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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"global history"”.
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A Global History of Australian Women's Liberation, 1968-1985
This dissertation offers a global history of the Australian women’s liberation movement. It begins in the 1950s and concludes in the mid-1980s, with most attention being given to the period 1968-1985. Throughout this period the Australian women’s liberation movement changed the fabric of Australian …
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Cultural Translations: A Global history of the chili pepper in Architecture
The chili pepper came to occupy global cuisine in variegated ways through performative negotiations of cultural differences. From the Inca royal garden, Moyas, a locus of power where doves feed on chilies to the swidden farms of the Carribean in which the chili grows wild; from the formalized …
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Script, Empire, and Business: A Global History of Japanese Script Reform, 1920-1945
… in the early twentieth century from economic and global historical perspectives and sheds new light on the history of the relationships among script, business, and the Japanese empire. Specifically, it examines the campaigns of the Kanamoji Association (Kanamoji-kai) in not only Japan but also …
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The Nitrate That Shaped the World: A Global History of Indian Saltpetre (1700-1850)
… The demand for gunpowder, a key commodity in global trade including the African and American trades, surged after the 1700s. Concomitantly, the increase also boosted the demand for saltpetre. This project argues that following this great global demand for saltpetre, Indian saltpetre entered …
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How "global" are global history teachers? Secondary social studies teachers' understandings of global awareness and global education
<p>Although global history has been a part of the discipline of social studies in New York State for a number of years, the inclusion of global education and skills has been less prevalent in the discipline. This lack of global perspectives in education has proven to be detrimental to the global …
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AGGREGATIVE EXPERTISE: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF HOUSING, INFORMATION SCIENCE, AND THE DEPROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE ARCHITECT, 1973-82
In the 1970s, between the oil crisis (1973) and the debt crisis (1982), housing became the primary strategy pushed by international agencies and economists looking to promote national development and manage rural-urban migration. Despite what seemed to be the perfect outlet for architectural …
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Professional medicine and race: Medical missionaries in Qing China and global history of modern medicine, 1807-1912
The student, Yun Young Hur, accepted the attached license on 2019-11-27 at 15:29.
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Capstone Thesis
… multilingual learners (MLs) in high school global history classrooms, where complex writing demands often exceed the language development supports available. Grounded in sociocultural theory, SIOP Model, and Cummins’ BICS/CALP framework, this project explores how scaffolded instruction can …
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Custer's Last Drag: An Examination of Tobacco Use Among the Seventh Cavalry During the Nineteenth Century
Tobacco has played an integral role in global history, and there are numerous historical records related to tobacco use over the past five hundred years. The odontological evidence recovered from the Custer National Battlefield infers a high frequency of tobacco use within the Seventh Calvary, yet …
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Custer's Last Drag: An Examination of Tobacco Use Among the Seventh Cavalry During the Nineteenth Century
Tobacco has played an integral role in global history, and there are numerous historical records related to tobacco use over the past five hundred years. The odontological evidence recovered from the Custer National Battlefield infers a high frequency of tobacco use within the Seventh Calvary, yet …
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Corporeal Colonialism: Medicine, Reproduction, and Race in Colonial Korea
… and social studies of science in Korea and the global history of colonialism, science, and gender. Foremost, my work demonstrates the colonial origin of Western medical intervention in the physical and sexual well being of Korean women and maps out the scientific and medical protocols for the …
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Urban Water Infrastructure in Britain and China (1600–1840)
… doctoral thesis provides the first systematic history of urban water infrastructure in Britain and China between 1600 and 1840. This period is defined not by Eurocentric periodisation but by the genealogies of technical knowledge and urban governance: from the seventeenth-century emergence of …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
Thinking about cities became increasingly global during and after WWII. 'Global' here refers to how, in the context of the war, the roles and meanings of cities in the world were beginning to be understood differently. This dissertation investigates urban histories since the 1940s in their …
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Gaming Like a State: Historical Strategy Game Victoria and "Keyboard Politics" in China
… in its simulation of the long-nineteenth-century global history. By examining the game design and analyzing paratexts from the Chinese player community—including forum discussions, game reviews, video recordings, and user-created mods— this research investigates the interaction between the …
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A Comparative History of Gender and Factory Labour in Ottoman Bursa and Colonial Bombay, c.1850-1910
… destabilises male-centric approaches to the global history of economy, labour and technology.
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What does it mean to be a 'national' gallery when the notions of 'nation' transform radically?: An analysis of the Iziko South African National Gallery's practices and policies in historical contexts
… these historical moments. In light of the global history of national galleries and more recent theoretical discussions about cultural institutions, this study probes the complex layering of histories evidenced in collection and exhibition practices at the SANG in its historical contexts. …
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Seeds of Resistance; Harvesting Justice: An exploration of spaces where native seeds grow
… is intended as a contribution to a revisionist global history that explores strategies of resistance to corporate models of existence. It seeks to situate specific environmental and social justice issues in New Mexico within larger global conversations as a way of making connections to similar …
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Moral Politics: Global Humanitarianism, Africa, and West Germany, 1960-1985
… 1980s. It brings them together under the sign of global humanitarianism, but it does not tally them to an uplifting account or cautionary tale about humanitarianism’s rise and fall. Engaging history transnationally, beyond the Cold War, and outside the bounds of former empires, each chapter works …
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Destabilizing U.S.-Japan Relations: Nikkatsu Film Noir as Postwar Social Critique
… Thus, this study offers new insight into the global history of film noir, the genre’s meaning and function in the Japanese historical context, and the development of Nikkatsu's production style as the studio system in Japan experienced a general decline.</p>
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