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Durie, Bruce. "Bringing history to the public via genealogy and family history". Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2011. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23881.
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Genealogy is at the cusp of acceptance as an academic discipline. However, there are no peer-reviewed scholarly journals in which to publish the outcome of research into, and upon, genealogy per se. While genealogy shares many techniques and attributes with history as a subject of study, it is wider in both investigation and impact. Popular and scholarly history have much to gain by including the skills and methods of the genealogical researcher. One option is to present genealogy, history and biography as popular, mass-market books. The two-fold aspiration is (1) that the public will be drawn to an understanding of history and the place of genealogy in historical researches, and (2) that history professionals will understand and apply the methodologies of genealogy to both popular and scholarly history publishing. Using the currently-popular genealogy and local/personal history as the "draw", it is possible to interest and educate the public in historical and social matters. The same is achieved by linking biography and genealogy to popular literature. The overall impact on public understanding, it is suggested, is far greater than would be achieved by any trickle-down effect from more conventional scholarly publishing. (This would be a valid contention to test by research, but no claim is made here that it has been investigated other than by anecdotal reports). It is proposed that the publications submitted for consideration form a coherent body of work in that they demonstrate the value of genealogical methodology and research skills in aeras as apparently diverse and literary biography and local history; that their intellectual merit resides in bringing new information to light and applying that to the better understand of people, places, events; and that there is a contribution to knowledge thereby. That this knowledge now resides in a "popular" public domain is not to its detriment: rather, it renders it more valuable, and in any case it is not hidden from specialist examination by being out in the wild. The publications submitted make explicit the key skills of learning and research at doctoral level, including analysis, creativity, criticality, discrimination, evaluation, research management and synthesis, and that the candidate is a competent researcher who knows the subjects and can plan, implement and evaluate research activities.
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Brinton, Derrick James. "Recommender Systems for Family History Source Discovery". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6606.
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As interest in family history research increases, greater numbers of amateurs are participating in genealogy. However, finding sources that provide useful information on individuals in genealogical research is often an overwhelming task, even for experts. Many tools assist genealogists in their work, including many computer-based systems. Prior to this work, recommender systems had not yet been applied to genealogy, though their ability to navigate patterns in large amounts of data holds great promise for the genealogical domain. We create the Family History Source Recommender System to mimic human behavior in locating sources of genealogical information. The recommender system is seeded with existing source data from the FamilySearch database. The typical recommender systems algorithms are not designed for family history work, so we adjust them to fit the problem. In particular, recommendations are created for deceased individuals, with multiple users being able to consume the same recommendations. Additionally, our similarity computation takes into account as much information about individuals as possible in order to create connections that would otherwise not exist. We use offline n-fold cross-validation to validate the results. The system provides results with high accuracy.
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Tabor, Sarah Owen. "Creative Book Arts Preserving Family History". Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2002. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/TaborSO2002.pdf.
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Ridenour, Hugh. "The Greens of Falls of Rough: A Kentucky Family Biography 1795-1965". TopSCHOLAR®, 1996. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3039.
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The purpose of writing about the Greens of Falls of Rough is to record the extraordinary lives of three generations of a prominent, but somewhat neglected, Kentucky family that contributed greatly to the history of the Commonwealth. This family’s activities parallel that history in social, economic and political aspects from the state’s inception to the 1960s.
In addition, this thesis should alleviate a pervasive misunderstanding regarding the identity of Willis Green, founder of the Greens of Falls of Rough. Mr. Green, a prominent Kentuckian in his own right, has been confused with another Kentuckian, a Willis Green of Danville. The misidentification has indicated that they were either the same man or father and son. This research offers evidence that they were neither the same man nor father and son; they were apparently not even related, or at most, only very distantly so.
The Greens of Falls of Rough follows the lives of the three generations of Greens and spans the years 1795 through 1965. The principal issues addressed fall into four main categories: politics – Kentucky (1827-1845; 1859-1860; 1881-1884) and United States (1839-1845); Falls of Rough businesses, 1830s-1960s – farming, milling (saw and grist), and merchandising; domestic activities, 1860s-1960s; and social life, 1860s-1960s.
Political subjects include some movements of Kentucky’s militia in the War of 1812, the national political campaigns of 1840 and 1844, Whig issues, and Willis Green’s relationship with Henry Clay.
Business-related information includes entrepreneurial land acquisition activities in Kentucky’s Grayson and Breckinridge Counties (1820s-1830s), procedures of sawmilling and related transportation (river and railroad), farm commodities trading (1818-1900), and farm and business practices and their economic ramifications.
Domestic issues encompass food-related procedures/habits and household practices – servants, remodeling/decorating, cleaning (1870-1890).
Social aspects revolve around courtship (1860s) and rearing a family (1860s-1900), especially educational (Kentucky Military Institute, Centre College, Princeton Collegiate Institute) and moral training. In additions, some details of family disease/area epidemics and their treatments are discussed as well as entertainment activities.
Materials for this thesis were obtained almost entirely from political and family correspondence with some contribution from military and business records. More than six thousand items of correspondence were thoroughly studied and analyzed in this research.
These materials are located in the Kentucky Library, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky; Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky; University of Louisville Library, Louisville, Kentucky; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; M.I. King Library, Lexington, Kentucky; and Eastern Kentucky University Library, Richmond, Kentucky. Some materials are in the possession of Mrs. Mary O’Neill (owner of Green property), Falls of Rough, Kentucky and Hugh Ridenour (author of this work), Hanson, Kentucky.
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Smartt, Elizabeth Thalhimer. "Thalhimers Department Store: Story, History, and Theory". VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1447.
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This thesis looks at Thalhimers department store through the lenses of story, history, and theory. It first introduces the intertwining narratives of the author's paternal family and the store's history, then shares the author's personal story of Thalhimers. The second half outlines the master narrative of the American department store then applies "fantasy-theme analysis" and the symbolic convergence theory to stories and artifacts related to Thalhimers. A conclusion discusses the end of the department store era including a deeply personal goodbye from the author.
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Reiser, Matthew L. "Exploring Genealogical Roots and Family History and Their Influence on College Student Development: A Qualitative Study". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3356.
