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Alsdirawi, Fozia Abdul-aziz. "Wildlife resources of Kuwait: Historic trends and conservation potentials." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184909.
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Kuwait is an arid small country with a severe climate, but an interesting and diverse biological heritage. Historically Kuwait was the home for 28 mammalian, over 300 bird, and 40 reptilian species. Expanding human population and technology are increasingly altering Kuwait's natural habitat. Currently, 8 mammalian species are locally eradicated from Kuwait, but available elsewhere in the Arabian Peninsula. On the endangered list is 4 mammals, 5 birds. The status of most reptiles is unknown. A comprehensive overview of Kuwait's historic and contemporary wildlife is described. Major wildlife habitat types are identified and mapped. A conservation strategy addressing the wildlife and their habitats in Kuwait is suggested. The key to a successful strategy is habitat restoration and protection combined with legal protection of the wildlife. In addition, a program for re-introducing locally eradicated species to their historic range in Kuwait is suggested.
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Alnajdi, Abdullah Ahmad. "Shaikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 1895-1965." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15340.
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This is the first monograph-length academic study of Shaikh Abdullah al-Salim al-Sabah, Ruler of Kuwait between 1950 and 1965. It is based on British and US government records, interviews, and a wide range of secondary sources in Arabic and English. It traces the development of modern Kuwait from the mid-eighteenth century under the al-Sabah up to the accession of Shaikh Abdullah in 1950. It considers the succession question in Kuwait before 1950, and Abdullah’s lengthy period as a candidate for succession, which enabled him to develop and expand his ideas for his country before becoming ruler. The study also examines the way that Abdullah transformed Kuwait into the first rentier state in Eastern Arabia and analyses his impact on the development of Kuwait’s administrative system. The influence of Arab nationalism and Britain on his decision-making and his relationship with Arab nationalists and the British Government, as well as his subtle handling of Kuwait’s border dispute with Iraq, are also investigated in detail. This study focuses on the six major challenges that Abdullah overcame in order to transform Kuwait into a rentier state: (1) his political victories and defeats prior to his reign that shaped his political ideas, (2) his twenty-nine-year struggle to become ruler of Kuwait, (3) how he changed the direction of Kuwait’s development process by moving away from the politics of his predecessors, (4) his troubled relationship with the al-Sabah in Kuwait’s government administration, (5) how he dealt with the pressure exerted by Arab nationalists and the British Government on his political decisions, and (6) how he handled Kuwait’s troubled relationship with Iraq. This thesis argues that Shaikh Abdullah al-Salim al-Sabah was an exceptional leader not only among the rulers of Kuwait (1752 to present), but also among the rulers of the Gulf Arab states in general. He was the first ruler to introduce a rentier state system that provided extensive welfare services for all of his country’s citizens, securing his family’s position in government in the process. He led Kuwait to independence in 1961 and oversaw the drafting of its constitution in 1962. He was a skilled politician and diplomat, who negotiated a delicate balance between the competing interests of the Kuwaitis, the ruling family (the al-Sabah), the Arab nationalists, the British Government, and the Iraqi government. As a result, he has enjoyed a popularity within Kuwait second only to the founder of modern Kuwait, Shaikh Mubarak al-Sabah (r.1896-1915).
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Alghanim, Salwa Muhammad Ahmad. "The reign of Mubarak Al Sabah : Sheikh of Kuwait, 1896-1916." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260758.
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Al, Matar Fatima. "The role of taxation in a post-oil Kuwait." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/43505/.
