Search for dissertations about: "Caribbean Studies"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words Caribbean Studies.

  2. 1. Speleothems from Warm Climates : Holocene Records from the Caribbean and Mediterranean Regions

    Author : Meighan Boyd; Karin Holmgren; Ian J. Fairchild; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Stable isotopes; U-Th dating; trace elements; stalagmite; speleothem; Mid-Holocene; Caribbean; ITCZ; rapid climate change; climate; Eastern Mediterranean; Peloponnese; Santorini; Neolithic; Alepotrypa Cave; Physical Geography; naturgeografi;

    Abstract : This thesis contributes to increased knowledge on Holocene climate and environmental variability from two complex and sparsely studied areas. Using a speleothem from Gasparee Cave, Trinidad, as a paleoclimate archive, the local expression of the 8. READ MORE

  4. 2. Visual Poetic Memory : Ekphrasis and Image-Text in Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Wopko Jensma

    Author : Maria Ioana Zirra; Stefan Helgesson; Bo Ekelund; Stef Craps; Jahan Ramazani; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Visual Memory; Ekphrasis; Image-text; 20th Century Anglophone Poetry; Seamus Heaney; Derek Walcott; Wopko Jensma; The Troubles in Northern Ireland; the Caribbean; Apartheid; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This dissertation traces ekphrastic and image-textual references to European, African and Caribbean visual memory in the work of the three Anglophone poets Seamus Heaney (Northern Ireland), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) and Wopko Jensma (South Africa). READ MORE

  5. 3. Our Side of the Water : Political Culture in the Swedish colony of St Barthélemy 1800–1825

    Author : Ale Pålsson; Leos Müller; Fredrik Thomasson; Holger Weiss; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Caribbean; colonialism; free ports; political culture; print culture; naturalization; intersectionality; neutrality; free people of colour; History; historia;

    Abstract : The small island of St Barthélemy was a Swedish colony 1784–1878 and saw its greatest population growth and trade during the turn of the nineteenth century. This was because of Gustavia, the Swedish founded free port, which attracted mariners from the Caribbean, North America and Europe. READ MORE

  6. 4. Statistical Seismology Studies in Central America : b-value, seismic hazard and seismic quiescence

    Author : David Aníbal Monterroso Juárez; Ota Kulhánek; Stefan Wiemer; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Geophysics; b-value; seismic hazard; Monte Carlo; seismic quiescence; Central America; stress; Geofysik; Geophysics; Geofysik;

    Abstract : The present thesis collects results of research applying theory and methods of statistical seismology to the seismicity of Central America, a region with a complex tectonic setting controlled by the interaction of four major plates, namely the Caribbean, Cocos, Nazca and North American plates.Three different earthquake catalogues were used for studies focused on stress in a tectonic volume, seismic hazard maps and seismicity patterns (precursors), covering the region 94ºW to 81ºW and 5ºN to 20ºN. READ MORE

  7. 5. Synthetic studies of marine indole alkaloids and related systems

    Author : Ann-Louise Jonsson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Marine indole alkaloids; antifouling; synthesis; diketopiperazines; HWE-reaction; bis indole alkaloids; imidates; carbazole alkaloids;

    Abstract : This thesis is mainly focussed oil the synthesis of marine indole alkaloids and related systems, many of which display interesting biological activities. In the first part of this thesis we could establish and confirm the stucture of barettin and 8,9dihydrobarettin, isolated from the marine sponge Geodia baretti. READ MORE