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Regional and seasonal distribution of moisture, carbohydrates, nitrogen and ash in 2-3 year portions of apple twigs.
No full textTraub, Hamilton Paul. (1927). Regional and seasonal distribution of moisture, carbohydrates, nitrogen and ash in 2-3 year portions of apple twigs.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/182412
The British ‘Bluesman’ Paul Oliver and the Nature of Transatlantic Blues Scholarship
No full textRecent revisionist studies have argued that much of what is known about music known as the blues’ has been 'invented' by the writing of enthusiasts far removed from the African American culture that created the music. Elijah Wald and Marybeth Hamilton in particular have attempted to sift through the clouds of romanticism, and tried to unveil more empirical histories that were previously obscured by the fallacious genre distinctions conjured up during the 1960s blues revival. While this revisionist scholarship has shed light on some previously ignored historical facts, writers have tended to concentrate on the romanticism of blues writing strictly from an American perspective, failing to acknowledge the genesis and influence of transatlantic scholarship, and therefore ignoring the work of the most prolific and influential blues scholar of the twentieth century, British writer Paul Oliver. By examining the core of Oliver’s research and writing during the 1950s and 1960s, this study aims to place Oliver in his rightful place at the centre of blues historiography. His scholarship allows a more detailed appreciation of the manner in which the blues was studied, through lyrics, recordings, oral histories, photography and African American literature. These historical sources were interpreted in accordance with the author’s attitudes to the commercial popular music, which allowed the ‘reconstruction’ of an African American ‘folk’ culture in which the blues became the antithesis of pop. Importantly, this study seeks to transcend dominant discourses of national cultural ownership or ethnocentrism, and demonstrate that representations of African American music and culture were constructed within a transatlantic context. The blues is music with roots in the African American experience within the United States; however, as Paul Oliver’s writing shows, its reception and representation were not limited by the same national, cultural or racial boundaries
A Meeting of Angels: Thomas Merton and the Shakers
No full textThomas Merton (1915-1968) is arguably the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century. His autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain has sold over one million copies and has been translated into over fifteen languages. He wrote over sixty other books and hundreds of poems and articles on topics ranging from monastic spirituality to civil rights, nonviolence, and the nuclear arms race. In this paper I will discuss Thomas Merton’s interest in the Shakers and suggest some of the reasons for his attraction to them
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Networking Past and Present
No full textA special feature in the Social Evolution Forum with R.I.M. Dunbar as the author of the focus article. Commentaries by Nicolas Baumard, Marcus J. Hamilton, Paul Hooper, Daniel N. Finkel, and Herbert Gintis
Making molehills into mountains: Adult responses to child sexuality and behaviour
No full textSexual behaviour among children can be perplexing for adults as they negotiate a spectrum of ideas relating to abuse and natural curiosity. In the search for understandings, adults can act in ways that close opportunities for children to explore and describe meanings for the behaviour. This article invites practitioners to check their assumptions in this kind of work, and to take a stance that opposes abusive actions – while taking up a position of enquiry to support the multiple stories that make up children’s lives
Belonging and not belonging : understanding India in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and V.S. Naipaul.
No full textPhDThis thesis is essentially about the "how" and "why" of the Indian
experience as documented in novels by Paul Scott, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
and V S Naipaul. The study points to the difficulty of arriving at any
conclusive definition of the country and its people. I show that
differences in attitudes, responses or behaviour are both overt and
subtle, and depend upon whether the writer or the character identifies
with the situation or community with which he or she interacts. It is
the individual's sense of belonging or not belonging to his or her own
group - be this along racial, cultural or gender lines - that accounts
for the differing perspectives evident in these novels. The points-of-
view of the outsider and the insider can therefore be seen as
mutual comments upon the other.
Since the struggle between belonging and not belonging becomes acute
when the old meets the new, focus is centred on communities
experiencing change. These include the British in India, West-Indian
Indians and westernised Indians. Despite their differences, all three
communities share similar reasons for either an acceptance or
rejection of the 'Other'. The thesis argues that the need for
emotional stability compels allegiance to the traditional group, while
the desire for individuality encourages surrender to the new. The
former nurtures a sense of belonging while, it is argued, that the
latter is perceived as the hallmark of those who do not belong.
