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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"revisionist"”.
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Batman and the superhero fairytale: deconstructing a revisionist crisis
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Los Angeles Artists and Revisionist Historiography: A Diasporic Intervention
… In doing so, I argue that their work performs a revisionist historiography – they contribute to a project that decenters dominant discourses, by shifting absent or marginal narratives to the center, modeling a process of writing history that goes beyond merely inserting peoples of diverse …
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Pocahontas reclaimed: the Powhatans' theatrical rebuttal to Disney's revisionist myth
<p>This study compares the content of play <em>The One Called Pocahontas</em> to the Walt Disney film <em>Pocahontas</em>. The author examined the accepted history of the Powhatan woman known as Pocahontas in relation to the "infotainment" provided by both the play and the movie. The study examines …
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Nationalism in the 21st Century and its impact on revisionist great powers
… As a result, they now represent the first revisionist challenge to the liberal international order since the demise of the Soviet Union. This research investigates the impact of contemporary nationalism on revisionist great powers, and does it increase their threat to the international …
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Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist
This dissertation investigates the vital role of the private female reading experience in the creation of the mid-Victorian British woman writer's authorial persona. In particular, I examine the role of the female redactor, a woman writer who revises a particular text, genre, or convention within a …
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Crosland's socialism: a history of the British Labour Party's revisionist tradition, 1951-81
… enhanced the influence of a new generation of revisionist intellectuals, who set out to redefine Labour's socialist commitment and rethink its policies. The most influential thesis was provided by Anthony Crosland's The Future of Socialism (1956), which became the 'bible' for a generation of …
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Crafting the past: the appropriation of found photography in the African-American revisionist art of Betye Saar
… trend of referencing historic photographs in revisionist art and explore how Saar's method of including found images and objects differs from her contemporaries and the implications of her stylistic decisions. Discussion begins with the influence of African traditions on Saar's decision to …
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The White International: anatomy of a transnational radical revisionist plot in Central Europe after World War I.
The denial of defeat, the harsh Versailles Treaty and unsuccessful attempts by paramilitary units to recover losses in the Baltic produced in post-war Germany an anti-Bolshevik, anti-Entente, radical right-wing cabal of officers with General Ludendorff and Colonel Bauer at its core. Mistakenly …
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Towards a critical historiography of orthodox-revisionist debates on the origins of the Cold War: between disciplinary power and U.S. national identity
… order to interrogate the meaning of the orthodox-revisionist debate on the origins of the Cold War. Borrowing insights from the literature on ‘critical historiography’, it suggests that historiographical shifts occur in the twin struggle of defining the boundaries of the historical field and the …
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‘As native in my thought as any here’ A revisionist re-reading of the life and works of James Orr: poet, patriot and Ulster-Scot
The Ulster poet James Orr (1770-1816), from the Presbyterian, Scots-speaking County Antrim village of Ballycarry, experienced a brief period of fame during the 1800s when he published a volume of verse and became a regular contributor of poetry and essays to Belfast newspapers and journals. Orr, a …
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Fear and frustration : rising state perceptions of threats and opportunities
… depends on whether the state has status quo or revisionist intentions. Rising states are typically seen as revisionist, a type of state that is said to be easily emboldened by conciliation but not easily threatened by competition. This project, on the other hand, argues that rising states - even …
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The children of the concrete : Jewish immigrants in the New York public school system at the turn of the 20th century
… the total hegemonic control described in most revisionist historians' writings. The concept of "voluntary and involuntary minorities" developed by Ogbu is helpful in explaining the Jewish case as an exception from the revisionist interpretation of the role of schooling in America at the turn of …
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A One Percent Chance: Jabotinsky, Bernadotte, and the Iron Wall Doctrine
… and a split in the Zionist ideology. The Revisionist Zionist organization was founded by Ze’ev Jabotinsky and favored a more militant orientation. With an “Iron Wall” manifesto, and as time passed and international aid waned, the Revisionists evolved into an anticolonial movement that not …
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Turkish Foreign Policy towards the Middle East under the AKP (2002-2013): A Neoclassical Realist Account
… under the AKP towards the Middle East has been revisionist. This stems from the fact that AKP elite ideology is revisionist and the domestic driver that has the primary role in filtering systemic dynamics and leading to the foreign policy outcome. Thus, whenever the circumstances – namely, …
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Combatant moral equality in historical and practical context.
… morality of the concept has been questioned by revisionist scholars who seek to replace it with a system of morality strictly grounded in individual morality. This dissertation contends that such efforts neglect the morally relevant contexts of those who must apply the morality of war—statesmen …
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"Old Tales in New Skins": Three Authors Reinvent the Fairy Tales
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The German Army on the Western Front: 1914 – 1918
… the First World War will provide an original, revisionist and complete series of carefully researched books, which will equip the Anglophone audience for the first time with a detailed description from the German perspective of all the major campaigns and battles along the Western Front 1914 – …
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