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Osborne, Thomas W. (Thomas William). "The Gleichschaltung of the Germandom organizations : 1933-1939." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23731.

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This thesis examines and assesses the Gleichschaltung of the Germandom organizations from 1933 to 1939. The first chapter outlines the Peace Treaties of Versailles, Trianon and St. Germain and their effect upon the increased German minority in Europe. This body of Germans in countries outside Germany, Austria and Switzerland are referred to as the Volksdeutsche. The policies of the Weimar Government towards the German minorities in Europe are then examined. The second chapter outlines the minority policy of the National Socialist Party and various prominent National Socialist leaders. Chapter three outlines the major non-National Socialist and National Socialist Germandom organizations. Particular emphasis is given to the Verein fur Deutschtum im Ausland or the VDA, the Volksdeutscher Rat or the VR, Auslandsorganisation der NSDAP or AO, the Buro Kursell and the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle or VoMi. Chapters four through six deal with the events that lead to the Gleichschaltung of the Germandom organizations. Although the non-National Socialist Germandom organizations maintained a degree of independence from Nazi influence from 1933 until 2 July 1938, there was never any doubt that eventually the National Socialist Germandom organizations would gain ascendancy over them. In late 1936, the National Socialist Germandom organizations began to achieve lasting power and influence. By 1938, the non-National Socialist Germandom organizations were virtually impotent. The Gleichschaltung of the Germandom organizations, therefore, mirrors the Gleichschaltung that occurred on all levels of society in Germany following Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
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Marwick, Sandra M. "'Sons of Crispin' : the St Crispin societies of Edinburgh and Scotland." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4195.

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City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries hold a substantial collection of artefacts and record books donated in 1909 by the office bearers of the Royal Ancient Order of St Crispin. This organisation was the final reincarnation of the Royal St Crispin Society established around 1817. From 1932 the display of a selection of these objects erroneously attributed their provenance to the Incorporation of Cordiners of Canongate with no interpretation of the meaning and use of this regalia. The association of shoemakers (cordiners in Scotland) with St Crispin their patron saint remained such that at least until the early twentieth century a shoemaker was popularly called a ‘Crispin' and collectively ‘sons of Crispin'. In medieval Scotland cordiners maintained altars to St Crispin and his brother St Crispianus and their cult can be traced to France in the sixth century. In the late sixteenth century an English rewriting of the legend achieved immediate popularity and St Crispin's Day continued to be remembered in England throughout the seventeenth century. Journeymen shoemakers in Scotland in the early eighteenth century commemorated their patron with processions; and the appellation ‘St Crispin Society' appeared in 1763. This thesis investigates the longevity of the shoemakers' attachment to St Crispin prior to the nineteenth century and analyses the origin, creation, organisation, development and demise of the Royal St Crispin Society and the network of lodges it created in Scotland in the period 1817-1909. Although showing the influence of freemasonry, the Royal St Crispin Society devised and practised rituals based on shoemaking legends and traditions. An interpretation of these rituals is given as well as an examination of the celebration of the saint's day and the organisation and significance of King Crispin processions. The interconnection of St Crispin artefacts and archival material held by Scottish museums and archives is demonstrated throughout the thesis.
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Weiss, Lauren Jenifer. "The literary clubs and societies of Glasgow during the long nineteenth century : a city's history of reading through its communal reading practices and productions." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26616.

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This thesis uses the minute books and manuscript magazines of Glasgow’s literary societies as evidence for my argument that the history of mutual improvement groups—including literary societies—needs to be re-written as a unique movement of ‘improvement’ during the long nineteenth century. In foregrounding the surviving records, I examine what it meant to be literary to society members in Glasgow during this period. I discuss what their motivations were for becoming so, and reflect on the impact that gender, occupation and social class had on these. I demonstrate that these groups contributed to the education and literacy of people living in the city and to a larger culture of ‘improvement’. Further, I argue that there is a case to be made for a particularly Scottish way of consuming texts in the long nineteenth century. In Glasgow, there were at least 193 literary societies during this period, which I divide into four phases of development. I provide an in-depth examination of two societies which serve as case studies. In addition, I give an overview and comparison of the 652 issues of Scottish and English society magazines I discovered in the context of a larger, ‘improving’ culture. I offer possible reasons why so many literary societies produced manuscript magazines, and show that this phenomenon was not unique to them. These magazines fostered a communal identity formed around a combination of religion, class, gender and local identity. I determine that societies in England produced similar types of magazines to those in Scotland possibly based upon the Scottish precedent. These materials substantially contribute to the evidence for nineteenth-century mutual improvement societies and their magazines, and for working- and lower-middle class Scottish readers and writers during the long nineteenth century, social groups that are under-represented in the history of reading and in Victorian studies.
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Go, Kin-ming Joseph, and 吳建明. "Nostalgic musicians in North Point: a survey of Fujian Nanyin activities in Fujian Tiyuhui, from 1957 to thepresent." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227351.

