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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"1910s"”.
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Fitzgerald in the Late 1910s: War and Women
… occurring since the late 1800s. But the late 1910s, when the author composed these works, witnessed a hastening of women's progress and an intensification of the male anxiety resulting from these changes. Repercussions of the war in Europe did much to exacerbate men's fears. Here, I examine …
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A Syncretic Modernism: Articulations of Painting in Turkey (1910s-1940s)
This dissertation is a critical history of modern art in Turkey, focusing on two generations of artists that came to articulate the parameters of painting in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish early republic. I follow the trajectories of a selection of artists who became leading figures in the …
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Study on Urban Form Changes and Urban Transformation of Modern Luoyang(1910s-1960s)
… period. specially during the period from the 1910s to the 1960s, for nearly half a century, Luoyang underwent two instances of “building a ew urban area near the old part of the city” under the background of militarization and industrialization. This not only formed the modern urban spatial …
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Translating sex culture: Transnational sex education and the U.S.-Swedish relationship, 1910s–1960s
… Sex Education and the U.S.-Swedish Relationship, 1910s–1960s” traces the history of American-Swedish sex education relations; the exchange, modification, and reception of sex instruction material; and the opponents of the subject who connected sex education to larger cultural issues. I demonstrate …
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Across Lands: Double Consciousness and Negotiating Identities in Early Chinese American Literature, 1847-1910s
<p>This dissertation analyzes the works of three early Chinese immigrant writers (Yung Wing, Yan Phou Lee, and Wong Chin Foo) and two mixed race writers (Edith Eaton and Winnifred Eaton) in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century North America in order to critique the formation of early …
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The nature of the Ottoman city: Water management and urban space in Sofia, 1380s-1910s
This dissertation explores the intersection of natural and man-made space, the area where environmental and social forces meet to negotiate the physical contours of urban life and the cultural meanings of place. I employ an environmental perspective in order to address the natural ecology of urban …
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A Narrative in Relief - The Historiography of English Modern Painting (1910-1915), from the 1910s to the 1950s
The groups of painters in England who experimented with new visual expressions of modernity between 1910 and 1915 are the subject of this historiographical research. More precisely, the accounts of Vorticism, Bloomsbury post-Impressionism and the modern art of painters associated with Sickert, …
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Battles of the sexes onstage: explorations of changing Gender roles by four American women playwrights of the 1910s-1930s
… Roles by Four American Women Playwrights of the 1910s-1930s analyzes plays by Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, and Dawn Powell in order to discover how these playwrights dealt with changing female social roles throughout the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. To provide a context for …
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Reconsidering the Western town planning approach for Historic Cities and Memories in Mediterranean Region: The Agence Prost from Paris to İstanbul (1910s-1950s)
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Reversing the French gaze: four Vietnamese Francophone women writers from 1910s to 2000s—Marguerite Triaire, Trinh Thuc Oanh, Ly Thu Ho, and Linda Lê
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 95450 Lift date: 2018-11-10T18:39:22Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination Of Crime, Modernity And The New Woman In Early French And American Crime Films In The Us During The 1910s
<p>This dissertation explores the representations of the female detective figure and the female criminal in early American and French crime films within the context of social and technological modernity related to the increase of women working outside the home, the advent of communicative …
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The evolving role of youths in militant Nationalist activity in Ireland, 1909-21
… the Nationalist movement, especially during the 1910s and early 1920s, is an important theme that has to date been afforded little attention. This lacuna in Irish historiography is surprising given the substantial number of surviving accounts by minors involved in well–known militant …
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Manufacturing muscle : the hot rod industry and the American fascination with speed, 1915-1984
… for hot rodders - from its infancy in the 1910s through the mid 1980s. The thesis begins by examining the role of technological enthusiasm in the early growth of hot rodding, focusing in particular on the ways in which this enthusiasm led a handful of individuals to begin to manufacture …
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"No Idle Sightseers": the Ulster Women's Unionist Council and Ulster Unionism(1911 - 1920)
… Ulster unionist institution, during the 1910s and 1920s—a time of great conflict. Ulster unionists opposed Home Rule for Ireland. World War I erupted in 1914 and was followed by the Anglo-Irish War (1919-1922), the partition of Ireland in 1922, and the Civil War (1922-1923). Within a year …
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Writing to Shake the World: The Historical Avant-Garde, Political Postmodernism and the Post-Avant-Garde
… (1) the New York historical avant-garde of the 1910s, (2) the neo-avant-garde interventions of 1960s Pop Art, and (3) ""alternative"" music and youth subculture scenes in the 1990s. What I am offering first and foremost is way of reading John Reed and the early(post)modernist disruptions of the …
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The evolution of the concept of cultivation in modern Japan: The idea of cultivation in the 1930s
… has shaped higher education in Japan from the 1910s until the present. Kyoyo (cultivation) is a common Japanese word to indicate characteristics of educated persons, but its meaning is different from education or school education in the strict sense of the word. Kyoyo (cultivation) has much to …
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“All the Evil Music Has:” Musical Representations of the Vamp in Interwar American Popular Media
… in film and American popular music of the 1910s and ‘20s. Abbreviated from vampire, “vamp” came to be used as a term for sexually voracious and predatory women in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. Following the unprecedented success of the 1915 film <em>A Fool There Was</em>, vamps then …
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Making America Operatic: Six Composers' Attempts at an American Opera, 1910-1918
… by American composers and librettists from the 1910s, the earliest decade in which this nation supported the widespread and frequent production of operas by native artists. Example works by Charles Wakefield Cadman, Frederick Converse, Henry Hadley, Victor Herbert, Mary Carr Moore, and Arthur …
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Direct action and industrial unionism: the Sindicato General Obrero de la Industria Fabril: a study of an anarcho-syndicalist union in urban Cuba, 1917-1925
… industry in Cuba's capital during the 1910s facilitated in the creation, and then in the expansion, of a union to support the growing factory workforce. This thesis traces the lifespan of the Sindicato General Obrero de la Industria Fabril (Manufacturing Union Workers' General Union - …
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Native American Chic: The Marketing Of Native Americans In New York Between The World Wars
… fashion and interior design. </p> <p>In the late 1910s, Crawford, a research editor for Women's Wear and honorary research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, mounted a campaign encouraging Euro-American designers to seek inspiration in museum collections, particularly Native …
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