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Showing 1 to 20 of 417 for “"1931-"”.
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The history of Sutter's Fort, 1839-1931
<p>Of all the stories and articles written about Captain J.A. Sutter in recent years, not one of them has adequately covered the history of his famous Fort. To the layman the fort itself may seem unimportant, but when we stop to consider that it was an outpost of civilization penetrating the …
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Wyndham Lewis and his readers: 1911-1931
… in 1911 through to the publication of Hitler in 1931, and is based on a new checklist of criticism and reviews. The study shows that Lewis monitored his reputation with great care, and that many of his decisions with regard to the deployment and revision of his texts can be seen as conditioned by …
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Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889-1931)
… access to education in Thailand from 1889 to 1931 -- the early Modernization Period in Thailand -- a critical time of advancement and modernization in the nation. Although Thailand had traditionally been a Buddhist nation-state, Protestant missionaries during this era arrived to the country to …
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The Technological Imaginary of Imperial Japan, 1931-1945
… in the discourse of technology in wartime Japan (1931-1945), a period usually viewed as anti-modern and anachronistic. I analyze how technology meant more than advanced machinery and infrastructure but included a subjective, ethical, and visionary element as well. For many elites, technology …
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Creating a sound world for Dracula (Brorwning, 1931).
Creating a Sound World for Dracula (Browning, 1931) The first use of recorded sound in a feature film was in Don Juan (Crosland 1926). From 1933 onwards, rich film scoring and Foley effects were common in many films. In this context, Dracula (Browning 1931)1 belongs to the transitional period …
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The making of 'Labour's working class', 1931-1951.
The 1945 General Election was the first time that a majority of working-class electors supported the Labour Party in Britain. This dissertation seeks to account for this breakthrough achievement without assuming such support was ‘natural’. Using archived material from Mass-Observation, it places …
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Education and Multi-cultural cohesion in Belize, 1931 - 1981
… from the twin catalysts for social change of the 1931 hurricane and economic depression until independence in 1981. This conflict has revealed a contradictory web of power structures and their influence, through the medium of schools, on multi-cultural development. The fundamental argument is that …
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The rules of perception : American color science, 1831-1931
Although vision was seldom studied in Antebellum America, color and color perception became a critical field of scientific inquiry in the United States during the Gilded Age and progressive era. Through a historical investigation of color science in the United States in the late nineteenth and …
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Causas y características del control de cambios: Argentina, 1931-1958
La primera etapa de control de cambios en Argentina se extendió desde comienzos de la década del 30 del siglo XX hasta finales de la década del 50. Este trabajo se propone describir las características del control durante estos años y dilucidar cuáles fueron las causas que llevaron a su …
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Farm productivity in the Southern Tablelands - Monaro Region, 1931-85
Grave doubts have now arisen about the continuance of the high levels of pastoral productivity achieved in the Southern Tablelands - Monaro Region and elsewhere in southern Australia since World War II. Soil acidification will soon be severely affecting much of the large areas of improved pastures …
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Farm productivity in the Southern Tablelands - Monaro Region, 1931-85
Grave doubts have now arisen about the continuance of the high levels of pastoral productivity achieved in the Southern Tablelands - Monaro Region and elsewhere in southern Australia since World War II. Soil acidification will soon be severely affecting much of the large areas of improved pastures …
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Masculinidad Como Espectaculo: Modernidad Y Consumismo en Espana (1898--1931)
Finally, Chapter Three analyzes the explosion of texts around the figure of the Don Juan, another archetypical representative of Spanish masculinity. I study Unamuno's play Nada menos que todo un hombre and Perez de Ayala's novel Tigre Juan as critiques Don Juan as symbol of Spanish virility. In …
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Myth and respectability in Swedish and Dutch fascism, 1931-40
The focus of this thesis is on the process of myth-making (mythopoeia) in the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB) and the Swedish National Socialist Workers’ Party (NSAP), using a cultural pragmatic approach to analyse the practicalities and implementation of mythopoeia comparatively. A variety …
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List eða léttmeti? Upphaf óperu- og óperettuflutnings á Íslandi 1931-1949
… á Íslandi og miðast við tímabilið 1931–1949. Áhersla er lögð á að greina hvaða skilyrði og hvatar leiddu til þess að þessi tegund tónlistar- og leiklistarstarfsemi hófst hér á landi og síðan hvernig hún þróaðist. Skoðað er hvernig fyrstu óperu- og óperettusýningunum var tekið og …
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