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James, Kevin 1973. "The Saint Patrick's Society of Montreal : ethno-religious realignment in a nineteenth-century national society." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=27944.

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This study explores the effects of ethno-religious tensions on the dynamics of fraternalism in nineteenth-century Montreal. With the Irish "national society" as its focus, it relates the internal politics of the Saint Patrick's Society of Montreal to broader narratives of the cultural, intellectual and institutional evolution of civil society in Lower Canada. Beginning with an overview of sources and a discussion of early Irish migration, it proceeds to explore the effects of emerging social and political patterns and ethno-religious identities on a middle-class fraternal project from the early nineteenth-century to the dissolution of the Saint Patrick's Society in 1856.
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Holmes, David. "Crowned in shamrocks erin't Broad Acres : the emergence of the Irish Catholic community in Yorkshire, and the evolution of the West Riding's forgotten Irish rugby clubs, 1860-c 1920." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2010. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/9080/.

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This thesis examines the emergence of the Irish Catholic diaspora in the industrial diocese of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and the evolution of the West Riding's forgotten Irish rugby clubs, 1860-c 1920. In addition to considering the contributions of Irish immigrants in the history of rugby football this thesis explores their religious, nationalist, social and cultural experiences, set within the wider history of Irish immigration in England. The history and establishment of parochial and non-parochial Irish Catholic rugby clubs in the West Riding can be traced back to the 1870s. Diasporic Irish Catholics settled in the county have always been part of rugby football since it's inception, albeit, at a much slower and punctuated rate than that observed among English Protestant communities. The foremost aim of this thesis is to scrutinise the rugby antecedents of Irish Catholics domiciled in the manufacturing centres of the West Riding during the Victorian and early Edwardian periods. In the late nineteenth century, towns and cities across the West Riding had become the great citadels of rugby football. Rugby attracted much participation, giving rise to the Catholic Church establishing its own internalised parochial rugby clubs, which were intended to improve the spiritual and physical well-being of its poor Irish adherents. This thesis, moreover, examines the establishment of non-parochial Irish rugby clubs which acted as sporting auxiliaries to Irish nationalist clubs. Finally, this thesis investigates those opportunities which allowed some working-class Irish Catholics to participate in games of rugby league outside of their own ethno-religious clubs for some of the county's senior professional rugby clubs. Since the main objective of Irish nationalist organisations was to offer financial support and political muscle to the Irish Parliamentary Party, this thesis will argue that the establishment of non-parochial nationalist Irish rugby clubs initially centred on the sport's by products, "gate-money".
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Loicq, Aline. "Aux origines de la discipline littéraire: le sens de la communauté. une histoire des Bonnes Lettres 1450-1545." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211648.

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Wahlstrom, Christine M. "Vereinsleben in Indianapolis : the social culture of the liberal German-American population as reflected in the design of community buildings, 1851-1918." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1136710.

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Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, a thriving German immigrant community could be found in the city of Indianapolis. The more liberal members of the German community established organizations which catered to their athletic, intellectual, and social needs. This community life was called Vereinsleben, from the German words for club/association (Verein) and life (Leben). Fitting homes were needed for the clubs. Thus, several structures central to the Vereinsleben of the liberal German community were constructed. The buildings were built to be recognized as the homes of these clubs and to provide all the necessary facilities. This thesis examines the history of the community as well as the individual clubs and uses the buildings as documents in that process.
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Kleber, Michaela Y. "Gendered Societies, Sexual Empires: French Colonization Among The Illinois." W&M ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593091816.

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This dissertation reconstructs the gender and sexuality structures of Indigenous Illinois society in order to explain how these structures, including the Illinois recognition of four genders, guided French colonization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I argue that while the Illinois has considerable military, economic, and diplomatic power throughout their relationship with the French, French colonists established a stable foothold in Illinois by mobilizing their knowledge of Illinois gender and sexuality. At the same time, the Illinois drew on French and Native gender practices to contain French expansion and behavior. From this understanding of Illinois gender structures, it becomes clear that the Illinois-French relationship was not that of a parent to a child, as the French then cast it, but rather a marriage. As such, this dissertation plots French colonization in terms of Native marriage, which recognizes both that the French were a colonizing force and that the Illinois had considerable power throughout the encounters.
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Yohn, Elizabeth K. "The Use of History in Migrating: Cases from the Haitian Diaspora." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626725.

