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Operational Fires Lisieux And Saint-Lô – The Destruction Of Two Norman Towns On D-Day, Stephen A. Bourque

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

Title Not Available, Tori Paille

Honors Theses

No abstract provided.

How Europe Underdeveloped African At 40, Michael O. West

Groundings

Michael O. West digests the impact of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa 40 years after its publication. He brings to the front the atmosphere that Rodney endured leading up to the publication of his seminal work.

Groundings Volume Two, Issue One

Groundings

This is the full isee of Groundings Vol. 2, Iss. 1.

Origins Of Music Programs In Liberal Arts Institutions: The Story Of Three Florida Catholic Universities, Cynthia S. Selph

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study examines the music programs in liberal arts colleges through the historical lens of three Catholic Universities in the state of Florida. Although there are numerous historical dissertations and theses written about individual music schools and departments, and a few that compare music programs in similar types of institutions, none have compared music programs in Catholic universities within the same state. After teaching at Saint Leo University and experiencing the process of rebuilding a music program after it was almost completely lost in the mid-1990s, I wanted to study the histories of Saint Leo and other Florida Catholic institutions …

Contextualizing The Writings Of J.R.R. Tolkien On Literary Criticism, Sherrylyn Branchaw

Journal of Tolkien Research

This essay offers a reinterpretation of Tolkien's writings about literary criticism, which are focused on Beowulf, fairy stories, and his own works. Whereas his writings have often been taken to mean that analytic scholarship is not valid and should not be pursued, my essay takes the intellectual climate of the time into consideration and offers an alternative interpretation, according to which he did not mean to forbid these studies outright and indeed intended that scholars should continue writing them. The essay ends with a call to academics not to be discouraged by his strong language from producing analytic studies.

讀李密《陳情表》小識, Chow Yiu Sin

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

注釋李密(582-619)《陳情表》之書甚夥，惟各書注釋，不盡相同，且多未能道出其解釋之根據。本文於《陳情表》及其注釋，詳稽博辨，指微抉奥，以就正於方家。

山谷行書和東坡草書《赤壁懷古》詞石刻的真僞及文獻價值, Zhaopeng Wang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

宋哲宗元祐二年丁卯（１０８７）黄庭堅行書赤壁詞，自南宋以來，既有原書真迹傳世，也有石刻搨本流傳，傳承有序，源流清晰。今存山谷行書赤壁詞石刻及其搨本，雖然不一定是山谷手書的真迹，卻是可信的文本。東坡草書赤壁詞的傳藏經過，不如山谷行書赤壁詞那樣歷歷可考，只知明嘉靖以前已有石刻。與山谷行書赤壁詞互證，東坡草書赤壁詞的文本有可信度，即便字不一定是蘇軾所寫真迹，内容應是蘇軾所作。山谷和東坡所書兩種赤壁詞，是現存最早最接近東坡赤壁詞原作的文本，可據以校正諸本異文的正誤得失：其中“談笑間、强虜灰飛煙滅”應作“笑談間、檣櫓灰飛煙滅”，“强虜”是南宋人所改，藉以影射金人。

《古今樂録》的整理與考釋, Xi Jin

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

《古今樂録》成書於南朝陳，是中古時期最爲重要的音樂著作之一。宋代以降，此書逐漸散佚，雖然有清人和今人的數個輯本，然其文本仍存在頗多需要辨明及完善之處。本文在對《古今樂録》進行重新輯佚和系統整理的基礎上，梳理該書的内容、體例、結構等宏觀問題，亦對其佚文的起止、正誤、疑僞等微觀問題進行探討，盡可能地恢復其本來面貌，從而揭示其在音樂史和文學史上的重要意義。

論劉向、劉歆和《漢書》之關係, Chunhong Wang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

