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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Writing -- History"”.
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The Business of Writing History: Case Studies in Organizational History
Organizational history.
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Writing History Under Erasure: Radical Historiographical Practices in Lebanese Postwar Art
… by a conspicuous engagement with questions of history writing, mostly, although not exclusively, in relation to the events and the continuing legacy of the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1990). In this dissertation I consider how the works produced by this group of artists attempt to critically …
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Between history and fiction : the author’s responsibility to historical fiction, and, The rainbow man : a novel
… investigation has led me to explore creatively writing history through differing perspectives of memory. In Chapter One of the critical essay, I outline the differences between history and historical fiction, of how the past is presented and the definitions of what we consider history and …
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A regional survey of writing in six subject areas in colleges and universities accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
… study investigated the nature and frequency of writing tasks undertaken by students in colleges and universities granting bachelor's degrees in institutions accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. A sample of seventy-five institutions was drawn, and surveys were …
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Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023
… Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023. The creative work is life writing based on my experience of living and working on a market garden, intertwined with nature writing, history, biography and other types of creative non-fiction. The critical essay examines the work …
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The Making of American Religious Experience: a Socio-Political Critique of 'Experience' in American Religious History
… "experience" and "religious experience" in their writing of American religious history. I will argue that as it is employed by most historians of American religion, the category of "experience" (in its many forms) fails to provide scholars with an adequate conceptual tool to aid in the writing of …
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Broadcasting and time
… with human time which I have explored in all my writings since I began research thirty years ago, with my late friend and colleague David Cardiff, into the early history of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The medium of radio is time. Historiography deals with past time. The academic work of …
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Los Angeles Artists and Revisionist Historiography: A Diasporic Intervention
… narratives to the center, modeling a process of writing history that goes beyond merely inserting peoples of diverse backgrounds into the history of art, but revisions history from a more equitable perspective. Furthermore, drawing on a broad field of diaspora studies, I utilize a theory of …
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German high school history textbooks: how well do they deal with the rise and fall of the Third Reich?
… answer this question by analyzing 22 West German history textbooks currently used in all three of the traditional German high schools. This study is both quantitative and qualitative. First, a checklist was used to determine what percentage of each book is devoted to the Nazi period and in …
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The lands west of the lakes: the history of Ajattappareng, South Sulawesi, AD 1200 to 1600
… transmission and transformation, their uses in writing history and their relationship with the written register. I argue that any distinction between oral and written traditions of a historical nature is largely irrelevant, and that oral and written information collectively make up a large …
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El Análisis arqueológico-genealógico de Michel Foucault en el panorama de la historiografía francesa contemporánea. La revolución foucaultiana del saber histórico.
… chapter we do the same about the epistemological history of science -Cavaillès, Bachelard, Canguilhem, Koyré, starting a first contrast between these two tendencies. The third chapter deals with the analysis -from a diacronic side- of the explicit relationships between Foucault and historians that …
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Only the Dead: The Construction of Memory and Myth in New Zealand’s Lost Battles of the Mediterranean
… language of war. The literary construction of history is examined in Dan Davin’s Crete, a work in which he faced the particular problems of writing history that was both official and contemporary. An examination of Report on Experience focuses on the manifestations of debilitating trauma and …
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History has Tongues: re-evaluating historiography of the moving image through analysis of the voice and critical writing in British artists’ film and video of the 1980s
… of these practices in relation to critical writing of the period. This historiographical analysis utilises material contained in The British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection, part of the Museum at Central Saint Martins (UAL). Close analysis of a number of selected film and video …
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From Science in the Arctic to Arctic Science: A Transnational Study of Arctic Travel Narratives, 1818-1883
… century. I am concerned with the practices of writing the Arctic experience, especially the relationship between science, and the strategies for constructing a trustworthy narrative voice. That is, I investigate the ways in which the identities of the explorers and the organizing bodies shaped …
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Twice Forty Years Of Learning: An Educational Biography of Robert Reid Howison (1820-1906)
… prominent during these years. His first book, A History of Virginia From Its Discovery and Settlement, revealed Howison both as a learner and educator as he conducted the necessary research for the book with the intent to teach the history of Virginia to the young men of the day. He also …
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Knowing and Understanding the Past in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Historiographical Thought
… one come to believe that what one reads in a history is true? Chapter 1 reviews an array of Scottish Enlightenment philosophers’ comments on reading and writing history. Most of the relevant scholarship focuses on David Hume, arguing that he proposed a vivid writing-style is needed to secure …
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A cultural history of professional teacher preparation at Bethune-Cookman College
… reconstruction. Through the pragmatic method of writing history, the study proceeds thematically as follows: 1. It defines the influences of the plantation society of the ante-bellum period and the educational efforts of the postbellum period as they are residual in the present-day …
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Beloved Savages and Other Outsiders: Genre and Gender Transgressions in the Travel Writings of Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard
"'My dissertation is a study of the travel writings of three nineteenth-century American authors, Herman Melville, Bayard Taylor, and Charles Warren Stoddard. I argue that these writers evinced a rebellion encompassing literary as well as political and social subversion. In order to succeed in …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
Female coterie writing groups have had certain characteristics in common across centuries that can be seen today in fan fiction writing groups online. This dissertation focuses on one group of such writers who are active at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has …
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Bolivar : a biographical play in eight scenes
… Simon Bolivar, greatest figure of South American history, may be pursued through seemingly endless sources of extant written material. The Bibliography of Simon Bolivar compiled by the library of the Pan-American Union is, in itself, an extensive volume; hundreds of his letters and documents have …