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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Social and Political History"”.
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Aspects of the social and political history of Langa Township, Cape Town, 1927-1948
This study focuses on the social and political history of Africans in Langa Township from 1927 to 1948. Langa conveniently and justifiably serves as a good case study of the urban African experience because it is the area in Greater Cape Town, during this period, where there was the largest …
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Competition Between Public and Private Revenues in Roman Social and Political History (200-49 B.C.)
… on domestic taxation to fund state activity, and that Rome's untaxed citizens were effectively disenfranchised as a result. They therefore lacked the bargaining power to prevent aristocrats from enriching themselves at the expense of the state. The result was a set of leading individuals whose …
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Founded by Chance/sustained by Courage: Black Power, Class, and Dependency in Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915
This project reconstructs and analyzes the residues of the social and political history of African-Americans' attempt in BrookIyn, Illinois to translate self-government into a model of autonomous achievement. Brooklyn's history can be divided into four periods.
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Unreliable Drunkards or Honorable Citizens? Artisans in Search of Their Place in the Cusco Society (1825-1930)
This dissertation traces the economic, social, and political history of artisans of the city of Cusco, Peru, from independence to the Great Depression. We stress the heterogeneous structure of provincial artisan sectors and reject the notion of an urban artisan class because a common social and …
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Cadê o mico? Where is the tamarin?: Locating monkeys in the politics of land and conservation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
… reform, forest restoration, agroforestry, and conservation biology. Informed by Brazil's social and political history, and drawing from 12 months of fieldwork conducted in 2008 and 2010, this dissertation argues that by looking carefully at and for the tamarin, we discover the interrelated …
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A study of John Clare in his historical and political context
… basis of the thesis is to set John Clare’s life and work within the context of the social and political history of his time. It is a study that is long overdue. The manner in which topical and political matters were mediated to him and were reflected in his work are analysed. His introduction to …
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The Regional Cults of Thessaly
… The implications of this regionalism for the history of religion are crucial: No two areas of the Greek world worshipped the same pantheon of gods in the same way. Regional variation was the norm. This dissertation focuses on Thessaly, a large frontier area of mainland Greece which has yet to …
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An Exploration of Modern American Cultural History: An Undergraduate American Studies Course Proposal
… American cultural products (art, literature, and film) are intertwined with America’s Post-World War I social and political history. This project suggests that these “high” and “low’ cultural products are not only an outcome of the American social and political landscape, but also influence …
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A Socio-Political History of Griqua Women in Griqualand East, c. 1950 – 2005
This thesis examines the social and political history of Griqua women in Kokstad, South Africa, between 1950 and 2005. It explores how women shaped, resisted and were shaped by the political structures of their time. Although the East Griqualand Pioneers Council (EGPC) emerged as the leading …
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Empire's metropolis : money time & space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1930
The thesis utilises newly available legal and municipal archives to study the historical geography of colonial Bombay through five interlocking themes and periods from 1870-1930. This spans the period between the boom and bust in the cotton trade during and after the American Civil War - when …
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Voices of the Cold War in Britain, 1945 - 1962
… civilian experience of the Cold War between 1945 and1962 through 44 original oral history interviews with 48 individuals. As the first oral history of everyday life in Cold War Britain it examines the generation born before1945 and the experience of growing up in postwar Britain. The thesis …
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The Art of Sharing: The Richer Provinces Versus the Poorer Provinces Since Confederation
This thesis examines the social and political history of equalization, which is the federal program that allows all provinces to provide reasonably comparable levels of services for reasonably comparable levels of taxation. It examines why Ottawa adopted this mechanism in 1957, the models that it …
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Negotiating the Panoptic Gaze: People, Power and Conservation Surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve
In recent years, the use of new and existing surveillance technologies in the practice of conservation has increased rapidly. This includes the use of drones, camera traps, satellite, and thermal imagery for activities such as wildlife monitoring, anti-poaching, and law enforcement. In many …
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The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s
<p>African American women were historically and traditionally depicted in Hollywood film productions as maids and servants, like actresses, Hattie McDaniel and Louise Beavers or sultry sirens like, Lena Horne, Theresa Harris, Fredi Washington and Dorothy Dandridge. The filmic images of African …
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Health systems and social values: the case of the South African health system
Health systems are complex social systems – driven by people and the relationships between them, characterised by feedback loops and path-dependency, and open to contextual influences. This entails that social values are an important determinant of health system change. In addition, health systems …
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Modern life subjects in British painting 1840-60
A small number of paintings with modern settings and figures in modern dress can be identified in the exhibitions of the 1840s. During the 1850s such pictures became far more common, particularly in the wake of the success of William Powell Frith's outdoor crowd scene, Ramsgate Sands, exhibited at …
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Social and cultural dynamics in early Marquesan history
This study is concerned with the early social and political history of the Marquesas Islands in eastern Polynesia. This history is seen in part as a cultural process, and as one which cannot be dissociated from a wider Polynesian context of development and transformation. The first part …
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Social and cultural dynamics in early Marquesan history
This study is concerned with the early social and political history of the Marquesas Islands in eastern Polynesia. This history is seen in part as a cultural process, and as one which cannot be dissociated from a wider Polynesian context of development and transformation. The first part …
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The Kongolese Atlantic: Central African Slavery & Culture from Mayombe to Haiti
… Mayombe to Haiti," I investigate the cultural history of West Central African slavery at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the late eighteenth century. My research focuses on the Loango Coast, a region that has received little scholarly attention despite the fact that it was …
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Law and the Culture of Debt in Moscow on the Eve of the Great Reforms, 1850-1870
This dissertation is a legal and cultural history of personal debt in mid-nineteenth-century Moscow region. Historians have shown how the judicial reform of 1864 dismantled an old legal apparatus that was vulnerable to administrative interference and ultimately depended upon the tsar's personal …
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