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Siddiqui, Shariq Ahmed. "Navigating Identity through Philanthropy: A History of the Islamic Society of North America (1979 - 2008)." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3665939.

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This dissertation analyzes the development of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim-American religious association, from the Iranian Revolution to the inauguration of our nation's first African-American president. This case study of ISNA, the largest Muslim-American organization in North America, examines the organization's institution-building and governance as a way to illustrate Muslim-American civic and religious participation. Using nonprofit research and theory related to issues of diversity, legitimacy, power, and nonprofit governance and management, I challenge misconceptions about ISNA and dispel a number of myths about Muslim Americans and their institutions. In addition, I investigate the experiences of Muslim-Americans as they attempted to translate faith into practice within the framework of the American religious and civic experience. I arrive at three main conclusions. First, because of their incredible diversity, Muslim-Americans are largely cultural pluralists. They draw from each other and our national culture to develop their religious identity and values. Second, a nonprofit association that embraces the values of a liberal democracy by establishing itself as an open organization will include members that may damage the organization's reputation. I argue that ISNA's values should be assessed in light of its programs and actions rather than the views of a small portion of its membership. Reviewing the organization's actions and programs helps us discover a religious association that is centered on American civic and religious values. Third, ISNA's leaders were unable to balance their desire for an open, consensus-based organization with a strong nonprofit management power structure. Effective nonprofit associations need their boards, volunteers and staff to have well-defined roles and authority. ISNA's leaders failed to adopt such a management and governance structure because of their suspicion of an empowered chief executive officer.

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Baxter, Christina E. "The Wolf Attacks: A History of the Russo-Chechen Conflict." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2460.

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In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Chechens fought against the Russians for independence. The focus in the literature available has been on the wars and the atrocities caused by the wars. The literature then hypothesizes that the insurgency of today is just a continuation of the past. They do not focus on a major event in Chechen history: the Soviet liquidation of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1944. It is this author’s assertion that the liquidation of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR forever changed the mindset of the people because it fractured a society that was once unified. This project will compare the Chechen insurgency from the beginnings until the deportation and after the deportation. This will allow me to show how the deportation changed the Chechen mindset and disprove the assertion that these two Chechen wars were just a continuation of the past.
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Morrison, Shannon M. "Navigating Secret Societies: Black Women in the Commercial Airline Industry." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587030922882857.

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Woods, Holly Irene. "Amazons of the Ancient World: Women in Greek and Roman Societies as Seen in the Amazon Myth." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1716.

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The myth of the Amazons began in Ancient Greece. Renditions of the myth were found in art and literature of the Greeks and Romans in the ancient world. The image of the Amazons changed with the culture and ideology that discussed them. The Amazon myth reflected Greek and Roman views of women. Through looking closely at the three stages of the myth of the Amazons one can determine the myth strengthens the image of women that was held by men of the ancient world. The Amazons were connected with the heroes Heracles, Theseus, and Alexander the Great. Individual Amazons such as Antiope, Penthesilea, and Camilla were also dominant in the mythology of the Amazons. By completing a literary analysis of the myths of the Amazons beginning in the eighth century B.C. and through the fourth century A.D. one is able to see what was expected and deemed acceptable of women.
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Costa, Luis Miguel. "Patronage and bribery in sixteenth-century Peru : the government of Viceroy Conde del Villar and the visita of licentiate Alonso Fernández de Bonilla." FIU Digital Commons, 2005. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2646.

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This dissertation deals with the nature of the political system in sixteenth- century colonial Spanish America through an analysis of the administration of Viceroy Fernando de Torres y Portugal, Conde del Villar, in Peru (1585-1590). The political conflicts surrounding his government and the accusations of bribery leveled against him and members of his household provide the documentation for a case study in a system in which prestige and authority were defined through a complex network of patronage and personal relationships with the Spanish monarch, the ultimate source of legitimate power. This dissertation is conceptualized using categories presented in Max Weber’s theory on the nature of political order and authority in the history of human societies and the definition of the patrimonial system as one in which the power of he king confers legitimacy and authority on the whole political structure. The documentary base for this dissertation is an exceptionally detailed and complete record related to the official administrative review (visita) ordered by Philip II in 1588 to assess the government of Viceroy Torres y Portugal. Additionally, letters as well as other primary and secondary sources are scattered in repositories on both sides of the Atlantic. The study of this particular case offers an excellent opportunity to gain an understanding o f a political order in which jurisdictional boundaries between institutions and authorities were not clearly defined. The legal system operating in the viceroyalty was subordinated to the personal decisions of the king, and order and equilibrium were maintained through the interaction of patronage networks that were reproduced at all levels of the colonial society. The final charges against Viceroy Conde del Villar, as well as their impact on the political career of those involved in the accusations, reveal that situations today understood to constitute bribery had a different meaning in the context o f a patrimonial order.
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Thomas, Jeffrey Scott. "The Political Imaginings of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts of the 1710 Slave Conspiracy in Martinique." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626661.

