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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"British world"”.
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BRITISH WORLD WAR TWO FILMS 1945-65: CATHARSIS OR NATIONAL REGENERATION?
Major differences in British Second World War films produced in wartime 1939-45 (idealising the 'People's War') and post-war versions produced between 1945-65 (promoting the return of elite masculinity) suggest a degree of cultural re-conditioning concerning the memory of war, by Britain's …
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Museums, Connections, and Imagination in the Making of a British World, 1870-1945
… colonialism in what historians label the ‘British world.’ This dissertation makes two arguments. Firstly that settler colonialism, as violent as it was and remains, is also an intellectual process that requires the aesthetic and cognitive appropriation of space and peoples. Secondly, that …
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National Fitness or Failure? Heredity, Vice and Racial Decline in New Zealand Psychiatry: A Case Study of the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1868-99
… and a feared decline in the ‘fitness’ of the ‘British’ race in New Zealand and in the wider British World, and also that the mentally ill in nineteenth-century New Zealand were often depicted as living consequences of a family history of indulgence in various forms of vice, or of the …
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Investigating the Junior-to-Senior Transition in Sport: Interventions to Support the Transitional Process
… junior-to-senior transition in the context of British track-and-field. The central purpose of this thesis was to (a) explore the junior-to-senior transition in sport and (b) design, implement, and evaluate an athlete-based intervention designed to support the process, within a UK context. To …