The Irish peace process is heralded as a success among insurgencies that attempt transitions toward peaceful resolution of conflict. After thirty years of armed struggle, pitting Irish republicans against their loyalist counterparts and the British State, the North of Ireland has a reconfigured political landscape with a consociational governing body where power is shared among several parties that hold divergent political objectives. The Irish Republican Movement, whose main components are the Provisional Irish Republican Army, a covert guerilla armed organization, and Sinn Fein, the political party of Irish republicans, initiated peace that led to all-inclusive talks in the 1990s and that culminated in the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998, setting out the parameters for a non-violent way forward. Given the traditional intransigence of the IRA to consider any route other than armed conflict, how did the leadership of the Irish Republican Movement secure the support of a majority of republicans for a peace initiative that has held now for more than fifteen years? This dissertation explores the dynamics of leadership in this group, and in particular, focuses on the prisoner resistance waged by its incarcerated activists and volunteers. It is the contention here, that various prisoner resistance tactics enabled a wide-ranging group of captives to develop the skill set necessary to persuade their community to back the peace initiative, engage in electoral politics, mobilize their supporters to invest in attaining a united Ireland by peaceful negotiations, and put down their arms in a permanent and unequivocal manner. In this dissertation, the work of Paulo Freire is explored in order to capture the processes inherent the resistance-leadership continuum.

During the course of my dissertation I demonstrate the way in which Anglo-Indian women writers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century diverge from the genre of the "feminine picturesque" as explained by Sara Suleri in her book, The Rhetoric of English India. I look too, at what Indo-English women use as a genre, instead of the "feminine picturesque". I also apply Spivakean ideas on representation to their writing in order to see the similarities and differences between my primary texts and the theory. I begin my dissertation by explaining what Sara Suleri means by the "feminine picturesque" and how I intend using it to better understand the primary texts I look at. I also explain Spivak's ideas on representation and how I intend using them to further my appreciation of Anglo-Indian and Indo-English writing of this period. I conclude my thesis by discussing my findings with regard to the theorists looked at, and how their ideas have been reflected in the four principal texts I examined. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2001.

This thesis contends that Anglo-Saxon studies made a powerful contribution to Thomas Jefferson's development of public concepts of American identity and nationalism in ways that have been elided by scholars preoccupied with Jefferson's classicism. Jefferson's comprehensive survey of Anglo-Saxon grammar, language, law and emigration provided him with a precedent for revolution and helped him develop a model of American nationhood. Jefferson's detailed study of the Anglo-Saxon era set him apart from writers on both sides of the Atlantic in the period 1750-1860, and this thesis will argue that to generalize his interest as 'whig history' or a subscription to a theory of Teutonic superiority is unjustified. Chapter One considers Jefferson's educational background, his exposure to Anglo-Saxon history and the degree to which he might have been encouraged to pursue it. Previous studies of Jefferson's Anglo-Saxonism have presumed that there was a 'Gothic font' from which American Founding Fathers could drink; the detailed study of Anglo-Saxon historiography in this chapter will show otherwise. Chapter Two is concerned with a detailed examination of the collections of books relating to Anglo-Saxon history and language that Jefferson collected throughout his lifetime. If Jefferson was concerned with whig dialogues, or interested in the Saxons as a product of a passion for Tacitus we should find evidence of it here. In fact, the study of Jefferson's library in Chapter Two demonstrates that Jefferson was genuinely an expert Anglo-Saxon scholar and regarded that knowledge base as a political tool. Chapters Three and Four constitute detailed examinations of the nationalist use to which Jefferson put his understanding of early English history. Chapter Three considers the problem of shared heritage with Britain confronting the American statesman in the 1760s and 1770s and his employment of pre-Norman history in resolving this conflict. Chapter Four enlarges upon the study of American national identity, with specific reference to the linguistic debates following on the Revolution. This chapter revolves around a reconsideration of Jefferson's Anglo-Saxon Essay and his attempts to introduce this language into the education of future American statesmen. Jefferson's examination of Anglo-Saxon history, when considered in this light, seems oddly discordant with the simplistic notion of Jefferson as a founder of Teutonic superiority. Chapter Five is interested in Jefferson's impact on historical rhetoric in the nineteenth century. Thomas Jefferson used English history as an aid to separating an American nation from the British Empire and he believed that Americans could look to their Anglo-Saxon ancestors for a precedent that would justify their independence from Britain. He saw in Anglo-Saxon studies a means for appropriating those parts of English history that could underpin a national identity defined by freedom, initiative, and perhaps a racial predilection for democracy, while simultaneously rejecting Britain's authority in his present.

