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Bedan, John. "No Second Chances: US-Guatemalan Relations in the 1960s." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13443.
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This thesis examines US-Guatemalan relations during the first half of the 1960s. At a critical juncture in Guatemalan history, a relatively inexperienced US ambassador, John Bell, subverted democratic systems in Guatemala and helped install a military dictatorship that ruled the country for more than three decades. Ambassador Bell's policies undermined the Kennedy administration's idealistic modernization drive for the region, the Alliance for Progress, and contributed to one of the longest civil wars in the Western Hemisphere.
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Burgin, Sarah. "The workshop as the work : white anti-racism organising in 1960s, 70s, and 80s US social movements." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4938/.
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This thesis explores the rise of anti-racism workshops developed by white activists in various United States social movements from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. The shifting ideology of the black freedom movement in the late 1960s, from integration to Black Power, transformed white activists‘ place within racial justice struggles. While recent scholarship has begun to turn its attention towards whites‘ ongoing racial justice activities, one of the most radical and widespread of these efforts is consistently overlooked: anti-racism workshops. Increasingly prevalent from the late 1960s through to the diversity-trainings explosion of the 1990s, this thesis demonstrates that these workshops had their roots in the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation movements. White activists from these movements led these workshops in order to examine white racial domination and privilege within both leftist social movements and larger US society. Analysing case studies from the black freedom, women‘s liberation and gay liberation/rights movements, this thesis explores the foundational assumptions of anti-racism workshops. It seeks to explain how and why these efforts sought to frame race and racism as issues of knowledge and consciousness and why such efforts constituted radical praxis. It is argued that early anti-racism workshops were pedagogical projects that sought to confront the racial ignorance that structured the lives of whites in the US, including progressives and their liberation movements. This thesis draws attention to the efficacy and power of these workshops in terms of their epistemological effects, in the transformations they brought about in whites‘ understanding, or awareness, of racial realities.
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Latham, P. G. "Existential suburbia : the influence of Sartrean existentialism on US fiction of the suburbs from the 1960s to the end of the twentieth century." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1534535/.
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American suburban fiction is often viewed as satirical social commentary, critiquing its affluent, dull, and conformist cultural environment. In this thesis, however, I argue that a significant strand of such fiction, published between the early 1960s and the beginning of the twenty-first century, was concerned with broader existential themes, and was strongly influenced by European existentialism, particularly by Sartre’s philosophy. While this influence is apparent in American urban fiction of the 1950s, for example in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) and Richard Wright’s The Outsider (1953), it is far more fully developed, and ‘Americanized’, in the suburban fiction of the 1960s – in John Updike’s Rabbit, Run (1960), Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road (1961), and Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer (1962), all of which, I argue, are fundamentally concerned with the notion of existential authenticity. I suggest that existentialist, and specifically Sartrean, themes are developed in subsequent fiction – from a concern with existential contingency in an increasingly threatening and violent suburban environment, apparent in such novels as Joyce Carol Oates’ Expensive People (1968), John Cheever’s Bullet Park (1969), Updike’s Rabbit Redux (1971), and Ann Beattie’s Falling in Place (1980), to an obsession with entropy, emblematic of the desire to escape existential freedom through stasis, in Joseph Heller’s Something Happened (1974), Updike’s Rabbit is Rich (1981), and the stories of Raymond Carver; and a retreat into solipsism portrayed in later twentieth-century fiction, in Heller’s novel, but also Richard Ford’s Frank Bascombe novels, published between 1986 and 2014 (The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land, and Let Me Be Frank with You), and Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life (1999) and Aloft (2004). I argue that the spatial and conceptual indeterminacy of the suburbs, their liminality, engenders existential anguish and unease, thus making them an especially conducive cultural environment for these authors’ thematic concerns, one in which they are able to explore the ideas central to Sartre’s existentialism. Existential Suburbia traces the influence of Sartre’s philosophy, developed primarily in Being and Nothingness (1943), on the authors of suburban fiction in this period, both directly and indirectly, and provides a thematic (rather than chronologically based) analysis of the novels and stories based on key Sartrean concepts. Finally, the thesis discusses the revisionist TV series Mad Men (2007-2015), set in the 1960s and heavily influenced by the stories of John Cheever, considering its concern with existential authenticity and gender relations.
