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Angold, Roger, and Marjorie Sanders. "Managing Fire Risk in Historic Thatched Buildings." Journal of Architectural Conservation 13, no. 3 (January 2007): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13556207.2007.10785009.

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Zhao, Peng Fei, and Bin Tao. "An Analysis of Earth Folk Houses Along Shandong Canal." Applied Mechanics and Materials 71-78 (July 2011): 1938–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.71-78.1938.

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Earth folk houses refer to a type of traditional dwelling with their main structure built with raw earth through simple treatment without being baked in a kiln. The article discusses two types of folk houses found along Shandong Canal, including thatched earth cottages and shallow-vaulted earth cottages. It studies the layout, architectural features, building methods and materials of these buildings and explains their historical, cultural, and ecological significance.
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Rafi, Muhammad Masood, Sarosh Hashmat Lodi, Muhammad Ahmed, Amit Kumar, and Firoz Verjee. "Development of building inventory for northern Pakistan for seismic risk reduction." International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment 7, no. 5 (November 14, 2016): 501–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijdrbe-05-2015-0028.

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Purpose This paper aims to present the studies which were carried out to determine building typology in Northern Pakistan, which is a seismically active region. Design/methodology/approach A total of 41 towns and cities were surveyed to collect the data of building types. Help was also taken from global positioning system and satellite imagery. Findings In total, 14 different types of buildings were identified in the region based on the structural system and combination of wall and roof materials; each of them was assigned an appropriate designation. The walls in these buildings were made of block, stone or brick, whereas the roof consisted of corrugated galvanised iron sheet, thatched roof, precast concrete planks or reinforced concrete (RC). Only 6 per cent buildings were found to be engineered RC buildings; this indicates a significance proportion of non-engineered building stock in Northern Pakistan. Research limitations/implications The surveys were conducted in some of the selected areas. Other areas are beyond the scope of this work. Practical implications The presence of a huge deficient building stock in Pakistan indicates a major seismic risk. The seismic losses are largely dependent on the earthquake resistance of existing buildings and building stock. An inventory of existing buildings and their types can help in assessing seismic vulnerability of the built environment, which may lead to the development of policies for seismic risk reduction. Originality/value Presently, housing encyclopaedia does not exist in Pakistan. As a result, housing typology in the country is not known. The presented study addresses this gap in part. Housing typology surveys were conducted to study the typical construction practices in the selected areas and to determine the proportions of different building types in the overall building stock.
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Nitcheu, Madeleine, Donatien Njomo, Pierre Meukam, and Cyrille Fotsing Talla. "Modeling of Coupled Heat and Mass Transfers in a Stabilized Earthen Building Envelope with Thatched Fibers." Fibers 6, no. 4 (October 2, 2018): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fib6040075.

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In order to reduce the heat and mass transfers in buildings, which increase energy bills, the development of composites materials such as earth bricks stabilized with thatch fibers is important for their construction. This paper aims to study a one-dimensional model of heat and moisture transfer through porous building materials. The coupled phenomena of heat and mass transfer are described by the Luikov model. Equations and boundary conditions are discretized using the finite difference method. The results obtained illustrate the temporal evolutions of the temperature and the moisture content, as well as the distributions of the temperature and moisture content inside the wall. The profile of the temperature and water content that are obtained are compared with the other numerical solutions that are available in the literature.
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Mellinkoff, Ruth. "Titian's Pastoral Scene: A Unique Rendition of Lot and His Daughters." Renaissance Quarterly 51, no. 3 (1998): 829–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2901747.

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AbstractTitian's drawing called Pastoral Scene or Landscape with a Sleeping Nude and Animals is no ordinary landscape, its unordinariness underscored by an unusual combination of elements, which I maintain reveals a new and unique version of Lot and His Daughters. I contend that the large, naked woman in the right foreground is one of Lot's daughters; the two small figures resting or sleeping beneath the trees are Lot and his other daughter; the thatched houses in the middle left represent the little town of Segor where Lot first fled; the sheep represent livestock that Lot brought out of Sodom, as do the boar and goat; the boar and goat, however, also serve as symbols of lust and lechery; and the distant city with burning buildings in the city's right quarter is Sodom. Titian's inventiveness created an iconographic variation of an ancient theme.
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Mitson, Anne, and Barrie Cox. "Victorian Estate Housing on the Yarborough Estate, Lincolnshire." Rural History 6, no. 1 (April 1995): 29–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793300000819.

