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Berman, Richard Andrew. "The architects of eighteenth century English freemasonry, 1720-1740." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/2999.
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Following the appointment of its first aristocratic Grand Masters in the 1720s and in the wake of its connections to the scientific Enlightenment, ‘Free and Accepted’ Masonry rapidly became part of Britain’s national profile and the largest and arguably the most influential of Britain’s extensive clubs and societies. The new organisation did not evolve naturally from the mediaeval guilds and religious orders that pre-dated it, but was reconfigured radically by a largely self-appointed inner core. Freemasonry became a vehicle for the expression and transmission of the political and religious views of those at its centre, and for the scientific Enlightenment concepts that they championed. The ‘Craft’ also offered a channel through which many sought to realise personal aspirations: social, intellectual and financial. Through an examination of relevant primary and secondary documentary evidence, this thesis seeks to contribute to a broader understanding of contemporary English political and social culture, and to explore the manner in which Freemasonry became a mechanism that promoted the interests of the Hanoverian establishment and connected and bound a number of élite metropolitan and provincial figures. A range of networks centred on the aristocracy, parliament, the magistracy and the learned and professional societies are studied, and key individuals instrumental in spreading and consolidating the Masonic message identified. The thesis also explores the role of Freemasonry in the development of the scientific Enlightenment. The evidence suggests that Freemasonry should be recognised not only as the most prominent of the many eighteenth century fraternal organisations, but also as a significant cultural vector and a compelling component of the social, economic, scientific and political transformation then in progress.
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O'Har, George Michael. "Shipbuilding, markets, and technological change in East Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11763.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 1995.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-241).<br>by George Michael O'Har.<br>Ph.D.
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Robinson, H. C. (Hilary C. ). "Making a digital working class : Uber drivers in Boston, 2016-2017." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113946.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-226).<br>Pocket computers, called "smartphones," have become a part of everyday life over the past decade. Most people now routinely carry around with them millions of times more computing power than generated the Apollo mission to the Moon. They use it to access, process, and share information quickly and cheaply, in furtherance of the things people have long done: buying and selling, socializing, and so on, yet faster and across greater distances-characteristic of what we call "modernity." This has affected the ways in which people are working, and who is working, doing what, today. This thesis reports the results of a field study of one new kind of laborer who has been brought into work consequent to the smartphone: Uber drivers. The author conducted ethnographic fieldwork over one year in Boston, Massachusetts, and the surrounding area using ride-along sampling, participant observation, lengthy interviewing, and systematic coding in order to better understand a software-organized, person-to-person labor market in which the person who does the labor also brings the capital in the form of a vehicle used to provide transportation to other people. The first chapter of the thesis provides a typology of Uber drivers based on semi-random sampling through ride-alongs. The second chapter describes collective action that was undertaken by Uber drivers at Boston's Logan Airport in the form of a strike against the algorithm, which was an effort to induce the software to perceive an (artificial) driver shortage, leading to an increase in the price of fares. The third chapter offers a theory of the structure of Uber as an organization that mobilizes labor by using software to facilitate economic transactions that are triangulated between two users and the firm. The chapter also explains how this structure was particularly apt at mobilizing large numbers of people to carry out "regulatory breach," as they worked as Uber drivers doing the equivalent of taxi or livery work without complying with any of the applicable legal regulations. The final chapter explains how analysis of the field data, in combination with the new theoretical insights of the thesis, drives a conclusion suggested by the thesis title: that Uber has made a digital working class.<br>by H. C. Robinson.<br>Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)
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Jones, Todd R. "The Relationship Between Lowell Mason and the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, 1815-1827." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/83.
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The relationship between Lowell Mason (1792–1872) and the Boston Handel and Haydn Society (est. 1815) has long been recognized as a crucial development in the history of American music. In 1821, Mason and the HHS contracted to publish a collection of church music that Mason had edited. While living in Savannah, GA, Mason had imported several recent British collections that adapted for church tunes works by Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Ignaz Pleyel. His study with German émigré Frederick L. Abel allowed him to harmonize older tunes in standard counterpoint. In the historiography of American music, the collection has ever since been named as one of the chief forces establishing standard counterpoint in the mainstream of American music. The collection’s profits also helped the HHS survive the next several years, and the prestige of eventually being known as the collection’s editor helped launch Mason’s influential career in church music, music education, and music publishing. In 1827, that career took a dramatic turn when Mason returned to Boston to assume the presidency of the HHS and the care of music in several churches.
