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Postwar Secondary Business Education
If business education is to maintain a position of dignity and permanency in the field of secondary education, if it is to perform its essential role in the readjustment period following World War II, and fulfill its promise in American life, its function must be restated, its foundations …
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Liberia: Postwar, Not Yet Postcolonial
"Liberia: Postwar, Not Yet Postcolonial" is a project discussing the ways in which, two Liberian presidential candidates (re)construct and perform their sociopolitical identities in order to build constituency in the postwar context. I am mainly concerned here with the ways in which Ellen Johnson …
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Postwar British Fictions of Inhabitation
… books and buildings were both products of her postwar ‘making’ as she sought to redefine the meaning of home in a deeply transitional world — and the structures that accommodated it. The three chapters of this thesis bring literary and filmic texts into dialogue with architectural forms, …
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Postwar Media Manifestations and Don DeLillo
<p>Media's influence on postwar American culture is undeniable. Don DeLillo's fiction is often a commentary on that influence. Hyperreality, Simulacra, Consumerism, and News Addiction are all regular themes in DeLillo's novels; this paper explores all of these concepts through the lens of media …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
<p>This dissertation is concerned with developing feminism as a critical tool, to be applied to drama. Feminist theory from anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, and film theory is summarized and one theorist from each field is selected to serve as an example of how feminism in that field …
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Canadian Postwar Monetary Policy, 1946-1951
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Negotiating the Scope of Postwar Stalinist Novels
This dissertation challenges dominant perceptions of literary socialist realism by demonstrating how works of official Soviet literature enjoy more scope for individuality and innovation than is commonly acknowledged by structuralist or dissident readings. It examines how three Stalin Prize-winning …
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Becoming Environmental: Murray Bookchin in the Postwar Era
… with social and natural science in the postwar era. Drawing on close readings of texts, previously unpublished material based on archival research in New York, Amsterdam, and with documents from the Bookchin Trust, this dissertation seeks to further our understanding of postwar …
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The Courtroom Drama in Postwar Germany and America
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:49:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8004159.pdf: 9507223 bytes, checksum: cecad7eb4e0a869fdec6b832accca831 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Canada's Postwar Balance of Payments Adjustments 1946-1954
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Postwar art and historical roots of Beirut's cosmopolitanism
… in the art market, and in the following decade postwar artists from Beirut garnered the attention of the western art world. Exhibition catalogues and critical reviews alike characterized this body of work as emerging out a tabula rasa for the visual arts: no audience, no institutions, and no …
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Homespun Fun: Theme Parks, Suburbia, and the Postwar Child
Scholars of theme parks and their histories recognize that a carefully crafted family-friendly environment is the cornerstone of the themed amusement landscape dating back to the 1950s. From marketing and promotional material; to in-park signage and ride narratives; to the themes of childlike …
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Meanings and Markets: Reading Food Commodities in Postwar America
Meanings and Markets investigates the literary construction of food commodities in the United States after World War II. Because of the war effort's ramping up of industry and technology, the exchange of new and rationalized food commodities traded in the marketplace becomes the dominant mode of …
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The politics of arming, postwar power, and war outcomes
… reflect who wins and loses. What explains postwar power, and how might it relate to war outcome? I analyze two formal models of war termination in which a state (or coalition) and an opponent attempt to reach a settlement dividing a disputed good in an ongoing war, and do so again in a …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
… within the speech-based aesthetics of the postwar era, while foregrounding the aesthetic dimension of militant protest.</p><p>Not unlike today, the popular rhetoric of the Cold War insists that to be a citizen involves defending one’s status as a rightful member of an exclusionary nation. …
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Crude oil prices and the postwar Japanese refining industry.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1967. Ph.D.
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Architecture incorporated : authorship, anonymity, and collaboration in postwar modernism
… reveals a climate of speculation in the postwar period on the corporation as a social and institutional form, and a widespread interest in the potentials of anonymous and collective methods to reshape the nature and objects of architectural production. Tracing the history of these …
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