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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"post world war I"”.
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"One Hundred Per Cent American": Nationalism, Masculinity and American Legion Baseball in the 1920s
… social attitudes and ideologies of the pre- and post-World War I period, specifically focusing on the joining of nationalism and masculinity through the playing of sport. My work explores amateur baseball in the context of the post-World War I period (1920-1930), focusing on the American Legion's …
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The concurrent conferences: The Washington Naval Conference and the Far Eastern Affairs Conference of 1922
… occurred concurrently and were the first major post-World War I conferences to address post-war issues. The Washington Naval Conference sought to avoid the outbreak of future hostilities by reducing the total tonnage of capital ships in each signatory nation’s fleet to only that of a defensive …
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An Exploration of Modern American Cultural History: An Undergraduate American Studies Course Proposal
… and film) are intertwined with America’s Post-World War I social and political history. This project suggests that these “high” and “low’ cultural products are not only an outcome of the American social and political landscape, but also influence that landscape. Each chapter explores one …
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"It was the bruise of the war": The Effects of Injury and Trauma on the Construction of Masculinity in Hemingway and Lawrence
… what emerges by considering the seminal post-World War I texts of these two authors is that they both possessed unique and nuanced constructions of masculinity that would often emerge in the wake of a physical injury or a psychological trauma. For Lawrence, masculinity was attained when a …
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Failure to engage : the Breasted-Rockefeller gift of a new Egyptian Museum and Research Institute at Cairo (1926)
… and French empires. Deploying the twin themes of post World War I "opportunity" (political) and "obligation" (civilizational, scientific, philanthropic) to demonstrate the imperial possibilities of the particular political and cultural moment in 1926, Breasted mobilized Rockefeller first and the …
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Progress is Painful: Race Relations and Education in Chicago Before The Great Migration
… sources covering black Chicago before the First World War era, I argue three main points. First, I disagree with historians who assert that because African-Americans received certain educational opportunities, this period represented a kind of racial golden age. Only when compared to the South …
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Chemistry in a new key: Surplus, soy, and the history of sustainable enterprise in the United States, 1934-1950
… of applied chemistry that sought to transform post-World War I agricultural surplus into industrial commodities. Ephemeral but wide-ranging in its scope, the “chemical revolution” that chemurgy’s proponents envisioned was a promise that the ends of agriculture and those of industry might be …
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The Rhetorical Dimensions of Radio Propaganda in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
… insights, tapped into the needs of a post-World War I German society and rebuilt a nationalistic spirit that unfortunately led to war and greater devastation than had been seen some three decades earlier. The new medium of radio, as a major source of information or mis-information, …
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The Influence of Weimar Culture on Pop Music in the 1970s and ‘80s
… of Berlin. The retrospective significance in postmodern terms is examined through music of David Bowie, Lou Reed and Kraftwerk and of the subcultures of punk and post-punk; their respective incorporation of elements, usually associated with ‘others’, reveals an alternative approach to artistic …
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The novels of Ben Hecht.
… attitude with which many writers began the post World War I decade. This was followed by Gargoyles (1922), which has been compared to the works of Sinclair Lewis, and by Fantazius Mallare (1922), a Freudian note-book which had a sequel, The Kingdom of Evil (1924). He also wrote two detective …
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Karl Löwith's View of History: A Humanist Alternative to Historicism
… it is hoped, will make a contribution toward such a study.</p>
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Feminism from the farm: rural and farm women’s authorship and the future of rural America, 1920-1929
… farmers, as ideal in the American imaginary, post-World War I economic uncertainties and material realities generated a shift in how the public talked about its rural and farm people. The chapters in this project analyze how rural and farm women talked about their identities, relationships, …
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The administration and operation of German prisoner of war camps in the United States during World War II
… and evaluate the development of prisoner of war administration in the United States. No full account of this phase of World War II history exists. This study is an attempt to fill that gap.When the United States officially entered World War II in December, 1941 the War Department plans for …
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Through the Eyes of the Post: American Media Coverage of the Armenian Genocide.
… century. In the context of the first global war, the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire were systematically persecuted and many eliminated while the world watched. Yet today, American memory and conception of the Armenian Genocide is remarkably different from similar historical events such as …