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Family genealogy research has grown exponentially over the past decade, making it an area worthy of scholarly inquiry (Smith, 2010). Genealogy is now one of the world's most popular hobbies, with hundreds of millions of people worldwide actively engaged in some form of family research (Veale, 2004). In the United States, there has recently been a significant increase in the interest of searching out one's genealogical roots (Triseliotis, 1998). For most young people, the years from late teens to early twenties represent a period of profound change (Arnett, 2000). Many young adults search for and solidify their identity during the years they attend college (Muuss, 1996). Few research studies have examined the experience of searching one's genealogy and the impact it might have on college student development. This study focused on the experiences of college students who were searching their own personal ancestry in an undergraduate class on family history/genealogy. Participants reported that researching their family history (a) ignited or intensified a strong interest in genealogical research, (b) developed connections, closeness, and bonds to ancestors which motivated them in their lives, (c) discovered shared physical and personality characteristics, (d) impacted their current relationships with living relatives, (e) stimulated spiritual experiences, and (f) influenced their identity development.
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Friday, Kate. "Learning from e-family history : online research behaviour and strategies of family historians and implications for local studies collections". Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/734.
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The massive expansion of electronic resources has been identified as one of the major drivers behind the ‘explosion’ in the popularity of family history, which bring ease, convenience and accessibility to some parts of the research process. Amongst this expanse of easily-accessible raw materials, online local studies materials (recording both historical and contemporary aspects of a community) can add real context and value to researchers’ findings and experience; turning a genealogy into a family history. However, the vast majority of these do not appear visible to online family history researchers. Through three central foci (users, e-family history resources, and Local Studies Collections), this research investigates these resources and collections from the perspective of users, to establish how to make the added value of the local studies collections more visible and encourage increased engagement for those who cannot visit collections in person. Specific evaluative criteria for e-family history resources are presented, contributing to practitioners’ awareness and understanding of their nature; in turn helping maintain their service quality to researchers. Using a hybrid (primarily ethnographic) research approach, the study also examines the online research behaviour of family historians, identifying a taxonomy of actions (seeking of genealogical facts, local or social history; communicating with other researchers or resources; locating resources or instructive information; managing own information), strategies (search modifications and incorporation of background knowledge) and outcomes (outcome; direction (projected and actual)). From these categories, a model of Family Historians’ online information seeking has been developed. Researchers have both informational and affective needs, and are highly emotionally attached to the research process. Users universally used Ancestry, FamilySearch, ScotlandsPeople, and Genes Reunited far more than other sites, seeking out quality informational content and unique records, which must be successful for researchers. Google was a major method of access to these. Very few participants were preaware of ‘e-local studies’ websites, and were surprised by the variations in quality, inconsistencies in terminology and navigation, and invisibility of quality content. Despite a lack of ease of use, the content present on e-local studies sites and their usefulness and value had been demonstrated to researchers. This suggests significant demand for local information of this kind online where it is available and made known.
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Knapp, Kathryn Anderson. ""True to me": Case studies of five middle school students' experiences with official and unofficial versions of history in a social studies classroom". Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1372799350.
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Woodbury, Charla Jean. "Automatic Extraction From and Reasoning About Genealogical Records: A Prototype". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2335.
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Family history research on the web is increasing in popularity, and many competing genealogical websites host large amounts of data-rich, unstructured, primary genealogical records. It is labor-intensive, however, even after making these records machine-readable, for humans to make these records easily searchable. What we need are computer tools that can automatically produce indices and databases from these genealogical records and can automatically identify individuals and events, determine relationships, and put families together. We propose here a possible solution—specialized ontologies, built specifically for extracting information from primary genealogical records, with expert logic and rules to infer genealogical facts and assemble relationship links between persons with respect to the genealogical events in their lives. The deliverables of this solution are extraction ontologies that can extract from parish or town records, annotated versions of original documents, data files of individuals and events, and rules to infer family relationships from stored data. The solution also provides for the ability to query over the rules and data files and to obtain query-result justification linking back to primary genealogical records. An evaluation of the prototype solution shows that the extraction has excellent recall and precision results and that inferred facts are correct.
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Sheffield, Katie J. "Descendants". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3155.
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The photographer discusses the photographs in Descendants, her Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition which was held at Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, Tennessee from October 31, 2016 through November 23, 2016. The exhibit consisted of 19 large format color photographs. This body of work visually represents the artistʼs interest in those who participate in Civil War re-enactments.
The historical and contemporary influences discussed are in accordance to Sheffieldʼs photographs. Historical influences include Matthew Brady, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Walker Evans, and Helen Levitt, as well as those of contemporary artists; Martin Parr, Stacy Kranitz, and Anderson Scott.
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Alexandre, Cécile. "Transmissions et cultures familiales : enquête sur la population de Charleville (1740-1890)". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023SORUL011.
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Mettre en évidence l’existence de cultures familiales est le but de cette thèse : les cultures familiales peuvent être définies des pratiques sociales répétées sur plusieurs générations, spécifiques à une famille et révélant un ensemble de valeurs, voire une identité, transmis de parent à enfant. Le terrain d’observation est celui de la population à Charleville, petite ville du nord-est de la France, entre 1740 et 1890, et plus précisément un échantillon de 215 familles reconstruites sur au moins deux générations dans leur descendance masculine comme féminine. La famille est ici comprise comme un ensemble plus vaste que la famille nucléaire, composée du père, de la mère et des enfants : elle comprend également les oncles et tantes ainsi que les cousins. Cet échantillon de population est représentatif de toutes les franges de la société car la sélection a été faite à partir de la première lettre du patronyme de l’époux (B, G, M, N, P, R, et T). Les sources principales utilisées sont les registres paroissiaux et les actes d’état civil, en particulier les actes de mariage. Les indicateurs à partir desquels nous analysons les cultures familiales sont la capacité de signer des conjoints, la transmission de prénoms familiaux, le choix de cousins comme témoins de mariage, l’âge au premier mariage des femmes, les naissances illégitimes ainsi que les mariages entre parents consanguins ou affins (entre le 1er et le 4e degré). Cette méthode révèle des pratiques familiales transgénérationnelles qui varient au sein d’un même milieu économique et social, ce qui permet de rendre compte de l’importance de la notion de culture familiale pour comprendre l’histoire socialeThe main of this thesis is to bring out the existence of family cultures. Family cultures can be defined as social practices repeated over several generations, specific to a family and revealing a set of values, even an identity, transmitted from parent to child. The field of observation is the population in Charleville, a small town in northeastern France, between 1740 and 1890, and more precisely a sample of 215 families reconstructed over at least two generations, by their male and female descendance. The family is understood here as a whole larger than the nuclear family, made up of the father, the mother and the children: it also includes the uncles and aunts as well as the cousins. This population sample is representative of all segments of society because the selection was made from the first letter of the husband's surname (B, G, M, N, P, R, and T). The main sources used are parish registers and civil status documents, in particular marriage certificates. The indicators from which we analyse family cultures are the ability of spouses to sign, the transmission of family first names, the choice of cousins as marriage witnesses, the age at first marriage of women, illegitimate births as well as marriages between consanguineous or related parents (between the 1st and 4th degree). This method reveals transgenerational family practices that vary within the same economic and social environment, which makes it possible to account for the importance of the importance of the notion of family culture in understanding social history
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Rancie, Elisa M. "An Exploratory Study on the Impact of Applied Ancestry on At-Risk Youth in a Wilderness Therapy Program Setting". Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1079.pdf.