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Kuwait does not only depend on oil as a sole source of revenue, but has also nullified all taxes since the discovery of oil in 1938. Under the request of foreign oil companies extracting and exporting Kuwaiti oil, the Kuwaiti government founded a primitive tax law which imposes a tax instead of a royalty on foreign oil companies in order to enable them to credit taxes paid to the Kuwaiti government against taxes they owe to their home states. This poorly drafted piece of legislation which is criticised for being ambiguous and lacking the adequate provisions to regulate crucial tax related issues is Income Tax Decree 3/1955, the Decree continued to govern taxation in Kuwait even after the full nationalization of the oil company in 1979, imposing income tax upon the profits of foreign enterprises carrying out trade and business in Kuwait. Depending on a sole source of wealth and a highly unstable one such as oil means that the Kuwaiti economy fluctuates considerably; from the oil boom in the 1970s to the sharp economic stagnation in the 1980s this economic instability coupled with the fast depletion of oil reserves, the government’s over spending, the poor social responsibility due to the absence of individual tax and finally the extravagant welfare system, have all contributed to the current deficit in the Kuwaiti budget and have stimulated the government to rethink the possibility of introducing taxes back into the state. With taxation being an infinite source of revenue, this thesis argues that there is an imminent need for Kuwait to advance its fiscal system in an attempt to possibly turn taxation into a secondary source of revenue in the state. Kuwait has the potential to attract foreign direct investment which in turn can yield more tax revenues to the state; however, much improvement needs to be made to Kuwait’s fiscal law. The government’s attempt to reform the Income Tax Decree of 3/1955 through the 2008 Amendments did not eliminate much of the Decree’s shortfalls. This thesis studies the Kuwaiti tax system closely from a legal economic point of view and provides realistic recommendations on how to reform the current system in order to make Kuwait a more attractive jurisdiction for foreign investment.
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Al-Nakib, Farah. "Kuwait City : urbanisation, the built environment and the urban experience before and after oil (1716-1986)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.655743.
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Al-Zaher, Ajeel T. "Housing conditions and aspirations of popular housing tenants in Kuwait." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1990. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4318/.
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Since the middle of this century, many cities in the Developing World have experienced rapid growth and fundamental transformation in their socio-economic structure. Rapid population growth due to massive migration created an acute shortage in housing stock which resulted in squatter settlements and problems of insufficient urban services. Proposals for solving the problems of housing shortages and urban growth in the Third World Countries have always been based at first on Western ideas. However, due to financial constraints many have resorted to more innovative responses, mainly supported and sponsored by the World Bank. Judging from many studies of the failures and successes of housing schemes in Third World Countries, it appears that the main difficulties they have to contend with are a lack of finance coupled with a large influx of poor people. Yet, despite being a wealthy country with a small population size, Kuwait had to pass through the same housing problems. Kuwait's unique situation arises from a political system discriminating between citizens and non-citizens in housing choices and supply. Catering only for the citizens, yet requiring the labour of many others, resulted in great housing inequalities, because more than 71 per cent of the population are non-citizens. This thesis was set up to investigate the housing conditions and aspirations of popular housing tenants in Kuwait. Popular housing emerged as a solution for squatter settlement problems in Kuwait. However, it created a great housing disparity within the Kuwaiti housing system. The study begins with a review of the literature on low income housing in the cities of rapidly developing countries, and particularly the emergence of squatting with its implications, and the nature and degree of government intervention. Subsequent to a discussion of Kuwait's physical, economic, political and demographic trends, the study reviews housing and urban development in Kuwait with special reference to the government's efforts in housing its citizens. These chapters highlight the disparity between citizens and non-citizens in housing cost and design, location and access to public services. The field work undertaken for this study critically examined the relationship between popular housing tenants, their dwellings and the surrounding environment. This provided a basis for evaluating the living environment by measuring the tenants' degree of satisfaction, and exploring their aspirations and expectations regarding their future housing. The impact of housing disparity on the occupants' social and physical performance is then examined to throw further light on the types of problems they are facing. Finally each major component of this evaluation is separately analysed in order to determine its effect on present and future housing policy. This study, being the first documentation of the housing conditions of the popular housing tenants in Kuwait, had the main objective of presenting recommendations both for immediate action and for long term policy to solve their problems.
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Al, Jassim Mounira Abd El Kader. "An annotated and illustrated catalogue of maps of Kuwait and an introduction to the history of Kuwaiti cartography from the twelfth century to 1960." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292923.
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Adelwerth, Shawn. "Security of a Small State: Case of Kuwait." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/694.
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Alkandari, Ali. "The Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait, 1941-2000 : a social movement within the social domain." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14930.
