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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"World War 2"”.
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The rise and origins of Greek resistance during World War 2
… there were at the time two distinct polices towards the Greek resistance. The first, emanating from the SOE (Special Operations Executive), that was primarily interested in the raising of resistance and was willing to cooperate with any faction towards this. The second emanated from the British …
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The Ministry of Information and the British Film Hero during World War 2
… and production, during the period of the Second World War. It explores government policy and institutional organisation, and investigates the impact of underlying film production processes and propaganda demands on the representation of the hero figure in British feature films. It opens a …
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From chef to superstar : food media from World War 2 to the World Wide Web
… today follows directly from U.K. and U.S. post-war industrial and economic booms, and by the associated processes of globalisation that secure the spread of emergent trends from these countries to the rest of the so-called Western world. The theoretical frame for the work is guided in large part …
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A Time of Angels : a novel
These are the experience as a prisoner of war at Zonderwater of Romeo's father, Umberto; Ruth's memory of her father checking the list of Holocaust survivors' names, posted outside Salisbury Synagogue, as it was updated; Geraldine's description of her elderly neighbour's drawers full of embroidered …
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Epistemic Communities and Proliferation: The Implications of Nuclear Knowledge
… of nuclear material just prior to our entry into World War 2 and the nuclear age itself</p>
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History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria
… migration patterns of Bosnian Muslims from post World War 2 periods to more recent settlement. The thesis provides contemporary insights on Bosnian Muslims living in a Western society such as Australia. The thesis excavates key issues about Islam and the Muslim communities in Western nations and …
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The commercial fishery for sharks in the South-Western Cape, with an analysis of the biology of the two principal target species, Callorhinchus Capensis Dumeril and Galeorhinus Galeus Linn
The South African shark fishery began in World War 2, based on a demand for shark liver oil. The initial landings are estimated at 3750 tons per annum, but have since declined to approximately 820 tons of shark, principally Galeorhinus galeus, with an additional 800 tons of Callorhjncbus capensis. …
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Mediterranean influences on horticultural and garden developments in South Australia between 1836 and 1938.
… significant landscape commissions until after World War 2 when refugee migration from the Mediterranean region introduced a direct influence on society and culture here. Braudel’s view of history as wave-like is a used as an aid to understand the nature of the Mediterranean influence as …
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Adolescent property offending and socialisation
… and showed that children born immediately after World War 2 in Scotland were significantly less delinquent than expectation. The results of these studies are extensively discussed in relation to a general concept of primary deviance, the interaction between socialisation and situational or life …
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Radio Power: An exploration of agency for the participants of a climate change communication campaign in South Africa
… for Development (C4D) appeared after World War 2 and has since become a key approach to achieving sustainable and democratic development, especially in the Global South. It borrows from behaviour economics and psychology, focusing mostly on behaviour change outcomes. While it has been …
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Complicity in international criminal law: A fragmented law in need of a new approach
… crimes in the years following the end of World War 2, the international jurisprudence has had difficulties in conclusively establishing the content of this concept. To that effect, the ICTY, ICTR, SCSL, STL, and the ICC’s jurisprudence contain complicated, unresolved issues that need to be …
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The Good Life: Weakness in the Survival Years
… experiment in language and form.” The socially aware writers of 1948 felt the impasse of their situation acutely, a suspended sensibility given its clearest expression by John Berryman, who explained that “this has been simply the decade of Survival.” The decade’s self-image for many of its …
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From the Battlefield to the Archive: Tracing Testimony in Holocaust Memory
… role of testimony in shaping public memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As the last generation of eyewitnesses passes, societies increasingly rely on preserved, mediated forms of testimony to understand and remember traumatic pasts. Testimony, whether handwritten, oral, visual, or …
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In a hell of our own creation: Spatial context and the Wehrmacht’s genocidal war in Eastern Europe, 1941–1943
… atrocities in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. How should historians contextualize which factors held greater influence over servicemen deployed to different sectors of the vast Eastern Front? Charles Calcaterra highlights soldiers’ responses to their surrounding environments—the …
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Nutrition labelling of food to promote consumer health in transitional Thailand
… ways. The Thai food industry emerged after World War 2 and Thailand joined the international Codex Alimentarius. Consumers became concerned about food and the government created consumer-friendly labels. Over the last two decades, nutrition labelling expanded to promote population health by …
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The Modern Woman's Business Suit - An Investigation into Incorporating Freedom of Movement in the Block-pattern Construction for Soft-tailored Mass-produced Womenswear
… production of womenswear dates from the post World War 2 period. In the 1950s, traditional menswear was adapted and simplified for female customers. As part of the mass production process, garments were constructed on a rectangular pattern base, (as seen in the menswear 'sack' shape in use …
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Nutrition labelling of food to promote consumer health in transitional Thailand
… ways. The Thai food industry emerged after World War 2 and Thailand joined the international Codex Alimentarius. Consumers became concerned about food and the government created consumer-friendly labels. Over the last two decades, nutrition labelling expanded to promote population health by …
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Exploring anti-fascism in Britain through autobiography from 1930 to 1936.
… who lived during this time. During the inter-war years, the anti-fascist movement achieved its peak in 1930-1936, therefore this thesis is limited to those years. In 1936 the Battle of Cable Street contributed to a decline in British Union of Fascists’ activity and support; this became a …
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