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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Twentieth century history"”.
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The Career of John Steven McGroarty
<p>John Steven McGroarty, twentieth-century Catholic Californian, had a career which was as varied as it was long. Interested in Journalism, poetry, history, politics, and drama, he lived for activity, and for the greater part of his life was not far from the center of it. As one of the most …
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Albert Camus : Existentialist and Humanist
… its roots lie, admittedly, in the nineteenth century philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, but even deeper origins may be seen in the seventeenth century figure, Blaise Pascal, and in the radical restructuring of society begun in the Renaissance. It is a mistake to think …
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The Forgotten El Salvador: A Study of the Emergence and Downfall of the “Bright Spot” of Central America, 1948-1978
In this study I examine the history of El Salvador during the years 1948 to 1978. Current narratives regard this period as part of a sequence of oppression and underdevelopment under military rule that existed in this nation since the early decades of the twentieth century and that eventually led …
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The Wehrmarcht: Soldiers and Germans During the Second World War
… insight into a vast area of research in German twentieth century history. An estimated 20 to 40 billion letters circulated throughout the German armed forces from 1939 until 1945. In addition to letters, Nazi propaganda and the Hitler Youth greatly contributed to the influx of anti-Semitic and …
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The Skyscraper And The Suburb: Architecture, Capitalism, And The American Metropolitan Landscape, 1929–1940
During the early twentieth century, American cities and suburbs underwent significant change. This dissertation examines two architectural projects, Rockefeller Center and Broadacre City, that respectively sought to interpret and intensify competing trends of density and dispersion during the …
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Surviving the Modernist Paradigm: a fresh approach to the singular art of Anglada-Camarasa, from Symbolism to Abstraction
… provided by the interpretation of early twentieth-century art history, originated in the 1970s, which emerged as an alternative to the dominating one defended by Modernist Paradigm supporters. In my discussion I situate Anglada's development within the cultural currents of his time and …
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Indian club swinging in nineteenth and twentieth-century India and England
… of fitness equipment in nineteenth and early-twentieth century India and England. Originating in India, the clubs’ nineteenth and early twentieth-century history is one of remarkable complexity. Adopted by civil and military colonisers in India in the early nineteenth-century, club swinging …
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Alaska Through The Looking Glass: And What Twentieth Century American Photojournalists Saw There
… reported on iconic events in Alaska in the 20th Century for American mass media outlets. The analysis posits that news images are vehicles by which the spaces of Alaska are produced and ordered for southern audiences. In this way, the analysis offers a reading of how southern news media, through …
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A Journey to Freedom: The Life of Richard Oakes, 1942-1972
… theoretical models 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. …
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Everyday Life and Experimental Fiction in France, 1957–1966: A Literary-Conceptual History
… with a turn away from lived experience and history, I argue that experimental novels by Michel Butor, Georges Perec, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras open the everyday lifeworld as a site where ethical questioning encounters the historical process. Each chapter pursues a close reading …
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Pests, Knowledge and Boundaries in the Early Union of South Africa: categorising, controlling, conserving
… been foregrounded as agents in South African history. Historians have largely regarded them as obstacles to settler expansion, victims of colonial violence, or treated them as metaphors that mediate human relationships. Bringing these beings to the forefront of my analysis allows me to rethink …
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Here comes the bookmobile: Public culture and the shape of belonging
This dissertation explores the peculiar history of the bookmobile in the United States from the close of the nineteenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. In the process, it insists that a spatial politics of shared information was key to constructing and contesting community in …
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"""Estamos en todas partes:"" male homosexuality, nation, and modernity in twentieth century Mexico"
… a group that for the majority of the 20th century were largely excluded from full citizenship. This did not mean homosexuals were unimportant; on the contrary, they were the foils against which the ideal Mexican could be defined and participants in both democracy and citizenship through …
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Leonardo’s Tomb: Exhibitions of Early Flight Technology at the Deutsches Museum, Science Museum and Smithsonian, 1903 – 2003
This thesis is an account of the aeronautical collections of three museums, the Science Museum, the Deutsches Museum and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, as they were developed and displayed between 1903 and 2003. This thesis is arranged into four main chapters, each with a series of …