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This is the first focused study of the Society of the Muslim Brotherhood, the most influential and organised social and political movement in Kuwait, from its beginnings in 1946up to2000. It focuses on the circumstances surrounding the emergence and development of the Muslim Brotherhood as part of a general Islamic revival in Kuwait. It argues that the Muslim Brotherhood was driven first and foremost by cultural considerations and that Kuwaiti secularists regarded it as a challenge to their growing influence in both the political domain (traditionally controlled by the ruling family) and the social domain (historically under the control of the religious establishment). The resulting conflict with secularists over the social domain posed a serious threat to the Muslim Brotherhood who considered themselves an extension of the traditional religious establishment. They also viewed the secularists’ attempts to reshape Kuwaiti identity as a threat to Kuwait’s Islamic identity. This prompted the Muslim Brotherhood to channel all their social, educational and political efforts towards reclaiming the social domain. This study focuses also on the mechanisms adopted by the Muslim Brotherhood, ones which combined Islamic values with modern mobilisation strategies producing a dynamic Islamist movement seeking to revive the golden age of Islam through modern means. The movement maintained a pyramid hierarchy and it refashioned modern economic theory to make it more compatible with Islamic teachings. It also established a Muslim Boy Scouts movement and an Islamic press, while it reformed other organisations to make them compatible with Islamic values. All this was done in an effort to implement Hasan al-Banna’s vision of fashioning a pious Muslim individual, a virtuous family and, finally, a true Muslim state. The Muslim Brotherhood’s comprehensive and sweeping agenda seeks the complete transformation of social conditions. The Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait was not very different from its mother organisation in Egypt. It played a pioneering role in revising Islamic banking, developing charity work and challenging secularism. The Kuwaiti political system supported the Muslim Brotherhood in its struggle against secularists, but the Muslim Brotherhood nonetheless stayed out of politics, focusing on rehabilitating the social domain, in the interests of maintaining on good terms with the ruling family.
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Alsabah, Alanoud Ebraheem Duaij. "History of the relations between the People’s Republic of China and theState of Kuwait (1961-1990)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669991.
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This research aims to explore the historic relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the State of Kuwait from 1961-1990. The key importance of establishing relationships with both blocs of the world post-cold war period is crucial of the sovereignty of the Kuwait which is key to its new foreign policy…The State of Kuwait was the first country in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to establish relations with the People’s Republic of China and both had an informal relation since Kuwait became independent in 1961.
The main questions of this research are: Did the foreign policies of both countries contribute to the development of this relationship? Did other countries play a role in this relationship such Iraq and Taiwan? Did oil play a major role in this relationship, and what other factors played a role and how? And finally, what was the role of China regarding the invasion of Kuwait?
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Alawadhi, Fawzeyah. "Oral History of Women Educators in Kuwait: A Comparative Model of Care Ethics Between Noddings and Al-Ghazali." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1407405504.
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Alhabib, Mohammad E. "The Shia Migration from Southwestern Iran to Kuwait: Push-Pull Factors during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/41.
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This study explores the “push-pull” dynamics of Shia migration from southwestern Iran (Fars, Khuzestan and the Persian Gulf coast) to Kuwait during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although nowadays Shias constitute thirty five percent of the Kuwaiti population and their historical role in building the state of Kuwait have been substantial, no individual study has delved into the causes of Shia migration from Iran to Kuwait. By analyzing the internal political, economic, and social conditions of both regions in the context of the Gulf sheikhdoms, the British and Ottoman empires, and other great powers interested in dominating the Gulf region, my thesis examines why Shia migrants, such as merchants, artisans and laborers left southwestern Iran and chose Kuwait as their final destination to settle. The two-way trade between southwest Iran and Kuwait provided a pathway for the Shia migrants and settlers into Kuwait. Moreover, by highlighting the economic roles of the Shia community in Kuwait, my thesis enhances our understanding of the foundation and contributions of the Shia community in Kuwait. Thus it fills a significant gap in Kuwaiti historiography. The research for this thesis draws from a variety of primary sources, including British government documents, the writing of western travelers, the Almatrook business archive, and oral-history interviews with descendants of Shia immigrants to Kuwait.
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Hamada, Ahmad. "The Integration History of Kuwaiti Television from 1957-1990: An Audience-Generated Oral Narrative on the Arrival and Integration of the Device in the City." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4066.