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One of the legacies of the great landed estates in England is the large number of distinctive estate cottages which are scattered throughout the countryside. These are, of course, more in evidence in some counties than others, particularly in those where a considerable proportion of land was owned by the elite. Estate cottages survive in some numbers from the eighteenth century, but the greatest number was built in the nineteenth. Research on estate buildings has tended to highlight the model village, built largely during the first half of the nineteenth century and created for aesthetic reasons. A well-known example is Somerleyton in Suffolk, designed in the 1840s for the then owner of Somerleyton Hall. Here, the cottages, built in a variety of styles – some with mock timber-framing, others with thatched roofs – surround the village green. Ilam in Staffordshire is another example, where cottages which were designed by G.G. Scott in 1854 display a range of styles and materials, many alien to the local area. A third example is Edensor on the Duke of Devonshire's Derbyshire estate, where the stone buildings exhibit distinctive Italianate features. The list could be extended, but these examples were clearly designed to impress, to provide aesthetic pleasure for the owners and, in the case of Ilam, to create a picturesque image of idyllic contentment among the labouring population as much as to provide good, spacious, sanitary accommodation for employees. In each of these examples, the cottages are generally of individual design and thus expensive to build.
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Xie, Jing, Shixian Luo, Katsunori Furuya, Takahide Kagawa, and Mian Yang. "A Preferred Road to Mental Restoration in the Chinese Classical Garden." Sustainability 14, no. 8 (April 8, 2022): 4422. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14084422.

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The impact that classical gardens have on the well-being and quality of life of visitors, especially city dwellers, is an important topic. Scholars have previously focused on landscape aspects, such as water bodies, plants, rocks, chairs, pavilions, and public squares, in various green spaces but have overlooked the road settings that visitors walk on. This study used the Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum as the subject region and employed a convenience sampling method (n = 730) to analyze the preference and mental restoration of different road settings of Chinese classical gardens. According to the findings, the majority of visitors felt that the road settings in these classical gardens provided psychological recovery, and half of the roads received a preference score of five or above. The regression results indicated that nature, culture, space, refuge, and serene were found to be important predictive dimensions for both mental restoration and preference. Furthermore, this study divides landscape elements in road settings into two major categories (natural and artificial elements) and eight subcategories (trees, shrubs, lawns, roads, fences, walls, decorations, and buildings) to investigate the relationship between various types of specific road setting elements and visitors’ perceived preferences as well as restorability. The correlation results showed that in terms of preference, tree > lawn > path > fence > shrub > wall; in terms of restoration, tree > lawn > shrub > fence > path > decoration > building > wall. Overall, the findings of this research can improve visitor preferences and restoration in a given environmental setting, resulting in a more enjoyable experience.
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Kacher, Sabrina, and Hanane Zermout. "Environmental implication of the Algerian traditional house." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 27, no. 3 (April 11, 2016): 338–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-04-2015-0063.

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Purpose – The control of the environmental impacts of buildings and constructions has certainly progressed in recent years in Europe, but very little in Algeria. The purpose of this paper is to identify and to introduce old environmental systems in the Algerian traditional house which could inspire designers to come up with new constructions with enhanced comfort. Design/methodology/approach – In this work, the authors used the “HQE” French certification grid to gauge the environmental implication of the vernacular architecture. Findings – Environmental systems in the traditional house respect the environment but have to be adapted to the current perception of comfort in order to be applied to the new architecture. Research limitations/implications – The main advantage is that the old environmental systems found in the Algerian traditional houses do not require any machinery to enhance the comfort. Thus they do not need any energy to be useful. Practical implications – As the Canadian Well inspired and influenced the architecture produced around the world to improve the comfort inside the houses, or as the thatched roof which inspired the vegetative roof used today to improve and regulate the energy consumption, the authors hope that some old systems used in the vernacular architecture will inspire architects or regular people who would like to enhance their comfort and life quality. Originality/value – Passive solutions used to improve comfort, with reduced energy consumption in houses, are increasingly sought all around the world. This work can play a part in introducing some environmental solutions used in the vernacular architecture which are nowadays left aside.
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Gunawarman, Anak Agung Gede Raka. "KONSEP DESAIN MITIGASI BENCANA KEBAKARAN PADA BANGUNAN PURA BERATAP IJUK." Jurnal Arsitektur ZONASI 2, no. 1 (February 11, 2019): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/jaz.v2i1.15058.

