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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"1941-1945"”.
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The development of Australian Army jungle warfare doctrine and training, 1941-1945
… trained forces in jungle warfare in the world by 1945. The thesis analyses how this transformation occurred and, in doing so, provides a case study in institutional learning. Attempting to discover how an organisation learns is vital: unless these processes of adaptation are identified, it is …
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By Air Power Alone: America's Strategic Air War in China, 1941-1945
During World War II, the Army Air Force waged three strategic air offensives in and from China against Japan. At first, the Flying Tigers and 10th Air Force constituted the whole of American aid to China, but the effort soon expanded. Supported by Chiang Kai-shek, Claire Chennault and his 14th Air …
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Recipes for Citizenship: Women, Cookbooks, and Citizenship in the Kitchen, 1941-1945
This thesis argues that cookbooks and cooking literature prescribed domesticity, specifically linked to the kitchen, as an obligation for American women in World War II. Building on the work of culinary historians and gender scholars, I argue that the government enlisted women as "kitchen …
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To end a mandate : Sir E.L. Spears and the Anglo-French collision in the Levant, 1941-1945.
… the Anglo-French relationship in the Levant from 1941 to 1945. Wherever possible, original documents are quoted and the dramatis personae are allowed to speak in their own words. Even so, in terms of sheer quantity, only the tip of the documentary iceberg appears. If more of the original …
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A critical analysis of the Royal Air Force air superiority campaign in India, Burma and Malaya, 1941-1945
The conflict in the Far East between 1941 and 1945 is occasionally referred to as the “Forgotten War” in Britain and this description extends to the way the campaign’s air war has been analysed. However, the role of air power in Burma was vitally important to the campaign, in particular the …
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The Invisible Enemy: The Effects of Polio on the American War Effort during World War II, 1941-1945
<p>This thesis looks at the social, political, and military effects of epidemic polio on America's war effort during World War II. The primary sources consulted include newspapers, military medical reports, photographs, memoirs, speeches, and archival collections. It looks at the effects of polio …
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Self, Society and the Second World War. The Negotiation of Self on the Home Front by Diarist and Keighley Schoolmaster Kenneth Preston 1941-1945
… rich content of Preston’s Diary, maintained 1941-1945. In tracing Preston’s home front experience, attention is given to the ways in which the war interacted with the individual’s own self and social conceptions, as well as ways in which subjective experiences and perceptions translated into …
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Getting People to Wish What They Need: How the United States Government Used Public Relations Strategies to Communicate Food Policy During World War II, 1941-1945
This thesis examines how the United States federal government used public relations to improve the diets of everyday Americans during World War II. The government invested in several years of research, led by Margaret Mead, to understand the competing forces that influence dietary habits, choice, …
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The FRPS Baltic States Section British Overt Intelligence from the Baltic States during the Second World War and its effect on British Policy towards the Soviet Union, 1941-1945
The prologue introduces the reader to Anglo-Soviet relations prior to the Second World War; this is followed by part one of the study which highlights the restrictions that were placed on SIS and SOE which effectively excluded them from operations in the Baltic states. Part two of the thesis …
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The preparation and characterization of diastereomeric (+)-quinicinol
… (1), 14,000 of which were investigated between 1941-1945 (2), have been studied in regard to their aniplasmodial effect. Although many have found to have some activity, quinine (I) (see Fig. 1) (obtained from the bark of the Cinchona tree) is still listed among the most effective (1, 3, 4). …
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The Royal Navy and Soviet seapower, 1930-1950 : intelligence, naval cooperation and antagonism
… enforced wartime naval cooperation from June 1941 until the end of the Second World War and, finally, a shift towards Cold War antagonism.It is argued that the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division was able to collect sufficient data to maintain a credible intelligence picture of the Soviet …
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The Dialectics of Cyberspace: Communication Ethics as First Response to Cyber Attacks
… derived from the work of both Kenneth Burke (1941; 1945/1969) and David Gunkel (2007); Burke recognizes that dialectical terms do not reach a synthesis but rather remain in tension (Tell, 2004), and Gunkel announces the poststructuralist recognition that after their collision, neither term is …
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Black and White Proselytism: The Publishing Revolution that Changed Religious Propaganda in Twentieth-Century Japan
… this has demonstrated that 1) the Pacific War (1941–1945) was not a clear-cut watershed that changed Japanese society forever; 2) interrelation and intellectual cross-pollination were fundamental for the development of New Religions and need to be addressed; 3) publications were not dethroned by …
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The Mosaic Negative: Ahrt-Voik and Antisemitism in Ezra Pound's Work and Thought
… with the poet’s Rome Radio broadcasts from 1941-1945, the extent of Pound’s commitment to naming the Jews as his cultural enemies across different propagandistic projects emerges. In my third chapter I explore the interplay between the ambiguous emergence of American identity and Pound’s …
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The Many Afterlives of the Second World War in the Indian Northeast
… ‘China-Burma-India’ (CBI) theatre of war between 1941-1945. Unsurprisingly, the wartime is survived by an extensive afterlife in the form of personal, familial and collective memory, a vibrant vernacular material culture that is at once local and transnational, and interesting efforts at the …
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