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Showing 1 to 20 of 179 for “"History, European."”.
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United States-Yugoslav relations during the early Cold War, 1945-1957.
United States-Yugoslav relations during the early Cold War, 1945-1957.
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The Conservative Party in the age of universal suffrage: Popular conservatism, 1918-1929.
The Conservative Party in the age of universal suffrage: Popular conservatism, 1918-1929.
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The Continual Trauma of Survivorship: the Historical Complexities of Time Constructs in Relation to Holocaust Diaries, Memoirs, and Testimonies
This research investigates what it means to be a survivor of genocide and how scholars engage with survivorship. More specifically, this case study reveals that the term ‘post-Holocaust’ does not provide an accurate depiction of what it means to have survived the Holocaust. It is by using an …
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La marine de guerre française au temps des Colbert : une étude du développement de la puissance navale du Roi-Soleil entre 1661 et 1683.
Cette thèse de maîtrise offre un nouveau regard sur l'histoire de la marine de guerre du Roi-Soleil, au moment où celle-ci était sous l'influence d'un célèbre homme d'État français du nom de Jean-Baptiste Colbert--c'est-à-dire de 1661 à 1683--lui-même secondé par son fils--de 1672 à 1683--le trop …
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Artistic Patronage at the Court of Queen Charlotte
… art historians. My dissertation supplies the history of one such circle: the alternative center for female creativity provided by Charlotte and the English court."
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Power, Gender, and Representation in the Italian Renaissance Court: The Cultural Patronage of Caterina Sforza (1463--1509)
The dissertation discusses the extant artifacts, contemporary documents, including biographies, chronicles, letters, and official records, and period treatises to provide the social and political context necessary to understand Caterina Sforza's cultural patronage. The analysis demonstrates that …
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Visual Constructions of Corporate Identity for the University of Paris, 1200--1500
Visual images representing the medieval University of Paris and its sub-groups (i.e., colleges, faculties, and 'nations') survive in a range of media, including painted miniatures, seals, and sculpture. The majority of these works have not been previously studied from an art historical perspective …
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Liminal Identity: The Swedish -Speaking Finnish Theatre Lilla Teatern During the Years of 1967--1972
… the Swedish-speaking Finnish polity and the European corpus through its linguistic connection to Sweden.
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Ars Gallica: The Societe Nationale De Musique and Its Role in French Musical Life, 1871-1891
It would be impossible to assess the importance of the Societe nationale without an examination of the intellectual and artistic climate in which it existed. One chapter of this study explores the origins and effects of the post-war reform movement of which the Societe was one manifestation, and …
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Congregational Singing in the German Lutheran Church, 1523--1780
Sources used for the study include several hundred church orders and agendas, minutes of ecclesiastical visitations, hymnals, hymn-based musical compositions, tutorials and method books for teaching music (especially church music), sermons on music, theoretical and polemical works by pastors and …
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Creating the Present From the Ideological Margins of Society: Pseudo -Autobiographies in Post -Dictatorship Spain
… Gala brings to the present a new version of the history of Al-Andalus; Gala/Boabdil provide the people of Andalusia with new historical myths to help them (re)create their regional identity. Chapter four analyzes how Vazquez Montalban (re)created Francisco Franco by appropriating the dictator's …
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Le Pays Bigouden: Creation Et Evolution De L'image D'une Region
The second part of the study analyzes photographs, folkloric performances, and social events such as the fishermen strikes. It shows how the visual has taken over the representation of Le Pays bigouden, and how the inhabitants have also taken over the decision making of their own destiny, which …
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Neither Male Nor Female in Christ? The Construction of Gendered Identities in Women's Writing of the French Reformation (1521--1561)
Women writers of the French Reformation demonstrate a keen awareness of the mutability of gender, and they alternately highlight or downplay their roles as women in order to serve varying literary, spiritual, political---and feminist---ends.
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The Risks and Returns of Not Being on the Gold Standard: The Spanish Experience, 1880-1913
… experienced as compared with other Southern European countries.
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En Busca De Liberalidad: Music and Musicians in the Courts of the Spanish Nobility, 1470--1640
Though their patronal practices varied considerably, certain commonalities emerge. Courts generally maintained small musical organizations that could be augmented with additional personnel for particularly significant occasions, and founded musical establishments in collegiate churches and …
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Decoding Musical Resistance: English Vocal Music in the Service of the King, 1625--1660
The process of change brought with it a cross-fertilization between traditional popular culture and cultivated art forms. Because of the nature of the war, loyalties were conflicted and shifting. This shifting of alliances continued through the period of the interregnum governments, causing …
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The Private Life of the Nation: Christmas and the Invention of Modern Germany
Historians of Germany have long recognized public ritual as tremendously important for the cultural construction of social communities and the dramatic display of power relationships, yet for the most part they have ignored domestic festivity, including Christmas, Germany's most popular holiday. …
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Bonds of Nobility and the Culture of Revolt: Provincial Nobles and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France, 1610--1635
The culture of revolt re-formed warrior nobles' bonds of nobility , as nobles' social and cultural relationships became centered on the practices of civil violence. Confessionalism and group rituals forged new bonds between the nobles who participated in civil conflict. Warrior nobles formed ideals …
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