Beaumont, petite municipalité à caractère rural, située en bordure du fleuve Saint- Laurent, à quelques kilomètres seulement de l'agglomération Lévis-Lauzon, subie depuis une dizaine d'années environ, les effets d’une urbanisation progressive. L'arrivée de plus en plus massive de citadins a favorisé l'émergence d'une communauté ne partageant en rien les valeurs de la communauté autochtone. L’équilibre caractérisant ce rapport de farce a empêché l'établissement d’un consensus visant à contrer le développement urbain. L'analyse des profils de perception propres aux deux groupes a cependant permis de dégager des points de convergence et de jeter les bases d'une stratégie des actions à entreprendre pour le réaménagement de ce milieu traditionnel.

C’est dans la perspective large d’étudier le modèle de reproduction sociale qu’a été entreprise cette analyse de la fondation d’une communauté rurale en Nouvelle-France. En se situant à ras de terre, près des centres de décisions, on tentera de reconstituer le processus d’aménagement et d’occupation du territoire par le seigneur et les habitants de façon à dégager des pratiques sociales qui règlent d’une certaine façon l’enracinement des hommes. Cette étude a été menée dans la seigneurie de Beamont. Celle-ci, qui constitue un milieu propice au développement de l’agriculture, est située à proximité de de la ville, tout en étant hors des circuits locaux de communication. Elle s’ouvre à la colonisation à la fin du XVIIe siècle. L’étude commence en 1672, année de l’octroi de la seigneurie et se termine en 1740, à un moment ou les étapes de la formation de cette communauté rurale sont complétées. Après avoir situé le cadre physique de l’analyse, on abordera le rôle et l’activité du seigneur dans le processus du développement de Beaumont. On pourra alors cerner ou se situe son intervention dans le choix que fait l'habitant d’acquérir une terre dans la seigneurie, puis de s’y établir ou pas. L’évolution de la propriété foncière de même que les alliances matrimoniales serviront de base à cette étude de la formation d' une communauté rurale en Nouvelle-France. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2013

The main body of this thesis is composed of four chapters: Chapter II is concerned with the development of the oil industry in Texas prior to the discovery of Spindletop; Chapter III deals with Spindletop; Chapter IV sets forth the later developments of the oil industry in Southeast Texas or Railroad Commission District No. 3; Chapter V is the concluding chapter, complete with summary, evaluation present status and future possibilities of the oil industry in Southeast Texas.

In 1940 the Museum of Modern Art, New York, (MoMA) became the first major American art museum to establish a curatorial department dedicated exclusively to photography. From the perspective of the photographers, curators, and critics who had sought institutional legitimacy for the medium, the founding of the Department of Photographs was a watershed event, marking the moment when photography finally came to be recognized as a museum subject equal to painting and sculpture. Although the department has since had a pervasive influence on the field and the history of photography, surprisingly little scholarship has addressed its contentious formation. This dissertation seeks to fill this significant gap in the literature by examining the department's inception and the six years Beaumont Newhall served as its curator.Of particular concern are the ideological battles waged over how photography would be presented at MoMA by Newhall, his wife Nancy--who served as acting curator when her husband enlisted in the army during World War II--and the department's co-founder and key advisor, Ansel Adams. As acolytes of the photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, who himself had long fought for the recognition of photography as a medium of art, the Newhalls and Adams took aesthetic quality as their guiding metric, asserting that in order to raise the profile of photographers, educate the public, and improve standards of taste, the museum should show only the very best work ever created--the "heavy cream" of photographic production. Their vision for photography at the museum was counterbalanced by that of the photographer Edward Steichen and many prominent writers and critics, who argued that MoMA should treat photography as a broad-ranging cultural phenomenon and means of communication, rather than merely as a medium of self expression. The debate between these two camps illustrates the considerable philosophical, interpretive, and museological challenges raised by photography's introduction into the museum, issues that remain as contentious as ever.

Natalie Schmidt Ferreira

Ce travail concerne la couverture sédimentaire des massifs cristallins externes . Le Beaumont fait partie de la zone dauphinoise et est à proximité immédiate du point de courbure maximale de l' arc alpin. Il prolonge au sud-est l'alignement Mont Blanc/ Dôme de la Mure et est au sud ouest du Pelvoux et se trouve dans le prolongement de la bande liasique Col du Glandon/col d'Ornon et grandes Rousses.

Galveston Island, Texas has been experiencing high rates of erosion in recent years, spawning an interest in developing complex beach management programs. However, before any effective management project can be implemented we must understand all of the processes that control the shoreface. It is only recently that scientists have begun to recognize the importance of the role that the geologic framework plays on the coastal evolution of the shoreline. In this region, it is the antecedent geology as well as the anthropogenic obstructions which are the key factors controlling the formation of the modern shoreface. This study defines the extents to which these antecedent and anthropogenic factors influence the shoreface as well as refines the geologic interpretations offshore of Galveston Island. Using sidescan sonar, CHIRP seismic sonar, multibeam bathymetry data and sediment cores, the shoreface and subsurface geology were modeled. It was determined that the thickness, extent and slope of the modern sediment in the nearshore environment is controlled by the topography of the Beaumont Clay, a consolidated clay deposited during the Pleistocene. Anthropogenic obstructions, including the Galveston Seawall, groin and jetty system, have changed the sediment transport patterns in the region and have created a system of erosion and accretion not only along the shoreline, but for the entire length of the shoreface.

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Thesis--University of Texas, 1935. / Reprint of the 1938 ed. Bibliography: p. 225-233.

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