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Jacobs, Matthew D. "A “Psychological Offensive”: United States Public Diplomacy, Revolutionary Cuba, and the Contest for Latin American Hearts and Minds during the 1960s." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1427980665.
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SOLOMON, Russel Keith. "THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AUSTRALIA'S TRADE POLICY-MAKING TOWARDS THE UNITED STATES." University of Sydney, Government and Public Administration, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/387.
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The purpose of this study is to explain how Australia has bargained for improved outcomes in its trade with the United States over the 1980s and into the early 1990s. This explanation is sought by means of an analysis of the forces which have shaped Australia's trade policy-making towards the U.S. in the five trading sectors of wheat, sugar, beef, steel and international air passenger transport. The study adopts a theoretical framework which postulates that state actors and institutions are principally responsible for trade policy-making and the concomitant bargaining strategies adopted to improve trade outcomes. However, a state-centred approach needs to be qualified by state actors' accomodation of societal-actor demands for policy action. While exogenous to this domestic bargaining process, influences emanating from the international political economy must also be taken into account. The relationship within and between state and societal actors, influenced as they are by international institutions and ideas, are critical to understanding the bargaining approaches made by one state towards another. It is argued that sectoral trading outcomes between Australia and the U.S. can be understood by reference to a bilateral bargaining process within each trading sector. Within each such bargaining process, Australia has, within broad bilateral and multilateral approaches, devised strategies by which it could mobilize sectorally-specific resources to seek to exploit opportunities and minimise problems so as to improve its trading outcomes. The nature of these sectoral strategies has been influenced by first, the nature of the U.S. policy and policy-making process; second, the Australian domestic bargaining process between state and societal actors; and third, and to a lesser extent, prevailing ideas and the perceptions of the negotiating parties.
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Santos, E. A. "Transforming world agriculture in the 1970s : The case of the United States." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372056.
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Norton, Elizabeth Harmon. "Monsters Like Us: Reexamining “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” Through the Decades." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849692/.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the multiple versions of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in concert and determine the reason for their continued presence in the American cultural landscape. To do so I will look at the novel and four films and examine the context in which they were created. In reexamining the novel and films, a central theme begins to emerge: interiority. Fear in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" moves from an external to an internal threat. The bodily locus of the monstrous other has been re-purposed and re-projected outward. The internal nature of the monstrous threat is displayed in the narrative’s use of production and distribution, mental health professionals, pseudo-families, and the vilification of sleep. Finally, this paper will examine the studio influence on the various films and their impact on the relative endings.
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Wright, Travis. "The Chicago Area Friends of SNCC, the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations, and the Chicago Struggle for Freedom During the 1960's." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555429355618047.
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Geary, Brent M. "A Foundation of Sand: US Public Diplomacy, Egypt, and Arab Nationalism, 1953-1960." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1193151306.
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Souliman, Victoria. "“The remoteness that pains us” : National identity, expatriatism and women’s agency in the artistic exchanges between Australia and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCC097.