本文认爲，讀《漢書》，當以《楚元王傳》爲綱，並且以《五行志》等爲輔佐，來觀其書之結構和用心，可以起到提綱挈領的作用。今本《漢書》有兩個關注點，除了朝政之外，還有楚元王一系之遭際。劉向活躍於宣、元、成帝三朝政壇，他與他的父親劉德經歷了前漢武帝身後的重大政治鬥爭。然而，劉德、劉向和劉歆亦並非純然從儒家道統出發，來爲民請命、仗義執言。他們主要代表劉氏宗親一系政治和經濟利益，所以劉氏不遺餘力地對外戚口誅筆伐。此從某種程度上看，實際上是劉氏諸侯和皇帝外戚利益較量，總劉向一生，堪稱劉氏宗親利益的代言人，當然更是自家利益捍衛者，其言行無不與此種身份立場相關聯。故而，《漢書》並非成於一人一時之手。今本署名班固著《漢書》，在很大程度上，可以視作一部圍繞楚元王家族（尤其是以劉德、劉向、劉歆一支）之前漢遭際爲中心，所生發、結撰的政治載記，班氏父子共同依照劉向、劉歆藍本來結撰《漢書》，其中緣由遠比“盜竊父史”來得複雜！

《大唐西域記》所載佛教口傳故事考述, Yinchi Chen, Te Chen

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

《大唐西域記》是中古西行求法僧人撰寫的一部重要著作，其歷史、地理和風俗上的價值極高，即從宗教文學方面觀察，其記述西域、印度等地流傳之佛教故事傳説甚夥，亦不容忽視。本文試從文本比勘入手，推證《大唐西域記》記述佛教傳説故事的書面典籍和口頭傳播兩種來源方式及兩者錯綜交織之表現，條理並分析其特點，進而顯示玄奘撰述態度的多面性以及其著作包涵的複雜性。

再論《劉子》是否爲劉勰所作 : 兼談學術爭論中的學風問題, Shaokang Zhang

嶺南學報 Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies

近來有人認爲《劉子》作者是劉勰，這種結論的得出，體現了作者曲解材料的不良學風，本文爲之做正本清源的駁斥。認爲《劉子》是劉勰所作者的文獻根據就是兩《唐志》的著録，本文考辨了兩《唐志》致誤的緣起，從目録學上，否定了某些人據以爲劉勰著《劉子》的可信性。從《劉子》基本思想傾向、人格思想素質以及語言風格諸方面與《文心雕龍》相對照，所呈現之差異，可徹底否定所謂《劉子》爲劉勰所作之謬論。一切基於違背實事求是原則而作的所謂學術研究，根本是站不住脚的。

A Political History Of Spanish: The Making Of A Language, Edited By José Del Valle (Review), Israel Sanz-Sánchez

Languages & Cultures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Developing An Image-Based Classifier For Detecting Poetic Content In Historic Newspaper Collections, Elizabeth M. Lorang, Leen-Kiat Soh, Maanas Varma Datla, Spencer Kulwicki

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

"Developing an Image-Based Classifier for Detecting Poetic Content in Historic Newspaper Collections" details and analyzes the first stage of work of the Image Analysis for Archival Discovery project team. Our team is is investigating the use of image analysis to identify poetic content in historic newspapers. The project seeks both to augment the study of literary history by drawing attention to the magnitude of poetry published in newspapers and by making the poetry more readily available for study, as well as to advance work on the use of digital images in facilitating discovery in digital libraries and other digitized collections. …

Learning To Be Quaker: Spiritual Formation And Religious Education Among Early Friends, Martha Paxson Grundy

Quaker Studies

The theology and lifestyle that grew from Friends' transforming experience of'primitive Christianity revived' differed from the dominant culture, exacting a high cost. Relying on early Friends' writing, this article examines how this new paradigm was transmitted. Friends summarized the basis of their faith with the phrase 'Christ is come to teach his people himself' (Benson 1968: 36; 1976: 3; Cooper 1990: 2; Freiday 1984: 4; Grundy 2002b: 11-13, 15, 17). In the 1650s and 1660s most people who became Friends were first worked on internally by the Holy Spirit. When they heard a Quaker preach, the words reached to the …

