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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"historical methodology"”.
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Studies in Aetiology and Historical Methodology in Herodotus
… of these principles on some of the more “historical” aspects of the Histories where the struggle between Greeks and barbarians is concerned. The upshot is to make a novel case not only for the programmatic significance of the proem, but also for the cohesion of Herodotean methodology from …
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Why Not Kinkade? An Evaluation of the Conditions Effecting an Artists Exclusion from Academic Criticism.
… of Thomas Kinkade, suggesting a common art historical methodology in operation. An evaluation of these findings generates alternative perspectives for considering his artwork and presents the possibility for relevant, engaging research into concerns well beyond its aesthetic merit.</p>
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Patterns of Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe
… society. The dissertation follows a comparative historical methodology aimed at substantiating the theoretical argument and discrediting rival explanations by pattern matching within-case causal linkages, applied to the Soviet collectivisation campaign, the Hungarian Uprising and the Polish …
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Implications of the Youth employment and demonstration projects act, PL 95-93: an application of policy analysis techniques
… but inter-related stages. In the first stage, historical methodology was applied in an effort to determine the assumptions that led to the YEDPA and to establish the legislative and administrative requirements of the Youth Employment and Training Programs (YETP), the sub-section of the YEDPA …
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German Architectural Modernism, Spatial Perpetration and the Concentration Camp, 1933–1945
… of Nazi concentration camps is itself a historical source and whether the spatial experiences created were deliberate; it is hypothesised that close connections exist between concentration camps as physical manifestations of Nazi ideology and modernist architectural theories of …
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Decoding Chinese Classical Architecture for Contemporary Architectural Design - With Special Reference to Modern Architectural Development in Taiwan
… as a reference for scholars who would pursue historical and theoretical studies of in the subject, or for architects who are seeking design concepts to enhance their projects. The study utilizes an interpretive-historical methodology. It emphasizes that researchers should investigate social …
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The Zawiya and Shrine Ensemble of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili: A Sufi Analysis
… visits, and endowments. In this thesis, art historical methodology has been used to examine and analyse the shrine ensemble’s historical context, function, architecture, and decorations. Moving beyond an aesthetic description, a novel approach to the analysis and interpretation of the shrine …
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Recovering ancient ritual and the theatre of the Apache: a journey through the false consciousness of Western theatre history
… class-based within the theatre canon. Through an historical methodology the chapters attempt to disclose and refute long held assumptions within the discipline of theatre history. It explores ancient Athenian theatre as a sacred tribal ritual and an Apache puberty ritual as similar theatrical …
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'Toast and Torpedoes': World War Two Naval Warfare on Film 1939-1960
… a selection of films using an empirical and historical methodology developed by Richards, Chapman and others, which places them in the context of the social and political climate of their production. The shift towards portraying an 'officer's war'in post war naval films has been examined in …
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Interdisciplinary Research Methodology for Secondary Level Social Studies: A Teaching Unit Concerning the Holy Shroud of Turin
… The purpose of this study was to present historical research concerning the Holy Shroud of Turin which could be used to demonstrate the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum approach suitable for use by instructors of secondary level Social Studies. An historical methodology …
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The origins of American history in the early modern English Atlantic world
… English thinkers and writers transformed their historical methodology to accommodate the existence of America and write its history in a distinctive English fashion. By the middle of the sixteenth century, Anglo-American histories imagined an English America in a Spanish Atlantic world. …
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A history of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College of the City University of New York
… history of the institution, I employed historical methodology for the collection, analysis, evaluation, verification, and description of data. Archival research and interviews with former students, and past and present faculty and department heads contributed significantly to the study. …
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A History of the Concept of Creativity in Western Nursing: A Cultural Feminist Perspective
Using historical methodology, this study examined the concept of creativity in Western nursing from a cultural feminist perspective. An exploration of the concept was accomplished by means of a review emanating from the English literature of Western nursing and its allied disciplines of education …
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Rising from the bricks: the historical development of East St. Louis State Community College, 1969-2004
This dissertation studies the historical development of State Community College of East St. Louis, a local educational institution of extreme value to the economic and educational prospects of the residents and the city of East St. Louis. It looks at the ways in which the residents of the …
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'Kōrero Tuku Iho': Reconfiguring Oral History and Oral Tradition
The studies of oral history and oral tradition each have their own distinctive bodies of literature and preferred methodologies, yet share significant overlaps that make them difficult to differentiate. For many indigenous peoples, oral histories and traditions are key to their their past, present, …
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The Norwegian state's relationship to the international oil companies over North Sea oil, 1965-75
… rates. This framework of analysis makes use of a historical methodology. It attempts to recreate what the likely division of rent would have been at the time when new concessions were granted to the companies in 1965, 1969, 1973, 1974. It is only based on what the state and the companies expected …
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Christology from below : an examination of the black christology of Takatso Mofokeng in the context of the development of black theology in South Africa and in critical relation to the christological ethic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
… Mofokeng is seen not to apply his own historical methodology consistently, leading him to underestimate the theological importance of the failure of the poor to remain in solidarity with the dying Jesus, and the significance of the faithfulness of his women followers.
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The business of solidarity: Socialist Yugoslavia and development aid in non-aligned Africa (1954-1991)
… consultancy. This study employs an ethnographic-historical methodology to foreground the voices and perspectives of ostensibly peripheral actors from the ‘Third World’ and the fringes of Europe as a means to challenge elite-focused methodologies in the fields of decolonization and the Cold War …
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CON VOCE OPACA. STORIOGRAFIA E PLURALISMO DEL DIBATTITO PUBBLICO A PARTIRE DALLA 'QUERELLE' TRA HAYDEN WHITE E CARLO GINZBURG
Con l’intento di meglio definire le continuità e differenze che intercorrono tra il «desiderio di verità» della ricerca storica e la molteplicità delle narrazioni memoriali che animano il dibattito pubblico, la tesi s’interrogherà sul valore ideologico delle rappresentazioni storiche prodotte …
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The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace
<p>This dissertation employs historical methodology and public health theory to examine how critical changes in the culture and political economy of biomedical research shaped Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist Hans Selye's concept of biological stress, guiding him to develop a highly …
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