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Soubrier, Stéphanie. ""Races guerrières" : armée, science et politique dans l'empire colonial français (années 1850-1918)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H096.
Full textTheorized in 1910 by general Charles Mangin, who advocated the recruitment of a Force noire in French West Africa, the races guerrières category was used in France, between the 1850s and the end of the First World War, to designate colonized groups deemed especially warlike and prone to military service. This dissertation traces the emergence of this unique military and ethnographic category, during the second part of the XIXth century. It studies the ways in which it was put into practice, its imperial and transimperial circulations, as well as the role played by the races guerrières themselves in the construction of the category. Military archives, among which Mangin’s files, colonial officers and soldiers’ writings, and a selection of scientific sources offer insights into the internal definition of races guerrières, and its connection with races non guerrières. Although colonial officers and the military presented it as a recruitment tool, the races guerrières category was very unstable and was never used as a precise guide to select indigenous recruits. However, it gave birth to the ambiguous figure of the native soldier, both reassuring and threatening. The experience of the First World War, during which the category was first put to the test on European ground, offered both a confirmation and a refutation
Ferro, David L. "Science and the press : nascent institutions in colonial America /." Thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01312009-063236/.
Full textSalmon, Élodie. "L'Académie des Sciences coloniales. Une histoire de la « République lointaine » au XXème siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL056.
Full textThis thesis proposes to study a “ certain vision“ of France through the History of the Académie des Sciences coloniales (ASC) now called the Académie des Sciences d’Outre-mer, since its formation in 1922 until the 1970’s. Contributing to the analysis of the “colonial sciences” and its connections with the centre of power, the research about this society of experts is a gateway towards several fields regarding the colonial thought and its developments.Generalist, multidisciplinary and created by some of very important personalities from the ancient “parti colonial”, the ASC is representative of the French colonial circles of the interwar period. The study of its composition allows us to outline a real “colonial class”, part of the French ruling class, fiercely sovereignist and promoting the “empire notion”. The thought which embodies these “coloniaux” combines closely the universalism of the French Republic messianism and the particularist relativism proper to the domination of “the Other”. Those two postulates are theoretically opposite. For a long time, the historiography has presented the fact that the colonisation by the French republic is contradictory to its original premise. The expression “République lointaine” (“Distant Republic”) which is both a geographic reality and a conceptual approach is forged to refute this false paradox. This work leads to an analysis of this thought evolution.The resilience and the adaptation of this Academy, which outlasts its fundamental purpose, becoming its “memorial repository”, deserve at least a specific attention. Through this research subject, we observe terminological, thematic and reticular conversions of the entire “colonial class”. Decolonization of words, introduction of the integrating themes of cooperation and francophonie, dilution of the former “colonial class” and its opening to the international networks, are indeed crucial to understand this transition
Westfield, Volma T. "Colonial and Post-Colonial educational policies in the Windward islands: St. Vincent and the Grenadines." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2012. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/304.
Full textUdoko, Nsikitima J. "Colonial capitalism and politics of underdevelopment in post-colonial Africa. the case of Nigeria, 1960-1990." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1993. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1495.
Full textBanerjee, Somaditya. "Bhadralok physics and the making of modern science in colonial India." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45405.
Full textEdmundson, Anna Margaret. "For science, salvage & state - official collecting in colonial New Guinea." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155795.
Full textClements, Helen Gail, and n/a. "Science and Colonial Culture: Scientific Interests and Institutions in Brisbane, 1859-1900." Griffith University. School of Humanities, 1999. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050914.155807.
Full textClements, Helen Gail. "Science and Colonial Culture: Scientific Interests and Institutions in Brisbane, 1859-1900." Thesis, Griffith University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366139.
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Lourdusamy, John. "Science and national consciousness : a study of the response to modern science in colonial Bengal, c. 1870-1930." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312948.
Full textMatsuzaki, Reo. "Institutions by imposition : colonial lessons for contemporary state-building." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68932.
