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Showing 1 to 20 of 215 for “"The Americas"”.
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Writing of the Americas
This paper aims to highlight the different forms of writing within the Americas, establish connections between the systems, and discuss the impact of European colonization. Writing systems within the American Continents contain a vast array of different indigenous systems that first started around …
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The work of death in the Americas
… of mourning, spoken through and effected by the historical romance, underlies the narrative of national culture as it emerges in the Americas during the early nineteenth century. The writing, consumption and preservation of these texts reveal not only the psychic life of community but also …
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Embodying the Americas through Antigone and Medea
… a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Paleogenomics in the Americas: demography, adaptations, and resilience
This work covers the evolutionary history of an indigenous population from the Americas through the lens of ancient DNA. In recent years, major advances in DNA sequencing have allowed for the utilization of ancient DNA on a grand scale. We now have the ability to examine the whole genomes of …
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Utopia And Commons: Enclosure And Blank Slate In The Americas
… as a concept and a project, have as its goal the exposure and defense of the commons while its very articulation must posit a tabula rasa to be enclosed, improved, and defended? This question lies at the heart of my own project. I investigate and critique a series of moments that mobilize the …
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Writing hybridity: identity, dialogics, and women's narratives in the Americas
This work examines the concept of “hybridity” and critically engages with the intellectual and political discourses that have attempted to define its meaning from the time of the Spanish Empire to the postmodern era. As a phenomenon resulting from cross-cultural encounters, hybridity has always …
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Routes and Networks of Mexican Abstraction Across the Americas (1958-1970)
This dissertation investigates the emergence and consolidation of abstract practices in Mexico City, exercised by a collective of artists driven by collaboration, intermediality, and experimentation, as an alternative to Muralism. In reevaluating the 1960s generation of artists, historically …
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The Second Lost Cause: Post-National Confederate Imperialism in the Americas.
<p>At the close of the American Civil War some southerners unwilling to remain in a reconstructed South, elected to immigrate to areas of Central and South America to reestablish a Southern antebellum lifestyle.</p><p>The influences of Manifest Destiny, expansionism, filibustering, and southern …
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Sporting correspondents: African American baseball players in the Americas, 1910 – 1950
In the early twentieth century, hundreds of African American baseball players traveled to Latin American nations in search of increased financial opportunities. They left the Negro Leagues as skilled laborers who understood that Mexico and Cuba, for example, valued their athletic abilities and …
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Prehistoric polymer engineering : a study of rubber technology in the Americas
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2003.
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Inuit and Iroquois and Inca, Oh My: Societal Formation in the Americas
European forces completely altered the course of history with their introduction into, and alteration of, the political evolution and societal development in the Americas. This study examines the most probable ways in which the Inuit, Iroquois, and Inca societies might have developed without …
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Putting the winner-loser effect in context: presidentialism & democracy in the Americas
This project concerns the winner-loser effect on individual citizens’ political attitudes and behaviors. The process of electoral politics mandates that voters win or lose in tandem with their preferred political candidates. As such, the relationship of such voters vis-à-vis the government and the …
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The invention of order: modern spatial concepts and the emergence of the Americas
… crafts linear temporal narratives of progress. The forgetting of space, I argue, also means the forgetting of the global and colonial nature of modernity. Modernity is actually carved out in the sixteenth century as a global-spatial process through the invention of the Americas as the New World …
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A phenology-guided deep learning framework for advanced soybean yield prediction in the Americas
… a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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A demographic and dietary history of ancient dogs in the Americas using ancient DNA
… more than 15,000 years ago, and since then they have become an integral part of human lives. They have served as hunters, guards, and pets, and have migrated with humans to multiple continents, including the Americas and Australia. The close relationship between humans and dogs makes …
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Cultural diversity and indigenous peoples' land claims: argumentative dynamics and jurisprudential approach in the Americas
The present study is divided in two differentiable but conceptually interrelated sections. Within the first section (Chapters I, II, and III), the focus is on the assessment of the argumentative logic behind the multiculturalist proposal for equally divided societies, among equally positioned …
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Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop's Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception
Paintings by the Spanish seventeenth-century artist Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) have been documented to have reached Latin America between 1636 and 1649. Zurbarán was mostly active in Seville, the main Spanish port to the Americas during his lifetime, which was a considerable advantage as he …
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Crafting Citizens Beyond Borders: Japanese Education on the Frontier of Japan’s Empire in the Americas
… means to be of Japanese descent living abroad. The goal of my dissertation is to investigate how the 1930s Japanese Empire interacted with overseas Japanese communities and developed nikkei citizenship across the Pacific. Japanese education codified a set of civic and moral responsibilities …
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