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Showing 1 to 20 of 209 for “"transatlantic"”.
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Repairing the legacies of transatlantic slavery
… to create a causal chain between the history of transatlantic slavery, via colonialism and segregation, to present-day national and international racial inequality. This thesis argues that such conceptualisations of reparations oversimplify the history and legacy of transatlantic slavery, and …
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Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, some of the most forceful accounts of modernity have located the traumatic shocks of war, urbanization, and technological change at the heart of modern experience and modernist literature. SURPRISE ENCOUNTERS argues that a dominant framework of shock …
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EU security cooperation and the transatlantic relationship
The transatlantic relationship has been at the top of the foreign policy and security agenda both of the United States and the European Union. This dissertation intends to examine the state of this relationship in view of the recent developments of the EU's security and defence policy (ESDP). The …
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The Future of the Transatlantic Security Relationship
… cultures, several future scenarios for the transatlantic security relationship become evident, making future options for state policy easier to derive. The existing tensions regarding the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan stem from particular differences in strategic cultures, but the …
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The Cultural Broker: Babette Deutsch and Transatlantic Modernism
This dissertation explores the multifaceted contributions of Babette Deutsch, emphasizing her role as a cultural broker within the modernist tradition. Deutsch’s diverse oeuvre, spanning poetry, fiction, translation, and literary criticism, is re-evaluated through the lens of cultural brokerage, a …
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Transatlantic ruin in the writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne
… in the writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne within a transatlantic context. In doing so, it will address the ways in which the time Hawthorne spent in Europe in the 1850s altered how decay and ruin figure within his writing. In nineteenth century American culture and politics, the idea of ruin is …
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Transatlantic Figures In Early Modern Spain (1550-1650)
… the strategies developed by three interconnected transatlantic literary figures to approach the new context of power relations, in the Iberian Peninsula, and how their literary production reflects these strategies. I study specifically the works of the chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and …
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From Galton to Globalization: The Transatlantic Journey of Eugenics
… mainstream. Who were the key figures in this transatlantic journey? How were the ideas transmitted and ultimately transformed? How did eugenics become one of the many fads of the 1920s? It was accepted not only as science, but popular science, science made for mass consumption by the public. …
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Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism
<p>My dissertation traces the vibrant interchange between Romantic literature and science in the nineteenth century that necessitated new forms of aesthetics. I argue that Romantic writers and scientists co-created a new way of understanding nature that moved away from hierarchical anthropocentrism …
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Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks
… and goings have left traces. Generations of transatlantic migrations have engendered networks of communications. As narratives of place and displacement travel across, beyond, and through these networks, they become informed by the networks’ structures and inflected with the syntax and …
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Early American Quakers and the transatlantic community, 1700-1756
… between the American and English members of the transatlantic Quaker community during the first fifty-six years of the eighteenth century. The pursuit of unity dominated that relationship.
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Transatlantic transactions: writing hispanism at the centennial of 1892
… revisited their common history and articulated a transatlantic Hispanic identity based on shared language, race and “spirit.” Hispanism offered them an alternative to the Anglo-Saxon and French modernities from which they were excluded as peripheral not-yet-modern nations. Both Latin American and …
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Forming modern times: the transatlantic day novel, 1884-1941
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Transatlantic Italy and Anglo-American Periodical Writing, 1848-1865
… last until 1865. This thesis investigates the transatlantic relationship between the Risorgimento and the Civil War as it emerged in The Atlantic Monthly, The Springfield Daily Republican and other nineteenth–century publications, and it does so through contextualised readings of Arthur Hugh …
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The Transatlantic World of William Bloke Modisane, 1951-1986
… It argues that Modisane was a pioneering transatlantic intellectual figure who made an unrivalled, albeit underrated, intellectual and cultural contribution to South African creative arts, British radio broadcasting and theatre, East African literature and history, the American Civil …
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Transatlantic relations -- are alliances a function of an external threat?
Current European-U.S. transatlantic relations represent the heritage of a large number of international alliances and institutions that were founded at a time when there was a bipolar world, a world dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union. Today fourteen years after the end of the Cold …
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Searching for the Transatlantic Freedom: The Art of Valerie Maynard
This thesis focuses on an African-American female artist, Valerie Maynard, examining how she synthesizes African and American elements in her works. It provides detailed formal and iconographical analyses, revealing concealed meanings and paying special attention to those works with which the …
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Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque
<p>Many theoretical treatments of Caribbean and Latin American surrealism(s), most notably Fredric Jameson and Alejo Carpentier’s foundational essays on magical realism, argue that the surrealism of the European metropole is a sophisticated avant-garde movement, in contrast to the blunt tool of …
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