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Journal articles on the topic "Local historians"
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Nilsson, Lars. "‘Sunday historians’ and local history." Urban History 23, no. 3 (1996): 380–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963926800016928.
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Voichyk, Stepan. "Local historians of the Kivertsi region." Litopys Volyni, no. 20 (2019): 11–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.32782/2305-9389/2020.20.01.
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Culkin. "Doing Historian Business: Local History, Student Historians, and the Hall of Fame for Great Americans." Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 26, no. 2 (2016): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/trajincschped.26.2.0246.
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Culkin, Kate. "Doing Historian Business: Local History, Student Historians, and the Hall of Fame for Great Americans." Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy 26, no. 2 (2016): 246–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tnf.2016.0028.
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Peterson, Terrence G. "Think Global, Fight Local." French Politics, Culture & Society 38, no. 2 (2020): 56–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2020.380204.
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For many within the French military, the war over Algeria’s independence that raged from 1954 to 1962 appeared global: not an isolated conflict, but one front in a broader subversive war waged by Communist revolutionaries. As historians have long noted, this perspective was inaccurate. For that reason, the social and cultural contexts that defined military practice during the early years of the conflict have not been fully explored. This article argues, however, that these global narratives mattered, and can help historians to trace both how global events shaped military thinking about Algeria and how the war helped forge more concrete transnational connections. As they honed their operational doctrines in Algeria, French military leaders looked abroad: not only to understand the war in Algeria, but to promote their own practices as a universal response to the social upheavals of the era.
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Westbrook, J. H., Philip L. Lord, and Martha A. Costello. "Mills on the Tsatsawassa: A Guide for Local Historians." Technology and Culture 27, no. 3 (1986): 632. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105408.
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Topping, Peter. "Fieldwork for Archaeologists and Local Historians. By A. Brown." Archaeological Journal 145, no. 1 (1988): 458–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00665983.1988.11077917.
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Gregory, Rebecca. "Lake District Field‐Names: A Guide for Local Historians." Northern History 55, no. 2 (2018): 266–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2018.1491492.
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Saito, Osamu. "Reflections on Local Population Studies and Social Science History." Local Population Studies, no. 100 (June 30, 2018): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.35488/lps100.2018.43.
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This personal reflection of more than 40 years' work on the supply of labour in a household context discusses the relationship between social science history (the application to historical phenomena of the tools developed by social scientists) and local population studies. The paper concludes that historians working on local source materials can give something new back to social scientists and social science historians, urging them to remake their tools.
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Ruiz Gil, José-Antonio. "Digital heritage training for historians in Europe: a local proposal." Virtual Archaeology Review 8, no. 17 (2017): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/var.2017.4726.
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<p class="VARAbstract">This paper presents a proposal for the use of digital resources to improve the university curriculum for historians in particular and heritage managers in general. It is possible to develop the sector, providing more employment and promoting theoretical and methodological changes conducive to mutual progress. To achieve this, the proposal takes into account the recent legal reforms in education and within the European Digital Single Market. However, although such changes are possible given that there is already extensive experience in heritage digitisation, they are hindered by the current curricula content and slow implementation of competency-based education. The desk research reported here focused on a Spanish context that could benefit from curriculum development implemented elsewhere, and the resulting proposal for positive action was explored in the context of history and heritage education at the University of Cadiz.</p>
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Local historians"
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Anderson, James Stephen, and jim anderson@flinders edu au. "Annie Heloise Abel (1873-1947) An Historian's History." Flinders University. History, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20060713.154515.
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Annie Heloise Abel (18731947) was one of only thirty American women to earn
a PhD in history prior to the First World War. She was the first academically
trained historian in the United States to consider the development of Indianwhite
relations and, although her focus was narrowly political and her methodology
almost entirely archival-based, in this she was a pioneer. Raised in the bucolic
atmosphere of a late-Victorian Sussex village, at the age of twelve she became an actual pioneer when her parents moved to the Kansas frontier in the 1880s. She was the third
child and eldest daughter among seven remarkable siblings, children of a Scottish
gardener, each of whom obtained a college education and fulfilled the American
dream of financial stability and status.
Annie Abels academic career was one of rare success for a woman of the
period and she studied at Kansas, Cornell, Yale, and Johns Hopkins universities.
She was the first woman to win a Bulkley scholarship to Yale, where her doctoral
thesis won her an American Historical Association award and was published in its
annual report. As well as college teaching, for a short time she was historian at the
Office (now Bureau) of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC, and was also involved
in womens suffrage issues. She reached the peak of her academic teaching career
as a history professor at Smith College in Massachusetts, one of the countrys
most prestigious womens institutions of higher learning.
She combined her teaching with research and wrote some minor pieces prior
to her major work, a three-volume political history of the Indian Territory during
the American Civil War, which was published between 1915 and 1925. Her life
took an unexpected turn while on a research sabbatical in Australia when, aged
nearly fifty, she found romance and then experienced a disastrous, short-lived
marriage. Undeterred, she returned to America and continued to pursue her
primary professional interest as an independent researcher, winning grants that
took her to England and Canada, until her retirement to Aberdeen, Washington, in
the 1930s. During this latter period of her life Annie Abel-Henderson (as she now
styled herself) produced no original works but continued to publish editions of
historically important manuscripts, work she had begun early in her career. Her
research interests also covered early North American exploration narratives and,
as an extension of her work on Indianwhite relations, she had planned an
ambitious, comparative study of United States and British Dominion policy
towards colonised peoples. As a reviewer, her historical expertise was long sought
by the leading academic history journals of the day. Before her death at seventy four
from carcinoma, her final years were busy with war relief work and
occasional writing.
No full-length work has yet appeared on this pioneer historian and this
dissertation seeks to evaluate Annie Heloise Abels work by a close reading of her
textual legacyoriginal, editorial and commentarialand to assess her
importance in American historiography.
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Friday, Kate. "Learning from e-family history : online research behaviour and strategies of family historians and implications for local studies collections." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/734.
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The massive expansion of electronic resources has been identified as one of the major drivers behind the ‘explosion’ in the popularity of family history, which bring ease, convenience and accessibility to some parts of the research process. Amongst this expanse of easily-accessible raw materials, online local studies materials (recording both historical and contemporary aspects of a community) can add real context and value to researchers’ findings and experience; turning a genealogy into a family history. However, the vast majority of these do not appear visible to online family history researchers. Through three central foci (users, e-family history resources, and Local Studies Collections), this research investigates these resources and collections from the perspective of users, to establish how to make the added value of the local studies collections more visible and encourage increased engagement for those who cannot visit collections in person. Specific evaluative criteria for e-family history resources are presented, contributing to practitioners’ awareness and understanding of their nature; in turn helping maintain their service quality to researchers. Using a hybrid (primarily ethnographic) research approach, the study also examines the online research behaviour of family historians, identifying a taxonomy of actions (seeking of genealogical facts, local or social history; communicating with other researchers or resources; locating resources or instructive information; managing own information), strategies (search modifications and incorporation of background knowledge) and outcomes (outcome; direction (projected and actual)). From these categories, a model of Family Historians’ online information seeking has been developed. Researchers have both informational and affective needs, and are highly emotionally attached to the research process. Users universally used Ancestry, FamilySearch, ScotlandsPeople, and Genes Reunited far more than other sites, seeking out quality informational content and unique records, which must be successful for researchers. Google was a major method of access to these. Very few participants were preaware of ‘e-local studies’ websites, and were surprised by the variations in quality, inconsistencies in terminology and navigation, and invisibility of quality content. Despite a lack of ease of use, the content present on e-local studies sites and their usefulness and value had been demonstrated to researchers. This suggests significant demand for local information of this kind online where it is available and made known.
