Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Biography"
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Affecting Lives: The Politics of Biography in Modern Italy, 1850-1881
(2013-08-09)This study examines the spread of in-life biographies (biographies written and published while their subjects were still alive) in Italy during the later years of the Risorgimento and the early years of Unification. These ... -
Evolution of Parasitism in the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera)
(2015-10-01)Of the four most diverse insect orders, the Lepidoptera contain remarkably few predatory and/or parasitic taxa, and while species with carnivorous life histories have evolved independently numerous times in moths and ... -
Renaissance Man From Amdo: the Life and Scholarship of the Eighteenth-Century Amdo Scholar Sum Pa Mkhan Po Ye Shes Dpal ’Byor (1704-1788)
(2018-05-12)This dissertation examines the new cultural developments in eighteenth-century northeastern Tibet, also known as Amdo, by looking into the life story of a preeminent monk-scholar, Sum pa Mkhan po Ye shes dpal ’byor ...