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Showing 1 to 20 of 232 for “"History, Modern."”.
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Henry Miller and The Philosophy of The Inhuman Artist
… attacks against the metaphysical design of the modern age. I argue that, by repudiating some of the most potent elements of late modernity such as history, modern technology and an aesthetisized view of art, Miller paves the way for overcoming Western metaphysics. Finally I show that, …
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THE ANTI-TURKISH OPPOSITION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY RAGUSA AND ITS PRO-HABSBURG POLICY IN THE MOREAN WAR.
THE ANTI-TURKISH OPPOSITION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY RAGUSA AND ITS PRO-HABSBURG POLICY IN THE MOREAN WAR.
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VICTOR DE BROGLIE AND THE FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY: A LIBERAL PEERAND DIPLOMAT UNDER LOUIS-PHILIPPE.
VICTOR DE BROGLIE AND THE FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY: A LIBERAL PEERAND DIPLOMAT UNDER LOUIS-PHILIPPE.
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Instability of Empire: Earthquake, Rumor, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire
… on the contested construction of multiethnic modern Japan. By analyzing a wide range of texts such as children's writings, paintings, and testimony, this project demonstrates the centrality of the colonial regime of representations in imagining the colonized others and the Japanese public. …
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Intima Teatern and the Formations of Theatrical Modernity in Sweden
As a theatre practitioner, Falck modeled his professional conduct on that of Sweden's progressive theatre directors of the previous century, including Ludvig Josephson, Harald Molander, Emil Grandinson, and August Lindberg. The Intimate Theatre, ultimately, is significant for the reform of …
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Runaway Film Production: A Critical History of Hollywood's Outsourcing Discourse
… this dissertation critically examines the history of runaway production, from its introduction in postwar Hollywood to its present use in describing the development of highly competitive television and film production industries in Canada. From a political economic perspective, I argue that …
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The Organization and Regulation of International Shipping Cartels
… conclusions, in part two I turn to examine the history of the regulation of shipping conferences in the United States. In chapter four, I view the development of regulation over the long term. The fifth and sixth chapters are detailed analyses of the two key pieces of regulatory legislation: the …
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Murder Scenes: Criminal Violence in the Public Culture and Private Lives of Weimar Berlin
… connected to the failures of the Republic and to modernity itself. One need only mention the ""monsters of Weimar"" (Fritz Haarmann, Peter Kurten, Carl Grossmann) to conjure up long-held images of cultural decadence, police incompetence, moral turpitude---in short, a society at risk. This is not …
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Constructing Valparaiso: Infrastructure and the Politics of Progress in Chile's Port, 1842--1918
The municipal government's expansion of city planning, safety regulations, and public utilities provided a precedent and a foundation for the central government's intervention in commercial and private affairs in the early twentieth century. Thus, local politics contributed directly to the …
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The Strangeness of Home: German Loss and Search for Identity in Hanover, 1943--1948
"This dissertation highlights how Germans reimagined themselves amidst loss and disorientation resulting from the collapse of the Third Reich. I challenge notions of German forgetfulness---the repression of past trauma, the inability to ""master"" the past, and the self-absorbed effort to build a …
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Moving Up, Moving Out: Race and Social Mobility in Chicago, 1914--1972
"This dissertation examines the formation of the new middle class in relation to racial divisions in Chicago. I argue that upward mobility in the twentieth century allowed European-Americans to shed racial stigmas and doubts about their abilities to Americanize, creating neighborhoods and …
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Opening German Minds: Drug Users, Social Tolerance, and the Making of West Germany, 1967--1983
… on students and terrorists, and helps build a history of that essential postwar decade ""from the margins.""."
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The Lost East: Silesian Expellees in West Germany and the Fantasy of Return, 1945--1970
"We open with an historical overview of German history in Silesia before the expulsion. Further background is then offered through exploring the official narrative of border revision devised by self-proclaimed expellee spokespeople who, after the founding of the Bonn Republic in May 1949, received …
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Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
… in Brazil, and records on aesthetics and natural history consulted at the Natural History Museum Archives and the Archive of Art and Design at the V&A Museum (London).
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A People's War: The Transformation of German Politics, 1913-1918
"This dissertation explores the manner in which one form of political legitimacy came to replace another, how the Volk enfranchised themselves at the expense of monarchy during World War I Germany, and its primary focus is the public display of nationalism in July-August 1914. In 1913, Germany's …
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In the Service of the Tsar: European Mercenary Officers and the Reception of Military Reform in Russia, 1654-1667
The European officers of these regiments possessed demonstrable military expertise and brought this expertise to their regiments, and were therefore an important cultural connection between Russia and Europe. Their presence in Russia demonstrated that the Russian state assessed its international …
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From Sympathy to Synergy: Humane Activism in the Modern Environmental Movement
Animal welfare activists contributed both substance and style to the environmental movement that emerged in the years following the Second World War. Women tended to take a more active role than men in humane politics. A loose network of women activists led campaigns to save marine mammals from …
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Internal Security and Military Reorganization: The Rise of Paramilitaries in Developing Societies
"One of the most striking developments in the security structure of developing societies has been the rise of parallel military organizations (armed forces such as constabularies and militias outside the regular military and the police) concurrent with the ""third wave"" of democratization. This …
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The Emergence of The German Dye Industry to 1925
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The Formative Period of Aviation in Illinois, 1890-1919
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