Book Review: San Miguel, Chicana/O Struggles For Education: Activism In The Community, Maritza De La Trinidad

Mexican American Studies Faculty Publications

Guadalupe San Miguel’s Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community is the seventh book in the University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies. The author provides a historical overview of the multiple strategies and methods that Mexican American activists, organizations, and like-minded individuals employed in order to obtain not only quality education but also culturally relevant and religious education for Mexican-origin students from the 1960s to 2010. San Miguel focuses on this period in order to show how Mexican American education evolved in the post–Civil Rights era and how different groups pushed for educational reforms to achieve their …

On The Fringe Of Italian Fascism: An Examination Of The Relationship Between Vinicio Paladini And The Soviet Avant-Garde, Christina Brungardt

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Vinicio Paladini's career as an artist, architect, and cultural critic illuminates the paradoxes of the Italian avant-garde between the World Wars. He emerged as an early proponent of communist-Futurism in 1922 and attempted to integrate futurist techniques with the Marxist theories of Antonio Gramsci. In addition, Paladini provided a direct point of contact between the Russian and Italian avant-garde, traveling to Moscow and reporting to the Italian public on Soviet artists' developments in film, photomontage, and architecture. Yet he struggled to merge his leftist ideology with his artistic practice as Fascism spread throughout Italy. Although he has been largely neglected …

Changing Identities In A Changing Land: The Romanization Of The British Landscape, Thomas Ryan

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis will examine the changes in the landscape of Britain resulting from the Roman invasion in 43 CE and their effect on the identities of the native Britons. Romanization, as the process is commonly called, and evidence of these altered identities as seen in material culture have been well studied. However, the manifestations of this process in the landscape have been less well examined. Applying current theories in landscape archaeology, the Selsey peninsula oppidum of the Atrebates and two hillforts of the Durotriges, sites that have been well excavated and examined, will be the focus of this thesis. The …

Civilizing Settlers: Catholic Missionaries And The Colonial State In French Algeria, 1830-1914, Kyle Francis

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation argues that between 1830 and 1914, with increasing intensity over time, French Catholic missionaries sowed divisions among the European population of French Algeria. The French government initially welcomed missionaries to cater to religiously devout Spanish, Italian, and Maltese settlers in Algeria and to foster their loyalty to the colonial state. Missionaries, however, incited the professional jealousy and personal animosity of the territory's generally less devout French population, who saw Catholicism and missionaries as little different from Islam and the "fanatical" Muslim population. Throughout this period, missionaries thus occupied a liminal space in the racialized hierarchy of colonial rule. …

2015 Program Book

Symposium on Worship Archive

No abstract provided.

Waging War On Education: American Indian Versions, Donald Warren

Education's Histories

Article excerpt: "America Indian histories as analytical levers...case studies of what happens methodologically when education historians attempt to cleanse their methods of ethnocentrism and similar predispositions."

Underestimating Women In The Early Modern Atlantic World, Lindsey Bauman

International ResearchScape Journal

This essay examines the limiting gender roles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as depicted through the detailed account of Catalina de Erauso, a Spanish woman who ran away from a convent. Disguising herself as a man, Catalina eventually journeyed to Chile, joined the militia, and took part in fighting against the native peoples of the region. Noted as being an exemplary warrior in the midst of battle, she was not detected as a woman until she exposed herself. By taking historical context into account, this essay argues that patriarchal society’s view of women is what enabled Catalina to impersonate …

Twelve Years A Terror: U.S. Impact In The 12-Year Civil War In El Salvador, Cara E. Mckinney

International ResearchScape Journal

This essay explores the impacts of the United States government and military in the civil war in El Salvador in a comprehensive historical study. Through the presence of monetary aid, a disregard for the human rights of people in El Salvador, and the presence of U.S. trained soldiers at the then School of Americas and the current Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, the U.S. prolonged and augmented the negative effects of the Salvadoran Civil War.

