Search for dissertations about: "19th century"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 180 swedish dissertations containing the words 19th century.

  2. 21. A History under Siege : Intensive Agriculture in the Mbulu Highlands, Tanzania, 19th Century to the Present

    Author : Lowe Börjeson; Mats Widgren; Yusufu Lawi; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Landscape; Environmental history; Geography; Land use change; Population pressure; Incremental change; Landesque capital; Self-reinforcing processes; Detailed mapping; Participatory mapping; Oral history; Farming practices; Aerial photographs; Landscape photographs; Iraqw; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : This doctoral thesis examines the history of the Iraqw’ar Da/aw area in the Mbulu Highlands of northern Tanzania. Since the late nineteenth century this area has been known for its intensive cultivation, and referred to as an “island” within a matrix of less intensive land use. READ MORE

  4. 22. Risk factors for measles mortality : studies from Kenya and 19th century Stockholm

    Author : Bo Burström; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : measles mortality; immunization; crowding; clustering; social factors; child;

    Abstract : Measles kills about 1 million children per year in low-income developing countries. In many industrialized countries, the transmission of measles and its lethal effects have become controlled through immunization and social developments in general. READ MORE

  5. 23. Breast-feeding and reproduction : studies in marital fertility and infant mortality in 19th century Finland and Sweden

    Author : Ulla-Britt Lithell; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History; Historia;

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  6. 24. 'This heaving ocean of tones': nineteenth-century organ registration practice at St Marien, Lübeck

    Author : Joachim Walter; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hermann Jimmerthal 1809–1886 ; Karl Lichtwark 1859–1931 ; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1809–1847 ; Johann Friedrich Schulze 1793–1858 ; Edmund Schulze; Friedrich Ladegast 1818–1905 ; Lübeck St. Marien; Lübeck St. Aegidien; Schwerin Dom Cathedral ; German 19th century organ registration; orchestral registration style; registration analysis; romantic organ music; organ repertoire; organ transcription; organ building;

    Abstract : The dissertation deals with German nineteenth-century registration practice with the example of St Marien, Lübeck. The time investigated covers almost one hundred years, from 1834 until 1929 and the tenures of two organists, Hermann Jimmerthal, a student of Mendelssohn, and Karl Lichtwark, a student of Jimmerthal. READ MORE

  7. 25. Afloat and Aflame. Deconstructing the Long 19th century Port City Gothenburg through Newspaper Archaeology

    Author : Martina Hjertman; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical archaeology; digital history; media history; newspaper archaeology; newspaper studies; urbanity; marginality; othering; suburb; discourse; worldmaking; counter-narrative; counter- voice; modern era; port city; slum; those ‘of little note’; fire; travelogues; Göteborg; Majorna;

    Abstract : In line with the international historical-archaeological discipline, this study aims to increase knowledge of marginalising processes and disenfranchised groups in the past and to contribute to the recognised Swedish need to augment the know-how of researching people ‘of little note’ in urban environments. The study aspires a theoretically engaged empirical alternative for developing new knowledge about urban places which are not possible to excavate or where archaeological data is insufficient, while evincing how digitized historical newspapers can step in as a multifaceted historical- archaeological source. READ MORE