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Cette thèse explore l’influence artistique et culturelle de la Grande-Bretagne en Australie, ou les caractéristiques britanniques de l’identité australienne, depuis les années suivant la fin de la Première Guerre Mondiale jusqu’à 1941. La culture australienne de cette période a souvent été décrite comme isolée, voire même « en quarantaine », caractérisée par son acceptation tardive du modernisme. Bien qu’à cette époque la Grande-Bretagne accorde davantage d’indépendance et d’autonomie à ses dominions, l’Australie cherche à maintenir des liens culturels et impériaux en s’identifiant exclusivement à la Grande-Bretagne. Ainsi, pendant cette période, la majorité des Australiens considèrent toujours l’Angleterre comme mère patrie et Londres attire de nombreux artistes australiens expatriés. Pour reprendre les termes de Daniel Thomas, historien de l’art australien, l’Australie développe une identité culturelle dite « bi-hémisphérique Anglo-australienne », imprégnée de nationalisme, de conservatisme et de valeurs patriarcales. Cette thèse examine les échanges artistiques entre l’Australie et la Grande-Bretagne pendant les années 1920 et 1930 et met en lumière les complexités de l’identification culturelle. Elle considère tout particulièrement le fait que l’historiographie nationaliste de l’art australien a passé sous silence le rôle joué par les femmes dans la construction de l’identité nationale et dans la définition d’un art australien. A travers l’analyse des collections nationales d’art britannique et les mécanismes de circulation de l’art moderne britannique en Australie, cette thèse met en avant la dualité de l’identité culturelle australienne et la marginalisation des femmes, non seulement en tant qu’artistes mais aussi en tant que défenseuses culturelles. En mettant l’accent sur l’expérience d’expatriés australiens en Angleterre et comment ceux-ci cherchent à s’intégrer à la scène artistique britannique, cette thèse rend compte de l’importance de l’expatriation en tant que concept contribuant aux historiographies de l’art en Grande-Bretagne et en Australie. Enfin, cette thèse conceptualise le travail de deux Australiennes expatriées, Edith May Fry et Clarice Zander, qui, en tant qu’organisatrices d’expositions, ont considérablement contribué à la dissémination du modernisme en Australie et à la définition de l’identité culturelle australienne pendant l’entre-deux-guerres. L’enjeu de cette thèse est de démontrer les mécanismes qui ont permis à l’Australie de représenter sa propre identité à travers l’art tout en continuant à s’identifier à la Grande-Bretagne<br>This thesis explores the cultural and artistic influence of Britain in Australia, or the Britishness of the Australian character, from the years directly following the end of World War I until 1941. Australia during this period was often described as an isolated, or a “quarantined”, culture characterised by its delay in accepting modernism. Despite Britain ceding more independence and autonomy to its dominions at the time, Australia sought to maintain its cultural and imperial bond, identifying exclusively with Britain in a number of ways. For instance, many Australians still considered Britain to be “Home”, while London continued to attract expatriate artists from Australia. In the words of Australian art historian Daniel Thomas, Australia developed a “bi-hemispheric Anglo-Australian cultural identity”, which was marked by nationalism, conservatism and masculinism. This thesis examines the artistic exchanges between Australia and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s, shedding light on the complexities of cultural identification. It considers in particular the fact that such nationalistic historiography of Australian art has denied women’s agency in defining Australian art and identity. The national collections of British art, as well as the mechanisms of the circulation of modern British art in Australia, are closely examined to demonstrate the dualism of Australian cultural identity and the marginalisation of women within this history, not only as artists but also as art patrons. This thesis discusses the experience of Australian expatriates in England, considering how they sought to integrate into the British art scene. In doing so, it brings to the fore the significance of expatriatism as a concept that shaped both Australian and British art historiographies. Finally, it conceptualises the achievements of two Australian expatriate women, Edith May Fry and Clarice Zander, who, as exhibition curators, played a crucial role in disseminating modernism in Australia and defining Australia’s cultural identity during the interwar period. The aim of this thesis is thus to demonstrate the mechanisms through which Australia sought to represent its national character in art, as it strove to maintain its identification with Britain
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Qureshi, Saqib. "US Foreign Policy to Pakistan, 1947-1960 : re-constructing strategy." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3055/.
