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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"primary documents"”.
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The rhetoric of work in Victorian England: A discourse analysis
… in Victorian England by primarily examining the primary documents of newspapers, autobiography, poetry, and the Blue Book deliberations of Parliament. My purpose is to show how the underrepresented and “silenced” groups of the working man, the child, and the woman in Victorian England became part …
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A Failure of Policy: How U.S. Leaders Neglected to Shape, Lead, and Leverage Intelligence Concerning Japan During the Interwar Period, 1918-1941
… focused predominantly on official and other primary documents, including U.S. intelligence reports and memoranda; intercepted, decrypted, and translated Japanese cablegrams; personal letters by and concerning U.S. intelligence professionals; and other primary source materials related to …
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The Mormon Colonies of Northern Mexico: A History, 1885-1912
… almost entirely on Mormon diaries and other primary documents, suggests in the first place, that Mormonism while displaying a kind of cultural separatism on one level, was, at another level, in close harmony with American notions of economic and political expansionism. The study of the …
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Indigeneity on Display: Ethnographic Adventure Film in Amazonia
… knowledge production can still create important primary documents for indigenous source communities.
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Wingfield Scott Watson and His Struggle to Preserve the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) After the Death of Its Founder
… dissension and external opposition. From primary documents, this dissertation demonstrates that Watson succeeded at maintaining the Strangite identity among its remnant after the death of its founder.
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From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism: The British Politics of Nationalist Violence in Cyprus
… utilizes the process-tracing of archives, primary documents, and scholarly articles to emphasize the British colonial power as the catalyst and driver for the nationalist violence in Cyprus.
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Abbeville v. the State of South Carolina: A Case Study
… these research questions included analysis of primary documents and eighteen qualitative interviews. The primary documents included the state constitution, current legislation in South Carolina affecting public education, previous school finance oriented court cases in South Carolina, and …
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By the Same Spirit: Edwardsean Pneumatology in the Younger Edwards
… the same as his father’s system. From primary documents this thesis demonstrates how the younger Edwards’s place is relevant to Edwardsean study.
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Philosophical blindness and the black subject: the deconstruction of a discipline
… analyze this relationship through the use of key primary documents including autobiographies of Black American students as well as oral interviews from Black Philosophers themselves.
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“I Shan't Ever Play Down These Influences”: Poulenc’s Neoclassicism as Musical Legacy
<p>Leaving behind an abundance of primary documents, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) reveals himself to be a colorful, opinionated composer, with an intriguing mindset regarding the role of twentieth-century composers. Poulenc’s writings place importance on the idea of musical legacy, where engaging …
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Transforming Atypical Challenges into Innovative Solutions: A Gendered Analysis of the UN Interagency Rehabilitation Program in Nepal
… (UNIRP) response to these challenges using primary documents and interviews conducted with UN staff members in Nepal. The author argues that atypical challenges acted as drivers that resulted in programmatic innovations, including dynamic monitoring and evaluation, a centralized information …
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Shades of Grey : Anglo-German Diplomacy and Eyre Crowe, 1905-1914
… what he argued in the 1907 memorandum. Using primary documents from both the British Foreign Office and the German government, this thesis contends that the 1907 memorandum caused increased hostility towards the German Government from the British Foreign Office. This hostility made British …
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Students As Historians: The Historical Narrative Inquiry Model's Impact on Historical Thinking and Historical Empathy
… including oral presentations, discussions about primary documents, and consideration of the relation between narratology and the creation of written history. Students generated their own historical narratives in order to articulate their perspectives. Eight students having varied reading-level …
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The Viennese guitar and its influence in North America : form, use, stringing, and social associations
… developments, in patents, catalogues and other primary documents, and compares those of his extant guitars, including examples with extra bass strings, which are accessible in museum and private collections. It asks how crucial changes in stringing (number of strings, tension, and material), …
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The Eschatological Role of the Jerusalem Temple: An Examination of Jewish Writings Dating from 586 BCE to 70 CE
… of the Temple in eschatology. -- Sources. The primary documents investigated in this research were the proto-canonical, deutero-canonical, Qumran writings, and the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. -- Conclusion. The Jerusalem templehas been found to have an eschatological role in some second …
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Archaeological Geophysics, Excavation, and Ethnographic Approaches Toward a Deeper Understanding of an Eighteenth Century Wichita Site
… of Native Americans led to several Spanish primary documents describing the people that lived there, the fortification and surrounding village, and of course the battle itself. Investigation of the Longest site (34JF1) in Oklahoma presents a remarkable opportunity to combine extensive …
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Honor, Supremacy, and the Lynching of Henry Smith
… during the 1890s. Through an examination of primary documents – newspaper articles, photographs, eyewitness testimonies, etc. – and secondary literature, the author will reconstruct an event in Texas’ history that has remained, for the most part, unexplored by the greater historical …
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The Historical Influence And Legacy Of The Alaskan Boundary Dispute
… of this thesis consisted of analyzing primary documents from diplomatic figures. Emphasis was given to the letters between Secretary of State John Hay, President Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, Prime Minister Laurier, Clifford Shifton, Lord A1verstone, and Henry White. However, newspaper …
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The Archaeology and History of Medieval Trim, County Meath
… that time, the publication of a large corpus of primary documents relating to medieval Irish towns has been accompanied by a revolution in approaches to source material and research methodology. More recently, archaeology has come to play a central role as a means of understanding Ireland’s urban …
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Lee M. Waid: An Oral Historical Case Study of Students from an All-Black Rural Virginian School between 1963 and 1970
… by looking at existing data through the use of primary documents and snowball or chain methodology. Fourteen of the participants were former students of Waid School and two were former faculty members of Franklin County Public Schools. The exploration of student experiences during desegregation …
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