This project shows that the social ties between Mason and the HHS begin earlier and are far more indebted to Calvinist orthodox Christianity than previous studies have shown. With special attention to Mason’s personal papers housed at Yale University, to the HHS records held at the Boston Public Library, and to newly indexed Savannah newspapers, it shows that Mason’s relationship with the Society grew from relationships begun before he left his native Massachusetts in 1812. The depth of the relationship grew steadily until 1827, marked at first by indirect contact and in 1821 by Mason’s trip to Boston. Mason’s 1827 return to Boston, often surprising to scholars, appears here as a logical consequence of the support given by the Society’s previous president, Amasa Winchester, for Mason’s work in church music. Mason’s departure from the Society seems to be based on his zeal, closely related to his evangelical goals, for universal music education.
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Harriss, Karen Elizabeth. "A design approach for Atlanta's urban core : the new urbanism between Farlie-Poplar and the Olympic Park." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23935.
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McCowin, David J. ""For Faith and for Freedom": American Catholic Manhood and the Holy Name Society in Boston, 1870-1960." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3347.
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Thesis advisor: James M. O'Toole<br>This dissertation investigates the Holy Name Society, a Catholic men's confraternity that thrived in early-to-mid twentieth-century America, aimed at addressing perceived problems of modernity by curbing blasphemous speech and bringing men back to the regular attendance to the sacraments of the faith. A dual focus on the local Holy Name movement in Boston and the national campaign uncovers the linkages within the organization as its numbers and purposes expanded. Blending the perspective of lived religion with the methods of social and cultural history, the study explores social relationships of Holy Name men pertaining to race, gender, family, and children, and it shows that the institution was the main lens through which its members translated their faith into their daily lives. Holy Name men, for example, entered into the era of Catholic Action long before historians understand that movement to have begun. The institution served as the Catholic counterpart to the predominantly Protestant push for muscular Christianity, combining corporate faith practice with publicly oriented events such as massive rallies and parades. As such, the society became a mouthpiece of the laity, lashing out against anti-Catholic bigotry, defining American Catholic patriotism anew, and offering a particularly strong anticommunist stance. The study uncovers new dimensions in the relationships between the clergy and the laity, it shows that liberal concepts of racial equality came early and met with mixed success in the organization, and it reveals that Catholic laymen at midcentury bore a tremendous responsibility as defenders of their nation, church, wives, and children. The domestic role of Holy Name men, moreover, was much more engaged and leadership-oriented than traditional "separate spheres" assumptions about gender and family relations might suggest. The overarching result is that the study conclusively shows that many of the dramatic changes commonly attributed to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council were in fact underway long before the 1960s. The distinctive era of Holy Name practice described here, however, had begun to decline by the late 1940s, a process accelerated the following decade by the relative decline of Catholic devotional life and larger social forces such as suburbanization<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: History
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LABARILE, MISA. "Il ruolo sociale delle Università il caso della partnership Boston University-Chelsea." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/306.
