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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"American influence."”.
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Selling Mexico: Race, Gender, and American Influence in Cancún, 1970-2000
… focuses on the rise of mass middle-class tourism American tourism to Mexico between 1970 and 2000. It closely examines Cancún’s central role in buttressing Mexico to its status as a regional tourism pioneer in the latter half of the twentieth century. More broadly, it also illuminates Mexico’s …
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Lucius R. O'Brien : a Victorian in North America : American influence on his early work, 1873-1880
… was substantially affected by contemporary American art. The Hudson River and luminist paintings provided the stylistic models, and the American vision of the land as a metaphor for new world strength and purity suited his own patriotic concerns. Victorian culture shaped O'Brien's response …
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The rise of the Yugoslavian school of basketball and the dream team that never was.
… century Yugoslavia was poised to challenge the American dominance in international basketball. Unlike many contemporary sources which focus on the Yugoslav Wars, this paper examines the elements that created a successful basketball culture in Yugoslavia as well as the current state of basketball …
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Transformations of Spanish urban landscapes in the American Southwest, 1821-1900
… of historical Spanish urban form in the American Southwest. The study encompasses three phases of increasing Anglo American influence between 1821 and 1900. An analysis of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Socorro and Las Vegas, New Mexico, and Tucson. Arizona will be made in reference to: …
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The Crescent and the Cross: Islamic Influence in Southern Culture
To a large degree, America has adopted African American culture as its own. One may hear and see African American influence in popular music, grammar, fashion and art, but rarely are the sources of these influences divined, in no small part to difficulties inherent in interdisciplinary studies. …
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De Gran Vía al Distrito C: El patrimonio arquitectónico de Telefónica
… Continent, Telefónica was the subsidiary of an American corporation, International Telephone and Telegraph. From an Art history perspective, we explain how this kind of architecture has played two roles. Telephone exchanges are industrial premises whose primary goal is housing the equipment of …
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'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955
… from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a military occupier, the development of German reconstruction and national identity, and memory of this period from the German perspective. Within the memory analyses, firsthand accounts have been analyzed to understand the …
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The Politics of Information: Libraries and Librarianship in the Western Cape, South Africa, 1930s--1960s
… culture to emerge and ensuring a transnational, American influence on South African library development. Local initiatives such as the Cape Libraries Extension Association expanded library services to blacks in the Western Cape in the 1940s. The stress and confusion of the early apartheid era …
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Behind the mirror: rereading theatricality in Luciano Fabro's Allestimento Teatrale
"In the 1967 article ""Art and Objecthood,"" the American art critic Michael Fried faults Minimalist sculpture for its inherent theatricality. Theatricality, as he defines it, results from the form's anthropomorphic scale and sense of hollowness that imply a presence, like that of a human body, …
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To act as a Union : Explaining the development of the EU's collective foreign policy
… increased when EU members have disagreed with American strategies on international security management. The new levels of cooperation have often been ?locked in? by new institutional changes, before another transatlantic dispute has erupted and highlighted ? again ? the need to balance American …
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“Das ist die Broadway Melodie”: American cultural motifs in German music film 1929 – 1945
This thesis analyses American cultural motifs in German music films in the years 1929 – 1945 and focuses on generic trends that bridged the political caesura of the year 1933 as the end of Germany’s first democracy and the beginning of the dictatorial rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nationalist …
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The geopolitical context of NATO's role in the Middle East
… source of instability in world politics; reviews American and international initiatives aimed at addressing this instability; and charts the evolution of NATO in this context. NATO's evolving Middle East role is examined in two phases: that preceding 9/11 and following 1995, and that following …
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Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood
… and filth represented by western comics and American influence, these East German comics were employed as extensions of the regime’s education system, delivering the state’s ideology in its efforts to develop the socialist personality among youth and generate genuine enthusiasm for the …
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The United States Information Agency and Italy during the Johnson Presidency 1963-1969
… (USIA) was the official propaganda agency of the American government. During the period of the Johnson administration, its programme in Italy was the second largest in Western Europe, right after West Germany and immediately before France. This dissertation examines the USIA programme, and places …
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The Development of the Speculative Office in Inter-war England
… (to quote skyscraper historian Carol Wills). The influence, direct and from afar, of American practice on the planning, design, marketing and management of rentable office space in inter-war England was remarkable and justified a transatlantic visit to examine a little-known journal that …
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Fertility and mortality in Puerto Rico
… birth rate. On the other hand, the 50 years of American influence has provided the Island with modern ideas of sanitation, and public health programs that have made possible the reduction in the death rates from the different diseases, and as a result a higher life expectancy. Emphasis has been …
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An Art of Translation: French Prints and American Art (1848-1876)
… of translation for two related trends in American art and visual culture of the antebellum and Civil War eras: the transatlantic expansion of the nineteenth-century French art publishing industry, and the conceptual shift in the period's literature on reproductive prints from the notion of …