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Sarkar, Jayjit. "Poetics of Pathology: modernity, illness and a select reading of Twentieth-Century European literature (1910-1960)." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2018. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/2680.

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Mannering, Hildegard Kirsten. "European stylistic influence on early twentieth century South African painters." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002207.

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South African artists, d i ssatisfied with the staid environment in local circles, felt the need to travel abroad for fresh stimulation. This need allowed for a historical investigation into the results, beneficial or otherwise, of the influence of European modernism on early twentieth century South African painters. Because of the numerous practising artists in South Africa at the time, it was found necessary to give cohesion to the artists discussed and, therefore the most pertinent were grouped into artistic movements. Thus, H.Naude, R . G. Goodman and H.S. Caldecott are discussed in conjunction with Impressionism. B. Everard, R. Everard-Haden and J.H. Pierneef are compared to the post-Impressionists and finally, I.Stern and M. Laubser are equated with the Fauves and Expressionists. To ascertain the true effect of European stylistic influence, a comparative analysis of work executed before European visits and upon the artists' return was imperative. Simultaneously, as part of the analysis, reference was also made to any work executed by these artists while in Europe. European movements of the period are also reviewed, enabling precise grouping and better understanding of t he styles adopted by the chosen group of early twentieth century South African artists. Some attention is given to the impact these artists had on South African art upon their return, as this confirms the degree of European influence and facilitates the classification of styles adopted by the selected group. In conclusion, to establish the extent to which European art was influential, a brief synopsis shows the changes in local groups, once these artists had re-established themselves in South Africa.

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Lee, Sai-chong Jack. "Painting in western media in early twentieth century Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19668296.

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Williams, James. "Polyglot passages : multilingualism and the twentieth-century novel." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2017. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/25985.

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This thesis reads the twentieth-century novel in light of its engagement with multilingualism. It treats the multilingual as a recurring formal preoccupation for writers working predominantly in English, but also as an emergent historical problematic through which they confront the linguistic and political inheritances of empire. The project thus understands European modernism as emerging from empire, and reads its formal innovations as engagements with the histories and quotidian realities of language use in the empire and in the metropolis. In addition to arguing for a rooting of modernism in the language histories of empire, I also argue for the multilingual as a potential linkage between European modernist writing and the writing of decolonisation, treating the Caribbean as a particularly productive region for this kind of enquiry. Ultimately, I argue that these periodical groupings - the modernist and the postcolonial - can be understood as part of a longer chronology of the linguistic legacy of empire. The thesis thus takes its case studies from across the twentieth century, moving between Europe and the Caribbean. The first chapter considers Joseph Conrad as the paradigmatic multilingual writer of late colonialism and early modernism, and the second treats Jean Rhys as a problematic late modernist of Caribbean extraction. The second half of the thesis reads texts more explicitly preoccupied with the Caribbean: the third chapter thus considers linguistic histories of Guyana and the Americas in the works of the experimental novelist Wilson Harris, and the fourth is concerned with the inventive and polemical contemporary Dominican-American novelist, Junot Díaz.

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Tsang, Wing-yi. "Jewish imagery and orientalism in nineteenth and early twentieth century European art." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40040355.

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Tsang, Wing-yi, and 曾穎怡. "Jewish imagery and orientalism in nineteenth and early twentieth century European art." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40040355.

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Pappas, Robin Brooke. "Varieties of consciousness : nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poetics of "altered" states /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3113022.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-277). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Chattopadhyay, Sayan. "Foreign selves : Indian self-fashioning as European and twentieth-century Indian English literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648897.

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Lee, Sai-chong Jack, and 李世莊. "Painting in western media in early twentieth century Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31214344.

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Renner-Fahey, Ona. "Mythologies of poetic creation in twentieth-century Russian verse." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1056554664.

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Murphy, Adam C. "Perpetuating Nationalist Mythos? Portrayals of Eighteenth Century Ireland in Twentieth Century Irish Secondary School Textbooks." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1371792303.

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Smith, Jennifer. "Mysticism as an escape from scientific discourse eluding female subjectivity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3204287.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0203. Adviser: Maryellen Bieder. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 12, 2006)."