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La mia tesi in questo lavoro di ricerca è che le università possono costituire attori di sviluppo grazie ad un'azione immediata e diretta su un'area problematica locale condotta attraverso partnership e reti con altri attori pubblici e privati. L'obiettivo è di creare due fattori di sviluppo: capitale sociale e capitale umano. Ho contestualizzato questa idea nella letteratura dell'istruzione superiore, relativamente ai termini del dibattito intorno a un ruolo innovativo e attivo dell'università contemporanea nel contesto sociale. Di questo mi occupo nel capitolo 1. Nel capitolo 2 analizzo il problema di secondo livello, ovvero l'aspetto organizzativo che può assumere una forma innovativa di funzione sociale: le partnership pubblico-private. Le ipotesi che emergono nei primi due capitoli vengono testate nel terzo sul caso di studio, la partnership tra Boston University e il distretto scolastico di Chelsea, MA: un esperimento unico nel quale un'università privata ha gestito sistematicamente per due decenni un distretto scolastico pubblico. Benché il caso di studio sia unico nel suo genere, e quindi non comparabile, ho voluto contestualizzarlo nel capitolo 4 attraverso l'analisi di altri due casi relativi a problemi affini: riforme scolastiche per la qualità dell'istruzione, e le politiche e la missione delle istituzioni di istruzione superiore. Tutti i casi presentati in questo lavoro appartengono alla prospettiva statunitense.<br>My thesis in this work is that the universities could be active agents of development, intervening successfully on a local problematic area by networking with public and private actors in order to generate two specific factors of development: social and human capital. I set this idea in the context of the literature on higher education and the debates on innovative and active social functions for the contemporary university. This is the focus of Chapter 1. In Chapter 2 I approach the problem on a deeper level, in its organizational terms: I analyse the public-private partnerships as instruments for the universities to self-assign and re-interpret their local engagement for the creation of human and social capitals. The hypothesis presented in the first two chapters are tested in Chapter 3 on my case study: the Boston University-Chelsea Partnership, a unique example of the day-by-day management of a public district (the Chelsea public schools, MA) by a private university (the Boston University). My case study is set in context in Chapter 4, through the provision of other cases that, albeit not comparably, address similar concerns (quality of education and systems reform, and higher education policies and mission). All these cases are US-focused.
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LABARILE, MISA. "Il ruolo sociale delle Università il caso della partnership Boston University-Chelsea." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/306.
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La mia tesi in questo lavoro di ricerca è che le università possono costituire attori di sviluppo grazie ad un'azione immediata e diretta su un'area problematica locale condotta attraverso partnership e reti con altri attori pubblici e privati. L'obiettivo è di creare due fattori di sviluppo: capitale sociale e capitale umano. Ho contestualizzato questa idea nella letteratura dell'istruzione superiore, relativamente ai termini del dibattito intorno a un ruolo innovativo e attivo dell'università contemporanea nel contesto sociale. Di questo mi occupo nel capitolo 1. Nel capitolo 2 analizzo il problema di secondo livello, ovvero l'aspetto organizzativo che può assumere una forma innovativa di funzione sociale: le partnership pubblico-private. Le ipotesi che emergono nei primi due capitoli vengono testate nel terzo sul caso di studio, la partnership tra Boston University e il distretto scolastico di Chelsea, MA: un esperimento unico nel quale un'università privata ha gestito sistematicamente per due decenni un distretto scolastico pubblico. Benché il caso di studio sia unico nel suo genere, e quindi non comparabile, ho voluto contestualizzarlo nel capitolo 4 attraverso l'analisi di altri due casi relativi a problemi affini: riforme scolastiche per la qualità dell'istruzione, e le politiche e la missione delle istituzioni di istruzione superiore. Tutti i casi presentati in questo lavoro appartengono alla prospettiva statunitense.<br>My thesis in this work is that the universities could be active agents of development, intervening successfully on a local problematic area by networking with public and private actors in order to generate two specific factors of development: social and human capital. I set this idea in the context of the literature on higher education and the debates on innovative and active social functions for the contemporary university. This is the focus of Chapter 1. In Chapter 2 I approach the problem on a deeper level, in its organizational terms: I analyse the public-private partnerships as instruments for the universities to self-assign and re-interpret their local engagement for the creation of human and social capitals. The hypothesis presented in the first two chapters are tested in Chapter 3 on my case study: the Boston University-Chelsea Partnership, a unique example of the day-by-day management of a public district (the Chelsea public schools, MA) by a private university (the Boston University). My case study is set in context in Chapter 4, through the provision of other cases that, albeit not comparably, address similar concerns (quality of education and systems reform, and higher education policies and mission). All these cases are US-focused.
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Ibbotson, Verity Rose. "Collaboration and the Arts and Crafts Movement : the Art Workers' Guild, the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, the Quarto Imperial Club, and related group endeavour in Boston and Chicago." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.577638.
