This thesis surveys the long human history of Hot Springs Cove, British Columbia, a small inlet on the west coast of Vancouver Island (formerly known as Refuge Cove). The study spans the period from the arrival of the earliest indigenous inhabitants, at about 10,000 years ago, to the present day, and draws upon archeological research, archival documents, other local histories, and ethnographic studies of Nuu-chah-nulth society, as well as some original interviews with contemporary users and inhabitants of the area. Geographically, the study focuses primarily on the immediate vicinity of the Cove, and the territory of its traditional inhabitants, the Manhousaht. However, the lens of analysis is widened very regularly to encompass the larger region of Clayoquot and Nootka Sounds, bringing in the perspectives and experiences of neighbouring groups such as the Hesquiaht, Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht, as well as non-indigenous settlers in communities like Tofino. Periodically, the lens pulls away still further, to examine influential national and global trends. This thesis has two key objectives. First, it aims to be a comprehensive, academically-sound survey of a place rich in history but only mentioned intermittently in other sources. The hybridization of micro-historical techniques and a local history approach is intended to ensure adequate contextualization and analysis, while also preserving rich and engaging detail. Engagement, it must be said, is the other key goal. From the outset, the author has aimed to create a publicly-accessible work of public history intended to be read by a wide audience who, it is hoped, will learn much about the experiences and impact of colonization on the West Coast. To maximize this learning, four broad didactic themes are traced throughout the narrative. Exploring ‘perceptions of place’, this thesis illustrates how differing worldviews led the Nuu-chah-nulth and Euro-Canadian settlers to interact very differently with the same landscape. By tracing changes in ‘human-environment interaction’, this study aims to shed light on the destructive pattern of repeated resource-overexploitation that emerged post-contact. Examination of ‘colonization as a process’ lays bare the steady re-conceptualization and re-shaping of the landscape and its inhabitants set in motion by the arrival of Europeans. At the same time, a consistent emphasis on ‘indigenous agency’ is meant to show how the Nuu-chah-nulth actively adapted to, resisted and even re-shaped colonial processes. Ultimately, the recent resurgence in Nuu-chah-nulth political and economic power is interpreted as laying the ground-work for a profound reshaping of local dynamics in the coming years. Broadly speaking, this thesis argues that the history of human settlement, colonization and interaction that occurred in and around Hot Springs Cove can serve as an informative microcosm of the larger forces, events, and patterns that shaped the entire region. It concludes with the author’s appeal for his neighbours – both indigenous and non – to seek to better understand each other’s history, reckon with the profound impacts of colonization, and work towards reconciliation and co-existence in a way that will preserve the area’s irreplaceable uniqueness. / Graduate

Esta tese de doutorado começa investigando as relações entre história e ficção nos séculos XX e XXI, com ênfase na ideia de pós-modernidade e de crise da representação. Depois da leitura de alguns romancistas contemporâneos (como W.G. Sebald, J.M Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk e Enrique Vila-Matas) e de alguns historiadores contemporâneos (especialmente Carlo Ginzburg), a pesquisa avança sobre o estudo teórico da autobiografia e da autoficção, tentando refletir sobre as implicações epistemológicas da narrativa também no discurso da crítica literária e na escrita acadêmica. / This doctoral thesis began by researching the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the crisis of representation and the idea of post-modernity. After reading some contemporary novelists (such as W.G. Sebald, J.M Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk e Enrique Vila-Matas) and also some contemporary historians (notably Carlo Ginzburg), the research advances towards the theoretical study of autobiography and autofiction, attempting to reflect on the epistemological implications of narrative both for the discourse of literary criticism and for academic writing.

