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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"western history"”.
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The Burden of Western History: Kansas, Collective Memory, and the Reunification of the American Empire, 1854-1913
<p>This dissertation, "The Burden of Western History: Kansas, Collective Memory, and the Reunification of the American Empire, 1854-1913," is a widely-ramifying study of the politics of collective memory in Kansas, where the Civil War can be said to have begun in 1854, where it unfolded in …
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To test by fire: The assayer in the American mining West, 1848-1920
Western history texts note that the assayer was essential to the discovery of new mining strikes. In his furnace he tested the prospector's ore, which if assayed high in gold or silver, caused a lively stir in the Western mining camp.
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Diplomatic relations between the United States and Morocco
… to the importance of the North African area in Western history, this paper will survey the pattern of American diplomatic interest in Morocco from the latter decades of the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century.</p>
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In search of the myth in history : the narrative of the quest from sacred to secular
… of Edward Said, the constructed truth of the Western Other through a tradition of literary imagery (tropes), and the way these constructions inform and guide the agency and praxis of a dominating West, are now fundamental concepts for much anthropological analysis. Through examining the …
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Words without End: The Development of T. S. Eliot's Poetics from "The Waste Land" to "Four Quartets"
… of the very few genuine revolutions of spirit in Western history and which defines modernity itself." As the "high modernist" poet par excellence, I propose to read both of T. S. Eliot's long poems as distinct responses to the similar recognition of a "break of the covenant between word and …
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“Fall” and Redemption in the Thought of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan
… Falling is a description of philosophical and Western history, known as metaphysics, and the description of man’s relationship to Being. Thus, falling relates to the most significant streams in Heidegger’s later thought, too, including the truth of Being, the death of God, the gods, the …
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Between external and internal space : an urban transition
… two transitional moments of ancient and modern history: the Hellenistic and Baroque periods. This study is the result of the consideration that in certain periods, at least in western history, there is a clear predominance of either interior or exterior space in relation to architecture. If on …
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An exploration of transformation theory and the western tradition: a critical evaluation of a graduate studies class
… is an exploration of transformation theory, the Western tradition, and a critical evaluation of a graduate studies class at a university. It is an exploration of assumptions that are embedded in experience, that influence the experience and provide meaning about the experience. An attempt has …
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The Triptych Tetrad: Marshall McLuhan's Neo-Medieval Communication Theory
… which was the basis for education throughout Western history until the Renaissance. Indeed, he developed a history of the trivium up to the Renaissance in order to understand the works of Thomas Nashe. At the end of his life, he worked to synthesize his views on technology, media, and …
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An Institute for Urban Agriculture: Architecture, Ecology and Urban Habitat
… cultural consciousness, yet throughout western history, human needs and activities have been perceived as separate from the natural world. We stand at the beginning of a new millennium, aware of the cycles which govern the flows of life on our planet, yet far from understanding the …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
… with the West--and thus the relationship of westerners to their government--cannot be isolated from national political and social trends. My dissertation connects the literature of American state building with the insights of the New Western History and argues that the Bureau of Reclamation's …
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The Last Conservationist: Floyd Dominy and Federal Reclamation Policy in the American West
… with the West--and thus the relationship of westerners to their government--cannot be isolated from national political and social trends. My dissertation connects the literature of American state building with the insights of the New Western History and argues that the Bureau of Reclamation's …
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Julius Caesar And The Rhine River: The Evolution Of A Border During The Gallic Wars
… the foundation of a major national border of western history in the context of its initial involvement in the context of the Roman Late Republic.</p> <p>This thesis approaches the question of Caesar's use of the Rhine from a literary perspective. It places an emphasis on contemporary sources …
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Finding God in the urban landscape : a temple for gnosis in upper Manhattan
… than political, that was lost to mainstream Western history and absorbed into the religions of the East. Understanding the term Nature require a form of extreme self-consciousness, what Peter Fritzell calls "a tolerance for ambiguity that is very difficult to sustain. It is, in essence, a …
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Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism: The Theology of God's Power and Its Bearing on the Western Legal Tradition, 1100-1600
… political theology nor exalts its career in the Western history of ideas. Rather, it attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of this field depended on the dialectic of the distinction between two separate types of God's power. To this end, I explore employments and embodiments …
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From The Field: Nature And Work On American Frontiers, 1876-1909
… and empire together. In recent decades the New Western History has rewritten our understanding of American settlement and American expansion. The stories we tell and teach have themselves expanded beyond the experiences of explorers and settlers to include a fuller picture of the history of the …
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From cannibal to consumer: The shifting poetic metaphor of the vampire
… vampire's iconography over the last 200 years of Western history offer us a fascinating mirror through which to examine social change. This thesis presents a brief historic outline of the path sketched out by this imaginary avatar from its departure in folklore and superstition into 18th and …
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The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California, 1945-1993
… project reflected Stegner’s understanding of western history and his own past in more comprehensive terms and the chapter traces his growing commitment to fiction as a resource for addressing the questions he thought most important to explore in his historical moment.</p> <p>The subsequent …
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A Case for Music as Therapy: “Healing and Purgation,” and the Expressiveness of Music from Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century
… clinical music therapy practice in the pages of history, but does support the belief that discussions of music, the mind, the soul, and the body are the forerunners of modern music therapy. In order to trace the place of music and its therapeutic powers throughout various points in western …
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Futures studies in contemporary Islamic and Western thought: a critical study of the works of Ziauddin Sardar, Mahdi Elmandjra, Alvin Toffler and Daniel Bell
… is a post-Enlightenment new field of inquiry in Western history of intellectual tradition. It attempts to study the probable, possible and desirable futures for human. Nevertheless, the study and concern on future is not a unique Western phenomenon. Indeed, every society and civilization has its …
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