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What explains variation in institution-building under foreign occupations? Why do some state-building missions produce effective and durable state institutions, while others leave a legacy of weak or dysfunctional ones? I explored these questions through a comparative study of the Japanese colonization of Taiwan (1895-1945) and the American colonization of the Philippines (1898-1941), which produced contrasting institutional legacies despite the presence of similar initial conditions. While a strong bureaucratic Taiwanese state arose in the aftermath of Japanese colonization, the legacy of the American occupation of the Philippines was a weak postcolonial state penetrated by parochial interests. I explain variation in institution-building outcomes through two causal variables: (i) the degree of discretionary power afforded to the occupational administration by the home government; and (ii) the ability of native elites to effectively resist the institution-building effort. Discretionary power allows reform agents to abandon any pre-formulated (and likely ill-conceived) plans, and instead flexibly integrate native laws, norms, and customs with their new institutional designs. Additionally, and contrary to conventional wisdom, more effective institutions emerge when native elites possess the willingness and capacity to resist (even violently) the institution-building effort of foreign agents. The reformist state-building agenda of occupiers is likely to be in direct opposition to the distributional interests of native elites, who seek to maintain their advantageous position within the existing order. It is, therefore, only under the threat of effective resistance that foreign agents will accommodate the interests of native elites to forge institutions with local ownership. The main empirical chapters of the dissertation draw on more than two years of original archival research in fourteen libraries and depositories across Japan, Taiwan, and the United States. In both cases, my analysis focused on the similarities and differences in the process through which education and police institutions were developed over time; these two areas were chosen due their importance for a country's political stability and socioeconomic development. The applicability of conclusions drawn from the historical cases to contemporary state-building missions was assessed through an examination of recent U.S. efforts at building a police institution in Afghanistan.
by Reo Matsuzaki.
Ph.D.
Ferro, David L. "Selling Science in the Colonial American Newspaper: How the Middle Colonial American General Periodical Represented Nature, Philosophy, Medicine, and Technology, 1728 - 1765." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27585.
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Griffore, Anne. "Beyond Diamonds: Embedding the Post-Colonial State in Botswana." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28660.
Full textLeichnitz, Jordan. "Understanding contemporary governmentality: Death, healing and colonial patriarchy in Canada." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28327.
Full textVenne, Janique. "L'Accord définitif Nisga'a: Un modèle d'autonomie gouvernementale post-colonial?" Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26408.
Full textFerreira, Jorge Filipe de Sousa Varanda Preces. ""A bem da nação" : medical science in a diamond company in twentieth-century colonial Angola." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446280/.
Full textRanjha, Wajid Ali. "Critical theory, modernity and the question of post-colonial identity." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phr197.pdf.
Full textHarbury, Katharine E. "Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty: Women's Spheres and Culinary Arts." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625865.
Full textGrout, Andrew. "Geology and India, 1770-1851 : a study in the methods and motivations of a colonial science." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283393.
Full textRose, James G. "British colonial policy and the transfer of power in British Guiana, 1945-1964." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1992. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/british-colonial-policy-and-the-transfer-of-power-in-british-guiana-19451964(34144bd1-72af-4cd8-bd1d-c497c40f95d2).html.
Full textKrishnan, Shekhar Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Empire's metropolis : money time & space in Colonial Bombay, 1870-1930." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86283.
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The thesis utilises newly available legal and municipal archives to study the historical geography of colonial Bombay through five interlocking themes and periods from 1870-1930. This spans the period between the boom and bust in the cotton trade during and after the American Civil War - when Bombay was a colonial mercantile port - to its emergence as of one of India and Asia's largest industrial cities after the First World War. Separate chapters explore the history of railway and telegraph networks, standardisation and time-keeping, land acquisition and valuation, cadastral surveying and property registration, and the urban built environment. From the perspective of the colonial city, the history of these formations looks less like the smooth unfolding of singular standards of money, time or space, than a protracted war of position fought out across a century by experts, elites and the masses. This thesis seeks to deepen the social and political history of urbanization in South Asia beyond concepts of colonial technology transfer or nationalist resistance by examining the everyday politics of stock and real estate speculation, public clocks, land and private property, maps and topographical surveys, and buildings and streets in colonial Bombay. These "modern" technologies of calculation, coordination and control in the urban environment both created and depended on new scales of power and capital accumulation, or particular configurations of industrial technologies, civic institutions and urban space.
by Shekhar Krishnan.
Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)
Oparah, Francis C. "The transportation system of post-colonial Nigeria: A strategy for development." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1994. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3234.
Full textEubanks, Elsie Irene. "Lead Poisoning from the Colonial Period to the Present." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626037.
