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Changes in British Commercial Policy in the Interwar Period
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Turkish-Italian Economic Relations in the Interwar Period (1919-1939)
… Italian economic presence in Turkey in the interwar period, from the beginning of the Turkish Independence War in Anatolia in 1919 to the beginning of the Second World War in 1939. Exploring the relations from three main angles, namely, Italian concession hunting efforts in Turkey, the …
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At the Crossroads: African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period
… African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period charts discourses of folk culture, empire and modernity in the works of six African American and Caribbean writers. Each of the dissertation's three sections pairs a writer from the U.S. with a writer from the Anglophone, Francophone …
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‘In defence of the decorator’ : Giulio Rosso (1897-1976) in Italy in the interwar period
… Giulio Rosso (1897-1976) in Italy during the interwar period (1919-1941). Despite post-war critical oblivion, Rosso’s contemporary colleagues, intellectuals, and architects appreciated his ability to master an extremely varied repertoire, adapting it to meet different spatial requirements …
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Piano at the Conservatoire de Paris During the Interwar Period: A Study in Pedagogy and Performance Practice
<p>This dissertation explores the specificities of the French piano school between 1920 and 1940, a defining time in the history of French pianism. This research focuses on the musical and technical traditions established at the Conservatoire de Paris and provides a comparative analysis of the …
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"Too Little to Live and Too Much to Die" The Burgenländers' Immigration to the United States During the Interwar Period
This paper explores the history of a group of immigrants that came to the United States from the small rural Austrian region of the Burgenland between World War One and World War Two. By examining several biographical life stories of contemporaries it wants explain why the emigrants decided to …
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A Failure of Policy: How U.S. Leaders Neglected to Shape, Lead, and Leverage Intelligence Concerning Japan During the Interwar Period, 1918-1941
… in which they served concerning Japan during the interwar period, the timespan ranging approximately from the conclusion of World War I in November 1918 through the entry of the United States into World War II in December 1941. Research for this dissertation focused predominantly on official and …
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Disciplining the future. Eugenics and modernization in interwar Romania
… species found many adepts in Romania during the interwar period. They brought to life their various interpretations of eugenics in many embodiments, from programs for physical education and better nutrition, to movements to segregate and even eliminate Jews and other ""dysgenic"" populations, …
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From Gunboats to Good Neighbors: U.S. Naval Diplomacy in Peru, 1919-1942
… of U.S. policy toward Latin America during the interwar period, when the United States abandoned armed interventionism in favor of the policy of the "Good Neighbor." Specifically, it focuses on two oft-overlooked types of naval diplomacy the United States used to exercise influence in the South …
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Visions of Race and Gender: Press Coverage of the French Colonial Expositions of 1922 and 1931
During the interwar period, France attempted to reinvigorate interest in the empire amongst the public via elaborate colonial expositions. The colonial expositions of Marseille (1922) and Paris (1931) served as a means to celebrate the empire and to educate the French about the benefits of living …
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German film, world travel: Berlin, Hollywood, Bombay
… and feature films made throughout the interwar period, which are significant for two main reasons. First, through these films, Germans at home could experience the world from which they had been secluded as a result of the war. At a time when travel opportunities were limited and …
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Lietuvos ir Latvijos bendradarbiavimas švietimo srityje tarpukariu /
… and Latvia in the field of education during the interwar period and to reveal their dynamics. Author will try to compare the conditions of education of Lithuanian and Latvian national minorities in the newly created republics; to find out how the situation in the field of education changed after …
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Contesting Whiteness: Race, Nationalism and British Empire Exhibitions Between the Wars
… used the British Empire exhibitions of the interwar period to contest the privileges of whiteness found throughout the empire, demonstrating that imperial race relations were profoundly situational, even when focused on the maintenance of privilege. It attempts to outline multiple racial and …
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Native American Chic: The Marketing Of Native Americans In New York Between The World Wars
… States, particularly New York City, during the interwar period, and documents the immediate and lasting impact these shows and their promotion had on the emergence of "Indian Chic" in women's fashion and interior design. </p> <p>In the late 1910s, Crawford, a research editor for Women's Wear and …
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Essays on international finance
… of carry trade and momentum returns in the interwar period currency markets. We find that these active currency trading strategies earn an annualized average excess return of about 7%, consistent with estimates from modern samples. On the grounds that the interwar period represents rare …
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De-Centering Humanitarianism: The Red Cross and India, c. 1877-1939
… century onwards up until the end of the interwar period. Far from being at the mere receiving end, it suggests that India played a crucial role in shaping and making the Red Cross Movement. It argues that India became an important hub of transnational and international Red Cross …
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Design and the formation of taste in the British printed calico industry, 1919 to 1940
… investigated. A commonly held view that British interwar design was reactionary and regressive, and the general assumption that Modernism came to Britain in the 1930s as a Continental influence, is challenged. Definitions and perceptions of Modernism are closely examined. A range of contradictory …
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Americanitis : Amerika som sjukdom eller läkemedel : Svenska berättelser om USA åren 1900-1939
… Swedish future as seen in public debate in the period c. 1900-1939, when the USA was the subject of a good deal of discussion as an up-and-coming nation of great importance but was not yet recognized as an indisputable super power. It tries to demonstrate how notions of America were given …
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Η ΚΡΙΣΗ ΤΟΥ 1929 ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΟΛΟΓΟΙ: ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΗΣ ΣΚΕΨΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΣΟΠΟΛΕΜΟΥ
… TO AN ANALYSIS OF THE GREEK ECONOMY DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD WITH EMPHASIS LAID ON TO FLUCTUATIONS OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. THE CRISIS OF 1929-32 SERVES AS A STARTING POINT FOR THE ANALYSIS OF GREEK ECONOMIC THOUGHT. THE SECOND PART STARTS WITH AN ANALYSIS OF METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AS WELL AS SOME …
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