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Modernism, Industrialism, and the Convergence Hypothesis: An Empirical Assessment
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Post-Industrialism and the Changing Contours of Public Policy
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"Sacramental Resistance" to pastoral dreams : the Midwestern land in the works of Sherwood Anderson and his contemporaries.
… by New England Calvinism and embodied in industrialism.
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Fashion, Class, and Labor: Clothing in American Women's Fiction, 1840-1913
… women's economic dependence on men and the ways industrialism exploits women's labor. In her fiction, clothing brings the reader back to the material conditions of women's lives as they conflict with idealized representations. In The Minister's Wooing, My Wife and I, and We and Our Neighbors …
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Aliens inferred
… about the existence of ET life predates industrialism, it is only within the past century or so that technology has developed to the point where humans can add empirical observations to centuries of wondering. With rapid advancements in biological, chemical, and technological science, …
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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… a version of modernity, which I name 'urban industrialism.' This modern identity, arising from the cities, advocated improving rural life by making farms resemble urban factories. This factory model threatened German and Jeffersonian rural identities that existed prior to the 1920s because it …
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The Delicate Art of Being: Psychological Responses to Environmental Damage in American Fiction of the 1970s
… of American consumerism, imperialism, and industrialism. Literary depictions of devastated, refuse-ridden landscapes inhabited by exploited and marginalized peoples complicate any understanding of the environmental movement as a biocentric deification of nature. These depictions ask us to …
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Intellectual formations in the Romantic period: a comparative study of cultural politics and social criticism in the British public sphere, 1802-32
… of cultural resistance to the social crises of industrialism. By highlighting the ways in which a central literary genre like periodical social criticism was materially constructed out of distinctive modes of intellectual sociability, we can rethink the comparative political efficacy of rival …
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Mexican arts and crafts since the conquest of Cortes
… now will undoubtedly be dispelled in the web of industrialism.</p>
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Populist thought in North and South Dakota, 1890-1900
… centering on the idea of humanizing American industrialism. The Populists's moral concern for a humanitarian society, however, included a qualified nativism, a period of anti-Semitism, a feeling of white superiority, conspiratorial thinking, and political naivete. Although none of the specific …
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Where I Belong
… of the Duckworths, who witnessed the growth of industrialism, the toils of migration, the extension of the B&O railroad, and the eruption of the American Civil War. The lives described in this thesis are the patriarchs of the Duckworth family, beginning with Henry Duckworth migrating to West …
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An American spectacle: college mascots and the performance of tradition
… set of institutions that are uniquely shaped by industrialism, commercialism, capital acquisition and expression, mass democracy, and the nation-state. An innately political practice that, while recognizing multiple identities, privileged young, male, white, middle-class, and athletic as powerful …
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History of Employer-Provided Education from the Decades following the Civil War to the Post-Industrial Era, 1865 - 1970
… in the United States developed from the time industrialism transformed the workplace in the decades following the Civil War to the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial economy? This exploratory, integrative study creates a synthesis which creates a more complete and accurate …
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George MacDonald and Victorian Society
… on his non-fictional texts and essays, industrialism, and the great rural-urban divide of the nineteenth century.<br/><br/>Chapter Two concentrates on MacDonald’s representations of the city in Robert Falconer (1868), The Vicar’s Daughter (1872), and Weighed and Wanting (1882) by …
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The demise of industrial paternalism: the case of southern textiles, 1880-1940
… of the inevitable progression toward pluralistic industrialism or as a result of one or more historical factors. In this thesis, paternalism's demise is viewed as a result of a social process--the working out of the ever-dynamic "relations of power" between textile owners and workers. Four …
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Observation, Surveillance, Voyeurism, and the Making of the Middle Class in Victorian England
In the early nineteenth century, the rise of industrialism and the accelerated enclosure of farmable land combined to drive England's rural population into rapidly growing urban centers. London, in particular, was ill-equipped to deal with the resulting population boom, and laborers and vagrants …
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Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
… both the economic promise of expanding postwar industrialism and the limitations of a society increasingly defined by multiple hierarchies of race, class, and ability. Hampton and Carlisle played a key role in naturalizing the association between racial others and manual labor that pervaded …
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Form follows flow : re-imagining the skyscraper
… is a by-product of 19th century American industrialism. spirit, and disaster. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was a catastrophe that necessitated dense and rapid reconstruction, both of which the high-rise provided. The accidental discovery of this new typology forever changed the …
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Reforming The Cold War State: Economic Thought, Internationalization, And The Politics Of Soviet Reform, 1955-1985.
… of global economic interdependence and post-industrialism, which also challenged the post-war economic consensus in the West in the 1970s and the 1980s. Economists and scientists from East, West, and South created a transnational community gathered around institutions such as the United …
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Fitzgerald, Lewis, Wharton, Anderson, and individual-community conflict in the 1920 American novel.
… and social problems associated with Gilded Age industrialism, and criticized local and traditional authority structures for being provincial, pecuniary, and conformist. Contemporary critic Carl Van Doren referred to the outburst of literature on this theme as "The Revolt from the Village," for …
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