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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Social and Cultural History"”.
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American Arctic Exploration: A Social and Cultural History, 1890-1930
… otherworldly beauty, life-threatening elements, and dangerous wildlife. Nearing the end of the nineteenth century, in a time of great anxiety about the direction of American society, the region took on new significance. As a new frontier, the Arctic was a place where explorers could establish a …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
… of sound (the foghorn), weather (fog) and place (the coast) through interrogating the foghorn’s role as a sonic marker along British coastlines, from the end of the 19th century to its decline a century later. Foghorns are the sonic equivalent to the lighthouse, a technology that used …
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The Social and Cultural History of Irish Musical Societies, 1890-1990
… round the piano, with excerpts from operettas and musicals, was a regular occurrence. The author took part in her first school musical at Loreto College, Crumlin Road, Dublin, in a production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado. She subsequently enrolled in Loreto Commercial College, Crumlin …
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The British Army in Ireland 1961-1921 : a social and cultural history
The primary aim of this work is to provide a social and a cultural history of British soldiers who served in Ireland during the revolutionary period stretching from the Easter Rising of 1916 to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. As such, it represents the first concerted attempt to view the …
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The Sultanate of Banten AD 1750-1808: a social and cultural history
There are two contrasting scenes in the history of Banten: a history of a prosperous port sultanate in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, and a history of a dark and oppressed nineteenth-century society. The eighteenth century represents a gap between the two scenes. Historians have understood …
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Between Technophilia, Cold War and Rationality: A Social and Cultural History of Digital Art
… awards, degrees, galleries, museums, awards and publications, the success of such practices cannot be explained by artistic merit alone. Since many in the art world do not accept these artworks, as Brown and others suggest, how can we explain the works’ success in securing and developing …
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Amateurs, cash amateurs and professionals : a social and cultural history of bicycle racing in New Zealand, 1869-1910
The thesis explores the early history of bicycle racing in New Zealand, from its introduction in 1869, until the major decline of public interest in bicycle racing on specially constructed oval tracks which was, practically speaking, complete by 1910. Particular attention will be paid to the …
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The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966--1996
… seeks to provide an intraracial narrative history of African American politics and class tensions in Atlanta, Georgia from 1966, the year when black power movement forces emerged and helped to elect Maynard H. Jackson as Atlanta's mayor to the 1996 Centennial Olympiad. Also, this study is …
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The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social, and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966-1996
… seeks to provide an intraracial narrative history of African American politics and class tensions in Atlanta, Georgia from 1966, the year when black power movement forces emerged and helped to elect Maynard H. Jackson as Atlanta’s mayor to the 1996 Centennial Olympiad. Also, this study is …
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Injuries to All: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death Among United States Workers, 1877--1910
Interweaving social and cultural history methods, the study adds emotional depth to existing literature on the industrial era and challenges understandings of cultural transmission. It employs an eclectic array of sources ranging from the writings of prominent industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie …
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The Underwood stereograph travel system : a historical and cultural analysis
… the implications of the "stereoscopic tours" and Travel System produced by the American photographic concern Underwood & Underwood, c. 1897-1912 from the perspective of social and cultural history. After providing an account of the history of the European and American stereo industries, a …
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"Our Renown is Not Yours" The American militia in the War of 1812
… are used to broaden the scope of the research and bring to light elements of social and cultural history and explore the meaningfulness of the militia both as an institution of top-down construction and as one of bottom-up construction. The study determines that the popularity of these dramatic …
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"Where East Texas dances" : the Cooper Club of Henderson, Rusk County, and popular dance bands, 1932-1942.
… uncovers an exciting period in both American and East Texas history. Nationally, dance orchestras embarked on tours of the United States, playing one-night stands in small towns. Locally, the nightclub existed during the great East Texas oil boom. Under the management of owner Hugh Cooper, the …
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"This is OUR AMERICA, TOO": Marcus B. Christian & the History of Black Louisiana
Louisiana's unique social and cultural history with its three-tiered racial system (rather than the biracial system that governed much of the United States) left the region and the history of its black inhabitants, outside of familiar narratives of United States black history. Marcus B. Christian, …
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Producing and Using Codices in Tenth Century Dunhuang
In 1900, a cave filled with tens of thousands of manuscripts was discovered near the oasis town of Dunhuang 敦煌 in northwest China. This dissertation, based on some 450 codices recovered from this cave, examines the codex culture in tenth century Dunhuang and explores the early history of the codex …
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Madness, Scalawagery, and Reconstruction: Dr. William M. Compton and Civil War Era Politics
<p>This thesis seeks to advance scholars' understanding of Civil War era Mississippi through an examination of the often overlooked role former Whigs and scalawags played in the state's postwar politics. Using the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum and the career of its scalawag superintendent Dr. …
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Delivered Without Peril: Birth Girdles and Childbirth in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
… rolls promised specific protections for pregnant and laboring women. These prayer rolls have been designated as "birth girdles." During the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, both hand produced and printed birth girdles could be found circulating in England, offering their divine protections to …
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