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Cervin, Håkan. "Lokalhistoria i Historia A: den lilla och stora historien i samverkan." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-28110.
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Genom min uppsats vill jag svara på frågan huruvida lokalhistoria går att integrera med grundkursen Historia A utan att detta extra stoff ska urholka kursen, eller störa dess kronologi. Jag vill visa att detta kan åstadkommas genom noggrann planering och med reflexioner över hur jag som lärare kan disponera de antal timmar som tilldelats Historia A. Jag vill visa på betydelsen av att global, nationell, regional och lokal historia samverkar i undervisningen och hur de olika områdena förstärker varandra, samt visa att lokalhistoria kan vara ett utmärkt redskap för att göra historieundervisningen levande för eleverna. Slutligen vill jag också visa de många fördelarna med att arbeta efter den struktur jag i uppsatsen rekommenderar att använda till kursen Historia A.<br>In this paper I will try to answer the question if it’s possible to integrate local history into the basic coarse of history – History A, without making the coarse to thin, or interrupt its chronology. I want to demonstrate that this may be done with thorough planning about how to use the hours given to me as a teacher in History A. I also want to show the importance that global, national, regional and local history is used in the teaching, how these different areas enhances each other, and that local history is a useful tool to make the history teaching alive for the students. I also want to show the benefits of working along the structure described in this paper when teaching History A.
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Eskilsson, Anna. "På plats i historien : Studier av hembygsföreningar på 2000-talet." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Kultur och samhälle, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11019.
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Local heritage societies were established in Sweden for about a hundred years ago. The societies responded to the large changes of industrialisation, emigration and urbanisation during that time. Today there are about 2 000 societies with almost half a million members altogether. Why do people turn to local heritage societies today? The image of them, associated with folklore costumes and quaint old cottages, is not consistent with the extensive activity in the 21st century. That raises questions that have not been clarified in previous research. The aim of this thesis is to find out what today's local heritage societies do, as well as to investigate what their meanings are for people and the local society. Thereby the intention is to contribute to an understanding of their present extent and endurance over time. The activities of three local heritage societies in and around the city of Linköping are mapped out in this thesis. The survey shows extensive and very broad activities that are well adjusted to present time. The traditional image has become rigid, but in parts it is accurate since the activities are still dominated by local use of history., which also contributes to their extent and continuity. Place and history as common ground is something universal: The need for people to be oriented in time and space contributes to the persistence of the local heritage societies. At the same time there seems to be something strong in society today which contributes to their extent. The thesis shows that the societies can have knowledge-generating, ideological, existential and social meaning. Through the local heritage society people can learn about, evaluate and gain feelings for the place. The society also contributes to strengthening the power of togetherness in the local community as a part of the civilian society. The multifaceted meaning of the activities makes it possible for the societies to keep or even strengthen their attraction, especially among the large group of retired people.<br>Hembygdsföreningar etablerades i Sverige för omkring hundra år sedan. Föreningarna svarade mot den tidens stora förändringar med industrins framväxt, emigrationen och flykten från landsbygden. Idag finns det omkring 2 000 föreningar med sammanlagt nära en halv miljon medlemmar. Varför söker sig människor till hembygdsföreningar idag? Den gängse bilden av föreningarna som bakåtsträvande och förlegade stämmer inte in på en omfattande verksamhet på 2000-talet. Det väcker frågor om hembygdsföreningar, som inte har klargjorts i tidigare forskning. Avhandlingen syftar till att ta reda på vad samtida hembygdsföreningar gör och att undersöka deras betydelser för människor och lokalsamhälle. Härigenom vill avhandlingen också bidra till att förstå deras nutida omfattning och uthållighet över tid. I avhandlingen kartläggs verksamheten i tre hembygdsföreningar i och omkring staden Linköping i Östergötland. Kartläggningen visar på en omfattande och mycket bred verksamhet som är väl anpassad till sin samtid. Den traditionella bilden är stelnad, men till delar stämmer den genom att föreningarnas verksamhet domineras av lokalt historiebruk, som också bidrar till deras omfattning och kontinuitet. Det står å ena sidan för något allmänmänskligt: Människans orientering i tid och rum, som bidrar till att föreningarna alltid är aktuella. Å andra sidan framträder intresset för det lokala och för historia som två starka strömningar i samtiden. Avhandlingen visar att föreningarna har kunskapsgenererande, ideologiska, existentiella och sociala betydelser. Genom hembygdsföreningen kan människor lära sig om, värdera och få känslor för platsen. Föreningen bidrar också till att stärka kraften och gemenskapen i lokalsamhället som en del av det civila samhället. Den mångfasetterade betydelsen av verksamheten gör att föreningarna har lyckats behålla eller till och med stärka sin attraktionskraft, särskilt bland den stora gruppen pensionärer.
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Mulinda, Charles Kabwete. "A space for genocide: local authorities, local population and local histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (Rwanda)." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_3491_1363784144.
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Davaze, Virginie. "Memnon, historien d’Héraclée du Pont : commentaire historique." Thesis, Le Mans, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LEMA3005/document.
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Memnon a écrit une histoire locale, celle de sa cité d’origine, Héraclée du Pont, colonie mégarienne située en mer Noire. Sa chronique est conservée en partie grâce aux fragments, plus ou moins consistants, résumés dans la Bibliothèque de Photius. Ce dernier nous a transmis seulement une partie de l’œuvre de Memnon, puisqu’il ne rapporte que les faits contenus dans les livres IX à XVI qui couvrent une période allant des années 60 du IIIème siècle aux années 40 du Ier siècle av. J.-C. avec, cependant, une grosse lacune entre le milieu du IIIème siècle et l’arrivée des Romains. Le texte a fait l’objet d’un commentaire historique détaillé qui met en lumière les incohérences du récit et les événements pour lesquels Memnon constitue notre seule source. Cette recherche se propose également de dégager la méthode historique de Memnon à travers l’étude des thématiques récurrentes dans le texte et l’analyse de l’ordre chronologique des événements. Il est évident que l’intervention de Photius a des incidences sur l’organisation chronologique initiée par Memnon mais il semble néanmoins que la méthode de l’historien d’Héraclée a, dès l’origine, dénaturé la chronologie des faits qu’il rapporte. De surcroît, l’analyse du texte a permis de dégager les objectifs de Memnon, lequel tente de raviver le passé glorieux d’Héraclée et de dénoncer les excès de la domination romaine, en particulier envers sa cité d’origine. L’auteur de l’Histoire d’Héraclée reste méconnu mais il me semble qu’il faut situer son activité littéraire dans la seconde moitié du IIème siècle de notre ère<br>Memnon wrote a local history, the one of his native city, Heraclea Pontica, megarian colony located in the Black Sea. His chronicle is partially preserved thanks to fragments, more or less substantial, summarized in Photius’ Library. The latter passed on to us only a part of Memnon’s work, since he related only the facts contained in books IX to XVI, which cover a period from the 60’s of the third century to the 40’s of the first century BC., but with a big gap between the mid-third century to the arrival of the Romans. The text was the object of a detailed historical commentary which highlights the inconsistencies of the story and the events for which Memnon is our only source. My research also aims to identify the historical method of Memnon through the study of the recurring themes in the text and the analysis of the chronological order of events. It is obvious that Photius’ intervention has incidences on the chronological organization initiated by Memnon, nevertheless it seems that the method of the historian of Heraclea has distorted from the start the chronology of events he related. Furthermore, analysis of the text allowed to identify the objectives of Memnon who tries to revive the glorious past of Heraclea and to denounce the excesses of the Roman rule, especially to his city of origin. The author of the History of Heraclea remains unknown but it seems to me that his literary activity should be placed in the second half of the second century AD
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Lima, Sandra Cristina Fagundes de. "Memoria de si, historia dos outros : Jeronimo Arantes, educação, historia e politica em Uberlandia nos anos 1919 a 1961." [s.n.], 2004. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280112.
