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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Social and economic history"”.
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The Social and Economic History of Lancaster, 1780-1914.
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The social and economic history of The Standard and Fleet Street 1653-1900
This dissertation examines the political, social and economic development of Fleet Street 1653-1900, using The Standard (1827-1900) as its model. The opening chapter traces the early fortunes of the Baldwin Family, the founders of The Standard and the struggle which the Baldwins and their …
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Consumer Magazines in the United States, 1900-1950: A Social and Economic History
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:37:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0011525.pdf: 30073267 bytes, checksum: 988de55a18565dd567f4ecefeeb94b17 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1955
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A Social and Economic History of Darzis (Muslim Tailors) in Calcutta, c. 1890-1967
… bodies of scholarship, the first on immobility, and the second on artisan capitalism. Darzis (Muslim tailors) and Dawoodi Bohra merchants who stayed on in Calcutta between 1890 and 1967, are at the heart of this study. They are shown to be resilient survivors rather than passive victims of …
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A Social and Economic History of the 1797 Fleet Mutinies at Spithead and The Nore
… analysis of the 1797 fleet mutinies at Spithead and the Nore based on an application of methodologies drawn from social, economic, and cultural history. Using both quantitative and qualitative sources, I present a new interpretation of these momentous events that reveals the centrality of …
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Development transformation and freedom : critical perspectives on development, transformation and freedom, with reference to a social and economic history of the state, markets and civil practices in the Western Cape of South Africa, c. 1910-1984
This dissertation examines the history of its evolution with particular reference to regional development and planning. Regional and local development and planning practices emerged, offering possibilities for more efficient resource allocative arrangements that distinguished not only between …
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A History of Manassas Park City Schools
The purpose of this study was to document the history of the development of the Manassas Park City School system. This study utilized historical research methods to preserve information that would otherwise be lost. This was a study of local school history. It looked at how and why the school …
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State policy and food insecurity in Kenya's arid and semi-arid land (ASAL) regions
Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) have continued to experience chronic and persistent food crises despite the efforts made by governmental and non-governmental organizations to address the problem. Inappropriate policies and poor approaches have partly been blamed for this persistence. This …
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Sustaining development in Detroit
… thesis is to propose a strategy for stabilizing and increasing the disparate pieces of development that form the traces of the once great industrial city of Detroit. It focuses primarily on Fordism as a type of modernist urbanism in which a powerful socio-economic agenda manipulated the growth of …
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An engineering perspective on the Industrial Archaeology of the Purbeck Stone Industry
… Stone Industry, set within the context of local social and economic history and informed especially by an engineering perspective on the quarrying and mining operations. A wide range of existing published sources and archive evidence has been evaluated, placing the work in the context of existing …
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Cumbria's encounter with the East Indies c.1680-1829 : gentry and middling provincial families seeking success
In both the historiographies of Cumbria and empire respectively, there are numerous allusions to Cumbrians in the East Indies. However, the importance and implications of that encounter have never been systematically explored. This thesis enumerates well over four hundred middling and gentry …
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African Americans in North Dakota 1800-1940
… throughout the duration of white settlement and have been involved in every stage of North Dakota's history from 1800 to 1940. However, historians generally have neglected the existence of black people in North Dakota's past. This study examined the participation by African Americans in North …
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Takkanot Kandiyah – A collection of legislative statutes as a source for the assessment of laymen’s legal authority in a Jewish community in Venetian Crete
The dissertations offers an analysis of Takkanot Kandiyah, a corpus of communal statutes from the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. These texts were written between 1228 and 1583 and collected as a coherent work by the Cretan Jewish historian Elijah Capsali. The collection …
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Changing patterns of female employment in rural England, c. 1790-1890
… a previously neglected aspect of agrarian social and economic history: the work of rural labouring women in nineteenth-century England. The subject is approached firstly through a thorough investigation of a variety of contemporary printed sources: parliamentary papers, census figures, …
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Towards a legal history of white women in the Transvaal, 1877-1899
… white women in the Transvaal between 1877 and 1899. Legal documents are used as primary sources, as they are invaluable for researching women’s history, in that they provide a new perspective. When writing women’s history, it must be grounded in theory, as, especially when it comes to …
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