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Showing 1 to 20 of 603 for “"early twentieth century"”.
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British Foreign Policy in the Early Twentieth Century
Dolgozatom fő célja az, hogy átfogó képet nyújtson a századforduló illetve 20. század első pár évének brit külpolitikai helyzetéről, kiemelve az angol-orosz kapcsolatokat. Először a 19. század meghatározó brit külpolitikai jelenségéről, a fényes elszigeteltségről ejtek szót; mit is jelentett ez …
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Broadcasting modernity: eloquent listening in the early twentieth century
… technology, namely wireless, as a feature of early twentieth century literature. If modernism is a historical-specific movement, and language a repository of time, then the advent of radio broadcasting cannot be ignored - a medium which inscribed itself into the pages of books. The present …
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Black Education in Three Northern Cities in the Early Twentieth Century
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511741.pdf: 12035099 bytes, checksum: 713d251abcafb89d7bc19abf548350d1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Representations of convicts in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture
… a central cultural importance in the nineteenth century because they embodied a form of transgressive individualism which fascinated bourgeois readers. Convicts functioned as screens onto which readers could project their own forbidden desires. The study analyses canonical novels by Sand, Balzac, …
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Between architectures : institutionalization and architectural discourse in early twentieth-century Poland
… challenges of modernity and modernization in the early twentieth century. It probes the establishment of institutional structures in higher education, publishing, and corporate life, investigating their development in relation to concomitant evolution of discourses around the role of history, …
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“Anglo-Saxons of the East”: Redefining Armenians in Early Twentieth Century America
… of statistical and quantitative information on early Armenian American history, the text also provided a voice to Armenian Americans in an era where the American public knew them only through paternalistic aid campaigns and fundraiser slogans in the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide. To analyze …
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Reviving Hellas: the body and natural movement in early twentieth-century Britain
This thesis examines the body and the new corporealities that emerged at a time in history when the modern looked back to Hellas as a source for self-transformation. In particular, this thesis investigates the actions of the body and Madge Atkinson’s (1885-1970) Natural Movement technique and its …
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The instrumental music of British Women Composers in the Early Twentieth Century
… chamber music produced by women in the early twentieth century, a particularly fertile and under-represented period with regard to this topic and it draws on aspects of women’s history, British music history and feminist musicology. It argues that the Cobbett competitions instigated by …
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The controversy over the awakening of faith in early-twentieth-century China
… on the authenticity of the Awakening of Faith in early-twentieth-century China was significant in its impact on the modernization of Chinese Buddhism. It reveals the complex relation between Yogācāra and the Chinese Buddhist schools that are built on tathāgatagarbha thought. The core of the …
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The politics and identity of fashion changes in early-twentieth century China
… on the symbolic meaning of women’s fashion in early-twentieth century China. Women’s fashion has been perceived as an important site of normative prescription in Chinese history. In the beginning of the twentieth-century, China was beleaguered by the threat of foreign invasion, territorial …
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Impossible Whiteness: Race, Gender, and American Identity in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… complex, shifting category in the literature of early twentieth-century America, and show how gender, particularly, disrupts American whiteness. I deconstruct the various ways in which whiteness is defined legally, culturally, and in the marketplace, and demonstrate how Edith Wharton, Anzia …
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Serving each other: Formal and informal support systems of early twentieth century waitresses
Wage-earning women of the early twentieth century challenged the traditional model of womanhood. Many women seeking jobs as wage-laborers found employment opportunities by serving the public as waitresses. To survive urban living conditions, these women allied themselves with each other and middle …
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The Dialectics of Form: Reification and Genre in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… genre as a politically-charged modality in early twentieth-century American literature, specifically the entangled relations between realism, romance, and naturalism through which the shifting formations of race and gender reproduce or challenge transnational capitalism’s reifying processes. …
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Worlds elsewhere: studies in some late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century romance
… revival in Britain in the later nineteenth century, it still found itself embattled; its practitioners and advocates had to justify their position in an era which tended to regard tales of wonder and adventure as being little more than childish fancies and contrary to prevailing notions …
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The 'manufacture' of mental defectives in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Scotland
… of mental deficiency in late nineteenth and early twentieth century England, exploring the subject within its administrative, medical, educational and social contexts. This thesis contributes to the history of mental deficiency by describing developments that took place in Scotland. It …
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Overdue Credit: Credit Management, Crime, and Immigrants in Early Twentieth Century United States
… professionalization of credit management in the early twentieth century. The history of early Arab Americans has previously been told as a clichéd story of upward mobility and financial success without much documented interaction between the Arab immigrant and real economic institutions, such as …
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Social dancing in the early twentieth century: A case study of Preston, Lancashire
… of social dancing from the mid-nineteenth century upto the Armistice, 1919 and the arrival of 'jazz age' in the early 1920's. Consideration was given to the style of dancing, the venues available and in particular the musicians who provided the music. Note was also made of the varying …
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Blossom Time: Three Lyricist-Librettists and the Early Twentieth-Century American Musical Theatre
… of the American musical at the beginning of the twentieth century. I have collected all known extant scripts by Caldwell, Donnelly, and Young and analyzed them as musical plays: their structure, dialogue, song placement, interaction of music and plot, and overall dramatic effectiveness. I also …
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The reception and teaching of Shakespeare in nineteenth and early twentieth century America
… and fragments of his work were used in the early schoolbooks. Recognizing the educational limitations of brief excerpts from his plays, high schools in the era of Henry Hudson and William Rolfe approached Shakespeare through editions of whole plays, justifying such study within the …
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