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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"national past"”.
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Performing the national past: history on stage in imperial Russia
… for articulating vital concerns about Russian national identity. Historical drama became the first type of plays developed by the earliest modern Russian playwrights and stimulated the emergence of original stage practices. I discuss several plays that contributed significantly to the national …
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Seeing systems and the beholding eye : computer-aided visions of the postwar British landscape
… facilities were often felt as threats to the national past, to cultural values, and to the very idea of what it meant to be British. Amidst this political complexity, the computer-generated diagram, with its underlying mathematical structure, may seem an unlikely vehicle for settling planning …
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Historical perceptions of Roman Catholicism and national identity, 1869-1919
… Catholicism, and in the construction of English national identity, in the late nineteenth and early twentiethcentury. It argues that the excltisivist Protestant identity of the nation, which had hitherto been maintained by an anti-Catholic historical narrative, was challenged by the development …
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Newspapers in Wartime: Case-studies in Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
… Spain is a complex country home to multiple national identities which claim their own region, language, and way of life, making the theme of Spanish unification tense and conflicting. Using rhetorical framing analysis, with elements of historical discourse analysis and affect theory, this …
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Sites of memory: Soviet myths in post-Soviet culture
… 1990s as a gap, a rupture between the Soviet past and the post-Soviet present? Post-Soviet film and fiction certainly stage the break up of the Soviet Union and the end of Soviet rule in this way. Post-Soviet culture has left behind a certain set of Soviet cultural myths: the conquest of …
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History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age
… and change, and the meaning of the British national past, led to the emergence of increasingly complex forms of fictional historical narrative during the “war of ideas.” Considering the varying ways in which novelists such as Charlotte Smith, William Godwin, Mary Robinson, Helen Craik, Clara …
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Anglo-Saxon Descent, Antiquarian Scholarship, and Germanic Englishness, c. 1560 - c. 1620
… early modern interest in the Anglo-Saxon past has been primarily ascribed to Protestant polemicists who sought evidence that the ancient English church had operated outside of papal influence. This dissertation evaluates other, ‘secular’ engagements with the Anglo-Saxon past in the late …
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The making of a new past for a "new" South Africa :the commemoration of Robben Island
… reshaping of the public representation of the past. In the first part, I construct a theoretical framework by combining theoretical literature on collective representations, collective memory, historiography, social identity and nationhood. Opting for constructivist theories and adopting a …
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Light Beyond Modernity's Long Shadow: Social and Medical Science in the Making of the 'State' of Guatemala, 1871-1900
… and early-Republican Guatemala. However, transnational debates over the meaning behind the concept of race and ever-evolving notions of culture emerged with renewed vigor after mid-century in historical interpretations of the national past, and to serve as a prism for prognosticating the …