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Vlasity, Sarah Marie. "Networks in Favor of Liberty: St Eustatius as an Entrepôt of Goods and Information during the American Revolution." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626806.

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Stiles, Carol. "Vineyard: A Jamaican Cattle Pen, 1750-1751." W&M ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625316.

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Kowalski, Amy B. "Breadnut Island Pen: Thomas Thistlewood's Jamaican Provisioning Estate, 1767-1768." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625697.

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Devlin, Sean Edward. "Education, Literacy and Ink Pots: Contested Identities in Post-Emancipation Barbados." W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626552.

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Schmitt, Casey Sylvia. "Virtue in Corruption: Privateers, Smugglers, and the Shape of Empire in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626724.

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Bennett, Lynch D. "Surreptitious Spaces: Cabarets and the French Contest for Empire in Martinique, 1680-1720." W&M ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626762.

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Romeu, Maria Gabriela. "The Japanese History Textbook Controversy Amid Post-War Sino-Japanese Relations." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/849.

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The relations between China and Japan are strained and continue to foster negative emotions partly because of China’s grievances about Japan’s actions during World War II and the allegedly false historiographical accounts found in Japanese history textbooks. This study will utilize historical analysis of the events leading up to the Nanjing Massacre in December of 1937, examine the Japanese Ministry of Education’s (MEXT) critical and contentious role in the selection of textbooks, used for primary and secondary schools, and will also juxtapose the controversial 2001 Atarashii rekishi kyōkasho with current Japanese history textbooks. The study will also include a syntactical analysis of key terms through my own original translations of multiple Japanese history textbooks, which are currently used in the Japanese school curriculum, to reveal that the textbook publishers, MEXT, and regulation councils are involved in adjusting the content causing the information to reveal various degrees of whitewashing.
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Molle, Magali. "Approche ethnologique et ethnomusicologique de l'univers des bandas." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210433.

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Notre recherche concerne les bandas, associations composées de musiciens amateurs interprétant un répertoire musical aux sonorités principalement hispaniques et basques.

Les premières sont apparues dans le sud-ouest de la France dans les années soixante, suite à l’engouement de musiciens français pour les formations musicales qui accompagnaient les fêtes espagnoles, notamment celles de San Fermin à Pampelune.

Les musiciens du Sud-Ouest ont reproduit le modèle qu'ils avaient observé, certains l'ont fait dans les détails, d'autres ont aménagé le modèle en fonction des habitudes de leur localité.

Par la suite, des bandas sont apparues dans d'autres régions de France et même en Belgique.

Des éléments ont favorisé cette diffusion :la présence de sociétés musicales dans les communes qui ont adopté la pratique musicale des bandas, l’existence de relations de jumelage entre communes dont l’une est le siège d’une banda, la présence de liens historiques entre communes, le contexte global de perte de succès des fanfares et harmonies locales.

Notre recherche nous a amenée à observer plusieurs phénomènes :une certaine hispanisation du Sud-Ouest de la France à travers l’apparition des bandas, une diffusion de cette pratique musicale et festive en France et en Belgique souvent accompagnée de mouvements de (re)constructions identitaires, de revendications d’authenticité et de conflits de légitimité.

A notre connaissance, notre thèse est la première recherche analysant l’univers des bandas sur un espace géographique aussi étendu. Celle-ci est en outre la première étude concernant la propagation de cette pratique.

De plus, cette recherche aborde les bandas de différents points de vue, à travers leur histoire, leurs participations aux fêtes, leurs rôles dans les fêtes, dans les corridas, les courses landaises et les ferias, la volonté pour les bandas situées en dehors du Sud-Ouest de créer des fêtes qui leur correspondent dans ces régions où il n’existe pas de lieux festifs qui leur soient spécifiques.

D’un point de vue musical, nous abordons la problématique du répertoire des bandas, les conflits au sujet de leur modification, de leur modernisation, de leur authenticité, de leur « tradionalité ». Nous analysons également les situations d’apprentissage musical que les bandas produisent, que ce soit de manière informelle ou que ce soit organisé en écoles de musique.

