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Faith on the home front : aspects of church life and popular religion in Birmingham, 1939-1945Parker, Stephen George January 2003 (has links)
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Representing trauma : the image of atrocity in the cultural discourse of European modernityPhungsoondara, Visarut January 2003 (has links)
In this thesis, I examine the complexities involved in the representation of trauma in both aesthetic and ideological configurations in the relationship between the generic experience of modernity and particular historical events of atrocity. This relationship continues from the discourse of social and moral degradation and the rise of modem psychiatry, to the idea of artistic and literary creation. The discourse of trauma has become intrinsically linked to the aesthetic in the configuration of the experience of modernity that points not only to the problematisation of the self but also the crisis of representation. Starting from the discourse of trauma surrounding the experience of the First World War, the thesis examines the language of technology and mechanisation as a means for overcoming the traumatic experience of the war in the work of Ernst Jünger and other writers and artists across the political spectrum during the Weimar period. I also investigate the aesthetic configurations of `depersonalisation' and `impersonality' as they are figured in the texts and images of the European Avant-garde particularly, the Neue Sachlichkeit, and the thematic origins of the image of trauma since the early modem period. I also examine the pathological rhetoric of disintegration and decay in the discourse of war trauma in the work of Louis-Ferdinand Celine. The thesis proposes that there is a reactionary tendency in the image of disintegration, decay and fragmentation in particular avantgarde movements such as the Neue Sachlichkeit, Expressionism and Surrealism. I conclude that the representation of trauma is intrinsic to diverse political and aesthetic positions articulated through rhetorical strategies in the discourse of scientific rationalism, technological progress, the medical sciences and the modernist aesthetic of fragmentation and disfiguration. In the final part of the thesis, I investigate these aesthetic and ideological themes in the contemporary discourse of trauma surrounding the representation of the Holocaust, particularly the construction of the `Holocaust museum' and its artefacts through examining the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D. C. and the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
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Haute-Savoie at war, 1939-1945Abrahams, Paul Richard Adolphe January 1992 (has links)
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War finance in CanadaOstle, Bernard January 1946 (has links)
This thesis endeavours to list and compare the finance measures undertaken by the Dominion Government during the two great wars in Canada's history. However, emphasis has been placed on the war effort just concluded. Considerable space has been given over to a discussion of the means by which the Minister of Finance made available the funds necessary for the prosecution of the war — changes in the tax system, government borrowing, price and exchange control have been examined in some detail. A short note on Canadian Aid to Allies has been included. / Arts, Faculty of / Vancouver School of Economics / Graduate
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The Black Scare: Cold War Anticommunism and the Long Civil Rights Movement in AmericaStewart, Kierstin January 2016 (has links)
This thesis discusses the impact of the Cold War on the Long African American Civil Rights Movement in the US from 1945 into the early 1970s. I seek to address the historiography that argues that the Cold War was an animating or galvanizing force behind the Civil Rights movement. I argue that black strategies of activism and black thought during the long civil rights era were directly or indirectly influenced by Cold War politics. Strategies towards freedom and equality were manipulated, altered, and transformed due to anticommunism in America.
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Uncovering the (ethno)gendered dimensions of ’unconventional’ state war and its effect on non-combatants/(ethno)nationalist ’women’Zupanec, Nives 11 1900 (has links)
The exploitation and extermination of people in the context of internal conflict in the
former Yugoslavia is a grave injustice and the result of a systematic policy of war by an
unconventional state. Internal conflict requires investigation by international relations
scholars because it is evidence of the changing nature of war. Given that both the
methods of violence (ethnic cleansing, systematic/genocidal rape, and sexual torture) and
(ethno)nationalism are gendered, a 'new' approach to war is needed. Traditional
international relations theoretical approaches to the state, anarchy, and war/peace prove
unable to analyze: one, the unconventional state (structure); two, the dichotomous
separation of the public/international/external/formal/masculine/autonomous from the
private/domestic/internal/informal/feminine/vulnerable; three, unconventional war policy;
and four, the 'new' actors, the external and internal 'Others,' the 'Invisibles,' the noncombatants/
civilians, the 'women' (women and men; people with identities). Thinking that
will lead to solutions for the dilemma of war, inclusively defined, will be - to employ Joy
Kogawa's word - merciful; it will not exclude people and, while critical, it will be hopeful
that the protection of both human dignity and community is in the 'national interest,' in 'our
and their interest' as political/social/economic/etc. beings. Because it analyzes dichotomies
and deals with the role of identity in the various aspects of (changing) war, a feminist or
gendered/identity-deconstructivist approach is advanced as a means to more effectively
examine internal/international conflicts, such as the former Yugoslav wars - i.e.,
unconventional wars whose character challenges the rigid traditionalist international
relations definition of war. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate
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The Texas Confederate Home for Men, 1884-1970Kirchenbauer, Amy Sue 08 1900 (has links)
Founded in 1886 by a local veteran’s organization, the Texas Confederate Home for Men served thousands of veterans throughout its tenure. State-run beginning in 1891, the facility became the center of controversy multiple times, with allegations of mistreatment of residents, misappropriation of funds, and unsanitary conditions in the home. Despite these problems, for several decades the home effectively provided large numbers of needy veterans with a place where they could live out their remaining years. The home was finally closed by the state in 1965, and the buildings were demolished in 1970. The facility’s success helped to inspire Texas to introduce a veteran pension system, and brought forth a new era in the state’s willingness to take care of veterans once their wars were over.
