Inaug.-diss.--Berlin. / Lebenslauf. "Abkürzungen und ausgaben" (bibliography): p. [vi].

Thesis (M.A.)--Johnson Bible College, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-85).

This research project explores Romania’s process of detachment from Moscow from 1953 to 1963 within the context of the global Cold War. Through a multi-archival investigation, the dissertation investigates the first full process of peaceful de-satellization within the Eastern bloc by considering the broader framework of the bipolar international climate. In so doing, it provides both a bottom-up, as well as a top-down analysis. This project focuses, in particular, on the tenure of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1947-65), Romania’s first Communist leader, as it was under his leadership that the country shifted from complete subservience to the Soviet Union to political and economic autonomy. In 1958, Romania negotiated a full troop withdrawal, remaining the only Warsaw Pact country without Soviet military presence until the fall of the Berlin Wall. And by 1963, it also dared to challenge Moscow’s plans for economic specialization within COMECON, thereby asserting its sovereign right to pursue national interest over the greater socialist good, and thus stymying the Kremlin’s initiative for an integrated bloc economy. This project provides an in-depth investigation into the reasons why Romania was able to boldly confront the Soviet Union without fear of retribution, by tracing the process through which Dej gradually removed Romania’s political straightjacket, and exploring those elements within the international climate which allowed him to negotiate Romania’s detachment.

The growth of a nation-state in the 19th century led to the protection of heritage as a distinct discipline. Initially, the prime objective was physical protection and conservation of archaeological and architectural monuments valued for their aesthetic and historic importance. However, the 20th century practice of imposing nationalist ideas onto communities and cultures which share the same territory, but not religion and/or language, brought into prominence a discipline of heritage management. One of the main characteristics of heritage management is its interpretation in national terms which, when used for nation-building purposes, often becomes the subject of contested grand narratives; i.e. ethnically, religiously and socially divisive tool in the hands of political elites interested in securing and maintaining their powers. Historical changes of political systems and state ideologies, however, witnessed the lasting impact on the interpretation of heritage over la longue durée, almost always with negative outcomes. The Wars of Yugoslav Succession during the 1990s resulted not only in the creation of new nation-states, but also their own new national narratives and languages, often rooted in flagrant revisionism of the interpretation of historical sources and surviving heritage. This thesis examines the evolution of national narratives in five ex- Yugoslav republics and Albania from the time of their individual inception until the present. It employs chronologically juxtaposed nation-building processes in the observed states and points to the differences in interpretation which usually coincided with changes of political systems. It also highlights the contemporary interpretations of the heritage as understood by both local and international researchers and publicists, affected by the surrounding political atmosphere. It explores the destruction, vandalism, and “culturcide” and their condemnations and justifications by the media and biased scholarship. The thesis also points to the negative influence of the external political factors in heritage management through the extensive production of poorly and/or partially researched publications. Finally, it concludes that the (re)interpretation of heritage is a recurring process, which will be employed every time when the balance of power in Europe changes and almost always with detrimental consequences for the local population.

The dissertation investigates the social, economic and religious aspects of Jewish life in the Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire between the 4th century BCE and 8th century CE. This is the first study, which studies the social and religious life of the Jewish communities in the Balkans, as recoded in the epigraphic and archaeological material, and will provide scholars with much needed basis for further research in the field. The primary focus of my research is a historical analysis of the epigraphic and archaeological evidence regarding the Jewish communities in the Roman provinces of Pannonia Inferior, Dalmatia, Moesia, Thracia, Macedonia, Achaea and Crete. The work is arranged in the form a corpus of inscriptions with additional entries on the archaeological and literary evidence. The intention has been to include all Jewish inscriptions and archaeological remains from the Balkans, which are likely to date from before c.700 CE. The analysis concentrates on the language and content of the available inscriptions, the onomastic repertoire employed, the historical context of the Jewish archaeological remains and their relation to the non- Jewish archaeological material from the region. The results of my research are important for understanding the involvement of Jews in the city life and their civic status, the cultural interaction between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours and may define the local community organisation and background of Jewish settlement in the Balkan provinces of the Roman Empire. In my commentaries I suggest that the social system of the Jewish communities in the Balkans was dependent upon the local public and economic situation in the Roman city but not determined by it.

