The dissertation is intended to show whether it is possible for a Roman traveller to make a journey around the Roman world in the year C.E. 210, within 180 days, in a manner similar to that of Phileas Fogg, a character in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days (1874). The Roman's 180-day adventure to complete the journey within the set time incorporates logistics and itinerary on ancient roads, canals and sea voyages, and quotes Horace, Juvenal, Pausanias, Ovid and Strabo. Verne linked the past, an ancient two thousand year old water system in Aden - with his traveller who also visited the site. The Roman traveller will link the past with the present, viewing ancient building and engineering works such as the Lyonnais aqueducts, and the Greek use of curvature in design when building the Parthenon. Parts of such construction remain in situ for the present-day traveller to view. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / (M.A. (Specialization in Ancient Languages and Cultures))

xii, 169 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Medieval Aquitaine was a vibrant region in terms of its politics, religion, and culture, and these interrelated aspects of life created a fertile environment for musical production. A rich manuscript tradition has facilitated numerous studies of Aquitanian sacred music, but to date most previous research has focused on one particular facet of the repertoire, often in isolation from its cultural context. This study seeks to view Aquitanian musical culture through several intersecting sacred and secular concerns and to relate the various musical traditions to the region's broader societal forces. Saint-Martial in Limoges and Toulouse, two musical and cultural centers, illustrate the wider cultural context in Aquitaine, and a survey of select manuscripts shows the development of a musical tradition. An examination of three disparate pieces shows that the repertoire as a whole is a more unified part of Aquitanian culture than previously recognized. / Committee in Charge: Dr. Lori Kruckenberg, Chair; Dr. Marc Vanscheeuwijck; Dr. Marian Smith

This dissertation will critically analyse a gilded bronze Osiris statuette from the Middle Kingdom Period. An attempt is made to verify its authenticity, provenance and probable date of origin, while also gathering information which will help in placing the artefact and others like it in their proper cultural context. Furthermore the value of several investigative techniques employed during the course of this research is also explored. / Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies / M.A. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies)

This doctoral thesis explores the contexts of utopian writing and thinking in the Nahda, the Arab 'Awakening' of the long nineteenth century. Utopian forms of social imagination were responses to fundamental changes in the societies of the Arab-Ottoman world brought about by integration into a capitalist world economy and a European-dominated political system. Much Nahda writing was permeated by a sense of a 'New Age' opening and of wide horizons for future change - and this was not simply illusory, but a direct response to actual and massive changes being wrought in the writers' social world. My study focusses on Egypt and Bilad al-Sham in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, from the early 1830s to the mid-1870s. An initial chapter offers a definition of the social classes and groups which contributed to the Nahda in these years - such as the Beiruti bourgeoisie and the Egyptian-Ottoman official class - drawing on the work of Arab Marxists such as Mahdi 'Amil and social historians such as Bruce Masters. The following chapters deal in detail with writings produced by three distinct cultural formations within the Nahda movement, and with different aspects of their social imagination. Chapter 2 examines the discourse of civilisation (tamaddun) through the work of the Beiruti writers Khalil al-Khuri and Butrus al-Bustani in the 1850s and 1860s. Chapter 3 deals with Nahda writers' sense of their place within the European-dominated world, mainly through translations of geography books made by Rifa'a al-Tahtawi in Mehmed Ali's Egypt in the 1830s and 1840s. Chapter 4 examines the utopian aspirations of the Nahda, through a close study of the major utopian literary work of the period, Fransis Marrash's Ghabat al-Haqq (The Forest of Justice, 1865). Finally, a conclusion places my study in relation to other recent work in the field of 'Nahda studies'.

