Search for dissertations about: "american university dissertation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the words american university dissertation.

2. 1. Faces of Thoreau in American Literature

   Author : Steven Hartman; Ronald Bosco; State University of New York University at Albany Department of English; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ; Jerome Lawrence 1915-2004 ; Robert E. Lee 1918 -1994 ; Edward Abbey 1927–1989 ; Hayden Carruth 1921–2008 ; Walden; Civil Disobedience; cultural reception; cultural appropriation; literary reenactment; literary activism; intertextuality; iconography; canonization; American literature; reception theory; reader response; nature writing; political writing; literature of protest; cultural critique; biography; hagiography; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Amos Bronson Alcott; William Ellery Channing; James Russell Lowell; Robert Louis Stevenson; Mohandas Gandhi; Henry Salt; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; engelska; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : Doctoral dissertation supervised by Professor Ronald A. Bosco (co-supervised by Professor Judith Johnson and Professor Judith Fetterley), Department of English, University at Albany, State University of New York. READ MORE

4. 2. A revolution in favour of government : the American constitution and ideas about state formation, 1787-1788

   Author : Max Edling; Gordon Wood; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; statsvetenskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : This dissertation analyses the debate over the ratification of the American Constitution between the Federalists, who supported the Constitution's adoption, and the Antifederalists, who opposed adoption. It challenges the traditional interpretation of the Federalist persuasion as primarily concerned with limited government and minority rights. READ MORE

5. 3. Rule by Association : Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868-1912

   Author : John Hennessey; Hans Hägerdal; Alexis Dudden; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; global trans-imperial culture; association; assimilation; Hokkaido; Taiwan; expositions; Japanese colonialism; Japanese Empire; colonial history; colonial administration; Historia; History;

   Abstract : Criticizing one-empire approaches, calls to apply much-needed transnational perspectives and methodologies to colonial history have recently emerged. This groundbreaking scholarship has already revealed that the competition between different European empires after 1850 has typically been overemphasized; in fact, a transnational perspective reveals extensive cooperation between the “great powers” of the age, along with myriad examples of exchanges and transfers of colonial knowledge. READ MORE

6. 4. The effect of honeybee-­specific lactic acid bacteria on american foulbrood disease of honeybees

   Author : Sepideh Lamei; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

   Abstract : The honeybee, Apis mellifera, is one of the most economically important pollinators and highly valued for its honey and wax production. Managed honeybees occupy an increasingly critical role in agricultural productivity and food security. READ MORE

7. 5. The Archival Life of Home Movies : Regional Reflections and Negotiated Visions of a Shared Past

   Author : Ashley Smith; Malin Wahlberg; Patrick Vonderau; Patricia R. Zimmermann; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Home movies; amateur film; non-theatrical film; moving images; archiving; film archives; American South; Mississippi; Jim Crow; race; whiteness; witnessing; ordinary; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

   Abstract : This study investigates the ways in which private home movies are transformed into curated archival objects. Through the concept of the archival home movie, it explores the impact of preservation and content description on access, use, and, thus, regional historiography. READ MORE