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Showing 1 to 20 of 502 for “"1920s"”.
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Negotiating Modernity: Cultural Reform in 1920s Hungary
"Because other central and eastern European societies have exhibited similar programs and similar debates between ""Westernizers"" and ""nativists,"" my dissertation provides an important comparative perspective. Viewing central and eastern European history as a process of negotiating the …
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Representations of Iran in British Documentary, 1920s – 2006
… of Iran in British documentaries made between 1920s and 2006. It aims to: a)investigate in British documentary the represented position of Iran in the world and in comparison to Britain, as well as how the positioning has evolved along historical change inside Iran, in the outside world, and in …
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The Professionalization of Canadian Correctional Officers: 1920s – 1960s
… prison guard training began to increase in the 1920s in Canada, but it was not until the 1930s that we begin to see efforts to try to gather information to produce training programs. These efforts came at a time when prison conditions were at an all-time low across the country resulting in …
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British Quaker women and peace, 1880s to 1920s
This thesis explores the lives of four British Quaker women—Isabella Ford, Isabel Fry, Margery Fry, and Ruth Fry—focusing on the way they engaged in peace issues in the early twentieth century. In order to examine the complexity and diversity of their experiences, this thesis investigates the …
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Creating an imperial city: Kansas City in the 1920s
… is a community study of Kansas City in the 1920s as a city working to assume a prominent place within the emerging American market empire. It begins by exploring the role that men and women played in altering the worldview of the city, followed by an analysis of the way in which the …
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Work, class and gender in Canadian fiction, 1890s-1920s
… 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 these novels …
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The Biological Age in British Agricultural Virology, 1920s-1960s
… (PVRS), established in Cambridge in the mid-1920s. It tracks the development of this institution, exemplary of state-sponsored agricultural scientific research in the mid-20th century, up to its integration into the John Innes Institute in the late 1960s. Through this institutional prism, the …
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Architectures of the everyday in 1920s and 1930s Russia
This dissertation is an architectural history of Russian everyday life, or byt, in the first two decades after the October Revolution. In this period, the investigation and reform of byt was a project that vastly crossed the limits of the architectural profession. I survey ways in which the …
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Uncommon Knowledge: A History of Queer New Mexico, 1920s-1980s
… cultures, and political organizations in the 1920s through the 1980s. Using New Mexico as case study, I provide an alternative narrative to previous scholarship that focuses either exclusively on gay urban or gay rural lives and instead present an example of a migratory queer network where …
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Jazz and the cultural transformation of America in the 1920s
… Jazz greatly increased in popularity during the 1920s. No longer a regional music dominated by African Americans, jazz in the 1920s helped define a generation torn between the Victorian society of nineteenth century America and the culture of modernity that was quickly defining the early …
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Commodifying and Consuming Endocrine Drugs in Republican China (1920s–1940s)
Since the introduction of hormone pharmaceuticals into China during the early twentieth century, these substances became objects of fascination for a growing urban elite class. Drawing from newspapers, medical journals, and advertisements, this article examines the unique trajectories of hormone …
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Greater Jacksonville's Response to the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s
… of the boom on greater Jacksonville during the 1920s. During the years immediately following World War I, Jacksonville's leaders concentrated on expansion of industry and commerce to promote their city's growth, rather than building tourism. Jacksonville had not been a major winter resort since …
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Savage reds: US settler colonialism, anarchist scares, and anticommunism, 1840s-1920s
"This dissertation is a study of the development of US domestic political repression, labor control, counterinsurgency, and anticommunism. ""The only good Indian is a dead Indian"" went General Sheridan's genocidal axiom. By the 1880s, US politicians, industrialists, and their media organs were …
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Black feminist aesthetics and cosmopolitanism, 1920s-present: Narratives of postcolonial Bildungsroman
Black American cosmopolitan artists, writers, and performers enjoy a strong, yet underappreciated, history dating back to the nineteenth century. This case study seeks to shed light on the recent history of twentieth-century black feminist narratives of artists and performers, living out a …
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The “Fatty” Arbuckle Scandal, Will Hays, and Negotiated Morality in 1920s America
<p>In the autumn of 1921, silent film comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was arrested for the rape and murder of a model and actress named Virginia Rappé. The ensuing scandal created a firestorm of controversy not just around Arbuckle but the entire motion picture industry. Religious and moral …
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Obscene Publications and ‘Immoral’ Modernities in Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s–1930s
This dissertation examines the development and the regulation of Chinese ‘obscene’ prints in Republican Shanghai and colonial Singapore, two important Chinese publishing hubs in the early twentieth century. Using archives in London, Singapore and Shanghai, it first analyses the intellectual debates …
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Technologies of gender: Soviet literature and film in the 1920s and 1930s
… of Gender: Soviet Literature and Film in the 1920s and 1930s,” examines the vital role technology and machines – both actual and imagined – play in defining the ‘new Soviet man’ and ‘new Soviet woman’ in early Soviet culture. As I argue in my dissertation, the period of the 1920s and 1930s …
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The Role of Medicinal Plants in New Zealand's Settler Medical Culture, 1850s-1920s
Throughout history, medicinal plants have been important components of medical practices in almost all cultures of the world. This thesis focuses specifically on the changing uses and understandings of medicinal plants in New Zealand‘s settler medical culture from 1850 to 1920. Using a wide range …
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