Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, March, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-229)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 1999. Graduate Programme in HIstory. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 627-662). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ56264.

This dissertation shows that during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) diverse Cubans organized to support the Spanish Second Republic, overcoming differences to coalesce around a movement they defined as antifascism. Hundreds of Cuban volunteers--more than from any other Latin American country--traveled to Spain to fight for the Republic in both the International Brigades and the regular Republican forces, to provide medical care, and to serve in other support roles; children, women, and men back home worked together to raise substantial monetary and material aid for Spanish children during the war; and longstanding groups on the island including black associations, Freemasons, anarchists, and the Communist Party leveraged organizational and publishing resources to raise awareness, garner support, fund, and otherwise assist the cause. The dissertation studies Cuban antifascist individuals, campaigns, organizations, and networks operating transnationally to help the Spanish Republic, contextualizing these efforts in Cuba's internal struggles of the 1930s. It argues that both transnational solidarity and domestic concerns defined Cuban antifascism. First, Cubans confronting crises of democracy at home and in Spain believed fascism threatened them directly. Citing examples in Ethiopia, China, Europe, and Latin America, Cuban antifascists--like many others--feared a worldwide menace posed by fascism's spread. Second, despite their recent anticolonial struggle against Spain, Cubans cared deeply about its fate for reasons of personal, familial, and cultural affinity. They interpreted the Republic as a "new" Spain representative of liberation and the Nationalists as seeking return to the "old" Spain of colonial oppression. Third, pro-Republican Cubans defined antifascism in Cuban terms. People of many different backgrounds and views united around a definition of antifascism closely related to their shared domestic political goals: freedom from strongman governance, independence from neocolonial control, and attainment of economic and social justice. Radical, moderate, and even largely nonpolitical individuals and groups in Cuba found in antifascism and support for the Spanish Republic a rallying cry with broad appeal that allowed them to strengthen solidarity at home and abroad. Cubans defined antifascism in both negative and positive terms, as a movement against fascism but also toward unity, democracy, sovereignty, and justice.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é a análise de cinco obras arquitetônica erguidas na cidade de São Paulo entre 1930 e 1945, anos que o Brasil foi governada por Getúlio Vargas. As obras escolhidas neste trabalho foram o Estádio do Pacaembu, a Biblioteca Municipal, o Túnel do Trianon, o Viaduto do Chá e a Ponte das Bandeiras, todas construídas pela Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo, nas gestões de Fabio Prado e de Francisco Prestes Maia. Usando as teses de David Harvey e Robert O. Paxton, definimos o momento político e econômico em que os projetos foram construídos na cidade, levando em conta a relação entre o Estado brasileiro e a arquitetura em São Paulo. / The objective of this study is the analysis of five works of architecture constructed in the city of São Paulo between 1930 and 1945, years during which Brazil was governed by Getúlio Vargas. The works selected for this study were Pacaembu Stadium, the Municipal Library, the Trianon Tunnel, the Viaduto do Chá, and the Bandeiras Bridge, all constructed by the São Paulo municipal government during the mayorships of Fabio Prado and Francisco Prestes Maia. Using the theories of David Harvey and Robert O. Paxton, the study defines the political and economic moment in which the projects were constructed in the city, taking into consideration the relation between the Brazilian state and architecture in São Paulo.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of History, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Moments before the Weimar Republic succumbed National Socialism, and their paths sharply diverged as a result, Leni Riefenstahl and Béla Balázs collaborated to make Das Blaue Licht. Within a year of their collaboration Riefenstahl was working closely with Hitler on plans for Triumph of the Will, and Balázs, a Hungarian Jew, had fled to Moscow without credit or payment for Das Blaue Licht, which he co-wrote and co-directed. This thesis explores multiple readings of Das Blaue Licht, as a modern text, a fascist text, and ultimately, one that exists in a complex gray zone.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references.

O objetivo desta pesquisa é a análise de cinco obras arquitetônica erguidas na cidade de São Paulo entre 1930 e 1945, anos que o Brasil foi governada por Getúlio Vargas. As obras escolhidas neste trabalho foram o Estádio do Pacaembu, a Biblioteca Municipal, o Túnel do Trianon, o Viaduto do Chá e a Ponte das Bandeiras, todas construídas pela Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo, nas gestões de Fabio Prado e de Francisco Prestes Maia. Usando as teses de David Harvey e Robert O. Paxton, definimos o momento político e econômico em que os projetos foram construídos na cidade, levando em conta a relação entre o Estado brasileiro e a arquitetura em São Paulo. / The objective of this study is the analysis of five works of architecture constructed in the city of São Paulo between 1930 and 1945, years during which Brazil was governed by Getúlio Vargas. The works selected for this study were Pacaembu Stadium, the Municipal Library, the Trianon Tunnel, the Viaduto do Chá, and the Bandeiras Bridge, all constructed by the São Paulo municipal government during the mayorships of Fabio Prado and Francisco Prestes Maia. Using the theories of David Harvey and Robert O. Paxton, the study defines the political and economic moment in which the projects were constructed in the city, taking into consideration the relation between the Brazilian state and architecture in São Paulo.

The ambition of this thesis is to determine the cause of the failure of the Czech fascist movement, represented by the National Fascist Community, during the First Czechoslovak Republic and to outline the position of the party in the political system. The work focuses not only on the role of the National Fascist Community in the political system, but it also addresses the territorial distribution of its electorate and membership and its participation in the parliamentary elections. The author characterizes the party program features and deals with program distinctions between the National Fascist Community and other right-wing organizations. The fundamental research question to which the author seeks an answer is: Why the National Fascist Community, as the main representative of the Czech fascist movement, did not gain a wider support from the Czech society? To what extent the National Fascist Community distinguished itself in its program agenda from other political parties and how this influenced its position in the political system? The theme of this thesis lies at the border of the history and the political science. The text is based on comparative and empirical-analytic approach, an atheoretical case study was chosen as a research method. At the end of the text the author summarizes the reasons...

In her diploma thesis "The Holy See and the fascist Italy on the way to solving Roman question in the 20s of the 20th Century", the author shall address the relation between the Holy See and the fascist Italy within the period of 1922-1929. She shall undertake an analysis of the development and transformation of this relation from Benito Mussolini's rise to power until the adoption of the Lateran Treaties. Simultaneously, the author shall focus on political- religious circumstances affecting this relationship, such as the assassination of a socialist parliamentarian Giacomo Matteotti in 1924 contextualized within the then development of Italy. The thesis shall primarily draw on the studies of selected sources (editions, press) as well as foreign scholarly literature.