The present thesis deals with the Namibian liberation struggle against the South African regime, by focusing on the relationship of solidarity between SWAPO and East Germany. It provides an original perspective of the German-Namibian history between 1978-1990, by using the life stories of Lucia Engombe and Stefanie Lahya Aukongo. They are Namibian women who, according to the pact of solidarity, lived on the brink between Namibia and East Germany, becoming in this way witnesses of the historical upheavals that have changed the global order. Then, this thesis makes use of Child No. 95. My German-African Odyssey – the autobiography of Lucia Engombe – and Kalungas Kind: meine unglaubliche Reise uns Leben – the autobiography of Stefanie Layha Aukongo – as sources to investigate the complexities of that period. The global lives of Lucia Engombe and Stefanie Lahya Aukongo allow the combination of macro and micro history and bring out new facets, which otherwise would remain in the shadow. Through the deconstruction of their life narratives, in fact, the big narrative of the global history become fraught with new meanings, bringing out the power of microhistories. This thesis shows how individual autobiographies can be meaningful to history, and how global history can be reconciled with micro-history through the story of global lives, which provide new and unprecedented points of view.

Submitted by Raphael Cesar Lino null (rph_lino@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-10-24T13:48:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Apropriações da micro-história - Raphael Lino.pdf: 1730427 bytes, checksum: 048e9e12ed3396887201baa2c406937d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-10-26T18:06:24Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 lino_rc_me_assis.pdf: 1730427 bytes, checksum: 048e9e12ed3396887201baa2c406937d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-26T18:06:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lino_rc_me_assis.pdf: 1730427 bytes, checksum: 048e9e12ed3396887201baa2c406937d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-29 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A historiografia brasileira da década de 1980 foi marcada pela intensificação de novos referenciais teórico-metodológicos, ao mesmo tempo em que as pesquisas foram catalisadas pelo processo de reforma universitária que consolidou os programas de pós-graduação no Brasil. Neste movimento, uma das apropriações que chamou a atenção da comunidade acadêmica foi a micro-história. Esta prática historiográfica descende dos percursos envolvidos entre os historiadores italianos participantes da revista Quaderni Storici que estabeleceram diálogos entre a história social e a antropologia nas décadas de 1970-80. Em paralelo, também pode ser notada no desenvolvimento da própria história social brasileira, especialmente nos estudos sobre o Período Colonial que se abriu para novos aportes teóricos. Colocadas estas questões, nossa dissertação procura investigar as apropriações da micro-história na historiografia brasileira nas décadas de 1980 e 1990, por meio de três momentos distintos, construir um quadro teórico da micro-história, percorrer a trajetória da historiografia brasileira na década de 1980, e por último, analisar duas obras que podem ser classificadas nesta perspectiva teórica, Um herege vai ao paraíso – cosmologia de um ex-colono condenado pela Inquisição (1680-1744) e Dom Obá II d’África, o príncipe do povo – vida, tempo e pensamento de um homem livre de cor , defendidas no início da década de 1990 e publicadas em 1997. / The Brazilian historiography of the 1980s was marked by the intensification of new theoretical and methodological references, at the same time as the research was catalyzed by the university reform process that consolidated the postgraduate programs in Brazil. In this movement, one of the appropriations that caught the attention of the academic community was the microhistory. This historiographical practice descends from the paths involved between the Italian historians, participating in the journal Quaderni Storici who established dialogues between social history and anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s. In parallel, it can also be noticed in the development of Brazilian social history itself, especially in the studies on the Colonial Period that opened for new theoretical contributions. With these questions in mind, this dissertation seeks to investigate the appropriations of microhistory in Brazilian historiography in the 1980s and 1990s, through three distinct moments, to construct a theoretical framework of it, to traverse the trajectory of Brazilian historiography in the 1980s, and finally, to analyze two works that can be classified in this theoretical perspective, Um herege vai ao paraíso – cosmologia de um ex-colono condenado pela Inquisição (1680-1744) and Dom Obá II d’África, o príncipe do povo – vida, tempo e pensamento de um homem livre de cor, defended in the early 1990s and published in 1997.

Esta tese de doutorado começa investigando as relações entre história e ficção nos séculos XX e XXI, com ênfase na ideia de pós-modernidade e de crise da representação. Depois da leitura de alguns romancistas contemporâneos (como W.G. Sebald, J.M Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk e Enrique Vila-Matas) e de alguns historiadores contemporâneos (especialmente Carlo Ginzburg), a pesquisa avança sobre o estudo teórico da autobiografia e da autoficção, tentando refletir sobre as implicações epistemológicas da narrativa também no discurso da crítica literária e na escrita acadêmica. / This doctoral thesis began by researching the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the crisis of representation and the idea of post-modernity. After reading some contemporary novelists (such as W.G. Sebald, J.M Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk e Enrique Vila-Matas) and also some contemporary historians (notably Carlo Ginzburg), the research advances towards the theoretical study of autobiography and autofiction, attempting to reflect on the epistemological implications of narrative both for the discourse of literary criticism and for academic writing.