The Trinity: Paradigm For Mission In The Spirit, A. H. Mathias Zahniser

Papers

No abstract provided.

Communists And The Classroom: Radicals In U.S. Education, 1930-1960, Jonathan Hunt

Rhetoric and Language Faculty Publications and Research

Concern about Communists in education was a central preoccupation in the U.S. through the middle decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on post-secondary and adult education and on fields related to composition and rhetoric, this essay offers an overview of the surprisingly diverse contexts in which Communist educators worked. Some who taught in Communist- sponsored "separatist" institutions pioneered the kinds of radical pedagogical theories now most often attributed to Paulo Freire. Communist educators who taught in "mainstream" institutions, however, less often saw their pedagogy as a mode of political action; their activism was deployed mainly in civic life rather than …

Korean Church: God's Mission Global Christianity, Wonsuk Ma, Kyo Seong Ahn

Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series

Once considered as a Cinderella in church growth and mission in the post-Edinburgh Conference era, the Korean church is given its due in this book. As a guide to Korean Christianity, it contains more than thirty chapters, written by historians, missiologists, sociologists, mission practitioners, pastors, and church leaders. They come from a wide range of church traditions, and also from within and without South Korea. This volume assesses the legacy and place of Korean Christianity and its mission, provides insightful and self-critical accounts in topics ranging from theories, policies, practices, and prospects, and offers a useful overview of how the …

Making Waves: Bacon, Manley, And The Shifting Rhetorics Of Opulent At(A)Lantis, Alex Cahill Nielsen

ETD Archive

In the modern critical environment, there has been a renewed interest in the role that proto-feminist and feminist satires have played in the development of cultural commentary and the modern novel. Lesser-studied works have seen several new approaches applied by critics such as Rachel Carnell, Rebecca Bullard, and Ruth Herman, who have focused on the role of the genre of "secret history" in the popular growth of the novel as a form for political dissent. Secret history, which can offer revelatory glimpses into the contemporary scandals and governance of the female authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, is a …

The Dawn Of Sowt: Oss Weathermen In The Balkans, 1944, Bryan David Carnes

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This thesis will examine the rise of Special Operations Weathermen during World War II, from the founding of the Weather Bureau to the formation of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). OSS-weathermen and their contributions played a significant role to the overall Allied victory in all theaters of operation. Concentrating on the first documented use of clandestine weathermen in Yugoslavia, I contend that Special Operations Weather was not only crucial to the war effort, but as a result, revolutionized behind-the-line weather reporting in modern U.S. military. Since meteorological data transcends alliances and nationalities; those who can accurately forecast and observe …

How Archives Shape Our Collective Memory: A Re-Examination Of The Library Of Congress’ American Memory Collection Of The 1936-1938 Federal Writers Project’S Collection Of Former Slave Narratives And Concomitant Questions Of African American Cultural Knowledge Production, Renee Neely

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

The massive compilation of oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans by the Federal Writers Project, was an ambitious project. This case study raises questions surrounding the Collection’s provenance within its socio-political framework and its enduring legacy.

Additionally, this examination pursues areas of cultural knowledge production cited within the narratives, that merit further study. A discussion surrounding the conscious or unconscious, outcome of archival practice, and its ability to shape our historical record is the goal of this investigation.

“We Believe That God Speaks Danish.” Assimilation Vs Identity In Sanpete County, Utah, Claus Elholm Andersen, Elizabeth Peterson

The Bridge

Most accounts hold that Danes in America assimilated rapidly and effectively into mainstream culture…but was that always the case? This article focuses on a small community in Utah that was home to a large proportion of Danes and other Scandinavians. A close examination of this community reveals that the assimilation process was not always as straightforward a process as we oft en hear.