A travers notre recherche, nous espérons ainsi construire une mémoire de ces formations musicales, un éclairage sur cette pratique, son origine, sa propagation, son appropriation et les moyens de réinvention mis en œuvre par les musiciens pour la rendre cohérente avec leur localité. Cette logique de réinvention provoque de nombreux conflits internes entre bandas conservatrices et bandas modernistes et c’est dans ces discours revendicateurs que l’on perçoit l’importance que chaque banda tient dans la vie des musiciens.


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Merritt, Brittany J. "Developing Little England: Public Health, Popular Protest, and Colonial Policy in Barbados, 1918-1940." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6117.

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This dissertation analyzes struggles over the development of Barbadian health and sanitation during the period between the world wars. In doing so, it examines how the British Empire tried to use development policies to maintain its power overseas during the interwar years. During this period, British policymakers sought to improve health and sanitation to pacify restive Barbadian laborers influenced by transnational pan-African and socialist ideas following the First World War. However, white Barbadian elites, influenced by ideas of eugenics and population control, opposed metropolitan efforts to develop health and sanitation in the colony. Rather than repairing the colonial relationship, British development efforts instead resulted in a protracted legislative and public battle over health reform. White creole resistance to public health policies both destabilized British reform efforts and further undermined black Barbadian understandings of imperial identity. By the 1930s, Pan-African critiques of empire, which the British government had fought to suppress following the First World War, found renewed energy in the midst of British failures to provide basic welfare services to poor black subjects. The fractures in these bonds of empire ultimately resulted in serious labor disturbances that re-emphasized the tensions of British colonialism and redirected the course of imperial policy. By focusing on these conflicts, this project reveals how struggles over colonial reforms on the ground transformed ideas of emerging nationhood, imperial identities, and British strategies of rule in the years leading up to decolonization.
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Turner, Grace S. "An Allegory for Life: An 18th century African-influenced cemetery landscape, Nassau, Bahamas." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623360.

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I use W.E.B. Du Bois' reference to the worlds 'within and without the veil' as the narrative setting for presenting the case of an African-Bahamian urban cemetery in use from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. I argue that people of African descent lived what Du Bois termed a 'double consciousness.' Thus, the ways in which they shaped and changed this cemetery landscape reflect the complexities of their lives. Since the material expressions of this cemetery landscape represent the cultural perspectives of the affiliated communities so changes in its maintenance constitute archaeologically visible evidence of this process. Evidence in this study includes analysis of human remains; the cultural preference for cemetery space near water; certain trees planted as a living grave site memorial; butchered animal remains as evidence of food offerings; and placement of personal dishes on top of graves.;Based on the manufacture dates for ceramic and glass containers African-derived cultural behavior was no longer practiced after the mid-nineteenth century even though the cemetery remained in use until the early twentieth century. I interpret this change as evidence of a conscious cultural decision by an African-Bahamian population in Nassau to move away from obviously African-derived expressions of cultural identity. I argue that the desire for social mobility motivated this change. Full emancipation was granted in the British Empire by 1838. People of African descent who wanted to take advantage of social opportunities had to give up public expressions of African-derived cultural identity in order to participate more fully and successfully in the dominant society.
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Howard, Bryan Paul. "Fortifications of St Eustatius: An Archaeological and Historical Study of Defense in the Caribbean." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625659.

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Laforge, Travis. "Specialization in Small-Scale Societies: The Organization of Pottery Production at Kolomoki (9ER1), Early County, Georgia." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4115.

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Investigating the organization of production systems can reveal much about a society, in particular how resources and labor were allocated, and the influence that economic, political, social, and ceremonial institutions had on the production process. Interpreting the nature of specialized production is useful for understanding how production was organized. In turn, the degree of standardization exhibited by the goods being produced is used to determine the nature of specialization. While archaeological research regarding specialized production has expanded over time to incorporate a wide range of societies, such research is often focused on complex societies. The research presented here focuses on the small-scale, or non-stratified, community that once inhabited the Kolomoki site, a Middle to Late Woodland period site in Early county, Georgia. This thesis utilizes a three-dimensional laser scanner to document Weeden Island pottery from Kolomoki. The digital images created by the scanner were used to measure incising and punctation marks. The measurements were then analyzed in order to determine the extent of standardization among the decorative attributes. Results suggest that standardization varies among different subsamples of pottery. However, the overall degree of standardization is relatively low, thus suggesting that specialized production may not have existed, or was very limited, at Kolomoki. Despite the limited extent of standardization among the decorative attributes, the results of this research, especially in conjunction with previous research, suggest that some pottery may have been afforded special attention during the production process. In particular, pottery from mound proveniences, and socially valued goods, notably sacred and prestige items, demonstrate higher degrees of standardization. This leads to the conclusion that the production of Weeden Island pottery was likely influenced by ritual and ceremonial activity within the Kolomoki community. This thesis contributes to a greater understanding of specialization in non-stratified Woodland period societies in the southeastern United States.
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Miller, Derek Robert. "Breaking the Mold: Sugar Ceramics and the Political Economy of 18th Century St Eustatius." W&M ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626553.

