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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"historical processes"”.
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Historical processes and their effect on growth of illegal settlements
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Historical Processes and Genetic Implications of Limb Reduction and Loss in an Island Skink Lineage
Evolutionary simplification, or loss of complex characters, is a major theme in studies of body form evolution. The apparently infrequent evolutionary reacquisition of complex characters has led to the assertion (Dollo's Law) that once lost, complex characters may be impossible to re-evolve, at …
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Crossroads of Conversion: Intersections of Bodies, Materials, and Histories in Early Medieval Bohemia
… on how bodies are entangled with large-scale historical processes: birth and infancy, violence and warfare, and disease experiences. As a microhistorical bioarchaeology, this project is relational and multiscalar with an emphasis on individual osteobiographies that inform how historical …
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The fate of universal history: on the task of philosophy of history between Kant and Benjamin
… distinct treatments of the problem of historical violence. Where idealism explains the conceptual coherence of historical processes in a specifically teleological unity (no matter how critically modified), materialist theories of universal history reject such a teleological model of …
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Iranians in the United States and Japan: Self -Imagery and Individual -Collective Dynamics
… that each individual actively participates in historical processes of individual and collective formation and re-formation.
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Racialized Patterns Of Inequality In United States Birth Outcomes, 1990-2018
… to fully explain the social, institutional, and historical processes that operate to uphold racialized inequality in adverse birth outcomes. In light of recent declines in average birth weight and increases in pre-term births over recent decades, this puzzle is of particular importance to the …
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Ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana
… people in the state. This paper discusses the historical processes by which the Metis, Cree and Chippewa became landless, and examines the unique aspects of their social and economic lives as landless Indian people. This paper concludes with an examination of the ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and …
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Ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana
… people in the state. This paper discusses the historical processes by which the Metis, Cree and Chippewa became landless, and examines the unique aspects of their social and economic lives as landless Indian people. This paper concludes with an examination of the ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and …
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Population and evolutionary dynamics during microbial range expansions
… variability and the inability of replicating historical processes.
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Forces Structuring Caddisfly Communities: Biogeographical to Anthropogenic Effects
Historical processes, patterns of diversification, and landscape characteristics have resulted in the distribution of biodiversity that forms the context in which local community interactions occur. These local dynamics include relationships among different species and interactions between species …
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Native Lands in Enemy Territory: Indigenous and Asian American Veteran Erasure and Resistance in the Literature of War
… that I explore here document these significant historical processes through various literary movements and critical periods of national and international transition. This dynamic literature chronicles how Indigenous cultures and Asian American communities navigated the threatened erasure of …
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The State Machine : politics, ideology, and computation in Chile, 1964-1973
… if we treat them as texts for understanding historical processes in Chile, the Latin American region, and the developing world. Finally, it addresses how Chile's political leaders used computing machines in their attempts to control Chile's social, economic, and political development and to …
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Tactical cities : negotiating violence in Karachi, Pakistan
… from urban studies to analyze the social and historical processes of urbanization that have led to the perception of Karachi as a city of violence. It then uses the distinction that Michel de Certeau draws between strategy and tactic in his seminal work The Practice of Everyday Life to analyze …
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FROM MARKAZ TO MULK: LAHORE, MAGAZINES, AND THE PLACE OF URDU IN LATE COLONIAL INDIA, 1900-1950
… of a markaz, or center, as part of complex historical processes that encouraged writers to position Urdu as a national language rather than as the mother tongue of Delhi and Lucknow. I trace these important changes to highlight fissures internal to Urdu writing. I show how geographic …
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Becoming Legible: The Racial Making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole People in the Coahuila–Texas Borderland
<p>This historical ethnography analyzes the making of the Negro Mascogo/Black Seminole people as part of the production of the Coahuila-Texas borderland. In the quest to become legible to improve their living conditions and maintain a sense of dignity, Negros Mascogos/Black Seminoles use history …
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Wired / unwired : the urban geography of digital networks
… urban areas during the 1990s. It finds that historical processes and pre-existing differences between places shaped the evolution of this infrastructure at multiple spatial scales; global, metropolitan, and neighborhood. As a result, rather than bringing about the "death of distance", digital …
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Landscape, Labor, and Practice: Slavery and Freedom at Green Castle Estate, Antigua
… in studies of Caribbean plantations and how historical processes unfold in these contexts amidst changing social relations.</p>
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The apotheosis of the green revolution and the throes of landless peasant women in two Aegean villages of Turkey in the 1960s
<p>The debates on the historical processes of agrarian transition and the experiences of rural women in these processes have never lost their appeal for sociological study, although the studies have focused on the political economy of development and rural women in development in the 1960s and …
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Reconciling Western toad phylogeography with Great Basin prehistory
This study marks the first attempt to study historical processes that may be responsible for the contemporary geographic distribution and phylogeny of Great Basin Western toads (Anaxyrus boreas spp.). The dynamic aquatic history of the Great Basin was evaluated as a potential model for early toad …
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An Assessment of Population Genetic Structure in Guillemots (Cepphus)
… structure arose through a combination of both historical and contemporary processes. Based on my results, I recommend that pigeon guillemot subspecies be revised. I also suggest that pigeon guillemot populations in the Aleutian Islands be considered for designation as an evolutionarily …
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