Search for dissertations about: "Hanna Hodacs"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Hanna Hodacs.
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1. Converging World Views : The European Expansion and Early-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Swedish Contacts
Abstract : The nineteenth-century colonial project transformed conceptions of the globe in ways that reflect the increase in European power over the rest of the world. This study investigates a rather neglected aspect of this process: the development of new images of the world within Europe, and specifically in Britain and Sweden, during the first half of the century. READ MORE
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2. Trees of Knowledge : Science and the Shape of Genealogy
Abstract : This study investigates early employments of family trees in the modern sciences, in order to historicise their iconic status and now established uses, notably in evolutionary biology and linguistics. Moving beyond disciplinary accounts to consider the wider cultural background, it examines how early uses within the sciences transformed family trees as a format of visual representation, as well as the meanings invested in them. READ MORE