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Afro-Canadian activism in the 1960s
… activism became increasingly militant in the 1960s. The rise in militancy in the Afro-American leadership of the 1960s was one factor contributing to the new era of black politics in Canada. Increased immigration from the West Indies also encouraged the proliferation of Afro-Canadian …
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The Professionalization of Canadian Correctional Officers: 1920s – 1960s
Prison guards play a key role in prisons as they are situated directly between prisoners and prison administration. This project examines the early history of the professionalization of Canadian prison guards. It looks at early discussions amongst prison and government officials, efforts that were …
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The plight of women in Egyptian cinema (1940s 1960s)
… that the period between the 1940s and the 1960s was 'the golden age' of Egyptian cinema -a period of growth, innovation and popularity. The aim of this research is to focus on the plight of Egyptian women in selected long feature films of this period, and how this -was realistically …
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1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn
… as an explicit literary subject in several key 1960s novels: John Fowles's The Magus (1965), V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men (1967), and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). In these three novels, Fowles, Naipaul and Rhys critique British imperialism by engaging and reinventing the travel …
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After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s
… the social and artistic revolutions of the 1960s. Organized as a series of case studies—on exhibitions, abstract painting and sculpture, photography, and printmaking—it examines how and why the decade’s struggles for racial justice prompted African American and Puerto Rican artists to engage …
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The Biological Age in British Agricultural Virology, 1920s-1960s
… into the John Innes Institute in the late 1960s. Through this institutional prism, the thesis examines the integration of agricultural scientific knowledge, expertise, and practices into virus research. It demonstrates that agricultural interest initially created a demand for knowledge …
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Youth Culture and the Politics of Youth in 1960s Cuba
… of social and material change, young people in 1960s Cuba were active agents in that change, and played a role in defining what the Revolution was and could become. The model built here to understand young people in 1960s Cuba is based on identity theory, contending that youth identity was built …
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Lei Feng: China's Evolving Cultural Icon, 1960s to the Present
In 1962, very few people within the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) had ever heard of Lei Feng, a young soldier who died in a tragic accident while driving a truck for the People's Liberation Army. The following year, his name was known throughout China as one of the finest young soldiers that the …
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
This dissertation examines the conceptual emergence of posthumanism and probes the viability of posthumanist redefinitions of the human (self). Motivated by a sense of the simultaneous necessity and danger of the desire to revise our notion of the human in light of the contemporary ecological …
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Presidential, Post-Imperial and Personal: Envoy Diplomacy in Japan, 1960s-1980s
This dissertation is a case-study-led analysis of the role of special envoys in Japanese postwar diplomacy based on multiarchival research in Japan, the UK, the US, and South Korea. It examines how and why, in the early postwar period, Japanese prime ministers often relied on trusted individuals …
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Transnational Connections of the Mexican Left with the Chicano Movement, 1960s-1970s
… Chicana/o and Mexican activists through the 1960s and 1970s in the midst of the Mexican Dirty War, the Chicana/o Movement, and Third World Solidarity movements. These claims of political solidarity between these two groups rested on ideas of a shared sense of cultural, historical, ethnic, and …
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The Impact of American Movies on Egyptian Cinema in 1950s and 1960s
The 1952 military coup in Egypt constituted the beginning of a new era in Egypts history and pushed forward substantial societal, economic and political changes. These changes represent the fruits of the revolutionary regime's pro-modernization ideology. In their search for modernity, the Egyptian …
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Images of Americans: The United States in Canadian newspapers during the 1960s
… newspaper images of Americans during the 1960s. The content of the study is derived from twenty newspapers drawn from four Canadian cities---Halifax, Quebec City, Ottawa, and Vancouver---and covers five specific events during the 1960s which each prompted a flurry of commentary on …
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A Comparison of Bluegrass Bands: 2013 Bands Versus the 1940s-1960s Bands
… it with bluegrass found in the 1940s and 1960s. To date, only one similar study has been identified. In 1963, L.M. Smith completed a study entitled, Bluegrass Music and Musicians: An Introductory Study of a Musical Style in Its Cultural Context. In the conclusion to his study, Smith listed …
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Los Grupos and the Art of Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Mexico
<p>Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Mexican artists employed art interventions in commercial galleries, cultural institutions, and city streets to facilitate a renegotiation of the role of art (and the artist) in society. The art intervention, a mode of conceptualism, served to circumvent traditional …
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Public aesthetics and collaborative “post-studio” practices in South America 1960s-1970s
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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American social science and the psychology of development in India, 1940s-1960s
With the arrival of independence in 1947, India’s first generation of post-colonial leaders embraced the concept of ‘development’ as a central objective of nation-building and a raison d'être of the post-colonial state. The opportunity of freedom, it was argued, would pave the way for a dramatic …
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