Full textMustajab, M. S. H. "The impact of colonial rule in Johor : a case of social and political adjustment." Thesis, University of Kent, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356549.
Full textAhire, P. T. "Policing colonization : the emergence and role of the police in colonial Nigeria 1860-1960." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355517.
Full textObeng, Kwasi Kizito. "The long Jewel: assessing political solutions to the Nile river conflict by maneuvering around colonial." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2012. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/321.
Full textDewar, Fleur Simone. "Empowering Women? Family Planning and Development in Post-Colonial Fiji." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/943.
Full textMattes, Sarah. "Canary Red: Preserving Cochineal and Contrasting Colonial Histories on Lanzarote." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626784.
Full textPatten, Monika Drake. "A Fatal Enigma?: The Reception of Smallpox Inoculation in Colonial Massachusetts." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625629.
Full textEarnest, Jaya. "Science education reform in a post-colonial developing country in the aftermath of a crisis : the case of Rwanda." Thesis, Curtin University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2608.
Full textKumar, Prakash. "Facing Competition: The History of Indigo Experiments in Colonial India, 1897-1920." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004, 2004. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-08192004-180032/.
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Earnest, Jaya. "Science education reform in a post-colonial developing country in the aftermath of a crisis : the case of Rwanda." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2003. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=13802.
Full textTo enable an interpretation of the quantitative data from questionnaires in a meaningful manner, the socio-cultural, gender and ethnic perspectives of policy makers, teachers and students were examined through interviews and classroom observations of science lessons. My personal experiences and reflections also were used to understand science education reform in Rwanda.The qualitative and quantitative findings of the research identified factors that influence the science education reform process and make meaningful interpretations of background, culture and the situation in Rwanda. Document analysis indicated that there is a need for greater access to secondary education. Interviews and science lesson observations indicated that it is necessary to develop a curriculum that is contextually relevant and to redefine science teacher training programmes. The findings of the research identified the constraints, dilemmas and tensions in the implementation of the educational reform process as young and inexperienced teachers, most of whom do not have university degrees and have difficulties in implementing the curriculum effectively. Further constraints included work pressures due to the examination system, an acute, as well as a lack of material resources and finances required to reconstruct and improve educational institutions.The research investigates the impact of the transition on science education in Rwanda. The research designed to examine the science education reform process in the transitional Rwandan society and economy studied the complex cultural, historical and educational factors that influence science education.
Using multiple research methods, this study is an analysis of my understanding of the changes that have taken place in science education, the impediments to these changes and the identification of aspects that may enhance the prospect for future science education reform, especially in the areas of the science curriculum reform, assessment procedures and teacher professional development.
Earnest, Jaya. "Science education reform in a post-colonial developing country in the aftermath of a crisis : the case of Rwanda /." Full text available, 2002. http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20031201.133948.
Full textLönn, Gabriel. "Consociationalism in the post-colonial world : A comparative study of Fiji and Mauritius." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-431734.
Full textVaidya, Ashish Akhil. "Beyond Neopatrimonialism: A Normative and Empirical Inquiry into Legitimacy and Structural Violence in Post-Colonial India." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/347514.
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The purpose of this project is to demonstrate that the rational-legal bureaucratic institutions inherited by post-colonial states from their former colonial patrons have clashed with indigenous cultural norms, leading to legitimation failure. This lack of legitimacy, in turn, leads to political and bureaucratic corruption among the individuals tasked with embodying and enforcing the norms of these bureaucratic institutions. Instances of corruption such as bribery and solicitation of bribes, misappropriation of public funds, nepotistic hiring practices, and the general placement of personal gain over the rule of law on the part of officials weaken the state’s ability and willingness to enforce its laws, promote stability and economic growth, and ensure the welfare of its citizens. This corruption and its multidimensional detrimental effects on the lives of citizens are forms of what has been called structural violence. In this project, I examine four case studies of Indian subnational states that have experienced varying degrees and types of colonial bureaucratic imposition, resulting in divergent structurally violent outcomes. Deeming these systems “violent” has normative implications regarding responsibility for the problems of the post-colonial world. Corruption is often cited as a reason not to give loans or aid to certain developing countries; but viewing the matter in terms of structural violence highlights the need for not only economic assistance but also institutional overhaul.