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The thesis analyses US policy to Pakistan between 1947 and 1960 by using a theoretical framework beyond the positivist-empiricist nexus that dominates much of International Relations and especially its dominant school, Realism. This nexus considers the world to be self-evident, which requires independent observers to passively pick up. The thesis rejects this epistemological position by demonstrating that reality is interdependent between subject and object, that knowing reality depends on the subject that is analysing as much as the object that is being analysed. The first part of this thesis thus develops a framework to accommodate this interdependence, one based on identity narratives. Identity narratives are accounts of how the self came to be, where it came from, what it is and where it is going. These stories explain how political subjects categorise, attach meaning and ultimately engage reality. Thus, four American identities, with corresponding narratives, are selected: exceptionalism, capitalism, Anglo-Saxon and missionary. Further, a meta-identity in anti-communism is also used. This framework is applied on archival and other material relating to US policy to Pakistan between 1947 and 1960. The thesis demonstrates Washington's exclusive deployment of its anti-communist narrative to understand Pakistan since America could only categorise and attach meaning to Pakistan in the context of communist issues and could not fit into any other American identity narrative. Initially in 1947, American failed to make sense of Pakistan given the speed of Pakistan's creation, American distraction elsewhere and its inability to place Karachi into any of its identity narratives. However, as the anti-communist identity intensified, as it did during 1950-1954, Pakistan was attached meaning as a supporter of America's anti-communist narrative and therefore was engaged as an ally, located in the communist- vulnerable Middle East. When American anti-communism eased and Pakistan overtly abandoned its anti-communist guise, both of which occurred during 1957-1960, Pakistan lost meaning to America, which led to American attempts to disengage Pakistan. Interestingly, neither of America's two policies, being the engagement and disengagement of Pakistan, was especially dependent on calculations of Pakistan's military or economic contribution to the Cold War. In contrast, policy to India reflected the dialectic deployment of anti-communist and missionary narratives for Washington re-located the continuation of its missionary identity narrative through India after China's sudden rejection of its aged role within that narrative.
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Ma, Sang-Yoon. "Dealing with authoritarianism : US policy towards South Korean governments, 1960-1968." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369618.
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Antonopoulos, Athanasios. "Redefining an alliance : Greek-US relations, 1974-1980." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23483.
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In 1974 following the Cyprus Crisis, the bilateral alliance between Greece and the United States entered a new period. The bilateral relations, traditionally close since the emergence of the Cold War, faced a set of challenges. Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus and the collapse of the Greek dictatorship, which enjoyed close ties with Washington, gave rise to anti-Americanism in Greek society. Moreover, Washington’s inability to contain Turkish aggression frustrated the Greek government. In response to the invasion of Cyprus, Athens announced Greece’s withdrawal from NATO with the hope of securing the active involvement of the US and NATO in the Greek-Turkish dispute. These developments required readjustments to Greek-US policies and strategies to overcome obstacles and secure their objectives. Greece’s withdrawal from and return to NATO after six years, in October 1980, symbolises best this distinct period of Greek-US cooperation. The traditional historical narrative states that after 1974 the priorities of successive Greek governments were increasingly directed at managing the country’s accession to European Economic Community while developing closer cooperation with the Balkan states. The United States remained another significant ally of Greece. This thesis emphasises that the Greek governments between 1974 and 1980 regarded the United States as the single most important ally for the Greek national security policy. The Greek governments realised that only Washington could assist Greece with both Soviet and Turkish threats. Washington, meanwhile, prioritised retaining close ties with both Greece and Turkey and an eventual re-build of NATO’s Southern Flank. What is significant is that President Carter put aside his idealistic declarations made on the campaign trail and adopted fully Ford/Kissinger’s approach toward Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, i.e. the Eastern Mediterranean. Hence, the thesis underlines the element of continuity between the US administrations in the second half of 1970s. The thesis makes a significant contribution to Cold War scholarship regarding bilateral relations within the West during the era of détente. Scholars has largely overlooked the US’s relationships with Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus even though the Eastern Mediterranean region dominated the foreign policy agendas of both Ford and Carter administrations. This study argues that President Ford’s handling of relations with Greece was focused on crisis management rather than crisis solving. More significantly, although unrecognised at the time, President Carter’s relations with Greece were a significant success. Ford and Carter responded to the Eastern Mediterranean questions in ways that reflect significant continuities in their approaches. Ford and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger developed the concept of a ‘balanced approach’ towards Athens and Ankara in political, economic, and military terms that aimed at ensuring close ties with both. Carter followed the same policy concept. Carter succeeded in seeing Greece’s return to full NATO membership while resisting being dragged into the centre of Greek-NATO negotiations. During these years the Greek government also scored significant successes. Greek pressure ensured that Washington devoted equal attention to Greece and Turkey, a much more powerful regional power. Similarly, Greece received significant US economic aid while Turkey faced a strict US arms embargo. By 1980, however, the implications of the Iranian Revolution and the end of détente mandated that Turkey had to take precedence over Greece in the US’s policy considerations.
