idea of influence (Kristeva and Barthes), and more recent …
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‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’
… and scholarship is largely orientated around Montagu’s focus on women and their lives in the different countries she travelled to and stayed in between 1716 – 18. While this dissertation maintains a primary engagement with gender, it evaluates the text’s participation in myriad discourses and …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… Elizabeth Home, Countess of Home; Elizabeth Montagu; Mary Hervey, Lady Hervey; Henrietta Fermor, Countess of Pomfret; the Hon. Charlotte Digby; the Hon. Charlotte Boyle Walsingham; the Hon. Agneta Yorke and Albinia Brodrick, Viscountess Midleton. Collectively, all three sections advocate that …
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Habitat ecology of the native subtidal snail, Lacuna vincta, in the Gulf of Maine and the impact of two introduced species
<p>Lacuna vincta (Montagu) is a small native herbivorous gastropod that feeds and lives on algae within the rocky subtidal zone of New England. In this study, a combination of field samplings and laboratory experiments were conducted in order to examine the seasonal abundance, feeding preference, …
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How rewilding impacts ecosystem health in a semi-arid region
… was conducted in two different vegetation types, Montagu Shale Renosterveld and Western Klein Karoo. By examining these key indicators of ecosystem health, this research has revealed that the rewilded areas generally exhibit higher levels of dung beetle abundance (up to 3.7 times higher than …
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Natural Resource Management in Papua New Guinea: An Analysis of the Forestry Sector
The dissertation argues that this culture lacks any planning ethic directed toward the socially equitable and environmentally sustainable management of forests. Arguing that this is a critical oversight in a country where the majority of forests are owned under customary forms of land ownership, …
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Clinical and ultrasonic estimation of fetal weight
Several clinical situations occur in obstetrics where it is useful to make an accurate assessment of fetal weight prior to delivery. A foreknowledge of the mass of the fetus can influence management in circumstances complicated by, for example, a previous caesarean section, a breech presentation, a …
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Twin stars: Shakespeare and the idea of the theatre in the eighteenth century
… in its representation of sympathetic character (Montagu and Kenrick). Yet that very recognition leads to a set of altered critical priorities in which the theatre is, once more, relegated (Morgann and Richardson). My third and fourth chapters consider the practices and critical implications of …
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Creación de empresa Mobigreen
El presente documento expone un proyecto innovador de movilidad alternativa centrado en la creación de Mobigreen, una empresa dedicada al alquiler de vehículos eléctricos, destacando especialmente patinetas y bicicletas eléctricas. Mobigreen proporciona a sus clientes la flexibilidad de alquilar …
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Auxin coordinates cell division and cell fate specification during lateral root initiation
… S., Boucheron, E., Alard, P., Chriqui, D., Van Montagu, M., Inzé, D. and Beeckman, T. (2004). Transcript profiling of early lateral root initiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101: 5146-51. Jonsson, H., Heisler, M. G., Shapiro, B. E., Meyerowitz, E. M. and Mjolsness, E. (2006). An auxin-driven …
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Η ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΕΚΣΤΡΑΤΕΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΜΙΚΡΑ ΑΣΙΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΙΝΔΩΝ ΜΟΥΣΟΥΛΜΑΝΩΝ 1918-1922
THE GREEK DEMANDS AT THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR COINCIDED WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE MUSLIMS IN INDIA IN FAVOUR OF THE SOLIDARITY OF THE SULTAN'S EMPIRE KNOWN AS "KHILAFAT MOVEMENT". IN INDIA IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT GR. BRITAIN WAS THE PRIMARY SUPPORTER OF THE PLAN FOR THE DISMEMBERMENT OF THE …