In this Master’s thesis, I conduct a micro-historical study of deaconess and missionary Greta Andrén (1909-1971) and her work for Svenska Israelsmissionen, the Swedish Israel Mission, in Vienna during the National Socialist occupation. By examining letters as well as select publications, I try to uncover her motives and how she found meaning in her work, and how this could be seen in relation to the origins of the Mission in the Swedish Low Church awakening and certain apocalypticviews on the Jews. Ultimately, I conclude that “Sister Greta’s” world-view was centred around the children and youth she cared for, because she found in them signs of God’s will, as well as teachers and examples of how a good Christian should relate to the Lord. Her capable personality expressed itself through action, and it was through diligent work that she upheld an everyday world filled with meaningful signs of divinity.

This diploma thesis is a microhistorical case study into the field of regional history. It examines the work of the state institutional social care facility - Retirement home in the village Rozsochatec, where the nursing staff cared for the elderly and non-independent people. The staff consisted of nuns of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and several laical helpers between 1952 and 1956. Moreover, the daily life was shaped by the presence of the Roman Catholic priest, as well as by the constant supervision of the district church secretary. The main purpose of this work is an insight into the everydayness of this specific social facility - medical and nursing care, supplying, meals, hygiene, home cleaning and, last but not least, leisure time, spiritual and political life inside the Retirement home are explored. In addition, the work deals with individual actors (social groups) and the chateau building in the village Rozsochatec, in which the social care institution was located. It describes the relationship of the socialist state to the nuns after 1948 and portray one small religious community. This diploma thesis is based on the field archival and oral-historical research and provides insight into the 1950s against a background of emerging state social care. Keywords:...

