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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"micro history"”.
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In the shade of coal: A micro-history of resettlement and the mining industry in Tete province, Mozambique, 2009-2018
… phenomenon. In contrast, my research, through a micro-historical approach, focuses on the singularities of the Vale resettlement, exploring a range of issues, such as the group of potters displaced by the Vale mining company to initiate its mining activities, the cemetery constructed by the …
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Through The Eyes Of A Renaissance Prophet: Fra Girolamo Savonaorla And The Compendium Of Revelation
… is influenced by intellectual, religious, and micro history.
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CIAM and the emergence of Team 10 thinking, 1945-1959
This study is an intellectual micro-history which examines the debates about the future of modern architecture and planning that occurred within CIAM (Congès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) between 1945-1959. This investigation traces the emergence of a new set of values for modern …
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Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition
… tradition. In this dissertation I bring together micro-history, hagiography, folklore, religious and comparative studies together in an attempt to understand how this modern day religious-spiritual tradition has been shaped by the past and the role religion has to play in modern life, if only with …
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“Assimulation” in the Land of Ten-Thousand Iranian Communities: Public Assimilation Strategies, Private Preservation Identities
… to underscore how Iran’s vacillating political history has crafted modern Iranian men and women, first, in alignment with the West, and then along Islamic ideals. Community, consequently, expands and contracts according to global, micro-macro occurrences. A waning sense of identity incites a …
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Une certain équivoque? A study of Vincent van Gogh's ambivalent engagement with prostitution, highlighted by the 1888 Courrier Français controversy
… of prostitution are commonplace in the history of nineteenth-century French art, but this paper proposes that discourses specific to 1888 concerning the visual representations of prostitution have been insufficiently analysed with regard to Vincent van Gogh's paintings of 1888. Focusing …
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Dundalk 1900-1960: an oral history
… that the principal aim is to comprise a ‘total history’ or ‘micro history’ of Dundalk between 1900-1960. As the thesis is primarily concerned with people, oral history methodology has been employed to integrate the recollections of those who lived through the period with conventional written …
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Urban Stratigraphy: The Backstory on Thirty-One Buffalo Blocks
… work investigates the natural and architectural history of one corner of the neighborhood, recognized in the early 20th century as the parish of Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church. Once one of the city’s densest areas, the neighborhood experienced a precipitous physical and demographic decline …
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Sir John Finch’s (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel’s (1638–1722) Sensory Experiences in the Ottoman Empire, 1660-1690
… encounters in the seventeenth century through a micro-history of Sir John Finch (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel (1638–1722), two English travellers whose experiences in the Ottoman Empire were shaped by cultivated perception and scholarly discipline. It reconstructs how these individuals used …
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Greek immigration to, and settlement in, central Illinois, 1880-1930
This dissertation is a micro-history of Greeks immigrants to central Illinois between 1880 and 1930. The study focuses specifically on those Greek immigrants who were involved in the confectionery trade, opening candy stores (often accompanied by soda fountains and restaurants) in the small towns …
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Questions of Faith: Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial India, 1813-1907
… twentieth century. Using the methodologies of micro-history, and sources like vernacular Bengali broadsheets, pamphlets, court cases, probates and newspapers as evidence, this dissertation illustrates the processes through which elite and non-elite Indians formed a complex relationship of overt …
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Neighbourhood and Identity in Renaissance Florence: Artistic Patronage at Santa Trinita and San Pancrazio
… of social identity. Overall, this Florentine micro-history proposes a more complex yet nuanced paradigm of patronage, which responded to both the self-fashioning needs of the congregation and of different local patrons. Within this study, works of art are thus considered in anthropological …
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The cost of workplace injury in Mauritius, Barbados, and the Gold Coast, 1925-1943
… from precarity, the dissertation analyses the history of the WCO alongside workers’ experiences of injury and protest. The WCO addressed a specific inequality in employer-employee relationships by holding employers accountable for wages that could have been earned in the future. By …