Temple University--Theses
Bhattacharyya, Anouska. "Indian Insanes: Lunacy in the 'Native' Asylums of Colonial India, 1858-1912." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11204.
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Esterhuyse, Harrie Willie. "A comparative study of governance and state development in post-colonial Botswana and Zaire/ DRC." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20182.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this research was to explore the interaction between governance and development in post-colonial Africa. The departure point of the thesis was the understanding that the state remains a pre-eminent actor in the international system. Keeping this assumption in mind, the study made use of a comparative analysis; comparing governance and development in Botswana with governance and development in Zaire/the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), focusing on the post-colonial era. The importance of this research lies in its contribution to the debate on the role of the state in post-colonial Africa. It explores the influence of institution formation and policy implementation by governments (in other words, governance) on development. Understanding the effect of governance on development can have invaluable lessons for other African states in their efforts to develop further. The research question, which guided the thesis thus, was: in the era of the pre-eminence of the state, making use of a comparison between Botswana and Zaire/DRC, what is the influence and effect, of state institution formation and policy implementation (governance) by governments, on state development in terms of economical-, political- and social development? The two main variables were governance and development. Development was sub-divided into three indicators: political, economic and social development. Governance was evaluated in terms of being seen as poor or good governance, as per the World Bank’s definition and understanding of governance. Zaire/DRC, as an example of a failed state, was analysed first, followed by Botswana, selected for its arguably “best practice” experience. For each country the analysis was subdivided into three phases as per the theoretical framework of Chazan, Lewis, Mortimer, Rothchild, and Stedman’s book, Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa (1999). Their book describes three stages of change in African state development in the post-colonial era (Chazan-framework). This framework uses the Chazan-framework and thus subdivides the post-colonial era into: the concentration (centralisation) phase, the elaboration phase, and finally the reconsideration of state power phase. The research found that Zaire/DRC followed a process of state collapse in the post-colonial era, whereas in sharp contrast Botswana experienced positive state development. Since independence Zaire continuously practised poor governance whilst Botswana largely practiced good governance. This was true in all three phases of the Chazan-framework. At the same time, or perhaps due to poor governance, Zaire continuously experienced negative development in all three development categories whilst Botswana continuously experienced positive development in all three development categories, again perhaps due to good governance. The research concludes that even though Botswana is not necessarily an example of a perfect state, it is special in an African context, because of its good governance record. This study does not draw direct relationships between good governance and development, but finds that Botswana probably benefited greatly in development due to the implementation of good institutions, good government policies and general good governance. The research also found that states benefit when their governments practice and adopt policies that are anti-corruption, pro-democracy, pro-competition, pro public-private partnerships, and pro market-orientated economics. In addition, the following are also conducive to good governance: leadership with integrity, peaceful and regular leadership changes, clear distinction between government (party) and the state, and empowered government oversight institutions that act, even against the government itself when needed. The practice of good governance is thus shown to be supportive of long-term development.