Sökning: "indian history"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 54 avhandlingar innehållade orden indian history.
1. Relations of Absence : Germans in the East Indies and Their Families c. 1750–1820
Sammanfattning : In the early modern period thousands of Germans, mostly men but also a few women and children, travelled to the Indian Ocean world in the service of the Dutch and British East India companies (VOC and EIC). Family played a key role for these Ostindienfahrer (East Indies travellers). LÄS MER
2. Frida Kahlos bildspråk – ansikte, kropp & landskap: Representation av nationell identitet (första utgåvan)
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and her works, with emphasis on her painted self-portraits. The objective is to place Frida Kahlo’s pictorial production in relation to a place and time specific context and to test the theory for Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits as a project connected to a general striving towards a new formulation of a national identity. LÄS MER
3. To be or not to be American : Statehood and Peoplehood in Native American Self-identification during the Self-determination era
Sammanfattning : As colonized peoples Native Americans have had a complicated relationship to the United States. They have faced the question of whether they should demand tribal independence or embrace American citizenship. LÄS MER
4. Mellem afrikaner og kreol : etnisk identitet og social navigation i Dansk Vestindien 1730–1770
Sammanfattning : The central question of the dissertation is whether and how African Caribbeans in the Danish West Indies identified themselves with African ethnic groups. The dissertation discusses if and how such identifications played a role in the social life of African Caribbeans and influenced how new social networks developed in the colony. LÄS MER
5. En skandinavisk järnvägskontraktörs karriär i Indien 1860–1867 : ackumulering av socialt och kulturellt kapital som framgångsstrategi i en kolonial kontext
Sammanfattning : This study is about Joseph Samuel Frithiof Stephens (1841–1934) and how he as a Scandinavian contractor acquired an economic fortune in the colonial India. The fortune was used for the acquisition of the mill property Huseby Bruk in Småland and also contributed to the Stephens family's strategy of advancing in the then Danish bourgeois class establishment. LÄS MER
