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High level sport is linked to educational institutions. Historically, a number of systems designed to develop high level sports performance have been based at places of learning. This work is concerned with how an educational institution has gone about developing the sport of ju…

During a forty-five year period the architecture of Henry Edmund Goodridge progressed from Regency Greek Revival, through late Georgian Picturesque towards Victorian Eclecticism. The aim of this study is to show how through such development Goodridge produced a style that fused …

This dissertation traces the life story of the Çemberlitas Hamam, Istanbul. The hamam's genealogy considers the development of baths, from Ancient Greece and Rome over Late Antiquity to the Early Islamic Period in Arabia and Iran, to Medieval Anatolia and, finally, to Ottoman Is…

This dissertation analyzes structural features that enabled the Syrian Ba'th regime to sustain its authority and rule over Syria since 1963 as well as to play a vital role in regional politics today. A deeper understanding of the nature of the regime in terms of its meaning of n…

During the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988, the Iraqi Ba'th party engaged in the production of historical narrative, which defined the party's ideal of Iraqi nationality and statehood, while promoting the legitimacy of its military efforts. Public intellectuals played an important ro…