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie navorsing was om die interaksie tussen regering en ontwikkeling in post-koloniale Afrika te ondersoek. Die tesis gaan uit vanuit die oogpunt dat die staat steeds ‘n dominante akteur in die internasionale stelsel is. Die studie het gebruik gemaak van ‘n vergelykende ontleding. Regeringstyl en ontwikkeling in post-koloniale Afrika is met mekaar vergelyk. Die vergelyking is getrek tussen Botswana en Zaïre/Demokratiese Republiek van die Kongo (DRK). Die belangrikheid van die navorsing lê in die bydrae tot die debat oor die rol van die staat in Afrika in die post-koloniale era. Dit bekyk die belangrikheid van instellingskepping en beleids-implementering (met ander woorde, regeerstyl of regering) deur regerings in terme van invloed op die ontwikkeling van state in Afrika. Beter begrip van hierdie verhouding kan waardevolle lesse bevat vir ander Afrikastate in hul pogings om verder te ontwikkel. Die navorsingsvraag wat die tesis gelei het was dus: in die era van die voorrang van die staat, en deur gebruikmaking van ‘n vergelykende studie tussen Botswana en Zaïre/DRK, wat is die invloed en effek van staatsinstelling-vorming en van beleids-implementering (regering) deur regerings, op staatsontwikkeling in terme van ekonomiese-, politieke- en sosiale ontwikkeling? In hierdie studie was regering en ontwikkeling die twee belangrikste veranderlikes gewees. Ontwikkeling is onderverdeel in drie aanwysers: politieke, ekonomiese en maatskaplike ontwikkeling. Regering is geëvalueer in terme van wat gesien word as swak of goeie regering, volgens die Wêreldbank se definisie en begrip van goeie regering. Zaïre/DRK is eerste as ‘n voorbeeld van 'n mislukte staat ontleed, gevolg deur Botswana, gekies vir sy veronderstelde "beste praktyk"-ervaring. Die analise vir elk van hierdie lande is onderverdeel in drie fases, soos gebaseer op die teoretiese raamwerk van Chazan, Lewis, Mortimer, Rothchild, en Stedman in, Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa (1999) (die Chazan-raamwerk). Hierdie raamwerk onderverdeel die post-koloniale era in: die konsentrasiefase (sentraliseringsfase), die uitbreidingsfase en uiteindelik die fase van die heroorweging van staatsmag. Die navorsing bevind dat Zaïre 'n proses van ineenstorting van die staat in die post-koloniale era ervaar het, terwyl Botswana in skrille kontras positiewe staatsontwikkeling ervaar het. Hierdie tendens was aanwesig in al drie fases van die Chazan-raamwerk. Sedert onafhanklikheid het Botswana ook goeie regering toegepas terwyl Zaïre/DRK meestal swak regering toegepas het. Terselfdertyd, dalk ook weens swak regering, het Zaïre/DRK voortdurend negatiewe ontwikkeling ervaar in al drie van die ontwikkelings kategorieë, terwyl Botswana voortdurend, moontlik te danke goeie regering, positiewe ontwikkeling in al drie die ontwikkelingskategorieë ervaar het. Die navorsing kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat, selfs al is Botswana nie noodwendig ‘n voorbeeld van 'n perfekte staat nie, dit steeds weens ‘n goeie regeringstradisie, uniek is in Afrika-konteks. Alhoewel hierdie studie nie 'n direkte verhouding tussen goeie regering en ontwikkeling probeer bevestig het nie, bevind dit wel dat Botswana moontlik in terme van ontwikkeling, weens die implementering van goeie instellings, goeie regeringsbeleid en algemene goeie regering, baie voordeel getrek het. Die navorsing bevind ook dat state voordeel trek wanneer hul regerings beleid aanvaar en toepas wat teen korrupsie is, maar wat demokratiese ideale, markkompetisie, openbare-private vennootskappe en markgeoriënteerde ekonomiese aktiwiteite bevorder. Goeie regering word ook bevorder deur leierskap met integriteit, vreedsame en gereelde verandering van leierskap, duidelike onderskeid tussen die regering (party) en die staat, sowel as nie-regeringsinstellings met die mag om as oorsigliggame oor die regering te funksioneer. Die praktyk van goeie regering blyk dus langtermyn staatsontwikkeling te bevoordeel en te ondersteun.
Few, Martha Blair 1964. "Mujeres de mal vivir: Gender, religion, and the politics of power in colonial Guatemala, 1650-1750." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282504.
Full textCianciarulo, Adriana Quilici Barreto. "Materiais usados como pigmento no período colonial brasileiro." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13300.