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Fitzpatrick, Devin Marie. "The interrelation of art and space an investigation of late nineteenth and early twentieth century European painting and interior space /." Online access for everyone, 2004. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2004/d%5Ffitzpatrick%5F043004.pdf.

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Zavatti, Francesco. "The Burden of Sad Times. Another Face of the Twentieth Century : Review of Stefano Bottoni's book 'Un altro Novecento L’Europa orientale dal 1919 a oggi' ['Another twentieth century: Eastern Europe from 1919 to the present day']." Södertörns högskola, Centrum för Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning (CBEES), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-17688.

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Arora, Kulvinder. "Assimilation and its counter-narratives twentieth-century European and South Asian immigrant narratives to the United States /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3200730.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 1, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-248).

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Villa, Elena M. "Eloquent flesh : cross-cultural figurations of the dancer in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1232398811&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1180979327&clientId=11238.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 313-332). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Halfyard, Janet Katherine. "Only connect : European music theatre in the context of Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk and the early twentieth-century avant-garde." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397944.

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Wilburn, Alayna. "IMPERIAL KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURAL DISPLAY: REPRESENTATIONS OF COLONIAL INDIA IN LATE-NINETEENTH AND EARLY-TWENTIETH CENTURY LONDON." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10225/957.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kentucky, 2008.
Title from document title page (viewed on December 11, 2008). Document formatted into pages; contains: vi, 104 p. : ill., maps. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-103).

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Verbeeten, David Randall. "The politics of non-assimilation : three generations of Eastern European Jews in the United States in the twentieth century." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610787.

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Silaghi, Cristina. "Plenitudes of Painting: Wilhelm Worringer and the Relationshipbetween Abstraction and Representation in European Paintingat the Beginning of the Twentieth Century." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8499.

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Throughout the twentieth century, the relationship between representation and abstraction has been regarded predominantly in terms of opposition. One of the prominent early twentieth-century defenders of this approach is Wilhelm Worringer (1881-1965), who introduces representation and abstraction as antithetic modes of art-making in Abstraction and Empathy. A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (1908). However, while he distinguishes between abstraction and representation on theoretical grounds, Worringer also observes that, in the history of art, these modes of art-making coexist. The current thesis examines Worringer’s approach to the writing of art history and theory, inquiring into his perspective on the personal responses of viewers and artists to the world, and the manifestations of these responses in art. Abstraction and Empathy addresses issues of empathy, form, and will, in aesthetics and art-making; it discusses and extends the writings of Theodor Lipps, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Alois Riegl. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Worringer’s book attracted much attention: like its sequel, Form in Gothic (1910), it was often associated with the rise to prominence of Expressionism in Germany. Later in the twentieth century, Worringer’s thought came under the scrutiny of Rudolf Arnheim, who criticized Worringer’s emphasis on abstract-representational opposition. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari praised Worringer’s approach to antithesis, yet questioned the terms Worringer proposed as opposites. For Arnheim, Deleuze and Guattari, alternatives to the antithesis between abstraction and representation became visible. Indeed, in Worringer’s time, artists such as Adolf Hildebrand, Ferdinand Hodler, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Wassily Kandinsky underscored the common grounds between representation and abstraction. Exploring Worringer’s Abstraction and Empathy and Form in Gothic, as well as the words and works of Hildebrand, Hodler, Cézanne, Monet and Kandinsky, this thesis aims to highlight abstract-representational interplay as observable in early twentieth-century writing and art-making.

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Cheatle, Joseph. "BETWEEN WILDE AND STONEWALL: REPRESENTATIONS OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406501605.

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Dawood, Rasha Ahmed Khairy Hafez. "Critical discourse within European plays in the first half of the twentieth century and the manifestations of a similar phenomenon in modern Egyptian drama." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15359.

