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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"travel accounts"”.
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Reading against the grain: translation of India in eighteenth and nineteenth Century French travel accounts
… of the role of language and translation in the accounts of three francophone travellers who visited the subcontinent between the 1750s and 1830s. Based on the premise of both travel and translation being integral to the construction of the foreign, it presents a context-specific re (reading) of …
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Silent Cities: Sensationalism and Removed Populations within Fourteenth Century Western Christian and Muslim Travel Accounts of Baghdad and Jerusalem
… populations within fourteenth century travel literature in the cities of Baghdad and Jerusalem, I analyze two Christian travelers, Marco Polo and John Mandeville, and one Muslim traveler, Ibn Battuta. As a basis of comparison, I discuss the twelfth century Muslim traveler, Ibn Jubayr. I …
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A cross-cultural dialogue: Eighteenth-century British representations of China
… Samuel Johnson's essays about China, the travel accounts of a group of British naval officers and a Scottish physician, John Bell, as actual or symbolic responses to changes in eighteenth-century British society, Continental European representations of China, and contemporary Chinese …
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Discovering the Balkans: British Travellers in Southeastern Europe, 1861--1911
… in other words ""discovered,"" by British travel writers. It concentrates on both traditional visits to the Balkans as well as non-traditional, imaginary ones---those found in fiction and poetry---and takes an innovative and integrated thematic approach that categorizes British visitors and …
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Malaria Risk on Ancient Roman Roads: A Study and Application to Assessing Travel Decisions in Asia Minor by the Apostle Paul
<p>This study models malaria risks for travelers on ancient Roman roads with the goal of providing a tool for historical assessment of travel accounts from antiquity. The project includes: identification of malaria risk factors and associated spatial datasets, malaria risk model construction, …
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Resandets gränser : svenska resenärers skildringar av Ryssland under 1700-talet
Maria Nyman The Borders of travelling. Russia in Swedish travel accounts during the 18th century. The primary objective of this study concerns how culturally created images of the Same and the Other, is expressed in descriptions of a journey, a sojourn someplace else. More specifically, the …
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Voces, Silencios, Ambigüedades y Fantasmagorías en el Espacio Transafricano de la Narrativa de Viajes del Siglo XIX
… afrodiasporic communities in Nineteenth Century travel narratives accounts for the implementation of certain ideological practices when they were intended to be narrated. This thesis argues that the depiction of the afrodiasporic experience functions as a dual and ambiguous mechanism in which the …
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"Who Stand i' th' Gaps": Narrative Authority in the Early Modern English Travel Play
In travel writing, the conditions of travel (temporal, spatial, and cultural distance) prevent audiences from verifying foreign content for themselves, so travel accounts demand a narrator, in the words of Gower in Shakespeare's <italic>Pericles</italic>, "who stand[s] i' the gaps." However, …
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Exploring Strange, New Worlds: Travellers and Foreigners in Medieval Iberian Literature
<p>This dissertation examines written travel accounts produced by Castilian and Andalusi authors and voyagers from twelfth- to fifteenth-century Iberia. The guiding research questions revolve around how journeyers encountered, reacted to, and reported on foreign peoples, lands, and customs as they …
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Contracted chattel : indentured and apprenticed labor in Cape Town, c.1808-1840
… and the Mediator, as well as contemporary travel accounts, contracts of indenture and apprenticeship, and an examination of the records of the Cape Town Magistrates, this study explores the attitudes and perceptions towards indentured and apprenticed labor by both employers and indentured …
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Limits of settlement: Racialized masculinity, sovereignty, and the imperial project in colonial Natal, 1850-1897
… archival sources, and popular contemporary travel accounts, this dissertation looks at the development of the colony of Natal in the second half of the nineteenth century by examining debates over polygamy and ilobolo, legislation over alcohol and marijuana use, proper dress and domestic …
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Face to Face: English Uses and Understanding of the Beard in Early Virginian Contacts
… settlements in the New World. I next delve into travel accounts, ethnographies and artistic portrayals of the Natives in these colonies to examine how and when both sides evoked facial hair as a signifier of difference. This examination will help reveal English views of Natives during a time when …
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Travelling Through Time: Tracing the Arrival of Modernity in German-Speaking Women’s Travel Literature on the Orient between 1840 and 1945
Travelling Through Time discusses accounts of the “Orient,” questions of identity formation through interactions with the “Other,” and the significance of the global spread of technological advances for these questions. Travel writing by both male and female authors has been a topic of interest for …
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Jist Lak...De White Folks': 'Jumping theBroom As A Case Study In Exploring theIntercultural and Atlantic Dimensions of Southern Society
… images, journals, narratives, oral histories, travel accounts, and folklore this thesis disrupts the popular tendency to "claim" the ritual as a one-dimensional practice reserved for a single group of practitioners. Using quantitative data and a diverse source base, this study analyzes the …
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The very model of a modern travel agency? : the Polytechnic Touring Association 1888-1962
… contribution to the history of modern British travel and tourism, in the form of the first full-length analysis of the Polytechnic Touring Association (PTA). It seeks to establish whether the PTA was distinctive among contemporary travel agencies; whether it was successful; and in what senses …
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Caught between Islam and the West: secularism in the Kemalist discourse
… of Western sources including newspaper stories, travel accounts, and diplomatic correspondence and a plethora of Kemalist texts. The documentary analysis in the thesis is based on original research. The Orientalist view even prescribed a recipe for Turkey’s progress, and Kemalism is defined in …
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Serpents of Empire: Moral Encounters in Natural History c.1780-1870
… and periodicals, taxidermy and cartoons, travel accounts, and government archives from Britain and India, this study provides a connected account of how snakes were collected, transported, described, experimented with, and used for a variety of ends. Following an animal around, whether as …
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Road Collision Analysis and Prediction Using Machine Learning Approaches
Road travel accounts for most traffic accidents worldwide. Improvements in road safety, education, recent technology advancements, and other environmental factors have decreased the number of collisions in developed nations. Many countries, provincial, and local governments envision the possibility …
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The making of clothing and the making of London, 1560-1660
… from London guild records, to portraits, travel accounts, personal letters, diaries and account books, plays, sermons and poems. With a focus on urban experience, this dissertation discusses not only elite luxury consumption, but also investigates the wardrobes of guildsmen, immigrant …
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The continuing image of African victimage : Ali A. Mazrui's The Africans: A Triple Heritage.
… abstraction of eighteenth-century Europe. Travel accounts of explorers to the continent presented an image of the African as barbarian. This view was used to support pseudo-scientific racial theories of the period. Biblical interpretations for African inferiority also emerged to defend the …
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