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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"history of ideas"”.
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A history of ideas : West Africa, "The Black Atlantic", and Pan-Africanism
(Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of African American and African Studies History, 2010
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What New Learning is This?: Examining William Turner and his Comparison Betweene the Olde Learnynge and the Newe
William Turner remains an understudied figure of Reformation scholarship. He was a dedicated doctor, scientist, and Lutheran reformer. This thesis examines Turner and his place in the history of ideas. It looks closely at his three editions of A Comparison Betweene the Olde Learnynge and the Newe …
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Voices on the Horizon: A Theory of Ludic Rhetoric
<p><em>Voices on the horizon: A theory of ludic rhetoric </em>begins with the assumption that rhetoric and play offer hope for cooperation and community in a fragmented and divided world. Rhetoric and play share an intellectual trajectory in the history of ideas. The earliest use of the terms …
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(Anti)imperializmo idėja Džozefo Konrado romane "Tamsos Širdis" /
Idea of (anti)Imperialism in Joseph Conrad's Novel "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad’s famous novel “Heart of Darkness” became an object of intense discussions. After famous Chinua Achebe’s article An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad‘s Heart of Darkness published in 1977 where he accuses J. Conrad …
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Isaiah Berlin and the problem of counter-enlightenment liberalism.
… Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism and his work in the history of ideas. While Berlin’s explicitly political thought reads like a scion of the Enlightenment, albeit with a pronounced Cold War inflection, his work in the history of ideas appears to indict the Age of Reason as partially responsible for …
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Some preconceptions brought to the study of sound by students in grade eight
This study is a natural history of ideas brought to the study of sound by a sample of Grade Eight students. The topic of sound was chosen partly because of the technical background of the researcher and partly because of the lack of previous research combining sound and Junior-Secondary students. …
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Émigrés as Aneks: Polish Intellectuals Between East and West, 1968–1989
… a publication that a small group of post-1968 émigrés, mostly Polish Jews, created in exile. Conceptualized as an “annex” to intellectual life in Poland, the publication<em> </em>was founded to help Polish intellectuals look beyond the country to better understand national …
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Mellan nation och omvärld : debatt i Sverige om vetenskapens organisering och finansiering samt dess internationella och nationella aspekter under 1900-talets första hälft
… Sweden regarding the organisation and financing of research and its international and national aspects during the first half of the twentieth century My thesis regards the attitude of the Swedish research society to research as a national and an international phenomenon during the period …
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A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s
This thesis is both a literary history of the military science fiction (military SF) subgenre and a cultural history of the United States of America during the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. This thesis academically rehabilitates a neglected literary subgenre, and utilises it to prove …
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Tautos poetika Nikolajaus Karamzino tekstuose (1787-1803 m.) /
… nation is “imagined” in Nikolaj Karamzin’s works of the small genre. Unlike the existing tradition of researches of the problematics of the nation in Karamzin’s works, in this doctoral thesis attention is focused not on the set of his ideas, or on analysis of the concept of the nation, but on the …
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'Family matters': ideas about the family in British culture 1945-1970
… fashionable amongst historians, that all history is really 'about' the present 1. This thesis does nothing to undermine this idea. Although most obviously concerned with ideas about the family in the twenty five or so years after 1945, it is also very much concerned with our own …
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The History of Greek and Roman Historiography
The development of Greek and Roman historiography is difficult to describe. So many ancient histories are lost and those that survive are hardly representative. In this thesis I argue that despite these difficulties some historiographical trends remain discernible, and examine three such …
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De la terminologie à la socioterminologie: étude de l’implantation terminologique
… can be described as the scientific study of all the terms of a particular domain, used in the specialty languages, while socioterminology is a branch of terminology that is characterized by the study of the social circulation of terms and their appropriation, which implies the analysis of …
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Commonwealth of republics : the lost republican history of Australia and Canada
This thesis is a history of ideas and seeks to provide the first study of civic republican ideas and their impact on Britain's Australian and Canadian colonies in the mid-nineteenth century. In particular, the way in which civic republican ideas manifested themselves during the debates over …
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Commonwealth of republics : the lost republican history of Australia and Canada
This thesis is a history of ideas and seeks to provide the first study of civic republican ideas and their impact on Britain's Australian and Canadian colonies in the mid-nineteenth century. In particular, the way in which civic republican ideas manifested themselves during the debates over …
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Nineteenth-century textbooks and international law
… The study is not an exhaustive account of the work of each textbook writer, but only of his attempt to consider the law as a system. Nor does it cover every book written. Limitations of language mean that only books in French, German and English are included. Besides, the aim has been to …
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Work in the Calling in Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis
… Scholars have debated Max Weber's theory of the relationship between religion and capitalism for almost 100 years. Still, the debate is clouded by confusion over Weber's claims about religious doctrine and over the supporting evidence. The purpose of this study is to clarify Max Weber's …
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The development of ideas about communication in European thought from Ancient Greece to the early Modern Age
The field of communication is highly fragmented. There are half-a-dozen major competing schools; dozens of incompatible theories; no agreed research methods; and poor connection between research, practice and policy. Although theorists recognise fragmentation is a problem and agree that it must be …
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The development of ideas about communication in European thought from Ancient Greece to the early Modern Age
The field of communication is highly fragmented. There are half-a-dozen major competing schools; dozens of incompatible theories; no agreed research methods; and poor connection between research, practice and policy. Although theorists recognise fragmentation is a problem and agree that it must be …
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