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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"post-1945"”.
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Deep Listening: The Strategic Practice of Female Experimental Composers post 1945
… contemporary music to many new expressions since 1945. It might therefore be expected that the revolutionary compositional ingenuity demonstrated by many of female composers shaping this new transmission of music-making would by now be carefully documented in the historiography. Yet this has not …
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Urban Plateaus: Alienation, Disappearance, and the Random Encounter in Post-1945 Literature and Film
… of literary and filmic representations of the post-1945 city, organized in three thematic sections—“Alienation”; “Disappearance”; and “The Random Encounter and Possibility of Community”—each of which is composed of a diptych of two “plateaus.” “Alienation” investigates Sam Selvon’s <em>The …
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A history of dance and jazz band performance in the Western Cape in the post-1945 era
… and the 1960s, with special reference to the post-1945 period. It examines ways in which local dance and jazz musicians and audiences responded to political, social and cultural change in this period by considering key institutional constraints, the impact of broader political, social and …
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Rewriting Eastern Wisdom: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from Jack Kerouac to Maxine Hong Kingston
While recent scholarship on post-1945 American writers has re-examined the role of religion, few scholars have focused on Asian religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism. My dissertation explores the varied strategies by which American writers inscribe Asian religions in their fiction. I argue that …
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The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
… how a constellation of German Jewish post-Holocaust novels confronts the paradox of recovering and recuperating lost stories of Holocaust victims. I analyze how works by Edgar Hilsenrath, Jurek Becker, and Fred Wander reveal a preoccupation with the innumerable stories and testimonies …
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Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers
… demonstrate the salience of citizenship in the post-1945 Asia Pacific. In particular, this research addresses the question, “how did the politics of repatriation differentiate the experiences of Japanese Americans from those of Japanese nationals, both serving the US military during the Korean …
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Rebuilding the soul : churches and religion in Bavaria, 1945-1960
… specific place of churches and religion in the post-1945 world. It examines how the culture of consumption that arose after World War II affected existing religious customs and mores. Finally, it shows the possibilities and shortcomings of ecumenicalism.
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Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency
… wisdom assumes. In examining the record of post-1945 insurgencies, this dissertation finds some limited support for the conventional wisdom: overall, insurgents with sanctuary do win at a higher rate than average. However, that advantage largely depends on including several cases against …
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
… This text argues the opposite through a study of post-1945 American radical movements. Far from generating simple propaganda, social movements create rhetoric and imagery that engage with complex literary tropes. Specifically, this study addresses the use of "primitive" and "industrial" metaphors …
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THE METROPOLITAN POLICE AND THE BRITISH FILM INDUSTRY, 1919-1956: PROCESSES OF COLLABORATION AND CONTROL
… British film studios and, in the case of the post-1945 films, the collaborating studios were owned independently of government interests. This thesis makes use of recently-declassified production dossiers housed at The National Archives to trace the processes of collaboration and control …
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Preparing for Power: Margaret Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition
… of economic declinism will also be assessed: post-1945 Britain enjoyed relative prosperity up until the late sixties, but then stalled during the seventies under the leadership of Edward Heath. Thus, this research seeks to uncover how ‘real’ declinism during this period actually was. …
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Not Peace But the Sword: Violence in Contemporary American Catholic Literature
… violence is a consistent theme in contemporary (post-1945) fiction written by American Catholics, and that these authors employ violence as an aesthetic strategy that is best, and perhaps only, understood when approached through the philosophical and imaginative discourses of their Catholic …
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Democratization and the development of Japan's uneven welfare state
… by denying the poor the right to vote (pre-1945) and adopting an electoral system that muted their political voice after suffrage was obtained (post-1945). Consequently, Japan's welfare state developed unevenly, featuring a heavy layer of social insurance programs that benefit well-organized …
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Déjà vu all over again! : the reluctant rise and protracted demise of Scott Lithgow Limited
… of the thesis, however, is concentrated in the post-1945 period with emphasis on the protracted merger of the shipbuilding interests of Scotts' and Lithgows to form Scott Lithgow Limited in 1970. Thereafter, the history of the merged firm is considered in detail, including its disastrous entry …
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Political Sound: National Socialism and Its Musical Afterlive
… to trace its impact on various developments in post-1945 sonic arts practices. Part I explores ways in which sonic expression was manipulated as part of the National Socialist regime’s articulation of sovereignty. It reframes Walter Benjamin's phrase ‘aestheticization of politics’ in relation to …
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The Royal Mint Refinery, a Business Adapting to Change, 1919-1968
… especially in times of economic crises or war. Post-1945 London’s decline as a financial centre affected the future of RMR and the operation diverted into light engineering. The thesis links past with present; it charts the rise and fall of the operation and Rothschild’s pursuit of profitability.
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Opposition in a Changing Political Environment: Leadership and the Conservative Party, 1997-2010
… political system was developed as part of post-1945 studies of the Westminster Model. However, despite dramatic changes in the political environment and the increasing rejection of the Westminster Model, more recent discussion has neglected systematic study of opposition. More recent …
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Solidarity and power in German : language as political action : a contribution to the socio-cultural history of the German language
… discourse and selected cases from German history post-1945. In addition, the interactions are examined between language change and socio-economic change by postulating that language change is both a condition and consequence of socio-economic change, in that socio-economic change both requires and …
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Land Matters: Stories of Survival, Peasant Roots & Peasant Futurisms
… 1850, and especially after the neoliberal tide post-1945 (Moore 120-136). My project responds to the social, ecological and climate crisis subjectively, from my situated knowledge. As a type of life writing that tends toward autotheory, the “Stories of Survival” section deconstructs narratives …
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‘So proved themselves supreme in women’s hockey throughout the world’: a history of English and British international women’s hockey 1951–2016
… hockey and particularly its international role post 1945. By exploring the rich source materials held at The Hockey Museum (THM) Woking and Bath University, and combined with oral histories, this thesis seeks to fill that gap in the literature by examining how an ‘high’ amateur sport adapted to …
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