Search Results - "World war"

Immigration and national identity North African political movements in colonial and postcolonial France / by Aissaoui, Rabah

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of the Messalist movement ; Ethnicity and nation-ness in the ENA-PPA discourse ; The markers of ethnicity ; Racism, colonialism and universalism ; Algerian nationalists in the French political arena -- The Messalist movement from the Second World War to the eve of the Algerian War ; The Messalist-FLN conflict in France during the Algerian War -- North African migrants in the postcolonial period : the MTA in 1970s' France. …”
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Building a housewife's paradise gender, politics, and American grocery stores in the twentieth century / by Deutsch, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…Women and the social politics of food procurement -- Small stores, big business: the rise of chain store groceries, 1914-1933 -- The changing politics of mass consumption, 1910-1940 -- Moments of rebellion: the consumer movement and consumer cooperatives, 1930-1950 -- Grocery stores trade up: the politics of supermarkets and the making of a mass market, 1930-1945 -- Winning the home front: gender and grocery stores during World War II -- Babes in consumerland: supermarkets, hardware stores, and the politics of postwar mass retail.…”
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A renegade union interracial organizing and labor radicalism / by Phillips, Lisa Ann Wunderlich

Table of Contents: “…Community-based, "catch-all" organizing on New York's Lower East side -- Getting beyond racial, ethnic, religious, and skill-based divisions -- "Like a scab over an infected sore": full and fair employment during and after World War II -- Attacked from the left and the right: community-organizing, civic unionism during the early years of the Cold War -- A third Labor Federation? …”
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No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / by Venters, Louis

Table of Contents: “…First contacts, 1898-1916 -- The divine plan, the great war, and progressive-era racial politics, 1914-1921 -- Building a Baha'i community in Augusta and North Augusta, 1911-1939 -- The great depression, the second World War, and the first seven year plan, 1935-1945 -- Postwar opportunities, cold war challenges, and the second seven year plan, 1944-1953 -- The ten year plan and the fall of Jim Crow, 1950-1965 -- Coda: toward a Baha'i mass movement, 1965-1968.…”
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Immigration and national identity North African political movements in colonial and postcolonial France / by Aissaoui, Rabah

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of the Messalist movement ; Ethnicity and nation-ness in the ENA-PPA discourse ; The markers of ethnicity ; Racism, colonialism and universalism ; Algerian nationalists in the French political arena -- The Messalist movement from the Second World War to the eve of the Algerian War ; The Messalist-FLN conflict in France during the Algerian War -- North African migrants in the postcolonial period : the MTA in 1970s' France. …”
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Building a housewife's paradise gender, politics, and American grocery stores in the twentieth century / by Deutsch, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…Women and the social politics of food procurement -- Small stores, big business: the rise of chain store groceries, 1914-1933 -- The changing politics of mass consumption, 1910-1940 -- Moments of rebellion: the consumer movement and consumer cooperatives, 1930-1950 -- Grocery stores trade up: the politics of supermarkets and the making of a mass market, 1930-1945 -- Winning the home front: gender and grocery stores during World War II -- Babes in consumerland: supermarkets, hardware stores, and the politics of postwar mass retail.…”
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A renegade union interracial organizing and labor radicalism / by Phillips, Lisa Ann Wunderlich

Table of Contents: “…Community-based, "catch-all" organizing on New York's Lower East side -- Getting beyond racial, ethnic, religious, and skill-based divisions -- "Like a scab over an infected sore": full and fair employment during and after World War II -- Attacked from the left and the right: community-organizing, civic unionism during the early years of the Cold War -- A third Labor Federation? …”
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No Jim Crow church : the origins of South Carolina's Baha'i community / by Venters, Louis

Table of Contents: “…First contacts, 1898-1916 -- The divine plan, the great war, and progressive-era racial politics, 1914-1921 -- Building a Baha'i community in Augusta and North Augusta, 1911-1939 -- The great depression, the second World War, and the first seven year plan, 1935-1945 -- Postwar opportunities, cold war challenges, and the second seven year plan, 1944-1953 -- The ten year plan and the fall of Jim Crow, 1950-1965 -- Coda: toward a Baha'i mass movement, 1965-1968.…”
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Detroit on Stage : The Players Club, 1910-2005 / by Levering, Marijean

Table of Contents: “…The Players during the Depression and World War II; 4. The Long Run: Postwar Prosperity; 5. …”
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Perfect motherhood science and childrearing in America / by Apple, Rima D. (Rima Dombrow), 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Redefining motherhood -- "Follow the lead of physicians": Motherhood in the late nineteenth century -- "Mamma's scientific--she knows all the laws": Motherhood in the early twentieth century -- "Follow my instructions exactly": Experts to mothers in the interwar period and during World War II -- "The modern way": Mothers, circa 1920-1945 -- "Now I know that an authority has the same opinion as mine": Motherhood in the postwar period -- "Use it to guide, not to dictate": Motherhood in the late twentieth century -- Conclusion: "I wanted to do it right".…”
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Children of a new world society, culture, and globalization / by Fass, Paula S.

