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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"postwar period"”.
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Highway Needs and Their Public Financing in the Postwar Period
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Maintenance of a system of free enterprise--the need of the postwar period.
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University
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China’s investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The impact of the 2007 Sino-Congolese agreement in a postwar period
<p>Over the past 10 years, China has become a major actor in African politics and development process. It has invested significant amounts of money in infrastructure in mineral-rich countries, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. In return, China secures the exploitation of main resources, …
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Igniting The Light Elements: The Los Alamos Thermonuclear Weapon Project, 1942-1952
… nuclear weapons science and engineering. In the postwar period a small number of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory's staff and affiliates were responsible for theoretical work on fusion weapons, yet the program was subject to both the provisions and constraints of the U. S. Atomic Energy …
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Economic Origins of the Cold War? An Examination of the Carryover Costs of World War Ii to the Soviet People
… the war. A large portion carried over into the postwar period. This study identifies the carryover costs of WW II to the Soviets and examines how the burden of these costs was allocated. It further proposes a means of examining how the actual allocation of the carryover war costs might have …
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Essays on economic crises and institutions
… volatility and also grown more slowly during the postwar period. Does this reflect the causal effect of these macroeconomic policies on economic outcomes? One reason to suspect that the answer may be no is that countries pursuing poor macroeconomic policies also have weak "institutions," including …
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Three essays in economic development and growth
… Brazil's uneven development path over the postwar period through the lens of a Neoclassical growth model and its transitional dynamics. In the third chapter, a class of models of resource curse that can disentangle price and quantity effects of the discovery of raw natural resources is …
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A Colony Within: Art and Identity in London’s East End since World War II
… contrasts Nigel Henderson’s photographs of the postwar East End neighborhood of Bethnal Green with scenes from Robert Hamer’s 1947 film <em>It Always Rains on Sunday </em>set in the same neighborhood to look for indications of how the media of film and photography might manifest visually the …
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“Respectably Dull”: Striptease, Tourism and Reform in Postwar New Orleans
… untouched by scholars. In the post-World War II period, nightclubs featuring striptease entertainment drew the attention of reform-minded city and police officials, who attempted to purge striptease from the city’s historic district in an effort to whitewash the city’s main tourist area and …
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A Catalyst for the Development of Human Rights: German Internment Practices in the First World War,1914-1929
… atrocities accountable for their actions in the postwar period.
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The Masculine Ideal: Achieving Masculine Legitimacy in Contemporary Japan
… Japan. Since the economic rise of the postwar period, the salaryman has been deemed the epitome of masculine success in Japan, but recent studies have highlighted the challenges to achieving this ideal, mainly because of economic and social changes in the last two decades. This thesis …
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The Last Chapter of the Vietnam War: Normalization, Nongovernmental Actors and the Politics of Human Rights, 1975-1995
… diplomacy. By shifting our focus to the postwar period and to refuge issues, “The Last Chapter of the Vietnam War” challenges the way we understand the Vietnam War and warfare itself.</p>
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Expanding the housing supply through conversions of the existing stock
… in overall housing conditions throughout the postwar period. Households that face the greatest difficulty in gaining access to suitable housing are those with low-income, i.e. those in the market for low-cost rental housing. These households have difficulty in gaining access to suitable …
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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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Sweating for democracy: working-class media and the struggle for 'hegemonic Jewishness,' 1919-1941
… in the United States during the interwar period and its relationships to the broader public sphere. Between 1919 and 1941, organic intellectuals, such as B.C. Vladeck, J.B.S. Hardman, Fannia Cohn, and Morris Novik, employed strategies to maintain the Yiddish-language newspaper the Forward, …
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Cultural Transmission in the Age of Modernism: Mentorship in the Novel, 1890--1960
… nationalization of education in the immediately postwar period, this dissertation considers specifically the relationship between educational policy and the possibility of institutional cultural transmission. Focusing on the novelists Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and Muriel Spark, …
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War, reform and state -building in Brazil and in the United States: Slavery, emancipation and decision -making processes in the Paraguayan and civil wars (1861--1870)
… they found very different solutions in the postwar period. The long-term results were very dissimilar, both for the patterns of state organization and for the place of racial and socially oppressed groups. These solutions affected the distribution of power, the place of the races and the …
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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction, the Urakami Catholics, and Atomic Memory, 1945-1970
… its atomic tragedy the dominant theme of its postwar image, and instead strove to rebuild the city in the light of its past as a center of international trade and culture. The most influential group advocating the focus on "international culture" during the early postwar period was the Roman …
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‘RS-Exit’: The Geopolitics of Integration and Disintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995-2020
… of independence for Republika Srpska through the period following the war, culminating in the ultimatum laid down by Milorad Dodik in February 2020 on. With reference to the theory of secessionism and adopting an analytical framework derived from contemporary geopolitical theory, the dissertation …
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'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955
Studies of postwar Germany, from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a military occupier, the development of German reconstruction and national identity, and memory of this period from the German perspective. Within the memory analyses, firsthand accounts have been analyzed to …
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