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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"INTER-WAR"”.
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The Intellectual History Of Inter-war British Fascists
Between World Wars I and II, allied forces girded themselves to quash yet another enemy bent on world conquest: fascism. In England, however, the British fascists set about to save what they saw as a dying empire. In an effort to restore Britain's greatness, British fascism held to fascist …
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The Development of the Speculative Office in Inter-war England
… assessment of the speculative office building in inter-war England. Both instruments of revenue and containers of office space, buildings of this type and period have been largely absent from the literature of architectural history, despite their growing importance, economically, functionally and …
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Walter Spies, tourist art and Balinese art in inter-war colonial Bali
… to Bali, Balinese art and the Balinese in the inter-war Dutch Colonial period. Drawing from a wide variety of sources, the thesis examines the development and characteristics of a new artistic form in the area of painting, variously described as 'Balinese Modernism', 'New Balinese painting' or …
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Association football and Irish Society during the Inter-War period, 1918-1939
… a changing Irish society during the tumultuous inter-war period, focussing primarily on association football and its status within the country's sporting land.scape. As the political uncertainty ofthe revolutionary period subsided with the violence that had characterised the struggle for …
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Girls' vocational training schools in London: a study of the inter-war years
The state education system of the inter-war years was characterised by the three crucial divisions of social class, ability and gender. It was the non-academic working class girl who was most disadvantaged by those divisions and who has been most ignored by educational policymakers and, indeed, by …
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A Historical Analysis of Women Student Activities during the Inter War Years 1918 -1941
The study of women in higher education has been compartmentalized from the overall history of higher education. Educational historians continue to influence future discovery on the higher education of women by continuing to reinforce the master narrative of women in history. Acknowledging and …
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The Story Less Told: Representations in the Inter-War Years of the American White Working Class by Four Female Authors
This thesis will study novels written in the interwar years by four female authors: Anzia Yezierska, Fielding Burke, Grace Lumpkin, and Myra Page. While a general overview of these authors’ biographies, writing styles, themes, and approaches to issues surrounding race and religion will be provided, …
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Immigration, ethnicity and national identity : Maghrebis' socio-political mobilisation and discourse in the inter-war period and during the 1970s in France
… du peuple algerien (PPA), developed during the inter-war period and became the strongest voice of Algerian nationalism during those years. The second one, the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes (MTA), which was created in the early 1970s in France, saw itself as an Arab nationalist movement which …
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The Politics of the Past in Britain, c. 1939-1990
… dissertation asks how popular memories of the inter-war years evolved in Britain, from the Second World War to the Thatcher government.
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Feeling nature: naturism, camping, environment and the body in Britain, 1920-1960
This thesis considers the interaction of human beings with the natural environment. In particular, it addresses the ways that naturists and light-weight campers encountered, understood and reflected upon the spaces, places and environments around them in the period between 1920 and the late 1950s. …
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The development of British strategic area bombing 1918-1945 : a study in theory and practice
… of strategic bombing developed during theinter-war period that an attempt can be made to achieve a clearunderstanding of the controversial character of the area bombingoffensive against Germany during the Second World Var, including thecrucial issue of responsibility. It is the intention …
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From Victorian to Modernist: the changing perceptions of Japanese architecture encapsulated in Wells Coates' Japonisme dovetailing East and West
… it was little recognised, to an inspiration for inter-war modernist architecture and lifestyle; to record, to a lesser extent, how Japanese art, particularly the way in which it was displayed, underwent a similar renaissance, and the part played by architect-engineer, Wells Coates, in this …
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The Frankfurt School : the crisis of subjectivity and the problem of social change
… Revolution of 1917-23. Its final signal in the inter-war years came with the defeat of the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War in the years preceding the Second World War. The defeats of progressive social forces in the inter-war years, leading to the catastrophe of the Second World War …
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Class, estate and status in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938
… importance is gradually built up, and the interplay between the divisions and labels presented in the various sources is discussed. Then demonstrable facts of inecuality, such as the distribution of wealth and incomes, and the nature of housing, are outlined, and some general observations …
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Seventy Years of Swearing upon Eric the Skull: Genre and Gender in Selected Works by Detection Club Writers Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie
… of gender in relation to topics including war and an emerging market economy in inter-war Britain; however, because they were doing so in genre fiction, their insights have not been fully explored. The popularity of detective fiction, according to critics, has resulted in a lack of …
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The politics of a German town during the Weimar Republic : Coburg 1918-1929.
… a great volume of literature is available on inter-war Germany for the periods of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, there is a dearth of literature on politics at the local level. This means that there have been no analytical studies of the politics of local government in inter-war …
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For Want of Land: A Study of Land Settlement in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and Raasay between the two world wars
… Hebrides, Skye and Raasay between the two world wars. Land settlement is a world-‐wide phenomenon, which in the context of this research involves the examination of the creation of new crofts and the enlargement of existing ones from the breaking up of farms and estates. Crofting is a system of …
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