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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Petitions"”.
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The responsibility of clothing slaves in the United States as described in slave petitions, 1775 to 1867
… of eighteenth and nineteenth century slave petitions identified slave dress terms and descriptors by type and frequency and a descriptive analysis of slave dress petitions revealed the following themes: the expense and burden attributed to clothing slaves, slave dress neglect, hiring …
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Clerical petitions 1350-1450 : a study of some aspects of the relations of crown and church in the later Middle Ages
… written petition. From the large number of these petitions that have survived almost every aspect of medieval life, public or private, may be illustrated. Three general types of petition may be distinguished. A large proportion are simply requests for favour, and seek grants of the benefices, …
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Clerical petitions 1350-1450 : a study of some aspects of the relations of crown and church in the later Middle Ages
… written petition. From the large number of these petitions that have survived almost every aspect of medieval life, public or private, may be illustrated. Three general types of petition may be distinguished. A large proportion are simply requests for favour, and seek grants of the benefices, …
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The Importance of Comprehensive Clinical Social Work Assessments for Determination of Older Adult Guardianship Petitions in Cook County Probate Court, Chicago, Illinois
… clinical assessment for older adult guardianship petitions brought forth in Cook County Probate Court, Chicago, Illinois.</p><p>The research involved exploration of legal case files and interviews with both mental health and legal professionals.</p><p>Comprehensive clinical social work assessments …
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Maintenant nous te parlons, ne dedaigne pas nous ecouter Petitions et Relation Speciale entre les Premieres Nations et la Couronne au Canada, 1840-1860
… of Indigenous people. A comparative study of petitions addressed to the Crown by Innus of the Kings Posts and Anishinaabe on the north shore of Lakes Huron and Superior, this dissertation examines the political discourse and the power dynamic that emerged between the centre of the state …
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Petitionary Negotiation in a Community in Conflict: King’s Lynn and West Norfolk c.1575 to 1662
This study examines petitions which originated in Norfolk during the first half of the seventeenth century. It asks three questions: How and by whom were petitions used? What do those petitions reveal about power relations and social values? What was the impact of the civil war and the interregnum …
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Petitioning Mothers in England and Wales, 1660-1720
This thesis examines 1,767 petitions submitted by mothers from across the socio-economic hierarchy to the crown, House of Lords, and quarter sessions courts in England and Wales between 1660 and 1720. These petitions reveal the every-day and in extremis situations that mothers of the early modern …
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Advances in spatial econometrics and the political economy of local housing supply
… of citizen participation, elections and local petitions, influence local housing policies.
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The Linguistic Economies of Labouring Families in England and New South Wales during the Early Nineteenth Century
… in the early nineteenth century. It compares petitions for pardon from England and NSW, in which prisoners and their advocates petitioned the king, home secretary, or governor of NSW for relief from criminal sentences. Interrogating these sources, as well as convict love tokens, this thesis …
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Distributed denial of service actions and the challenge of civil disobedience on the Internet
… the zone of that activity. Online, people sign petitions, investigate stories and rumors, amplify links and videos, donate money, and show their support for causes in a variety of ways. But as familiar and widely accepted activist tools-petitions, fundraisers, mass letter-writing, call-in …
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Petitioning and Political Culture in Late Company Madras, 1830-1860
… body of South Indian sources, including mass petitions (some signed by as many as 70,000 individuals), pamphlets, speeches, polemical writings, and the transactions of public meetings, it reveals a vigorous political culture existed in the understudied presidency of Madras. Incorporating …
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Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity, Visual Culture, and the Rhetorics of Ecuadorian National Identity
… of the twentieth century. The chapter uses petitions, ""customs and habits"" paintings, newspaper articles, and photographs to argue that indigeneity has served as an embodiable topos for establishing legitimacy and authenticity in political contexts. It traces how non-indigenous actors have …
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Mental Illness and the British Mandate in Palestine, 1920-1948
… from census reports and folklore research to petitions and prison records. In bringing together these strands of the story of psychiatry and mental illness, this thesis seeks to move beyond the continued emphasis in the historiography of Palestine on politics, nationalism, and state-building, …
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John de Dalderby, Bishop of Lincoln, 1300-1320
… were made to his tomb in search of healing, and petitions were sent to the Pope asking for his canonisation.
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The failure of early Bermuda, 1612-1630
… and colonizing company. This work uses letters, petitions, contemporary accounts, and other colonial and company documents to examine the interaction between the colonists in Bermuda and the investors in England and to determine the impact of this interaction on the failure of the colony.
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Examining Orders of Protection: An Analysis of the Court System in a Rural Tennessee County.
… protective orders. Findings indicate that 42% of petitions are dismissed by petitioner's request or failure to prosecute. Moreover, court fees are not recouped in 79% of the cases.</p><p>Logistic regression analysis indicate that an intimate relationship between the parties and payment of court …
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“Abominations of the Female Sex”. Five cases of Late Nineteenth Century Criminal Women.
… However, there are competing discourses: The petitions within this thesis are alternative truths and important examples of subjugated knowledge’s, which serve to challenge the dominant discourses surrounding the five cases. I undertook this research utilising both relevant literature …
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The Development of the Corporation in New Hampshire From 1760 to 1820
… for study. Primary source materials include: petitions, corporate charters (laws), town inventories, and journals of the legislature. The corporations studied are colonial era towns, ferries, and lotteries; Confederation era toll bridges; and Constitutional era canals, social libraries, …
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Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668
… the parliamentary debates, poems, pamphlets, and petitions of the period.</p>
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… chronicles, parliamentary legislation and petitions related to the Rising of 1381, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, The Testimony of William Thorpe, and The Book of Margery Kempe;. These texts employed contemporary notions of intention to represent interiority and to establish morally …
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