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Herdman, Catherine N. "Appalshop Genesis: Appalachians Speaking for Themselves in the 1970s and 80s." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/19.
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Appalshop, a multi-media and arts organization in Whitesburg, Kentucky emerged in 1969 at the crossroads of several different developments. It started as a War on Poverty program and its history exhibits the contradictory ideologies that fueled that effort and the political changes that forestalled it. The production company began in the midst of technological advances in media and is an early example of the democratization of technology and the potential of portable video equipment in affecting social change. Most importantly, its genesis is located within the context of a renewed interest in Appalachian history and culture and the related issues of negotiating regional cultural identity in the American national context. This one small organization in Eastern Kentucky provides a window to a wide slice of American history and culture in the midst of profound changes.
Throughout the twentieth century the Appalachian region has been repeatedly characterized in mainstream American culture in an overtly negative light. Appalshop played an integral role in countering these characterizations and the stereotypes they generated and reinforced. Technology became more accessible the second half of the twentieth century. As a result, Appalshop was able to challenge these negative perceptions of the region in the national mind by placing cameras, printing capabilities, drama, and visual art in the hands of Appalachians. This allowed them to speak for themselves—first to each other and eventually to the nation.
This dissertation focuses on the founding of the Community Film Workshop of Appalachia, the subsequent abandonment of the project by the federal government, the acquisition of control over its artistic output by artists and staff members, and its expansion between 1969 and 1984. It also addresses the significant role Appalshop played in the burgeoning Appalachian social movement context that emerged concurrently with its founding and its related role as a social change organization.
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Wood, Steven Michael. "Corporate restructuring, regulation and competitive space : the US department store in the 1990s." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343013.
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Butler, Timothy S. C. "People like us : gentrification and the service class in Hackney in the 1980s." Thesis, Open University, 1991. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57317/.
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This is a study of service-class residents in Hackney, an inner London borough situated directly to the north of the City of London. The main focus of the study is on why these people chose to live in Hackney in the first place, why they have stayed and what influence living in Hackney has had on their social and political attitudes. Chapters two to four are concerned with debates about the structure and class formation of the service-class, whether it is one class or many, what (if any) are its political allegiances, and the relationship between the service-class and gentrification. Chapter five considers the changes which have taken place in London and Hackney over the last fifteen years. Chapter six introduces the empirical basis for this discussion: a survey of 245 largely service-class recent homebuyers in two areas of Hackney. Chapters seven to nine present these findings which show that the respondents are representative of a distinct, and elite, sub-group of the service class, in terms of their family background, their income and occupation and in their social and political attitudes. Whilst many respondents initially came to Hackney because of its cheap housing and central location, their reasons for staying have more to do with the cultural significance of living in inner London. This, in turn, has had important consequences for their social, cultural and political behaviour. The concluding chapter suggests that there are 'locality effects' observable in the behaviour and attitudes of service-class residents in Hackney which are reasons for living in inner London and consequences of living there. There are also significant differences between the two areas studied which may have implications for the internal formation of the service-class even within a spatially delimited area, such as inner London.
