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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Microhistory"”.
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Politics, chess, hats: the microhistory of disunion in Charleston, South Carolina
This study examines the genesis of disunion at the Confederacy’s unlikely epicenter, Charleston South Carolina. Viewed from street level, through the words and actions of more than three hundred ordinary men—those who joined the radical Vigilant Rifles in 1860, and others who did not—the break-up …
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A Microhistory of Migrants and Their Identifications in a Paris Tenement (1882-1932)
This dissertation offers a micro-analysis of migration from a social and a cultural perspective. It is premised on the conviction that the micro scale can be of great value to avoid, or at least control for, the perils of taking ethnic, national, racial or gender boundaries for granted. Recounted …
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Julia Turner: A Microhistory of Black Identity Formation and Community Building in Windsor-Essex, 1845–1907
In the early to mid-1800s, Windsor-Essex, Ontario, experienced an influx of Freedom Seekers emigrating from the United States to escape enslavement. The growing Black population in the region resulted in the establishment of various Black settlements throughout Windsor-Essex. This research …
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From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier
<p>This dissertation is written as a microhistory, and it focuses on the life, career, and death of Tarleton Bates, third Prothonotary of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Bates was born in Virginia, but he left in 1794 as a soldier in the Virginia militia to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. Bates …
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Cyprianic Ecclesiology: Redefining the Office of the Christian Bishop
… The actions of Cyprian will be viewed as a microhistory. Cyprian is not a fringe character in history; he is a well-known Church father and a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Thus, this microhistory is focused on the textualsources of Cyprian rather than all the …
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Chauncey Depew Harmon, Senior: a case study in leadership for educational opportunity and equality in Pulaski, Virginia
… Board of Education. The study is an example of microhistory. Microhistory is the detailed, intensive study of the lives of particular individuals or groups. The study employs accepted methods of historical research. The study is organized chronologically. The outcomes of the study are threefold. …
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Structures of Accumulation and Security: Understanding Contemporary Farm Attacks Through Autoethnographic Reflections and Historical Inquiry of the Cape Colony
… the Cape Colony, employing a dual methodology of microhistory and autoethnographic inquiry. This study seeks deeper insights into the enduring patterns that characterise settler colonies, particularly in relation to the perception of persecution of the settler group. Through the lens of …
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The Children of Spring Street: The Remains of Childhood in a Nineteenth Century Abolitionist Congregation
… course. This project is therefore a theoretical microhistory of childhood, a novel approach to discussing the bodies of children in the past.</p>
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Beginnings of the Nuevo South: Mexican Migration in 1970s and 1980s Mississippi
… and settlement process.</p> <p>This is a microhistory of families who migrated to Mississippi in the mid 1970s and 1980s. Migrant families’ experiences offer insight into living standards, the complicated nature of transnational relationships, and the role of the Catholic church in …
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Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
… and illegal marriage—frame Marie and create a microhistory of the world that she inhabited. Other historical women and literary characters from the eleventh through thirteenth centuries flesh out more of the discussion. These case studies and presentations fit into three body chapters that …
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Transactive Environments: The Architecture of Progressive Education at Dartington Hall School
… a creative, layered writing approach for the microhistory of educational architecture that places the marginalised voices of forgotten students or neglected staff alongside the traditionally more dominant of headmaster or architect. The method, drawn from the site and site- writing practices, …
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The head of chief Mkwawa and the transnational history of colonial violence, 1898-2019
… various meanings under divergent narratives. A microhistory of this single object centres this dissertation as I analyse global historical and historiographical debates concerning colonial violence, collection practices, the legacies of empire, and current debates on restitution and …
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The 1914 forced displacement of the Ottoman Greek population of Phocaea: an online interactive documentary.
… documentary brings together a synthesis of microhistory, oral history, historiography, and digital non-linear interactive architecture and narrative capabilities, in an effort to inform, educate, entertain, and surprise its users. It is a digital ark of memory about the June 12-13, 1914 …
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Fulfilling roles: Midland women, developing roles and identities C.1760-1860
… empowered them to shape their own identities. A microhistory study such as this highlights the more subtle and complex efforts made by women in search of autonomy, filling in gaps created in broader studies. In revealing contradictions of the norm, a more nuanced view of women’s experiences can …
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Artifacts of Exchange: A Multiscalar Approach to Maritime Archaeology at Elmina, Ghana
… and conceptual insights afforded by microhistory, the Annales school, and Braudel's three scales of history. I propose a dialectical interpretation of shipwrecks attentive to the intersection of local patterns and global forces in the shaping of history. Utilizing macro-scale …
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The development of community orchestras in the Waikato
… of ethnomusicology, history from below, microhistory, and oral history. Part One is devoted to the years 1864-1914 and in analysing this foundational period of musical development considers a large geographical area enclosed by Huntly, Raglan, Te Awamutu and Te Aroha. Part Two provides a …
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THE ANXIOUS ATLANTIC: WAR, MURDER, AND A “MONSTER OF A MAN” IN REVOLUTIONARY NEW ENGLAND
… the coast, is the heart of my dissertation. A microhistory, the project uses the transatlantic life, death, and print “afterlife” of William Beadle to explore alienation, anonymity, and unease in Britain’s Atlantic empire. The very characteristics that made the Atlantic world a vibrant, dynamic …
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The Political Economy of Ceramic Production in Barbados: From plantation industry to craft production
… The project uses multiscalar analysis, microhistory, and craft and industrial production as lenses for examining the production, distribution and use of local ceramics to explore changes in local craft production. The local production of ceramics allowed sugar plantation managers and …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, …
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