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Abstract: The use of Palm-Fiber roof on sacred buildings in Balinese Temples still preserved well, however case of fire disasters becoming a threat in temple existence nowadays. Fire disasters could start with some sparks on roof section. Palm fiber and thatched roof are building materials that very vulnerable to fire disasters and when fire disaster happens because of this materials,it could easily spread out the fire on other building next to it. This article was an article created by purposed to give an idea or innovation in fire disasters mitigation especially in temples or “palinggih” with palm-fiber roof. Content explanation using concept design model and system scenarios related to extinguished fire with conventional fire extinguisher tool. Automatic fire extinguisher concept design which installed on roof section of building or “palinggih” with palm fiber roof only had two alternative models. First model for building with roof sized not more than 3x3m, and second model for roof sized more than 3x3m. The Consideration is head sprinkler that only could served on 3 m maximum radius. This article still a concept design and still need some testing on the field on next research. Keywords: mitigations, fire disasters, palm-fiber roof Abstrak: Penggunaan atap ijuk pada bangunan-bangunan suci di pura-pura di Bali masih tetap terjaga dengan baik. Namun, beberapa permasalahan yang terjadi belakangan ini adalah banyaknya kebakaran yang terjadi di pura-pura dan diawali dari percikan api pada bagian atap. Atap ijuk dan atap alang-alang adalah material yang sangat mudah terbakar dan mudah menjalar ke bangunan lain. Hal itu juga terjadi disaat terjadi kebakaran di atap ijuk bangunan pura yang memiliki lebih dari satu bangunan beratap ijuk dengan posisi yang berdekatan. Tulisan ini merupakan sebuah tulisan yang bertujuan untuk memberikan gagasan dan inovasi dalam mitigasi bencana kebakaran khususya di pura atau palinggih dengan atap ijuk. Penjelasan materi dengan menggunakan model desain konsep dan skenario sistem-sistem pemadam kebakaran dengan perlengkapan yang digunakan pada sistem pemadam pada umumnya. Konsep desain pemadam kebakaran otomatis yang dipasang pada bagian atap dari bangunan atau palinggih dengan atap ijuk untuk saat ini hanya mempunyai dua alternatif model. Model pertama diperuntukkan untuk bangunan dengan atap berukuran tidak lebih dari 3x3m, dan model kedua untuk atap yang berukuran lebih dari 3x3 m. Pertimbangannya adalah head sprinkler yang hanya mampu melayani radius maksimum 3 m.Tulisan ini masih berupa desain konsep dan masih perlu uji coba di tahap berikutnya.Kata Kunci: mitigasi, kebakaran, atap ijuk
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Guo, Li, Jiao Xu, Jing Li, and Zhanyuan Zhu. "Digital Preservation of Du Fu Thatched Cottage Memorial Garden." Sustainability 15, no. 2 (January 11, 2023): 1359. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15021359.

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The Xishu Historical and Cultural Celebrity Memorial Gardens are representatives of southwestern regional gardens in China. Du Fu Thatched Cottage is one of the typical examples of these gardens, with exceptional memorial, historical, and cultural significance. However, compared to other gardens in China, few research has been conducted on their digital preservation and construction connotation. In this study, the digital model of Du Fu Thatched Cottage was obtained by terrestrial laser scanning and total station technology, and its memorial analysis and preservation were studied digitally. Using three levels of point, line, and surface analysis, we examined how to digitally deconstruct the commemorative elements of Du Fu Thatched Cottage that included the memorial theme, gardening components, and design philosophy of the garden space. The study revealed the memorial space core of the Historical and Cultural Celebrity Memorial Gardens in Xishu and proposed a strategy for building a digital preservation system. The research will help to digitally protect the Du Fu Thatched Cottage and analyze methods to memorialize other traditional gardens.
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Books on the topic "Thatched buildings"

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Thatching and thatched buildings. 2nd ed. London: R. Hale, 1988.

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Bruce, Walker. Thatches and thatching techniques: A guide to conserving Scottish thatching traditions. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, 1996.

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Menéndez, Carmen-Oliva. Teitos: Cubiertas vegetales de Europa Occidental : de Asturias a Islandia. Oviedo: Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos del Principado de Asturias, 2008.

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Teitos: Cubiertas vegetales de Europa Occidental : de Asturias a Islandia. Oviedo: Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos del Principado de Asturias, 2008.

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Hŏn-man, Hwang, and Kim Hong-sik 1944-, eds. Chʻoga: Chʻoga, straw-roofed Korean cottages. Sŏul: Yŏrhwadang, 1991.

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Egeland, Pamela. Cob and thatch. Exeter: Devon Books, 1988.

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Living under thatch: Vernacular architecture in Co. Offaly. Douglas Village, Cork: Mercier Press, 2004.

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Pokropek, Marian. Tradycyjne budownictwo drzewne W Polsce. Warszawa: Wydawn. Neriton, 1995.

