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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)In 1997 Scotland embarked on a process of devolution after almost three hundred years of full political incorporation within the British state. This dramatic development has stimulated a major reappraisal within Scotland ...
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Amyas Connell, 'High and Over' and the role of New Zealand architects in the British Modern Movement (Thesis, Master of Applied Science, 2011)Many of the architects that contributed to the British Modern Movement during the late 1920s and up to the start of the Second World War were of European origin. Less well described in the surveys of the period is the ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This thesis presents an analytical framework for studying the evolution of museological culture in a post-colonial context and then applies that framework to the case of the Christchurch public art gallery, the Robert ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)This dissertation is a comparative analysis of New Zealand’s and Vancouver Island’s print culture between 1853 and 1862. It utilises the colonial press as a key archive to track the resonance of ideas and arguments across ...
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(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)In recent decades the development of digital imaging technologies has stimulated a creative return to historic or "alternative" photographic technologies. This thesis examines the revival of alternative technologies in New ...
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(ThesisThesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010)This study examines the gradual development of New Zealand identity, the process during which immigrants in the nineteenth century began to think of themselves as New Zealanders rather than as transplanted Britons or ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)The first pharmacies opened in New Zealand in the late 1840s and early 1850s. These pioneering pharmacists mixed most of the medicines sold in their shops themselves. There were however, a number of finished products and ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2011)This thesis uses the patient case records from the private asylum Ashburn Hall in Dunedin, New Zealand, between 1882 and 1910 to unpick how and what the three medical superintendents of the asylum during this time thought ... -
Speak to me, Stranger: Subjectivity, Homosexuality and the Preliberation Narratives of James Courage (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)This thesis surveys the life of expatriate writer James Courage (1903-63). More than a literary biography, Speak To Me, Stranger exhibits the ‘strangeness’ and unique historicity of past lives. It uses one man’s experience ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)This Masters thesis contributes to our understanding of the hybridised musical culture that existed in early twentieth century New Zealand. By tracing the extensive tours of the Waiata Maori Choir from 1924 until the group ...