Rede--Utrecht. / Microform master no.: FSN 16,408. Includes bibliographical references.

This regional study examines the character and pace of change in landed society in the eighteenth century and the impact of change on social stability. It offers new perspectives on why the landed gentry, the 'untitled aristocracy', retained their estates and their influence throughout the period. Members of this distinct social group had to make more careful, strategic choices than the wealthier peerage, and their behaviour served as a barometer of the effects of socio-economic and cultural developments on society as a whole. In spite of this, there have been few regional studies of eighteenth-century landed gentry in recent years. The study's in situ holistic approach builds on the earlier historiography of landed elites but also on more recent scholarship on culture, performance, and polite behaviour. It uses archival records to study the fifty-two landed-gentry families in the New Forest and the Isle of Wight. It shows that the landed gentry of this region was open to newcomers, who added to the numbers rather than displacing established families. Furthermore, there was no evidence of elite withdrawal or of a separation into so-called 'old and local' and 'new and national' groups. This thesis adds an important new dimension by identifying two characteristics of successful families. They were social and cultural amphibians, able not only to move between their estates and London but also to adapt to the polite norms of behaviour of different groups. In addition, they used 'social power', which stemmed principally from their behaviour, to achieve their aims in spite of the greater wealth and status of the peerage. As a group, the landed gentry presented a picture of social continuity and stability in 1800, but they had achieved this through a process of gradual social accommodation. They had changed in order to preserve their place and their power.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-09T12:28:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-10-23Bitstream added on 2015-04-09T12:47:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000814878.pdf: 907355 bytes, checksum: f0a41c648369a0bef079ce6fa6b5ffc5 (MD5) / Entre as décadas de 1960/1970 e 1980 a historiografia da escravidão no Brasil passou por diversas reformulações. Ao mesmo tempo em que os cursos de pós-graduação se consolidaram, as propostas teórico-metodológicas, os objetos e os temas de estudos sobre os escravos também ganharam novos contornos. Se durante anos 1960 e 1970 o modo de fazer história teve como principal preocupação o entendimento de questões estruturais de ordem econômica, no decurso dos anos 1980 o que se pôde presenciar foi uma crescente nos estudos voltados para temáticas culturais, com ênfase em recortes de menor abrangência. Dentro destas circunstâncias, a ressignificação pela qual a figura do escravo passou, apareceu como elemento chave para a compreensão das mudanças da historiografia do período. O objetivo desta dissertação, portanto, consiste em analisar as condições teóricas que possibilitaram a emergência do enunciado do escravo como agente histórico a partir dos anos 1980. Para isso, quatro estudos foram analisados: O Escravismo Colonial (1978) de Jacob Gorender, Ser Escravo no Brasil (1979) de Kátia Mattoso, Rebelião Escrava no Brasil (1986) de João José Reis e Campos da Violência (1988) de Silvia Hunold Lara / Between the decades of 1960/1970 and 1980 the historiography of slavery in Brazil has undergone several reformulations. While the postgraduate courses were consolidated, the theoretical and methodological proposals, the objects and subjects of studies on the slaves also gained new contours shades. During the 1960 and 1970 the mode way of making history had as its main concern the understanding of structural, financial issues, during the 1980 it was witnessed an increase in the studies on cultural issues, with emphasis on smaller scope. Within these circumstances, the new meaning which the figure of the slave underwent, appeared as a key element for understanding the changes in the historiography of the period. The purpose of this dissertation, therefore, is to examine the theoretical conditions that enabled the emergence of the statement of the slave as a historical agent since the 1980, four studies were analyzed: O Escravismo Colonial (1978) of Jacob Gorender, Ser Escravo no Brasil (1979) of Katia Mattoso, Rebelião Escrava no Brasil (1986) of João José Reis and Campos da Violência (1988) of Silvia Hunold Lara

