\u27Empire without end\u27: John Finch, Orientalism, and Early Modern Empire, 1674-1681

Between 1674 and 1681, John Finch (1626-1682) and Thomas Baines (1622-1681) produced a substantial body of writing on statecraft, religion, and the Ottoman Empire, while Finch was serving as the English ambassador to the Ottomans. This thesis, which represents the first substantial scholarly engagement with Finch’s political thought, reconstructs both his understanding of the Ottoman Empire, and his theory of sovereignty. By synthesizing a skeptical epistemology, a robust defense of the royal supremacy over the Church of England, and his understanding of Ottoman history and politics, Finch developed a theory of sovereignty in which liberty and coercion were equally useful and legitimate tools of governance. By placing his manuscripts in relation to current historiography on early modern Orientalism and the emergence of imperial ideology, this thesis offers a new interpretation of the relationship between scholarship and empire in early modern England

Notes on food and feeding habits of milkfish (Chanos chanos) from the sea

Study on the natural food of adult milkfish was made from specimens caught from the open sea. The contents of guts from 15 specimens were qualitatively analysed, and both planktonic as well as benthic forms were encounted. The relationship between the gut length and body length has been worked out. Ten out of 15 milkfish examined were also found to be infected with Acanthocephalan parasites confined mainly to the anterior part of the intestine

Aboriginal Performance Cultures and Language Revitalization: Foundations, Discontinuities, and Possibilities

This paper address the question of how indigenous art and performance culture(s) can contribute to institutionalized language revitalization efforts in Canada, through their use of threatened indigenous languages. Drawing from a wide range of sources published between 1988 and 2014 by scholars, the Assembly of First Nations, departments and agencies of the Canadian government, and artistic practitioners, I illustrate the absence of performance from the available literature on language revitalization. By analyzing these documents thematically, I argue that a substantial shift occurred in the public discourse surrounding language revitalization between the 1980s and 1990s, and the mid- to late-2000s. Whereas scholarship and policy proposals published during the 1980s and 1990s were strongly influenced by Joshua Fishman’s research on language revitalization, public discourse a decade later framed language revitalization in the language of land claims. Following Glen Coulthard, I suggest that this shift should be understood as part of the broader emergence of a “politics of recognition” in Canadian discourse. At the level of Canadian and Aboriginal government policy, this discursive shift has left even less room for performance and theatre within the wider project of language revitalization. Insofar as the arts are a rich source of pedagogical material, my aim is to undermine the discursive impediments to their use by language educators and policy makers in the field of language revitalization

The Huron College Missionary Society Artifact Collection: Finding Aid, Inventory and Notes for Further Work

During the tenure of C.C. Waller, who served as Principal of Huron University College (then \u27Huron College\u27) between 1902 and 1941, the campus featured a small museum of ethnographic artifacts from South America, East Africa, India, China and the Canadian Arctic collected and donated by Anglican missionaries, notably a T.B.R. Westgate. Although it was since largely forgotten, this research project located the remnants of the Huron College Missionary Society Artifact Collection in a utility closet on Huron\u27s present campus. Between October 2014 and April 2015, this project collaborated with the Huron Library and the University of Western Ontario\u27s Public History department to clean, catalogue, photograph, and re-package the nearly 200 artifacts which remain from this important component of the College\u27s material history

Omni Subscription Integrations: Syndetics Unbound & BrowZine Presentation File

An overview of Syndetics Unbound and BrowZine, both subscription products, including how to set them up in Alma and how they integrate into Omni\u27s (Primo VE) display

Pengaruh Penyediaan Infrastruktur Daerah Terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi di Kabupaten Gunung Mas

This study aims to analyze the influence of regional infrastructure, road infrastructure, electricity, education and health on economic growth in Gunung Mas District. The research method is quantitative by using secondary time series data from 2000-2017. Data were analyzed using multiple linear analysis. The results of the study show that partially the variables of road, electricity and education infrastructure have a positive and significant effect on economic growth, except health infrastructure that does not affect economic growth. Simultaneously the independent variables have a positive and significant effect on economic growth. The value of R square is 0.743, which means that 74.3 percent of infrastructure variables are able to explain economic growth in Gunung Mas Regency

Digital Bookplates: Cataloging Processes and Workflows

Historically, bookplates were found in the front of print monographs. Transitioning them to digital allows libraries to expand their visibility to researchers and to fundraising activities within institutions. Digital bookplates offer significant opportunities to honor or memorialize individuals with gifts to libraries at varying donation levels. This article discusses digital bookplates in an academic library and provides examples of the cataloging, metadata, and web processes involved in maintaining and collaborating on this active fundraising program. A previous article on this topic was published in 2012 and this article provides an update to its procedures and workflows a decade later