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Previous issue date: 2004<br>Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a trajetória do professor, funcionário público (Inspetor Municipal de Educação e chefe do Serviço de Educação e Saúde do Município), memorialista e jornalista Jerônimo Arantes, no período que remonta aos anos de 1919 a 1961, vividos na cidade de UberlândiaIMG. As questões que orientaram esta investigação giraram em tomo da relação existente entre, de um lado, as representações construídas por ele em tomo da educação, do exercício de um cargo no serviço público e da escrita da história e de outro a polftica. Nesse sentido, as perguntas às quais procuramos responder podem ser formuladas nos seguintes termos: Quais eram os liames estabelecidos entre a educação e o poder polftico local? Quais foram os sujeitos sociais destacados por Arantes em sua revista Uberlândia llustrada? Como situar a produção de Arantes, que, concomitantemente aos textos escritos, utilizava como fonte de pesquisa, ainda que muito subsidiariamente, o testemunho dos "excluídos", por meio do emprego de depoimentos de ex-escravos e de trabalhadores braçais, muitas vezes, analfabetos? A valorização das memórias daqueles que a escrita da história positivista renegava estaria relacionada, em sua obra, a um deslocamento em direção à incorporação de novas fontes de pesquisa? Para discutir esses aspectos, empregamos como fonte tanto os documentos pertencentes à Coleção Professor Jerônimo Arantes (CPJA), depositados no Arquivo Público de Uberlândia (APU) - jornais, livros, revistas, correspondência pessoal, provas de exames finais elaboradas por Arantes e aplicadas aos alunos na sua escola particular, o Colégio Amor às Letras, memorandos e oficios expedidos e recebidos pelo Serviço de Educação e Saúde do Município e também pelo Diretório Municipal de Estatísticas, recortes de jornais e revistas -, quanto jornais, revistas e atas das reuniões escolares incorporados ao acervo geral daquele mesmo Arquivo. Utilizamos, também, as fontes orais por meio de entrevistas e informações verbais obtidas junto a pessoas que conheceram e conviveram com Arantes na cidade de Uberlândia. Os resultados aos quais chegamos possibilitam apreender que, embora não tendo exercido nenhum mandato político, Arantes não se afastou do poder local. Ao contrário, foram constantes os nexos estabelecidos entre ele, a educação e a polftica durante o período que recortamos para a pesquisa. Por meio de seu envolvimento com a educação (primeiro, em sua própria escola e, depois, no serviço público inspecionando as instituições de ensino municipais) e de suas atividades no meio jornalístico, assim como por intermédio de suas incursões no campo da produção da história local, ele sempre esteve próximo da polftica, em particular, daqueles que ocuparam o poder executivo no município. Concluímos, também, que os nexos estabelecidos entre Arantes e o poder polftico não se fundaram em uma mera subserviência do primeiro ao segundo, mas, sim, constituíram-se com base em uma gama de interesses e necessidades mútuas, assim como de uma convergência entre projetos pessoais e coletivos<br>Abstract: This research aims at ana1ysing aspects ofthe life of Jerônimo Arantes who worked as a teacher, a civil servant, a memorialist and a journalist ftom 1919 to 1961 in Uber_dja, MÚ1aS Gerais, Brazil. The concerns that guided this reflection were: The relationship between, on the one side, representations constructed by Jerônimo about education, bis role as a civil servant and bis writing of Uberlândia's History and, on the other side, politics. Thus, these were the questions this research seeks to answer: what were the boundaries established between education and the local political power? Who were the social subjects pointed out by Arantes on the magazine entitled Uberlândia Rustrada? How to classify the production of Arantes _t, beyond written texts, used as research sources, although secondarily, the testimony of those marginalized by taking reports of ex-slaves as well as common workers who were not always literate? Was the valuing of the memories of those forgotten by.positivist History, related in Arantes' work, a change in direction of new research sources? In order to discuss these issues, we used the documents belonging to the collection of Jerônimo Arantes (CPJA), available in the public archive in Uberlândia (APU) - newspapers, books, magazines, personal mails, final exams elaborated by Arantes and applied to students at bis priva te school- Colégip Amor às Letrasofficial documents received and sent by the Educational and Health Departments of the city and the Municipal Bureau of Statistics and clips of newspaper and magazines. Newspaper, magazines and school records of proceedings ftom the same archive were also used as research sources. Oral interviews and verbal information taken ftom people who knew and lived with Arantes in Uberlândia were used as research sources, too. Resuhs have shown that although Arantes has not exercised any position as a politician, he was not away ftom local power. On the contrary, it was very evident the connections he made between education and politics d_ the period elected for this research. It was by getting involved with education - first in bis own school and later as a civil servant when he supervised the local teaching institutions - and also by working in journals, that he was always linked to politics, particularly connected to those who were responsible for the executive power in Uberlândia. Arantes has contributed to local history prod_ction. We have also concluded that the relations established between Arantes and the political power were not based on a mere subservience to local power, but on a set of interests and mu_ necessities. Those relations were also founded in converging personal and collective projects<br>Doutorado<br>Politica, Memoria e Cidade<br>Doutor em História
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Thomas, Marcel. "Local lives, parallel histories : villagers and everyday life in the divided Germany." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738224.
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Merritt, Allison Taylor. "Characterizing Assembly Histories in the Local Universe with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array." Thesis, Yale University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10783454.
