Sökning: "early empire"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 40 avhandlingar innehållade orden early empire.
1. Images of an Empire : Chinese Geography Textbooks of the Early 20th Century
Sammanfattning : In 1901 the Qing regime, in power 1644-1911, took wide-ranging measures to reform the Chinese Empire. Fundamental changes were carried out within the field of education, resulting in the completion of China’s first modern educational system in 1904. LÄS MER
2. Att skola en stormakt : Framväxten av 1600-talets skolsystem genom lokalsamhällets aktörer
Sammanfattning : This thesis shows how Swedish urban schools were reformed, expanded and developed into a school system following the 1649 school curriculum. While previous research has emphasized different educational needs within the context of normative school curriculum or in relation to the emerging power of the state, this study argues that the expansion of urban schools must be understood as a response to local community actors and their interests. LÄS MER
3. Imperial Freedmen and Roman Society : A study on the social standing of imperial freedmen as expressed in literary and epigraphic sources in the early Roman Empire
Sammanfattning : This study discusses the imperial freedmen’s standing in Roman society as it is expressed in literary and epigraphic sources. It has often been assumed that the traditional elite had a general negative attitude towards this group, and previous scholars have interpreted the social standing of the imperial freedmen very differently due to the discrepancy between the legal status and the social status of these freedmen. LÄS MER
4. Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark from a Postcolonial Perspective
Sammanfattning : Generally regarded as the first written gospel, Mark probably began circulating in this form during the 70s C.E, the hey-days of Flavian Rome. Reading Mark as a representation of a collective identity position, this dissertation primarily studies the various ways in which it related to Roman imperial discourse. LÄS MER
5. Mildhet och saktmod : Den svenska konglomeratstaten och Jämtland efter freden i Brömsebro 1645
Sammanfattning : The focus of this book is the cession of the province of Jämtland from Denmark-Norway to Sweden after the Peace of Brömsebro in 1645. My purpose is to examine what bearing the steps taken to incorporate the newly conquered territory into Sweden had on the state formation already underway. LÄS MER