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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Tidewater (Virginia)"”.
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Food in seventeenth-century Tidewater Virginia: a method for studying historical cuisines
… of listening. Food in seventeenth-century Virginia serves well as a test subject for a historical method. Historians traditionally have neglected daily life and common people in studies of that period, concentrating instead on politics and the elite. More recently, historical archaeologists …
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"To the Memory of Sweet Infants": Eighteenth-Century Commemorations of Child Death in Tidewater, Virginia
Life in the eighteenth-century Tidewater was set against the grim specter of death. Children were especially vulnerable, perishing with disheartening frequency throughout the century. Yet despite the high rates of child mortality, Tidewater culture underwent a revolution in regard to the …
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The history of the Health-Welfare-Recreation Planning Council of the United Communities in Tidewater, Virginia: a case study in voluntary planning
… agency engaged in social services planning in Tidewater Virginia for more than thirty years. Taking the historical approach, the study considers the role that private citizens have played in directing the planning activities of the Council of Social Agencies (later the Health-Welfare-Recreation …
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Psychometric Evaluation of an instrument for Assessing Policy Outcomes for Families with Children Who Have Severe Developmental Disabilities: The Beach Center Family Quality of Life Scale
… have severe developmental disabilities in the Tidewater, Virginia area completed three surveys and provided additional input for the purpose of assessing the internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the BCFQLS as well as its face, content, and criterion validity when used with such …
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George Mason: Slave Owning Virginia Planter as Slavery Opponent?
… Father George Mason was a wealthy, slave-owning Virginian who vehemently opposed slavery. Utilizing Mason's state papers, letters, and other documents, as well as contemporaries' accounts of his speeches, this work will analyze those records' contextual construction, and it will deconstruct both …
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The Relationship of Locus-of-Control and Altruism to Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Providers Universal Precaution Practices
… from municipal and private EMS agencies in the Tidewater Emergency Medical Services region participated in this study. Prehospital emergency medical care providers self-reported perceptions of locus of control, altruism, occupational risk, and universal precautions practices were obtained. The …