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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Rapid modernization"”.
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Civic visions, national politics, and international designs : three proposals for a new urban center in Tehran (1966-1976)
… authoritarian rule, monarchical nationalism and rapid modernization. Underlying all three proposals was a yearning to create a modernized, acculturated and apolitical urban middle class. The trajectory of these plans demonstrates how the demand for rapid modernization obliterated alternative …
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A Community of Modern Nations: The Mexican Herald at the Height of the Porfiriato 1895-1910.
… national boundaries. As Mexicans experienced rapid modernization led partially by foreign investors, the <em>Herald</em> represented the imaginings of its editors and their efforts to influence how Mexicans conceptualized their national identity and place in the world. The newspaper's editors …
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ECOLOGY OF A KŌAN: HAKUIN’S ZEN AS A MORAL MODEL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGAGEMENT
… during the early modern era which was a time of rapid modernization and natural disasters. Focusing on Japanese Buddhism, this project draws parallels between Hakuin’s monastic endeavors and the attempts of contemporary Buddhist monks to help in combating climate change, pollution, and disaster …
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From Curiosity to Controversy: American Perception of Japanese Immigrants, 1853-1924
… nation in need of Western guidance, Japan’s rapid modernization and the growing number of Japanese immigrants on the West Coast transformed curiosity into anxiety. My paper traces this evolution of perception from 1850 to 1924, arguing that shifting views of Japan and its people reflected …
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Taipei apartment
To accommodate the rapid modernization and urbanization between 1960s and 1980s, a large number of mid-rise apartments has been built in Taipei. Today, these poorly designed apartments represent about 40 percent of the total residential buildings in the city, as much as 3,000,000 housing units. It …
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Landscapes Of Memory In German Realist Writing
… a contemporary perception of loss initiated by rapid modernization processes and a transformation of social life. Landscape in the literature of German Realism becomes the locus in which the present perception of loss may be recuperated through the mediation of memory. The various modes of …
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The Housing Model xiaoqu: the Expression of an Increasing Polarization of the Urban Population in Chinese Cities?
With the beginning of a rapid modernization after the Reform and Opening in 1978, the formation of a Chinese housing market and its diversification generated different types of housing in the urban areas. The housing model xiaoqu which has its origins in the "neighborhood unit" as well as the …
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Walking in American History: How Long Distance Foot Travel Shaped Views of Nature and Society in Early Modern America
… stay connected with their past while undergoing rapid modernization. It was a way to preserve individual while fostering community. It allowed them to connect with the natural world while increasingly being separated from it. It let them focus on the physical in the face of the mechanical. These …
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Utmaningarna mot demokratins skola : Den svenska lärarkåren, nazismen och sovjetkommunismen 1933-1945
… a threat to the democratic school. However, the rapid modernization of Soviet society was met with respect as a utopian challenge to imitate. Teachers in Sweden recognized themselves in and picked out those aspects of develop-ments in Soviet Society that they regarded as positive and accepted …
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Negotiating modernity: education and translation in nineteenth century Egypt
… European technical expertise to aid in the rapid modernization of the country – reorganizing the military, building new infrastructure, and reforming the civil service. Establishing a state-of-the- art education system was fundamental to this process, and yet it remains a neglected subject …
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Imperialism revised: Military, society, and U.S. occupation in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1924
… The occupation took place during a time of rapid modernization in the Dominican Republic and drastically changing U.S. foreign policy methods, opening the way for its events and character to play a central role in the development of both. This study combines an analysis of U.S. and Dominican …
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“Let's Smash the Idols!” Kemal Pilavoğlu's Sufi Pan-Islamism in Republican Turkey
… Kemal Atatürk's state-led reform project of modernization during the establishment of Republican Turkey. These Sufi “Islamist” responses to the Kemalist project of forced cultural change, which have been dubbed “Neo-Ottoman” by Hakan Yavuz, successfully resurrected an idealized notion of …
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Burning S(e)oul: A Body for Cremation
… of the country’s postwar trajectory, where rapid modernization prioritized efciency over continuity, severing longstanding rituals that once bond personal grief to communal memory. The friction between an engineered present and an inherited past manifest as a form of cultural …
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The trajectory of modern ceramic scholarship: Okuda Seiichi's ceramic appreciation in the Taishō period, 1912 – 1926
… in Okuda Seiichi’s thought during the period of rapid modernization and aesthetic nationalism that accompanied Japanese imperialist expansion. The main task of this study is to highlight and analyze the role of Okuda Seiichi (1883-1955) in presiding over modern ceramic scholarship. It seeks to …
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The nature of the Ottoman city: Water management and urban space in Sofia, 1380s-1910s
… the dominance of the grand narratives of rapid modernization and de-Ottomanization, elaborated in the Ottoman successor states as the legitimate framework for the study of modernity, I argue that while the level of reconfiguration of urban space in Sofia in the decades following the end of …
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Iconographies of pain in Mahmoud Sabri's work
… the 1950s and 1960s. The period of Iraq's rapid modernization and chaotic political transition from a monarchical regime to a republic in 1958, followed by a Ba'ath military coup in 1963, left the artist with no shortage of tragic events to reflect upon and respond to in his work. His …
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"Serving to secure ""Global Korea"": Gender, mobility, and flight attendant labor migrants"
… the context of South Korea’s unique history of rapid modernization, the flight attendant occupation also commands considerable social prestige. Based on ethnographic and archival research on aspiring, current, and former Korean flight attendants, this dissertation asks how these unique care …
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China Twenty Years After: Substance Use Under Rapid Social Changes
<p>This dissertation discusses how China’s rapid modernization and social transformation over the last twenty years since a series of reforms at the end of 1980s contribute to the changes in substance use behaviors. Specifically, there are three individual empirical chapters in this dissertation, …
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Saúde do Trabalhador do Sistema Único de Saúde durante e depois da pandemia da Covid-19: a perspectiva de núcleos gestores
… work highlights a recent transformation through rapid modernization in the world of work. The pandemic context due to Covid-19, caused by the New Coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2), enhances these changes, directly affecting health work processes, and, consequently, worker health. This research has the …
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Fast and Scalable Power System Learning, Analysis, and Planning
… infrastructure, power systems are undergoing rapid modernization that brings forward new challenges and possibilities, which call for more advanced learning, analysis, and planning tools. While there are numerous problems present in the modern power grid, in this work, this work has addressed …
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