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<p>This thesis explores the ways in which observations of the low surface brightness universe can inform our views of galaxy evolution and, specifically, the extent to which galaxies assemble stellar mass through mergers and accretion events. I first present a study of the variation in the stellar halos of galaxies, using data from the Dragonfly Nearby Galaxies Survey (DNGS). The survey consists of wide field, deep (μ<i>g</i> > 31 mag aresec<sup>-2</sup>) optical imaging of nearby galaxies using the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The sample in question includes eight spiral galaxies with stellar masses similar to that of the Milky Way, inclinations of 16 – 90 degrees and distances between 7–18 Mpc. I construct stellar mass surface density profiles from the observed <i>g</i>-band surface brightness in combination with the <i>g</i> – <i>r</i> color as a function of radius, and compute the halo fractions from the excess stellar mass (relative to a disk+bulge fit) beyond 5 half-mass radii. I find a mean halo fraction of 0.009 ± 0.005 and a large RMS scatter of 1.01[special characters omitted] dex. The peak-to-peak scatter of the halo fraction is a factor of > 100 – while some galaxies feature strongly structured halos resembling that of M31, three of the eight have halos that are completely undetected in our data. I conclude from this sample that spiral galaxies as a class exhibit a rich variety in stellar halo properties, implying that their assembly histories have been highly non-uniform. I find no convincing evidence for an environmental or stellar mass dependence of the halo fraction in the sample.</p><p> In addition to being the future building blocks of the stellar halos of galaxies, dwarf satellite galaxies are a key probe of dark matter and of galaxy formation on small scales and of the dark matter halo masses of their central galaxies. They have very low surface brightness, however, which makes it difficult to identify and study them outside of the Local Group. I used the Dragonfly Telephoto Array to search for dwarf galaxies in the field of the massive spiral galaxy M101, and identified seven large, low surface brightness objects in this field, with effective radii of 10-30 arcseconds and central surface brightnesses of μ<i>g</i>,0 ~ 25.5 – 27.5 mag aresec<sup> -2</sup>. Given their large apparent sizes and low surface brightnesses, these objects would likely be missed by standard galaxy searches in deep fields. Their radial surface brightness profiles are well fit by Sersic profiles with a very low Sersic index (<i>n</i> ~ 0.3 – 0.7). The properties of the sample are similar to those of well-studied dwarf galaxies in the Local Group, such as Sextans I and Phoenix.</p><p> Finally, follow-up observations of these low surface brightness objects with the Hubble Space Telescope subsequently revealed that three of the seven objects were bonafide satellite galaxies of the M101 group. I show that, unexpectedly, the other four galaxies are ultra-diffuse galaxies in a group environment. The galaxies have effective radii of 10 – 38 and central surface brightnesses of 25.6 – 27.7 mag aresec<sup>-2</sup> in the <i>g</i>-band. They remain persistently unresolved even with the spatial resolution of HST/ACS, which implies distances of <i>D</i> > 17.5 Mpc. I show that the galaxies are most likely associated with a background group at ~ 27 Mpc containing the massive ellipticaLs NGC 5485 and NGC 5473. At this distance, the galaxies have sizes of 2.6-4.9 kpc, and are classified as UDGs. They are similar to the populations that have been revealed in clusters such as Coma, Virgo, and Fornax, yet have on average even lower surface brightness. The discovery of four UDGs in a galaxy group demonstrates that the UDG phenomenon is not exclusive to cluster environments. Furthermore, their morphologies seem less regular than those of the cluster populations, which may suggest a different formation mechanism or be indicative of a threshold in surface density below which UDGs are unable to maintain stability.</p><p>
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Nogales, Cárdenas Pedro. "Cinema Amateur i Història local de Reus." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8609.
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Objectiu: L'estudi del cinema no professional per veure la seva utilitat com a document primari en història. Partint d'aquest punt es deriven diferents qüestions:<br/>- El cinema serveix per fer alguna cosa més que una simple història artística?<br/>- Quin tipus d'història podem fer amb el cinema?<br/>- Quina informació podem extreure d'un film?<br/>- Com podem obtenir aquesta informació?<br/>- Quina utilitat o funció especifica pot tenir el cinema a la història?, si és que la té?<br/>- Es pot utilitzar el cinema a la història local?<br/>- Quin tipus de cinema podem utilitzar per investigacions d'història local?<br/>- Quina informació podem obtenir dels diferents tipus de cinema (professional, amateur, familiar, semi-professional)?<br/>- Podem tractar per igual i obtenir la mateixa informació, dins la investigació històrica local, del cinema professional que del no professional?<br/>- Tant el cinema professional com el no professional es poden analitzar igual?<br/>- La utilització d'aquests tipus de cinema com a documents històrics és igual en tots els nivells territorials: local, regional o nacional?<br/>Contingut: Per arribar a les conclusions finals i donar resposta a totes aquestes preguntes he recorregut el següent camí en aquest treball:<br/>1r. Començava per justificar el tema i explicar els plantejaments bàsics de la investigació.<br/>2n. Explicava les limitacions i els problemes que plantejava la investigació i les solucions donades a aquests problemes.<br/>3r. Definia els diferents tipus de cinema que es podien utilitzar en història local (professional, semi-professional, amateur i familiar) i els passos dels films (35 mm, 16 mm, 9,5 mm, 8 mm i Súper 8 mm)<br/>4t. Vaig cercar la metodologia d'anàlisi més adequada per aquesta investigació. Per això vaig plantejar una sèrie de qüestions bàsiques sobre la utilització del cinema en història i els plantejaments teòrics sobre la realitat i la ficció al cinema. Després d'aquest primer pas vaig estudiar les diferents teories i metodologies d'anàlisi cinematogràfica (teories ontològiques, teories culturalistes, del feminisme vers el cinema, d'antropologia visual, teories ideològiques, teories sociològiques i teories d'anàlisi històric-contextual).<br/> L'estudi d'aquestes teories em va permetre constatar les dificultats d'aplicació d'aquestes a determinats tipus de cinema no professional i vaig optar per proposar una metodologia d'anàlisi que, amb les influències fonamentals de la crítica textual dels textos escrits i contextual del cinema, em permetés analitzar tot tipus de films i una gran quantitat.<br/>5è. Per aplicar aquesta metodologia al cas de Reus, abans vaig haver de fer una història del cinema no professional de Reus, davant la seva inexistència. Una història que va de 1897 a 1989.<br/>6è. La investigació va treure a la llum l'existència de 690 films no professional o amb imatges de Reus, de les que vaig veure 437. Sobre aquestes vaig aplicar la metodologia i vaig fer l'anàlisi dels temes. <br/> Davant l'extensió d'una anàlisi pormenoritzada dels 7 temes proposats que es podien estudiar amb aquest material fílmic, vaig optar per estudiar dos casos: els esdeveniments històrics de Reus recollits pels films professionals i no professionals i la visió geogràfica que donen aquests materials sobre la ciutat i el seu entorn (pròxim o llunyà).<br/>Una de les conclusions bàsiques és la importància d'aquests materials per l'estudi de determinats temes, amb certs condicionats i amb una premissa bàsica: la seva urgent recuperació abans de la seva desaparició definitiva.<br>Objective: The study of the nonprofessional cinema to see its utility like primary document in history. From this departure point different questions were derived:<br/>- The cinema serves to do something more than a simple artistic history?<br/>- What type of history we can do with the cinema: social, economic, of the daily, political life, etc.?<br/>- What information we can extract of a film?<br/>- How we can obtain that data?<br/>- What utility or specific function can have the cinema in history? If it is that it has it? <br/>- Can be used the cinema in local history?<br/>- What type of cinema we can use for investigations of local history?<br/>- What information we can obtain from the different types from cinema (professional, amateur, professional relative)? <br/>- We can treat the same and obtain the same data, in the local historical investigation, to the professional cinema that the nonprofessional one? <br/>- As much nonprofessional the professional cinema as can be analyzed equal? <br/>- The use of these types of cinema as historical document is equal at all the territorial levels: the premises, regional or national?<br/>Content: In order to arrive, in the final conclusions, to give answer all to these questions the following way has been crossed in this work:<br/>1º) Began to justify the subject and to explain the basic expositions of the investigation.