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Salamanca-Heyman, Maria Fernanda. "St Eustatius and the Caribbean Trade System: A Study of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Coins from the Caribbean." W&M ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626445.

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Tipton, Elizabeth Shelton. "Growing Up Deaf in Appalachia: An Oral History of My Mother." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3662.

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This study focuses on the life experiences of a rural, Deaf Appalachian woman, Jane Ann Shelton, a second generation Deaf child born to Deaf parents from the communities of Devil’s Fork (Flag Pond, Tennessee) and Shelton Laurel (Madison County, North Carolina). Over two hours of videotaped interviews were interpreted and transcribed, followed by various other communications to describe the life of a rural, Deaf Appalachian woman without a formal high school degree. As an advocate and a political lobbyist in Tennessee during the 1980s and 90s, she was unparalleled by her peers (deaf or hearing) in her efforts to “enhance the lives of ALL Deaf Tennesseans.” From these interactions and my firsthand knowledge, I crafted stories of her life experiences for the purpose of performing them for both Deaf and hearing audiences. Further studies should be done on rural Deaf Appalachia as precious little oral history has been collected.
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Brown, Brittany Leigh. "Ontological Blackness: A n Investigation of 18th Century Burial Practices among Captive Africans on the Island of Barbados." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626715.

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Kelly, Kenneth Goodley. "Historic Archaeology of Jamaican Tenant-Manager Relations: A Case Study from Drax Hall and Seville Estates, St Ann, Jamaica." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625497.

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Eastman, John Arnold. "An Archaeological Assessment of St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626031.

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Christensen, Catherine M. "An Archaeological Survey of Bettie's Hope Estate." W&M ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626392.

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Gibson, Anne M. "A Desire for Fired Clay from Far Away: Analysis of Ceramics from a Seventeenth-Century Domestic Site in Bridgetown, Barbados." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626618.

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Kirby, Benjamin Crossley. "Could You Point Me to Your Nearest Clay Source, Please?: A XRF Study of Barbadian Historic Era Ceramics." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626790.

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Niendorf, Matthew John. "'A Land Not Exactly Flowing with Milk & Honey': Swan River Mania in the British Isles and Western Australia 1827-1832." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626984.

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Siedow, Erik andre. ""Excellent Clay for Pots": An Archaeological and Microscopic Investigation of Barbadian Redware during the Early Colonial Era." W&M ScholarWorks, 2012. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626682.

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Brito, Nadia Francisca. "Merchants of Curacao in the early 18th century." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625499.

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Diaz, Hannah. "Reformation London and the Adaptation of Observed Piety." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3256.

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In reformation London, the shift of the governed religion enabled laymen to recognize individuality in their faith, to read scripture in the vernacular, and to exercise their faith outside of mass. Therefore, the overall perception of personal piety took a turn from being exercised communally to becoming something reflective of the individual. Analyzing gender dynamics, language, religious orders, and theology reveal this transition and help gain a holistic understanding of transitioning perceptions of piety. This thesis contributes to the rich historiographical conversation in understanding Reformation studies. By adopting elements from top-down and bottom-up approaches, this thesis further develops on the understanding of perceptions of religious piety in reformation London.
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Miller, Derek Robert. ""A Medley of Contradictions": The Jewish Diaspora in St Eustatius and Barbados." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623614.

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During the 17th and 18th century a number of Jews settled on the English island of Barbados and the Dutch island of St. Eustatius. The Jews on both islands erected synagogues and a number of key structures essential for a practicing religious community. Although they had strong connections that spanned across geo-political boundaries, the synagogue compounds on each island became key places for the creation and maintenance of a Jewish community. I argue that these synagogue compounds represented diasporic places that must be understood through a tri-partite model that explores the relationships between the Jewish community and its hostland, other dispersed Jewish communities, and the homeland. Furthermore, during the early modern period, these compounds were "heterotopias" within the colonial landscape. Heterotopias, as places of alternative ordering, speak to the constructions of social and cultural difference. For the Jews, the synagogue compounds provided them a chance to create a place founded on their cultural values and ideals within the Christian controlled spaces of both islands. Alternatively, for the Christian communities on the islands, the synagogue compounds highlighted how the Jewish community had different loyalties and values than they did. In exploring the ways that these places served as heterotopias, and for how long they were sites of alternative ordering, this dissertation demonstrates the fundamental role that places play in the formation and maintenance of diasporic communities and the dynamic relationship between spaces, places, and identities in the early modern period.
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Estabrook, Richard William. "Social Landscapes of Transegalitarian Societies: An Analysis of the Chipped Stone Artifact Assemblage from the Crystal River Site (8CI1), Citrus County, Florida." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3723.