Table of Contents: “…: changing representations of parental kidnapping -- Bringing it home : children, technology, and family in the post-World War II world -- Children and globalization -- Children in global migrations -- Children of a new world.…”
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Decision at sea five naval battles that shaped American history / by Symonds, Craig L.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : naval battles and history -- Wooden warships and the western frontier : the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813 -- Iron, steam, and national union : the Battle of Hampton Roads, March 8-9, 1862 -- Armored cruisers and empire : the Battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898 -- Naval aviation and world war : the Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942 -- Missile warfare and the American imperium : Operation Praying Mantis, the Persian Gulf, April 18, 1988 -- Epilogue : naval battles and the 21st century.…”
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Free expression and democracy in America a history / by Feldman, Stephen M., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Democracy and free expression -- Republican democracy from the Revolution through the Civil War -- Free expression in the early years -- The Sedition Act controversy -- Free expression in the nineteenth century to 1865 -- Republican democracy from Reconstruction through 1920 -- Free expression, American society, and the Supreme Court -- Free expression during the World War I era -- Transition to pluralist democracy -- Pluralist democracy and judicial review -- Free expression, pluralist democracy, and the Supreme Court -- The traditions of dissent and suppression in the pluralist democratic regime -- Open questions.…”
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Detroit on Stage : The Players Club, 1910-2005 / by Levering, Marijean

Table of Contents: “…The Players during the Depression and World War II; 4. The Long Run: Postwar Prosperity; 5. …”
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Canada and the United States ambivalent allies / by Thompson, John Herd, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Building North American nation-states, 1774-1871 -- Canada in the shadow of industrial America, 1871-1903 -- Beginning a bilateral relationship, 1903-1918 -- A relationship matures, 1919-1938 -- World War to Cold War, 1939-1947 -- Canada in the new American empire, 1948-1960 -- The moose that roared, 1961-1968 -- The ambivalent ally, 1968-1984 -- Republicans and Tories, 1984-1993 -- A North American trajectory? …”
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Through the storm, through the night a history of African American Christianity / by Harvey, Paul, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Middle passage for the gods: African and African American religions from the middle passage to the great awakening -- The birth of Afro-Christianity in the slave quarters and the urban North, 1740-1831 -- Through the night: African American religion in the Antebellum Era -- Day of jubilee: Black churches from emancipation to the era of Jim Crow -- Jesus on the mainline: Black Christianity from the great migration through World War II -- Freedom's main line: Black Christianity, civil rights, and religious pluralism -- Epilogue: righteous anger and visionary dreams: contemporary Black politics, religion, and culture.…”
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A history of Ireland, 1800-1922 : theatres of disorder? / by Larkin, Hilary

Table of Contents: “…-- Constructive unionism, 1886-1906 -- Celtic renaissance -- The story of Irish socialism -- The home rule crisis -- World war and insurrection -- The rise of Sinn Fèin -- The Anglo-Irish War -- North and south settlements -- Conclusion.…”
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Contested borders : territorialization, national identity and "imagined geographies" in Albania / by Kalemaj, Ilir

Table of Contents: “…Delineating the playing field : virtual borders and imagined geographies -- Boundary mapping and territorialization of identity -- From nation-building to state-formation : how virtual mapping intersected with recognized borders in the Albanian imagination -- The interwar period, various shifts in the configuration of boundaries at elite level and national imagining amongst Albanians in Albania and abroad : from contractionary to expansionary and vice-versa -- From greater Albania during the Second World War to contractionary borders during the communist era -- Reimagining territorial landscape and mental borders in the post-communist and democratic transition era.…”
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Canada and the United States ambivalent allies / by Thompson, John Herd, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Building North American nation-states, 1774-1871 -- Canada in the shadow of industrial America, 1871-1903 -- Beginning a bilateral relationship, 1903-1918 -- A relationship matures, 1919-1938 -- World War to Cold War, 1939-1947 -- Canada in the new American empire, 1948-1960 -- The moose that roared, 1961-1968 -- The ambivalent ally, 1968-1984 -- Republicans and Tories, 1984-1993 -- A North American trajectory? …”
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Through the storm, through the night a history of African American Christianity / by Harvey, Paul, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Middle passage for the gods: African and African American religions from the middle passage to the great awakening -- The birth of Afro-Christianity in the slave quarters and the urban North, 1740-1831 -- Through the night: African American religion in the Antebellum Era -- Day of jubilee: Black churches from emancipation to the era of Jim Crow -- Jesus on the mainline: Black Christianity from the great migration through World War II -- Freedom's main line: Black Christianity, civil rights, and religious pluralism -- Epilogue: righteous anger and visionary dreams: contemporary Black politics, religion, and culture.…”
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