Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925) facilitated the development of New Thought in America. She worked for sixteen months as editor of the Christian Science Journal under Mary Baker Eddy. In 1886 she relocated to Chicago and founded the Emma Curtis Hopkins College of Christian Science. By 1887 there were twenty-one national Hopkins associations. In 1888, with a feminist self-consciousness, she founded a Theological Seminary and her graduates and ordinands, who were primarily female, served as missionaries, ministers, teachers and practitioners of personal growth and prosperity through metaphysical healing. She taught the founders of the Unity School of Christianity, Divine Science, Religious Science and Home of Truth, which earned her the title "teacher of teachers." Current original research reveals she was the founder of organized New Thought, but had gone unrecognized because she withdrew from self-promotion. Hopkins's contributions were further veiled by various New Thought polemics of the 1880s and 90s. She travelled abroad as a teacher, making New Thought an American export. Her later years were spent living semi-reclusively in New York as a mystic ministering to the "movers and shakers" of the art, drama and literary communities of the early twentieth century. She championed civil and social rights of African and Native Americans through her personal ministry, and left a legacy of numerous books and pamphlets of mysticism and religion that are still being read and taught by members of the New Thought community today. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-08, Section: A, page: 2957. / Major Professor: Leo Sandon. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.

The purpose of this treatise is to place military and dance music genres found in the music manuscript books of the Hitchcock Collection of flute music housed in the Warren D. Allen Music Library at Florida State University and the Hitchcock Papers in the Music Division of the Library of Congress within the context of Ethan Allen Hitchcock's life (1798-1870) in order to correlate his activities as military officer and flutist to the social structures of his professional and private life. / There are nine music manuscript books in the Hitchcock Collection which are broadly representative of American musical traditions during the nineteenth century and serve as partial cultural and musicological records of pre-Civil War America. The military band arrangements in the Library of Congress specifically provide information about much of the history of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point, New York between 1830-1833 and the Third Regiment of Infantry Band between 1841-1846 as they moved from Tallahassee, Florida to Jefferson Barracks (St. Louis), Missouri, and finally to Corpus Christi, Texas. The military and dance music genres in the manuscript books provide additional information about the Academy Band for the years 1817-1833, as well as information about social dance principally in West Point, New York during 1817-1833, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana during 1822-1823. Additionally, there are loose music manuscripts in the Hitchcock Collection which provide insight into military music and social dance at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania during 1854-1855. / Hitchcock's activities as a military officer and musician are outlined in the prose journals he recorded during the years 1816 to 1868, and the principal source for quotations from them in this treatise is the "W. A. Croffut Papers, Copy of Hitchcock Memoirs," Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. These have been verified for accuracy against the original diaries in the "Ethan Allen Hitchcock Papers" at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Archival Collections in Tulsa, Oklahoma. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1171. / Major Professor: Dale A. Olsen. / Thesis (D.M.)--The Florida State University, 1995.

Nikolaus Gengenbach's Musica nova: Newe Singekunst ("New Music: New Art of Singing") is a school music textbook that was published in 1626 during Gengenbach's tenure as cantor of the Zeitz city schools. Gengenbach was one of the most progressive educators of the early seventeenth century, and in his textbook he utilized new methods for teaching musical skills. Gengenbach was also one of the first educators to point his students toward the new Italian or Italian-influenced composers, such as Viadana, Schein, and Schutz, for models, rather than looking back at the masters of an older generation. / Musica nova is divided into three sections: theoretical, in which the fundamental elements of music are explained; practical, which consists of a series of graduated practice exercises keyed to the material in the first section; and terminological, which is a glossary of Greek, Latin, and Italian musical terms. Progressive features of the treatise include Gengenbach's advocacy of two new solmization methods, bobization and bebization, and his use of octave equivalence to teach intervals larger than the sixth. / The dissertation is a complete translation of Gengenbach's work, along with a transcription of the original text into modern German characters. The commentary describes Gengenbach's career as a cantor and educator, and examines his pedagogical methodology as revealed in Musica nova. Other chapters discuss bobization and bebization, Musica nova's place in the history of Protestant school music texts, and the musical content of the treatise. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 2933. / Major Professor: Jeffrey Kite-Powell. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.

Cast in the dual genre of ethnographic biography, this thesis is focused on the life, work and vision of the late Edward Ned Mippy, an Aboriginal Elder of the Yuat Nyoongara Community who devoted the latter years of his life to promoting and developing the cultural identity of his people. As biography, it portrays the life of Mr. Mippy with particular emphasis on the factors which help to highlight his understandings and his vision for an Indigenous cultural renewal. As ethnography, the study is intended as a vehicle for wider concerns, evoking an interpretative glimpse of his community and contributing a new perspective of that community as a continuing social entity.These aims are broadly set forth in the brief introduction. The first chapter of the thesis then outlines the origin and development of the research project and the evolution of its methodology. Chapter two presents a picture of Mr. Mippys life experience, largely in terms of his own recorded memories and perceptions, while chapter three places his later life in a community context which includes historical, personal and demographic perspectives. The following two chapters, four and five, present various accounts of the work undertaken by Edward Mippy. They offer a glimpse of his cultural knowledge, seeking to explain the nature of his vision and the way in which his goals were implemented. The sixth chapter aims to situate his life and work in the wider social and academic discourses of Indigenous identity. The thesis then concludes with an interpretation of Mr. Mippys personal understandings regarding the dynamics of cultural transmission and its importance for future generations.