<br/>2º) The limitations and the problems were explained that raised the investigation and the solutions given to these problems. <br/>3º) The different types from cinema were defined that could be used in local history (professional, semi-professional, amateurs and relatives) and the passages of films (35 mm, 16 mm, 9.5 mm, 8 mm and Super 8 mm), in where their characteristics and conditioners were explained. <br/>4º) I look for the methodology of suitable analysis more for this investigation. For it a series of basic questions considered on the theoretical use of the cinema in history and expositions on the reality and the fiction in the cinema. After this first step study the different theories and methodologies from cinematographic analysis (ontológicas theories, culturalistas theories.feminism and cinema, visual anthropology, ideological theories, sociological theories and theories of contextual historical analysis). <br/>The study of these theories allowed to state the difficulties of application of these to certain types of nonprofessional cinema and I choose myself to propose an analysis methodology that, based fundamentally on the analysis of the documentary and contextual textual critic of films, allowed to analyze all type of films and a numerically ample amount. <br/>5º) To apply this methodology to the case of Reus, before had to make a history of the nonprofessional cinema of Reus, before its nonexistence. A history that included from 1897 to 1989. <br/>6º) The investigation brought to light the existence from 690 nonprofessional films or images on Reus, of which 437 were visionaron. On them the methodology was applied and the analysis of the subjects was made. <br/>Before the extension of a detailed analysis of the 7 proposed subjects that they were possible to be studied with this filmic material, it was chosen to study two cases: the historical events of Reus gathered by professional and nonprofessional films and the geographic vision that these cinematographic materials offer of the city and the surroundings (next or distant). <br/>One of the basic conclusions is the importance of these materials for the study of certain subjects, with certain conditioners and a basic premise: its urgent recovery before its definitive disappearance.
Books on the topic "Local historians"
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Gibson, Jeremy Sumner Wycherley. Victuallers' licences: Records forfamily and local historians. Federation of Family History Societies, 1994.
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Gibson, Jeremy Sumner Wycherley. Victuallers' licences: Records for family and local historians. Federation of Family History Societies, 1994.
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Sengupta, Aviroop. "Tidal histories." In Rethinking the Local in Indian History. Routledge India, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003094395-4.
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Hansen, Morten Balle, Andrej Christian Lindholst, and Carsten Greve. "Histories and Futures of Marketization." In Marketization in Local Government. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32478-0_16.
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van der Burg, Martijn. "Subprefects: (Trans)Regional Tools of Integration?" In Napoleonic Governance in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66658-3_6.
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AbstractThis chapter examines the Napoleonic subprefects who have been in office in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany. Within the prefectoral system, these sous-préfets were the highest officials at arrondissement (disctrict) level. Activities of subprefects, somewhat neglected by historians, give insight into how French tried to rally the locals, and how this affected the daily functioning of the Empire. Discussed are subprefects’ sociocultural backgrounds, imperial careers, and perception of Napoleonic governance. Subprefects had to balance national, local, and personal interest. Integration at district level was hard when the letter of the administrative legislation and the precise instructions from above were rigidly adhered to. Subprefects traveling the Empire linked events in the Netherlands and Northwest Germany to developments elsewhere, promoting integration into the Empire. Circulation patterns reflect different ideas on the required level of integration. It is argued that the figure of the subprefect was a potential ‘tool of integration’. That subprefects were close to the ground could contributed to the effectiveness of Napoleonic governance. But subprefects also coped with demanding prefects, and interference of other agents of the central state. Reversely, unwilling subprefects were in a position to hinder the integration process.
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Christian, Kathleen, and Bianca de Divitiis. "Introduction." In Local antiquities, local identities. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526117045.003.0001.
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The essays brought together in this volume consider the reuse of antiquities and conceptions of the classical past in local communities across early modern Europe. Arising from a conference held at the Warburg Institute in November 2014, the volume brings together essays by speakers, as well as new additions by invited contributors. It unites work by historians of art and architecture, historians and literary scholars that complicates the notion of a unitary, Greco-Roman past revived in a single European ‘Renaissance’, broadening the scope of research in the light of recent interest in regional histories and local antiquarianisms. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative method, these essays investigate how communities and individuals from the fifteenth century, guided by local concerns, were engaged with the invention of the past through the strategic, creative use of texts and images. Contributions consider the revival of the antique not only in the so-called centres of Italy that have long been the focus of study, but also in cities and regions regarded as peripheral, examining diverse political contexts in both Protestant and Catholic Europe – Milan, Ancona, southern Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Britain, the Low Countries and elsewhere. As interdisciplinary studies, the essays explore a range of related cultural phenomena: antiquarianism, civic histories, excavations, artistic and architectural projects, collections of antiquities, or the reuse of classical literary models in vernacular poetry....
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Schultz, Jenna M. "Inventing England: English identity and the Scottish ‘other’, 1586–1625." In Local antiquities, local identities. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526117045.003.0015.
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Through dynastic accident, England and Scotland were united under King James VI and I in 1603. To smooth the transition, officials attempted to create a single state: Great Britain. Yet the project had a narrow appeal; the majority of the English populace rejected a closer relationship with Scotland. Such a strong reaction against Scotland resulted in a revived sense of Englishness. This essay analyzes English tactics to distance themselves from the Scots through historical treatises. For centuries, the English had created vivid histories to illuminate their ancient past. It is evident from the historical works written between 1586 and 1625 that authors sought to maintain a position of dominance over Scotland through veiled political commentaries. As such, their accounts propagated an English national identity based on a sense of historical supremacy over the Scottish. This was further supported through the use of language studies and archaeological evidence. After the 1603 Union of the Crowns, these stories did not change. Yet, questions arose regarding the king's genealogy, as he claimed descent from the great kings of both kingdoms. Consequently, historians re-invented the past to merge their historical accounts with the king's ancestral claims while continuing to validate English assertions of suzerainty.
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Arciszewska, Barbara. "The role of ancient remains in the Sarmatian culture of early modern Poland." In Local antiquities, local identities. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526117045.003.0014.
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Visible material remnants of ancient cultures were, for a variety of historical reasons, not particularly abundant in the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795). The past monuments of these lands were not hewn in stone and marble but in timber, leaving behind no impressive structures to provoke the interest of subsequent generations. The dearth of material evidence did not, however, prevent generations of Polish historians and antiquarians from assigning Greco-Roman identities to local monuments. They were keen to offer tangible proof of the past glory of the land inhabited by the alleged descendants of the Sarmatians. In this paper, some of these monuments are explored, especially the Mounds of Krakus and Wanda near Cracow as well as an alleged tomb of Ovid in Vohlyna. The narratives fabricated around them as a part of the ideology of Sarmatism, a class discourse, which constructed an identity for the Polish nobility as the descendants of the ancient tribe of Sarmatians, are also examined.
