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, 2009 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-147).This thesis explores the use of current music genres in a postcolonial, and more specifically South African, theatrical context to replace the lost value of audience's musical ...
Jeffery, Robert
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California Temperature Since 1520 CE Shows Interactions in Extremes of Heat, Drought, and Fire
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 5, 16 March 2026.Abstract Summer maximum temperatures (Tmax ${T}_{\text{max}}$) in the Sierra Nevada have risen rapidly since the turn of the 20th century, especially above 1,500 m where trends in the south exceed 3°C century−1. To place this warming into context, we developed a 504‐year reconstruction of growing‐season (April–September) Tmax ${T}_{\text{max}}$ (1520 ...
Grant L. Harley +5 more
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The Queen's Men on tour: provincial performance in vernacular spaces in early modern England [PDF]
, 2012 The ongoing work lead by the Records of Early English Drama project into evidence for drama in England before the closing of the London theatres in 1642 has by now shown that visits to provincial towns, and performances in the spaces made available there,
Jones, Oliver
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Economic History Matters [PDF]
This paper considers the future of economic history in the context of its relationship with economics. It is argued that there are strong synergies between the two disciplines and that awareness of the economic past is an important resource for today’s ...
Crafts, Nicholas
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British private trade networks in the Arabian seas, c.1680-c.1760 [PDF]
This thesis explores the networks of British private trade based in the Arabian Seas, between c.1680 and c.1760, with a focus on the period between 1700 and 1740.
Davies, Timothy, (Researcher in history)
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George Vernon and the building of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire : punching above his weight? [PDF]
My case study of the building of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, is a landmark volume within the fields of architectural and social history in the context of the development of houses of English landed gentry in the seventeenth century.
Knott, Cherry Ann
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A comprehensive analysis of long bone curvature in Neanderthals and modern humans using 3D morphometrics [PDF]
, 2008 Since their discovery Neanderthals were described as having a marked degree of anteroposterior curvature of the femoral shaft. Although initially believed to be pathological, subsequent discoveries of Neanderthal remains made femoral curvature as well as
De Groote, Isabelle, de Groote, I.E.P.M.
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, 2016 Le présent article vise à replacer la traduction de l’Histoire Naturelle de Pline l’Ancien par Philemon Holland (1601) dans le contexte de l’histoire des sciences en Angleterre.
Marie-Alice Belle, Belle, Marie-Alice
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Environmental Regulation in Edinburgh and York, c.1560-c.1700 With Reference to Several Smaller Scottish Burghs and Northern English Towns [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis challenges the deeply entrenched stereotypical image which depicts early modern urban dwellers throwing rubbish and effluent directly out of their windows and doors into the streets below almost as is this was a normal and widely permissible ...
SKELTON, LEONA,JAYNE
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Chinese court case fiction:A corrective for the history of crime fiction [PDF]
, 2011 Western history of crime fiction usually designates Edgar Allan Poe as the undisputed father of the detective story. Crime fiction is, hence, generally associated with incipient modernity and modern societies and cityscapes.
Kim Toft Hansen +1 more
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