Tensions arise when both these needs demand to be met. What I show to
be ironic in this struggle between belonging and not belonging is that
those things which individuals overtly reject are often unexpressed
parts of their personal pysche. The barrier between "them" and "us" is
therefore very fragile
Investigating the ‘empire of secrecy’ — three decades of reporting on the secret state
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University LondonIt has often been argued that journalism has been the most effective means of holding the intelligence services to account in western democracies. This thesis examines whether that proposition holds true in the United Kingdom and if so, whether such oversight has been consistent. Accountability by the news media is compared with the expanding range of UK official oversight mechanisms. The author utilises a body or work from over three decades of reporting on the intelligence services and further research on accountability to examine these questions. The author suggests this work is timely, given the controversy prompted by the former National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, who leaked a substantial archive of secret intelligence documents. This thesis concludes that the news media were often effective, if not consistent, in bringing intelligence to account in the second half of the 20th century. Since the start of the 21st century monitoring the secret state has become more challenging as a result of a changing economic, global and national political environment. Government legislation and technology makes it increasingly difficult for journalists to obtain confidential sources and then undertake their Fourth Estate role. Finding new methodologies is an urgent task for journalists, as history reveals that if intelligence agencies operate without scrutiny from outside government, abuses take place. Never before has government and its intelligence services had such powers and techniques of invasive mass surveillance available, and thus the potential to control the population and particularly those who dissent
[Hamilton Fish Webster's 'Pen Craig' Estate, Newport, RI]
No full textPen Craig (Harrison Avenue) was built in 1865 for George Frederic Jones and his wife, who were the parents of author Edith Wharton. The architect of the informal, wood-framed home is unknown. The property, which overlooks Newport Harbor, was purchased in 1899 by attorney Sidney Webster and his wife, who modified the villa into a Tudor style. Pen Craig passed to the Websters' son, Hamilton Fish Webster, who was the owner at the time this photograph was taken. In 1956, following the deaths of Mr. Webster and his wife, Pen Craig was sold at auction, demolished, and subdivided into three residential properties. Source: Paul Berry, Newport architectural history enthusiast. Source: Preservation Society of Newport County, http://www.newportmansions.org/learn/history-highlights/lost-newport/1856-186
The Use of Vaccinium elliottii Chapmn. in Breeding Highbush Blueberry
No full textEighty vigorous V. elliottii seedlings were selected from an 8-km stretch of Perone Creek, in southwest Alabama near Silverhill. Four ramets of each plant were obtained by rooting softwood cuttings taken in August 2013. These were grown in pots of peat in a greenhouse until March 2014. They began to flower in early February, and on March 1 they were placed outside the greenhouse for open pollination. Nineteen tetraploid southern highbush selections, growing in 20-liter pots, which had been chilled in a cooler, were placed in a bee-proof greenhouse in February 2014. Flowers on these plants were emasculated before they opened, and approximately 200 flowers per plant were pollinated with pollen from one or more of the potted V. elliottii selections. From 4301 pollinated flowers, only 78 seeds judged to be germinable were obtained. By contrast, crosses between tetraploid highbush cultvars gave 6720 seeds from 349 pollinated flowers and crosses between two V. elliottii clones gave 8000 seeds from 380 flowers. The 80 V. elliottii clones placed outside for pollination received few or no bee visits during flowering, which continued during March and April, and fruit set was less than 1%. Mean weight of berries from several hundred V. elliottii plants sampled at five forested locations in northwest Florida and southwest Alabama ranged from 184 mg to 341 mg depending on the location. Two berry sample sites in Alabama were along Perone Creek, and were sites from which plants had been propagated for the crossing experiments. Two V. elliottii plants with fastigiate growth habit were found, one at Perone Creek and one along the Suwannee River in Hamilton County, Florida.Paper presented at NABREW Conference, Paper Session I:Blueberry Greeding, on June 24, 2014, Atlantic City, N.J
From madrasah to museum : a biography of the Islamic manuscripts of Cape Town
No full textThis paper focuses on the Islamic manuscripts of Cape Town, locally referred to as kietaabs, written by Muslims predominantly in the 19th century, in jawi (Arabic-Malay) and Arabic-Afrikaans. Inspired by the idea of a 'biography' of the archive and 'the social life of things', the study traces the life of the kietaabs, from their creation and original use, to their role in contemporary South African society, as objects of heritage and identity. It approaches the kietaabs as objects, emphasizing their movements, status and use, rather than their content
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