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Henning, Barbara [Verfasser], i Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Herzog. "Narratives of the History of the Ottoman-Kurdish Bedirhani Family in Imperial and Post-Imperial Contexts: Continuities and Changes / Barbara Henning ; Betreuer: Christoph Herzog". Bamberg : University of Bamberg Press, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1156601185/34.
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Gibson, Trish J. "Embedded in These Walls". VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5642.
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Embedded In These Walls uses photographic imagery, archival ephemera, and written text to examine a specific history of generational trauma through the lens of a singular family of a southern tradition to point to a larger systemic breakdown of accountability and truthfulness regarding abuse
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Habel, Chad Sean, i chad habel@gmail com. "Ancestral Narratives in History and Fiction: Transforming Identities". Flinders University. Humanities, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20071108.133216.
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This thesis is an exploration of ancestral narratives in the fiction of Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch. Initially, ancestry in literature creates an historical relationship which articulates the link between the past and the present. In this sense ancestry functions as a type of cultural memory where various issues of inheritance can be negotiated. However, the real value of ancestral narratives lies in their power to aid in the construction of both personal and communal identities. They have the potential to transform these identities, to transgress natural boundaries and to reshape conventional identities in the light of historical experience.
For Keneally, ancestral narratives depict national forbears who narrate the nation into being. His earlier fictions present ancestors of the nation within a mythic and symbolic framework to outline Australian national identity. This identity is static, oppositional, and characterized by the delineation of boundaries which set nations apart from one another. However, Keneallys more recent work transforms this conventional construction of national identity. It depicts an Irish-Australian diasporic identity which is hyphenated and transgressive: it transcends the conventional notion of nations as separate entities pitted against one another. In this way Keneallys ancestral narratives enact the potential for transforming identity through ancestral narrative.
On the other hand, Kochs work is primarily concerned with the intergenerational trauma causes by losing or forgetting ones ancestral narrative. His novels are concerned with male gender identity and the fragmentation which characterizes a self-destructive idea of maleness. While Keneallys characters recover their lost ancestries in an effort to reshape their idea of what it is to be Australian, Kochs main protagonist lives in ignorance of his ancestors life. He is thus unable to take the opportunity to transform his masculinity due to the pervasive cultural amnesia surrounding his family history and its role in Tasmanias past.
While Keneally and Koch depict different outcomes in their fictional ancestral narratives they are both deeply concerned with the potential to transform national and gender identities through ancestry.
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Buonamano, Roberto Law Faculty of Law UNSW. "A genealogy of subjective rights". Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Law, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31948.
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This dissertation is an historical and philosophical study on the development of a subjective concept of individual rights. It takes the form of a history of ideas informed by genealogical methods of inquiry. Rather than seeking an origin for and underlying truth to human rights, it treats human rights as a product of various historical developments which are capable of being investigated in terms of their contingency as well as their continuous traditions. The thesis begins with an analysis of political theory in ancient Greek thought, primarily as a means of suggesting possible alternative political philosophies to the rights-based approach dominant in modern Western societies. The thesis then considers the theologicalpolitical discourse on sovereignty in the early Middle Ages, revolving around the doctrine of divine right and influenced by the function of the Christian Church in defining the nature of government. This is followed by an examination of the emergence of hierarchical, feudal relations and the formulation of feudal rights as based on proprietary notions and coinciding with individual liberties. In the following chapter there is a discussion of the juridical construction of sovereign power that emerged from the reception of Roman law and the development of canon law, the influence of legal textuality on the granting of rights and liberties, and the emergence of a discourse on public right as a way of defining the relationship between the prince and his subjects and thus delimiting sovereign authority. Finally, the thesis considers the legacy of the theory of natural rights and its relationship to forms of liberty, with an analysis of: firstly, the idea of natural rights that developed through canon law and the discussions surrounding the Franciscan poverty disputes; secondly, the role of property rights in the formulation of the rights of liberty; thirdly, the Christian understanding of liberty as a subjective attribute or power through the theo-ontological theory of human nature as represented by the free will; and fourthly, the transformation in Renaissance and early modern legal and political theory of the concept of liberty into a political doctrine about individual autonomy and inherent freedom. The purpose of the dissertation is to describe the multiple and complex historical processes from which the idea of subjective rights has emerged, as a means of understanding how human rights have come to play a seemingly essential role in modern legal and political discourses and practices.
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Rader, Richard Evan. "Shadows on the son Aeschylus, genealogy, history /". Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1189987057.
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Rader, Richard Evan Jr. "Shadows on the Son: Aeschylus, Genealogy, History". The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1189987057.
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Richards, Kelly. "'Rewriting history': Towards a genealogy of 'restorative justice'". Thesis, Western Sydney University, 2007. https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws%3A2494.
