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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Post-World War Two"”.
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Defense Spending and the System of Regional Economies
… of defense production emerging during the post World War Two era. The evaluation and impact of the regionalization of the defense industry, and the potential impacts on the system of regional economies stemming from defense production, serve as the basis of this dissertation.
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SUB-NATIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND MINORITY PARTIES IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
… in a range of sub-national elections in the post World War Two period and measures the proportionality of elections using three indices of proportionality. Various authors have previously attempted to identify which electoral features are primarily the cause of disproportionalty at the …
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Flexible urbanism
This thesis seeks to find a new approach/method towards urbanization in existing low density neighborhoods in major metropolitan cities in the United States. The near South side of the city of Chicago (a city that carries a history as the most modern city in the world in the late nineteenth and …
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Substituting Security: Economic Resources, Strategic Resources, and the Security Policy Choices of Minor Powers
… on a number of minor power rivalries in the post-World War Two period, and a measure focusing on the relative amount of trade between rivals and potential security providers is used as a measure of strategic resources. I conduct a comparative case study of Taiwan and South Korea, focusing on …
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The Common-Health and Beyond: New Zealand Trainee Specialists in International Medical Networks, 1945-1975
In the two to three decades that followed World War Two, approximately three-quarters of all New Zealand doctors, and up to ninety per cent of New Zealand medical specialists, travelled overseas for the purposes of obtaining post-graduate experience and qualifications. This thesis uses oral …
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More than Just a Roof over Their Heads Migrant Accommodation Centres and the Assimilation of “New Australians” 1947-1960
period of migration has distorted the understanding of what and how assimilation programs operated and the importance that was attached to not only educating migrants in the model Australian way of life, but also convincing old Australians of the benefits of the mass migration scheme. Through …
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In Ruin Unreconciled: Women Writers and the End of the British Empire
… Anglo-Irish Ascendancy against the backdrop o f World War One and the Irish War o f Independence, the dissertation then moves on to examine two m id century novels by Anglo-Indian writer Rumer Godden, namely, B la c k Narcissus and B reakfast with the Nikolides. Both novels deal with th e …
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Design and the Politics of Knowledge in America, 1937-1967: Walter Gropius, Gyorgy Kepes
… Inasmuch as the careers of Gropius and Kepes--wartime émigrés from Germany and Hungary, respectively--retrace the narrative of importation and assimilation linking interwar European modernism and its post-World War Two American legacies, this project also implicates that larger narrative and …
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The Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics in John Cage and Charles Olson
… particular challenges to readers, and it is towards readers and reading that this thesis is primarily oriented. Each chapter describes a problem or difficulty which these texts create for readers, and attempts to model that difficulty as clearly as possible in order to demonstrate how it forces …
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A transnational environmental idea: reception, interpretation and employment of US Dust Bowl imagery in World War Two and post-war Australia
… were woven through Australian narratives of the World War Two and early post-war period. The study recovers and analyzes the sound, textual and visual aspects of print, broadcast and film media imagery of the period to ask what cultural myths and political forces combined to empower the …