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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Transnational History"”.
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“Speaking the international language”: a transnational history of the Indian advertising industry, 1955-1969
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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The head of chief Mkwawa and the transnational history of colonial violence, 1898-2019
This dissertation is a history of Chief Mkwawa’s severed head. I explore the historical context by which his head was taken, the shifting terminology which categorised his remains, the international and internal movements of the skull, and the polymorphous quality imposed onto the head through a …
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Between power and protest : The Japan Times and Anpo-protests in 1960
… The protests were the largest in Japanese history and left their legacy to Japanese political history and civil society. Scholars have researched Anpo-protests to some extent. However, the Anpo-protests have not been analysed in Worldwide context of Cold war which is why transnational …
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Out of the Closet and Into Print: Gay Liberation across the Anglo-American World
… liberation’s intellectual, communications, and transnational history reside at the core this thesis. Methodologically indebted to actor network theory, critical theorizations of counterpublics and the public sphere, and transnational historiography, the thesis develops four main arguments. …
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Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-1980
… Conversely, one way of understanding the history of economic development is by analyzing its relation to First-World programs for economic recovery and redistribution. The dissertation further illuminates the role of midcentury policymaking in popularizing what became neoliberal practices …
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From Cubism to Non-Objective Art: Sonia and Robert Delaunay's Exchange with Russian Artists
This dissertation examines the early history and development of Cubism, Orphism and Non-Objective art through the artistic exchange between Sonia and Robert Delaunay and Russian avant-garde artists. Previous scholars have studied the work of the Delaunays primarily within the context of isolated …
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From The Field: Nature And Work On American Frontiers, 1876-1909
… together. In recent decades the New Western History has rewritten our understanding of American settlement and American expansion. The stories we tell and teach have themselves expanded beyond the experiences of explorers and settlers to include a fuller picture of the history of the American …
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Making internationalism conscious: libraries and the transnational propagation of the international mind (1911 – 1951)
… historically through the dual lens of library history and transnational history, this dissertation provides a unique view of the role of information professions in promoting internationalism. The history provides further understanding of the evolution of these information dissemination and …
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Kakai Tonga 'i Okalani Nu'u Sila: Tongan Generations in Auckland New Zealand
… they make sense of their place, their time, in a transnational history, that is, a family of stories among three Tongan generations residing largely in Auckland New Zealand. The Dialogue, part two of this three act play, is four chapters which maps out the theoretical and ethnographic territory …
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A Journey to Freedom: The Life of Richard Oakes, 1942-1972
… to construct an 'alternative' twentieth-century history: what I define as 'Intertribalism' and the advent of an 'Indian City. While the term 'Pan-Indian' implies the Ethnic-American destruction of Tribal identity, Intertribalism emphasizes the study of coalitions between Tribes. Native history, …
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Varieties of Transnational Life: Brazilian <i>Nikkeis</i>’ Changing Cross-border Ties with Two Homelands
… emigrants to Brazil and their descendants – transnational lives throughout a century of their migration history. I propose an interactive process approach to migrant transnationalism to understand the divergence of Brazilian Nikkeis’ transnational lives between their two homelands, Japan and …
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Visuality and the transnational urban space: Koreatown, Los Angeles
… how visuality and countervisuality influence the transnational urban space of Koreatown, Los Angeles. Based on Nicholas Mirzoeff’s (2011) concepts of visuality and countervisuality, and by incorporating perspectives of globalization, specifically treatment of cities under globalization, the study …
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A ‘FROG HYPNOTIZED BY A SNAKE’? WESTERN EUROPE AND THE POLISH MOVEMENT SOLIDARNOŚĆ, 1980–1989
… visibility. Ultimately, the 1980s appear as a prehistory of Poland’s post-1989 relationship with the European Union. Early contacts between Solidarność and the EC anticipated both the aspirations and the contradictions that would later characterize Poland’s Europeanization. As such, the research …
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The Limits of Empire: The Qing-Gurkha War and China’s Trans-Himalayan Frontier, 1788–1793
… and borderlands, Qing-Tibet relations, and transnational history, this study leverages a diverse range of primary sources, including original archives, court records, official military annals, and gazetteers composed in multiple languages. Through this research, the dissertation meticulously …
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German film, world travel: Berlin, Hollywood, Bombay
… them to become an integral part an increasingly transnational industry. These international networks were imbued—sometimes explicitly—with an informal diplomatic authority; well respected German films and filmmakers contributed to restoring Germany’s international reputation, even as films …
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National aspirations, imagined futures, and space exploration: The origin and development of Korean Space Program 1958-2013
The goal of my dissertation is to describe the history of the South Korean1 space program and to use it to offer some insights on reframing space history from a global point of view. South Korea is a new player among the space faring nations. While some of the necessary infrastructure was put in …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity …
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Translating sex culture: Transnational sex education and the U.S.-Swedish relationship, 1910s–1960s
“Translating Sex Culture: Transnational Sex Education and the U.S.-Swedish Relationship, 1910s–1960s” traces the history of American-Swedish sex education relations; the exchange, modification, and reception of sex instruction material; and the opponents of the subject who connected sex education …
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