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Showing 1 to 20 of 265 for “"Early 20th Century"”.
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Structural performance of early 20th century masonry high rise buildings
Early generation high rise buildings built between 1890 and World War 11 represent a technical transition between traditional load bearing masonry construction and modern curtain wall systems, and are typically referred to as 'transitional masonry buildings'. These structures comprise a large …
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Legacies of Early 20th Century Logging in Southern Appalachian Streams
I examined streams in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock wilderness to determine if streams responded to logging following 75 y of recovery. Joyce Kilmer was never logged and the Slickrock wilderness was logged from 1917 until 1922. Wood was common in unlogged streams and averaged 417 m³ of wood/ha of …
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Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and feminism : understanding an early 20th century woman's play
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Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and feminism : understanding an early 20th century woman's play
Typescript (photocopy).
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Sea ice off the coasts of Iceland in the early 20th Century
This thesis compares different sources of information about sea ice off the coasts of Iceland and presents new indices of sea ice severity for the years 1901-1925. The sea around Iceland is divided into eighteen Zones, each of which is given an icecode, referring to the amount of sea ice that was …
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"Against My Destiny": Reading an Italian Immigrant's Memoir in the Early 20th-century South
<p>Giuseppe Emilio Rocconi's life narrative, The Story of My Life (1958), represents the hardships of immigration and assimilation through meditations on home, family, and religion. I read his narrative in contrast with white elite narratives that express nostalgia for sharecropping and the …
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An assessment of the health status of late 19th and early 20th century Khoesan
… These circumstances persisted until the early 20th century, during which an astonishing number of Khoesan skeletons were transported from South Africa to various locations in Europe, as at the time, different institutions competed to obtain these valuable remains. Due to the above …
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Sounding Chinese: Tracing the Voice of Early 20th Century to Present day Transnational Chinese
… in phrase books written in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for migrants to North America. Of great interest is not only the fact that English phrases were translated into languages spoken in the southern parts of China (for example Toisanese and Cantonese) but that English words and …
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Region, Nation and Gastronomy: Regionalism in Gastronomic Texts of the Early 20th Century (1900-1939)
… known “French cuisine.” While 19<sup>th</sup>-century <em>haute cuisine</em> ignored regional differences, gastronomes of the early 20<sup>th</sup>-century, such as Curnonsky, Marcel Rouff, Austin de Croze, and Pampille, defined a new French culinary identity based on appropriating and …
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Steering Taste: Ernest Marsh, a study of private collecting in England in the early 20th Century
The primary aim of this thesis is to focus attention on the bourgeois, 'un-named' collector. The driving force behind most museum and art gallery collections of the Victorian and Edwardian period. British museum and art gallery records of gifted collections, bequests and loans usually note their …
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Perilous pop: ragtime, jazz and progressive social thought in the early 20th Century Press, 1900-1930.
This dissertation is a discursive history of the early twentieth century music controversy as it appeared in the popular press and as it articulated the assumptions and contradictions of progressive social thought. Through close textual analysis, the author illustrates the ways in which musical …
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Envisioning Women Writers: Female Authorship and the Cultures of Publishing and Translation in Early 20th Century Japan
… commercialized publishing industry and media in early 20th-century Japan. While Japan has a rich history of women's writing from the 10th century onwards, it was in the 1910s that the journalistic category of "women's literature" (joryû bungaku) emerged within the dominant literary mode of …
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Institutes for innovation : the emergence of academic-industrial cooperation and narratives of progress in the early 20th century
Early 20th century America is a critical context for understanding industrial innovation. Departing from a focus on innovation itself as manifested through the creation of new products and consumer opportunities, this project focuses instead on an important infrastructure for innovation - …
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Toying with Americanization: The Impact of Corporate Paternalism on Immigrant Children in Early 20th Century Colorado Coal Mining Communities
<p>During the early 20<sup>th</sup> century coal miners' lives in Southern Colorado were fraught with violence and hardships. Many immigrant men brought their families to remote areas to live in company towns and work in coal mines. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attempted to assimilate …
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Assessment of early 20th Century climate model simulations of Antarctic Sea ice using historical commercial humpback whale catch data
… as well as their exploitation in the last century. The changing of our climate is largely better understood from the introduction of satellites in the late 20th century when data could be collected at higher spatial and temporal levels. Prior to this, data were scarce, especially for remote …
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A REANALYSIS OF BOAS’S HEBREW IMMIGRANT DATA: COMPARISONS OF FOREIGN-BORN AND US-BORN CHILDREN LIVING IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
This research paper uses data observed on Hebrew immigrant populations collected by the anthropologist Franz Boas and coworkers between 1909 and 1910. Boas was asked by the United States Immigration Commission to write a report that examined how the influx of European immigrants into the United …
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Source parameters of the major historical earthquakes in the Tien-Shan region from the late 19th to the early 20th century
… However, at the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century, this region was struck by a remarkable series of large magnitude (M>7) earthquakes, two of them reached magnitude 8. Those large earthquakes occurred prior to the installation of the global digital seismic network and therefore were …
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A REANALYSIS OF BOAS’S HEBREW IMMIGRANT DATA: COMPARISONS OF FOREIGN-BORN AND US-BORN CHILDREN LIVING IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
This research paper uses data observed on Hebrew immigrant populations collected by the anthropologist Franz Boas and coworkers between 1909 and 1910. Boas was asked by the United States Immigration Commission to write a report that examined how the influx of European immigrants into the United …
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