Search for dissertations about: "colony"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 245 swedish dissertations containing the word colony.

  1. 1. Collateral Effect : Slavery and Wealth in the Cape Colony

    Author : Igor Martins; Ekonomisk utveckling i det globala Syd; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Slavery; slave trade; slave emancipation; agricultural history; Cape Colony;

    Abstract : This thesis reassesses the framework we have come to accept around the dynamics of slavery in a series of papers which, together, shed new light on the economics of coercion. Employing a range of newly digitized historical databases covering the economic life and genealogical history of the British Cape Colony through the 18th and 19th centuries, it explores the determinants of labor coercion in light of two significant institutional shocks: the Slave Trade Act 1807, when the transshipment of slaves became illegal, and the Slave Abolition Act 1833 when the possession of slaves was outlawed. READ MORE

  2. 2. Contested Landscapes/Contested Heritage : history and heritage in Sweden and their archaeological implications concerning the interpretation of the Norrlandian past

    Author : David Loeffler; Lars Larsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Scandinavia; Sweden; Norrland; Norrbotten; Västerbotten; Lappland; Ångermanland; Medelpad; Jämtland; Härjedalen; Hälsingland; Gästrikland; history; prehistory; archaeology; philosophy; antiquarianism; heritage; cultural management; identity; Fleck; thought-collective; thought-style; colonialism; colony; periphery; hinterland; kingdom; empire; industrialism; nationalism; romanticism; Sámi; Stone Age; Mesolithic; Neolithic; semi-subterranean; dwelling; typology; C14; shoreline displacement; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; Archaeology; arkeologi;

    Abstract : This case study explores how geo-political power structures influence and/or determine the conception, acceptance and maintenance of what is considered to be valid archaeological knowledge. The nature of this contingency is exemplified through an examination of how the prehistory of Norrland, a region traditionally considered and portrayed as peripheral vis-à-vis the centre-South, was interpreted and presented by Swedish archaeologists during the 20th century. READ MORE

  3. 3. Outside the World : Cohesion and Deviation among Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia

    Author : Anna Sofia Hedberg; Jan-Åke Alvarsson; Bengt G. Karlsson; Lars Hagborg; Simon Coleman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Cultural anthropology; Old Colony Mennonites; community; social cohesion; boundary maintenance; margins; trans-cultural interaction; deviation; anthropology of religion; migration; Bolivia; Kulturantropologi;

    Abstract : This study is about community maintenance and social cohesion among Old Colony Mennonites in Bolivia. The Old Colony Mennonites constitute a Christian minority that traces its origin to the European Anabaptist movement of the 16th century. READ MORE

  4. 4. Grez-sur-Loing revisited. The international artists' colony in a different light

    Author : Alexandra Herlitz; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grez-sur-Loing; French rural artists’ colony; international artists’ community; the Grez Style; the Grez School; nineteenth century painting; juste milieu painting; historiography; factoids; cultural geography; nationalism; lieu de mémoire; Swedish art history of the nineteenth century; Opponents’ Society ‘Opponentförbundet’ ; actor-network;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the rural artists’ colony in Grez-sur-Loing and its art from the heyday of the community, 1875–1885, when artists from North America, England, Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavia were gathering in the French village. The international community has hitherto been viewed separately along national or linguistic lines. READ MORE

  5. 5. RUNX1/AML1 functions and mechanisms regulating granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor transcription

    Author : Hebin Liu; Sven Påhlman; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : RUNX1 AML1; Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor GM-CSF ; Calcineurin; CaMKII; Ets1; Transforming growth factor-b TGF-b ; Smad3; molekylärbiologi; Molecular Biology;

    Abstract : Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a multipotent cytokine involved in the production and function of hematopoietic cells, and GM-CSF plays in particular a major role in responses to infection and physiological and pathological inflammatory processes. GM-CSF is produced in many cell types, and increases in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration are, like in many other systems, of major importance in the intracellular signaling that determines GM-CSF expression after receptor stimulation of the cells. READ MORE