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This study attempts to compose an account of television history in Kuwait, one that focuses on its integration into society and is told from the audience's perspective and experience. This study represents a cultural alternative to the overwhelmingly national, institutional, and biographical focus that accompanies television history works in Kuwait and the Arab world.
The narrative is gathered and generated through the individual oral stories of 25 Kuwaitis over the age of 50, who generally represent the six geographical districts of Kuwait. Through their oral stories, the narrators examine the different areas in which television has integrated itself into society from 1957 to 1990. These include television’s succession to cinema, television’s novelty, television’s familiarization into society, television’s domestication, television’s interaction with modernity, and television’s content.
The oral stories of the narrators regarding each area reveal a wide range of microscopic topics about living in early Kuwait and television’s integration with it, including the people’s initial “miraculous” conception of the device, television’s relation with Kuwaiti urban growth, and the early economical gap of television ownership in Kuwait.
Besides the general exploration, discussing the research areas indicates a somewhat linear narrative of television’s integration into culture, where television was preceded by the cinema technology that had semiotically paved the way for the device, before an abrupt novelty period in which television was settling in an ever-changing Kuwait, followed by a familiarity period in which the device had lost its gimmicky association, interrelated with all the other sociocultural factors of society, and spatially corresponded with both the extinct and the surviving components of the Kuwaiti house. Kuwaiti television had also corresponded with the social, economical, and urban alterations of Kuwaiti modernity, with its content nostalgically reflecting different stages of Kuwaiti cultural life. In the end, an overarching theme could be found in the “foreshortening” of television’s integration journey into Kuwaiti culture, with the narrators using television to express their yearning to the values of yesteryear.
Future studies suggest more focus on contextuality, qualitative data, and interdisciplinarity in television history.
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Ashkanani, Hasan. "Interregional Interaction and Dilmun Power in the Bronze Age: A Characterization Study of Ceramics from Bronze Age Sites in Kuwait." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4980.
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The Dilmun civilization appeared in the Mesopotamian sources as a land of Eden and a supplier of ivory, copper, pearls and dates whose boats reached Ur ports. After the collapse of the Akkadian power in the second half of the third millennium BC, Dilmun underwent some notable changes in different aspects of life. The presence of planned residential settlements with notable architectural features and numerous burial complexes and `Royal Mounds' in Bahrain marked great economic growth and socio-political development in the early second millennium BC, suggesting the emergence of a stratified social hierarchy.
Furthermore, these changes suggest that a centralized administration existed that controlled this growth through various means. Thus, this inquiry seeks to explore whether the distribution of Barbar wares was one of the mechanisms used to control the economic growth of the Dilmun trade network. Also, this study seeks to explore whether a connection between the presence of non-local wares and far-distance staples in elite contexts on Failaka Island can be used to infer the pronouncement of status, power, and prestige.
A non-destructive portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (pXRF) was utilized to examine the chemical composition of 304 ceramic sherds and clay samples along with petrographic thin section analysis, as a complementary tool to investigate the mineralogical composition of Dilmun wares and non-local pottery of the first third of the second millennium BC. Based on the seven trace elements (Rb, Ba, Sr, Nb, Y, Z, and Th) obtained from pXRF, the chemical composition of Dilmun pottery was homogenous and was apparently made from a single source and then possibly produced at a centralized location. However, petrographic thin section results showed that Dilmun pottery could be subgrouped based on the clay and temper used as well as the ancient production technique (e.g. firing temperature). The petrographic analysis supported the pXRF sorting of samples into groups, differentiating between Dilmun and Mesopotamian wares and confirming the non-local wares as outlier. The results suggest that Barbar wares were preferred at Dilmun sites while non-local materials were controlled and their presence minimized. While specific craft recipes and standardization of Barbar wares could not be established, the preference for raw materials from Bahrain proper could.
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Alsahi, Huda. "Feminist Activism and Digital Feminist Activism in the Arab Gulf States: the case of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/86221.
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AlMajed, Bashayer. "The history and development of contract law in Kuwait : with a particular emphasis on the roll and precepts of Islamic Law in its formation and implementation." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20468/.