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This thesis considers how ‘restorative justice’ has emerged as a legitimate response to crime. It presents the beginnings of a genealogical analysis of ‘restorative justice’ as it applies to criminal justice contexts. It comprises a ‘backwards-looking’ component, in which accepted historical accounts of ‘restorative justice’ are problematised, and a ‘forwards-looking’ component, in which a partial history of discourse of ‘restorative justice’ is presented. I conclude that these silenced discourses might be read as an incomplete and partial history of discourse of ‘restorative justice’. That is, ‘restorative justice’ ‘makes sense’ as an approach to criminal justice partly because of the credence of these discourses, upon which it relies, to some extent, for discursive legitimacy. These diverse and divergent discourses cast the ‘restorative justice’ project not as the unified and stable ‘movement’ as which it is usually portrayed, but as a fragmented and shifting phenomenon, comprised of a loose and heterogeneous assemblage of practices with variegated historical antecedents. Additionally, I conclude that some concerns raised by various scholars in the field – particularly in relation to the potential of ‘restorative practices’ to impact negatively on already marginalised and disadvantaged populations – are validated by this genealogy.
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Richards, Kelly. "‘Rewriting history’ : Towards a genealogy of restorative justice". Thesis, Western Sydney University, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200163/1/56482771.pdf.
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This thesis considers how ‘restorative justice’ has emerged as a legitimate response to crime. It presents the beginnings of a genealogical analysis of ‘restorative justice’ as it applies to criminal justice contexts. It comprises a ‘backwards-looking’ component, in which accepted historical accounts of ‘restorative justice’ are problematised, and a ‘forwards-looking’ component, in which a partial history of discourse of ‘restorative justice’ is presented. I conclude that these silenced discourses might be read as an incomplete and partial history of discourse of ‘restorative justice’. That is, ‘restorative justice’ ‘makes sense’ as an approach to criminal justice partly because of the credence of these discourses, upon which it relies, to some extent, for discursive legitimacy. These diverse and divergent discourses cast the ‘restorative justice’ project not as the unified and stable ‘movement’ as which it is usually portrayed, but as a fragmented and shifting phenomenon, comprised of a loose and heterogeneous assemblage of practices with variegated historical antecedents. Additionally, I conclude that some concerns raised by various scholars in the field – particularly in relation to the potential of ‘restorative practices’ to impact negatively on already marginalised and disadvantaged populations – are validated by this genealogy.
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Lewis, Jeffrey William. "Continuity in German science, 1937-1972 : genealogy and strategies of the TMV/molecular biology community". Connect to resource, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1259777082.
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Lewis, Elizabeth Faith. "Peter Guthrie Tait : new insights into aspects of his life and work : and associated topics in the history of mathematics". Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6330.
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In this thesis I present new insights into aspects of Peter Guthrie Tait's life and work, derived principally from largely-unexplored primary source material: Tait's scrapbook, the Tait–Maxwell school-book and Tait's pocket notebook. By way of associated historical insights, I also come to discuss the innovative and far-reaching mathematics of the elusive Frenchman, C.-V. Mourey. P. G. Tait (1831–1901) F.R.S.E., Professor of Mathematics at the Queen's College, Belfast (1854–1860) and of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (1860–1901), was one of the leading physicists and mathematicians in Europe in the nineteenth century. His expertise encompassed the breadth of physical science and mathematics. However, since the nineteenth century he has been unfortunately overlooked—overshadowed, perhaps, by the brilliance of his personal friends, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) and William Thomson (1824–1907), later Lord Kelvin. Here I present the results of extensive research into the Tait family history. I explore the spiritual aspect of Tait's life in connection with The Unseen Universe (1875) which Tait co-authored with Balfour Stewart (1828–1887). I also reveal Tait's surprising involvement in statistics and give an account of his introduction to complex numbers, as a schoolboy at the Edinburgh Academy. A highlight of the thesis is a re-evaluation of C.-V. Mourey's 1828 work, La Vraie Théorie des quantités négatives et des quantités prétendues imaginaires, which I consider from the perspective of algebraic reform. The thesis also contains: (i) a transcription of an unpublished paper by Hamilton on the fundamental theorem of algebra which was inspired by Mourey and (ii) new biographical information on Mourey.
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Thornton, David Ewan. "Power, politics, status : aspects of genealogy in mediaeval Ireland and Wales". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272458.
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Lotfi, Sarvnaz. "Capitalizing the Measure of Our Ignorance: A Pragmatist Genealogy of RandD". Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99877.
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As the dust of the Second World War began to settle, that which began life in the U.S. as an experimental space in early twentieth century firms became a knowable object of intervention for economics and accountancy alike. Jumpstarted by the war, research and development, or RandD, was pulled into the experimental forays of a new generation of experts, including macroeconomic growth theorists. By explaining growth outputs in terms of RandD inputs, postwar macroeconomists failed to learn the lesson that was so hard won by accountants, namely: that it is the very uncertainty of outcomes which makes experimental inquiry so valuable to society and yet so untenable as capital.Doctor of Philosophy
Over the course of the twentieth century, American "research and development" evolved from an experimental space within a handful of early twentieth century firms, into "RandD"—a knowable object of intervention for experts and regulators alike. Tracing this shift through the lens of accounting history, this dissertation draws out the debates involving RandD accounting which ultimately settled on the treatment of RandD as an ordinary and necessary business expense. Federal laws and regulations, however, continue to treat RandD as if it were a capital investment like any other. The implications of treating RandD as capital are discussed.
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O'Brien, Aaron John. "Friedrich Nietzsche’s "On the Genealogy of Morality" as History Serving Life". Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36198.
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1874 essay "On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life" (HL) presents ideas on how the past ought to be appropriated and how history ought to be written. His 1887 book "On the Genealogy of Morality" (GM) presents an account of the historical development of European morality. Given that Nietzsche appropriates the past through writing in GM, the question arises: does GM put into practice Nietzsche’s earlier ideas from HL concerning how the past ought to be appropriated through the writing of history? I argue that GM does indeed apply some of Nietzsche’s key ideas from HL. In particular, GM remains consistent with HL insofar as it appropriates the past unhistorically, makes use of the monumental and critical modes of history, and appropriates the past in a way that encourages the flourishing of an elite kind of human being. However, Nietzsche’s manner of appropriating the past in GM also diverges from what he espouses in HL. Whereas in HL he emphasizes the usefulness and desirability of forgetting and distorting the past, in GM he exhibits a more notable concern with knowing the truth about the past. I show that this difference in approach is due to the significant change that Nietzsche’s epistemology underwent between the writing of HL and the writing of GM. This difference in approach notwithstanding, the great virtue of illuminating GM through the lens of HL is that it allows us to see more clearly how a lack of concern with truth and knowledge plays a positive role in Nietzsche’s writing of the past in GM. It also helps us to understand why he appropriates the past the way that he does in GM. Just as in HL Nietzsche thought that the past ought to be appropriated in a way that encourages the activity of genius, his writing of the history of European morality in GM is undertaken with the intent to encourage the occurrence and activity of a select kind of human being, a kind of human being that Nietzsche values above all else.
