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European urbanism in Caracas (1870s-1930s)
The research focuses on the transfer of European urban ideas into Caracas, from Antonio Guzman Blanco's urban reforms in the 1870s to the proposal of the 1939 Plan Monumental de Caracas, devised under the guidance of the French urbanist Maurice Rotival. Considering that the emergence of urbanism …
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National History and the Novel in 1930s Britain
… work has illuminated the distinctiveness of 1930s Britain, "National History and the Novel in 1930s Britain" argues that rather than seeking distinction, writers of the period were more concerned with the task of contextualizing their decade and their own position within a national …
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Transmitting Whiteness: Librarians, Children, and Race, 1900-1930s
… Orleans Public Library’s experience from 1900 - 1930s, and relies heavily on the library’s Annual Reports. However, contemporary professional articles from the Library Journal place the Annual Reports within a broader picture of regional and national public librarianship during the early 1900s …
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Female Doctors and Educator in Sichuan 1900-1930s
… female doctors in Sichuan, China, from 1900 to 1930s. This thesis recovers the history of initiating gendered healthcare and medical education for local women by using archival sources, missionary reports and books, and personal memoirs. In addition, this thesis analyzes the challenges and …
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Out of sight: surrealism and photography in 1930s Japan
… relations between Surrealism, photography and 1930s Japan, asking how can its historical condition be altered and written into the existing field of knowledge. Emerging and developing at a time of political oppression and military campaigning that led Japan into the Pacific War in 1941, …
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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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Broken Ground: Plowing and America's Cultural Landscape in the 1930s
… of images related to plowing from the 1930s and their connection to humanity's relationship with the land. Environmental history, agricultural history, and the cultural geography of the plains are used in the analysis of these images to suggest the pervasiveness of the plow as a …
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Pauli Murray in the 1930s: portraits and post-soul eccentricity
… Murray’s performances in her portraits from the 1930s, which display her racial, gender, and sex reinvention. I illuminate these portraits as markers of Post-Soul Eccentricity to place Murray in a tradition in which her quare performance can be understood and suggest that her offbeat performances …
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Culture and crisis: Radical writers and writing in the 1930s
… study of American culture and politics in the 1930s examines the shifting definitions and relations of culture amidst the economic and social crisis of the Depression era. In the decade's popular fiction, advertising, travel writing, political discourses, and literature, the desire to represent …
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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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Uses and Misuses of Chemicals in the British Home, 1930s – 1980s
Between the 1930s and 1980s, British home life was transformed by the adoption of labour-saving technologies, among which were chemicals. The voluntary, domestic use of man-made, branded and unbranded chemicals and products (excluding drugs or medicines) is a topic that has been neglected, making …
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Film and Fado in Portugal from the 1930s to the 1950s
… of fado in the Portuguese cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, concentrating primarily on the popular comedies, dramas and rural-folkloric films. These decades witnessed the establishment of the Estado Novo (New State) (1932-1974) government of António Salazar, the promotion of fado as the …
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Labor's New Deal for Journalism---the Newspaper Guild in the 1930s
… The experience in the news industry in the 1930s displayed the collective shortcomings and the aspirations of democratic journalism up to that point in time, and it set in motion a reconstruction of a model of American journalism that has dominated until the present day tumult over the …
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The Visual Syntax of a Postcolony: Photographs in Zambia, 1930s – 1980s
… on both visual and textual materials from the 1930s to the 1980s, collected from the National Archives of Zambia as well as several private collections, including that of the Fine Art Studios in Lusaka, this dissertation attempts to understand the different ways in which critical attention to …
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