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Price, Simon. "Local Mythologies in the Greek East." In Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199265268.003.0014.
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The Overall Issue of this Chapter is the articulation of local identities within the broader context of the Greek and Roman world. The development of mythologies, that is, a shared sense of the past, is one of the key ways that this was achieved in the ancient world. Other people and places have done things differently. For example, in the Middle Ages struggles over the possession of the relics of saints was part of the jostling for ecclesiastical and political prominence. This chapter will focus on the High Empire, though it will look back to the Classical and Hellenistic periods. It aims to show the importance of joining up studies of Classical Greek religion with those of later periods. It aims also to illustrate the virtues of being aware of material of different types: not only texts, but also coins, sculpture, and buildings. One theme is that the sculpture and the coins be seen as ‘memory theatres’ in which communities represented to themselves and others images of their past and hence their identities. First, some remarks on the definition of ‘mythology’. Here, the word simply refers to stories about the gods and heroes. The term ‘histories’ would have been equally good, because there was and is a perfectly good case for seeing these stories as actual events, taking place in specific places and at specific times. Upholders of that view naturally believed in the possibility of a continuous narrative, from stories about the gods and heroes down to the present. Such a position was of course debatable and debated, from the fifth century onwards. So Diodorus, writing his Universal History, noted that earlier historians had excluded mythology on the grounds that it contained self-contradictions and confusions (so on evidential, not ontological grounds). He himself, however, proposed to include the deeds of gods and heroes, such as Dionysus and Heracles, who were benefactors of the human race. Such inclusiveness, however, remained controversial: Dionysius of Halicarnassus commended Thucydides’ exclusion of the mythical from his narrative, while noting that local historians did not live up to Thucydidean standards.
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Chater, Kathleen. "Genealogy and the Black Past." In Britain's Black Past. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621600.003.0019.
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In this chapter, Kathleen Chater, an independent historian, enumerates many of the local history projects and academic efforts that have attempted to collect evidence of black lives in pre-twentieth-century Britain, often resulting in the creation of databases and digitized records. She describes the overlapping incentives and challenges of family historians and scholars who work to illuminate black British experiences, but also the mistrust between these groups as they compete for funding and undervalue aspects of each other’s work. Chater describes her own contribution to this field of study—a database of black people she has amassed using public records as part of her doctorate which she has continued to add to. Finally, Chater makes recommendations for how genealogists and local historians can work better with academic scholars toward their common goal including inviting each other to conferences, sharing knowledge of potential funding sources, and asking academics to share their work at smaller, local venues and via more accessible publications.
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Pachá, Paulo. "Beyond Central and Local Powers." In The Visigothic Kingdom. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463720632_ch05.
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The problem of political integration is one of the most pressing questions of the history of the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo. Historians have traditionally framed it as a structural opposition between the monarchy and the nobility; in the last decade, however, some authors have begun to conceptualize it as an array of more complex dynamics between central and local powers. In this contribution, I will argue that we must go beyond the concepts of central and local powers and focus on their power relations – their integration. To achieve this objective, I will analyse how these relationships developed in the context of the general councils of the Visigothic church, an institution that had a central and determinant place in the process of political integration.
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Munt, Harry. "Local Historians and their Cities: the Urban Topography of al-Azdī’s Mosul and al-Sahmī’s Jurjan." In The City in Arabic Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474406529.003.0002.
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From the third/ninth century onwards, the writing of local histories in Arabic flourished across the Islamic world. A great number of these works dealt with the history of individual cities and this chapter examines how they depicted those cities. Did they tend to portray cities as topographical landscapes or as social communities? If the former, what aspects of urban topography were they most interested in? If the latter, were the communities presented as cohesive or diverse? This chapter addresses these questions by comparing two works: Abū Zakariyya’ al-Azdī’s (d. 334/946) history of Mosul and Ḥamza al-Sahmī’s (d. 427/1035-36) history of Jurjan. It seeks to demonstrate that local historians thought very carefully about how to invest cities and their topographies with socially relevant meanings.
Conference papers on the topic "Local historians"
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Федулов, Михаил Игоревич. "Peoples of the Volga-Ural region in the history and culture of Russia." In International Scientific and Practical Conference. Publishing house Sreda, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-22098.
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The book presents the materials of the conference “Peoples of the Volga-Ural region in the history and culture of Russia”. The issues of history, ethnography of the peoples of the Volga-Ural region and the scientific and pedagogical activity of P.V. Denisov are represented. For ethnographers, historians, archaeologists, local historians, students of humanities, as well as a wide range of readers.
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Zakharova, Elena. "On the role of Voronezh scientists and local historians in the study of the Kostenki-Borshchevo archaeological area." In The Earliest Paleolithic at Kostenki: Chronology, Stratigraphy, Cultural Diversity (on the 140th anniversary of archaeological research in the Kostenki-Borshchevo area). Institute for the History of Material Culture Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31600/978-5-9273-2863-5-2019-13-18.
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Shelegina, Olga N. "MODERN TREND IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSEUMS AND MUSEOLOGY: Materials of the IV All-Russian (with International Participation) Scientific Conference." In MODERN TREND IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSEUMS AND MUSEOLOGY, edited by Galina M. Zaporozhchenko. Novosibirsk State University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/978-5-4437-1115-7.
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The collection of materials of the IV all-Russian scientific and practical conference «Modern trends in museums and museology» presents reports of employees of Russian research institutes, leading museums of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, teachers of higher educational institutions, representatives of cultural institutions. They reflect a wide range of topical issues related to the development of the theory and practice of Museum business in modern conditions at the international, national and regional levels. Important attention is paid to socio-cultural practices for the development of historical and cultural heritage, digitalization of the Museum sphere and its adaptation to the conditions of the pandemic. The publication will be interesting for specialists in the field of history of science and culture, heritage management, Museum studies and cultural studies, teachers of universities, employees of museums and libraries, local historians.
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Fenlon, Katrina, and Virgil E. Varvel. "Local histories in global digital libraries." In the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference. ACM Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2467696.2467742.
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Lewis, S. J., C. E. Truman, and D. J. Smith. "Use of Local Approach Methods With Non-Proportional Load Histories." In ASME 2009 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2009-77567.
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So-called ‘local approach’ methods for fracture analyses, such as the commonly used Beremin model, are attractive as a means to predict component failure due to their flexibility and applicability to a wide range of geometries. However, in cases where cyclic loading occurs, resulting in the accumulation of plastic strain and accompanying residual stress, the validity of the Beremin approach is questionable. This work investigates the applicability of a range of alternative local approach methods to model material failure behaviour in such cases, as well as commenting on the calibration and physical basis of such methods.