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Shimanuki, Kayoko. "The Locus of Identity:Death, Genealogy, and History in William Faulkner's Works". Kyoto University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/180627.
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Kyoto University (京都大学)0048
新制・課程博士
博士(人間・環境学)
甲第17965号
人博第661号
新制||人||159(附属図書館)
25||人博||661(吉田南総合図書館)
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京都大学大学院人間・環境学研究科共生人間学専攻
(主査)教授 水野 尚之, 教授 廣野 由美子, 准教授 小島 基洋
学位規則第4条第1項該当
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Krisjansen, Ivan A. "A genealogy of unemployment : press representations in South Australia 1890's and 1930's /". Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phk9262.pdf.
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Nigh, Amy. "Genealogy Through the Decolonial Turn: Cultivating Critical Attitudes". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23789.
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This thesis offers a reconsideration of the contentious relationship between Michel Foucault and postcolonial thought through the decolonial turn, by interpreting critique as attitude. The discussion of continuity in Foucault’s work on subjectivity, between his genealogical and ethical periods, leads to an understanding of critical attitude as a mode of critique and self-critique that depends on genealogy as a method of historical inquiry. Meanwhile, the shift away from European modes of rationality described by the decolonial turn in philosophy, proposes an approach to social transformation and the dismantling of Eurocentrism through understanding critique as operative in terms of the decolonial attitude. A comparison of these two attitudes as modes of critique provides common ground for the recognition of their mutual compatibility as techniques for reinterpreting history that also work in the service of contending with coloniality.
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Berger, Kelly A. "Mothers’ Perceptions Of Family Health History And An Online Parent-Generated Family Health History Tool". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307125548.
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Brooks, Robin. "The vital and the positive : a genealogy of the science of man". Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/4750/.
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The thesis presents a historical study of the Enlightenment project for a Science of Man which takes its perspective from the 20th century philosophical 'death of man'. From the contemporary move against humanistic ideals associated already from the 1930's exemplified contrasting interpretations over an Enlightenment Science of Man and its ambitions. In the 1960's Michel Foucault's pivotal approach gave this dispute the perspective of the 'death of man', which this thesis frames in relation to his reading of Kant. This forms a perspective from which to examine Kant's positive ambitions, as Foucault saw them extending beyond Critique. But a second perspective is taken up through what Gilles Deleuze ascribed to an empiricist tradition subjugated under a vitalism. This is indicated by the 'age of Bichat', the French medical tradition which Deleuze contrasted with Foucault's 'rarefied form of positivism'. A genealogical history of the Science of Man frames these as alternative models to a critique of reason, two perspectives derived of the Enlightenment project. The 'age of Bichat' is understood around the French Enlightenment discourse on vitalism modelled on a post-Cartesian concept of the body. This gave the positive ambitions for early 19th century Positivism explored through Saint Simon's 'concept of labour' and August Comte's epistemological critique, intended as substitute for an older Enlightenment model. However, this becomes further complicated by the new positive paradigm of experimental medicine. The effect, during the early Third Republic, was to re-orientate the philosophical perspective on the older project for a Science of Man. This served Henri Bergson's critique of Positivist historical formations, but also the neo-Positive model of Emile Durkheim and the ambition for an autonomous new science that delimits a collective 'order of things'. The dilemma was legitimating vital norms in a modern society. This genealogy situates these as perspectives seen through the 18th century Science of Man from which the vital and the positive remained elements historically resistant to being the determinable object of study.
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Park, Joon. "Music, Motion, and Space: A Genealogy". Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19354.
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How have we come to hear melody as going “up” or “down”? Why does the Western world predominantly adopt spatial terms such as “high” and “low” to distinguish musical notes while other non-Western cultures use non-spatial terms such as “large” and “small” (Bali), or “clear” and “dull” (South Korea)? Have the changing concepts of motion and space in people’s everyday lives over history also changed our understanding of musical space? My dissertation investigates the Western concept of music space as it has been shaped by social change into the way we think about music today. In our understanding of music, the concept of the underlying space is so elemental that it is impossible for us to have any fruitful discourse about music without using inherently spatial terms. For example a term interval in music denotes the distance between two combined notes; but, in fact, two sonic objects are neither near nor far from each other. This shows that our experience of hearing interval as a combination of different notes is not inherent in the sound itself but constructed through cultural and social means. In Western culture, musical sound is often conceptualized through various metaphors whose source domains reflect the society that incubated these metaphorical understandings. My research investigates the historical formation of the conceptual metaphor of music. In particular, I focus on historical formation of the three underlying assumptions we bring to our hearing of music: (1) “high” and “low” notes and motion between them, (2) functionality of musical chords, and (3) reliance on music notation. In each chapter, I contextualize various music theoretical writings within the larger framework of philosophy and social theory to show that our current understanding of musical sound is embedded with the history of Western culture.
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Witztum, Jonathan. "Family resemblance : history, context and coherence". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404876.
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Pulvirenti, Anton. "Wartime Internment: Family, memory and history". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10057.
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This thesis investigates the wartime internment of my paternal grandfather Angelo Pulvirenti, interned in Australia during the Second World War. It investigates his internment in three ways. Firstly, Angelo’s internment is explored in the context of the ‘state of exception’ invoked at the time by the authorities. The state of exception, a legal term describing a sovereign’s ability to override public law in the interests of national security and/or public safety, is the means by which his internment is represented in the studio works. Secondly, the thesis incorporates nineteenth century pictorial Symbolism to manifest the exception in the studio works. And lastly, the thesis applies the exception to the amnesia of the Australian War Memorial regarding the wartime internments, which has become the official version of wartime internment. The studio works construct a new narrative of internment from the official version in terms of familial content and the silence regarding Angelo’s internment. The studio works occupy the space between the official version ofinternment and Angelo’s life narrative during the war. Thus, both the thesis and studio work challenge the official version of internment. The work of Rea Tajiri, Katsushige Nakahashi, Max Klinger, Kandinsky and Gerhard Richter are important on the levels of formal manipulation, myth, symbology and memory. On the theoretical level, Giorgio Agamben, Carl Schmitt, Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière are the main points of contact.
