Essays about: "imperial"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 53 essays containing the word imperial.
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6. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE
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7. Coins, glass shards and other means of payment - A comparative study of Scandinavian Charon object burials using R. Dawkins’ meme theory
University essay from Lunds universitet/ArkeologiAbstract : The purpose of this thesis’ topic is to investigate the evolutionary dispersal of the Charon’s fee or Obolus rite outside the Roman provinces in Northern Europe, with a specific focus on Roman Iron Age and Migration Period Scandinavia. The aim of this study is therefore to add further understanding to the spread of Roman cultural influences outside the imperial borders and what made Roman material and ideological culture so attractive to the Germanic and Scandinavian Iron Age peoples. READ MORE
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8. Jewels of Humayun’s Sciences : Comparative Esotericism at the Cultural Dawn of Mughals
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad Humayun (1508-1556), simply known as Humayun, was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire in India. He is often known with a discredited image in history even though recent investigations show a new, different, and regenerated perspective about him. READ MORE
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9. Hackneyed Phrases : Intertextual and Linguistic Migrations in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to The North
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien- och Mellanösternstudier (IAM)Abstract : Tayeb Salih’s world-literary classic Season of Migration to The North (1967) has been read widely in Arabic as well as multiple world languages. Primarily examined in terms that pertain to the postcolonial field of study, it showcases all the well-rehearsed topics such as coloniser- colonised, identity, nationality, culture, hybridity, literature, language, gender, sexuality, historiography, and most importantly for this thesis: migration. READ MORE
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10. On the Frail Edge of Humanity : Human Variety and the Exercise of Imperial Power Across the British Caribbean, 1700-1750
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : With the intention of analysing changes in natural history, human variation and the exercise of imperial power across the British Caribbean, this study poses the following questions: How did changes in natural history impact the understandings and applications of human variety, 1700–1750? How did natural history influence the exercise of imperial power in the British Caribbean? The study posits that there is a connection between natural history and imperial power. Through the contexts of the history of natural history and the history of fear, biopolitics acts as a theoretical framework wherethrough two themes of natural history, "spirits" and weaponry, are analysed using the travel writings of Hans Sloane, Henry Barham, Charles Leslie, Griffith Hughes and Patrick Browne. READ MORE