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Alaev, Leonid. "WORLD AND LOCAL HISTORIES POSSIBILITIES OF STAGE FORMATION FOR THEM." In Globalistics-2020: Global issues and the future of humankind. Interregional Social Organization for Assistance of Studying and Promotion the Scientific Heritage of N.D. Kondratieff / ISOASPSH of N.D. Kondratieff, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46865/978-5-901640-33-3-2020-727-733.
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Varco, Martin, James E. Smith, and Dan M. Stone. "Inclination at the Bit Improves Directional Precision for Slimhole Horizontal Wells: Local Case Histories." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/54593-ms.
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Salim, Samir. "Star Formation Histories and Physical Parameters of Local Gas-Rich Galaxies from GALEX+SDSS Photometry." In THE SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS OF GAS-RICH GALAXIES: Confronting Models with Data; International Workshop. AIP, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1913953.
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Browning-Hanson, Joseph, and Daniel R. Viete. "WHITE MICA DETRITAL SIGNATURES OF LOCAL, IAPETAN RIFT–DRIFT TECTONOTHERMAL HISTORIES ALONG THE APPALACHIAN-CALEDONIAN OROGENIC BELT." In 54th Annual GSA Northeastern Section Meeting - 2019. Geological Society of America, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2019ne-328623.
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Das, Sreekanta, J. J. Roger Cheng, David W. Murray, S. A. Wilkie, and Z. Joe Zhou. "Laboratory Study of Local Buckling, Wrinkle Development, and Strains for NPS12 Linepipe." In 2000 3rd International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2000-210.
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Buried pipelines are subjected to fluid pressure (oil/gas/water), axial loads, moments, and complex load combination histories. As a result, they may develop large compressive strains and curvatures leading to formation of localized buckles or wrinkles in the pipe shell. Recently, full-scale tests on 12.75″ diameter (NPS12) energy pipes have been carried out at the University of Alberta to study the behavior of wrinkle development and the ultimate limiting strains at the wrinkle locations. Different internal pressures, and axial loads were applied to produce a wrinkle, followed by load variations intended to produce fracture that could develop in buried pipelines in the field. Three different axially loaded tests are reported. Two different internal pressures were applied, namely, (i) 0.8py and (ii) 0.4py, where py is the required internal pressure to cause the yield stress of the pipe material to be developed in the circumferential direction. Also, two different specimen lengths were adopted. They are: (i) 406 mm (16 inch) and (ii) 736 mm (29 inch). All specimens were loaded axially until the wrinkle formed. It was observed that the pipes are highly ductile and very large compressive strains can be developed without fracture or leakage in the pipe wall. Because the pipe specimens of the first two tests did not fail (i.e. fracture) under monotonically increasing displacements and strains, the third wrinkled specimen was subjected to load histories involving strain reversals. This load history resulted in a low cycle failure after a very few cycles. The paper addresses test procedures, buckling and post-buckling behavior of NPS12 energy pipelines and relates them to three different types of strain measures, namely, material strain, wrinkle strain and overall strain as observed from these tests.
Reports on the topic "Local historians"
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Martin, Kathi, Nick Jushchyshyn, and Claire King. Christian Lacroix Evening gown c.1990. Drexel Digital Museum, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.17918/wq7d-mc48.
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The URL links to a website page in the Drexel Digital Museum (DDM) fashion image archive containing a 3D interactive panorama of an evening gown by French fashion designer Christian Lacroix with related text. This evening gown by Christian Lacroix is from his Fall 1990 collection. It is constructed from silk plain weave, printed with an abstract motif in the bright, deep colors of the local costumes of Lacroix's native Arles, France; and embellished with diamanté and insets of handkerchief edged silk chiffon. Ruffles of pleated silk organza in a neutral bird feather print and also finished with a handkerchief edge, accentuate the asymmetrical draping of the gown. Ruching, controlled by internal drawstrings and ties, creates volume and a slight pouf, a nod to 'le pouf' silhouette Lacroix popularized in his collection for Patou in 1986. Decorative boning on the front of the bodice reflects Lacroix's early education as a costume historian and his sartorial reinterpretation of historic corsets. It is from the private collection of Mari Shaw. The panorama is an HTML5 formatted version of an ultra-high resolution ObjectVR created from stitched tiles captured with GigaPan technology. It is representative the ongoing research of the DDM, an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers focused on production, conservation and dissemination of new media for exhibition of historic fashion.
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Dalglish, Chris, and Sarah Tarlow, eds. Modern Scotland: Archaeology, the Modern past and the Modern present. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.163.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings: HUMANITY The Panel recommends recognition that research in this field should be geared towards the development of critical understandings of self and society in the modern world. Archaeological research into the modern past should be ambitious in seeking to contribute to understanding of the major social, economic and environmental developments through which the modern world came into being. Modern-world archaeology can add significantly to knowledge of Scotland’s historical relationships with the rest of the British Isles, Europe and the wider world. Archaeology offers a new perspective on what it has meant to be a modern person and a member of modern society, inhabiting a modern world. MATERIALITY The Panel recommends approaches to research which focus on the materiality of the recent past (i.e. the character of relationships between people and their material world). Archaeology’s contribution to understandings of the modern world lies in its ability to situate, humanise and contextualise broader historical developments. Archaeological research can provide new insights into the modern past by investigating historical trends not as abstract phenomena but as changes to real lives, affecting different localities in different ways. Archaeology can take a long-term perspective on major modern developments, researching their ‘prehistory’ (which often extends back into the Middle Ages) and their material legacy in the present. Archaeology can humanise and contextualise long-term processes and global connections by working outwards from individual life stories, developing biographies of individual artefacts and buildings and evidencing the reciprocity of people, things, places and landscapes. The modern person and modern social relationships were formed in and through material environments and, to understand modern humanity, it is crucial that we understand humanity’s material relationships in the modern world. PERSPECTIVE The Panel recommends the development, realisation and promotion of work which takes a critical perspective on the present from a deeper understanding of the recent past. Research into the modern past provides a critical perspective on the present, uncovering the origins of our current ways of life and of relating to each other and to the world around us. It is important that this relevance is acknowledged, understood, developed and mobilised to connect past, present and future. The material approach of archaeology can enhance understanding, challenge assumptions and develop new and alternative histories. Modern Scotland: Archaeology, the Modern past and the Modern present vi Archaeology can evidence varied experience of social, environmental and economic change in the past. It can consider questions of local distinctiveness and global homogeneity in complex and nuanced ways. It can reveal the hidden histories of those whose ways of life diverged from the historical mainstream. Archaeology can challenge simplistic, essentialist understandings of the recent Scottish past, providing insights into the historical character and interaction of Scottish, British and other identities and ideologies. COLLABORATION The Panel recommends the development of integrated and collaborative research practices. Perhaps above all other periods of the past, the modern past is a field of enquiry where there is great potential benefit in collaboration between different specialist sectors within archaeology, between different disciplines, between Scottish-based researchers and researchers elsewhere in the world and between professionals and the public. The Panel advocates the development of new ways of working involving integrated and collaborative investigation of the modern past. Extending beyond previous modes of inter-disciplinary practice, these new approaches should involve active engagement between different interests developing collaborative responses to common questions and problems. REFLECTION The Panel recommends that a reflexive approach is taken to the archaeology of the modern past, requiring research into the nature of academic, professional and public engagements with the modern past and the development of new reflexive modes of practice. Archaeology investigates the past but it does so from its position in the present. Research should develop a greater understanding of modern-period archaeology as a scholarly pursuit and social practice in the present. Research should provide insights into the ways in which the modern past is presented and represented in particular contexts. Work is required to better evidence popular understandings of and engagements with the modern past and to understand the politics of the recent past, particularly its material aspect. Research should seek to advance knowledge and understanding of the moral and ethical viewpoints held by professionals and members of the public in relation to the archaeology of the recent past. There is a need to critically review public engagement practices in modern-world archaeology and develop new modes of public-professional collaboration and to generate practices through which archaeology can make positive interventions in the world. And there is a need to embed processes of ethical reflection and beneficial action into archaeological practice relating to the modern past.