Magister Library and Information Studies - MLIS / Although Resource Description and Access (RDA) has been discussed extensively amongst the ranks of cataloguers internationally, no research on the perceptions of South African cataloguers was available at the time of this research. The aim of this study was to determine how well RDA was faring during the study's timeframe, to give a detailed description regarding cataloguer perceptions within a higher education setting in South Africa. Furthermore, to determine whether the implementation of RDA has overcome most of the limitations that AACR2 had within a digital environment, to identify advantages and/or perceived limitations of RDA as well as to assist cataloguers to adopt and implement the new standard effectively. The study employed a qualitative research design assisted by a phenomenological philosophy to gain insight into how cataloguers experienced the implementation and adoption of RDA by means of two concurrent web-based questionnaires. The study concluded that higher education cataloguing professionals residing in the Western Cape were decidedly positive towards the new cataloguing standard. Although there were some initial reservations, they were overcome to such an extent that ultimately no real limitations were identified, and that RDA has indeed overcome most of the limitations displayed by AACR2. Many advantages of RDA were identified, and participants expressed excitement about the future capabilities of RDA as it continues toward a link-data milieu, making library metadata more easily available. As this research has revealed a distinctly positive attitude from cataloguers' two main matters for future research remains, being: ? Why South African participants in this study voiced almost no perceived limitations to RDA as a cataloguing standard. Future research might be able to relay information regarding this trend, especially in the light that it was not a global phenomenon. ? A deeper look might have to be taken at how participants' experienced RDA training as this phenomenon might be closely linked to the reasons why the participants did not mention more limitations.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-08-31T17:44:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TIAGO GONÇALVES PEREIRA ARAÚJO - TESE PPGEA 2013..pdf: 677256 bytes, checksum: 6f4318418a6df363bbc549759d4283ba (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-31T17:44:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TIAGO GONÇALVES PEREIRA ARAÚJO - TESE PPGEA 2013..pdf: 677256 bytes, checksum: 6f4318418a6df363bbc549759d4283ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10 / CNPq / Capes / O objetivo deste trabalho foi de determinar a adaptabilidade e características nutricionais de caprinos Anglo Nubiano em diferentes temperaturas. O trabalho foi desenvolvido, em uma câmara bioclimática, utilizando-se seis caprinos machos e castrados, que foram submetidos a quatro condições climáticas, 20oC - temperatura de limite inferior da Zona de Conforto Térmico (ZCT); 24oC - dentro da ZCT; 28oC - dentro da ZCT e 32oC - acima da ZCT, com umidade relativa (UR) fixa em 60%. Foram coletados os dados referentes à temperatura do ar (TA), UR, temperatura do ponto de orvalho (TPO) e a temperatura de globo negro (TGN) para a determinação do ITGU, além de parâmetros fisiológicos como a frequência respiratória (FR), frequência cardíaca (FC), temperatura retal (TR) e temperatura superficial (TS) para determinação de teste de tolerância ao calor como o de Ibéria ou Rhoad e testes adaptabilidade como o de Benezra (CA1 e CA2), a determinação dos gradientes térmicos foi feito através da diferença entre as temperaturas retal e superficial (TR-TS) e entre as temperaturas superficial e ambiente (TS-TA) como parâmetro de adaptabilidade. Para a avaliação do comportamento ingestivo foi utilizado a técnica da varredura instantânea a cada cinco minutos. Para o consumo de nutrientes e digestibilidade os animais foram mantidos em gaiolas para ensaio de metabolismo durante todo o período experimental fazendo a coleta total de fezes, ração e sobras de ração. O delineamento experimental foi o inteiramente casualizado, com quatro tratamentos (temperatura), seis repetições (animais). Os dados foram avaliados por meio de análise de variância e, quando significativos, foram comparados pelo teste Tukey a 5% de probabilidade, para a determinação do consumo de nutrientes foi feito análise de regressão. Os resultados de ITGU indicaram que as temperaturas 20 e 24°C conferiram condições climáticas adequadas a raça. Houve diferença estatística com a elevação da temperatura para a TS, FC e FR, sendo que a TR manteve-se constante e dentro da normalidade. Para os parâmetros fisiológicos e gradientes de temperatura, houve efeito de temperatura (P<0,05) com o aumento da temperatura no interior da câmara, assim como os registros para o teste de Ibéria e CA1 e CA2, havendo alteração com aumento da temperatura no interior da câmara. No comportamento ingestivo houve uma maior procura por água com o aumento da temperatura e houve uma diminuição na ingestão de alimentos, porém não houve diferenças para o consumo de nutrientes (CEE, CPB e CFDN). Assim podemos afirmar que caprinos da raça Anglo Nubiano demostraram-se altamente adaptados as condições estudadas. / The objective of this study was to determine the adaptability and nutritional characteristics of Anglo Nubian goats at different temperatures. The work was developed in a climate chamber using six males and castrated, who underwent four climatic conditions, 20oC - temperature lower limit of Thermal Comfort Zone (TCZ); 24oC - within the TCZ; 28oC - within the TCZ and 32oC - above the TCZ, with fixed relative humidity (RH) of 60%. Data relating to air (AT), RH, dew point (DP) temperature and black globe temperature (BGT) for determining the temperature BGT were collected, and physiological parameters such as respiratory rate (RR), heart rate (HR), rectal temperature (RT) and surface temperature (ST) for the determination of heat tolerance as Iberia or Rhoad and adaptability of tests like Benezra (AC1 and AC2), test the determination of thermal gradients was done by the difference between rectal and surface temperatures (RT-ST) and between the surface and ambient temperatures (ST-AT) as adaptability parameter. For the evaluation of the technique of feeding behavior instantaneous scan every five minutes was used. For nutrient intake and digestibility animals were kept in cages for determination of metabolism during the entire experimental period making the total collection of feces, feed and feed leftovers. The experimental design was completely randomized with four treatments (temperature), six replicates (animals). Data were evaluated by analysis of variance, and when significant, were compared by Tukey test at 5% probability for determining the nutrient intake regression analysis was done. The results indicated that the BGHI temperatures 20, 24 °C gave adequate weather race. Statistical difference was observed with increasing temperature for the ST, HR and RR, and the RT remained constant and within normal limits. For the physiological parameters and temperature gradients, temperature effect was observed (P<0.05) with increasing temperature within the chamber, as well as the records for the Iberia and AC1 and AC2 test, with change with increasing temperature inside the chamber. Chewing behavior there was a greater demand for water with increasing temperature and there was a decrease in food intake, but there were no differences for the consumption of nutrients (EEC, CP and NDF). Thus we can say that Anglo Nubian goat breed is demonstrated highly-adapted conditions studied.

