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Showing 1 to 20 of 241 for “"turn of the century"”.
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American Multitudes: Immunity and Contagion at the Turn of the Century
… French sociologist Gustave Le Bon proclaimed the era of crowds upon us, in his influential work, The Crowd. Le Bon's work was translated into English a year later, inspiring a number of similar works by American sociologists, and almost single-handedly creating the discipline of crowd …
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German Literary Travelogues Around the Turn of the Century, 1890-1914
The development of non-fictional travel literature (the literary travelogue) at the turn of the century (1890-1914) shows a cyclical pattern. After a short-lived revival of interest from 1890 to 1892, resulting from the emergence of Impressionism, the younger generation of writers did not practice …
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Utilité publique : architecture, urbanism, and aesthetic reform in turn of the century France
This dissertation documents how the aesthetic dimension of architecture came to be seen as an object of public utility in late nineteenth and early twentieth century France. It examines the work of a network of architects, artists, political representatives, art critics, poets, archaeologists, …
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Claiming Primordial Landscapes: Science and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century Science Fiction Novels
<p>This thesis argues that the relationship between nineteenth-century geology and paleontology play a role in imperial ambitions of countries and characters in science fiction novels. Two novels are analyzed—<em> Journey to the Centre of the Earth </em>by Jules Verne and <em>The Lost World </em>by …
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"""Forms of Some Intenser Life"": Genre and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century"
… dialogue between two distinct phenomena at the turn of the twentieth century: first, the exponential growth and mercurial nature of novelistic genres and, secondly, the emergence of modern global consciousness. Experimentations with genre, I argue, allowed writers to develop new narrative …
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Impredicativity and turn of the century foundations of mathematics : presupposition in Poincare and Russell
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1993.
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"Hideous architecture" : mimicry, feint and resistance in turn of the century southeastern Nigerian building
This dissertation reconstructs the histories of some exceptional, hitherto unstudied buildings, erected in southeastern Nigeria between 1889 and 1939; they are part of a larger group, dispersed over the African Atlantic coast and 'interior'. To architectural scholarship, these kinds of building …
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Love in the big city: Intimacy, marriage, and risk in turn-of-the-century Berlin
This dissertation examines the surprising push and pull between tradition and modernity that occurred when men and women living in Europe’s fastest growing city fought off isolation and attempted to find love using self-consciously modern mindsets and technologies. Whether it was the decision to …
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The Women of the Ten, Twent', Thirt': Popular Melodrama Theatre in Turn-of-the-Century New York
<p>During the first decade of the twentieth century, when the population of New York City was growing by leaps and bounds because of immigration, urbanization, and industrialization, a short-lived theatre movement known as the "ten-twenty-thirty," or, more familiarly, the "ten, twent', thirt," was …
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Renovation of turn of the century working-class housing in the Boston area : understanding some issues for change
Thesis. 1977. M. Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Tunisian Theater at the Turn of the Century: "Hammering the Same Nail" in Jalila Baccar and Fadhel Jaïbi's Theater
… Baccar and Fadhel Jaïbi--recognized as two of the most influential actor-director-playwright pair in contemporary Tunisian theater. This is the first research that addresses the drama of Baccar and Jaïbi, a partnership that spans almost forty years, and is arguably the most significant force …
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse
"This dissertation analyzes the fiction of Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first black fiction writer published by a major American firm and widely reviewed and read by white critics and readers. My analysis focuses on the conflict between Chesnutt's anti-racism and his attempt to make …
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The High School at The Turn of The Century: A Study of the Changes in Theaims and Programs of Public Secondary Education in the United States, 1890-1900
… in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:33:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0010515.pdf: 17080170 bytes, checksum: 18161ea8035ed71bcc11406a47e05998 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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Clearing out: Escape genres and American culture, 1880-1915
Imaginary worlds proliferated in turn-of-the-century American literature and culture, including the White City at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Boston in 2000, Mars, Oz, and the West. Focusing on utopian, fantasy, and western writings, this project theorizes the white middle-class …
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Uscire dalla casa paterna: An inquiry into the life, literature and times of Maria Messina
The writings of Maria Messina, a Sicilian woman writer at the turn of the century, embody a conflictual feminism issuing from conflicts that silenced and immobilized women in the past and created dilemmas for them in their struggle for emancipation. This dissertation looks at origins of gender …
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Imagined Communions: One Woman's Spiritual Journey
"This is a historical case study of the literate practices of one woman, Janette Miller, (1879--1969), a librarian, missionary, preacher, writer and teacher. It analyzes the epistemological connections between evangelical Christianity and Miller's literacy practices, connections acknowledged by a …
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Silent partners and missing links : history, architecture and the challenge of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum
… station Ellis Island not only processed millions of immigrants, but also functioned to develop mechanisms of control and procedures for inspecting thousands of immigrants on a daily basis. Ellis Island operated at the intersection of conflicting cultural paradigms as economic concerns exacerbated …
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A day of inquiry: The rise of special education in America
"The thesis of this work is that Special Education in America has definite origins at the turn of the century. It was born within the National Education Association as oral methodology deaf educators struggled against the monopoly which manual deaf educators had in the field of deaf education in …
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