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"A calculated withdrawal": postmodern american novelists, their politics, and the cold warJanuary 2016 (has links)
acase@tulane.edu / This dissertation identifies and analyzes the politics of three postmodern authors (Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo) by focusing mainly on their novels that are set during the Cold War. I argue that these authors’ writings, which are often read as apolitical or as cultural critiques, engage with historical and political Cold War issues, like totalitarianism, liberal anticommunism, the threat of nuclear apocalypse, and the expanded role of government agencies. Moreover, I show that although these authors cover similar political topics and often work in similar genres, like the spy thriller, their political orientations vary. What unites their disparate political views is that all three authors endorse individual liberty during the Cold War, and all provide narratives in which their protagonists withdraw from society. The overall implication, then, is that the individual can no longer affect political outcomes in an age of extreme ideologies, overwhelming technology, and seemingly allpowerful governmental agencies. My first chapter examines the politics of Vladimir Nabokov, and by using theorists, like Dominick LaCapra and Cathy Caruth, I argue that Nabokov’s postmodern novels (Bend Sinister, Pnin, and Pale Fire) explore the impact of trauma and reveal the author to be a staunch liberal anticommunist. My second chapter deals with the politics of Thomas Pynchon, and by employing theorists like Fredric Jameson, Michel de Certeau, and Michel Foucault, I argue that Pynchon’s anarchistic leanings in V. and The Crying of Lot 49 give way to a clearer anarchist outlook in “A Journey into the Mind of Watts”—that is, until Gravity’s Rainbow reflects his political despair. My third chapter examines Don DeLillo’s early novels (Americana, End Zone, Players, Running Dog) as well as his more ambitious historical works (The Names, Libra, Mao II, and Underworld), and by using theorists like Linda Hutcheon, Foucault, and Guy Debord, I argue that DeLillo’s politics reflect a type of left-leaning libertarianism. Ultimately, this dissertation serves as a corrective not only to these authors’ statements about the supposed apolitical nature of their work, but it also identifies their political philosophies, which are placed within the larger historical context of the Cold War. / 1 / Jason P. Markell
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The New England Loyal Publication Society: an aspect in the molding of public opinion during the Civil WarHeslin, James Joseph January 1952 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / In view of the magnitude and scope of the conflict,
the Civil War has been accurately described as the first
of modern wars. Because of the heavy burdens imposed in
both manpower and money, civilian morale was a factor
which assumed great significance. This was particularly
so since the people of the North displayed an eager interest
in the war. Not infrequently, therefore, military
strategy and policies had to be subordinated to political
considerations, with the consequence, that the Union
government was often unable to proceed as vigorously as
conditions might warrant. Since the Lincoln administration
could act only as far as public opinion would permit,
it was necessary at times to await support from the people
before instituting certain measures. Such delays, ironically
enough, were often interpreted by the more impetuous
as evidences of lack of leadership.
There were various means available by which civilians
could criticize the war effort. The press was free to report
and comment on military matters to a degree which
would seem unusual today, and censorship, where it existed,
was of a most casual nature. Thus, policies which were
suggested or begun by the administration were discussed at
length in terms which ranged from approval to frank
hostility. Under the guise of comment, partisanship colored
criticism, and the ultimate goal of the war itself was called
into question by outspoken Copperheads. Nor was the press,
potent though it was, the only medium by which citizens
could express themselves on the conduct of the war. In mass
meetings, petitions to Congress, and private gatherings,
civilians in the North analyzed and debated the policies of
the administration. All of this comment was not adverse
but, as military success evaded the Federal armies, defeatist
sentiment bec~une manifest. There was potential danger
to the Union cause in the unguided and uninfluenced drift
of public opinion.
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“Una institución como la nuestra”: Institutional logics, identity and counterinsurgency practices of the Guatemalan National Police, 1954-1985January 2021 (has links)
archives@tulane.edu / This dissertation explores the role of the Guatemalan National Police, from 1954 to 1985, as an institution that in the context of the country’s armed conflict and dirty war, became a key part of the machinery of brutality and violence of the Guatemalan State. The work approaches the police as an institution with its own internal logics, identity and counterinsurgency practices. The dissertation argues that the actions of the Guatemalan police need to be examined as part of a high policing model, where acts of police violence should not be assumed as actions that diverge from the norm, but instead as central to the police function. Especially given the entity’s role in the defense of the status quo and power.
The work provides an overview of how the police was structured in a way that blurred lines between the units in charge of everyday policing and political policing. It then provides an ethnographic overview of how the social, economic and cultural condition of the country affected police ranks. The work also examines the relationship between the Guatemalan National Police and the citizens it was expected to serve and protect, to learn how that day-to-day element of community protection led the police to create its own criminal subject and its own notion of the internal enemy beyond the political subversive. The dissertation also sheds lights on the extent to which the police relied on intelligence networks and informants. Showing that citizen collaboration was fundamental to counterinsurgency project of the State.
This project begins in 1954, after the U.S.-sponsored coup against democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán (1951-1954) and ends in 1985, at the beginning of the country’s democratic transition. It begins in 1954, because the coup marked the beginning of the counterrevolution, a period that set the basis for the political actions that defined the structures of Guatemala during the following three decades. For its part, 1985 was supposed to represent a change for the country, but as the work explores, it is still hard to determine whether democratic transitional periods, with the military still at the forefront, can build lasting democratic projects. / 1 / María Aguilar
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