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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"first half of the 20th century"”.
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WORKS FOR VIOLIN FROM DISTINCT EUROPEAN COMPOSITIONAL TRADITIONS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY: NATIONALISM, IMPRESSIONISM, AND NEO-CLASSICISM
20th century Europe fostered the development of a variety of trends in music which emerged on the heels of Romanticism. Compositions within each style exhibit recognizable common characteristics but are also crafted quite uniquely in the hands of individual composers. Commonalities and distinctions …
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Tapes and testimony : making the local history of Italians in the Western Cape in the first half of the 20th century
The history of long distance immigrant communities, particularly those with few or no written documentary records, is often cited as an obvious example for oral historical enquiry. Such groupings would be represented by the Greek, Portuguese and Jewish as well as the Italian population in South …
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Stepney from the outbreak of the First World War to the Festival of Britain, 1914-1951: a profile of a London borough during the first half of the 20th century
The motto for Stepney was a magnis ad maiora (from great things to greater) and this thesis attempts to assess how far the area achieved such improvements, and against what odds, during the first half of the 20th Century. The First World War is the starting point of this thesis as it was to have …
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The Influence of Jazz on the Solo Trumpet Compositions of Eugène Bozza
This paper investigates the influence of jazz on the nine solo trumpet compositions of the French composer Eugène Bozza (1905-1991). Bozza, like many other French composers in the first half of the 20th century, combines traditional elements of western European art music with innovations of …
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The Art of the Commonplace: Found Sounds in Compositional Practice
… dissertation contains a historical analysis of the emergence of found sounds or everyday noises as a compositional strategy in Western art music through the first half of the 20th century. Pioneering works are examined to determine the motives and aesthetic goals that first led composers to …
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From the pages of three ladies : Canadian women missionaries in Republican China
This thesis focuses on three courageous Canadian women who served as United Church of Canada missionaries in China in the first half of the 20th century. Drawing principally on their diaries and letters, the thesis examines the China experiences and impressions of Margaret Helen Brown (1887-1978) …
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The paradoxical co-existence of submissiveness and subversiveness in the theology of Yu-Ming Jia
This thesis aims to study Yu-ming Jia’s theology from a postcolonial perspective. Yu-ming Jia (1880-1964) is a conservative Protestant theologian who was actively engaged himself in Chinese protestant churches and theological education during the first half of the 20th century. It was seen that he …
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Morphological Freedom and the Construction of Bodymind Malleability from Eugenics to Transhumanism
This dissertation examines how the human bodymind has been seen as malleable by science, technology, and policy practitioners from the Eugenic era in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, to the future imaginaries of Transhumanists and technology innovators. I critique the main …
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Camille Claudel
This bachelor thesis focuses on the life and artwork of Camille Claudel, French sculptress that lived in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. This thesis summarizes her life and focuses on the relationships with the members of her family, her friends and her …
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Lithuanian literary history: a theoretical study of writings /
This dissertation seeks to rethink newly the beginning of Lithuanian Literary History writings from the first historiography narrative episodes in the 19th century and the first amateur and professional literary history attempts in the first half of the 20th century. The research covers all forms …
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Lietuvių literatūros istorija: teorinis rašymų tyrimas /
This dissertation seeks to rethink newly the beginning of Lithuanian Literary History writings from the first historiography narrative episodes in the 19th century and the first amateur and professional literary history attempts in the first half of the 20th century. The research covers all forms …
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The History of Hebrew Secondary Mathematics Education in Palestine During the First Half of the Twentieth Century
This dissertation traces the history of mathematics education in Palestine Hebrew secondary schools from the foundation of the first Hebrew secondary school in 1905 until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The study draws on primary sources from archives in Israel and analyzes …
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Doc : a novel ; and, Dying Room : was the Wyndham Native Hospital eugenic?
Australia, 1937. To escape the fallout following a patient’s death, Ada Fraser signs on as ship’s doctor with a cargo vessel bound for London. One of the few passengers on board is another young woman, Eve Pope, who has been sent to sea with her aunt in the hope it will cure her of a mysterious …
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"Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan
This comparative study of Byron and Goethe seeks to explore the idea that there may be a far more fundamental similarity between the mode of writing of these two poets than has been noted to date. Although there has been, and continues to be, much written about each poet individually there has been …
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Past, present and future : evaluating the Massachusetts Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit as a tool for promoting historic preservation and economic development
The first half of the 20th century saw very little interest in the preservation of historic properties; indeed, much of the nation's historic building stock was at risk of being lost forever, as the pressures of mid-century urban renewal threatened the historic city center, while historic buildings …
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Particle Physics in the LHC Era
<p>During the past 100 years experimental particle physicists have collected an impressive amount of data. Theorists have also come to understand this data extremely well. It was in the first half of the 20th century the efforts of the early pioneers of quantum mechanics laid the ground work for …
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The works of Manuel Quiroga: a catalogue
… violinist, composer, and artist, was one of the foremost figures of the first half of the 20th century. This study tries to bring to light his musical legacy, a long overdue task. Until now, all attempts to rediscover the figure of Quiroga have centered mainly on his career as a violinist, …
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Crafting Citizens Beyond Borders: Japanese Education on the Frontier of Japan’s Empire in the Americas
To be nikkei means to be of Japanese descent living abroad. The goal of my dissertation is to investigate how the 1930s Japanese Empire interacted with overseas Japanese communities and developed nikkei citizenship across the Pacific. Japanese education codified a set of civic and moral …
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Essays on matching, marriage and human capital accumulation
This thesis explores the link between human capital accumulation and the functioning of marriage markets. The first chapter studies the effect of marriage market conditions on pre-marital investment. After showing how a change in the sex ratio can alter incentives for investments, I test this …
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