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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"1880-1930"”.
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Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… and "modernism" in U.S. fiction between 1880 and 1930 as reactions to the capitalist, industrial city, which serves as the site of the changes and the subject of the fiction. Urbanization made modernity manifest in three ways: the close proximity and racial diversity of city life, the …
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Días que fueron : ostentación y tiempo libre 1880-1930
El tema central tratado en el presente trabajo es el tiempo libre de la élite bogotana y el posicionamiento de la élite como grupo dominante en la ciudad, a través de las transformaciones llevadas a cabo por la misma élite en sus prácticas de tiempo libre. A través de aspectos como la ostentación y …
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Shepherd's Wanted: Wester Ross Pioneers to Patagonia, 1880-1930
… movement of Scots in the later time period from 1880 to 1930. The migration was dominated by men with a single occupation, that of the skilled shepherd, in response to new employment opportunities in southern South America and reduced prospects in Scotland. It is illustrated using case studies …
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Greek immigration to, and settlement in, central Illinois, 1880-1930
… of Greeks immigrants to central Illinois between 1880 and 1930. The study focuses specifically on those Greek immigrants who were involved in the confectionery trade, opening candy stores (often accompanied by soda fountains and restaurants) in the small towns and cities of rural Illinois. The …
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Cultural engagement in missionary China: American missionary novels 1880-1930
… novels set in China between the late Qing and 1930. I argue that the missionaries’ novelistic expression of that identification was influenced by many factors: their targeted audience, their motives, their work, and their perceptions of the missionary enterprise, cultural difference, and their …
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Working-class newspapers, community and consciousness in Chicago, 1880-1930
… and labor newspapers published between 1880 and 1930, documenting an often- neglected part of communications history. The workers' press played a key role in sustaining and promoting U.S. working-class movements. Chicago's working-class press ranged from obscure monthly organs to …
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The agrarian roots of authoritarian modernization in Brazil, 1880-1930
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1980
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Commercial Cultures: Modernity in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1880--1930
Modern retail stores in the late Russian Empire and Soviet 1920s served as symbols of modernization and as agents of political, social, and cultural transformation. Modern retailers operated within the larger context of the commercial sphere, which was characterized by experimentation and …
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Suffrage, solidarity and strife: political partnerships and the women's movement 1880-1930
… s enfranchisement over a fifty year period from 1880 - 1930. The aim of this study is to contribute to our understanding of the gendered nature of political activity and identity through an examination of the women' s suffrage campaigns, in particular the still under-researched, yet extremely …
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To Assimilate the Children: The Boarding School at Chemawa, Oregon 1880-1930
<p>Separating Native American children from their people to train them for entering white society was seen by proponents as an alternative to extinction. Reformers implemented this goal by establishing off-reservation boarding schools like that at Chemawa, Oregon. Though their methods changed, the …
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Indispensable Outcasts: Seasonal Laborers and Community in the Upper Midwest, 1880--1930
"The upper midwestern United States is the geographic focus, especially Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, northern Illinois, northern Michigan, and northwestern Iowa. The structure of agricultural production, especially in the wheat belt, and the structure of the labor market for unskilled …
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Die kulturelle und nationale Identität in Zeiten der Einwanderung in Argentinien (1880-1930)
Die 1880er Jahre waren der Beginn einer massiven europäischen Einwanderung nach Argentinien. In dieser Arbeit werden kulturelle, politische, wirtschaftliche und demographische Veränderungen für das Land untersucht und welche Auswirkungen diese auf das Selbstverständnis der argentinischen …
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A social history of sport in Cork, Tipperary and Waterford, c. 1880-1930
… world of Cork, Tipperary and Waterford from 1880-1930.
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Trust and Doubt: Perceptions of Divine Inspiration in Seventh-day Adventist History (1880-1930)
… of the Bible writers and Ellen G. White from 1880 to 1930. In order to outline such a history of Adventist perceptions of divine inspiration, based on a study of selected individuals, it was necessary to describe each thinker’s affirmations and objections, underlying sources and influences, …
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Anthropology of nostalgia : primitivism and the antimodern vision in the American Southwest, 1880-1930
Introduction: Zoo, garden, arcade--three places emblematic of European society's pleasure in and subjugation of animal and plant nature, of the texture of civilized life in a world created by Industry and Progress. This triad, it seems, would stand in opposition to Lummis' oft-repeated formula of …
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Building bodies, (un)making empire: gender, sport, and colonialism in the United States, 1880-1930
… Haskell Institute was originally built in the 1880s as part of the colonial boarding school movement, which sought to assimilate Native youth into white culture and undermine Indigenous communities. My project focuses specifically on Haskell’s athletic and physical education programs, and I …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… the opposite occurring. Writing between 1880 and 1930, Hardy, Joyce, Rhys, Huxley and Lawrence all posited that indifference, isolation, ignorance and inaction spread across Europe due to the advent of steam and motor-powered transportation technologies. As they revolutionized migration, …
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Unclaimed flowers and blossoms protected by Thorns: never-married women in the United States, 1880-1930.
… women in the United States grew between 1880 and 1920 as a result of the new employment opportunities that appeared in the decades following the Civil War. U.S. census data reveals that during these years the percent of forty-five to fifty-four year old women who were never married …
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Human rights and social injustice in Nadie me vera llorar's Mexico of 1880-1930.
Through her acclaimed novel, Nadie me vera llorar, Cristina Rivera Garza, prolific Mexican author, and feminist literary icon, explores the conflicted history of vanilla as it is intimately intertwined with the history of Mexico and its people. This thesis offers a deep dive into the history of …
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