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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"Modern History"”.
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The Making of The Modern History Play
Virtually every major modern dramatist--Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Yeats, and O'Casey, to name but a few--has written what may be construed as history plays: plays based on a historical personage or event. And since the time of Aeschylus's The Persians, perhaps the first history play of the Western …
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A modern history of monetary and financial systems of Congo 1885-1995
This thesis addresses the modern history of money and finance in Congo from 1885 to 1995, against a background of pre-colonial traditional monetary practices observed since the 15th century and still in use today in some regions of the Congo basin within the current Democratic Republic of the …
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The Will to Play. Performance and Construction of Royal Masculinity in Early Modern History Plays
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Männlichkeitskonzepte in der Frühen Neuzeit, wobei das Hauptaugenmerk auf die dramatische Konstruktion der Figur des Königs gerichtet wird. Anhand von zehn Historiendramen der 1590er wird zum einen die diskursive Komplexität königlicher Männlichkeit in der …
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The Human-Animal Boundary: Adding a New Perspective to the Pre-Modern History of the Nervous System
This thesis offers a fresh angle on the history of neuroscience by highlighting that the human-animal boundary has since Antiquity been a vital component of all philosophical, anatomical and experimental discourses on the nervous system and its associated properties. I argue that in this regard, …
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Aspects of the economic and social history of the Greek community in Alexandria during the nineteenth century
… of studies on the role and activities of the modern history of the Greeks in Egypt, this study constitutes both a pioneering and preliminary contribution.
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David Kinley, 1861-1944: The Career of The Fifth President of The University of Illinois
… it is a contribution toward the general history of American higher education and a useful resource for those who undertake to write a modern history of the University of Illinois.
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Chain reaction: The tragedy of atomic governance
… the most profound, and profane, achievement in modern history--the atom bomb--but the strategies that empowered its development caused inestimable suffering in peacetime America. Discrete practices of secrecy, media manipulation, and the devaluation of scientific opinion evolved and coalesced …
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The embodiment and enactment of shen 神 in the Huangdi neijing 《黃帝內經》 by contemporary healers (yi 醫)
The modern history of medicine in China is disposed to position Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a feudal tradition if not an afterthought. If the republicans of modern China had their way, Traditional Chinese Medicine would have been relegated to the various curios in museums (Hsu 2008; Lei …
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War and Diplomacy in the Age of Louis XIV: A Historical Study and Annotated Bibliography Volume II
… annotated bibliography to appear regarding early modern history is Hugh Dunthorne and Hamish M. Scott, Early Modern European History c. 1492–1789 (London: Historical Association, 1983) which devotes less than six pages to international relations and warfare. John Roach's A Bibliography of Modern …
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Case study : the strategic position of a Mexican bank
… one of the most severe economic crisis in its modern history, the country is quickly recovering and the outlook is promising. Finally, the globalization and consolidation processes are very important phenomenon affecting significantly the world economy and the banking industry in particular. In …
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Ústřední koncepty Čchö Namsŏnova budování korejské identity
… Ch'oe Nam-sŏn, one of the key figures in Korean modern history, constructed Korean identity during the colonial period, namely his interpretation of the myth of Tangun, the legendary founder of Korean statehood, and the so-called Purham culture, which is to be basis for Asian culture in general. …
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A critical overview of international law with regard to the problem of terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
… of any State. These events are unprecedented in modern history, first, by their sheer magnitude and destructiveness, and also because of the suicidal fanaticism of its perpetrators. Nevertheless, there is a need to explore and analyze some of the international legal issues with regard to the …
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France— Military Causes of Collapse in The West, 1940
"Modern history records few events as stupefying as the defeat and collapse of the French Republic in June 1940. Never has a great military power been smashed as quickly and as inexorably since the lightning war of Napoleon against Prussia in 1806. In less than six weeks one of the powers leading …
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Notes from the Suburb: the Image of Helsinki in the works by Kjell Westö
… capitalism. After a survey about Finnish modern history,my study focuses on the linguistic contraposition between the Finnish-speaking majority and the the Swedish-speaking minority as it has evolved during the Nineteenth and Twentieth century, trying to re-consider the concept of official …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
For much of modern history, U.S. political parties adopted a consensus non-partisan knowledge regime, consisting of experts at universities, non-partisan think tanks and government agencies, to inform policymaking decisions. However, after the consensus supported by the knowledge regime enabled the …
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Information Wars : party elites, think tanks and polarization in Congress
For much of modern history, U.S. political parties adopted a consensus non-partisan knowledge regime, consisting of experts at universities, non-partisan think tanks and government agencies, to inform policymaking decisions. However, after the consensus supported by the knowledge regime enabled the …
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Jewish past and colonial Shanghai: trade, treaty-port, and transitive modernity
… to three areas of scholarly research: the modern history of Shanghai, Jewish diaspora in port-cities, and colonial studies in China. Ultimately, the purpose of this study is twofold: to document the economic/social encounters of Jews and Chinese in a colonial context and to examine the …
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A critical discourse analysis of news reports on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in selected Arab and western newspapers
… ideological and intractable conflicts in modern history, sited in a very sensitive and strategic region, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has always been under the spotlight of media and politicians. The conflict is almost a constant item in the coverage of news outlets, especially since …
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Egypt's Unresolved Media Transition: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of the Egyptian Press Amid Political Turmoil.
… output during a pivotal time in Egypt’s modern history, dating from June 30th, 2010, a few months before the January 25th, 2011 revolution, when Egypt was under the rule of former President Hosni Mubarak, to June 30th, 2015, two years after the events of June 30th, 2013, and a year into …
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The Hartford Convention; or, New England opposition to the War of 1812
… on the side of Napoleon, the greatest despot in modern history; but one of the chief causes of the war---impressment---was not even mentioned in the Treaty of Ghent, The United States was exceedingly fortunate to retain its status quo, considering the fact that we did not win one important …
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