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The research undertaken in this dissertation was designed to explore how the institutionalized social inequalities in prehistoric Woodland society are reflected in the differences in the procurement, in the life history, and the final discard locations of the flaked chert stone tools from the Crystal River site (8CI1). The Woodland period (1000 BC to AD 1000) was a time of both stability and change in Native American society. Many of the core institutions such as subsistence, hunting and ceramic technology, and residence remained relatively constant while religious and political institutions underwent dramatic changes. This study focuses on how these social inequalities were manifested in the chipped stone tool assemblage from this site. The Crystal River site is an Early to Middle Woodland-period mound complex located in coastal Citrus County, Florida. Dedicated as a National Historic Landmark site in 1991, the Crystal River site is internationally known and respected. Despite extensive work at the site conducted by Bullen and others during the 1940-60s, little was actually published about the material remains excavated from the site. Work resumed on the site in the 1980s and has continued as required by park maintenance and repair issues. Since 2007, remote sensing and other non-invasive technologies have been employed to advance research further at the site. This research returned to the flaked stone materials recovered during the periods 1903-1964 and 1984-2001 to illuminate site activities better without additional ground-disturbing activities. Multiple techniques were employed to develop the data sets that were used to investigate the research questions addressed in this study. The GIS-based weights-of-evidence procedure was used to predict the locations of chert outcrops within a 50 km study area. This model validated the existing quarry cluster method of determining the provenience of Florida cherts. A cost-path analysis was used to identify those chert sources that would have been most accessible to the site's inhabitants. These techniques defined a series of coastal chert outcrops that form the newly-proposed New Coastal quarry cluster. A chaîne opératoire or operational sequence approach was adopted for the analysis of the chipped stone assemblage. A waste flake analysis, a hafted biface classification, and a raw material provenience classification were conducted for all flaked-stone materials. Use-wear determinations were made using both low-power (10-70x) and high-power (50-400x) magnification analysis techniques. A life history approach was taken to the hafted biface assemblage and hafted biface retouch index (HRI) values were determined for all hafted bfaces and biface fragments. The provenience analysis demonstrated that the majority of the chert used by the inhabitants of Crystal River came from outcrops and quarries south of the site along the coastal marshes and the western margins of the Brooksville Ridge. These resources are all within a short canoe trip from the site. Two life history trajectories are suggested for the chipped stone tools from Crystal River. The majority of the chert was obtained from local sources. The second life history was defined for a small subset of the hafted bifaces that were transported from quarries located outside the core subsistence catchment of Crystal River site. Four research hypotheses were developed to test propositions related to the ways in which institutionalized social inequalities are reflected in the patterning of the chipped stone artifact assemblage at the Crystal River site. Although only some of these hypotheses were supported, the results of this investigation do support much of the research that has previously been conducted with the lithic assemblages from Woodland mound complexes in Florida. Chert acquisition is heavily reliant on local lithic sources. Chert procurement appears to be embedded in the collection of other resources. Stone tool use at the site follows the typical expedient flake tool/local raw material pattern that has been documented for other Middle Woodland sites in the region. There was no evidence to suggest that thermal alteration was used to enhance the quality of either the local cherts or those brought to the site from more distant sources. The analysis identified two distinct life histories for at least part of the stone tool assemblage. Many of the hafted bifaces, formed tools and flake tools recovered from the site were made from local cherts. These tool where likely made, used, and discarded at Crystal River. Some of the hafted bifaces and flake cores were made from cherts found on the outer edges of the 50 km study area defined for this investigation. These items were brought to the Crystal River site, used, resharpened, and broken in transit, and finally replaced by new tools at the site. The broken fragments of these tools were discarded in the midden debris to eventually become part of the archaeological record from this now-famous site.
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Wolfe, Marion A. "Constructing Modern Missionary Feminism: American Protestant Women’s Foreign Missionary Societies and the Rhetorical Positioning of Christian Women, 1901-1938." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525440511790395.

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Harper, Ross K. "An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Cisterns in Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625580.

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Monteiro, Maria Lavinia Machado. "The Stone Ovens of St Eustatius: A Study of Material Culture." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625581.

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Elazar-Demota, Yehonatan. "An Ethnography: Discovering the Hidden Identity of the Banilejos." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2441.

