Essays about: "plundering"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the word plundering.
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1. "Diss ist der Mann, der helfen kann"* : Swedish protection-selling in German illustrated broadsheets, 1630-1633.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This study examines German illustrated broadsheets that were manufactured and published in the Holy Roman Empire between 1630-1633. They were part of a pro-Swedish media campaign launched soon after the arrival of the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf and the Swedish army in the Holy Roman Empire in June 1630 with the intention to legitimate the Swedish king’s presence in the Holy Roman Empire. READ MORE
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2. The Life and Times of Butehamun : Tomb Raider for the High Priest of Amun
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : This is a biography of the scribe Butehamun. A member of a well-known family who had long lived in the village of Deir el-Medina working on the tombs in the Valley of Kings, Butehamun’s coming of age saw invasion and civil war in Thebes, and the end to the making of new tombs in the Valley, as the New Kingdom came to an end. READ MORE
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3. The socioethical concerns associated with Indigenous Oceanic cultural heritage materials
University essay fromAbstract : The rise of postcolonial theories in the 1970s did not yield much influence in the then practice of humanities computing, but following the mass-scale digitisations of cultural heritage materials over the past thirty years questions of Indigenous agency and the colonial roots of the digital cultural record have become more urgent than ever. This thesis operates within the area of postcolonial digital humanities and seeks to explore three questions. READ MORE
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4. Development of the Chilean mining industry – its dependence of natural resources
University essay from KTH/Entreprenörskap och InnovationAbstract : The resource curse, also known as the “paradox of plenty”, basically states that countries that have natural resources in abundance, particularly in terms of non-renewable resources such as oil and gas and minerals, in the long run tend to have less economic growth and prosperity, than countries with relatively lesser endowments of natural resources. This research investigates the case of the Chilean economy; its erstwhile saltpeter mining industry and current copper mining industry. READ MORE
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5. Finding Butehamun : Scribe of Deir el-Medina
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : Butehamun was one of the most famous scribes involved in the building of the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, and a member of the most illustrious family of scribes there. Butehamun presided over the closure of the Valley and the workers’ village of Deir elMedina, and the move from building new tombs to the preserving and moving (some would say plundering) of the mummies left behind, marking the transition from the New Kingdom to the Third Intermediate Period, as Egypt splintered into what were essentially two realms. READ MORE