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Park, Hye-jung. "From World War to Cold War: Music in US-Korea Relations, 1941-1960." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1554818839582558.
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Hyland, Claire. "Don't fence us in! : perceptions of East Germanness among the 1970s generation in Berlin." Thesis, University of Bath, 2012. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557806.
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This thesis explores how Germans born in the GDR during the 1970s engage with discourses about the east when discursively constructing their identities in contemporary unified Germany. Existing academic research into east Germanness has largely focused on the idea of a collective identity, and consists of two predominant lines of argument. The first suggests that eastern identities jeopardise German unity, implying that east Germanness cannot exist alongside Germanness. The second problematises the often negative representations of easterners in the popular sphere. Taking this discourse as its basis, however, it risks overlooking the ways that easterners themselves perceive the east. By taking a constructivist approach and adopting a qualitative, interpretive methodology, the thesis gains in-depth insights into the complex ways in which easterners themselves negotiate a sense of east Germanness. The research consists of twenty in-depth interviews which were designed around the theme of consumption, a social and discursive practice common to the GDR and unified Germany, but one which has changed dramatically since unification. The findings revealed that popular perceptions do indeed contribute to the participants’ understandings. However, they presented a more differentiated and complex picture of the east, which enabled them to construct a form of east Germanness which better fits their understandings. Importantly, it appears that these perceptions are not represented in current discourses. Using generation to identify themselves as a unique group, the participants distanced themselves from negative perceptions of the east and identified with positive attributes of both the east and west. This group view themselves as engaged members of a capitalist society, who not only identify as both German and east German, but perceive their socialist upbringings to benefit them in unified Germany. Importantly, the characteristics that they attach to their identities appear to be typical of western society. Using the label of the 1970s generation, they maintain a sense of east Germanness but paint a new picture of it which is contextualised within western norms and values.
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Blubaugh, Hannah Patrice. ""Self-Determination without Termination:" The National Congress of American Indians and Defining Self-Determination Policy during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1533051153006372.
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Syrou, Martha Meni. ""Who wants to be normal?" normalistische Grenzgänge in US-amerikanischen ethnischen Minderheitsliteraturen nach 1960." Berlin Münster Lit, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3008925&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Syrou, Martha Meni. ""Who wants to be normal?" : normalistische Grenzgänge in US-amerikanischen ethnischen Minderheitsliteraturen nach 1960." Berlin ; Münster Lit, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3008925&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Dillon, Timothy Gerard. "From Painful Prison to Hopeful Purification: Changing Images of Purgatory in Selected U.S. Catholic Periodicals, 1909 - 1960." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1386683388.
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Tian, Fangmeng. "Remigration of talented Chinese among Hong Kong, Canada, and the US in the late half 1990s /." View abstract or full-text, 2006. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202006%20TIAN.
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Ye, Tianxiao. "The Evolution of Black-White Wage Inequality across Occupational Sectors in the US since the 1990s." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1176.
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This paper updates the current knowledge about Black-White wage inequality in the US male labor market by using the NLSY97 sample. Compared with the results obtained from the NLSY79 cohort, I find that the unconditional racial wage inequality is smaller today, but after controlling for premarket academic skills, the conditional racial wage gap remains roughly the same as it was twenty years ago. After dividing the labor market by occupational categories, I find that in the white collar sector, the racial wage gap has largely disappeared even without controlling for academic skills. In the blue collar sector, academic skills can fully account for the unconditional racial wage gap among clerical jobs but there still remains a substantial conditional racial wage gap among craftsman and laborer jobs. I show that clerical jobs are more similar to white collar jobs than blue collar jobs today. The racial wage inequality also has disappeared among the operative workers, probably due to omitted variable bias. For the remaining racial wage gap in the craftsman and laborer jobs, both preference-based and statistical models of discrimination are consistent with the findings.