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White, Deborah. "Masculine constructions : gender in twentieth-century architectural discourse : 'Gods', 'Gospels' and 'tall tales' in architecture." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw5834.pdf.
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Includes 2 previously published journal articles by the author: Women in architecture: a personal reflection ; and, "Half the sky, but no room of her own", as appendices. Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) An examination of some texts influential in the discourse of Australian architecture in the twentieth century. Explores from a feminist standpoint the gendered nature of discourse in contemporary Western architecture from an Australian perspective. The starting point for the thesis was an examination of Australian architectual discourse in search of some explanation for the continuing low numbers of women practitioners in Australia. Hypothesizes that contemporary Western architecture is imbued with a pervasive and dominant masculinity and that this is deeply imbedded in its discursive constructions: the body housed by architecture is assume to be male, the mind which produces architecture is assumed to be masculine. Given the cultural location of Australian architecture as a marginal participant in the wider arena of contemporary Western / international discourses, focuses on writing about two iconic figues in Western architecture; Le Corbusier, of international reknown; and, Glenn Murcutt, of predominantly local significance.
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McHale, Katherine Jean. "Ingenious Italians : immigrant artists in eighteenth-century Britain." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13854.
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Italian artists working in eighteenth-century Britain played a significant role in the country's developing interest in the fine arts. The contributions of artists arriving before mid-century, including Pellegrini, Ricci, and Canaletto, have been noted, but the presence of a larger number of Italians from mid-century is seldom acknowledged. Increasing British wealth and attention to the arts meant more customers for immigrant Italian artists. Bringing with them the skills for which they were renowned throughout Europe, their talents were valued in Britain. Many stayed for prolonged periods, raising families and becoming active members in the artistic community. In a thriving economy, they found opportunities to produce innovative works for a new clientele, devising histories, landscapes, portraits, and prints to entice buyers. The most successful were accomplished networkers, maintaining cordial relationships with British artists and cultivating a variety of patrons. They influenced others through teaching, through formal and informal exchanges with colleagues, and through exhibition of their works that could be studied and emulated.
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Davies, Llewellyn Willis. "‘LOOK’ AND LOOK BACK: Using an auto/biographical lens to study the Australian documentary film industry, 1970 - 2010." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/154339.
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While much has been written on the Australian film and television
industry, little has been presented by actual producers,
filmmakers and technicians of their time and experiences within
that same industry. Similarly, with historical documentaries, it
has been academics rather than filmmakers who have led the
debate. This thesis addresses this shortcoming and bridges the
gap between practitioner experience and intellectual discussion,
synthesising the debate and providing an important contribution
from a filmmaker-academic, in its own way unique and insightful.
The thesis is presented in two voices. First, my voice, the
voice of memoir and recollected experience of my screen
adventures over 38 years within the Australian industry, mainly
producing historical documentaries for the ABC and the SBS. This
is represented in italics. The second half and the alternate
chapters provide the industry framework in which I worked with
particular emphasis on documentaries and how this evolved and
developed over a 40-year period, from 1970 to 2010.
Within these two voices are three layers against which this
history is reviewed and presented. Forming the base of the
pyramid is the broad Australian film industry made up of feature
films, documentary, television drama, animation and other types
and styles of production. Above this is the genre documentary
within this broad industry, and making up the small top tip of
the pyramid, the sub-genre of historical documentary. These form
the vertical structure within which industry issues are
discussed. Threading through it are the duel determinants of
production: ‘the market’ and ‘funding’.
Underpinning the industry is the involvement of government, both
state and federal, forming the three dimensional matrix for the
thesis. For over 100 years the Australian film industry has
depended on government support through subsidy, funding
mechanisms, development assistance, broadcast policy and
legislative provisions.
This thesis aims to weave together these industry layers, binding
them with the determinants of the market and funding, and
immersing them beneath layers of government legislation and
policy to present a new view of the Australian film industry.
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Crewe, Katherine. "Landscape architects and citizen participation: A study of the Boston Southwest Corridor (1976-1986)." 1997. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809322.
