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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Cold War America"”.
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Insiders and outsiders : nuclear arms control experts in Cold War America
… States during the middle and later years of the Cold War, the age of thermonuclear ballistic missiles. Arms control experts were, in many interesting ways, both insiders and outsiders to the American "nuclear state." The dissertation begins by exploring the formation of strategic arms control in …
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Social paranoia and absurdist fiction in Cold War America and Soviet Russia: a comparative study
… paranoia as depicted in the Absurdist fiction of Cold War America and Soviet Russia. The central hypothesis informing this research maintains that, despite the ideology of moral and cultural “Otherness” constructed and reinforced by both nations throughout much of twentieth century, the US and the …
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Meditations in an emergency : social scientists and the problem of conflict in Cold War America
… this concept and its transformations in postwar American social science, but in this dissertation I focus on one in particular: how certain social scientists sought to frame conflict as a problem of knowledge, by stretching the concept to fit the global proportions of the bipolar world that …
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City, suburban and pastoral spaces and the formation of identity in Cold War America (1945-1965)
… thesis focuses on the culture and literature of Cold War America and seeks to challenge accepted notions and assumptions about this era and its culture, pointing ultimately to the possibilities for transgression or escape from enforced homogeneity. Using feminist theories, urban theory, and a …
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Mobilizing jazz communities: the dynamic use of jazz as a political resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925-1965
… has played in developing and sustaining African American socio-political movements during the twentieth century, and has a particular emphasis on the New Negro and Civil Rights Movements. Informed by the perspectives of social movement theorists describing culture’s significance in the …
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How Presidential Campaign Decisions on Foreign Policy Positions and Advisers are Made and Can Reshape International Relations: A Bush 2000 Case Study
Since the end of the Cold War, America has generated a dangerous paradox in global affairs. Every president from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump has entered office with little foreign policy experience. Yet these men were instantly granted vast powers, which impacted global events. This thesis …
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Conditional inequalities : American pure and applied mathematics, 1940-1975
… status of mathematical knowledge in mid-century America. It is motivated by questions such as: when did mathematical theories become applicable to a wide range of fields from medicine to the social science? How did this change occur? I ask after the implications of this transformation for the …
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Seeing systems: A rhetorical history of visual media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1939-1969
… films that showed physics and physicists to Cold War America. And in the 1960s, architecture professor Gyorgy Kepes formalized collaborations between artists and scientists in order to create visual art “on a civic scale.” These innovations resist neat classification as strictly “media,” …
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“The Formation of a Personality”: Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and the Politics of Its Hermeneutic Reception
… of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony by six major American orchestras between the work’s American premiere and the end of the twentieth century. With evidence from archival research, I argue that Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony re-enacted the <em>gemeinschaftsbildende Kraft </em>as a …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
<p>Few symbols of 1950s-1960s America remain as central to our contemporary conception of Cold War culture as the iconic ranch-style suburban home. While the house took center stage in the Nixon/Khrushchev kitchen debates as a symbol of modern efficiency and capitalist values, its popularity …
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Community at a distance: Ray Johnson's correspondence art network, 1955-75
… or subtract from that item, and then mail it onward to another participant or back to Johnson. Through this process, Johnson and his collaborators built a network of correspondence artists that challenged conventional modes of artistic production, distribution, and reception. My dissertation …