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Showing 1 to 20 of 152 for “"1890s"”.
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Work, class and gender in Canadian fiction, 1890s-1920s
… in popular English-Canadian novels from the 1890s to the 1920s. Drawing upon sociohistorical contexts, this study examines the oft-neglected theme of women's work in Canadian literature. Through sustained, comparative analysis of a sample of popular fiction from this era, I explore the way …
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Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Renascence of the 1890s
… under-valued for his work as the leader of the 1890s cultural movement in Edinburgh, the Celtic Renascence. In an effort to revive the flagging Old Town, Geddes created a community in Ramsay Garden on the Castle Esplanade. Ramsay Garden became home to Summer Meetings, University Hall functions, …
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The Dynamics of Sisterhood In the Modern Chinese Imaginary, 1890S-1930S
The (re)construction of female identity in modern China has attracted much academic attention in recent years. While these studies usually highlight such key terms as “women” (<italic>fun├â┬╝</italic> 妇女 or <italic>n├â┬╝xing</italic> 女性) “women's rights” (<italic>n├â┬╝quan</italic> 女權), “new women” …
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Individual Agency and Military Structure: Personal Artifacts From 1890s Fort Missoula
… units, Trench 2, recovered artifacts from the 1890s period of fort use. The high ratio of personal artifacts allowed for a qualitative comparison of the assemblage with material culture from a contemporary military outpost: Fort Mackinac, Michigan, in which material signatures of both military …
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Individual Agency and Military Structure: Personal Artifacts From 1890s Fort Missoula
… units, Trench 2, recovered artifacts from the 1890s period of fort use. The high ratio of personal artifacts allowed for a qualitative comparison of the assemblage with material culture from a contemporary military outpost: Fort Mackinac, Michigan, in which material signatures of both military …
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The Image of Woman as a National Icon in Modern Japanese Art: 1890s-1930s
In the 1890s, the Meiji government established its Japanese constitution. After the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, Japan colonised Taiwan and Korea and increased its military power. The Japanese artists who lived during this time were in many ways reacting to this rapid social change that …
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Daughters of Ruth : enterprising black women in insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s
… three key periods: the Pre-Regulatory Era, 1890s to 1906; the Era of Regulation, 1907-World War I; and the Professionalization of Black Insurance, Post-WWI to the Great Depression. It also considers the barriers to black women’s involvement in professional organizations. By the late 1930s, …
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Damnation or Illumination: Harold Frederic's Social Drama and the Crisis of 1890s Evangelical Protestant Culture
The present dissertation argues that more fully than any other fictional work in the latter third of the nineteenth century, Harold Frederic's _The Damnation of Theron Ware_ illuminates the cultural controversies within fin de siecle America. Given the inconsistent nature of its subsequent critical …
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The History of “Having It All”: Black and White Women and Work-Life Balance, 1890s-2010s
<p>This project traces the history of that at once vaunted and contested aspirational image, “the woman who has it all,” from the late nineteenth century through the early twenty-first, attending throughout to the complex intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. It establishes both …
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Slaughtering sacred cows: rebutting the narrative of decline in the British secular movement from the 1890s to 1930s
… The dissertation covers the period from the 1890s to the 1930s, with contextualization from the earlier nineteenth century movement. The first main point of discussion is secularist involvement in politics in the twentieth century, especially in relation to the Liberal Party and early Labour …
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From a “Contagious” to a “Poisonous Yellow Peril”?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s – 1950.
… Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s - 1950," challenges the nation-bound paradigm within the history of American public health and agriculture by examining how the "contagious and poisonous yellow peril" image applied first to Chinese immigrants was also imposed on plants, …
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The treatment of tuberculosis in Ireland from the 1890s to the 1970s a case study of medical care in Leinster
In the late nineteenth century tuberculosis was endemic in Ireland being responsible for more deaths than any other single cause. There was no medical cure for the disease, although various treatment regimes were tried, some with modest success. In the decade to 1891, 103,314 deaths were attributed …
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The development of nursery schools and child welfare policies and practices in Bradford from the 1890s to the 1950s with particular reference to the work of Miriam Lord
This thesis analyses the life and work of Miriam Lord in Bradford, West Yorkshire between 1885 and the 1950s. The main investigative research for the thesis was carried out at the Bradford Archives where the voluminous collection of private papers, documents and other records which she bequeathed …
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Rise to power? : The foreign policy of the second grover cleveland administration, 1893-1897
… of United States foreign policy in the mid-1890s. Coming at the end of a period of rapid industrialisation and national growth for the United States – and culminating in the War of 1898 – the mid-1890s has generally been portrayed as either the end of the post-Civil War era or a precursor to …
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Od radikalismu k reformismu. Utváření představ o třídě ve druhé generaci představitelů českého dělnického hnutí, 1890-1914
… termination, because of the beginning of the 1890s involved onset of second generation of working-class movement, which deflected from radikalism the first generation of pioneers to engagement oscillating between reformism of Bebel and revisionism of Bernstein. Even since the early 1890s …
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