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This dissertation examines the responses of landscape architects to citizen participation while working on the Boston Southwest Corridor, a multi-purpose transportation project which involved landscape architects between 1976 and 1986. Conclusions were drawn from interviews with twenty-three landscape architects who were involved on the project, and interviews of an additional twenty consultants and residents. In addition, the source material relative to the project was researched. Findings reveal that landscape architects had responded in a variety of ways to citizen participation depending on the location, and the income level of the community involved: three areas were noted, the gentrifying and relatively affluent South End of Boston, the low income and high minority Roxbury/Mission Hill area, and the middle-income sections of Jamaica Plain and Forest Hills. Landscape architects' various approaches to design and design creativity are discussed, with assessments given as to their relations to citizen participation. The dissertation concludes with recommendations that landscape architects acknowledge the role of citizen participation as part of their practice, based not only on their experiences with the Southwest Corridor, but also on their professional priorities as revealed during interviews.
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CHI-TIEH-LANG and 紀鐵郎. "A Study of Landscape Architecture Research on the Grouping Principle of Gestalt Psychology -Using American Society of Landscape Architects Firm Award Cases." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38738738204962978410.
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碩士<br>大葉大學<br>設計研究所碩士在職專班<br>95<br>The study was to explore a Gestalt psychology in the landscape aesthetic perception application of space research, and to try to direct most of the human visual perception associated with the theory of Gestalt psychology "grouping principle" explore the beauty of the landscape, and based on analysis and interpretation of a good space created by the main factor. In the overall study was an analysis of the United States Association of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) winner of the actual landscape designs, Grouping principles to meet the actual case for professional practitioners questionnaire surveys and analysis are summarized in the research results, for the landscape design profession, as the future design and planning of reference.
This study purpose of the study was to :
Objective 1 : Analysis and finishing Gestalt psychology and the theory of visual perception component factors.
Objective 2 : To explore the professional landscape designers of space Gestalt principle of personal preference whether basic background differences.
Objective 3 : To explore the different professional landscape designer for the space grouping principle perceptions and preferences circumstances.
Objective 4 : To evaluate the impact on the landscape of professional designers space preferences of the key principles of grouping, and its importance, Accordingly for the design sector as a design reference.
Key Words : Gestalt psychology, grouping, the garden landscape, the United States Association of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
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D'Antonio, Andrew A. "Erwin Bodky as Musicologist, Pedagogue, and Performer: A German Émigre in The United States." 2016. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/345.
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Before 1933, Erwin Bodky actively participated in musical life in Berlin. When he was a student, the Prussian Government had given him grants in 1920 and 1921 to study with the distinguished composers Richard Strauss and Ferruccio Busoni. His international performing career was launched when, at the last minute, Bodky was asked to replace a pianist for a performance with Wilhelm Furtwängler. When he became a professor at the Staatlich Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik in Charlottenburg in 1926, he immersed himself in early music, performing on harpsichord and clavichord and founding his own collegium musicum. His publications, Der Vortrag alter Klaviermusik (Berlin: Hesse, 1932) and Das Charakterstück (Berlin: Vieweg, 1933), promised a future wealth of scholarship.
However, in 1933, Bodky was expelled from his teaching position because he was a Jew. After officials came to seize part of his instrument collection, he and his family fled to Amsterdam, where they were in exile for five years. In 1938, he managed to escape Europe by securing a position at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Bodky would become one of the most important proponents of early music in the United States. Over the last twenty years of his life, he promoted historical instruments, performance practice, and forgotten early music repertoire. His many accomplishments in the United States include the founding of the Music Department at Brandeis University and the Cambridge Society for Early Music, the introduction and promotion of the collegium musicum, and the publication of the treatise The Interpretation of Bach’s Keyboard Works (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960).
This thesis provides the first detailed examination of his influence in the United States. His roles as performer, scholar, and teacher are each explored. Relying upon unpublished archival material, academic records, memoirs, and numerous concert programs in addition to Bodky’s published writings, this study reveals that Bodky had a significant impact on how early music was performed, taught, and received in the United States.