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The Civil War experiences of Newton Asbury Keen
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The long term psychological consequences of war experiences
… psychological difficulties associated with war experience. 731 World War Two and Korean War veterans completed a questionnaire supplying biographical details, war-related experience, and present day psychological health. A significant proportion had war-related psychological difficulties, …
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Fighting for Independence and Slavery: Confederate Perceptions of Their War Experiences
… many white southerners enthusiastically went to war in 1861, and that within four years a large number of them became apathetic or even openly hostile toward the Confederacy. By far, nonslaveholders composed the greatest portion of the disaffected. This work interprets the Confederate war …
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Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers
<p>This paper compares the Korean War experiences of two ethnically Japanese groups that served the US military on the Korean Peninsula – second-generation Japanese American (Nisei) soldiers in the US Military Intelligence Service (MIS) and Japanese laborers – to demonstrate the salience of …
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Vanishing Voices: The Impact of Life Behind the Barbed Wire on World War II Prisoners of War
… dissertation is an exploration into the lived experiences and interconnectedness of World War II prisoners of war (POWs). It is driven by the personal accounts of four men who experienced life on the wrong side of the barbed wire: my father, the late William Austin Burgess, formerly of …
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The role of youths in Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle: A case study of Bulilima District, 1960-1980.
… and participated in Zimbabwean guerrilla war. Bulilima is a border district between Zimbabwe and Botswana which, from 1960 – 1980 became Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) guerrillas’ central and key strategic entry point into and exit out of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). For the purposes …
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Maurice Ravel and Paul Wittgenstein: Le Concerto pour la Main Gauche in Response to World War I
… (1887–1961) lost his right arm during World War I. Wittgenstein recovered from the surgery, then in 1915 returned to Vienna to commission one of the most celebrated left-hand piano pieces from Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): the 1930 Concerto pour la Main Gauche. Ravel’s war experience was not as …
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Diversifying the Canon of American First World War Poetry
The First World War had a profound effect on international literature. However, its poetic canon has remained stubbornly British. American war poetry has been excluded from the canon owing in part to vastly different war experiences. American forces did not begin to arrive in Europe until nearly …
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A Tale of Two Cities: Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi During the American Civil War
… opposition and their initial support for the war, however, the two city’s reactions differed. This thesis argues that one of the main reasons for this difference is that two distinct communities developed in each city. Pre-war experiences shaped the citizens of Natchez and Vicksburg, allowing …
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From Film Sets to Front Lines and Back Again: Reinventing Star Image in Post-World War II Hollywood
<p>When World War II broke out in 1939, and as the United States entered the conflict after Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, men and women all across America left their homes to serve the war effort, some of which included Hollywood stars. There were famous actors in the 1950s and 60s who served as …
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Ukrainian Ostarbeiters in Canada: Individual and Collective Remembering
When the Second World War came to an end, some 150 thousand Ukrainian Ostarbeiters (civilian labourers who were forcibly recruited to work for the Nazi economy during the war) refused to return from Germany to the Soviet-dominated Ukraine. Together with other Ukrainian Displaced Persons, they …
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The origins of Prussian conservatism, 1815-56
… church-political party, however, lie within the experiences of the Napoleonic Wars (1806-15) and the social movements dominant at that time. In this way, early nineteenth-century Prussian conservatism is presented as being bound to a generation unit of young Prussian nobles who had experienced …
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Psychosocial dimensions of change: An application of attachment theory and analytical psychology to family life in post-war Kosovo
… years, Kosovo has been transitioning from warfare and organized violence to stabilization and state building under the supervision and with the support of the international community. Drawing on different contributions from analytical psychology, attachment theory and the systemic family …
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Rusijos karo prieš Ukrainą patyrimas Šalčininkų rajone: etniškumas ir tarptautinė dinamika /
… where Lithuania and Poland oppose Russia’s war on Ukraine. This thesis aims to answer the question of how the residents of the district experience the war in Ukraine? Perception of Šalčininkai district often evokes mistrust in Lithuanian society, which is exacerbated in light of increasing …
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For Honor and Duty: The Civil War Experience of William Washington Gordon II
… William Washington Gordon II began his Civil War service in January 1861, he could never have imagined that four years later 600,000 Americans would be dead. Yet hundreds of thousands of men and boys flocked to sign up and experience what they perceived to be a great adventure. William was no …
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Migration, Colonialism, and Belonging: Tunisians Around the First World War, 1911-1925
… analyzes the little-examined transnational experiences of ordinary North Africans around the First World War, demonstrating how the war catalyzed a wide and unexpected range of concepts of political and social belonging. With the Mediterranean once again the site of massive migration …
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The genesis of poetic prose in the works of Louis-Ferdinand Celine through the transgressive and maieutic agency of the figure of the Double
… fractured psyche caused by the trauma of his war experiences and a concomitant horror Celine perceived as extant in man's inhumanity to man, concealed by a veneer of 'civilised' behaviour. Because the figure of the Double is manifest in Celine's works in two distinct capacities, both as a …
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Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective
… <p>This dissertation documents the resettlement experiences of Bosnian Muslims relocated to two urban locales in the north of New York State during and after the Bosnian War in the Balkans. To do so, it relies on ethnographic data gathered mainly through extensive interviews and …
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