Search Results - "World war"

Going Greek : Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945 / by Sanua, Marianne Rachel

Table of Contents: “…: Intra-Jewish Hostility and the Internalization of AntisemitismChapter 7: "The Idea of Quitting Is Abhorrent": Challenges during the Great Depression; Chapter 8: Fighting Back and Keeping Up Standards; Chapter 9: In the Shadow of Hitler: Social Life, Snobbery, and Jewish Identity; Epilogue: World War II and the Beginning of the End for the Jewish Fraternity System; Appendix A: Chapter Rolls of the National Jewish College Fraternities and Sororities to 1968; Appendix B: Directory of Jewish Fraternity and Sorority Chapters at Selected Colleges and Universities…”
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Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe / by Grashoff, Udo, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Squats across the Empire: A comparison of squatting movements in post-Second World War UK and Australia -- 11. Failed takeover: The phenomenon of right-wing squatting -- 12. …”
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Text & presentation, 2010

Table of Contents: “…Staging the public sphere : Karl Kraus and Romain Rolland's critical theatre in World War I / Christa Zorn -- 6. No kick coming : the staging and taming of the I.W.W. in Sidney Howard's They knew what they wanted / Michael Schwartz -- 7. …”
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Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture by Porcu, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Creating images of Japanese Buddhism and culture -- Japanese Buddhism and culture at the World's Parliament of Religions -- Okakura Kakuzo's English writings and cultural nationalism -- Representations of Japan and Japanese Buddhism during World War II -- Suzuki Daisetsu and his legacy -- Suzuki Daisetsu in the Shin Buddhist context -- Shin Buddhism from the viewpoint of the Kyoto school -- Jodo Shinshu and literature -- Everyday life in a Jodo Shinshu temple: Niwa Fumio's the Buddha tree -- Jodo Shinshu in the narrative writing of Natsume Soseki -- A young poetess and Jodo Shinshu: Kaneko Misuzu -- Itsuki Hiroyuki: a best-selling writer and Jodo Shinshu -- Literary reflections on personal experiences within Jodo Shinshu -- Harold H. …”
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Iowa history reader

Table of Contents: “…Morain -- Rural Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s / Dorothy Schwieder and Joseph Frazier Wall -- World War II and rural women / Deborah Fink -- The modernization of Iowa's agricultural structure in the twentieth century / Mark Friedberger -- The evolution of the Iowa precinct caucuses / Hugh Winebrenner -- Iowa's abortion battles of the late 1960s and early 1970s : long-term perspectives and short-term analyses / James C. …”
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English and German nationalist and anti-semitic discourse, 1871-1945

Table of Contents: “…Wallis -- "Good" Germans, "bad" Nazis and British reactions to the Holocaust / Egbert Klautke -- Perfidious Albion: Wilhelm Wundt's Völkerpsychologie and anti-English propaganda during World War I.…”
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Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /

Table of Contents: “…: the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media -- Hurricane Katrina : contesting singularity in treme -- Flooded with memories : risk cultures, the big flood of 1953 and the visual -- Resonance of World War two -- Authors -- Index of names.…”
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Text & presentation, 2010

Table of Contents: “…Staging the public sphere : Karl Kraus and Romain Rolland's critical theatre in World War I / Christa Zorn -- 6. No kick coming : the staging and taming of the I.W.W. in Sidney Howard's They knew what they wanted / Michael Schwartz -- 7. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Pure Land Buddhism in modern Japanese culture by Porcu, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Creating images of Japanese Buddhism and culture -- Japanese Buddhism and culture at the World's Parliament of Religions -- Okakura Kakuzo's English writings and cultural nationalism -- Representations of Japan and Japanese Buddhism during World War II -- Suzuki Daisetsu and his legacy -- Suzuki Daisetsu in the Shin Buddhist context -- Shin Buddhism from the viewpoint of the Kyoto school -- Jodo Shinshu and literature -- Everyday life in a Jodo Shinshu temple: Niwa Fumio's the Buddha tree -- Jodo Shinshu in the narrative writing of Natsume Soseki -- A young poetess and Jodo Shinshu: Kaneko Misuzu -- Itsuki Hiroyuki: a best-selling writer and Jodo Shinshu -- Literary reflections on personal experiences within Jodo Shinshu -- Harold H. …”
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Iowa history reader

Table of Contents: “…Morain -- Rural Iowa in the 1920s and 1930s / Dorothy Schwieder and Joseph Frazier Wall -- World War II and rural women / Deborah Fink -- The modernization of Iowa's agricultural structure in the twentieth century / Mark Friedberger -- The evolution of the Iowa precinct caucuses / Hugh Winebrenner -- Iowa's abortion battles of the late 1960s and early 1970s : long-term perspectives and short-term analyses / James C. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

