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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"historical scholarship"”.
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Historical Scholarship, Politics, and Identity in Bohemia, c.1650-1690
This thesis examines the interplay between historical scholarship and politics in the Bohemian composite monarchy in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). During the turbulent events of the first half of the seventeenth century, Bohemia underwent major political, religious, and …
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“KNOW WHAT I’M SAYIN’?”: ADVOCATING HIP-HOP AS A PRIMARY SOURCE FOR HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP
… use of rap as primary source material in future historical research. Authenticity has always surrounded hip-hop, making rap a window into artists’ perspectives. Storytelling traditions in rap’s roots allow for fiction’s use as a tool to discuss reality in lyrics. To demonstrate rap’s strengths as …
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The history and politics of civilisation: the debate about Russia in French and German historical scholarship from Voltaire to Herder
… history with its concern to explain the historical process of civilisation in general, and Europe’s historical journey out of a state of barbarism in particular, an array of thinkers turned to the example of Russia with a set of interrelated historiographical and political questions: Does …
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The University of the Witwatersrand History Workshop and radical South African historical scholarship in the 1970's and 1980's
… in the context of radical South African historical scholarship. Not only is the History Workshop shown to mirror developments in radical scholarship but it is seen to guide and stimulate particular directions of research. The history of the Workshop is traced and its academic as well as …
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“They transformed our thinking”: An exploration of how, and under what conditions, working with historians and historical scholarship can contribute to UK secondary history teachers’ professional learning and practice development
… and how, teachers’ engagements with disciplinary scholarship – research from the academic disciplines most closely related to the subjects they teach – can contribute to their professional learning and practice development. Engagements between schools and disciplinary scholarship are established, …
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Self-determination means determining self: lifestyle politics and the Republic of New Afrika, 1968-1989
… Afrikans and their goals more prominently in the historical scholarship of the Black Liberation Movement and in public memory more generally. Next, my dissertation studies how social movement participation impacts activists’ identities and mores through the prism of “lifestyle politics,” which …
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Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art
… To further diversify the range of art historical study, my dissertation proposes that from the mid nineteenth to mid twentieth century Appalachian art exhibited distinctive traits that suggest a regionally specific application of modernist principles that include the mixing of high and …
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The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Oran M. Roberts
… personal papers in the context of modern historical scholarship, the author explains how Roberts's political philosophy reflected the biases and prejudices typical of his era, as well as his own material interests and ambitions. Topic areas covered include Roberts's position on the …
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Romancing the new evangelical woman.
This project examines women's Christian historical fiction romance novels in order to understand the evangelical identity and the rise of the Christian Right. The chapters are interlocking essays that could be published as separate articles. Chapter One identifies the emergence of the marketplace …
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Commodore Perry's 1853 Japanese Expedition: How Whaling Influenced the Event that Revolutionized Japan
… behind the Japanese Expedition's dispatch. This historical perspective ignores the important economic and political influence the whaling industry played in spurring American politicians to confront Japanese isolationism. It is incorrect to assert that whaling, and not America's desire to gain …
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AMOS KENDALL: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (JACKSON; KENTUCKY; BANKING)
… should be reconsidered in subsequent American historical scholarship.</p>
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The Parish Landscape in Cornwall, 1600-1800: Space, Sense, and Everyday Life
… with the South-West or paired with Devon in historical scholarship. This study employs a holistic approach to the exploration of everyday parish life in Cornwall, from c.1600 to c.1800. This approach culminates in a comprehensive understanding of the lived experience within parishes, …
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The Parish Landscape in Cornwall, 1600-1800: Space, Sense, and Everyday Life
… with the South West or paired with Devon in historical scholarship. This study employs a holistic approach to the exploration of everyday parish life in Cornwall, from c.1600 to c.1800. This approach culminates in a comprehensive understanding of the lived experience within parishes, …
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Muckraking Exposes and the Shaping of Progressive Era Political Culture
… is an attempt to redress a lacuna in rhetorical scholarship and the unjustified reign of a simplistic analysis in historical scholarship by examining the character of progressive era political culture through a close analysis of muckraking texts. While rhetoricians have not examined the political …
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Hybridizing Sovietness, Modernity, Nationality and Provinciality in Uzbekistan, 1941–1984
… paradigms. The author aspires to restore historical agency of the people of Central Asia – the agenda that is rooted in post-colonial theory and historical scholarship. This work argues that Soviet sociocultural identities and experiences were essentially hybrid and explores the hybridity …
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The Soviet System and the Historian: E.V. Tarle (1875-1955) as a Case Study
… for the historian. The ra tionale behind historical scholarship has been and still is utility, with the historian being used as a tool in support of ideological or political platforms proposed by the Party. As an employee of the state, the historian has found it practically impossible to …
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Toiling among the Seed of Israel: A Comparison of Puritan and Mormon Missions to the Indians
… of Puritanism and Mormonism are lacking in historical scholarship, despite noted similarities between the two religions. This study helps to fill that void by comparing the Puritan and Mormon proselytization efforts among the Indians that occurred at the respective sites of Massachusetts Bay …
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Delivered Without Peril: Birth Girdles and Childbirth in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
… were typically midwives or expectant mothers. Historical scholarship focused on birth girdles has largely been a product of the last two decades, and much scholarship tends to focus on only one or two aspects of birth girdles (their role in amuletic tradition, for example, or their religious …
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"WE WON'T GIVE UP ON THIS UNTIL WE GET IT": THE WOMEN'S JURY MOVEMENT IN MISSISSIPPI, 1938-1968
… jury service has largely been overlooked within historical scholarship. Mississippi, which became the last state to legalize women’s jury service in 1968, has been notably overlooked in historiography despite its connection to the civil rights movement. Women’s organizations including the League …
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Disaster, Technology, and the Military: The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and the Impact of the Environment on Cultural Perceptions of the Military
… been overlooked and underestimated in modern historical scholarship. This paper studies the Japanese response to disaster in the chaotic atmosphere associated with the challenges of a state struggling with modernity, urbanization, and industrialization. A burgeoning democratic polity and a …
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