Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1983. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 766-791).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, August 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, Deerfield, Ill., 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-106).

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1988. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Between 2000 and 2015 twelve of the UK’s leading producing theatres premiered twenty three plays by British playwrights where the action was set between 1882-1928. This historical period is significant; in 1882 the Married Women’s Property Act was passed and in 1928 equal enfranchisement for men and women was granted in the United Kingdom, hence, the historical period traces a shift in women’s rights from property ownership to the vote. This thesis investigates narratives within these plays and explores the development of a normative historiography that is drawn on, but predominantly left unquestioned, by playwrights as Britain’s past is reimagined. It is this normative historiography, operating in a theatrical context, which the thesis problematises and interrogates through the lens of contemporary British playwriting. This lens facilitates an exploration of the manner in which the representation of the past mirrors and/or challenges current feminist discourse and considers the cultural implications of the structures and techniques employed to retell women their history through this medium. Scholarship from the fields of academic and popular feminism, theatre studies, history and historiography shape the analytical framework of the thesis. Drawing on literature from these fields, this study conducts historically informed performance analysis that seeks to discover the sociocultural work done by contemporary plays that engage with the past. Archives of thirty British theatres have been surveyed to produce a database of plays that fall within the project boundaries; working with this data, trends and recurring themes have been identified, and subsequently chapters have been shaped to investigate dramaturgical questions in response to the field research. The dramaturgical questions explore: recurring modes of representation in plays that reimagine World War One; the representation of opposition in depictions of historical conflict; the retelling of specific historical narratives in relation to the challenge of staging ideas; and the recurrence of the heteronormative romantic plot. This thesis argues that when the playwright interrogates the normative dramaturgies and tropes they have inherited for historical representation, they assumes the role of historiographer and from this self-reflexive position recurring theatrical conventions for retelling the past are challenged. This perspective shifts attention beyond central patriarchal narratives of the past and facilitates engagement with the multiple avenues of enquiry regarding a historical moment. Engagement with the work of playwrights who foreground a historiographic awareness in their process, further illuminates the dialogue between representations of women in a historical context and contemporary feminist debate.

abstract: The first official history of the Great Patriotic War appeared in the Soviet Union in 1960-1965. It evolved into a six-volume set that elicited both praise and criticism from the reading public. This dissertation examines the creation of the historiographical narrative of the Great Patriotic War in the decade following de-Stalinization in 1956. The debates historians, Party and state representatives engaged in, including the responses they received from reviewers and readers, shed new light on the relationship between the government, those who wrote state-sponsored narratives, and the reading public. The narrative examined here shows the importance and value placed on the war effort, and explores how aspects of the Stalinist period were retained during the Thaw. By focusing on previously unexplored archival material, which documents debates and editorial decisions, an examination of how officials sought to control the state’s explanation of events, motivations and consequences of the war can be examined in-depth. To date, the periodization, terminology and areas of concentration that define the course of the Great Patriotic War are fixated on topics that Stalin’s war narrative favored, assigning significance to events according to Stalinist preferences rather than objective analysis. My study of the war’s historiography shows how contentious its memory became at every level, making it difficult to clearly discern who represented and opposed the party line throughout Soviet society. The author argues that the collective memory of the war, as propagated by the state, became so all-encompassing that it was often the preferred version, infiltrating individual memories and displacing or blending with personal recollections and factual documentation. Because the war touched the entire population of the Soviet Union, its story became the foundational myth of the USSR, replacing the October Revolution, and was used as a legitimizing tool by Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev. Most recently, it has experienced a revival in the post-Soviet period by Vladimir Putin as a way to unify Russia and build popular support for his administration. Viewing how the public interacted with representatives of the state over the creation of the official history of the war suggests that like no other event, war compels any state, even a totalitarian state, to reexamine its foundations, historical memory, foreign and domestic policies and views on censorship. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation History 2016

Orientador: Hélio Rebello Cardoso Junior / Banca: Fernando Felizardo Nicolazzi / Banca: Milton Carlos Costa / Resumo: Inserida na área de História da Historiografia, esta dissertação de mestrado questiona qual é importância da História nas primeiras décadas do século XX, em um cenário de crescente especialização das Ciências Sociais. Para realizar tal investigação, com o intuito de analisar os textos de Pedro Augusto Carneiro Lessa (1859-1921), este trabalho apropriou-se das noções teóricas de "obra" e de "autor" oferecidas por Michel Foucault. No início do século XX não existiam historiadores de formação acadêmica no Brasil, havia homens que exerciam diferentes funções, sendo militares, letrados, médicos, diplomatas e juristas que conciliavam suas profissões e trabalhavam pela História. Suas contribuições foram diversas: recolhiam documentos, escreviam textos, organizavam arquivos e bibliotecas. Muitos deles foram sócios dos Institutos Históricos, participavam de reuniões, emitiam pareceres e apresentavam discursos e estudos quando solicitados. Nesse cenário, Pedro Lessa, professor da Faculdade de Direito de São Paulo, juiz do Supremo Tribunal Federal e sócio do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (IHGB), não dedicou textos à narração de fatos históricos, mas refletiu acerca da importância da História para aquele presente. Além disso, como membro do IHGB, assumiu a função de Juiz-Historiador e apresentou juízos históricos para diminuir a criminalidade e o preconceito racial. As fontes privilegiadas nesta investigação foram a introdução de Lessa para a obra de Henry Thomas Buckle, o... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Inserted in the area of History of Historiography, this master's thesis questions what is the importance of history for the first decades of the twentieth century, in a scenario of increasing specialization of Social Sciences. In order to analyze the texts of Pedro Augusto Carneiro Lessa (1859-1921) and carry out such investigation the present work has appropriated of the theoretical concepts of "work" and "author" offered by Michel Foucault. In the early twentieth century there were no academically formed historians in Brazil, although there were men who performed different functions, such as military, scholars, doctors, diplomats and lawyers who conciliate their professions with their work for History. Such contributions were diverse, as they collected documents, wrote texts, organized files and libraries. Many of them were members of the Historical Institutes, attending meetings, issuing opinions and presenting speeches and studies when requested. In this scenario, Pedro Lessa, a professor at Faculty of Law of São Paulo, judge of the Supreme Court and member of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute (IHGB), have not dedicated texts to the historical facts narrative, however he reflected on the importance of history for his present. Moreover, as IHGB member, he took the Judge-Historian function and performed historical judgments to reduce crime and racial prejudice. The sources selected in this research were the Introduction to the work of Henry Thomas Buckle... (Complete abstract click electronic acess below) / Mestre