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In 1961, Kuwait became a fully independent country, throwing off the vestiges of its status as a British protectorate and choosing a completely fresh and different legal system. The basis chosen was not that of English Common Law but the French- inspired Egyptian model, a ready-made civil law system, conveniently available to be imported at short notice, which also reflected the Islamic traditions and sensibilities of the people. This thesis explores the underlying philosophies and origins out of which the current Kuwaiti legal system was born and then developed. It then analyses how, within this system, Kuwait’s history and evolution influenced the way contract law is codified and practiced in Kuwait today. Special emphasis is placed on the role of Islamic tradition, culture and practices. The distinction between Islamic Law and Islam as a religion is explored in relation to certain important contractual principles. This work includes both analysis of very recent, significant cases from the Court of Cassation, Kuwait’s Supreme Court, as well as direct interviews with Kuwaiti Supreme Court judges, adding a unique insight from the country’s most senior judicial figures into the legal system and workings of modern Kuwait.
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Toth, Anthony B. "The transformation of a pastoral economy : Bedouin and states in Northern Arabia, 1850-1950." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365651.
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This thesis analyses economic change among the bedouin of northern Arabia by examining four factors: the trade in camels; intertribal raiding; large-scale attacks by the Akhwan (Ikhwan); and trade and smuggling. Many writers have assumed that the sale or hiring out of camels for transport by camel-herding tribes was their main source of income, and that the spread of modern transportation caused a decline in the demand for camels, resulting in lower prices for the animals and an economic crisis for the bedouin. The well-documented case-studies in this thesis demonstrate that this assumption is flawed. The bedouin economy was more complex than the portrayals in many sources, and the reasons for economic hardship and political decline among the camel-herding tribes are more varied. In the story of how the wheel overcame the camel, it is clear that while transportation technology had some effect, even more important were such factors as drought, the rise of new states, colonial policies, intertribal politics and the varied factors pulling nomadic peoples to become sedentary.
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Bessis, Sandrine. "Souvenir des ancêtres et histoire orale au Vanuatu. Les récits de chefferies anciennes aux îles Shepherd." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 3, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023PA030073.
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Au milieu du XV e siècle, au centre du Vanuatu, survient l’éruption du volcan Kuwae. Ce cata-clysme aux conséquences globales donna lieu, à l'échelle locale, à la dislocation d’une île mythique en un archipel — les îles Shepherd. Depuis des dizaines de générations, les descendants du peuple pré-éruptif se transmettent et confrontent leurs versions du mythe de Kuwae, notamment dans le cadre de querelles foncières. Ces discours légitimateurs, pourvus d’une efficacité sociale au moment même de leur énonciation, convoquent une panoplie de preuves, en vertu d'une certaine logique de vérité historique. Dans les années 1960, ce sont ces discours historico-mythiques, issus des anciennes chefferies, qui permirent à l’archéologue José Garanger de découvrir des sépultures, corroborant ainsi la fiabilité historique de la tradition orale. À partir de trois genres de discours distincts sur le passé, recueillis sur le terrain en langues namakura et nakanamanga, nous proposons de documenter et d’étudier la portée socio-historique du mythe de KuwaeIn the middle of the 15th century, in central Vanuatu, the Kuwae volcano erupted. This cataclysm with global consequences gave rise, on a local scale, to the dislocation of a mythical island into an archipelago — the Shepherd Islands. For dozens of generations, the descendants of the pre-eruption people have been transmitting and confronting their versions of the Kuwae myth, particularly in the context of land disputes. These legitimizing discourses, endowed with a social efficacy at the very moment of their enunciation, summon a panoply of proofs, by virtue of a certain logic of historical truth. In the 1960s, it was these historico-mythical discourses from the old chiefdoms that enabled the archaeologist José Garanger to discover burials, thus corroborating the historical reliability of the oral tradition. Based on three distinct genres of discourse on the past, collected in the field in the Namakura and Nakanamanga languages, we propose to document and study the socio-historical scope of the Kuwae myth
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Guzmán, Décio de Alencar. "Dans le labyrinthe du Kuwai : échanges, guerres et missions dans la vallée de l’Amazone (1650-1750)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL182.