The primary objective of this thesis was to date the age of gold mineralization in the Jiaodong and Liaodong Peninsulas, China. Based on SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages of dykes and host rocks at 13 gold deposits in the two peninsulas and the 40(subscript)Ar-39(subscript)Ar dating of sericite at the Cangshang deposit in the Jiaodong Peninsula, a single gold mineralization event at ca. 122 - 119 Ma has been identified.Ten gold deposits in the Jiaodong Peninsula and three gold deposits in the Liaodong Peninsula were examined. Gold mineralization can be divided into the disseminated-and-veinlet type (Jiaojla-style) and vein type (Linglong-style) and all these deposits are strongly controlled by faults. The most common host rocks are granitoids, with a SHRIMP 206(subscript)Pb/238(subscript)U age of 150 - 165 Ma. The youngest host rocks in the Jiaodong Peninsula are granodiorite, with an age of ca. 128 Ma. The oldest dated host rock in the Jiaodong Peninsula is amphibolite with a metamorphic zircon age of 1852 plus or minus 37 Ma; in the Liaodong Peninsula, the oldest host rock is metasandstone with the youngest detrital zircon giving an age of 1886 plus or minus16 Ma. The Jiaodong and Liaodong Peninsulas are underlain by Precambrian basement with components up to ca. 3.7 Ga old and these are reflected in the zircon population. There are three main peaks of inherited zircons, which yield Late Archaean (ca. 2500 Ma), Palaeoproterozoic (1800-2200 Ma) and Early Mesozoic (ca. 200-250 Ma) ages.The close spatial and temporal relationships between dykes and gold mineralization has only recently been recognized in China. Based on the cross-cutting relationship between dykes and gold lodes (and the alteration style of dykes), three types of dykes are recognized: pre-, syn- and post-mineralization dykes. Premineralization dykes yield an age of ca. 124 Ma; syn-mineralization dykes give an ++ / age of ca. 122-119 Ma, which can also be interpreted as the time of gold mineralization; further work is needed to date post-mineralization dykes, since no suitable samples were identified during this study.40(subscript)Ar-39(subscript)Ar dating of sericite has been used to determine the timing of gold mineralization at the Cangshang Gold Deposit. It gives a well-defined 40(subscript)Ar-39(subscript)Ar age of 121.3 plus or minus 0.2 Ma.The second objective of this thesis was to understand why the tectonic setting of the Jiaodong and Liaodong Peninsulas is favourable for gold formation and what is a sound genetic model for these gold deposits. Based on this study, it is interpreted that multiple orogenic events created a favourable tectonic environment for the Jiaodong and Liaodong gold deposits. It is suggested that delamination related to orogenic events occurred beneath the Jiaodong and Liaodong Peninsulas. The substantial heat and fluid transfer caused by delamination allowed mantle-derived magma and auriferous fluids to be channelled along deep faults to favourable structures within the crust. This probably explains why the dykes and gold lodes are closely associated in both time and space.

Marine magnetic data from the northern Yucatan continental margin were used to obtain the radially-averaged power-density spectra (RAPDS) of 34 grids, each with dimensions of 128 by 128 km, overlapping 50 percent. Depths to the tops of three magnetic horizons were estimated from the slopes of linear segments in the spectra. The depth to the base of the magnetic crust was estimated using an implicit relationship between the deepest depth estimation and the spectral peak position. The depth determinations agree with the limited drillhole data available and show some consistency with seismic refraction interpretations for the study area. Results of similar studies, based on the spectral analysis of magnetic anomalies in different tectonic settings, seem to agree with other geophysical and geologic data. In this area however, the limited depth of resolution achieved by seismic methods, and the absence of deep drillhole data and heat-flow measurements, makes it difficult to assess the validity of this interpretation. I therefore examined the simplifications implicit in the data processing techniques commonly applied in the spectral analysis of magnetic anomalies, and the assumptions upon which the method is based. Finally, I tested the method itself by interpreting synthetic anomalies generated from model source bodies. I found that depth interpretations, based upon assuming that the slope of linear segments in the RAPDS are proportional to the average depth to the top of magnetic horizons, and thickness determinations using the position of the spectral peak, are unreliable. The problem has been oversimplified. I also show that the RAPDS is independent of the direction of both the geomagnetic field and the magnetization vector. It can be represented by a Functional in terms of depth to the top of the source, its thickness and its horizontal dimensions. The problem of interpreting the RAPDS was then formulated as an inverse problem. A solution was obtained through minimizing, iteratively, the sum of squares of residuals between a real-data spectrum and a synthetic spectrum. The minimization was based on a linearized model, using the ridge-regression algorithm. This technique provides acceptable solutions for synthetic anomalies produced by model source bodies. Depth and thickness determinations, obtained using this technique on the Yucatan spectra, were used to make contour maps of the average depths to the top and the base of the magnetic crust. The top of the magnetic crust is at an average depth of 1.8 km. The base of the magnetic crust is at an average depth of 25 km. Beneath the central Campeche Bank and Campeche Terrace the depth to the base is close to the depth to the crust-mantle boundary determined by gravity modeling and mass column analysis. This suggests that in those regions the mantle is the lower magnetic boundary. / Graduation date: 1991

Originally presented as the author's thesis, Cologne, 1968. / Bibliography: p. 118-122.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Civil-Military Relations))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2005. / Thesis Advisor(s): Donald Abenheim, Hans E. Peters. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-57). Also available online.