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Showing 1 to 20 of 324 for “"Settlers"”.
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Immigrant placemaking in colonial Australia : the Italian-speaking settlers of Daylesford
The Italian-speaking settlers of nineteenth century Daylesford were among the first sizeable group of non-English speakers to contest the prevailing Anglo-centricism and to help pave the way towards Australia's multicultural future. The examination of this group interweaves the particular histories …
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The German Settlers of Cat Spring and Their Scientific Study of Agriculture
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The Historical Geography of Swiss Settlers at the Red River Colony 1821-1826
<p>Europeans emigrated to the New World for a variety of reasons. The promise of free land and a better life especially lured many Europeans to North America. When going to a new unsettled area, emigrants have a tendency to go in small, isolated cluster groups which share a primary allegiance to a …
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The impact of African Caribbean settlers on the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Britain 1952-2001
… to examine the impact, which African Caribbean Settlers had on the British Seventh-day Adventist church from 1952-2001, and to determine what characterises Adventist mission in Britain and worldwide today. Before the arrival of African Caribbean settlers, the British SDA denomination experienced …
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The sweet, sweet sound of liberty: black settlers and their early education initiative in Liberia, 1820-1860
… native Africans, and each other, Black settlers navigated their new environment while transplanted their acquired Western culture and Christian faith from the United States. By charting this process, this study also offers a unique social history as well as an educational history during …
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From refugees to settlers: ‘Palatines’ in the British Isles, New York, Carolina, and the Bahamas, 1709-1755
The student, Margaret Brennan, accepted the attached license on 2023-07-13 at 15:26.
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A comparative study of indigenous people's and early European settlers' usage of three Perth wetlands, Western Australia, 1829-1939
… indigenous people and the early European settlers utilised three wetland environments in southwest Australia over the century between 1829 and 1939. The thesis offers both an ecological and a landscape perspective to changes in the wetlands of Herdsman Lake, Lake Joondalup and Loch McNess. …
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A view of colonial life in South Australia: An osteological investigation of the health status among 19th-century migrant settlers
… health of this specific group of 19th-century settlers, through the examination of their skeletons and dentitions. Four research papers in this thesis address this overarching aim. The first two papers determine the general skeletal health of the settlers, with a focus on pathological …
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Unsettling the Settlers: The Impact of the #RhodesMustFall Student Movement on White Student Consciousness at the University of Cape Town
In March 2015 UCT student Maxwele Chumani hurled faeces at British Imperialist Cecil Rhodes' statue at the University of Cape Town in South Africa as an act of protest against institutionalised racism and lack of transformation since apartheid. Chumani's action sparked a wider student protest …
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The Free[way] City: An exploration of Inner City Renewal through the removal of Settlers Way Freeway in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
… of these forces was the construction of the Settlers Way Freeway in 1963. This freeway cuts through the inner city and had many buildings and neighbourhoods demolished for it to be realised. Since then it has caused more harm than good by only serving a select few while degrading inner city …
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Resettlement & Namibian San communities: prospectives for sustainable community development through empowerment
… of self-sufficiency through empowerment for settlers. This provision of assistance fulfils only the immediate basic needs of settlers as are determined by authorities. The ability of San settlers to achieve autonomy through resettlement is restricted by the incapacity of the process to adapt …
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An analysis of labour supply and productivity in the oil palm industry : a case study of the Cape Hoskins Settlement Scheme, Papua New Guinea
… and utilisation study of a sample of 23 settlers^ from Kapore, the first sub-division established in Hoskins. The objectives of the study are: (i)to examine the settlers actual labour utilisation patterns; (ii) to test the explicit and implicit assumptions made by the Project Planning …
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An analysis of labour supply and productivity in the oil palm industry : a case study of the Cape Hoskins Settlement Scheme, Papua New Guinea
… and utilisation study of a sample of 23 settlers^ from Kapore, the first sub-division established in Hoskins. The objectives of the study are: (i)to examine the settlers actual labour utilisation patterns; (ii) to test the explicit and implicit assumptions made by the Project Planning …
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Military Settlement in the Middle Waikato Basin
… During the 1850's, the encroachment of European settlers upon Maori tribal lands in many North Island regions, including the Waikato, led to an increase in tension between the two populations and open conflict. This conflict slowed down the progress of colonization in the North Island. To enable …
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"Come Recently from Guinea": Control and Power in the African-Descended Illinois Country, 1719-1848.
… played a fundamental role in the lives of settlers in the Illinois Country. The master class viewed slavery in terms of control meaning the complete domination of the slave system. Lawmakers, first the French bureaucracy and later (to a lesser extent) the Americans, pursued control through …
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Settler and Administration Antagonism in Colonial German East Africa, 1885-1925
… the distinct experiences of the colonialism of settlers, administration in German East Africa, and the metropolitan government in Germany provides a more nuanced understanding of German colonialism as a whole. The relations between these groups were characterised by tripartite divisions that …
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The participation of the Zulus in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
… the attitude of the Zulus towards the white settlers in Natal. the Governmell~ of Natal, the British Government and the Government of the S.A. Republic or those subjects of the Transvaal and Natal who becarne involved in the internal faction struggles in Zululand. The matter will only become …
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Postcolonial Trauma in the Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community
… literature written by the Italian former settlers in Libya, I analyze how these former settlers who moved to Libya have been subjected to different kinds of traumas by the Fascist government. I focus on how these traumas, individual and collective, are documented through these works and …
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A history of music education at the University of Kansas from 1866-1936
… 1. What were the attitudes of the early Kansas settlers toward music and what were the backgrounds that fanned these attitudes? 2. Where did education, in general, rank in importance to the lives of the settlers and how did they provide for it? 3. When did the University of Kansas begin to …
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