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This thesis closely examines the utilisation of dramatic characters’ comments on matters of literary and theatrical criticism. This phenomenon shaped a trend in European theatre during the first half of the twentieth century, and Egyptian theatre in the second half of the century. My main hypotheses are, firstly, that dramatic characters’ comments on literary and theatrical matters of criticism respond to specific problems that challenge theatre practice. Thus, my reading of literary and theatrical criticism within the dramatic texts studied in my thesis focuses on this criticism’s reformative function to rectify the crisis that faces theatre practice in general, rather than playwrights’ individual motives, such as responding to their critics. Secondly, socio-political, economic, and cultural aspects shape historical circumstances, which influence the current state of the theatre industry. Therefore, although Egyptian plays are noticeably influenced by European metatheatre, Egyptian playwrights utilise these borrowed techniques to highlight specific problems of Egyptian theatre such as the corrupt administration of governmental theatre and censorship. Finally, while Egyptian plays exploit European metatheatrical techniques, Egyptian playwrights claimed their works as a revival of intrinsically anti-illusionist traditional forms of entertainment such as the shadow play and Karagöz. This claim reflected increasing calls for pure Egyptian theatre, as part of the anti-Western jingoistic discourse of the political regime of the 1950s. In order to examine these assumptions, my theoretical approach draws from the fields of metatheatrical studies; literary and performance studies of parody and intertextuality; the history of European and Egyptian theatre; sociological, political and cultural studies; theories of modern criticism, and critical reviews. My contribution to the field of metatheatrical studies is in highlighting the reformative function of literary and theatrical criticism, whether as a discourse or a metatheatrical device, within a group of European plays that belong to different movements of the avant-garde during the first half of the twentieth century. More significantly, my study investigates the same phenomenon in Egyptian plays that, since the 1980s, have gradually been marginalised as fringe theatre and neglected by academic studies.

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McAndrew, Jennifer Malia. "All American beauty the experiences of African American, European American, and Japanese American women with beauty culture in the mid-twentieth century United States /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8117.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of History. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Rangasamy, Jacques R. "An investigation of antique and non European ideas which contributed to the evolution of the formal and conceptual systems of the twentieth century sculptor, Constantin Brancusi." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600828.

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Demers, Alanna. "They Kill Horses, Don't They? Peasant Resistance and the Decline of the Horse Population in Soviet Russia." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459521486.

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Maagaard, Sebastian. "The End of Sweden’s Nonalignment Policy and Generous RefugeePolicy, or EU as a Solution : Sweden’s National Self-determination in the EU Membership Debate,1987 – 1991." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-320389.

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This thesis examines how the parliamentary debate in Sweden saw the consequences of Swedenas a nation were to join the European Union. The nation is defined as a state based on nationalself-determination. The EU is regarded as a supra-state organisation and one of the moreextensive efforts of its kind. I specifically examine two themes in Swedish foreign policy. Theseare the nonalignment policy and migration policy. Through a discourse analysis I show that allpolitical parties perceive consequences for the self-determination and all argue selfdeterminationwill be lost in the event of membership. However, they are divided in what theybelieved this would lead to. Some parties support EU whereas others are sceptical of EU. Partiesthat support an EU-membership argue that it is inevitable to join and Sweden will lose selfdeterminationanyway. A membership opens the possibility to influence and participate, but anabstaining will lead forced acceptance of policies. Many of the supporters are even positive ofbeing a member in EU. Sceptics, on the other hand believe Sweden will lack influence and loseall self-determination. The organisation itself is against Sweden as it is a supra-stateorganisation, which may reduce the role of single member-states. For the nonalignment policy,the government initially use it as an argument against EU, but later support membership if thenonalignment policy can be kept. The other supporters acknowledge the nonalignment policy,but nevertheless assert that EU is compatible with the nonalignment policy. This is because ofthe changes in the geopolitical situation. Sceptics believe the nonalignment policy rejectmembership, mostly due to the still uncertain geopolitical situation and the suspicion EU willdeprive Sweden of its decision-making. Sometimes they suggest the self-determination andnonalignment policy are prerequisites for each other. In the migration policy, all parties supportgenerous migration policy, but

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Glomm, Anna Sandaker. "Graphic revolt! : Scandinavian artists' workshops, 1968-1975 : Røde Mor, Folkets Ateljé and GRAS." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3171.