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Winston S. Churchill was a war leader during two world wars, and yet there are few substantive studies of his younger years when he was a practising soldier. This thesis aims to study the early intellectual development of Churchill in those areas which have direct impact on the art of war. The chapters are arranged narratively (Chapters 2-3) and thematically (Chapters 4-8). The introduction covers the scope and methodology of the work. Chapters 2-3 give an account of Churchill's early years, and trace the development of several prominent features of his character that helped form and inform the presuppositions of his later military intellectual development. Chapter 4 addresses Churchill's interactions with late Victorian cavalry doctrine and debate. Chapters 5-7 each address themes of an expanding scope of influence and conceptualization: first, the tactics of war; second, the policy and strategy of war; and finally, Churchill's conceptions of war. The conclusion summarizes the hallmarks and syntheses of Churchill's early military intellectual development, and identifies judgments which can be drawn about his perspicacity as soldier and commander.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho analisa a reforma urbana realizada pelo prefeito Francisco Pereira Passos no Rio de Janeiro entre os anos 1903 e 1906. A questão da reforma urbana obteve a partir da segunda metade do século XIX uma posição central na maioria das grandes cidades ocidentais. No Rio de Janeiro houve solicitações por obras de remodelação da cidade e encaminhamento de projetos à municipalidade desde a década de 1870. No entanto, a grande reforma urbana que a cidade exigia só foi iniciada em 1903 no governo do Presidente Rodrigues Alves, sob a administração municipal do prefeito Francisco Pereira Passos. O início do período republicano é marcado por um reordenamento da capitalidade da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, mais precisamente a partir de 1891 com a Constituição Republicana. Analisamos como a reforma urbana municipal, implementada diretamente pelo prefeito Francisco Pereira Passos,propôs reafirmar a capitalidade da cidade dentro da nova ordem republicana, através da opção de civilizar o espaço urbano. / The present work analyzes the urban reform done by the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Pereira Passos, between 1903 and 1906. Since the second part of XIX century, the urban reform got a central position in the majority of the bigger occidental cities. In Rio de Janeiro,since the decade of 1870, requests for city remodeling and routing projects to municipality had been done. However, the big urban reform that the city was in need for was only initialized in 1903, during the government of the president Rodrigues Alves, under the municipal administration of the mayor Francisco Pereira Passos. The beginning of the republican period is marked by a reordering of the capitalidade of the Rio de Janeiros city, more precisely since 1891, with the Republican Constitution. We Analyze how the municipal urban reform was directly implemented by the mayor Francisco Pereira Passos. He proposed to reaffirm the capitalidade of the city inside of the new Republican order, through the option of civilizing the urban space.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O presente trabalho investiga os diferentes processos sociais relacionados ao surgimento do transtorno de estresse pós-traumático (TEPT) no contexto brasileiro. Categoria diagnóstica norte-americana instituída na década de 1980 pela terceira edição do Manual Diagnóstico e Estatístico de Transtornos Mentais (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-III) uma publicação da Associação Americana de Psiquiatria (American Psychiatric Association APA) o TEPT tornou-se, desde a sua aparição, uma das categorias nosológicas mais difundidas, estudadas e diagnosticadas da psiquiatria contemporânea. A partir do cotidiano de um laboratório de pesquisa e tratamento do TEPT, de análises conversacionais dos atendimentos médicos, de um estudo das diferentes escalas psiquiátricas utilizadas no acompanhamento dos pacientes e de pesquisas sobre a mídia relacionada às experiências traumáticas buscou-se entender os entrelaçamentos entre os processos de difusão e a construção da legitimidade da categoria diagnóstica do TEPT. A abordagem aqui proposta pretende ir além do aparente dilema entre uma concepção medicalizada que assumem a existência o TEPT como um fenômeno natural e as abordagens sócio-antropológicas que veem o TEPT como uma experiência culturalmente construída. Por fim, pretendo mostrar, pela investigação dos alicerces políticos e culturais dos denominados transtornos mentais, que o estatuto social dos diagnósticos e dos tratamentos da moderna psiquiatria só pode ser compreendido tendo como referência as dinâmicas de longo prazo nas sociedades contemporâneas. / This dissertation examines the social processes related to the reception of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Brazil. Originating in the United States during the 1980, this diagnostic category first appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-III, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association APA. It soon became one of the most studied and diagnosed syndrome of contemporary psychiatry. In order to map out the interrelated processes of diffusion and construction of PTSD I resorted to the analysis of a gamut sources: the daily operation of a research and treatment psychiatric institution, the verbal exchanges between psychiatrists and patients during medical appointments, psychiatric manuals and diagnostic tables and questionnaires, and mass media articles on PTSD. The approach adopted here intends to go beyond the apparent dilemma between a medicalized conception of PTSD as a natural phenomenon and an anthropological approach that sees PTSD as a culturally construed social experience. Finally, I also intend to show that the political and cultural underpinnings of the so called mental disorders cannot be correctly understood without taking into consideration the longue dureé dynamics of contemporary societies.

This thesis addresses the literary representation of food in the period from 1900 through 1945 in the work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. Taking up nineteenth-century fascinations with sensual and aesthetic taste, these authors explore the implications of food preparation and consumption in Britain, America and France. They use representations of everyday culinary practices as a way to examine articulations of anxiety about the state of civilization, a fear that is amplified and altered by both World Wars. The thesis approaches the question of the significance of food to literary modernism in two ways. The first is a theoretical analysis of modernist ways of thinking about the dialectic between the concepts of civilization and barbarism. The second is grounded in material history, establishing the contexts and conditions of food culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on sociological thinking from Norbert Elias's conception of the civilizing process and Pierre Bourdieu's theory of distinction, and using a combined methodology of close reading, biographical and historical analysis, I show that food acts as a lens for these authors' ideas about civil society and modernity. My original contribution to knowledge is threefold. The first is my interpretation of 'culinary Impressionism' as an extension and repositioning of current scholarly thinking about Ford's literary Impressionism. The second is my reading of Stein's and Toklas's jointly-authored cookbook draft as evidence of their collaboration. This forms the crux of my argument about Stein adapting domestic culinary techniques into her other writing. The third is in my chapter on Virginia Woolf. My original archival research shows that in A Room of One's Own Woolf's representation of the financial and culinary difference between men's and women's dining in colleges at the University of Cambridge is justified and the material inequality was in fact worse than previously understood. I argue that the disparity in institutional food intensifies Woolf's later reimagining of the term 'civilization' in Three Guineas. While drawing on the work of modernist studies scholars on modernism and the everyday, civilization, and food, my project is unique in demonstrating that food reflects modernist conceptions of civilization and barbarism. My thesis contributes to the understanding of transatlantic aesthetics and gendered productions of modernism by illuminating the centrality of agriculture, cookery, domestic work and institutional dining to modernist authors.