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The British historical film, 1930-1990.
… the idea of genre as mythic-ritual. Beginning in 1930, after which date a coherent genre begins to emerge, I apply the approach expounded in chapters one and two to a wide range of primary sources for British cinema, including <i>Kine Weekly, Sight and Sound</i>, the memoir, the pressbook, and a …
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Growing Old in Oxford 1930-1960
… how old people in Oxford were cared for between 1930 and 1960, before and after the inception of the welfare state. Its purpose is to analyse how some families and professionals responded to the transition from the poor law to the welfare state, and examine any changes in this process. Admission …
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Heidegger's science of being, 1919-1930
Heidegger calls his philosophy a “science of being” (BPP 11). The intersecting phenomenological, ontological, hermeneutical, existential, and anthropological themes of Being and Time, as well as Heidegger’s many influences, make the task of determining the subject matter and method of this science …
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Poetry in New Zealand 1850-1930
… everyone agrees, came to birth around 1920, or 1930, or 1940; in fact, round about when those who are now the grand old men of New Zealand letters were boys. No doubt future generations will see it as beginning in 1950, or 1960, or 1970. In any case, no attempt will be made in this work to upset …
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The Chicago Naturalistic Novel: 1930-1966
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6808072.pdf: 10356351 bytes, checksum: 0716e52c0a4536bf8de84c88d1306a76 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Agricultural trades unionism in Shropshire 1900-1930
This thesis traces the growth and distribution of agricultural trades unionism in Shropshire and evaluates and explains developments using four key variables. After a discussion of the sources used and a description of union development involving the National Union of Agricultural Workers (NUAW) …
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The Free Church army chaplain 1830-1930.
The study traces the efforts of English Nonconformists to provide chaplains for their adherents in the British Army. Unrecognised by the War Office, and opposed by the Church of England, the Wesleyan Methodists persisted in providing an unpaid civilian ministry until, by stages, they secured …
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Military fictions: Stories about soldiers, 1914-1930
Much criticism of the fiction of the Great War has relied on certain assumptions: that Britain's involvement in the War was futile, and that good writing about it must necessarily be ironic; that only fighting soldiers knew War's truth, while civilians were kept ignorant by censorship and …
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The last Levantine City : Beirut, 1830-1930
… urban transformation of Beirut between 1830 and 1930. Evolving from a local market city importing European goods and exporting local produce into a transit city for the re-export of European commodities, Beirut developed from a quadrilateral of thick crusader walls enclosing a labyrinth of narrow …
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Espaço privado moderno e relações sociais: 1930 – 1949
Esta Tese trata da interação mútua entre a construção do espaço moderno e as relações sociais de gênero na arquitetura residencial modernista produzida nas décadas de 30 e 40 do século XX na cidade de Salvador, Bahia. Seu objetivo principal é compreender, através de uma pesquisa em fontes primárias …
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Ástæður og áhrif framræslu í Mýrasýslu 1930-1990
… á 20. öld? Hverju skilaði framræsla í Mýrasýslu 1930-1990, t.d. hvað varðar aukinn heyfeng, stærri bústofn eða mannfjölda? Til að leita svara við spurningunum er notast við gögn úr ýmsum áttum sem gefa heildstætt yfirlit yfir tímabilið 1930-1990. Sagnfræðileg yfirlitsrit eru notuð auk annarra …
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The Craft of Fiction: Teaching Technique, 1850-1930
<p>The Craft of Fiction, 1850-1930</p><p>This dissertation considers two models of authorship active in the British nineteenth century: one that viewed the writing of fiction as the province of genius unconnected with the world of work, and another that saw it as a practice requiring a set of …
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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 (limited) …
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Construction of national identity: British art 1930-1990
… have been chosen for particular consideration: 1930-1939; the mid-40s to mid-50s; and the 1980s. In each of the three periods attention will be focussed on a range or art practices, theories, and sites of production and distribution. This will involve, in some places 'case studies' of books, …
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