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This thesis examines the relationship between the three artists' workshops Røde Mor (Red Mother), Folkets Ateljé (The People's Studio) and GRAS, who worked between 1968 and 1975 in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Røde Mor was from the outset an articulated Communist graphic workshop loosely organised around collective exhibitions. It developed into a highly productive and professionalised group of artists that made posters by commission for political and social movements. Its artists developed a familiar and popular artistic language characterised by imaginative realism and socialist imagery. Folkets Ateljé, which has never been studied before, was a close knit underground group which created quick and immediate responses to concurrent political issues. This group was founded on the example of Atelier Populaire in France and is strongly related to its practices. Within this comparative study it is the group that comes closest to collective practises around 1968 outside Scandinavia, namely the democratic assembly. The silkscreen workshop GRAS stemmed from the idea of economic and artistic freedom, although socially motivated and politically involved, the group never implemented any doctrine for participation. The aim of this transnational study is to reveal common denominators to the three groups' poster art as it was produced in connection with a Scandinavian experience of 1968. By ‘1968' it is meant the period from the late 1960s till the end of the 1970s. It examines the socio-political conditions under which the groups flourished and shows how these groups operated in conjunction with the political environment of 1968. The thesis explores the relationship between political movements and the collective art making process as it appeared in Scandinavia. To present a comprehensible picture of the impact of 1968 on these groups, their artworks, manifestos, and activities outside of the collective space have been discussed. The argument has presented itself that even though these groups had very similar ideological stances, their posters and techniques differ. This has impacted the artists involved to different degrees, yet made it possible to express the same political goals. It is suggested to be linked with the Scandinavian social democracies and common experience of the radicalisation that took place mostly in the aftermath of 1968 proper. By comparing these three groups' it has been uncovered that even with the same socio-political circumstances and ideological stance divergent styles did develop to embrace these issue.

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Ribeiro, Luiz Dario Teixeira. "Capítulos sobre a história do século XX." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/78183.

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Este trabalho procura investigar e interpretar alguns processos históricos marcantes do século passado e que possuem identidade própria e podem ser nomeados como capítulos. Tais capítulos constituem parte significativa da História do século XX e são responsáveis pela identidade histórica específica deste. Não se pretende aqui apresentar um trabalho baseado em fontes primárias nem defender novas e diferentes teses históricas. Esta é uma pesquisa centrada na análise bibliográfica que dialoga com sínteses e estudos monográficos sem uma preocupação maior do que a de elaborar instrumentos para o estudo introdutório da História do século XX.
This paper aims to investigate and interpret some striking historical processes of the last century, which have its own identity and can be named as chapters. These chapters constitute a significant part of the twentieth century history and they are responsible for its specific historical identity. We don´t intend to present an analysis centered on primary sources or defend new and different historical theses. This research is focused on literature review and dialogues with syntheses and monographic studies, so its main concern is to devise instruments for the introductory study of the history of the twentieth century.

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Leonard, Charles C. "Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity on the Design of Type for Printing." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/2.

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This thesis reviews the circumstances that led to what Paul Renner called “the inflation of historicism,” places his response to that problem in the context of the Weimar Republic, details how the German attributes with which he began the project were displaced from the typeface that emerged in 1927, demonstrates that Futura belongs to a new category of serif-less roman fonts rooted in Arts and Crafts lettering, and considers why the specifically German aspects of the project have gone unrecognized for over seventy years. Renner’s writing is compared to ideas prevalent in early twentieth-century German cultural discourse, and Futura’s design process is placed in the context of Renner’s personal experience of Weimar’s social and economic crises. Objective measurements are employed to establish the relationship between drawings attributed to Renner and are used to compare features of Futura with other fonts of the period.

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Pai, Hsiu-Yu, and 白琇伃. "The Influence of European Immigration in Argentina from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21733225669967035889.

