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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"interwar years"”.
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Market, Medicine, and Empire: Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in the Interwar Years
… close study of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals during the interwar years. As one of the leading drug companies in East Asia at the time, Hoshi embodied Japan's imperial aspirations, rapid industrial development, and burgeoning consumer culture. The company attempted to control every part of its supply and …
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British Army Music in the Interwar Years: Culture, Performance, and Influence
… aims to identify how British army bands in the interwar years were a primary stakeholder in the music industry and to explore their role in projecting soft power for the British military. There were approximately 7,000 full-time bandsmen serving in the British army, which was about a third of …
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Liberalism, Race and Humanitarianism: British Colonial Policy and Jewish Refugees 1938-1943
… British colonial policy. Specifically, in the interwar years, the scope of British (in)action was defined by liberal views on assimilation and the rights of individuals versus groups. Rather than antisemitism, a strict racial hierarchical and paternal system was used to justify British power …
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The Story Less Told: Representations in the Inter-War Years of the American White Working Class by Four Female Authors
This thesis will study novels written in the interwar years by four female authors: Anzia Yezierska, Fielding Burke, Grace Lumpkin, and Myra Page. While a general overview of these authors’ biographies, writing styles, themes, and approaches to issues surrounding race and religion will be provided, …
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Remembering Danzig and Reclaiming Gdańsk
… chapter, Danzig before 1945. The history of the interwar years reveals a severe rift between Poland and Weimar Germany over the Free city of Danzig. German memory would remember the city 's nazification, the invasion by Germany and even the relative safety during the war as traumatic through a …
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Read it out loud : the construction of Southern identity within the living newspaper plays of the Federal Theatre Project.
… how the American South was portrayed within the interwar years, specifically by or within the living newspaper plays of the Federal Theater Project. The criteria set forth by various critics from the time define the aspects of identity needed to create a representation of the South from a …
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Women’s organisations and feminism in interwar Scotland
… the theory that feminism was diminished in the interwar years following the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918. It highlights that a diverse range of women’s organisations were thriving in interwar Scotland. This includes the outwardly feminist Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship (GSEC) …
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The new, the old, the modern : architecture and its representation in socialist Romania, 1955-1965
… that, in Romania, the thriving modernism of the interwar years was brought to an end by the postwar socialist regime.
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Simulated Battles, Real Lessons: Analyzing The Impact of The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Problems on Battle in The Pacific War
… the cultural and strategic level impacts of the interwar years. What scholars have overlooked is the phase in which these new ideas and technologies were tested in simulated battles. While the methodology behind the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Problems has been written about before, there remains little …
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‘From the Majallat al-Aḥkām al-ʿAdliyya to a civil code’: the politics of reforming civil law in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, 1925-1951
… positive and more secular civil code during the interwar years of the twentieth century. In showing that local and regional politics formed a powerful motor of legal development and reform, this dissertation challenges the long-held view that the replacement of the Majalla and the making of the …
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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 …
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Martyrs at the Hearth: The Social-Religious Roles of Resistance Women During Nazi Germany
… Nazi oppression from the women's movement of the interwar years. To understand the normative influences, one must consider the societal and political forces that helped shape that time. What led Germany on this path of destruction and caused it to vote for a leviathan in 1933? How did the work of …
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IL CIRCUITO DELLE SALE TEATRALI MILANESI DAL 1919 AL 1943: IL CASO DEI TEATRI EDEN, DIANA E OLIMPIA
… shows, as well as emerging genres during the interwar years. The research draws on archival and documentary sources to explore the interplay between these theatres and the broader transformations in Italian theatre during the early 20th century. Special attention is given to the theatres’ …
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Plans and planes: United States Army aviation in American colour-coded war plans, 1920-1939
… integral element of modern warfare. During the interwar period, United States Army war planning staffs understood the essentiality of air power in any future war and intentionally integrated it into the colour-coded war plans created and maintained between 1920 and 1939. This thesis examines the …
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Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857–1914
… New York City has concentrated on Harlem in the interwar years as a site that was uniquely positioned to foster the proliferation of Black culture. This dissertation inserts the earlier contributions of Black women into the architectural history of New York City and articulates how the later …
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America's Moral Responsibility?: The Debate over American Intervention in the Near East after WWI
… to humanitarianism, American isolationism in the interwar years, and the partisan atmosphere of American postwar politics.
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The Road to 1944 - the history of the development of education in south and south west Wales in the lead up to the wartime Education Act, and its implementation in the years that followed
… a strong focus on its development during the interwar years. This particular period is generally regarded as one ”untouched by significant research.”2 In spite of this neglect, it was an extremely interesting period, and one when the service was faced with grave difficulties: austerity during …
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The politics and ideology of local authority health care in Sheffield 1918-1948
… the role of the Medical Officer of Health in the interwar years. The Sheffield example also illustrates how local actors and groups sought to address problems of finance and access in health care using the available policy instruments at a time when health services were locally controlled.</p>
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Requisitioned: American War Art of the Second World War
… the State and the art community between the interwar years, 1933 and 1941, the United States witnessed a proliferation of art programs during the Second World War. The genesis of American war art of the Second World War began prior to the declaration of war in December of 1941. By the start …
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