The thesis analyses the British attempt to settle and develop the Pailon region ofEsmeraldas province, Ecuador, between 1860 and 1896. Set against the background ofEcuador's nineteenth-century struggle to achieve political stability and economicdevelopment in the forging of an i…
1. Realigning rivers is becoming common as a solution to conflicting needs of land development and ecosystem preservation. Although an increasing number of projects are monitored, exactly how these channels develop as functional stream ecosystems is still poorly understood. Mini…
The purpose of this research is to examine the socio-economic legacies of the French Protectorate in Morocco and the attitude of modern-day Moroccans to that legacy, through a series of in-depth interviews with a wide range of people who lived through colonialism and came after …
La décennie 1930 est marquée, au Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean, comme ailleurs, par la crise économique mondiale et ses conséquences sur le tissu social. La présente étude vise à mettre en évidence les spécificités de cette crise dans le milieu régional tout en la situant dans un cadr…
“Colonization” is by far the most sophisticated word for the attempts made to make a society financially broke and culturally orphaned. My work is a product of thoughts that occur in the midst of cultural and linguistic existential crises left by the white man’s burden. My focus…