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Amateur theater in historical Transylvania between the two world wars
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 80023 Lift date: 2017-07-22T22:46:21Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Native American Chic: The Marketing Of Native Americans In New York Between The World Wars
<p>Focusing on four key figures - Morris de Camp Crawford, John Sloan, Amelia Elizabeth White, and René d'Harnoncourt - this dissertation analyzes museum and gallery exhibitions of Native American art mounted in the United States, particularly New York City, during the interwar period, and …
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Transnational women’s poetry of the two World Wars: Lola Ridge, Winifred Letts, H.D., Sheila Wingfield
… women poets across two continents to the two World Wars: Lola Ridge, Winifred Letts, H.D. and Sheila Wingfield. This thesis considers the representation of the events and experiences of the two world wars in the work of four women poets: Lola Ridge (1873-1941), Winifred Letts (1882-1972), H.D. …
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For Want of Land: A Study of Land Settlement in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and Raasay between the two world wars
… Outer Hebrides, Skye and Raasay between the two world wars. Land settlement is a world-‐wide phenomenon, which in the context of this research involves the examination of the creation of new crofts and the enlargement of existing ones from the breaking up of farms and estates. Crofting is a …
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Matriarchal myth-making for a postpatriarchal age: The anti-war writing of Virginia Woolf and Hilda Doolittle
… of political and ideological upheaval when the world wars, lesbian and gay, women's and psychoanalytic movements of their time challenged traditional assumptions about human nature and cultural values. Familiar with influential intellectual circles, both Woolf and H. D. helped develop the …
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A Comparative Study of America's Entries into World War I and World War II.
… America's entries into the First and Second World Wars to discover similarities and dissimilarities. Comparing America's entries into the World Wars provides an insight into major events that influenced future ones and changed America.</p><p>Research was conducted from primary sources of …
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Albert Camus on political murder: a sign of the times in which we live
… prevailed in Europe during and after the two world wars. Though indeed, these questions are in many respects timeless. Namely, the three questions this essay seeks to answer are the following: 1) Is suicide the answer to the absurd?; 2) In the context of the absurd is murder permitted?; and 3) …
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Contesting Whiteness: Race, Nationalism and British Empire Exhibitions Between the Wars
… imperial race relations in the years between the world wars by taking up multiple sites of empire for consideration and identifying how transnational issues shaped a particularly imperial exhibitionary complex.
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Wartime Huts: The Development, Typology, and Identification of Temporary Military Buildings in Britain 1914-1945
… list of hut designs for the First and Second World Wars. The full lists and descriptions of each hut are given in the appendices. These lists, 20 types for the First World War and 52 from the Second World War, show the huge range and scope of the huts used and is the major contribution of this …
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The formulation of Canadian policy during the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty
… Despite fighting in the First and Second World Wars at the side of Britain, Canada had never made a formal commitment to Imperial defence. Outside of those wars, Canada had never even made a real contribution to her own defence. Why, then, did Canada assume a prominent role in the creation …
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ΤΟ ΠΕΡΙΟΔΙΚΟ "ΙΔΕΑ" 1933-1934. ΠΑΡΕΜΒΑΣΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΚΡΙΣΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΑΙΣΘΗΤΙΚΗΑΝΑΖΗΤΗΣΗ
… FRAME OF THE TIME, INTERVAL BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS. PRESENTATION OF THE "IDEA" MAGAZINE, ITS TOPICS, CHARACTER, PURPOSE AND PUBLIC, FOLLOWED BY A REFERENCE OF VARIOUS FREE LANCE WRITERS. EXAMINATION OF THEVIEWS OF THE MAGAZINE ON SOCIETY AND LITERATURE AND THE CONFLICT WITH INTELLECTUALS …
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The 1956 Suez Crisis: A Study in Allied Conflict
… to rely, upon collective security to make the world safe for democracy and free from aggression. The search for security brought nations to ally themselves with partners who possessed similar goals, aims, or ideologies. From these alliances came the term "Allies." Britain, France, and the …
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The Death of The Leviathan: The Apocalypse of Modernity in Stefano D’Arrigo’s <i>Horcynus Orca</i>
… and ideological advancements following the World Wars. <em>The Death of the Leviathan</em> traces the evolution of this motif, from Dante’s Ulysses at the threshold, to <em>Moby Dick</em> at its zenith, to the tragic culmination in <em>Horcynus Orca</em>. This dissertation explores how these …
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Love in Conflict: D.E. Stevenson, War-Time Romance Fiction, and The English Air
… romance fiction before, during, and after World War II. By analyzing her life and dissecting the genre's formulaic properties, I will show how The English Air is representative of the ways some women coped with the eras of conflict of the two World Wars. In a critical analysis of the novel …
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"Our real family, the one we chose" : the function of comfort in the sitcom family.
… model after the cultural shifts during the world wars. While that style of sitcom and its family has changed, its function to the viewer has largely stayed the same. While it no longer is about reinforcing a traditional family structure, the sitcom does work to comfort the viewers that are …
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Between The Wars: An Activist Novel
The first part of this thesis, Between The Wars, is a novel based on the life and work of pacifist and social reformer Muriel Lester. It is an interrogation of the beliefs that inspired her, the christian pacifist movement she was a part of, and the challenge of living out the values of peace …
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Sexual Difference as Narrative Technique: Cross-Dressing, Redressing, and Undressing Female Protagonists
… in gender identity of the work force produced by World Wars I and II. My argument in this thesis is that the issue of gender in the modern narrative is also much less stable than critics might assume or wish, that it is indeed continually negotiated in relationship to larger social and narrative …
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War and fashion: Political views and how military styles influence fashion
… examines outerwear styles during the past two World Wars and the two Gulf war styles.</p> <p>Since the beginning of World War I, fashion has been influenced by military uniforms. America’s participation in the war affected the designs, fabrics, and colors of the current fashion trends. In every …
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The stained glass war memorial windows of Charles William Kelsey
… windows were studied: ten memorials for World War I, twenty-two memorials for World War II and ten memorials for both World Wars. Research is divided into three main areas: how Kelsey developed his reputation as a stained glass artist in Canada, the influences of the English stained glass …
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