Adaptant la théorie d’Ivan Jablonka sur les rapports entre l’histoire et la littérature ainsi que la théorie de la micro-histoire de Carlo Ginzburg, ce travail se propose d’étudier l’écriture de l’histoire (au sens d’historiographie) dans l’œuvre de deux écrivains contemporains issus de deux aires culturelles et géographiques différentes : l’écrivain français Patrick Modiano et le romancier iranien Amir Hassan Cheheltan. L’étude se concentre sur un choix sélectif des textes des deux auteurs. Le corpus des textes de Modiano est formé par les œuvres suivantes : La Place de l’étoile (1968), La Ronde de nuit (1969), Les Boulevards de ceinture (1972) et Dora Bruder (1997) ; de Cheheltan sont abordées les œuvres suivantes : La Salle des miroirs (Talâr-e aïné, 1990), La Mandragore (Mehr-e giâh,1998), Téhéran, ville sans ciel (Tehran, shahr-e bi asséman, 2001) et L’Aube iranienne (Sépidédam-e irani, 2005). Notre étude démontre que malgré l’omniprésence de l’histoire dans ces textes, ils ne respectent pas les critères du traditionnel roman historique et se rapprochent plutôt d’une littérature science-sociale qui, au moyen du raisonnement et de la narration, vise à dire la vérité sur le monde sans pour autant vouloir représenter ou recréer les grands événements historiques ou mettre en scène ses personnages notoires. « Romans-Histoire », ils invitent le lecteur à réfléchir sur les versions officielles de l’Histoire. Quant à Dora Bruder, il s’identifie plutôt à un « texte-recherche » (Jablonka) ou à une enquête micro-historique sans toutefois que la quête modianesque aboutisse à une réponse définitive. Une analyse de nature thématique montre que les deux auteurs s’intéressent à des figures problématiques ou marginalisées dans deux métropoles qui sont le théâtre de l’histoire : Paris (Modiano) ou Téhéran (Cheheltan). En dernier lieu, nous nous penchons sur l’aspect formel et esthétique des deux œuvres pour montrer la diversité des formes mobilisées par les deux auteurs, chacun à l’intérieur de son œuvre et l’un par rapport à l’autre. Il s’agit donc de comparer le traitement thématique, formel, esthétique mais aussi épistémique que ces écrivains réservent à l’Histoire et d’analyser les principales modalités de son inscription dans leurs œuvres. / Adapting Ivan Jablonka’s theories on the relationship of history and literature, and Carlo Ginzburg's notion of “microhistory”, this work aims at studying how two contemporary writers from different cultural and geographical spheres—the French author, Patrick Modiano and the Iranian novelist, Amir Hassan Cheheltan—set about writing history, in the historiographic sense of the term. With a particular focus on Modiano’s La Place de l'Étoile (Place de l'étoile, 1968), The Night Watch (La Ronde de nuit, 1969), Ring Roads (Les Boulevards de ceinture, 1972) and Dora Bruder (1997) and the novels The mirror room (Talar-e aineh, 1990), Mandragora (Mehr-e giah, 1998), Tehran, city without sky (Tehran, shahr-e bi asseman, 2001) and Iranian Dawn (Sepidedam-e irani, 2005) by Cheheltan, this study demonstrates that, despite the omnipresence of history in these texts, none of them actually respect the criteria of the traditional historical novel genre. Rather, it will be suggested, they approach something akin to social-science literature; that is, their narratives endeavor to tell the truth about the world without explicitly representing or re-creating great historical events or portraying great historical figures. Instead, as “Novel-Histories”, these works invite the reader to think about the nature and status of official History. As for Dora Bruder, it can be viewed as “text-search” or a “micro-historical inquiry”; but unlike its more traditional counterparts Modiano’s quest never offers a definitive answer. A thematic analysis will illustrate that the two authors are particularly interested in writing about problematic or marginalized figures in the two metropolises that feature in their work—Paris (Modiano) and Tehran (Cheheltan)—, geographical spaces which are also the theater of history. Finally, the formal and aesthetic aspects of the two works will be explored, with a view to demonstrating their literary and artistic diversity. So, it is a question of comparing how both authors engage with history from a thematic, formal, aesthetic but also epistemic perspective and analyzing the main modes by which history is inscribed in their works.

In 1952, when Alberto Ruz Lhuillier discovered the magnificent chamber and tomb of K'inich Janaab' Pakal I, the Classic Maya king of Palenque, many scholars from around the world declared that it was one of the greatest discoveries in Mesoamerican archaeology. Although there are summary accounts describing the life of the man who discovered the tomb, there are no detailed biographies, nor are there any in-depth discussions about his ten year's work at the archaeological site of Palenque, México that took place in the late 1940's and 1950's. This study fills that information gap. It is a "behind the scenes" narrative that includes an internal and external historiography of the archaeological project. Within that framework, a short biography of Ruz's life before and after the work is included. Ruz and many others have written extensively about the excavations, the iconography and the epigraphy of the site, but the story contained herein has never been told, since it is derived from primary sources including personal accounts, newspaper articles, correspondence, progress reports, interviews, unpublished and translated Informes de Trabajo, and Anales del Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Historia y Etnografía. The outcome of this approach is a new view of the excavations and of the man who conducted them. In addition, the study includes a consideration of the political and cultural context within which the excavations took place, thus fostering an understanding of how these issues played out in the work. Through this micro- and macrohistorical approach one may detect and perhaps understand the personal and social influences present at the time of excavation. This approach also gives insight into how these forces shaped the broader history of Maya archaeology in Mexico. / text

The main theme of the thesis submitted is the midwifery practice in Pacov parish surroundings in the period of the 2nd half of the 19th century. Based on the studies of professional literature and archival files of diverse nature, the motivation of women to choose a midwife's profession, their education at Charles-Ferdinand University, but also the socioprofessional structure of their clientage, the issues of wages, emergency christenings, godparenthood avd many others, were studied. Using a micro-historical method, a group of 5 midwives, who got involved not only in Pacov, but also in other villages assigned to its parish, was monitored. Inspiration by historical demography is noticeable particularly in the chapters, in which the frequency of assistances at births of each of the midwives, or their filling in the role of godmothers are monitored.