Social and Cultural History
A social and cultural history of the New Zealand horse : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History, Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
... the social and cultural history of the New Zealand ...socio- cultural significance here, why do we not celebrate a national horse? The background to my query lies with the fairly recent ...
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Everything old is new again : a social and cultural history of life on the retirement frontier, 1950-2000
... vibrant cultural center for aging Americans with a wide variety of backgrounds, the state provides a rich case-study of the history of post-war retirement, the development of a peer-group culture among ...
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Amateurs, cash amateurs and professionals : a social and cultural history of bicycle racing in New Zealand, 1869-1910
... the social ladder, the middle-classes also needed to exclude the lower orders from their games, thus eliminating associations which could be detrimental to their own social ...
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Battle at long range : correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824 1914, a social and cultural history
... Particular attention is paid here to correspondence chess, the initial starting point of the project, which remains the core area of research. Although, until now, its history is even less explored than that of ...
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The Renaissance in Italy: a Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento
... Ruggiero’s scheme is most liberating here since it relieves the teacher and student from what has become a wearisome trek through fairly rigidly defined stages of humanism and dutiful nods to men who have become as ...
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The Cultural History of the Corset and Gendered Body in Social and Literary Landscapes
... Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920), portray the idealized female in a similar fashion. The House of Mirth (1905) focuses on Lily Bart, a well-bred however impoverished, romantic ...
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California’s Cross: A Cultural History of Pentecostalism, Race, and Agriculture
... interlocking network of farming associations, bureaus, and organizations functioned to regulate the conditions and wages of employment. They colluded to wield power over lives. The most insidious of these measures ...
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Tosca’s Prism: Three Moments in Western Cultural History
... of social organization affected by the Napoleonic regime, such as the legal and fiscal regulations, the state’s control over the church, and the formation of a national ...
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Religio cultural heritage of libation, memory and Obang cultural history, Northwest Cameroon
... great cultural significance and value among ...different social, cultural and even religious groups to the extent that some are given more than just a historical recognition ...
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Traditional Knowledge of Sankardev Than: A Cultural History Paradigm
... For the day to day to activities of the Sattra there is an organization consisting of a number of functionaries with definite sphere of activities. Among the devotees, the person who has the highest authority in ...
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Cultural Studies, History and Cosmopolitanism in UK
... on history in its various traditions but on all aspects of the humanities and social sciences – on sociology, geography, literary studies, gender studies, urban studies, language studies, visual culture, ...
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Ordinary and exotic : a cultural history of curry in Australia
... sophisticated cultural understandings of curry in the mid to late 20 th century, and the incorporation of dishes from other cultures under the label of curry, in different ways articulate Australia’s growing ...
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Historical Perception of Architecture and Cultural History Approach
... about history is probably is the mentioned ...of history and its advantages can be answered from the viewpoint of various scientific knowledge and different domains in life; ...of history in the ...
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Inhabiting the border - A Cultural History of Privacy & Photography
... the social has reached the stage, during the rise of the mass society, where it contains and controls all members of a given community equally and with equal ...the social realm, and that distinction and ...
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A Cultural History of Climate
... The same danger applies to our reading of the past. Because scientists make the claim that past physical climates can be reconstructed, the past begins to emerge in our imaginations as a past that is climate-shaped. It ...
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Book reviews: A new history of yachting; Skiing into modernity: a cultural and environmental history
... The editors of this volume are to be commended for assembling such a wide and stimulating array of case studies. Not least among the merits of these contributions are the future research directions which they prompt us ...
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Labour History Social History Alltagsgeschichte: Experience, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday A New Direction for German Social History?
... This is perhaps more surprising !n the case of Klaus Tenfelde's imposing guide to the current state of international research--nineteen separate historiographical contributions in seven [r] ...
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Social Connections and Cultural Heterogeneity
... increase social connections. First, when a cultural group is sufficiently small, its leader’s marginal cost of effort is sufficiently low, such that the leader can effectively increase social ...
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Theatres of surgery: the cultural pre history of the face transplant
... Surgical innovations enter popular culture in many different ways and forms: as medical miracles, cautionary tales, horror stories and as grist to the satirist’s mill. They make us marvel, shudder and laugh, sometimes at ...
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Social and cultural dynamics in early Marquesan history
... The presence of the muskets, and the fact t h a t the body was in a house by the shore, (to which lotete had himself moved sometime earlier), rather than a sacred place on the fringe of society, deep in the valley, ...
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