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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"history writing"”.
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History Writing and History Making in Twentieth Century Beirut
This dissertation takes the idea of modern history as its subject of study. It investigates one thread of Arab historicism—belief in the primacy of history as the key to all human knowledge—by examining the intellectual and pedagogical endeavours of Constantine Zurayq (1909-2000) and his ilk. In …
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God's agency and the recent past in Carolingian history writing, c.750-900
The historians writing in the Carolingian Empire, with a few important exceptions, frequently ascribed events in recent history to God. Where they have been noticed at all, these statements of God’s agency have usually been explained as political propaganda, to demonstrate God’s favour towards the …
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The Pornographic Home: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life
… video. Women have had a longer, more productive history writing and reading erotica than they have in producing or watching visual porn; however, I also show how women as producers and consumers are increasingly entering and slowly redefining the traditionally male domain of pornography.
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Church Historians and Maronite Communal Consciousness: Agency and Creativity in Writing the History of Mount Lebanon
… an exclusivist and exclusionary political history with the nineteenth century rise of sectarian politics, as well as a nationalist narrative in the twentieth century that attempted to preserve Maronite privilege and political ascendency. This study brings evidence to bear on a particular …
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The untold story of the India Office Library and Records, 1946-1982
… partition of India: who did it belong to, whose history did it contain, and who needed easy and ensured access to it? It analyses the ways in which the British Government responded to the formal claims for ownership from India, Pakistan, and Burma, and the changes they effected to the collection …
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Writing History Under Erasure: Radical Historiographical Practices in Lebanese Postwar Art
… by a conspicuous engagement with questions of history writing, mostly, although not exclusively, in relation to the events and the continuing legacy of the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1990). In this dissertation I consider how the works produced by this group of artists attempt to critically …
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The Rhetoric of Natural History and Philip Henry Gosse
… is to re-contextualize the genre of natural history writing along with rhetorical theory to delineate an argument for examining the rhetoric of natural history as a method for exploring the spatial, symbolic, and ecological relationships between collected specimens and their cultural, …
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
This study analyzes history writing ranging from the chronicle history of Edward Hall and Polydore Vergil, the political histories of Thomas More and Francis Bacon, and the Protestant martyrology of John Foxe, to the canonical Shakespearean works and lesser-known dramas that comprised the history …
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Forgotten Pueblos: La Alianza Federal de Mercedes and the Cultural Politics of Indo-Hispano
… draws from a diverse collection of archived writings and publicity materials produced by La Alianza over the span of its roughly 15 year existence and situates the movement as a rich site of cultural production. I consider these documents as an archive of subaltern history writing that …
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Comparison Between the Histories of Tacitus and Suetonius in Their Treatment of the Emperor Tiberius
"History concerns itself with the complex, unique evolution of man in his activities as a social being. It begins with the first traces of social life and will end only when society itself disappears from earth. . Before. . . the knowledge. . . can be thought, it must be written. . . and if it is …
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Michael Collins and the Nationalist Retrospective
… the biography of Margery Forester who is writing from a foreign perspective. Finally, a biography from an Irish historian of a later generation, Tim Pat Coogan. There are in excess of twenty historians who deal significantly with the life and work of Michael Collins. But due to the size …
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The making of a historical consciousness in Henry County, Indiana: a case study of the Henry County Historical Society, 1887-1950
… practices of collecting and preserving local history, organized and developed a sustainable local historical society. The 1902 dedication ceremony, which signaled the beginning of the “museum” chapter of the HCHS, was only one of many steps in the institutionalization of local history in Henry …
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“Mother has arrived!” : History, Race, and Family as Vehicles in RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Legacy Building
… analyze in this study are the show’s version of history of drag in the USA and who fits in it; references to and appropriation of minority subcultures; employment and perpetuating of racializing stereotypes; and use of different types of family discourse. I focused on 2014’s RuPaul’s Drag Race …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… the relationship between romance and partisan history-writing in Britain following the English Civil War and 1688 Revolution. Considering works of fiction by Delarivier Manley, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Horace Walpole, Ann Yearsley, and Walter Scott alongside works of traditional historical and …
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Prison and Garden: Cape Town, Natural History and the Literary Imagination
… the Dutch East India Company, travel and natural history writing, the Bleek and Lloyd Collection – and the contemporary fictions and poetries of writers like André Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, Jeremy Cronin, Antjie Krog, Dan Sleigh, Stephen Watson, Zoë Wicomb and, in particular, J. M. Coetzee. …
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Heinrich Wölfflin's ideas and historiographical discourse
… and visuality in the <i>Principles of Art History</i>. The fundamental and problematic interweaving of issues of theory and history characterises Wölfflin's theories throughout his life and in this his discourse is symptomatic for the emergent discipline of art history. The construction of …
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A translation of Roger Ascham’s Apologia pro Caena Dominica and contextual analysis.
… been translated and is scarcely referenced in history writing. It is an important work that has major implications for the existing portrayal of Ascham and, more broadly, the development of Protestantism during the Edwardine Reformation. <br/>In history, Ascham is recognised mainly for his …
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Retelling Conversion: The Making of Christian Histories of Sweden, c. 1100–1550
… used them to write and rewrite their Christian history despite — and frequently, in response to — their pagan past. This is taken as a starting point for a broader discussion of history-writing in medieval Sweden (in Latin and Old Swedish), for example, about why no major regnal histories were …
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Manfredo Tafuri's notion of history and its methodological sources : from Walter Benjamin to Roland Barthes
… The period examined starts with Theories and History of Architecture, first published in 1968 and ends with "The Historical 'Project"', the introductory essay of The Sphere and the Labyrinth, published in 1980 The first chapter outlines the intertwining of the two neo-idealist and Marxist …
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