Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southern California, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-178).

Thesis (MEconSt.) - University of Queensland, 2003.

Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Urban Studies and Public Affairs, 2005. / "August, 2005." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 01/14/2006) Advisor, Ashok K. Dutt; Committee members, Peter Leahy, Nancy Grant, Lathardus Goggins, Helen Liggett, Carolyn Behrman; Department Chair, Raymond Cox; Dean of the College, Charles B. Monroe; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.U.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-97) Also available in print.

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This dissertation studies China's first industrializing efforts to transform its navigation, cotton textiles and banking in the late nineteenth century, and analyzes the paradoxical roles of the state and culture in achieving development. It argues that successful late development is dependent on state policies that emphasize state-society connectedness and tradition-modernity continuity. In late Qing China, the state-midwifed industrial projects faced both intensive competition from foreign firms and resistance from domestic vested interests. Because key resource factors such as capital, production technology, and management skill were scarce and distributed unevenly across multiple sectors, the state officials had to redirect the resource flows in order to found new industries. The state had to perform an essential function of creative destruction, without which social groups in non-state sectors would be less likely to embrace changes, but the ultimate success of new industries depended on a societal consolidation that redefined the state-society relationship. This study also shows that culture was a double-edged sword with great potential for lubricating industrial transformation. The promoters of development created myths, symbols and beliefs to legitimize their industrializing efforts. They made a constant effort to reinterpret tradition in order to find compatibility between the foreign and domestic systems. The distinctive sectoral paths taken by navigation, cotton textiles and banking represented different patterns of state-society cooperation for achieving development. Each sector had distinct production technologies and product structure, and was endowed with distinct sectoral institutions and other legacies. These endowments constrained choices of every new industry, but it was a combination of structural factors and industry's responsive strategies that explained why some enterprises succeeded while others failed. A project was more likely to succeed if there was greater state-society connectedness and cultural compatibility. Steam navigation was the most successful among the three, followed by cotton textiles. Banking was the least successful.

This essay describes the establishment of the colony movement and its allotment compounds in Sweden during the early part of the 20th century. During this time period a social housing reform program called “egna hem” was initiated which gave financial support in the form of state loans to build good homes in rural areas. One of the reasons for the reform was a widespread housing need in Sweden. My hypothesis is that the social housing reform helped pave the way for an expansion of the colony movement in Sweden. At the beginning of the 20th century, allotment compounds were established in many Swedish cities, including Kalmar within the timeframe 1910-1920. This investigation of the establishment of the colony movement and its allotment compounds in Sweden specifically focuses on development of the movement in Kalmar together with a comparison using earlier research. By examining the members' professional categories and how the board was selected, it is possible to find out if the movement was as open and democratic as it appeared. Furthermore, this essay gives specific focus on genus patterns and the situation for the women within the colony movement and its allotment compounds. The results indicates that social living reforms in Sweden may have helped pave the way for an expansion of the Swedish colony movement since there was a need for better living conditions. The membership lists also demonstrates that the colony movement principally was aimed at the working class and lower middle class. Furthermore, the investigation shows that garden work was a typically work for men while the women worked with reproductive chores such as refining and preserving of the harvest within the allotment garden. This investigation also confirms that no women were included in the compound boards of the allotment gardens, cementing the notion of an unequal society. During the 1950’s specific ladies clubs were formed within the allotment compounds with the purpose to socialize and arrange meetings and excursions. Finally this essay displays that the early colonists in Kalmar were made up by a variety of people with different living conditions.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in History. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 519-553). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNR11619

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