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In 1810, Argentina managed to be an independent country after being colonized by Spain for almost three hundred years. During the early years of independence, the process of unification was slow and difficult due to the hostility between those who supported centralism (based in Buenos Aires) and those who supported federalism (from other provinces). The centralist Bernardino Rivadavia managed to be the first president in 1826. After the bloody battles between Unitarians and Federalists, Juan Manuel de Rosas emerged as a dictator (1829-1852) who was able to hold the country together. The federalist Justo José de Urquiza ended the dictatorship of Rosas and established the Constitution of 1853 by adopting an open policy. In 1862 Bartolomé Mitre was elected president. After the War of the Triple Alliance, the border conflict with Paraguay was solved and Argentina became a truly unified country. Finally, during the administration of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the country was fully consolidated. In addition, during the government of Nicolás Avellaneda, through the Conquest of the Desert, the problems with the Indians were resolved. After 1880 they expanded the exploitable territory. Although Argentina is a rich country with vast plains, many rivers and a temperate climate, in 1810 there were only under half a million inhabitants and later on, the 1869 national census revealed that the country had fewer than 1.8 million people. Because of the low density and abundant land, from the period independence of the country onwards, the government noticed the urgency to attract foreign labor. The government began taking on a series of policies to attract immigrants, such as the Law of Immigration and Colonization of 1876. In the same period, Italy and Spain were experiencing a population growth which coincided with an agricultural crisis, and created an imbalance between population and resources and a lack of industrial revolution, thus many left those countries fearing wars and confrontations. All these reasons caused a steady emigration to America. In addition, the invention of steamships and the railway development in Argentina also encouraged more emigration. According to the census of 1914 the population of Argentina grew to nearly eight million people. Between 1870 and 1914, six million immigrants arrived in Argentina, of which 3 million remained permanently. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, the high percentage of European immigrants in many ways influenced the society, politics, and economy of Argentina. This thesis first discusses the pull and push factors of migration, and then it analyzes if the arrival of European immigrants improved the social conditions of Argentina. Secondly, the thesis analyzes if the immigrants were involved in politics and achieved decision-making power. Finally, it will explain if Argentina’s economy was improved greatly thanks to the European immigration. This thesis is divided into three chapters: one about Argentina, the target country of immigrants, one about the two countries of emigrants, Italy and Spain, and the last one about the role of European immigrants in the society, politic, economy of Argentina. In the conclusion the thesis focuses on concrete issues pertaining to historical events and literary reviews.

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Collings, Rhian Sarah. "Creating a "union in diversity": european identity in twentieth century narratives of travel." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/20435.

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In Europe: An Unfinished Adventure, Zygmunt Bauman demonstrates, through a series of examples from the Bible and Greek mythology, that “Europe is not something you discover; Europe is a mission – something to be made, created, built”.1 The Europe of today is undoubtedly built upon the policies, governments and leaders of its member states and upon the politics of the European Union’s governing body, but perhaps of the greatest importance in this construction of Europe is the often lesser-considered element of culture and cultural identity. A group of people with different nationalities and different mother tongues cannot experience a sense of togetherness, a sense of community, thanks to policymaking. A sense of cultural belonging is cultivated through more subtle means: through the accumulation over centuries of books, music, poetry and artwork that helps to create a common imagery and a landscape of the European mind. European thinkers, such as Zygmunt Bauman, Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Roberto Dainotto and Amin Maalouf, have theorised the current status of Europe: but will their message regarding the importance of European belonging be heeded by the masses? Undeniably, sociology, philosophy, and literary theory do not speak to the public in the same way that literature can, since the latter is inevitably more engaging.

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(8698872), Erich Wilhelm Drollinger. ""For Training Purposes Only": West German Military Aid to Nigeria and Tanzania, 1962-1968." Thesis, 2020.

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Amidst the confrontation between the East and the West Bloc during the Cold War, the decolonization of Africa created an entirely new ideological battlefield for these two sides to compete with one another for power and influence. The Federal Republic of Germany, having been allowed to rearm its military less than a decade prior, sought to gain influence in Nigeria and Tanzania by providing them with military aid. However, in both cases it failed to fulfill its promises of aid. Through the examination of these case studies, this study argues that the Federal Republic’s ability to provide effective military aid to non-NATO countries was limited due to the combination of its cautious foreign policy and the dynamic political landscape of the countries to which it offered aid. Formerly classified government documents and newspaper articles constitute the majority of this study’s source material. While current historiography focuses on the impact of the Cold War superpowers in regions outside of Europe, less attention has been given to the important roles that smaller powers such as the Federal Republic have played. By analyzing a smaller global player, the goal of this study is to complicate the notion of the Cold War being binary in nature. Furthermore, it aims to illustrate the political tightrope that the Federal Republic walked when conducting military aid which stemmed from the legacy of its violent past and its status as a divided nation.

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