South African studio pottery of the later twentieth century has consistently been described as ‘Anglo-Oriental’, because it was perceived to adhere to the standard forms of utilitarian wares in plain or subdued colours and decorations, as promoted by the Anglo-Oriental tradition of studio pottery. This dissertation investigates the validity of such an epithet, based on evidence that the pioneer South African studio potters and their successors were exposed to broader pottery influences, and that the oeuvres which they developed reflect what they borrowed, adapted and re-interpreted from such influences. The studio pottery careers and influences of the pioneers Esias Bosch, Hyme Rabinowitz and Bryan Haden are discussed, and the oeuvres of the second generation of studio potters are also investigated. Attention is given to both the ethics and aesthetics of their studio pottery practices. The dissertation further explores whether the era’s studio potters contributed towards the creation of a distinctive South African pottery identity. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M.A. (Art History)

x, 208 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / The scattered instances depicting material literature in Anglo-Saxon poetry should be regarded as a group. This phenomenon occurs in Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Husband's Message. Comparative examples of material literature can be found on the Ruthwell Cross and the Franks Casket. This study examines material literature in these three poems, comparing their depictions of material literature to actual examples. Poems depicting material literature bring the relationship between man and object into dramatic play, using the object's point of view to bear witness to the truth of distant or intensely personal events. Material literature is depicted in a love poem, The Husband's Message, when a prosopopoeic runestick vouches for the sincerity of its master, in the heroic epic Beowulf when an ancient, inscribed sword is the impetus to give an account of the biblical flood, and is also implied in the devotional poem The Dream of the Rood, as two crosses both pre-and-post dating the poem bear texts similar to portions of the poem. The study concludes by examining the relationship between material anxiety and the character of Weland in Beowulf, Deor, Alfred's Consolation of Philosophy, and Waldere A & B. Concern with materiality in Anglo-Saxon poetry manifests in myriad ways: prosopopoeic riddles, both heroic and devotional passages directly assailing the value of the material, personification of objects, and in depictions of material literature. This concern manifests as a material anxiety. Weland tames the material and twists and shapes it, re-affirming the supremacy of mankind in a material world. / Committee in charge: Martha Bayless, Chairperson, English; James Earl, Member, English; Daniel Wojcik, Member, English; Aletta Biersack, Outside Member, Anthropology

