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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"WWI"”.
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Archaeology in the British Mandate of Palestine between WWI and WWII
The administration of archaeology in the Mandate of Palestine took place in a very particular situation, both within the British Empire and outside of it. The Department of Antiquities (DAP) operated within the rules and framework of a bureaucracy answerable to the directions and ideals of the …
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Women and World War One: Perspectives on Women's Role in WWI Literature
… on women characters. Women’s gender roles during WWI is an under-researched area within literary studies, and this thesis serves to illuminate two important authors who represent women’s experience and impact on the war.</p>
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America's Moral Responsibility?: The Debate over American Intervention in the Near East after WWI
After the First World War, there was widespread support for U.S. intervention in the Near East to assist Christian minorities in the region, but the Wilson administration and the U.S. Senate took little action. The Armenian cause in particular was foremost in the minds of Americans. Many Americans …
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Those Magnificent Men in their Fighting Machines: An Investigation into the Lives of WWI Tankmen
<p>This thesis will look at the immense backlog of war diaries, journals, personal letters, government documentation, and oral histories left behind by British tank crewmen of the First World War. The purpose of this investigation is mainly to uncover the reasons that individuals were chosen for …
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Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
The rhetoric and apparatus of national security have played critical roles in American controversies over animal and human experimentation from the dawn of the Twentieth Century to today's "War on Terror." Drawing on archival and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) research, this dissertation traces …
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First World War memory and national mythmaking in capital cities - horizontality and verticality in London, Paris, and Budapest
The thesis investigates the influence national WWI commemorations had on the urban landscape in capital cities, London, Paris and Budapest. It analyses how the urban space has changed its physical, symbolic and temporal layers during the hundred years between the end of WWI war and the WWI …
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Confronting the “European War” in Early Republican China: ROC’s Constitutional Process and the First World War
… development in the study of the First World War (WWI), research on China’s experiences in WWI is still largely limited to the discussion of several discrete topics: the war participation debate, the Chinese Labour Corps, and the May Fourth Movement. This dissertation argues that the First World …
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"""Though Their Bones Crunched, Their Shut Mouths Made No Moan"": Speaking the Corpse in Twentieth Century Anglo -American War Poetry"
… dismissed as unrealistic and escapist, popular WWI poetry shows an obsession with death that reflects deep anxieties about the war and the course of modernization. Around 1930 these largely consolatory visions of the apotheosized dead were replaced by a younger generation of ""trench"" poets who …
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We Are A New Race:' Booker T. Washington's Use Of African American Spirituals In The Creation Of A New Negro Image
… a racial uplift strategy being used well before WWI, and that there were multiple New Negro movements throughout the United States and throughout US history.</p>
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AN OCCUPATION WITH DEMOCRATIZATION: A MARGINAL VALUE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE CONSOLIDATION OF IMPOSED DEMOCRATIC REGIMES
… hypotheses against four case studies: post-WWI Germany, post-WWII Germany, Japan and Korea. The study finds that democracies are more likely to consolidate when there is an external threat, when the occupier credibly protects the new regime against this threat, and when the occupier provides …
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Making Their Mark: World War I Memorial and Commemoration Formation by Veterans in Johnson City, TN, 1922-1935
… City, TN executed two very different versions of WWI memorialization, one built in 1922 and another in 1935. These two memorials served the community in vastly different ways throughout the 1900s. The first was a commemorative marker and the second was a community centerpiece. In this paper, I …
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Remembering Rose Macaulay: Exploring Dangerous Ages and the World My Wilderness
… forgotten among the many women writing between WWI and WWII. Her novels Dangerous Ages and The World My Wilderness reveal important information about women's struggle to obtain an identity outside of the home, in the work force, and in society in general, as well as key information regarding …
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Trauma Inscribed on the Body in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy
… to our notions, or mis-notions rather, of WWI. In this trilogy, the author does not simply engage a discussion of the past through the integration of historical figures, personal recordings, and accurate accounts of society and the Western Front during 1917-1918; but through the complexity …
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Aghas, Sheiks, and Daesh in Iraq: Kurdish robust action in turmoil
… the patronage nature of Iraqi Kurdistan since WWI and provides insight into individuals from minority groups and political parties that are structurally located in positions of brokerage and influence. With this information, SOCCENT, the project’s sponsor, will be better able to understand the …
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lily [bloom in my darkness]: an electroacoustic opera
… an orphan who fled England at the start of WWI in 1915, alone, 25, female. She took a ship to Montreal and then a train, which she rode to the end of the railroad, arriving at Cascade Tunnel east of Everett, WA. Through imagining a dream Lily may have had her first night sleeping in a cabin …
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Disaster, Technology, and the Military: The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and the Impact of the Environment on Cultural Perceptions of the Military
… that had already been occurring prior to WWI, the public shift in perceptions caused by this military disaster response provided the impetus for a more conservative turn and a decline of the democracy movement over the next several years. This historical narrative provides troubling signs …
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Poetics Of The Sacred: Divinations Of Identity In The French Avant-Garde
… the social fragmentation wrought in the wake of WWI, many French avant-garde writers integrated the findings of sociological studies of religion into their art. The authors considered here, including Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, and Collette Peignot, believed that literature could effect a …
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Past, present and future evolution of oil prices
… has also played a major strategic role during WWI and WWII. More recently, Oil has also been used as an economic weapon in several occasions. During the first and the second oil crises, producing countries have created OPEC in order to control prices in an attempt to get autonomy from consuming …
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Beauty and Ethics: Three Relations
… with the sociopolitical structures that yielded WWI and as a tool of oppression wielded against women and minorities. One wonders, however, whether the baby was thrown out with the bathwater. Even granted that beauty has been damaging in the ways alluded to, can it yet be ethically helpful in …
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Riders on the Storm: American Exceptionalism, Masculinity, and Frontierism in the 28th Division “Over There,” 1917-18
… I. Likewise, exploring the 28<sup>th</sup> in WWI highlights a more personal, troop-level look at the doughboys that is contrary to the unprepared, Allied reliant, or overly arrogant beliefs that degrade the AEF in historical narratives.</p>
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