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In 1789 the Bristol Corporation for the Poor re-enacted legislation that aimed to outlaw beggar ballad singers the city’s streets. Seventy-five years later, the Street Music Act (Metropolis) endeavoured to complete the job that Bristol’s legislators had started. Although the outcome was never as effective as the authorities had wished, legislation provides this thesis with a chronological framework within which to examine the transformation of the music of the poor. As the targets of the legislator’s pen, the poor are taken as our primary subjects. Their musical presence is easily read into Nicholas Temperley’s inspirational comment in The Romantic Age, 1800-1914 in which he said, ‘At the beginning of the period the working classes were making their own entertainment, while at the end of it their music was supplied by a large, commercially organized population of professional entertainers.’ This statement forms the basis of the question: how, and in what ways, was the music of the poor transformed between 1789 and 1864? The thesis combines two approaches: musical and social. Its primary aim is to fill historical gaps in our existing knowledge of subaltern music and to examine the sounds of an under-reported world. By adopting two second cites as case-studies—Bristol and Hobart—the social and musical clues to the transformation of the music of the poor will be examined. Bristol is chosen out of convenience. By choosing a convict community, Hobart offers the opportunity to examine unique social and musical questions based on homesickness, attachments to and replication of home, and resistance to or compliance with authority. In both cities, the ephemera of the streets, the courts’ and newspapers’ response to its musical sound, and musical scores themselves will provide the detail of the music of the poor.

Magister Artium - MA / Saul Januarie was born in Worcester in 1903. He spent his childhood years in the town of Touwsriver and then returned to Worcester as an adult where he married and spent the remainder of his life. He became well-known as a blacksmith from Worcester from the 1930's omwards. His skills were sought after in the town as well as on the farms in the surrounding area. Januarie was also renowned as a leader of the Independent Order of True Templars (IOTT). This study was an important starting-point to contribute to the exploration of a more inclusive social history of Worcester. The biography of Saul Januarie that has been constructed lends itself eminently to complement and enlarge the present exhibitions on wagon-making and the work of blacksmiths. / South Africa

Social scientists express growing concern about man's capacity to achieve a state of existence greater than that of mere survival. "Popularizers" and writers of "social criticism" echo this concern. Obviously, because of scientific and technological changes, man's participation is needed less and less in the production of economic abundance. He is, therefore, to be free to engage in other pursuits. Awareness of this impending freedom challenges those intellectuals who wish to describe and to anticipate the direction and quality of man's total existence.

The three-fold purpose of this study is, (1) to show what church groups or private Christian organizations maintain elementary and more specifically, secondary schools, (2) to review briefly the history of each school, and (3) to present general summaries and trends in the growth of the Christian school movement.

The following thesis is a collection of three case studies which shed light on the ideal roles of a daughter in the Roman family over the course of her life. Plentiful recent scholarship on children in the Roman world exists, but few scholars have focused exclusively on girls and women qua daughters. The case studies are centred on epistolary sources which span the late Republic to the second century CE. The chapters of this thesis concern Timoxena, the two-year-old daughter of Plutarch; Minicia Marcella, the teenage daughter of Fundanus; and Tullia, the adult daughter of Cicero. These case studies will illustrate primarily that adult behaviours were constantly idealized throughout the life course of a daughter, but the expectations for a daughter did change to accommodate the actual age of the daughter concerned. In addition, the ideal behaviours expected of a daughter did not necessarily become more gendered as she grew older and became a full member of society, but her contribution to the bond of reciprocal obligation with her parents, dictated by pietas, was expected to intensify as she matured. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

“The Economic Nahda” is social history of the economic ideas articulated by Arab intellectuals in the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. The Nahda—the Arab cultural and intellectual “renaissance” of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—took place during a time of immense socioeconomic transformation in the late Ottoman Empire. During this time, the region saw increased trade with the global market, the spread of capitalist social relations, and a rising Ottoman public debt to European financiers. This dissertation focuses on how figures associated with the Arab Nahda conceptualized the tumultuous changes of this period. It begins by revisiting some of the classic publications of the Nahda and surveying the first engagements with the ideas of political economy. It then moves on to examine the economic ideas that were circulating during different historical junctures in late Ottoman Syria, starting from the establishment of the province of Syria in 1865, and ending with the new era of mass politics after the 1908 Ottoman constitutionalist revolution. It argues that throughout this period, intellectuals and political elites increasingly conceptualized political reform and economic transformation within the framework of the new “science” of political economy. Ultimately, the dissertation traces how these new economic ideas were elaborated and mobilized in response to developments such as peasant revolt, Ottoman state reform, increasing public debt, and ascendant European imperialism.