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Showing 1 to 20 of 208 for “"Mid-twentieth century"”.
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Mid-Twentieth Century Residential Development in San Luis Obispo
<p>San Luis Obispo’s mid-century spanned the years beginning in the Great Depression and ending during the post-World War II housing boom. During this time the City grew in population and in size, adding several acres of land and thousands of single-family residential parcels. This research …
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Activist Modernisms: Human Rights and Anti-Totalitarianism in Mid-Twentieth Century Literature
… Rights. In the postwar period and throughout the twentieth century, human rights would often be vieas a set of self-evident, monolithic, and timeless values that had merely reached their full realization after the horrors of the war. This study examines a body of literature from the 1930s and 40s, …
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Apparatus Poetica: The Question Of Technology In Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry
… powers to situate inspiration's accidents amid uncertain historical and technological horizons. This dissertation explores how these late modernists use language's technē to rethink mid-century historical forces catalyzed by technology. Insisting on language's poetic ability to exceed …
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Sex, Labor, And The American Way: Detroit Aesthetic In Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature
<p>The essay analyzes Sinclair Lewis short fiction in If I Were Boss, U.S.A. by John Dos Passos, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans, and Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. The primary literature is juxtaposed with a study of visual texts and historic research with a …
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Labor, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Texas
… civil rights, and political organizers from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s.</p><p>Tracing their movements revealed a startling story. Beginning in the mid-1930s, African American and ethnic Mexican working people across Texas quietly and tentatively approached one another as well as white …
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Blood groups and the rise of human genetics in mid-twentieth century Britain
… functions of genetic nomenclatures. I argue that mid-century human genetics was profoundly influenced by the questions and practices of physical anthropology, by clinical practice, and by international infrastructures for medical research.
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Art Fronts: Visual Culture and Race Politics in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
… FRONTS: VISUAL CULTURE AND RACE POLITICS IN THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES Erin Park Cohn Supervisor: Kathy Peiss Art Fronts argues that visual culture played a central and understudied role in the African American freedom struggle in the middle part of the twentieth century. In …
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Mentor Teaching in Four Communities of Catholic Sisters in the Mid-Twentieth Century (1940-1965)
… who served in parochial schools in the mid-twentieth century in the Diocese of Syracuse, NY. Teaching sisters comprised the majority of the professional workforce in Catholic schools through ministry as classroom teachers, building principals, diocesan-level administrators, service …
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The Feminine Harp as Feminist Tool: Early Professional Footing for Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
… of the instrument formed in eighteenth-century French salon culture and molded by literature, artwork, music, and ideologies over the course of the next two centuries. This research attempts not to dismiss the myths that have come to be assumed as fact, but rather to understand why and …
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Inventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century
In the mid-1950s, researchers in the United States melded formal theories of problem solving and intelligence with another powerful new tool for control: the electronic digital computer. Several branches of western mathematical science emerged from this nexus, including computer science (1960s–), …
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The convergence of influences on and evolving praxis of mid-twentieth century British theatre design (1935-1965) through a close study of selected works by Motley and Jocelyn Herbert
This thesis examines key developments in theatre design in Britain between 1935-1965 through the lens of the praxis of the design trio known as Motley (active 1932-78) and of theatre designer Jocelyn Herbert (1917-2003). Analysis of their roles in the creation of the four theatre productions that …
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Encasing the American Dream: The Story of Plastic and Steel
… a preservation understanding and treatment for mid twentieth-century building materials that were designed and promoted to appear “brand new” in perpetuity. Based on their significance as pervasive mid-twentieth-century building materials, as well as their broader social, cultural, and …
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Making Healthy Minds and Bodies in Syria and Lebanon, 1899 - 1961
… division in the medical landscape of the mid-twentieth century where healing systems in other parts of the Middle East had begun to integrate local customs. Treatment devoid of spiritual therapies ultimately delegitimized psychiatry among lower classes. Prior to the 1950s, patients and …
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In the Shadow of the Horseman: The Petrine Era and the Search for Russian Nationhood, 1811-1941
… historiography from the earlier nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century. The thesis specifically attempts to develop a connection between imperial and Stalinist discourses concerning Russian nationhood and national identity.
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Animals, Science and Gender: Animal Experimentation in Britain, 1947-1965
… of scientific experimentation on animals in mid-twentieth century Britain. To do this, it addresses two aspects of animal experimentation; firstly, exploring how scientific research forms power-knowledge relations through the use of nonhuman animals. Secondly, this thesis analyses the …
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Beware of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics and Literature
… and history that characterized much of twentieth century thought. Focusing on literary and occasionally musical works from the mid twentieth century, my aim is to show how works displaying psychedelic aesthetics are important venues for political deliberation with regard to citizenship. …
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Their Culture Against Them: The Assimilation of Native American Children Through Progressive Education, 1930-1960s
… such as boarding schools, led to a shift in the mid-twentieth century for pro-Indian reform. From the 1930s through the 1950s, BIA education reformers pursued progressive education. They imagined progressive education would allow the BIA to use Native American traditions and culture to educate …
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"WIsh I would be normal": LSD and Homosexuality at Hollywood Hospital, 1955-1973
… compares these patient experiences to wider mid-twentieth-century medical, legal, and cultural discourses on the nature of homosexuality as a crime or a disease. Records from the Forensic Clinic at Toronto (retrieved from the CAMH archives), Canadian parliamentary debates on the …
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