Orientador: Karina Anhezini de Araújo / Banca: Maria da Glória de Oliveira / Banca: Hélio Rebello Cardoso Junior / Resumo: Durante o período da Primeira República no Brasil, o Estado de São Paulo se tornou a principal economia do país. Isso levou a produção de uma narrativa que justificasse essa posição de predomínio político-econômico sobre a nação. O Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de São Paulo, fundado em 1894 e inserido nesse contexto, foi um importante centro de produção e discussão deste projeto, objetivando a definição de uma especificidade local e uma reavaliação da história nacional a partir de fatos e personagens paulistas. A partir destas constatações questionamos, poderíamos pressupor que houve a formação de uma região denominada São Paulo no início do século XX? Essa pergunta aparece como inquietação acerca da relação entre a formação de uma identidade regional e a definição deste espaço, o estado. Questionar o conceito de região e a sua fixidez carrega a possibilidade de analisar este processo sendo fruto de uma construção histórica localizada temporalmente, além de entender como esses historiadores construíram um saber histórico e geográfico singular sobre o Estado de São Paulo. Para isso analisamos a Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de São Paulo entre os anos de 1895 e 1949, tentando determinar a emergência dessa região em diferentes níveis - temático, teórico, simbólico. Concluímos que houve a invenção de uma região "São Paulo" através de alguns enunciados que se repetem e tem uma regularidade e constituíram uma estrutura espacial, como a questão de limites, o povoamento e as histórias de cidades, e outros que constituíram os costumes e a cultura, as categorias popular e progresso / Abstract: During the period of First Brazilian Republic, the state of São Paulo became the main economy of the country leading to the production of a narrative that justified that position of political and economic domain on the nation. The Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de São Paulo, founded in 1894 and inserted on this context, was a important center of the production and discussion of this project that aimed a definition of a local specificity and a revaluation of national history from a local perspective, with facts and characters of history of the state. From the observations we inquired, can we assume that there was the formation of a region named São Paulo in the early twentieth century? This question emerges from the concern with the relation between the formation of a regional identity and the definition of this space, the state. Question the concept of region and their fixity carries the possibility of analyze this process as result from a historical construction located temporally, besides understand how those historians built a singular historical and geographical knowledge about the state of São Paulo. For this, we analyze the Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de São Paulo between the years of 1895 and 1949, trying to determinate the emergence of this region on different levels - thematic, theoretic, and symbolic. We conclude that the invention of the region "São Paulo" happened trough some enunciations that repeat and have a regularity constituting a spatial structure, like treaty of limits, settlements and history of cities, and other which constituting the costumes and the culture, the categories popular and progress / Mestre

The degree to which Nazi Germany and the other Axis powers can be understood within the framework of the European nineteenth century colonial/imperial projects has, in recent years, been a controversial topic in historiography. In this thesis, I coin the term “connections literature” to describe this emergent body of academic work. While scholars such as Jurgen Zimmerer have argued for a direct causal link, others, such as Roberta Pergher and Mark Roseman, have focused on a broader conceptualization of the Nazis as Empire builders. Although this thesis agrees more with the latter than the former, it takes a rather different approach to this question of “connections.” In this thesis I trace the writings of two colonized intellectuals who addressed this question during the 1930s: Jawaharlal Nehru and George Padmore. For them, it was not that Nazism/fascism and Western colonialism/imperialism were exactly the same; rather, what they felt needed to be highlighted was the fact that the general Western public did not perceive the general similarities between the two. That is, Western pundits condemned Nazi/fascist attacks on civil liberties and democracy while ignoring similar activities within their own empires. For Padmore and Nehru, the main reason for the inability of the British public to perceive the general similarities between the two was their “ignorance of the realities of empire.” In this thesis, I trace the origins of the “connections” debate. I reveal the fact that this debate had its origins in a discourse focused on demonstrating the fact that very basic moral similarities between Nazism/colonialism were/are not recognized amongst the general British/Western public because of a lack of knowledge of the “realities of empire.” Modern historiographical debates on this topic are heirs to this earlier discourse and should be aware of its origins. / Graduate

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