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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Newspapers and Periodicals"”.
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Jewish past and colonial Shanghai: trade, treaty-port, and transitive modernity
This dissertation explores the transnational and colonial encounters of Sephardic Jews and Chinese in treaty-port Shanghai by examining 1) the Jewish networks of capital, goods, and market; 2) Jewish elites and their political activism; 3) transnational legal and political status of Sephardic …
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The history and development of Western chamber music—specifically string quartets—in Japan from 1989 to 2014
This research illuminates and advances understanding of the contemporary string quartet scene in Japan, a topic that has not yet been researched or documented extensively. My dissertation: (1) outlines the introduction of Western classical music to Japan in the late nineteenth century, and …
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Weird Old Figures and a New Twist: Cultural Functions of Halloween at the Turn of the 20th Century
… from the British Isles — especially Ireland. However, the folk holiday did not gain widespread attention until the late 1870s and 1880s when descriptive pieces containing both accounts of Halloween's long history increasingly appeared in some newspapers and periodicals. Over the next …
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An industrial survey of Pittsylvania County, Virginia
… relating to earnings of industrial employees and of earnings of agricultural workers, it is found that manufacturing employees earn much more than agricultural workers. However, the sacrifices made by the people to adjust to a new industry are great enough that industrialization may not be …
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Ford, Carter and Cambodia: US foreign policy and the Khmer Rouge
… the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia between 1974 and 1981. It argues that the US experience in the Vietnam War acted as a causal factor in the formulation of its Cambodian policy during the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. From taking power in April 1975 to their removal by the …
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A Social History And Demographic Investigation Of The City Of Waterloo, Iowa, With Recommendations For Improving Interracial Relations Among The Citizenry
… contributing factors which led to the social and racial problems confronting the people of Waterloo, Iowa, and to provide recommendations which may help to solve these problems. Procedure. Historical and social investigation was used to determine the causes and extent of the problems. Such …
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The Four Major Education GI Bills: A Historical Study of the Shifting National Purposes and Accompanying Changes in Economic Value to Veterans
… for soldiers follow the formation of ancient and present day armies raised for the purpose of extending the national or state will. Veterans' benefits for defenders of the U.S. emerged during the American colonial period. College benefits began after WWII with the GI Bill of Rights. This study …
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The evolution of jazz in Britain c. 1880-1927: antecedents, processes and developments
… beginning with an examination of the cultural and musical antecedents of the genre, including minstrel shows and black musical theatre, within the context of musical life in Britain in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. The processes through which this evolution took place are …
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Literary journalism in England and Egypt : A comparative study of the essay and the review
… letters. Journalism had universalized literature and enormously increased the number of readers. Many writers have succeeded in maintaining a fair balance between literary merit and success in the market through their serious literary contributions to newspapers and magazines. The writers …
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Serpents of Empire: Moral Encounters in Natural History c.1780-1870
… dissertation examines encounters between humans and snakes from the 1780s to the 1860s, principally focusing upon Britain and British India, to reassess the production and circulation of natural historical knowledge. Serpents were at once familiar and ambiguous in nineteenth-century Britain and …
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Walter Stanford as an apprentice in politics, 1908-1910 : a study in the representation of the interests of the black peoples of the Cape Colony
… Stanford Papers, volumes of correspondence and letterbooks relating to the establishment of the Inter-State Native College at Fort Hare, the volumes of the Cape Legislative Assembly debates for 1908 and 1909, the report of the Cape Legislative Assembly select committee appointed to …
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Southern Baptist Journalism
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1914
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Dark Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920
… Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920 </em>demonstrates that black performers in Germany developed wide networks in the performance world as they sought artistic opportunities beyond the racist circumscription of the American popular stage. Their …
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The transformation of the regional shopping centre : an examination of six case studies in Vancouver B.C.
… The future, which once looked unlimited and bright, now seems problematic. It is this transformation on which this thesis will focus. This thesis examines the historical trends behind the regional shopping centre industry. It also deals with the significance of regional shopping centres …
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Der Ring des Nibelungen in the New World: the American performance and reception of Wagner's Cycle, 1850-1903
… in art music culture over the past century and a half, the performance and reception of his works in various national contexts has received—and continues to receive—considerable scholarly attention. Of significant interest is the period of the late nineteenth century, when the composer’s …
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Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904
In Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904 I examine the representation of the figure of the Victorian sportsman in different areas of nineteenth-century popular culture – newspapers, spectacular melodrama, and series detective fiction – and how these depictions …