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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"American Press"”.
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The Anglo-American press and the sensationalization of the Arctic 1855-1910
Presents systematic investigation of role of press in Arctic exploration, finding that newspapers and their proprietors were much more influential in increasing knowledge about and interest in the far north than traditionally acknowledged. Focuses particularly on role of James Gordon Bennett, …
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Revolutionary Nationalism, Imperialism and Anti-Slavery in the Trans-National Irish-American Press, 1840-1865
… dissertation is a synoptic history of the Irish-American press in the antebellum and Civil War era, the role of Irish-American newspaper editors in fostering Irish-American political identity, and Irish-American reporting on European imperialism and revolutionary nationalism. This thesis focuses …
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“Living Under Different Skies”: Misrepresenting Egyptian Education during the British Occupation in the North American Press
… saw the rise of colonial educational reforms, American missionary projects, and foreign-subsidized schools. Consequently, newspapers in North America reported extensively on these colonial educational excursions. In the view of correspondents, the so-called “enlightenment” of Egyptians was …
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The Rwandan Genocide and Western Media: French, British, and American Press Coverage of the Genocide between April and July of 1994
The Rwandan Genocide occurred between April and July of 1994. Within those four months, approximately a million Tutsi were brutally murdered by the Hutu in an effort to cleanse the country of a Tutsi presence. The genocide was the culmination of decades of unrest between the two groups created from …
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Tracing Hitler, the rise of Nazism and the final solution : observations from the Cape Times, 1933-1945
… broken by Andrew Sharf and his study of British press reaction to Nazi atrocities committed against Jews, Deborah Lipstadt and her book analyzing American press coverage of the same, and Sharon Friedman's thesis on the Afrikaner press' treatment of Nazi Germany and the Jews. In acknowledging …
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Mississippi Mau Mau : Medgar Evers and the black freedom struggle, 1952-1963
… States by concentrating on the ways in which American civil rights activists absorbed and utilized knowledge from anti-colonial movements. This dissertation focuses on the career of NAACP Field Secretary Medgar Evers and connects the growth and development of his approach to fighting white …
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Rev. Canon James Owen Hannay, X.A. D. Litt. 'George A. Birmingham* An Irishman looks at his world
… pen, published in the Irish, English, and American press, are recorded in the catalogue of his papers in Trinity College, Dublin, and this is by no means complete, Hannay was also well known as a lecturer and public speaker. The aim of this study is to examine historically Hannay's …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… 4 argues that Frank J. Webb and the African American press resisted early racialized formations of addiction by depicting drunkenness and white supremacy as conjoined pathologies. The ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. underscores the importance of not just engaging these early histories to …
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Adoption Wars: American Missionaries and International Adoption in Twentieth-Century South Korea
… to be the progeny of Korean prostitutes and American servicemen, who were subjected to intense discrimination or complete abandonment from their Korean families. By 1960, keen to redeem the image of U.S. intervention into Asia, American missionaries and non-professional humanitarian agencies …
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The media in transition: The rise of an "independent" press in Post-Invasion Iraq and the American role in shaping the Iraqi press 2003 - 2005
This thesis covers the situation of the Iraqi press landscape after the toppling of Saddam’s regime on the 9th of April 2003. In particular, it attempts to disclose American interventions in the work of the Iraqi press in the period 2003-2006. It examines three main aspects of these interventions, …
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A play : Between me and you
… the country received a better play in the american press - hugh maclennan> 6: a move or series of moves calculated to arouse friendly feelings - usually used with make<made a big play for the girl - will herman> 7 a: the stage representation of an action or story b: a dramatic composition : …
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Breaking Down the Fear' -- John H. Mccray, Accommodationism and theFraming of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948
… the civil rights struggle to emphasize African American agency and self-assertion during a time when strategies of accommodation and negotiation remained dominant in the Deep South. In the pages of their newspaper, McCray and his colleagues redefined the meaning of citizenship for black …