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Conaola, Dara O. Thatched homes of the Aran Islands =: An teachi n ceanntui. [Aran Islands]: Ceard Shiopa InisOi rr Teo, 1988.

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Thatchers and thatching. London: Batsford, 1991.

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Potts, Charlotte R. "The architecture of early shrines and temples." In Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722076.003.0010.

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The architectural transformations of the seventh and early sixth centuries, often described as the change from huts to houses, generated a range of building types that some scholars have associated with particular types of religious activities. Some small buildings with one or two rooms have been interpreted as oikos shrines; some buildings with multiple adjacent rooms are thought to have been venues for ritual banquets; and some courtyard complexes have been cast as political sanctuaries or residences where the inhabitants observed familial cults. The archaeological evidence for religious activities associated with any of these building types, however, is not straightforward. The first part of this chapter examines whether it is possible to identify any preferred plan for structures that sheltered and complemented religious rituals during the seventh and early sixth centuries BC. The second part then contrasts this inquiry with the relatively straightforward identification of religious buildings during and after the sixth century BC permitted by the introduction of a distinctive, religious architectural marker, namely podia. As such this chapter explores the emergence of a formal architectural vocabulary for Etrusco-Italic religious buildings and identifies when and where cult buildings became architecturally differentiated from other structures within settlements. Although the architectural changes of the seventh and early sixth centuries BC in Latium and Etruria are not linear or uniform, it is clear that round, oval, and rectangular huts with wattle-and-daub walls and thatched coverings were gradually replaced by rectangular structures with stone foundations and tiled roofs. From the middle of the seventh century plans of the new buildings were regularized to the point where it is possible to identify three main types. The names of these types, however, vary both within and between different scholarly traditions, with the result that a rectangular, tile-roofed building thought to have a religious function can be variously labelled an oikos shrine, a proto-temple, or a temple, and a more elaborate building may be described as a Breithaus, a casa a vani affiancati, a courtyard building, a palazzo, a regia, or an elite residence.
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Fowler, William R. "The Urban Landscape of Ciudad Vieja." In A Historical Archaeology of Early Spanish Colonial Urbanism in Central America, 84–130. University Press of Florida, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813069128.003.0005.

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Archaeological excavations of approximately 20 structures during the field seasons from 1996 to 2015, followed by detailed architectural studies and spatial analyses, have enabled interpretations of the Ciudad Vieja urban landscape, or townscape, and built environment. The structures include two major civic constructions, one religious complex, two buildings of a commercial or commercial/industrial nature, six structures interpreted as Spanish residences, and two structures interpreted as indigenous residences. Spanish and Spanish-related constructions display a remarkable consistency in orientation and construction techniques. With the exception of Structure 1D1, which may have been constructed before the grid plan of the town was laid out, all known Spanish buildings are multiroom constructions aligned to 12°, and all of these constructions share the same type of stone foundations, at least 83 cm (one Spanish vara) in width, and built to a depth of at least one meter. Indigenous structures, on the other hand, consisted of a single room built on a single course of uncut basalt stones with walls of bajareque and thatched roofs. These architectural differences highlight major differences in Spanish and indigenous practice and embodiment of habitus in the urban landscape of the villa of San Salvador.
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"Building and resisting European union: 1979–1990." In Thatcher, 193–216. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315647180-10.

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Rios-Calleja, Jaime. "Palm thatched building in Mexico." In Materials for a Healthy, Ecological and Sustainable Built Environment, 255–69. Elsevier, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-100707-5.00011-3.

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Thompson, Becky. "Thatched Roof, No Walls." In Teaching with Tenderness. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041167.003.0002.

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What are the consequences when teachers carry our minds to one place (to work, the classroom, our desks), our bodies to another (to the gym, yoga studio, our couch), our spirits to another (to church, synagogue, mosque, mountains), our psychic healing to another (to the couch, the bed, vacations), and our activism to another (to prisons, borders, the streets)? Students sense and feel these splits. They are trying to learn amid these splits. A pedagogy of tenderness—embodied techniques of teaching that allow us to hold in our minds more complexity, paradox, and community than previously thought possible—requires new bridge work where contemplative practitioners, activists, trauma specialists, and feminist teachers listen to each other. Such bridge building is essential as we create ways of teaching that move us beyond individualism, consumerism, and militarism.
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Siwicki, Christopher. "The Casa Romuli Anomaly." In Architectural Restoration and Heritage in Imperial Rome, 141–67. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848578.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the Casa Romuli, the thatched hut associated with the city’s founder Romulus and held up as an exemplum of Rome’s origins. Contrary to other examples discussed in the book, this structure consistently retained its original form and the same type of materials when rebuilt. However, in this instance, too, the case is made that the architectural continuity was not motivated by an overt attempt to preserve the historic appearance of the building, but was instead a consequence of other influences. By drawing a comparison with the maintenance of the Pons Sublicius, a new interpretation of the hut is proposed and the relevance of religious agency in matters of built heritage is again brought to the fore.
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Wetherell, Sam. "The Private Housing Estate." In Foundations, 107–36. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691193755.003.0005.

