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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"History -- 20th century"”.
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A pretension of place: The industrialization of corn belt agriculture, 1940-1965
1 PDF file (vi, 193 pages)
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Pioneers of modern art in Malta
… idioms that had been around for almost half a century. There is a historical explanation to all this. From the time of Aristotle down to the present day, the standard philosophical answer to the question of what art is, has been imitation. Malta is no exception to this. Historically, the …
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Caged manhood : office culture and how Walter Camp's Daily Dozen revitalized the workforce, 1903-1940
1 PDF file (vi, 138 pages)
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The overground railroad of the Jim Crow era: A rhetorical analysis of the <i>Negro Motorist Green Books</i>
1 PDF file (viii, 133 pages)
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The Straits and Constantinople, 1914-1923
… beginning around the middle of the fourteenth century lasted for about an hundred years. They accomplished this conquest in 1453. Gradually the Turks were able to extend their control over the entire Black Sea Area, and until that time the Black Sea was not entirely closed to trade. However, …
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A rhetorical history of race relations in the early Pentecostal movement, 1906-1916.
… and unique for its time. This rhetorical history documents how this counter-cultural racial integration was nurtured rhetorically in the early revival and how the message of interracial unity was soon eclipsed by other priorities. I argue that the transcendent, spiritualized rhetoric of …
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Archaeology and politics in post-independence Malta
… written. The study of Malta’s archaeological history and the role that politics has played in its development in the years following post-Independence, has received limited attention. This study focuses on the relationship of archaeology and politics and the manifestation of that liaison …
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An American's Paris: tourism and the American consumer, 1947-1961
1 PDF file (iii, 97 pages)
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War and fashion: Political views and how military styles influence fashion
<p>Women’s outerwear evolves and recreates new fashions based on new materials and historical influences. Whenever the United States goes to war, military styles emerge. However, the outerwear category of women’s apparel has not been thoroughly researched in regard to military influences. …
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The federal government and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1917-1918: An attempt to crush a labor union
1 PDF file (iii, 155 pages)
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Nazi "chic"? : Fashioning women in the Third Reich
During the Third Reich, women’s clothing became a site of contentious debate. Clothing, which the Nazis hoped would serve as a visible sign of inclusion into – or exclusion from – the Volksgemeinschaft, the national community, instead became a divisive wedge between the government and the majority …
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Iowa's wolf in populist clothing: Norman Baker, 1925-1936
1 PDF file (iii, 98 pages)
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Progress or Decline: International Political Economy and Basic Human Rights
This dissertation is a cross-national, empirical study of human rights conditions in a dynamic international political economy. The scope of the examination covers 176 developed and developing countries from 1980 through 1993. Through evaluating the numerous theoretical aspects of human rights …
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