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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"inter-war period"”.
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Association football and Irish Society during the Inter-War period, 1918-1939
… a changing Irish society during the tumultuous inter-war period, focussing primarily on association football and its status within the country's sporting land.scape. As the political uncertainty ofthe revolutionary period subsided with the violence that had characterised the struggle for …
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Immigration, ethnicity and national identity : Maghrebis' socio-political mobilisation and discourse in the inter-war period and during the 1970s in France
… du peuple algerien (PPA), developed during the inter-war period and became the strongest voice of Algerian nationalism during those years. The second one, the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes (MTA), which was created in the early 1970s in France, saw itself as an Arab nationalist movement which …
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The development of British strategic area bombing 1918-1945 : a study in theory and practice
… of strategic bombing developed during theinter-war period that an attempt can be made to achieve a clearunderstanding of the controversial character of the area bombingoffensive against Germany during the Second World Var, including thecrucial issue of responsibility. It is the intention …
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From Victorian to Modernist: the changing perceptions of Japanese architecture encapsulated in Wells Coates' Japonisme dovetailing East and West
… it was little recognised, to an inspiration for inter-war modernist architecture and lifestyle; to record, to a lesser extent, how Japanese art, particularly the way in which it was displayed, underwent a similar renaissance, and the part played by architect-engineer, Wells Coates, in this …
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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
… 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 system of …
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Dorothy Elmhirst and the visual arts at Dartington Hall 1925 - 1945
… of the visual arts at Dartington Hall in the inter-war period. Particular emphasis has been placed throughout on the role of Dorothy Elmhirst, the joint founder of the Dartington project, in the creation of one of Britain's most innovative experiments in rural regeneration in the twentieth …
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The establishment and initial development of a British airborne force, June 1940-January 1942
… transport as a tool for imperial policing in the inter-war period, and examines why this did not lead to the logical step of creating a dedicated British airborne force. The impact of German airborne operations and the defeat at Dunkirk in 1940 on British attitudes is then analysed, followed by a …
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Cinematic representations of women in France and Germany, 1918-1933
… of the cinematic representations of women in the inter-war period in France and Germany. By investigating five films produced during the period from 1918 to 1933, this work analyses the portrayal of women in two societies facing great upheaval. I examine the representations of women in the films …
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The spaces of sex : perversion, performance and place in literature between the wars
… a specific 14-year span (1922-1936) of the inter-war period, when public knowledge of sexual perversion and deviance (taken from popular psychoanalytic writings) had reached a peak, infiltrating middle-class home spaces with potentially threatening and transgressive knowledge of sexual …
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Expedient benevolence : international development and the United Kingdom
This thesis examines the role of International Development in the United Kingdom during its transition from a colonial ruler to a neo-liberal capitalist state. Starting with the inter-war period, it looks at the changing position adopted by the British state vis-a-vis development aid to its …
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The history of community care for people with learning difficulties in Norfolk 1930-1980 : the role of two hostels
… is drawn from biographical and oral history interviews, group discussions and written and photographic archival sources. These methods make it possible to examine the relationship of the hostels to community and institutional care: make comparisons concerning gender, geographical location and …
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History Writing and History Making in Twentieth Century Beirut
… philosophical methods employed in understanding, interpreting and judging the past. In doing so it traces the rise of the professional academic historian as the guardian of historical truth and explicates the ‘intellectual virtues’ historians ought to cultivate in their character. Secondly, the …
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An investigation into the relationship between philosophical principle and artistic practice with reference to the role of dance in education
… but it transpires that during the Restoration Period a resurgence of the popularity and acceptance of dance occurred in both theatrical and social contexts. The role of the dancing master is depicted in the creation of a mannered society, when aesthetically, artistically, and technically, dance …
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Social dancing in the early twentieth century: A case study of Preston, Lancashire
… in was a natural choice to combine these two interests to produce this paper. For many years the impact of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band on London in 1919 has been acknowledged by music-historians but little research had been produced about provincial towns. In an attempt to provide …
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Censorship and propaganda in Northern Ireland during the Second World War
… in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. Press control is an underexplored route through which to investigate Ulster unionism in the mid-twentieth century, as most media studies of Northern Ireland focus on the period of the troubles or inter-war period. This thesis seeks to redress …
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Saudara (1928-1941): its contribution to the debate on issues in Malay society and the development of a Malay world-view
… the all-important decade before the Second World War. The major source that it uses for this purpose is the Malay periodical Saudara, which was published in the Straits Settlement of Penang between 1928 and 1941. The thesis will show that, through the period of its publication, Saudara discussed …
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Représentations de la violence révolutionnaire dans la littérature et le cinéma français (1928-1986)
… and political history during specific time-periods such as the inter-war period, the occupation of France by Nazi Germany or the Algerian War of Independence. My theoretical approach is a "sociology of literature" influenced by the theories of Lucien Goldmann and Marc Angenot. However, I …
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The evolution and development of the Australian Light Horse, 1860-1945
… the way in which that organisation and its men interacted with their society. This thesis firstly analyses the role and place of the mounted soldier in the British and colonial/dominion armies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before going on to examine what effects the …
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The Idea of a Christian social order : aspects of Anglican social thought in England, 1918-1945
… social thinkers in the years between the wars. For most of the period, social theology was world-affirming: it presented society as part of God's creative purpose and man as a social being who should not be treated in isolation from his earthly environment. It was argued that the idea of a …
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The Idea of a Christian social order : aspects of Anglican social thought in England, 1918-1945
… social thinkers in the years between the wars. For most of the period, social theology was world-affirming: it presented society as part of God's creative purpose and man as a social being who should not be treated in isolation from his earthly environment. It was argued that the idea of a …
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