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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"West Germany"”.
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Neo-Nazism in West Germany
… is not completely isolated from other trends in West German society. Rightist elements within the established party system and broad sections of the population hold similar views and attitudes. This similarity, linked with an over-exaggerated concern with a perceived threat from the extreme Left …
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Moral Politics: Global Humanitarianism, Africa, and West Germany, 1960-1985
… patterns of humanitarian connection between West Germany and the wider world, and specifically to Nigeria-Biafra and Ethiopia, from the 1960s to the 1980s. It brings them together under the sign of global humanitarianism, but it does not tally them to an uplifting account or cautionary tale …
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Art Therapy in West Germany: A Study of Theories and Methods
… the art therapy profession as it is practiced in West Germany today. The focus of this paper will be on the two major approaches to art therapy in West Germany, anthroposophical art therapy and psychotherapeutic art therapy, which have developed apart from each other and have lacked contact and …
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The role of the greens in the local politics of West Germany.
… of the Greens to the changing nature of West Germany's local politics in the 1980s. The changes correspond broadly to the politicisation and parliamentarisation of a sphere of government traditionally perceived as being "unpolitical". Building upon theories of the New Politics, it is …
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Segregation, Mobility and Residential Location of Foreign Workers in Duesseldorf, West Germany
A theoretical framework of ethnic segregation in West German cities is developed that describes the complex interrelationships between German and foreign mobility processes in constrained urban housing markets, and the resulting residential distributions of Germans and foreigners in the city. …
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Patterns and conditions of health lifestyles in the United States and West Germany
… utilizes cross-national data from the U.S. and West Germany. The study seeks to contribute to the theoretical as well as empirical knowledge on modern lifestyles in general and health lifestyles in particular. At the beginning a comprehensive definition of health lifestyle is introduced. Next, a …
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Anti-nuclear energy in West Germany the conflict between nuclear proponents and opponents.
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science.
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The nature of postmaterialism: a comparative study of West Germany and the United States
The social and economic structures in western societies are changing and with them are the political values of their citizens. This study investigates the nature of post-materialist value orientations in the United States and West Germany. The research aimed at determining whether the indicators …
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Recognizing Race: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Feminist Movements on Race Relations in West Germany
<p>After World War II, many West German women had a difficult time coming to terms with the atrocities that the National Socialist leadership committed during that war, as well as their own participation in the Party. Discussions of the roles of women within twentieth-century society began to grow …
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Leisure at work in Britain, West Germany, France and Japan : a cross-cultural comparative study
… toward work and the workplace in Britain, West Germany, France and Japan. A cross-national approach was adopted in order to gain a better understanding of differences and similarities in behaviour and to identify aspects specific to each society. Although the relationship between work and …
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Opening German Minds: Drug Users, Social Tolerance, and the Making of West Germany, 1967--1983
… relations between sub-cultures and mainstream West German society, tracking the shift from confrontational to therapeutic modes of engagement. In the early seventies, West German drug users, alongside student activists and terrorists, appeared as profound threats to social order in postwar …
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The Lost East: Silesian Expellees in West Germany and the Fantasy of Return, 1945--1970
… traveling back to see the changed spaces of western Poland for themselves, expellees steadily came to realize through the 1950s and 1960s that their professed ""Right to the Heimat "" was in fact a right to the Heimat that they imagined in memory, rather than to a space that they could never …
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Culture from the slums: punk rock, authenticity and alternative culture in East and West Germany
… moral politics of authenticity emerging in the Western world in the post-1960s era. Examining the development of the popular music genre punk since the 1970s, this study helps to explain why Germany after decades of dictatorship became democratic and how rock’n’roll contributed to this …
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The lost East: Silesian expellees in West Germany and the fantasy of return, 1945-1970
One-fifth of the postwar West German population consisted of German refugees expelled from the former eastern territories and regions beyond. My dissertation examines how and why millions of expellees from the province of Silesia came to terms with the loss of their homeland. Revising the …
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Homeownership and housing affordability in Great Britain, Japan, Canada, West Germany, and the United States
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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America's reluctant allies : the genesis of the political-military cultures of Japan and West Germany
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1992.
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New social movements in France and West Germany: their activists and conditions for their development
In this paper, new social movements in France and West Germany are compared in terms of their supporters, and in terms of certain elements of the political and administrative conditions which they are confronting. On the basis of survey data from 1982, specific attributes of supporters of new …
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West Germany and Namibia's path to independence, 1969-1990: foreign policy and rivalry with East Germany
This thesis examines West Germany's relationship with Namibia between 1969 and 1990. It investigates West German foreign policy towards Namibia, at the height of the Namibian liberation struggle, against the backdrop of East and West German rivalry. It brings to light that the post-war division of …
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The politics of technological choices : business-state relations and nuclear energy policy-making in West Germany
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1982.
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