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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"institutional history"”.
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Modern American Propaganda: An Institutional History
… propaganda. This paper argues that the institutional culture of this institution was born and came to fruition in the period 1941-1953, and has not significantly changed since. That institutional culture includes a fierce adherence to a “strategy of truth,” with aesthetic norms being …
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Examining Institutional History Narratives Through a Critical Whiteness Framework
… institutions (PWIs) are experiencing a racial history crisis. This crisis is occurring partially in response to current events including the multiple deaths of Black men and women at the hands of White police officers: Michael Brown in 2014, Breonna Taylor in 2020, and George Floyd also in …
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The "great experiment" and the Michigan State Normal School: An institutional history analysis
… United States, focusing on the establishment and institutionalization of teacher preparation in the normal schools of the mid-nineteenth century. This study presents the institutional building blocks that formed the foundation of teacher preparation in America.</p> <p>In addition, this study …
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Epicurus' legacy: succession and continuity in the institutional history of the Athenian Garden
… of the major known episodes in the history of the Athenian Garden, challenging the established scholarly readings of the evidence and offering original and innovative interpretations of their contents and significance from both a historical and a philosophical standpoint. The …
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Decline and Fall? The Institutional History of Post-Imperial Western Europe, AD 400-800
<p>Over the course of the fifth to ninth centuries, the Roman Empire gave way in western Europe to several kingdoms initially founded by so-called 'barbarian' tribes. This thesis is a thematic assessment of the evolutionary trends that shaped this period. It respects and integrates the highly …
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On Quanzhen Daoism and the Longmen Lineage: An Institutional History of Monasteries, Lineages, and Ordinations
… during the Qing dynasty in China from an institutional perspective. By critically analyzing monasteries, lineages, and texts, this study sheds light on why the notion of lineage is crucial for understanding Qing Daoism. Furthermore, this study challenges the existing understanding of …
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The equity side of the exchequer: its jurisdiction, administration, procedures, and records
… to render Plucknett's statement obsolete. Institutional history has an unfortunate tendency to dryness and remoteness, which coupled with the author's literary short-comings portends a tedious undertaking for the reader of this work. However, a reminder of the immense importance- of …
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Taking a pedagogical turn: What happens when the student /teacher conference moves to the center of the basic writing course
… project is examined in light of the particular institutional history of Florida International University, with special emphasis on the roles of space, time, and face-to-face interaction in the teaching of writing to a richly diverse student body.</p><p>Support for the course redesign is adduced …
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The history of Crane: how Chicago shaped its first junior college
This study examines the history of Crane, Chicago's first junior college, and the city's influence on its development, growth, and transition, from 1911 to 1933. The study focuses upon both the contextual and institutional history of Crane and includes an analysis of how and why Chicago's first …
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Written in invisible ink : a case study on the politics of free trade reform and labor regulation in Guatemala
… thorough consideration of domestic political and institutional history in countries undertaking the reforms that are the invisible ink. Based on five months of field work interviewing key actors in Guatemala and the United States, three examples are presented to illustrate these points: the first …
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Friends of Franklin: Conflicted transatlantic interpretation of Benjamin Franklin in London
… politics. This study situates Franklin House's institutional history within public history scholarship toward understanding how founding visions and funding strategies impact house museums over time, particularly in an international context. In the case of Benjamin Franklin House, Lady Mary …
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IL CINEMA DI PIER PAOLO PASOLINI SECONDO LO STATO. CENSURA, MAGISTRATURA E PARLAMENTO
… Paolo Pasolini's cinema. The perspective of the institutional history of cinema was taken, in consideration of how cinema is part of an industrial context which has effective repercussions on the ways in which the State enters into relations with it. The three areas of intervention of censorship, …
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Authors of Our Own Lives? Individuals, Institutions and the Everyday Practice of Sociology.
… practice and careers are woven together with institutional and economic histories of UK universities and the discipline of sociology. By these means the thesis isolates and analyses different 'intersections' within academic life, and details the processes of reproduction and transformation …
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The temporary exhibition galleries in the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery: commission, design and outcome
… and what were the consequences. It looks at the history of temporary exhibitions - the spaces they need in London and abroad. Using archive material and conversations with participants, it pieces together the convoluted story of the building of the temporary exhibition galleries in the Sainsbury …
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Covering the World with the International Herald Tribune
This dissertation provides an institutional history of the International Herald Tribune, the most prominent international newspaper from the 1960s until the 2000s, and a social history of the American journalists who produced it. As a publication that took advantage of telecommunications advances …
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Cultivat(ing) modernities : the Society for National Heritage, political propaganda and public architecture in twentieth-century Iran
… culture in Iran's 20th-century sociopolitical history. The dissertation offers a critical analysis of the political underpinnings, pedagogical aims, racial schemas, and aesthetic ends of propaganda architecture as they were conceived and constructed under the aegis of the Society for National …
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Public Service and Politics: the BBC's Irish history programmes prior to and during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
… how the BBC approached and presented Irish history in the years leading up to and during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It does so by examining three major Irish history projects broadcast between 1965 and 1981. By combining the BBC’s institutional history, Irish historiography, and an …
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Democracy bestowed : the Boston Public Library and the evolution of the ideal of civic education
A critical examination of the architectural and institutional history of the Boston Public Library, this thesis blends primary sources and contemporary architectural theory to develop a thematic argument about the linkages between architecture, urban design, and the institutional mission of the …
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The economics of victim compensation
… compensation are reviewed and criticized. An institutional history of the victim's role in society discusses the various forms of compensation that existed in different jurisdictions. The distinction between civil law and criminal law appeared to lead to the demise of compensation by the …
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