This documentary dissertation contributes to scholarly understanding of the history of missionary endeavours in Natal and Zululand by making accessible a carefully edited compilation of documents written by Norwegian missionaries in those areas between 1844 and 1899. From thousands of pertinent extant documents, the editor has selected a representative crosssection of the most revealing letters and reports that Lutheran and other missionaries sent to their sponsoring organisations and the related periodicals. Each document has been translated from Norwegian into English, suitably excised of superfluous material, and given a brief introduction. Annotations explain theological jargon and identify people, places, and phenomena to which the writers of these letters and reports referred. The documents are divided into four chapters, each of which begins with an introduction by the editor. An introductory chapter provides information about the Norwegian missionaries in question, the general history of their work, the nature of the correspondence, and the consequences of the failure of many other historians of foreign rnissions in Southern Africa to avail themselves of this invaluable historical source. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)

[pt] Procuro perceber se uma parte significativa do imaginário descrito na literatura canônica portuguesa está marcada pela relação de dependência estabelecida ao longo de séculos com a Inglaterra. Tomando o procedimento da descrição como algo que nunca é ideologicamente neutro e tematizando também o lugar a partir de onde escrevo, indago se as cicatrizes comumente encontradas em textos de ex- colônias também aparecem na produção literária portuguesa. Apesar de Portugal já ter sido apontado por estudiosos de várias áreas como um país que fora historicamente submetido pela Inglaterra a uma espécie de colonialismo, esta perspectiva, em geral, não é levada em consideração nos estudos literários. Considerando a situação de semicolônia como uma singularidade cultural, proponho uma estratégia de leitura para textos nela produzidos utilizando a experiência dos estudos culturais e conceitos desse espaço e tempo - também teóricos - chamados de pós-coloniais. Talvez, então, outra singularidade se desdobre: a relação de contigüidade entre as literaturas da ex-metrópole e das ex-colônias. O recorte temporal foi feito em torno da data do Ultimatum, 1890, por isso o estudo de caso recai sobre Eça de Queiroz. / [en] I try to notice if the dependence relation established along the centuries with England marks a meaning part of the imaginary described in the Portuguese canonical literature. Supposing that the description procedure is something that is never ideologically neutral, and also taking into account the place where I write from - Brazil - , I do observe if the scars that are usually found in ex- colonies also appear in the production of Portuguese literature. Although Portugal has already been indicated by studious from many areas as a country that was historically submitted to England as a sort of colonialism, this perspective, in general, is not considered among literature studies. Considering the situation of semi colony as a cultural singularity, I suggest a reading strategy for texts pertaining to this semi colony literature making use of the experience of cultural studies and concepts from this time and space - either theoretical - called post- colonials. Maybe, then, another singularity is unfolded: the contiguity relation between the literatures of the ex- metropolis and the excolonies ones. The temporal cutting was made surround the date of the Ultimatum, 1890, this is why the study remits me to Eça de Queiroz.

This thesis presents an analysis of the English-language work of three Welsh writers during the eighteenth century, spanning the period of the 1750s to 1794. During this period, the British state consolidated its power following the last of the significant internal uprisings in 1745, and attempted to create a British nation with internal unity. Such a unity entailed a renegotiation of older national identities as subjects attempted to partake of multiple identities simultaneously. In Wales, the manifestation of multiple identities was especially clear, as the language of the state did not accord with the mother tongue of the majority of Welshmen. Though Welsh literati had written in English since before the Act of Union (1536), choosing to write in English becomes more interesting for the critic during such a time of change. Previously, these works have been treated as aberrations, or literary curiosities less worthy of note than the Welsh-language productions of the same authors. This thesis argues that, instead, they should be analysed as offering an insight into these authors’ conception of Britain, and their place within the state and the new nation, both in the choice of language and the topics considered. As a theoretical basis for these analyses, I consider the concept of Prydeindod from the work of philosopher J.R. Jones, as distinct from the idea of Britishness, and as a way of complicating Anglocentric or binary discussions of Britishness. This in turn informs readings of the English-language productions of Welsh writers in the eighteenth century, and shows that their negotiations of new identities are not as forthright as has previously been assumed.