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Turati, F. "FAMILY HISTORY OF CANCER AND FAMILY HISTORY SCORES FOR ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF DISEASE RISK IN FAMILIES". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/215073.
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In the last decades genetic factors are playing an increasingly important role in medical research, given the evidence for the existence of a heritable susceptibility for various diseases, including common cancers, based on reports of families with multiple affected relatives. Epidemiologists have utilized family history, usually of first-degree relatives, as a surrogate for genetic risk, aware that family history reflects the consequences of genetic susceptibilities, shared environment, and common behaviors.
During my PhD I have dealt with two different aspects of family history, i.e., the role of family history of cancer in epidemiological cancer research (Chapter 1) and the use of complex family history score for assessing the level of disease risk in families (Chapter 2).
In particular, I have systematically examined the extent to which a family history of cancer might be a risk factor for cancer within the same cancer site and across multiple cancer sites, analyzing a large and comprehensive dataset based on a network of integrated case-control studies, conducted in Italy and Switzerland since the early 90's. The database included 1468 cases of cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx, 198 of the rhinopharynx, 505 of the esophagus, 230 of the stomach, 2390 of the colorectum, 185 of the liver, 326 of the pancreas, 852 of the larynx, 3034 of the breast, 367 of the endometrium, 1031 of the ovary, 1294 of the prostate, 767 of the renal cell, and a total of 16022 corresponding controls. Unconditional multiple logistic regression models, adjusted for the major possible confounding factors, and a procedure for controlling for multiplicity using a false discovery rate were used. The risk of developing cancer at a particular site was increased, although not always significantly, in subjects with a first-degree relative affected by cancer at the same site, with odds ratios ranging from 1.4 for pancreatic cancer, to 7.4 for ovarian cancer. Several across sites associations emerged, some of which possibly due to shared environmental exposures or lifestyle practices among family members (e.g., alcohol, smoking, unhealthy diet, infections) or to the inheritance of one or more predisposing gene mutations (high penetrance gene mutations, such as BRCA1/2 in breast and ovarian cancer, and/or low penetrance polymorphisms, as those involved in carcinogens metabolism, such as GST genes in oral cancer) or to a combination of both. The analysis I performed confirmed that several associations were stronger for a younger age at diagnosis in relatives. A detailed discussion of the findings is reported in paragraph 4 of Chapter 1.
In addition to the investigation of the role of family history of cancer in cancer etiology, I have performed a statistical evaluation of the performance of different family history scores to recommend the measure that performs best. Family history scores summarize familial information and are used for estimating the familiar risk, i.e. the level of risk for a particular disease among members of that family. The simplest and most common family history scores are the dichotomous measure indicator, positive in families that have at least one relative with the disease, the number of affected family members, and the proportion of affected relatives, which takes into account the size of the family. The other family history scores proposed in the literature are statistics that describe the deviation of the observed situation from the expected risk for each family. More detailed information on family members (affected and unaffected) as well as incidence rates of the diseases of interest in strata of selected covariates are needed to compute these more complex family history scores. To evaluate family history scores’ performance I used two different complementary approaches: a data-derived approach, using data from the Italian HI-WATE study, with the aim of examining the power of various family history scores in predicting a particular diseases (i.e., colorectal cancer), and a simulation approach to evaluate their accuracy of predicting the true familial risk. From 200 simulations for 48 different settings, Reed’s score and FHS2 seem to perform slightly better than the other scores. However, the simple proportion of affected relatives is not so far in terms of predictivity of the true familial risk. The use of this simple score seems therefore justified, at least until stronger evidence is brought for the advantages of using a more complex score.
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Drummond, John Stuart. "The call to training : a genealogy of governmentality in early modern general nursing in the nineteenth century". Thesis, University of Dundee, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262804.
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Harney-Delehanty, Brianna. "Family History of Alcoholism and Stress-Reactivity". Thesis, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=28027029.
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Family history of alcoholism (FHA) is posited to convey its risk on problematic drinking, in part, though how individuals react to stressful situations. Research thus far, however, has found equivocal results, with some studies concluding that FHA is associated with heightened stress-reactivity whereas others have found FHA associated with blunted stress-reactivity. In addition, the preponderance of this research has been conducted using laboratory-based paradigms, thus raising questions about the ecological validity of their findings. The purpose of the current study was to further clarify the association between FHA and affective reactions to two types of stress (social and academic stress) using an ecologically valid, micro-longitudinal research design. Participants were 1,606 undergraduate students (54% women) who completed a baseline survey, including questions related to both maternal and paternal alcohol use, and who subsequently completed a 30-day daily diary in which they reporting on their daily social and academic stress and affective states. Results showed a weaker positive association between social stress and anxiety among individuals with more paternal FHA symptoms, consistent with a blunted stress-reactivity perspective. The current study is the first to use an ecologically valid approach to investigate stress-reactivity in individuals with and without FHA. The results add to the current literature, providing a direction for future research to continue to clarify the nature FHA and stress-reactivity in order to understand the risk incurred by FHA.
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Dunlop, Victoria. "Communication, culture and identity in family history". Thesis, Dunlop, Victoria (1996) Communication, culture and identity in family history. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 1996. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52965/.
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Family history is more than personalized and democratized history: it is a self-conscious search, across space and through time, for a more meaningful sense of self in the present. While mass migration and global communications have made traditional determinants of belonging less relevant, contemporary communication structures, increased leisure time and affluence have made it possible for large numbers of ordinary people to both search for their roots without travelling far from home and to travel to distant homelands to seek their past in the present.
The collection, organization and dissemination of information about people who, for genetic reasons, are regarded as our forbears, is more than a biological jigsaw puzzle. Family history is biographical, highly contextualized and has an inherent narrative drive. The importance of historical constructions in contemporary relations mean that it is a political, as well as a cultural, activity. Although its genealogical roots are conservative, the majority of its practitioners are ordinary people with ordinary pasts who are accumulating a large body of information about hitherto irrelevant past lives. This knowledge, recognized as a valuable commodity by bureaucratic and commercial institutions as well as social historians, has the potential to transform the way people view their relationship to their history and their place in the world.