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During June of 2015, an anthropological and sociological study was conducted in the Dominican city of Bani. On the surface, the banilejo people appear to be devout Catholics. However, having had access to their personal lives, it was evident that their peculiar family traditions and folklore hinted at their liminal identities. This study involved interviewing 23 female subjects with questions found in the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitorial manuals. In addition, their mitochondrial DNA sequences were analyzed and demonstrated a high percentage of consanguinity and inbreeding within Bani's population. The genetic analysis of their mitochondrial DNA yielded genetic links with Jewish women from worldwide Jewish communities. Victor Turner's communitas theory and Geertz's thick description were used as the methodology. Ultimately, the sociological and anthropological analysis of their way of life evidenced how their ancestors preserved Jewish identity covertly throughout the inquisition time period (1481-1834) and how they continue to perpetuate it in contemporary times through consanguinity, and the power of superstition and taboo.
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Goodnough, Michael Daniel. "The Campus as Carnival: The Students for a Democratic Society's Heteroglossic Challenge of Unitary Language Authority at Three Ohio Universities, 1967-1970." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1366740534.

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Davis, Christopher Anderson. "The Racial Equation: Pan-Atlantic Eugenics, Race, And Colonialism in the Early Twentieth Century British Caribbean." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3899.

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This dissertation explores the intellectual discourse on race in the early twentieth century, particularly from 1919 to 1958, examining how British and American eugenicists and Caribbean nationalists debated the limits of colonial politics in the British Caribbean using academic and scientific language. These discussions emerged in the aftermath of World War I, the economic crises that led to the Great Depression, the political and labor unrest in the British Caribbean, and consequences of the Second World War. The dissertation’s goal is to examine how residents of the British Caribbean understood, appropriated, and challenged some of the principles of eugenics, particularly those espousing ideas of white superiority. The dissertation has taken great consideration of both private and published sources from white and black intellectuals in the Anglophone Caribbean to document the dissemination of concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity in the region during the interwar period. Additionally, focusing on such critical areas as education and social policies, it explores whether eugenic ideas influenced the twentieth-century governance of British West Indian colonies.
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Bouilloud, Jean-Philippe. "La réception de la sociologie par l'épistémologie des sciences de la nature." Paris 7, 1995. https://buadistant.univ-angers.fr/login?url=https://www.cairn.info/sociologie-et-societe--9782130486312.htm.

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L'epistemologie classique, a partir de bacon, poincare et meme jusqu'a popper, s'est fondee dans une tres large mesure sur l'etude des sciences de la nature. En cela, elle n'a pas vraiment ete a meme de rendre compte de la specificite des sciences sociales, souvent accusees de ne pas satisfaire de criteres suffisants de justification. Or la sociologie etablit un lien propre avec son objet, contrairement aux sciences de la nature : la sociologie nous parle de nous, s'adresse a la societe toute entiere, et s'occupe des problemes qui sont l'actualite meme du monde social. A cause de ce lien, la sociologie n'est donc ni un strict equivalent d'une physique du social, ni une simple discipline historique qui se centrerait sur le monde contemporain : elle repond aussi, d'une certaine maniere, aux attentes de la societe, et l'analyse historique du developpement de la sociologie permet de montrer comment elle a repondu a ces attentes, a travers les metamorphoses de la question sociale. Des lors, l'approche idealiste du rationalisme critique popperien, ou meme les approches de la sociologie des sciences, se doivent d'etre completees par une analyse specifique de ce lien double entre sociologie et societe : a la logique de la decouverte et a celle de la justification, traditionnelles dans la philosophie des sciences, il faut adjoindre ce que l'on pourrait appeler une logique de la reception. C'est ce que nous proposons, a travers une approche phenomenologique et dans la lignee des travaus, entre autres, de gadamer, habermas et jauss, sous le terme plus generique d'epistemologie de la reception
Classical epistemology, since bacon, poincare and until popper, studied mainly nature's sciences. Therefore, it has been unable to take into account the specificity of the social sciences, often considered as unscientific from the justification point of view. The point is that sociology develops a specific link with its subject, unlike the nature's sciences : sociology speak to us about us, and its production is for the whole society, not only the scientific world, and it takes in charge of the problems that belongs to the actuality of the social world. Because of this, sociology is not a mere physics of the social world, nore a simple history of the contemporary world : it is dedicated, in a certain way, to the expectations of society, and the whole history of sociology demonstrates this. Therefore, classical approach es like popperian critical rationalism or even sociology of sciences have to be completed by a specific analysis of this double link between sociology and society : following the works of gadamer, habermas and jauss, and through a phenomenological approach, it is what we propose under the name of epistemology of reception
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