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This chapter looks at what became of the council estate as the sizable class of people renting their homes from local councils ebbed away. It explains the relative endurance of the council estate and the way that it marked the outer limit of Britain's emerging property-owning democracy. The chapter also follows the career of Alice Coleman, an urban planner who critiqued council estates along these lines and in doing so caught the attention of the Thatcher government, winning funding in the 1980s to redesign many large estates. Ultimately, the chapter highlights the privatization in the context of housing and the birth of a new urban form in Britain: the private housing estate. Private housing estate refers to any large residential building or group of residential buildings that are owned by the same private developer, planned as a totality, and to which access is available only to residents. It explores the growth of these developments in East and South London in the 1980s along with the records of private residents' associations to see the new ways in which “communities” were imagined to exist in such spaces.
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Pauketat, Timothy R. "Paddling North." In Gods of Thunder, 194—C9P59. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197645109.003.0010.

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Abstract While Mesoamerica was drying out during the medieval era, the Mississippi valley was experiencing optimal warmer and wetter agricultural conditions. The urban complex that resulted at Cahokia was a result of the potential to grow maize as well as the special watery and cavernous landscape of the region. Cahokians emplaced hundreds of upright ceremonial poles and built borrow-pit reservoirs, elevated causeways, thousands of pole-and-thatch buildings, and great, flat-topped, rectangular and circular pyramids of earth. Many of the buildings and ceremonies, including human sacrifice, were aligned with or timed to the long cycle of the Moon. Caddo influences are obvious, and Cahokia in many ways appears to have recapitulated Mesoamerican urban life, even down to the importation of the Mesoamerican god Wind-That-Brings-Rain, or Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl.
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Rogers, Asha. "‘Literary’ versus ‘Cultural’ Texts in the NEAB Anthology." In State Sponsored Literature, 154–78. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857761.003.0007.

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This chapter reflects on the increasingly influential links drawn between literary reading and cultural formation in state education at the end of the century. Building on the implementation of multicultural initiatives under Thatcher, it focuses on the emergence of literary categories distinguishing the ‘English literary heritage’ from ‘other cultures and traditions’. It begins by locating these ideas in the mind of the cosmopolitan poet and state English advisor C.B. Cox before turning to their codification in the NEAB GCSE Anthology (1996, 1998), a school reader that introduced a new contemporary canon of postcolonial poetry. The chapter concludes with detailed readings of three anthologized poems by Sujata Bhatt, Kamau Brathwaite, and Tatamkhulu Afrika, demonstrating how we might reimagine the Anthology’s ideas of organic language, culture, and representative ethnic identity.
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Heinemann, Kieran. "Popular Capitalism? Privatization and Demutualization in the 1980s and 1990s." In Playing the Market, 190–219. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198864257.003.0007.

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While Margaret Thatcher publicly promoted a Puritan emphasis on thrift, hard work, and asceticism, the outcome of her policies stood in stark contrast to this side of her rhetoric. Her way of selling off nationalized industries allowed the British to have a heavily subsidized flutter on the stock market and increased the shareholder population to ten million investors. Reality, however, was a far cry from Thatcher’s slogan of a ‘share-owning democracy’, not least because the continued growth of large financial institutions meant that small shareholders had very little influence on corporate governance. Millions of people merely ‘stagged’ the privatization issues, meaning that they sold for a quick and easy profit in early trading. ‘Investors’ new and old applied the same short-term logic during the demutualization of major building societies like Halifax or Northern Rock during the 1990s, when ‘carpet-bagging’ became a national sport. Carpetbaggers opened accounts in societies ripe for demutualization not in order to save for a house, but to make a quick profit from selling their accounts once they were converted into shares due to the building society becoming a public company. This chapter places centre stage prominent carpetbaggers such as the former royal butler, Michael Hardern, who during the late 1990s campaigned to become a board member of all remaining building societies. The extent of ‘stagging’ and ‘carpet-bagging’ shows that popular capitalism was less an economic enfranchisement of the nation, and more an expressive culture of self-referential speculation, personal enrichment, and stock market gambling.
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