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Based on the history of science, this research aimed to discover the materials used as pigment and the specificities of colonial Brazilian artistic production through literature related to decorative arts of the period. To achieve some of those materials we‟ve referred the treatises on painting of the italians Cennino Cennini‟s Trattato della Pittura (c. 1398) and Giorgio Vasari‟s Le Vite de più eccelenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani, da Cimabue, insino a tempi nostril (1550); of the portugueses Filipe Nunes‟s Arte da Pintura, Symetria e Perspectiva (1615); as well as the dictionary of terms of Rafael Bluteau‟s Vocabulario Portuguez e Latino (1712) and the text Segredos necessarios para os officios, artes e manufacturas, e para muitos objectos sobre a economia domestica (1794). We also observed artistic knowledge present in some of the books published by the Casa Literária do Arco do Cego and partner publishers (1799 to 1801). Several elements to the composition of this research came from contemporary studies in the areas of architecture and conservation restoration related to Jesuit constructions of art and colonial painting and scientific analyses of these materials
Com base na História da Ciência, esta pesquisa buscou conhecer os materiais usados como pigmento e as especificidades da produção artística colonial brasileira a partir da literatura referente às artes decorativas do período. Para conhecer um pouco sobre esses materiais, percorremos os tratados de pintura dos italianos Cenino Cennini, Trattato della pittura (c.1398), e Giorgio Vasari, Vida dos artistas (1550); dos portugueses Felipe Nunes, Arte da pintura, symetria e perspectiva (1615); assim como o dicionário de termos de Rafael Bluteau, Vocabulario portuguez e latino... (1712), e o texto Segredos necessarios para os officios, artes e manufacturas, e para muitos objetos sobre a economia doméstica (1794). Recorremos também aos conhecimentos artísticos presentes em alguns dos livros publicados pela Casa Literária do Arco do Cego e por editoras parceiras (1799 a 1801). Diversos elementos para a composição desta pesquisa vieram ainda dos estudos contemporâneos das áreas de arquitetura e conservação e restauração relacionados às construções jesuíticas, à arte e à pintura colonial e às análises científicas desses materiais
Walters, Mark D. "The continuity of Aboriginal customs and government under British imperial constitutional law as applied in colonial Canada, 1760-1860." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b0c0d802-5a51-44d8-a916-aa4ce08de680.
Full textRazakamaharavo, Velomahanina Tahinjanahary. "Unveiling the puzzle of conflict recurrence through the prism of conflict transformation : Madagascar, from the colonial period to 2016." Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/69072/.
Full textCatsis, Nicolaos Dimitrios. "Examining the Impact of Colonial Administrations on Post-Independence State Behavior in Southeast Asia." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/257213.
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This project is concerned with examining the impact of colonial administrations on post-independence state behavior in Southeast Asia. Despite a similar historical context, the region exhibits broad variation in terms of policy preferences after independence. Past literature has focused, largely, upon pre-colonial or independence era factors. This project, however, proposes that state behavior is heavily determined by a combination of three colonial variables: indigenous elite mobility, colonial income diversity, and institutional-infrastructure levels. It also constructs a four-category typology for the purposes of ordering the broad variation we see across post-colonial Southeast Asia. Utilizing heavy archival research and historical analysis, I examine three case studies in the region, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, that share a common colonial heritage yet exhibit markedly different post-independence preferences. Vietnam's colonial legacy is characterized by high indigenous elite mobility, medium colonial income diversity, and medium-high levels of institutional-infrastructure. This creates a state where the local elites are capable and socially mobile, but lack the fully developed skill sets, institutions and infrastructure we see in a Developmental state such as South Korea or Taiwan. As a result, Vietnam is a Power-Projection state, where elites pursue security oriented projects as a means of compensating for inequalities between their own social mobility and acquired skills, institutions and infrastructure. In Cambodia, indigenous elite mobility and colonial income diversity are both low, creating an entrenched, less experienced elite. Medium levels of institutional-infrastructure enables the elite to extract wealth for class benefit. As a result, the state becomes an instrument for elite enrichment and is thus classified as Self-Enrichment state. Laos' colonial history is characterized by low levels of indigenous elite mobility, colonial income diversity, and institutional-infrastructure levels. Laos' elite are deeply entrenched, like their counterparts in Cambodia. However, unlike Cambodia, Laos lacks sufficient institutional-infrastructure levels to make wealth extraction worthwhile for an elite class. Laos' inability to execute an internal policy course, or even enrich narrow social class, categorize it as a Null state. The theory and typology presented in this project have broad applications to Southeast Asia and the post-colonial world more generally. It suggests that the colonial period, counter to more recent literature, has a much greater impact on states after independence. As most of the world is a post-colonial state, understanding the mechanisms for preferences in these states is very important.
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Jones, Cassandra L. "FutureBodies: Octavia Butler as a Post-Colonial Cyborg Theorist." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368927282.
Full textJourdain, de Alencastro Mathias. "Diamond politics in the Angolan periphery : colonial and postcolonial Lunda 1917-2002." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:85a838a6-8a33-471e-a563-c29d18264fbc.
Full textStephens, Kelsey Renee. "Colonial History, Modernization and Terrorism: The Effect of Colonialism and Modernization on Transnational Ethnoseparatist Terrorism, 1968-2002." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275063261.
Full textRugege, Samuel. "Chieftaincy and society in Lesotho : a study in the political economy of the Basotho chieftaincy from pre-colonial times to the present." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332935.
