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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"WW2"”.
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An object Biography of WW2 Pillboxes in Cumbria and Lancashire, and the Defensive Structures of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France
British pillboxes and the defensive structures of Pointe du Hoc were both constructed around the time of the Second World War. While they may share physical similarities, the ways that they have been treated both during and after the Second World War differs greatly. Structures that were designed …
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An investigation into the design, production and display contexts of industrial safety posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during WW2 and a catalogue of posters
… for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) during WW2 are evidence of a politically progressive, socially engaged and mass-produced graphic communication in Britain. These characteristics allow the RoSPA posters to qualify, by Walter Benjamin’s criteria, as exemplars of Modernist cultural …
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Multigenerational Living: Reconfiguration of the Suburban House
… driven methodology, the project focuses on Post WW2 cookie cutter housing stock in Bells Corners, Ottawa.
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An examination of the post- second world war relative decline of UK manufacturing 1945-1975, viewed through the lens of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd
… a motorcycle manufacturing company and pre-WW2 world market-leader. The study also integrates and extends several earlier investigations into the collapse that concentrated on events in the Motorcycle Division, rather than on the BSA Group, its directors and its overall strategy. The …
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Darbuotojų dalyvavimas darbdavio sprendimų priėmime /
… in Decision-Making by the Employer After WW2 the new era of Employment Law began, and along with it the development of employee involvement in an employer’s decision making processes. Employees’ involvement in decision making is particularly significant for protection of employees’ rights, …
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Storytelling memories : a tangible connection to bomber command veterans : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
… 6oth anniversary of the end of World War Two (WW2) historians are diligently collecting the memoirs of veterans to preserve for future generations. Public archives of memorabilia, letters, photos and artefacts, in the process of digitisation are complimenting the stone memorials of the past. …
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Idylls, Imitation, Ideology and Imperialism: A Fanonian Critique of National Liberation
Decolonisation flooded through Africa after WW2, spearheaded by national liberation movements, apparently. In most cases, this did not lead to national sovereignty or independence, and did not alleviate poverty. Decolonisation eventually led to inequality, economic stagnation, and new, subtle forms …
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Techno-Territories : the spatial, technological and social reorganization of office work
… German office concept developed after WW2 and inspired by cybernetics. Fieldwork in a present day innovative office design firm reveals a deep tension in its office designs between a more flexible and mobile organizational goal, and a more communicative and collaborative one - a tension …
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Agricultural knowledge transfer in Devon 1919 - 1933
… organisational differences to pre-WW1 and post-WW2 agricultural knowledge transfer. The study also identifies differences with agricultural education in adjacent counties. Interwar knowledge transfer received funding from central government, but was administered at the county level. Provision …
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Agricultural knowledge transfer in Devon 1919 - 1933
… organisational differences to pre-WW1 and post-WW2 agricultural knowledge transfer. The study also identifies differences with agricultural education in adjacent counties. Interwar knowledge transfer received funding from central government, but was administered at the county level. Provision …
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The Representation of the Violated Body and its Spectatorship: the Negative Approach (1970s to 2016)
… have developed stealth torture after the WW2, with an aim to avoid detection, therefore often there would be no visible sign to document and show as the evidence. Thus, the context of seeming abundance and importance attributed to the photographic image of violence, prompted me to focus on …
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The vocationalisation of the school curriculum: society, state and economy
… 'collective' (inter-War), and 'corporate' (post WW2) periods of education-industry relations. During these stages, a combination of factors reduced gradually the autonomy of the school system, served to increase the influence of the state over the curriculum, and enabled the introduction of a …
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Essays on the macroeconomics of economic development
… transfer programs of the 20th century. After WW2, Germany lost part of its Eastern Territories. Within 2 years, more than 8m people were expelled and transferred to Western Germany. Using individual-level data of the 1960s and 70s I show that refugees experienced substantial reallocation into …
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Land use and vegetation change on the Long Mynd
… for its success. However, changes in post WW2 stocking practice; the loss of ponies followed by an increase in the numbers of sheep and a change to them being overwintered on the hill, led to excessive grazing and damage to the heath. This coincided with the spread over the hill by bracken …
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The State and the Transformation of British and American Commercial Banking, 1945-2008
In the aftermath of WW2, British and American commercial banks’ activities were heavily restricted. Governments, regulatory agencies, and central banks used controls on assets and liabilities to direct credit to their preferred ends and maintain financial stability. It was broadly accepted that the …
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New Zealand army chaplains at war : 2 NZEF 1939 - 1945
… which were to develop over the decades following WW2. The concluding chapter summarizes a Theology of Chaplaincy which has developed from the foregoing study.
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A Performance Study And Analysis Of The Role Of Professor Muller In The Visit.
… time and setting, loosely basing it in a post WW2 era in perhaps Switzerland, or even Germany, although the location will never be actually specified by the director. It is merely a suggestion of where we should begin the process of characterization. The town gives off an appearance of …
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Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence
This dissertation proposes ways out of traumatic silence in contemporary French and Francophone North African fiction. While silence has been the focus of trauma-centered texts in recent decades, I bring in the theoretical frameworks of affect theory, cultural translation, and new media as possible …