The construction of family memories, a private and public struggle in which a complex web of texts and materials, both historic and contemporary, interact, is a potentially productive site from which to examine a range of cultural problems - communication structures, political and social formations, intertextuality and narrative processes, constructions of identity and the role of the past in the present. I propose an interdisciplinary framework drawn primarily from cultural studies to examine the family history phenomenon from a number of perspectives. The first section will attempt to explain the growth of family history as a popular pastime in terms of contemporary communication structures, commercial enterprise and political and social formations. It will also examine some of the boundaries of ancestral knowledge, many of which are the result of past biases, the consequences of which persist in the present. Section two is concerned with family history reading practices and the ways in which they sometimes conform to but often resist and criticize cultural and familial myths. Section three explores the significance of the construction of family histories for personal identity and for collective identities based upon common denominators such as race, ethnicity, social class and historical experience, as well as kinship and nation. Finally, in section four, I will examine family history’s potential to resist and transform dominant constructions of the past.
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Graham, Christopher Alan. "Faith and family in the antebellum Piedmont South". Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3609568.
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This dissertation examines the cultural and religious dynamics of the North Carolina Piedmont's non-planter social order. I look in depth at the modernizing elements of antebellum religion, particularly the sensibility of liberality that accompanied institutional development, how church disciplinary procedures adapted to changing social reality, and the formation of middle class style nuclear families under the aegis of evangelical prescription. In addition to using denominational records, I utilize four diaries of ordinary Piedmont residents in extended explorations of how individuals enacted in their private lives the public lessons of evangelicalism. I conclude that an evangelical ethic developed that existed alongside the dominant planter ideology, and that ethic formed the basis for both unity, and dissent, in the late antebellum period.
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Whiting, Gloria McCahon. ""Endearing Ties": Black Family Life in Early New England". Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493445.
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This dissertation explores the attempts of Africans, both enslaved and free, to create and maintain families in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. It makes sense of a remarkable array of historical actors: men like Thomas Bedunah, who plotted a surprising course for his descendants when he chose a spouse of English descent; women like Cuba Vassall, who let her husband secure her firmly in bondage at the very moment the region’s blacks were being freed en masse; and a pair like Mark and Phoebe, who fed their master porridge laced with “Potter’s Lead” in hopes that his death would enable them to find owners closer to their distant families. Pulling together thousands of fragments of evidence, this dissertation contextualizes the everyday lives and beleaguered intimacies of these Africans and many others, revealing patterns in their living situations, gendered relationships, and kin communities that historians have never before recognized. At the same time, the project advances historical arguments related to a range of issues, from the relationship between family and freedom in early New England to the influence of patriarchy on enslaved kin groups in Anglo-America. The project sets forth methodological arguments as well. Contending that historical method has an important bearing on the ability of scholars to understand and portray slaves as fully human, with complete life spans and complicated contexts, “Endearing Ties” makes a case for the importance of reconstructing the lives and trajectories of enslaved individuals in great depth, despite the archival challenges that such an undertaking inevitably entails.History
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Lohse, Konrad R. "Inferring population history from genealogies". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4764.
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This thesis investigates a range of genealogical approaches to making quantitative inferences about the spatial and demographic history of populations with application to two insect systems: A local radiation of high alpine ground beetles (Carabidae) in the genus Trechus and major refugial populations of the oak gall parasitoid Cecidostiba fungosa (Pteromalidae). i) Summary statistics, which make explicit use of genealogical information are developed. Using simulations their power to detect a history of population growth is shown to be higher than that of standard measures such as Tajima’s D for single and multilocus data. The improvement arises from the fact that in contrast to pairwise measures, the new statistics are minimally confounded with the topology. ii) A Bayesian method to reconstructing character states is used to infer the Pleistocene history of populations of high alpine Trechus sampled along a singlemountain range frommitochondrial and nuclear data. Despite evidence for some incomplete lineage sorting, a simple model of a series of extreme founder events out of two refugia during or before the last glacial maximum provides a good fit to the data. iii) A large set of exon-primed, intron-spanning (EPIC) loci is developed for Hymenoptera from EST and genomic data. Amplification success is screened on a range of Hymenopteran species associated with two insect-plant interactions: Oak galls and figs. iv) Borrowing model-based approaches developed to quantify species divergence, the new EPIC loci are used to investigate the relationships between three major European refugia in the oak gall parasitoid C. fungosa. These analyses reveal strong support for an eastern origin, effective ancestral population sizes comparable to insect model species and evidence for recent population divergence during the last interglacial. The results also suggest that there is significant information in minimal samples provided a large number of loci are available. v) Results for the probability of gene tree topologies are derived for a model of divergence with gene flow between three populations. I outline how the asymmetries in the frequency of gene tree topologies may be used to distinguish incomplete lineage sorting from migration and discuss the results in the context of next generation sequence data from D. melanogaster and humans and Neanderthals.
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Skubby, David. "A History of Medical Practices in the Case of Autism: A Foucauldian Analysis Using Archaeology and Genealogy". University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1333409026.
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Worsencroft, John C. "A Family Affair: Military Service in the Postwar Era". Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/469565.
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HistoryPh.D.
Prior to World War II, the typical American Soldier was young and unmarried. As the old saying in the service went: if they wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued one to you. Today’s servicemember is most likely married and we customarily thank our military families in the same breath as those who wear the uniform. This dissertation is the story of how “support our troops” came to encompass the broader community of military families and how this fundamentally changed the military. Rooted in cultural and gender history, my dissertation argues that changing gender roles in the domestic sphere (i.e., fatherhood, motherhood, breadwinner, and homemaker) had a profound impact on martial roles in the military world, and vice versa. In the postwar era, as domestic roles were beginning to change, more and more married men enlisted in the Army and the Marine Corps, forcing the services to craft policies to accommodate families. Large numbers of married men in uniform was a new development in the United States, and my dissertation shows how marriage transformed civil-military relations. My dissertations addresses questions that are crucial to both the history of the military as well as American cultural life in the second half of the twentieth century. Just as military life became more family friendly, and as the services expanded opportunities for women, far fewer Americans overall chose to share in the burden of national service. Although military policymakers crafted policies to make military life more attractive, they contributed to its further isolation from the broader population by providing generous social services for military families increasingly inaccessible to other American families. Embedded within these contradictions is the story of what it meant to be an American after the Vietnam War.
