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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"national efficiency"”.
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Education, imperialism and national efficiency in England 1895-1905
Summary available: p.iv-vi.
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An economic history of the Scottish electricity supply industry 1878-c.1930
… industry was great and by 1931 promoting greater national efficiency. Until the mid-1890's private installations underpinned the development of electricity supply but were being overtaken by the more efficient central generating stations, and after 1900 by the establishment of power companies. …
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The Froebel movement and state schooling 1880-1914 : A study in educational ideology
… with ideologies of industrial modernization and national efficiency which were advanced by groups who aimed to modernize the schooling of young children who attended state schools. The failure of the Froebelians to transform state schooling in the way that they desired is shown to be not only an …
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National Fitness or Failure? Heredity, Vice and Racial Decline in New Zealand Psychiatry: A Case Study of the Auckland Mental Hospital, 1868-99
This thesis examines anxieties about national fitness and efficiency in nineteenth-century New Zealand through a detailed study of medical and popular ideas about the causes of mental illness. In particular, it foregrounds the perceived roles played by heredity and vice in medical diagnoses both …