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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"History and memory"”.
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Exploring the Zionist evolution of Robert Briscoe: History and memory
… Briscoe was the Dublin born son of Lithuanian and German-Jewish immigrants. As a young man he joined Sinn Féin and was an important figure in the War of Independence due to a role as one of the IRA’s main gun-procuring agents. He took the anti-Treaty side during an internecine Civil War, mainly …
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Dreams of Empire: The Japanese Agricultural Colonization of Manchuria (1931--1945) in History and Memory
… explores the constellation of public events and private concerns that came together in the early 1930s to revive a seemingly moribund dream of Japanese agrarian nationalism, newly focused on Manchuria as a ""New Paradise"" (Shintenchi) for the nation's indigent farming community. More …
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Navigating History and Memory in China: Perspectives on the Recent Past from a Case Study of Chinese Students at an International High School
… school in the Shanghai/Suzhou region, understand their nation’s recent past as they prepare for university in the United States. Set against China’s intensified efforts to shape public memory through historical education, this research examines how young people actively construct their …
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Cinematic Remapping of the Taiwanese Sense of Self: On the Transitions in Treatments of History and Memory from "The Taiwanese Experience" to "The Taipei Experience"
… cinema, through its diverse treatments of history and memory, enacts its role as a cinematic interpretation of the envisioning of Taiwanese national identity within the transnational context.</p><p>The first chapter centers on the Taiwanese New Cinema’s portrayal of “The Taiwanese …
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Governor's Island : designing the present through the past
History and memory, along with relics, are our tools to retrieve the past. How can they also be the tools to create the present? This thesis explores how history and memory can be integral in the establishment of a new program for a site and inform the architecture of that site. This thesis …
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Working Remains
Working Remains grapples with colonial legacies and their remnants inscribed on the cultural, socio-political, and topographical contemporary Cape landscape. The remnants suggested by the project's title pertain to concerns about self, place, labour, and culture that permeate personal, and …
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From the Individual to the Collective: Community in August Wilson and Tony Kushner
My study examines the playwrights August Wilson and Tony Kushner as "political" artists whose work, while positing very different definitions of "community," offers a similar critique of an American tendency toward a kind of misguided, dangerous individualism that precludes "interconnection." I …
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Domesticating Time: Family and Memory in the German Middle Class, 1840--1939
"The dissertation expands the historiography of memory by shedding light on vernacular, as opposed to public memory. In doing so, it challenges the conceptual walls placed between ""history"" and ""memory"" and calls for a more nuanced interpretation of their relationship. By injecting the history …
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Making Victims: History, Memory, and Literature In Japan's Post-War Social Imaginary
… the atomic bomb, the specific terms of defeat, and the adjustment between pre and post-war, massively affected the social imaginary of the nation. This paper seeks to examine the ways in which Japanese people were forced to re-identify what it meant to be Japanese, not only internally, but also …
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Writing a measure of her life: the rhetoric of women's cookbooks
… vehicles in order to establish individual and communal identities, claim authority of a written genre, and respond to dominant notions of womanhood. Three categories of cookbooks are explored within the project including: unpublished manuscripts, community cookbooks, and commercially …
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Making meaning in a modern world: place and identity in Leadville, Colorado
… not only the state of Colorado, but also to the history of the West as a whole. Part of the larger history of the extractive industries on which the Western United States was founded, mining towns like Leadville provide a postindustrial landscape through which to study the ways in which …
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Uncivil War: Memory and Identity in the Reconstruction of the Civil Rights Movement.
<p>Memory is constructed to solidify a certain version of the past in the collective identity. History and memory occupy a controversial role in the New South, with battles over the legacy of the Civil War and the reassertion of Confederate symbols in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement's …
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Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015 : visibility, memory, gender : writing and re-imagining National Socialist atrocity for the stage
… of Buchenwald in the German towns of Altenburg and Meuselwitz and the fate of the – mostly female – prisoners, forced to work in the factories of the arms manufacturer HASAG. The dissertation itself consists of two parts: In the stage play "Flieder, 1945 / Lilac, 2015", I investigate the history …
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Drawing borders: the political and symbolic importance of the United States in the creation of Czechoslovakia
… in the creation of interwar Czechoslovakia, and his support for its independence. It also symbolized the democratic ideals which brought the two nations together following the Great War. Woodrow Wilson played a major part in the history and memory of Czechs during their formative years of …
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Between memory and history: Shimon Attie's art of remembrance
… traveled to the former Jewish quarter of Berlin and wondered “Where are all the missing people?” With this question in mind, Attie embarked on a two year project that involved converting black and white archival photographs of pre-war Jewish life in Berlin into slides and projecting them onto the …
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Saints and subverters : the later Covenanters in Scotland c.1648-1682
… faction of Covenanters seized power in Scotland. Upheld by supporters as the zenith of the 'Covenanted Reformation' - the constitutional revolution and godly reformation underwritten by the National Covenant of 1638 and Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 - the 'rule of the saints' left an …
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História oral como técnica para o arquivista na construção do arranjo documental
Archival and contemporary knowledge area, has many challenges in their field of work. The reality is that many institutions have a large volume document and has no physical structure, put in the wrong way and without organization. On the question of the organization of documents, documentary score …
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