The thesis is concerned with the construction of women's authority as it is manifested in biographical speech; that is, in written or oral narratives, or sub-narratives, about others. The emphasis is on women's biography but certain other genres (notably gossip and the biographical research interview) are also examined.The central premise is that women as patriarchal subordinates are significantly disadvantaged in the cultural processes that construct (public) authority; also, that speaking about (defining) both ourselves and others is a significant means by which we construct knowledges - an important basis for authority. Women's collusion with patriarchal structures and processes, whether this be conscious or unconscious, creates problems with the construction of their authority on numerous levels in public and private domains. Moreover, even when women intend to operate subversively from sites of resistance, and when they succeed in doing so to some extent, the workings of power through discourse often render the overall effect of subversion to be consistent with, and ultimately supportive of, dominant ideology.The thesis examines a variety of aspects of these complex dynamics as they apply to women in the context of contemporary western societies. To this end, the first and last chapters consider women's relations to formal biography with the aim of identifying their (historic) engagement with lifestorying. Two chapters discuss the psychological/ideological aspects of biographical authority with relation to western women's subjectivities. And two chapters analyse the political and ethical implications of postmodernist/postcolonial theory on women's biographical speech. The study concludes that women's authority manifested in biographical speech is undoubtedly problematic but that feminist-inspired initiates continue to be productive.

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This thesis is concerned with the life and career of Sir Philip Baxter (1905-1989), particularly during the period following his arrival in Australia from England in 1950. But the thesis is not a conventional biographical study in terms of either the sources used or its guiding themes. Instead, my subject's values and attitudes are portrayed as reflections of a 'conservative style of thought', a concept developed by Karl Mannheim. This approach, centred on close readings of key texts, permits a deeper understanding of a figure who polarised opinion over a long career as Chairman of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, and as Vice-Chancellor of the University of NSW. My picture of Baxter draws significantly on the Archives of the University of NSW, which provided the bulk of my primary sources, such as correspondence files, typescripts of articles and talks, newspaper clippings, official documents and personal memorabilia. This material is a substantial but curiously unrevealing source for Baxter's life. Although I rely largely on written material, on several important occasions I refer to discussions I had with Baxter's children, colleagues and students. Insights thereby gained into Baxter's childhood reading, and the circumstances of the composition of his play, The Day the Sun Rose in the West, profoundly influenced my portrayal of Baxter. Throughout, I argue for an appreciation of the significance of such material, even though in a more conventional study of an engineer/administrator it would be thought of only marginal interest. In Baxter's case, certainly, careful interpretation of such material enables the construction of a compelling portrait of the man despite the unrevealing primary records and the still often fervently partisan personal recollections of those who knew him. My major conclusion is that previous characterisations of Baxter as a cold war warrior of the post-war period in Australia have failed to appreciate the complexity and coherence of his attitudes and philosophy. Secondly, I demonstrate that the notion of a 'conservative style of thought' captures that complexity as evidenced in the many facets of Baxter's career and interests.

Typescript. Bibliography: leaves 129-130. Includes discographies.

Abstract Annie Heloise Abel (1873–1947) was one of only thirty American women to earn a PhD in history prior to the First World War. She was the first academically trained historian in the United States to consider the development of Indian–white relations and, although her focus was narrowly political and her methodology almost entirely archival-based, in this she was a pioneer. Raised in the bucolic atmosphere of a late-Victorian Sussex village, at the age of twelve she became an actual pioneer when her parents moved to the Kansas frontier in the 1880s. She was the third child and eldest daughter among seven remarkable siblings, children of a Scottish gardener, each of whom obtained a college education and fulfilled the American dream of financial stability and status. Annie Abel’s academic career was one of rare success for a woman of the period and she studied at Kansas, Cornell, Yale, and Johns Hopkins universities. She was the first woman to win a Bulkley scholarship to Yale, where her doctoral thesis won her an American Historical Association award and was published in its annual report. As well as college teaching, for a short time she was historian at the Office (now Bureau) of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC, and was also involved in women’s suffrage issues. She reached the peak of her academic teaching career as a history professor at Smith College in Massachusetts, one of the country’s most prestigious women’s institutions of higher learning. She combined her teaching with research and wrote some minor pieces prior to her major work, a three-volume political history of the Indian Territory during the American Civil War, which was published between 1915 and 1925. Her life took an unexpected turn while on a research sabbatical in Australia when, aged nearly fifty, she found romance and then experienced a disastrous, short-lived marriage. Undeterred, she returned to America and continued to pursue her primary professional interest as an independent researcher, winning grants that took her to England and Canada, until her retirement to Aberdeen, Washington, in the 1930s. During this latter period of her life Annie Abel-Henderson (as she now styled herself) produced no original works but continued to publish editions of historically important manuscripts, work she had begun early in her career. Her research interests also covered early North American exploration narratives and, as an extension of her work on Indian–white relations, she had planned an ambitious, comparative study of United States and British Dominion policy towards colonised peoples. As a reviewer, her historical expertise was long sought by the leading academic history journals of the day. Before her death at seventy four from carcinoma, her final years were busy with war relief work and occasional writing. No full-length work has yet appeared on this pioneer historian and this dissertation seeks to evaluate Annie Heloise Abel’s work by a close reading of her textual legacy—original, editorial and commentarial—and to assess her importance in American historiography.