English and German nationalist and anti-semitic discourse, 1871-1945

Table of Contents: “…Wallis -- "Good" Germans, "bad" Nazis and British reactions to the Holocaust / Egbert Klautke -- Perfidious Albion: Wilhelm Wundt's Völkerpsychologie and anti-English propaganda during World War I.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Hazardous future : disaster, representation and the assessment of risk /

Table of Contents: “…: the 2011 Lorca earthquake in the media -- Hurricane Katrina : contesting singularity in treme -- Flooded with memories : risk cultures, the big flood of 1953 and the visual -- Resonance of World War two -- Authors -- Index of names.…”
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Becoming East Germans : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. the banalities of East German historiography / Andrew Port -- East Germans in a post-Nazi state : communities of experience, connection, and identification / Mary Fulbrook -- Divisive unity : the politics of cultural nationalism during the first German Writers' Congress of October 1947 / Andreas Agocs -- Communicating history : the archived letters and memories of "the Red Orchestra" / Joanne Sayner -- Remembered change and changes of remembrance : East German narratives of antifascist conversion / Christiane Wienand -- Perceptions of health after World War II : heart disease and risk factors in East and West Germany, 1945-75 / Jeannette Madarasz -- Socialism fights the proletarian disease : East German efforts to overcome tuberculosis in a Cold War context / Donna Harsch -- The slim imperative : discourses and cultures of dieting in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 / Neula Kerr-Boyle -- Luxury dining in the later years of the German Democratic Republic / Paul Freedman -- Expectations, predispositions, and the paradox of working-class behavior in Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic / Andrew Port -- Israel as friend and foe : shaping East German society through Freund- and Feindbilder / David Tompkins -- Humiliation as a weapon within the party : fictional and personal accounts / Phil Leask -- Playing the game : football and everyday life in the Honecker era / Alan McDougall -- Afterword : structures and subjectivities in GDR history / Mary Fulbrook.…”
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Teaching Hemingway's A farewell to arms /

Table of Contents: “…Sinclair -- A farewell to arms, World War I, and "the stockyards at Chicago" / Kim Moreland -- Teaching A farewell to arms from a modernist perspective / Ellen Andrews Knodt -- Teaching A farewell to arms at the U.S. …”
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Across the Waves : How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio / by Vaillant, Derek

Table of Contents: “…Broadcasting to France during World War II -- Part II: Shaping a U.S.â#x80;#x93;French Radio Imaginary, 1945â#x80;#x93;74…”
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Becoming East Germans : socialist structures and sensibilities after Hitler /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. the banalities of East German historiography / Andrew Port -- East Germans in a post-Nazi state : communities of experience, connection, and identification / Mary Fulbrook -- Divisive unity : the politics of cultural nationalism during the first German Writers' Congress of October 1947 / Andreas Agocs -- Communicating history : the archived letters and memories of "the Red Orchestra" / Joanne Sayner -- Remembered change and changes of remembrance : East German narratives of antifascist conversion / Christiane Wienand -- Perceptions of health after World War II : heart disease and risk factors in East and West Germany, 1945-75 / Jeannette Madarasz -- Socialism fights the proletarian disease : East German efforts to overcome tuberculosis in a Cold War context / Donna Harsch -- The slim imperative : discourses and cultures of dieting in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990 / Neula Kerr-Boyle -- Luxury dining in the later years of the German Democratic Republic / Paul Freedman -- Expectations, predispositions, and the paradox of working-class behavior in Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic / Andrew Port -- Israel as friend and foe : shaping East German society through Freund- and Feindbilder / David Tompkins -- Humiliation as a weapon within the party : fictional and personal accounts / Phil Leask -- Playing the game : football and everyday life in the Honecker era / Alan McDougall -- Afterword : structures and subjectivities in GDR history / Mary Fulbrook.…”
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Teaching Hemingway's A farewell to arms /

Table of Contents: “…Sinclair -- A farewell to arms, World War I, and "the stockyards at Chicago" / Kim Moreland -- Teaching A farewell to arms from a modernist perspective / Ellen Andrews Knodt -- Teaching A farewell to arms at the U.S. …”
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Across the Waves : How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio / by Vaillant, Derek

Table of Contents: “…Broadcasting to France during World War II -- Part II: Shaping a U.S.â#x80;#x93;French Radio Imaginary, 1945â#x80;#x93;74…”
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Cadillac V-16s lost and found : tracing the histories of the 1930s classics / by Cummings, Christopher W., 1952-

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Cadillac V-16s lost and found : tracing the histories of the 1930s classics / by Cummings, Christopher W., 1952-

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