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Nous envisageons d’étudier l’histoire des populations indigènes du nord-ouest de l’Amazonie depuis le début du XVIIe siècle jusqu’au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Plus exactement, notre objet d’étude concerne le rôle et l’évolution des chefferies indiennes dans le double contexte des relations interethniques et des entreprises coloniales européennes. Au cours de cette période, les grandes puissances européennes — France, Angleterre, Espagne, Portugal et Hollande — se sont employées à accroître leur domaine colonial en Amérique du Sud. C’est ainsi qu’on assiste, d’une part, dès le début de la conquête des terres américaines, à un processus de transfert dans les aires de colonisation des conflits politiques qui opposent les grandes puissances. D’autre part, les missionnaires portugais ont implanté systématiquement des villages de catéchèse au sein des populations indigènes pour ouvrir la voie à la colonisation portugaise et à une première urbanisation de la vallée de l’Amazone. Toutes ces interventions tirent parti des réseaux politiques indigènes et tiennent compte des hiérarchies internes et des positions de pouvoir autochtone qui existaient au moment de l’arrivée des Européens. Missions et expéditions militaires entraînèrent des guerres en faisant des chefferies indigènes des médiateurs préférentielsWe decided to study the history of the indigenous populations of Northwestern Amazonia from the beginning of the XVIIth century till mid XVIIIth century. More precisely, we analyzed the role and the evolution of the Indian chiefdoms in the double context of interethnic relations and European colonial enterprises. During this period, the great European powers – France, England, Holland, Spain and Portugal – strove for increasing their colonial possessions in South America. That is why with the beginning of the conquest of American lands, on one side we can observe that political conflicts opposing the great powers in Europe are exported into the colonized areas. On the other side, Portuguese missionaries systematically developed catechizing villages among native populations in order to promote Portuguese colonization and a first urbanization of the Amazon Valley. All these interventions took advantage of political networks, inner hierarchies and power positions existing among native societies before the arrival of the Europeans. As a matter of fact, missions and military expeditions provoked continuous wars transforming Indian chiefdoms into preferential mediators
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Ibrahim, Mohammed K. "Quality international schools in Kuwait? : history, ideology, and practice." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:50567.
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This study investigates the quality of education in three international (bilingual) schools1 in Kuwait. Little is known about the situation of these schools, which are increasing exponentially. These schools not only have a significant role at the local level but also worldwide as they are connected globally through many networks, and by producing graduates who attend universities around the world. This qualitative, interpretive, research presents the perspectives of stakeholders involved in international bilingual schools in Kuwait. The researcher interviewed students, parents, high school teachers, academic counsellors, coordinators (curriculum, accreditation and professional development (PD)), high school principals (HSPs), directors (superintendents), chairpersons, a Ministry of Education (MOE) director, and a Council of International Schools (CIS) director. Listening to the voices of stakeholders at different levels presented a comprehensive view of the quality of education in these schools, because, according to Cheng (2003) quality assurance of education involves many interconnected elements. Some of these elements include the teaching and learning process, internal and external evaluation of these schools, expectations of parents and stakeholders, accountability measures and educational policies set by the state, and curriculum. To investigate these elements in three accredited bilingual schools in Kuwait, the study focuses on four main areas: (i) the rapid growth of such schools in Kuwait; (ii) reasons why Kuwaiti parents choose these schools and whether their expectations are met; (iii) the influence of international accreditation agencies on evaluating and improving this kind of schools in Kuwait; and (iv) the role of the Kuwait MOE in monitoring the academic performance of students and ensuring the quality of education in these schools. In addition to the education quality assurance conceptual framework (Cheng, 2003), cosmopolitanism and neoliberalism theoretical frameworks are used to frame the interpretation of participants’ insights and findings of the analysis.
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Alajmi, Mohammed. "History of architecture in Kuwait the evolution of Kuwaiti traditional architecture prior to the discovery of oil /." 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1902390461&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=14215&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009.Title from title screen (site viewed March 2, 2010). PDF text:1 v. (ca. 175 p.) : ill. UMI publication number: AAT 3378533. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.