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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"postwar era"”.
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Becoming Environmental: Murray Bookchin in the Postwar Era
… his later work was prefigured by a series of interactions 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 Drawing on close readings of texts, previously unpublished material based on archival research in New York, Amsterdam, and with documents from the Bookchin Trust, this dissertation seeks …
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The Business of Power: Canadian Multinationals in the Postwar Era
… firms, or ‘dominant capital’, in Canada over the postwar period. This study provides the first long-term estimates for aggregate concentration and for corporate amalgamation. It devises metrics to capture the distributive struggle between capital and labour and for the globalization of merger …
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Smokey the ‘Praying’ Bear: Changing Cultural Attitudes Towards Nature in America During the Postwar Era, 1948 - 1958
… creature among the holy forest. By examining the postwar religious attitudes American’s held towards faith and nature, it became apparent that a sacralized Smokey Bear reflected changing cultural dynamics in American society following World War II. The Cold War was in full swing and the …
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German Masculine Fashion Culture during National Socialism and the Postwar Era: Constructing and Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustration
… of redefining and renewing masculinity for the postwar era. The images in fashion magazines are material evidence of the active shaping of new national masculine norms of the 1950s and ’60s. These images exemplify the complicated racial, political, gendered, and cultural dimensions of German …
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Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
… is to identify, analyze and historicize the operation of embodied multiplicities within superhero comics from the postwar era using the example of comics produced by the Marvel group between 1961 and 2005. This project argues that the superheroes created during this era reflect major social and …
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Exchange Rate Indexation and Stabilization Policies in Colombia: 1975-1980
… in the development strategy of Colombia in the postwar era. It has also been an important instrument of macroeconomic stabilization. The dual role of the exchange rate--the instrument of stabilization and development promotion--has resulted in controversies over its appropriate use. The purpose …
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"""Settling Down"": Domesticating World War II Veterans' Challenge to the Postwar Consensus"
… voices of returning World War II male veterans in the immediate postwar years. In open-ended responses to the large American Soldier survey conducted by government sociologists, many veterans anticipated problems of readjustment to a homefront from which they felt alienated. In the …
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A History of Nondenominational Churches in Denver and Beyond, 1945–2000
… definition of a nondenominational church, and several examples of nondenominational churches from nineteenth-century America.</p> <p>Second, I bolster national statistics about nondenominational church growth by presenting a quantitative analysis in one geographical area: metropolitan Denver. My …
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The Death of The Leviathan: The Apocalypse of Modernity in Stefano D’Arrigo’s <i>Horcynus Orca</i>
… D’Arrigo’s <em>Horcynus Orca</em> (1975) as a literary reflection on the collapse of modernity, examining the novel’s depiction of the Leviathan as a symbol of chaos in the postwar era. By intertwining the biblical myth of the sea-monster with the Ulysses archetype, D’Arrigo’s narrative delves …
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The Urban Culture of Chinese Society in Bangkok: Cinemas, Broadcast and Literature, 1950S-1970S
… culture in Chinese society in Bangkok in the postwar era, with particular focus on cinemas, broadcast and literature. These forms of cultural expression appear in the social sphere?in the streets, on the air and in texts, which constitute important parts of the urban culture in the Chinese …
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Herman Feshbach : what it meant to be a physicist in the twentieth century
… community throughout World War II and the postwar era. The events that I narrate are centered in New York, where Feshbach's early life unfolds, and in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Feshbach matured as a scientist. There are two recurring themes throughout this work.The first theme deals …
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Offensive weapons: Herblock and the visual rhetoric of postwar liberalism
… one of the most prominent voices of liberalism in the postwar era. In his role as political cartoonist for the Washington Post, which he held from 1946 until his death in 2001, he articulated the values of liberalism to a much broader national audience than was reached by the writings of …
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The new emerging forces in Indonesian foreign policy
… Second World War. As Spanier points out, 'the postwar era has been one of constant change, accompanied by ferment, turmoil and violence. One of the most striking of the changes that have occurred, and one with which much of the ferment, turmoil and violence has been associated, has been the …
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The new emerging forces in Indonesian foreign policy
… Second World War. As Spanier points out, 'the postwar era has been one of constant change, accompanied by ferment, turmoil and violence. One of the most striking of the changes that have occurred, and one with which much of the ferment, turmoil and violence has been associated, has been the …
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Growing Cold: Postwar Women Writers and the Novel of Development, 1945-1960
Growing Cold: Postwar American Women Writers and the Novel of Development, 1945-1960, examines how women writers developed, negotiated, and struggled with representing adolescent girl selfhood in the novel of development – also termed the Bildungsroman – during the early postwar era. By examining …
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Elegant Complexity: The Presence of Cold War Game Theory In Postmodern American Fiction
… American fiction by combining readings of postwar literature and the cultural and historical narrative of game theory. Recently described by Steven Belletto as an under-examined cultural narrative that promised "scientific redemption" during the Cold War, game theory is a branch of applied …
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Orwell's Unmediated Hand: The Compositional Stages of Nineteen Eighty-Four
… sociological and political dystopias of the postwar era. Over the last sixty years, literary critics have thoroughly studied the plot, setting, characters, themes, scenes, subliminal meanings, and overt meanings of this text. However, very few critics have utilized one of the most precious …
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Power, Risk, and Democratic Control in State-Local Finance: The Effect of State Tax and Expenditure Limits on Municipal Debt and Risk
… with tax revenue, its use expanded in the postwar era into private purposes and non-capital expenditures. Revenue bonds in particular, a form of non-guaranteed debt, are a popular mechanism to finance local services. States have also increasingly exercised control over municipal finance. …
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Folk Fiction: Yiddish and the Negotiation of Literary Legacy in Germany after 1945
… East German theater or as part of West German literary engagement with American Jewish culture, Yiddish shows up all over postwar German literature and performance. Building on scholarship from German Studies, Yiddish Studies, and cultural and political history, the following study connects the …
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The Audrey Hepburn Image: Stardom, Gendered Authorship, and Creative Agency
… industry in Hollywood’s Golden Age. During the postwar era, one of the most influential female stars was Academy award winning actress, Audrey Hepburn. Hepburn’s emergence in the industry, as well as her branding as a “postwar Cinderella,” was representative of the emerging intersection between …
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