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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"local historians"”.
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Jewels in the Queen's crown: The fine and performing arts in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865-1919
"Local historians consider the period of this study to be the ""golden age"" of high culture in Cincinnati, during which the city's major arts institutions came into being and the Queen City enjoyed a national reputation as a center of the fine and performing arts."
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Secular urban musical culture in Provence and Languedoc during the late Middle Ages
… to a few publications by nineteenth-century local historians; in contrast, several recent comprehensive studies building on scholarship of the past two centuries exist for the Low Countries and Germany. This unevenness in scholarship, and the resulting bias in our knowledge, has resulted in …
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Studies in local history : Naxxar
… secondary sources published by different local historians and academics to give a better view on the development of Naxxar.
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Una Legua Cuadrada: Exploring the History of Swanton Pacific Ranch and Environs
… pursuits. Over time, researchers and local historians have discussed specific aspects of the Swanton Pacific Ranch and its environs, particularly concerning its occupants, land use (e.g. businesses, farming, research), and land features (e.g. geology, botany). The following work offers …
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Making digital history: The impact of digitality on public participation and scholarly practices in historical research
… how do two broad groups - academic, family and local historians, and the public - evaluate, use, and contribute to digital history resources? And consequently, what impact have digital technologies had on public participation and scholarly practices in historical research? Analysing the impact …
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An Historical Coal Mining Community and Its School: A Study of Pocahontas High School, 1908-1991
… its communities was examined through the eyes of local community leaders, residents, and graduates of Pocahontas High School. This study employed conventional historical research methods in order to document the history of Pocahontas High School. The data collected from documents and interviews …
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Custodianship on the periphery: archives, power and identity politics in post-apartheid Umbumbulu, KwaZulu-Natal
… dealt with by certain traditional leaders and local historians such as Desmond Makhanya and Siyabonga Mkhize. The thesis argues that the activities of the subjects of the study reveal a blurred distinction between practices of custodianship and the production of versions of history and posits …
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Siblings Overseas. Foundational landscape, law, land distribution, and urban form in 16th-century Spanish colonial cities. Three cases of new towns in Jaen (Spain), Nueva Granada (Colombia) and Cuyo (Argentina).
… which have been studied and transcribed by local historians who signaled their familiarity with their American sisters. No comparative analysis has been developed in this sense, keeping these "Andalusian colonies" away from international historiography. The objective of this dissertation is …
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TAWĀRĪKH AL-BULDĀN: LOCAL HISTORY IN THE ARABIC TRADITION A historiographical study based on a reading of a history of Gharnāṭa entitled Al-Iḥāṭa fī Akhbār Gharnāṭa by al-wazīr Lisān al-Dīn b. al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1374)
… study of tawārīkh al- buldān, or local history in the Arabic tradition. It is constituted of ten chapters that build on each other to convey a central thesis, which is argued, systematically, proceeding from the general to the specific. In this effort, a new approach is taken …