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Wells, Aaron, Tracy Christopherson, Gerald Frost, et al. Ecological land survey and soils inventory for Katmai National Park and Preserve, 2016–2017. National Park Service, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2287466.
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This study was conducted to inventory, classify, and map soils and vegetation within the ecosystems of Katmai National Park and Preserve (KATM) using an ecological land survey (ELS) approach. The ecosystem classes identified in the ELS effort were mapped across the park, using an archive of Geo-graphic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) datasets pertaining to land cover, topography, surficial geology, and glacial history. The description and mapping of the landform-vegetation-soil relationships identified in the ELS work provides tools to support the design and implementation of future field- and RS-based studies, facilitates further analysis and contextualization of existing data, and will help inform natural resource management decisions. We collected information on the geomorphic, topographic, hydrologic, pedologic, and vegetation characteristics of ecosystems using a dataset of 724 field plots, of which 407 were sampled by ABR, Inc.—Environmental Research and Services (ABR) staff in 2016–2017, and 317 were from existing, ancillary datasets. ABR field plots were located along transects that were selected using a gradient-direct sampling scheme (Austin and Heligers 1989) to collect data for the range of ecological conditions present within KATM, and to provide the data needed to interpret ecosystem and soils development. The field plot dataset encompassed all of the major environmental gradients and landscape histories present in KATM. Individual state-factors (e.g., soil pH, slope aspect) and other ecosystem components (e.g., geomorphic unit, vegetation species composition and structure) were measured or categorized using standard classification systems developed for Alaska. We described and analyzed the hierarchical relationships among the ecosystem components to classify 92 Plot Ecotypes (local-scale ecosystems) that best partitioned the variation in soils, vegetation, and disturbance properties observed at the field plots. From the 92 Plot Ecotypes, we developed classifications of Map Ecotypes and Disturbance Landscapes that could be mapped across the park. Additionally, using an existing surficial geology map for KATM, we developed a map of Generalized Soil Texture by aggregating similar surficial geology classes into a reduced set of classes representing the predominant soil textures in each. We then intersected the Ecotype map with the General-ized Soil Texture Map in a GIS and aggregated combinations of Map Ecotypes with similar soils to derive and map Soil Landscapes and Soil Great Groups. The classification of Great Groups captures information on the soil as a whole, as opposed to the subgroup classification which focuses on the properties of specific horizons (Soil Survey Staff 1999). Of the 724 plots included in the Ecotype analysis, sufficient soils data for classifying soil subgroups was available for 467 plots. Soils from 8 orders of soil taxonomy were encountered during the field sampling: Alfisols (<1% of the mapped area), Andisols (3%), Entisols (45%), Gelisols (<1%), Histosols (12%), Inceptisols (22%), Mollisols (<1%), and Spodosols (16%). Within these 8 Soil Orders, field plots corresponded to a total of 74 Soil Subgroups, the most common of which were Typic Cryaquents, Typic Cryorthents, Histic Cryaquepts, Vitrandic Cryorthents, and Typic Cryofluvents.
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Informe de gestión 2017-2020. Banco de la República de Colombia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.32468/inf-gest.a17-20.
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Este documento reseña la gestión del Banco de la República entre 2017 y 2020, un período durante el cual el Banco logró consolidar una inflación baja y estable, con tasas de crecimiento cada vez más cercanas al potencial. A partir de marzo de 2020 se adoptaron políticas novedosas que lograron evitar una crisis profunda en medio de la pandemia del Coronavirus, un choque de enormes dimensiones para la humanidad. De otra parte, se tomaron medidas importantes tendientes a fortalecer la Administración del Banco, con un mayor control de los recursos financieros destinados a los distintos objetivos del Plan de Desarrollo. El Banco continúa siendo la institución estatal independiente que genera mayor confianza entre los colombianos por su transparencia, su ajuste a exigentes metas de resultados macroeconómicos y empresariales, y por el cumplimiento efectivo de las funciones de banca central y culturales encomendadas por la Constitución y la ley. RESUMEN EJECUTIVO La economía colombiana enfrentó en los últimos cuatro años algunos de los eventos que mayor impacto han tenido sobre su desempeño en más de un siglo. El precio internacional del petróleo cayó a menos de la tercera parte entre junio de 2014 y enero de 2016 y, nuevamente, entre septiembre de 2018 y abril de 2020; se presentaron frecuentes choques en el precio local de los alimentos, y la pandemia reciente ocasionó uno de los mayores desastres que ha padecido la humanidad en su historia. El Banco de la República (Banrep), sus directivos y empleados tuvieron que responder rápidamente a las nuevas circunstancias, un proceso que ha implicado grandes cambios en la forma como se han ejecutado y cumplido las funciones de la banca central y las del área cultural a cargo de la organización. De otra parte, el Plan Estratégico 2017-2021 sentó las bases para el nuevo programa de modernización del Banco, y en el presente Informe de gestión 2017-2020 se describen y analizan los retos enfrentados en el período y la forma en que se adaptó y modernizó la institución para hacerles frente. También se mencionan los principales desafíos que se avizoran hacia el futuro, con el fin de contribuir al diseño de los planes de la administración entrante. En este Resumen ejecutivo se presenta una síntesis del documento completo. En la sección II se hace un recuento de la situación económica de Colombia y el mundo en el cuatrienio reciente, y las medidas de política adoptadas por la Junta Directiva del Banco de la República (JDBR) para mantener la inflación baja y estable y contribuir a la recuperación del crecimiento de la economía. En la sección III se registran los avances y logros en los temas estratégicos del Plan Estratégico 2017-2021. En particular, se mencionan la política monetaria y de estabilidad financiera, la política cambiaria, la política de pagos, y otros temas relacionados con la eficiencia y eficacia en el Plan. La sección IV está dedicada a la gestión cultural, y en la sección V se describe la evolución de los temas de apoyo táctico para el logro de los objetivos del Plan: capital humano y cultura organizacional, tecnología e infraestructura; se incluye, además, un resumen de los avances en materia ambiental. En la sección VI se presentan los principales elementos de la respuesta del Banco ante la emergencia sanitaria del COVID-19. En la sección VII se describe el manejo de las reservas internacionales y se analizan el presupuesto y las utilidades del Banco. En la sección VIII se enuncian algunos desafíos futuros.