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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Oceania--History"”.
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The Commodification of Polynesian Tattooing: Perrsistence, Change and Reinvention of a Cultural Tradition.
… in a region where this was absent in prehistory. Similarly, the revitalization of this dormant art form is linked to other forms of cultural renaissance, reflecting the way Polynesians are fighting to maintain their culture in the face of globalization. French Polynesia has had a …
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The Reform of City Government in Russia, 1860--1870
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219852.pdf: 5748883 bytes, checksum: 958df954667a20f7879365ec50f97e26 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Excavating the Nation: Archaeology and Control of the Past and Present in Republican Sichuan
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 72484 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Reflecting (on) the Orientalist Gaze: A Feminist Analysis of Japanese-U.S. GIs Intimacy in Postwar Japan and Contemporary Okinawa
This project explores experiences of two generations of Japanese women, "war brides," who married U.S. GIs and moved to the U.S. in the post-World War II era, and "military wives," who married U.S. GIs within the past twenty years and who currently live in Okinawa. My purpose in this study is to …
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From immigrants to ethnics: The life-worlds of Korean immigrants in Chicago
This study is an exploration of the way in which Koreans' move to the United States since the 1965 amendment to the Immigration and Nationality Act has influenced their life, their new or modified modes of thinking, and changes in their milieu, taking the life-world experiences of Chicago's Koreans …
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SACO: An ambivalent experience of Sino-American cooperation during World War II
"Entitled ""SACO: An Ambivalent Experience of Sino-American Cooperation during World War II,"" the dissertation focuses on the Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) that was established during World War II. Jointly operated by the American military (mainly the U.S. Navy) and by a Chinese …