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Higgins, Rawinia R., i n/a. "He kupu tuku iho mo tenei reanga : Te ahua o te tuku korero". University of Otago. Te Tumu - School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, 1999. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070524.121050.
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The primary objective of this thesis focuses on the nature of transmission of oral narratives, based on the relationship formed between the recipient and the source.
It will be argued that based on the nature of the relationship between these people knowledge is passed on.
It will highlight these relationships within a whanau context, especially the koroua and the mokopuna.
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Williams, Erin Colleen. "A History Revealed: The Inventions of Minnie Eureka Young". VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/99.
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With my thesis work I question the evidence of history and how this evidence is read. I examine the theory of fractured history and alternate history, two examples of how perception of the past is completely altered when the science of reality is merged with imagination and mystery. As a vehicle for this examination, I use my own family history, something I am familiar with on many levels but also completely foreign to. As a curator of the story of my own history, I ask, "How can we know what is real?" and "If I say it is real, does that make it so?"
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Leviner, Betty Crowe. "The Page Family of Rosewell and Mannsfield: A Study in Economic Decline". W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625407.
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Sridharan, Preetham. ""Agglutinating" a Family| Friedrich Max Muller and the Development of the Turanian Language Family Theory in Nineteenth-Century European Linguistics and Other Human Sciences". Thesis, Portland State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10742847.
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Some linguists in the nineteenth century argued for the existence of a “Turanian” family of languages in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, claiming the common descent of a vast range of languages like Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, Mongol, Manchu, and their relatives and dialects. Of such linguists, Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) was an important developer and popularizer of a version of the Turanian theory across Europe, given his influence as a German-born Oxford professor in Victorian England from the 1850s onwards. Although this theory lost ground in academic linguistics from the mid twentieth century, a pan-nationalist movement pushing for the political unity of all Turanians emerged in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire from the Fin-de-siècle era. This thesis focuses on the history of this linguistic theory in the nineteenth century, examining Müller’s methodology and assumptions behind his Turanian concept. It argues that, in the comparative-historical trend in linguistics in an age of European imperialism, Müller followed evolutionary narratives of languages based on word morphologies in which his contemporaries rationalized the superiority of “inflectional” Indo-European languages over “agglutinating” Turanian languages. Building on the “Altaic” theory of the earlier Finnish linguist and explorer Matthias Castrén, Müller factored in the more primitive nomadic lifestyle of many peoples speaking agglutinating languages to genealogically group them into the Turanian family. Müller’s universalist Christian values gave him a touch of sympathy for all human languages and religions, but he reinforced the hierarchical view of cultures in his other comparative sciences of mythology and religion as well. This picture was challenged in the cultural pessimism of the Fin de siècle with the Pan-Turanists turning East to their nomadic heritage for inspiration.
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Orser, Joseph Andrew. "American Family, Oriental Curiosity: The Siamese Twins, the Bunker Family, and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Society". The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1280347273.
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Puerta, Juan Manuel. "Essays on the Economic History of the family". Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/32042.
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This thesis studies the economic effects of child labor and compulsory schooling laws (CLLs and CSLs). In the first two chapters I study the consequences of the enactment of CSLs on education and fertility. I use a combination of a difference-in-difference (DID) methodology with an identification strategy based on legislative borders to find that the laws increased enrollment by 7% and educational attainment by about 0.3 years of education over the long run. As for fertility, I find that CSLs imply a contemporaneous reduction in fertility of about 15%. In the long run, women that received compulsory education were expected to have approximately 0.15 to 0.3 fewer children. In the third chapter of this dissertation I look at the effect of CLLs on industrial performance. I find that industries that initially relied extensively on child labor suffered a significant reduction in growth as a consequence of the social legislation. I conjecture that the potentially sizable but narrowly concentrated effects of CLLs could explain why child labor is still common in the developing world today.Esta tesis estudia los efectos económicos de las leyes de trabajo infantil (CLL) y educación obligatoria (CSL). En los primeros dos capítulos, se exploran las consecuencias de la implementación de una CSL en los niveles de educación y fecundidad. Utilizando una metodología que combina diferencia-en-diferencias (DID) con una estrategia de identificación basada en las fronteras legislativas, se encuentra que estas leyes incrementaron la escolarización en un 7% y, en el largo plazo, el número de años de educación en 0.3. En cuanto a fecundidad, se halla que una CSL implica una reducción contemporánea de la misma en el orden del 15%. En el largo plazo, las mujeres que recibieron educación tienen aproximadamente 0.15 a 0.3 hijos menos. En el tercer capítulo de esta tesis se estudian los efectos de una CLL en el desempeño de la industria. Se encuentra que las industrias que al principio dependían ampliamente del trabajo infantil sufren una reducción significativa en sus tasas de crecimiento como consecuencia de la legislación social. Se conjetura que el hecho que estos efectos sean potencialmente grandes, aunque concentrados en unos pocos agentes, podría ser la razón por la cual el trabajo infantil es aún hoy tan común en el mundo en desarrollo.
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Balka, Hannah. "Characterizing pediatric narcolepsy: family history and familial autoimmunity". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459438689.
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Bitter, James Robert, i J. Carlson. "The History of Marriage, Family, and Couples Therapy". Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5215.
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Book Summary:
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family and Couples Counseling is a new, all-encompassing, landmark work for researchers seeking to broaden their knowledge of this vast and diffuse field.
Marriage and family counseling programs are established at institutions worldwide, yet there is no current work focused specifically on family therapy. While other works have discussed various methodologies, cases, niche aspects of the field and some broader views of counseling in general, this authoritative Encyclopedia provides readers with a fully comprehensive and accessible reference to aid in understanding the full scope and diversity of theories, approaches, and techniques and how they address various life events within the unique dynamics of families, couples, and related interpersonal relationships.
Key topics include: Assessment Communication Coping Diversity Interventions and Techniques Life Events/Transitions Sexuality Work/Life Issues, and more
Key features include: More than 500 signed articles written by key figures in the field span four comprehensive volumes Front matter includes a Reader’s Guide that groups related entries thematically Back matter includes a history of the development of the field, a Resource Guide to key associations, websites, and journals, a selected Bibliography of classic publications, and a detailed Index All entries conclude with Further Readings and Cross References to related entries to aid the reader in their research journey