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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"sense of national identity"”.
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National Identity in South African Children's Literature
National identity is an important characteristic of a country and helps to create a sense of national unity between its citizens. Identity is a learned concept that develops at a young age from children's surroundings and interactions. According to Martyn Barrett, this sense of National identity is …
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The Empire of Fashion: Taste, Gender, and Nation in Modern Japan
"Following from the work of Henri Lefebvre, I emphasize how the impact of capitalism and the intensification of fashion created a new awareness of the concept of everyday life in modern Japan. I analyze the way in which a peripheral elite disaffected with the government criticized the excessive …
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Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer
The music of Veljo Tormis (b. 1930) became well-established in Estonia during the 1960s yet remained little known in the West during the Communist period. By incorporating traditional song, regilaul,into his works, Tormis’s name became closely associated for Estonians with upholding a sense of …
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La France au bord de l’Amérique (France on the edge of America): Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Twentieth Century
Historians of Empire have overwhelmingly turned their attention to the study of peoples who, once oppressed by their imperial ruler, have achieved emancipation. Rarely do they examine the peoples who did not demand independence but, rather, willingly chose to remain linked to the ‘metropole.’ Saint …
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Reconstructing an Ascendancy world: the material culture of Frederick Hervey, the Earl Bishop of Derry (1730-1803)
… eighteenth-century Ireland, through a case study of Frederick Hervey, bishop of Derry and fourth earl of Bristol (1730-1803). It is primarily concerned with reconstructing and re-evaluating Hervey’s material world, in order to explore his complex relationship with it. He built, successively, two …
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The Impact of American Movies on Egyptian Cinema in 1950s and 1960s
… military coup in Egypt constituted the beginning of a new era in Egypts history and pushed forward substantial societal, economic and political changes. These changes represent the fruits of the revolutionary regime's pro-modernization ideology. In their search for modernity, the Egyptian elite …
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Television in Malaysia: implications for young adults' perceptions of national identity
… has long been recognised by Malaysian state officials to be a vital tool in the promotion of a collective sense of national identity amongst the country's citizens. The aims of this thesis are as follows. Firstly, to clarify through current debates what national identity is, both generally …
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Paradigms of Irishness for Young People in Dublin
The history of Ireland highlights how Irish identity has proved to be both an emotive and divisive force in Irish society. Events in both pre and post-independent Ireland point out how central Irishness has been within Irish society and also highlights how a sense of national identity has often …
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American Nationalism in the Early Twenty-first Century: A Discursive Analysis of the Politics of Immigration and National Security
… theoretical contributions on the topic of national identity and Michel Foucault's contributions toward discourse analysis to perform a discursive analysis of Donald Trump's campaign speeches in which he exploits pre-existing anti-immigration sentiments among certain voters to gain …
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'Tres veces campeones del mundo': Globality, Modernity and National Identity in Uruguayan Football (1924-1930)
This project explores the role of football during a crucial period of transformation in Uruguayan society in the early twentieth century. Using the sport to probe questions of modernity, globalisation, mass culture and identity at a vital moment in the forging of the Uruguayan nation-state, I …
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'Toast and Torpedoes': World War Two Naval Warfare on Film 1939-1960
… an original contribution to the understanding of how naval warfare in World War Two was presented in popular British cinema between 1939 and 1960. The study examines the distinctive nature of naval war films, notable for the way in which both the warlike and domestic are mixed, and uses this as …
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
… dissertation explores how early modern Russian identity was shaped by the built environment and, likewise, how the built environment was a result of an emerging Russian identity. I focus on the years 1472 to 1539 because they were crucial to the formation of this early modern Russian identity. …
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Thomas Davis's education policies: theory and practice
This thesis explores the education policies of Thomas Davis. On the eve of the Great Famine Ireland was economically impoverished and politically dependent. The Irish people had a subservient mentality, were mainly uneducated and were unaware of their potential. He believed that education would …
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The Experience of Soldiering: Civil-Military Relations and Popular Protest in England, 1790-1805.
Over the past three decades, historians of the long eighteenth century have emphasized both the stability of the British state and the progressive growth of national sentiment over the period. The enormous mobilization of manpower during the French Wars is often characterized as the culmination of …
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Playing the man: Masculinity, performance, and United States foreign policy, 1901--1920
… argues that early twentieth century conceptions of masculinity played a significant role in constructing US foreign policy and in creating a new sense of national identity. It focuses on five public figures (Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson). …
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The trajectory of the shifts in academic and civic identity in South African and English secondary school History National Curriculums across two key reform moments
This thesis seeks to explore the trajectories of the kinds of academic and civic identities that four different history curriculums would seek to produce. The curriculum documents chosen are two South African (Curriculum 2005 [1997] and the Curriculum and Policy Statement [2011]) and two English …
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Branding post-conflict cities and nations: theory and cases
… residents and talent. In contrast, a number of places are struggling with unfamiliarity and image problems based on inaccurate information or stereotypes. In other cases, a turbulent past, political instability, natural disasters, violence and economic downturns are to blame. Brand management …
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Public Service Broadcasting and the Construction of the Angolan Nation: Audiences’ perceptions of News at 8pm and Muangolé José Paulo
Studies of the media in Angola have been recent and very few, and have focused more on the general aspects of public media performances and how they interplay with Angolan politics and society. Public service broadcasting (PSB) has been included in these researches only as part of the media and …
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TIME, IDENTITY AND NATION IN GERMAN TRAVEL WRITING ON AFRICA 1848-1914
ABSTRACT Between 1848 and 1914 a wave of German explorers travelled to Africa, enticed by the promise of geographical, botanical and anthropological discovery. Each Afrikareisender composed a narrative account of his German-African encounters and so produced a characteristic mode of travel writing. …
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Making the past : history, identity, and the cultural politics of the Ulster Folk Museum
… may simply be telling a story, but the existence of a museum has a story to tell'. It is with such a sentiment in mind that this thesis examines the history, identity and cultural politics involved in the creation of the Ulster Folk Museum, in that it records a particular version of Ulster's past …
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