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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"World War One"”.
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World War One trauma and masculinity
… the way a soldier may have experienced trauma in World War One. It looks at the letters and retrospective accounts soldiers wrote describing their feelings about fear, and it focusses on key moments that may align with psychoanalytic ideas throughout the three chapters. It is also attempts to …
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Women and World War One: Perspectives on Women's Role in WWI Literature
… of British women who served as caretakers in World War One. Often overlooked for their contributions, the women who worked on the frontlines of the war defined the changing role of women during and after the war in several crucial ways: 1) the general expectations of women’s gender role, 2) …
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South African public memorials of World War One. A historical view of processes in public memorialisation through symbolic content, with particular reference to Cape Town
… to unravel the sentiments which are embodied in war memorials by examining the conditions and events of the war as a way into understanding the motivations of the survivors, who brought them into being. The memorials in Cape Town do not exist in isolation, and therefore it was expedient to refer …
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Compulsory Death: A Historiographic Study of the Eugenics and Euthanasia Movements in Nazi Germany.
… It traces there development from the end of World War One to the fall of Hitler's Third Reich. There are three stages in this study. First, I examine eugenics after World War One and the effect the era had on society. Then I study the Nazi transition from eugenics measures to "euthanasia", …
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"Too Little to Live and Too Much to Die" The Burgenländers' Immigration to the United States During the Interwar Period
… rural Austrian region of the Burgenland between World War One and World War Two. By examining several biographical life stories of contemporaries it wants explain why the emigrants decided to leave their country, how they managed their passage, how they assimilated to their adoptedâ€home, and …
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Asleep in the Arms of God
… Texas, to Fort Worth and then France during World War One, and back again to the Keechi Valley. The dissertation opens with a preface, which examines the form of the novel, and regional and other aspects of this particular work, especially as they relate to the postmodern concern with …
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Ideology, Production, and Reproduction: Virginia Woolf, Marie Stopes, and H.D.
… and cultural reproduction during the interwar years. However, an extended study on their contrasting views about life and art in the aftermath of World War One is yet to emerge. My project examines how the bid to reproduce Britain’s militaristic state ideologies or produce feminist-pacifist …
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Paranoia, power and male identity in John Buchan's Literary War
… and the rhetoric and discourses surrounding World War One. It opens by arguing that Buchan’s ‘Literary War’ can itself be thought of as a kind of ‘paranoid imaginary’ in which cultural fears (particularly fears relating to decadence and degeneration) are projected outwards to return in the …
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Business, training and education: Sheffield circa 1880-1940
… performance is a highly complex and contingent one and that simply more education and training is not the necessary medication for the nation's economic ills. Indeed, the education and training system must be carefully monitored in order to ensure that it provides the skills and knowledge that …
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Bumpkin rising: the development of American identity through the country bumpkin character in American manners plays
… arrival in colonial America until the verge of World War Two. Each chapter examines the historical and cultural context of the time, applies that to a significant manners play of the period, and discusses American identity through the lens of the country bumpkin. The periods within the …
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The collapse of the heroic tradition in 20th century war poetry
… interest in the English poetry of the First World War. One of the products of this interest has been a great deal of literary criticism culminating in three major studies: by John H. Johnston in 1964; Bernard Bergonzi in 1965; and John Silkin in 1972. All of these critics have felt the need …
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Those Magnificent Men in their Fighting Machines: An Investigation into the Lives of WWI Tankmen
… 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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Politics of the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism and Diplomacy in Afghanistan (1919–2001)
… sweeping across the Middle East in the wake of World War One, Afghanistan gained ‘independence’ from British control of its foreign affairs. Afghan political leaders immediately sought to form a progressive nation-state from a culturally, ethnically and linguistically divided people, while also …
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Historical perceptions of Roman Catholicism and national identity, 1869-1919
… by the national security imperatives of World War One, highlighted the political value of the new position of the Roman Catholic Church in the English public sphere. Through a study of the British Mission to the Holy See based on extensive use of British and Roman archives, it argues that …
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Between Two Motherlands: Struggles for Nationhood Among the Greeks in Bulgaria, 1906--1949
… nation, yet they had an ambiguous attitude towards the Greek Kingdom and hesitated to abandon their places of birth in Bulgaria. I discover various degrees of national commitment among individuals, and argue that only during military conflicts, forced population movements, and assimilation …
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Imperialism revised: Military, society, and U.S. occupation in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1924
… examines the historical implications of World-War-One-Era armed occupations through a study of the U.S.-created constabulary in the Dominican Republic during the military occupation of 1916-1924, and a contextualization of those years in the wider context of Dominican history. Through …
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One way to live : Orde Wingate and the adoption of ‘special forces’ tactics and strategies (1903-1944)
… operations in three theaters of the Second World War. One Way to Live: Orde Wingate and the adoption of 'special forces' tactics and strategies (1903-1944) tries to answer two questions: Why did Wingate and his superiors adopt 'special forces' strategies and tactics, and why did individuals …
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Richard Thurnwald and the Transimperial Fate of German Colonial Ethnology, 1896-1926
… administrations in New Guinea during the interwar period. German ethnologists were at the forefront of a broader alignment of applied anthropology and colonialism in the West before World War One. After the brutal suppression of the Herero Rebellion in Southwest Africa (c. 1906), Germany faced …
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