Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Internment"”.
-
Belligerent Internment; 1939 - 1945
No abstract available
-
Japanese American Internment: A Great Injustice
The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II (WWII) is a period in American history that is generally not given due attention. The purpose of this essay is to research and gain understanding of how such an incident could take place, what internees had to go through, and the impact it …
-
Japanese American Internment: A Tragedy of War
<p>Japanese American internment in the United States during World War II affected thousands of lives for generations yet it remains hidden in historical memory. The study of Japanese American internment provides a historical catalyst for research and introspection about democracy, citizenship, and …
-
Jewish and ‘Nomade’ Experiences of Internment in Occupied France, 1940-1946
This dissertation explores the experiences of internment among Jews and ‘nomades’ in Occupied France between 1940 and 1946. Drawing on a wide range of sources, many of them previously unused by historians, the dissertation contributes to scholarship seeking to recover Jews and ‘nomades’ as subjects …
-
Events leading to the internment and deportation of Maltese Nationalists : 1940-1942
… hour for Maltese history’. It recalls the internment of more than a hundred Maltese, men and women, in special camps in and after 1940, and a process that led to the decision to deport forty-five of the to a camp in Uganda. These men and women were not criminals. They were never convicted …
-
Feminine Identity Confined: The Archaeology of Japanese Women at Amache, a WWII Internment Camp
… evacuated from the West Coast to ten different internment camps in the interior of the United States. One of these camps was the Granada Relocation Center, otherwise known as Amache, located in southeastern Colorado. Through the analysis of archaeological material, archival documents, and oral …
-
An Analysis of Modified Material Culture from Amache: Investigating the Landscape of Japanese American Internment
… Archaeological research at the Japanese American internment camp in Granada, Colorado, called Amache, has recently uncovered artifacts featuring evidence of modification. Previous studies at internment camps have failed to include a comprehensive analysis of these artifacts; instead focusing on …
-
An Ambitious Social Experiment: Education in Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1942-1945 by Christopher Su.
… went on to attend colleges and find jobs after internment, they took these experiences with them and crafted new and deeply personal definitions of being an American citizen. The Adult Education programs gave internees English skills and new cultural knowledge that they used in their post-war …
-
Japanese American Cultural Identity: The Role of WWII, Internment, and the 3/11 Disaster in Japan
… examination of the historical contexts of WWII, internment, and the 3/11 disasters in Japan. Interview data was analyzed using both interpretive and critical paradigms. I then utilized the Communication Theory of Identity (CTI), the corresponding concept of identity gaps, and critical-cultural …
-
A cascade of failures: the U.S. Army and the Japanese-American internment decision in World War II
The Second World War internment of the West Coast Issei and Nisei remains a tragic moment in American history. It has long been viewed by historians as a singular act of mass social and political pressure to remove a racially constructed social group from the area, but it was carried out by the …
-
A re-examination of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s
… central premise ofthis thesis is that the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland from 1971 to 1975 has not been given proper academic investigation. My research provides a more comprehensive account of internment and assesses previously unexplored aspects of its use. In this thesis I …
-
"You'll Get Used to It!": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-43
… Through their relationship with the spaces of internment, work and leisure, sexual desire and gender performance, and by protesting governmental power, the refugees' identities evolved and coalesced, demonstrating the fluidity of modern selfhood despite the limiting power of nationhood. The …
-
A Catalyst for the Development of Human Rights: German Internment Practices in the First World War,1914-1929
… necessity" and "reciprocity" drove German internment practices, and how German internment practices escalated in violence during the last two years of the war. The violent practices committed by the Germans against prisoners of war produced an international demand to hold the perpetrators …
-
The Role of Amache Family Objects in the Japanese American Internment Experience: Examined Through Object Biography and Object Agency
… families' personal possessions associated with internment through the concepts of object biography and object agency. It uses material culture analysis to help anthropologists understand the Japanese American internment experience, specifically through a case study at Amache, the Japanese …
-
Empire and Emergency: Reverberations of the British Empire in the Authorisation of Internment under the Defence of the Realm Acts
… very broad powers, but made no mention of internment. Accordingly, Regulation 14B authorised internment which had not been expressly authorised by Parliament. However, since the seventeenth century it had been a matter of great constitutional importance that detention without trial could …
-
“Bury Your Head Between My Knees and Seek Pardon”: Gender, Sexuality, and National Conflict in John Okada’s No-No Boy
… Yamada intersect with post-World War II and Internment-era national identifications for American nisei. I demonstrate that this apparent story of one man’s pursuit to resolve his conflict over national identity is, in reality, a tour de force of literary subversion that not only destabilizes …
-
The Captive Samurai: Japanese Prisoners Detained in the United States During World War II
… War II and brought to the United States for internment. No scholarly account has been written of these men. This thesis will explain why there were so few, where they were interned, and the conditions of their internment.</p> <p>The topic was researched at the National Archives and Records …
-
Learning from History: Real and Perceived Threats to National Security
… pave the way for legalizing the surveillance and internment of civilian populations have their origin in the Quasi-War. Likewise, the practice of state property seizure under the Office of Alien Property Custodian and limited internment programs were first established during WWI. Mass civilian …
-
Brewing Behind Barbed Wire: An Archaeology of Saké at Amache
… government facilities the largest of which were internment centers operated by the War Relocation Authority that held mostly U.S. citizens. The Granada Relocation Center (Amache) was the smallest of these internment centers. The presence of <em>saké</em> at Amache indicates that Japanese …
-
A History of Transplants: A Study of Entryway Gardens at Amache
… that during the period of Japanese American internment gardening became a popular activity for the interned. Primarily approached historically, little work has been conducted to archaeologically analyze the efforts of landscaping by former internees. Gardening activity can paint a better …
Page 1 of 3