Full textGouaux, Mireille. "Recherches sur l'imaginaire : marxisme et psychanalyse. l'imaginaire colonial; l'imaginaire de la science chez jules verne et elsa triolet; un imaginaire romanesque : colette." Paris 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA030159.
Full textMarxism and psychoanalysis, at the end of the xixth and the beginning of the xxth century, made a similar attempt at defining the relationship of imagination and art, with social history as well as with psychic activity. Marxism has been developing, after marx, and thanks to lukacs, but mainly brecht, aragon, triolet, and bakhtine, a tendency to consider imaginary productions as well as art, as determined by reality, but as achieving a specific metamorphosis upon it, which renders their achievements irreductible to to it. Psychoanalysis, for its part, accounts for imagination, after freud, mainly thanks to anton ehrenzweig, and lacan, as tr formation produced upon primary impulses, rendering them altogether different; both agree in recognizing in imagination and art a specific aptitude at producing "human nature", and both seem, if used in a complementary way, to allow a satisfactory appreciation of aesthetic facts. Inspired by both epistemologie, this thesis intends to elaborate some answers to the general questions concerning the relationship of imagination and art with history and psychic activity, and formulate a method in literary criticism. It contains two parts, the first of which is dedicated to the theoritical approach, and the second to samples of the proposed method. This part deals successively with colonial imagination in the french and english novels between 1870 and 1914, with science as a literary theme in the novels by jules verne and elsa triolet, and finally with the imaginati ve power developed by colette
Monnier, Jehanne-Emmanuelle. "Du voyageur naturaliste à l'explorateur scientifique colonial. Itinéraires et stratégies d'Alfred Grandidier (1836-1921)." Thesis, La Réunion, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LARE0015/document.
Full textOur aim is to study the evolution of scientific exploration in France during the 19th century, dealing with the history of sciences, colonial history and cultural history. Alfred Grandidier's path is characteristic of a transitionnal period in wich former scientific tradition of Enlightenment is still tangible while principles of colonial science of the 1930's are already emerging. Alfred Grandidier's scientific itinerary is also interesting in itself. Our puprose is to analyse the building process of the scientific career and the personnal undergoing of Alfred Grandidier, from his training during chilhood to his intellectual legacy. This thesis insists on material aspects and everyday life on exploration, bearing in mind involvement of the scientist in various networks including the construction of his own image
Aubrey, Lisa Marie. "The transition from colonial systems of education to national systems of education in Kenya and Tanzania: implications for alleviating ethnic group inequalities a comparative analysis." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1372076386.
Full textHolmberg, Megan Elizabeth. "Anomalous Apparitions of Light in Colonial America: Visions of Comets, New Stars, the Aurora Borealis, and Rainbows." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/590919.
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This dissertation examines the body of literature that formed around anomalous light apparitions (comets, new stars, the aurora borealis, and rainbows) as it explores questions about the representation and response to celestial and meteorological phenomena during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in colonial America. I further consider the ways that these texts’ meanings are informed by rational scientific thought and by other non-scientific or non-rational, emotive, or aesthetic modes of thinking. I consider how these phenomena elicit a set of empirical yet emotionally-charged observational practices that complicate how we understand the roles of the rational and the non-rational in the scientific literature of this period. I argue that non-rational passionate investments are evident within or as part of the period’s rational scientific literature; they act as the impetus for scientific inquiry therefore forming an integral part of the scientific endeavor. This dissertation further explores how the practice of writing about these phenomena generates and facilitates the formation of communities of amateur scientific observers in colonial America. I further investigate how practices of data collection contribute to knowledge about the regular and irregular behaviors of celestial bodies, and how this knowledge impacts everyday practices essential for survival such as farming and travelling. What science writing from this period demonstrates is the ability for multiple ways of thinking to be in play simultaneously; these texts show how several worldviews (i.e. science, Puritanism, popular religion) are intrinsic to each other. Because of their liminality, these texts function outside of traditional categories such science, religion, and natural philosophy. Furthermore, they destabilize traditional conceptions of genre with their blend of rational and non-rational modes of thought and their incorporation of fact and fiction. While I treat these literary texts within their historical contexts, I am also interested in the ways in which these texts reach modern audiences, particularly in academia at a time when the humanities and sciences are positioned against one another.
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