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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Regional History"”.
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A regional history of Southern Branch, American Public Health Association
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Central West New South Wales 1891-1893 'A Regional History from Below'
… as one of the most momentous in Australian history. There are many studies which focus on the period, thematically or as broad historical narratives of the Australian colonies. There are none that explore how the events and themes were manifested in rural NSW, nor are there any analyses …
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Central West New South Wales 1891-1893 'A Regional History from Below'
… as one of the most momentous in Australian history. There are many studies which focus on the period, thematically or as broad historical narratives of the Australian colonies. There are none that explore how the events and themes were manifested in rural NSW, nor are there any analyses …
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Dust and dreams : a regional history of mining and community in south east New South Wales 1850-1914
… recently the focus of interest in gold mining history had been Victoria, and to a lesser extent Western Australia. The New South Wales story has, in contrast, attracted relatively little research or interest, the Lambing Flat race riots often being the only instance in which the New South Wales …
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Dust and dreams : a regional history of mining and community in south east New South Wales 1850-1914
… recently the focus of interest in gold mining history had been Victoria, and to a lesser extent Western Australia. The New South Wales story has, in contrast, attracted relatively little research or interest, the Lambing Flat race riots often being the only instance in which the New South Wales …
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A framework for probate research.
… museum-based historians to develop detailed regional information for specific locales. This information provides greater understanding of a particular region than a broader regional history, and can demonstrate inter-regional differences. Therefore, this thesis will evaluate the effectiveness …
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Building Society and Governing Intimacy: Gender, Law, and Constructions of Sexuality and Courtship in Late-Nineteenth Century British Columbia
… a more in-depth understanding of the province’s regional history. The conclusions of this thesis point to the need for more social histories of nineteenth-century British Columbia in order to better understand the province’s (re)making as a settler society and culture.
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Avatars of Memory. Rituals and Commemorative Practices in Colombia, 1864-1913
… (Colombianness). Antioqueño elites saw regional history as the mean to emphasize their contribution to a common national identity dating back to the wars of independence. I argue in this dissertation, regional and local elites in Antioquia opposed the history that the Liberals in the …
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As dificuldades de internacionalização do algodão colorido paraibano: um estudo de caso sobre a cooperativa CoopNatural
… the importance of cotton in the national and regional history. Finally, a case study should be performed in order to demonstrate the major advances and difficulties pointed out by members directly involved in this type of production. All this overview will serve as a basis for the conclusion …
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Canada's Other Red Scare: rights, decolonization, and Indigenous political protest in the global sixties
… decolonization, Canadian national identity and regional history. While previous studies on the era popularly understood as “the sixties” tend to focus on the particularities of the Canadian context, this dissertation suggests that the changing nature of Indigenous protest during the 1960s and …
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An Evolving Main Street: The Impact of Urban Renewal on Downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, 1966-1974
… can be measured in public opinion and in loss of regional culture and history to rational planning and its all-too frequent partners, the wrecking ball and bulldozer. City leaders encouraged low-density development through annexations and approval of subdivision and commercial strip construction, …
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The State of Culture: Institutional Patrimony in Post -Revolutionary Mexico
… Museo Nacional de Historia (National Museum of History) utilizes mural-art to situate the historical objects on display into didactic lessons that seek to cultivate ""civic consciousness"" in the visitor. The intertextual dynamic between the Palacio Cortes (Cortez' Palace), the regional history …
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Terracing, Land Management and Agricultural Soils in the Andagua Valley of the Southern Peruvian Andes
… anthropologists gave insight into the local and regional history, and helped with the interpretation of the soil data. Organic carbon percentage and pH of abandoned soils are slightly lower than cultivated soils, similar to results in the Colca Valley (Sandor and Eash 1996), but are not …
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Society against the state : perspectives on the history of early Andhra Pradesh
… The thesis not only shows the importance of regional history, but also the advantage of adopting a sceptical attitude towards the current stereotypical notions about early India. It could only make research work even more challenging.
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Society against the state : perspectives on the history of early Andhra Pradesh
… The thesis not only shows the importance of regional history, but also the advantage of adopting a sceptical attitude towards the current stereotypical notions about early India. It could only make research work even more challenging.
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Management Recommendations for Restoration of the Degraded Olympia Oyster, Ostrea lurida Carpenter 1864 in Tomales Bay, CA
… information on the Tomales Bay estuary, regional history, and ecology of the Olympia oyster. Following this background discussion, each of the three aforementioned degraders of Olympia oyster populations in Tomales Bay is presented: ocean acidification (Chapter 3), sedimentation (Chapter …
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Cumbria's encounter with the East Indies c.1680-1829 : gentry and middling provincial families seeking success
… a new lens to historiographies beyond Cumbria’s regional history: the changing fortunes of middling ranks and gentry, the social and economic history of provincial life, and British imperial expansion. It underscores the importance of regional or provincial cases in understanding experiences …
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What the Tides May Bring: Political "Tigueraje" Disposession and Popular Dissent in Samaná, Dominican Republic
… archival research, participant observation, oral history and ethnography, I document multiple instances of state intervention to understand how the Samaná community has been coerced over time to consent to these processes. I juxtapose the autonomous development of the Samaná littoral space to the …
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O direito a um passado na luta para existir no presente: disputas pela memória indígena nas escritas da História do Rio Grande do Norte (1994-2021)
… the state has been faced in the writings of the history of this state, and to identify the main ruptures and remains in these narratives throughout the period from 1994 to 2021. This issue is formed from the understanding that history books are places of memory (Nora, 1993), and that in these …
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Forced Removal and Social Memories in North-western Zimbabwe,c1900-2000
This is a study in regional history focusing on a case of forced removal that happened in the late 1950s in North-western Zimbabwe and partially on another of voluntary migration in the 1980s. Forced removal and voluntary migration, both as a process and as an event, are used here as prime entry …
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