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Bahmad, Jamal. "Casablanca belongs to us : globalisation, everyday life and postcolonial subjectivity in Moroccan cinema since the 1990s." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/19847.
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This dissertation examines the representations of Casablanca in Moroccan cinema and their articulation of postcolonial subjectivity since the 1990s. To overcome a deep economic recession and simmering social unrest in the early 1980s, Morocco embarked on a comprehensive programme of structural adjustment policies under the aegis of the International Monetary Fund. Market reforms ushered in novel forms of spatial development and social relations in Moroccan cities over the next decades. In the cultural field, a popular cinema emerged in the early 1990s and has projected the complex structures of everyday life in urban space. The New Urban Cinema (NUC) has anchored national cinema in the everyday life and affective economy of a society in transition. The country’s largest city, Casablanca, is the setting for some of NUC’s most original portrayals of the Moroccan subject under globalisation. Taking space, affect and violence as intertwined sites of film analysis, my research project closely examines the new forms of postcolonial subjectivity that have evolved in Morocco through this cinema. Twenty films are read against the backdrop of neoliberal Casablanca and the social, economic as well as political transformation of Morocco and the world under globalisation. The dissertation combines close textual analysis with a cultural studies perspective, which situates films in their historical contexts of production and reception in Morocco and beyond. Drawing on postcolonial, film and urban studies, my aim is to contribute to interdisciplinary scholarship on cinematic responses to neoliberal globalisation, and to a social history of contemporary Morocco.
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Lee, Hak-Seon McKeown Timothy J. "Inter-sectoral goods and labor market relationships, international capital mobility, and US trade politics in the 1980s." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,782.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Political Science." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
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Werle, Sebastian [Verfasser]. "Identifying and Explaining Change : Theorie und Empirie des Wandels von US-Sicherheitspolitik (1960-2010) / Sebastian Werle." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1107613817/34.
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Harris, James K. "Unbecoming Adults: Adolescence and the Technologies of Difference in Post-1960 US Ethnic Literature and Culture." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492430783453208.
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Riley, Michael J. "Representations of sexual practice and identity in men's prisons since the 1950s in the UK and the US." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2014. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/51420/.
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In this thesis I propose that the representation of the prison is an untapped and valuable resource for non-traditional representations of the queered male, homo-sex and sexualities. I draw together texts on prison and sexuality from the 1800s to the 2000s in order to discuss the representation of prison in light of what it adds to a wider historical understanding of sexuality. The thesis is broadly chronological in form, analysing academic and theoretical texts in context alongside popular cultural representations. I reassess the ways in which sexuality is viewed and understood over time, and place homosexuality within the framework of wider male sexuality as represented in the prison. I theorise a re-imagining of homosexuality within normative male sexuality and I challenge the concept of ‘situational sex' through the complex issues behind understandings of sex in prison. My research methodology includes close textual analysis of representations of prison in literature, film and television alongside academic and theoretical texts on sexuality, gender and queer theory. Each chapter focuses on specific cultural texts, including Against the Law (1957), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) Short Eyes (1977), Scum (1977, 1979) and Oz (1997-2003). By drawing the representations and the theories together I am able to provide a re-reading of the texts within a recognition of sexual fluidity and the reclassification of heterosexual males and gender hierarchies. In my research I argue that the representation of sex in prison re-writes sexuality and contributes to a reading of the queering potential of the cultural representation of prison. With this method I challenge conventional understandings of sexuality as well as perceptions of how male sexuality is viewed in popular culture. I argue that the cultural representation of the prison is a site of queer potentiality in form, idea and context and is a means to re-imagine male sexuality.
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Reinholdt, Marie. "ADHD in historical and comparative perspective : medical, educational and public approaches to childhood hyperactivity in the US and the UK, 1960-2010." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/adhd-in-historical-and-comparative-perspective-medical-educational-and-public-approaches-to-childhood-hyperactivity-in-the-us-and-the-uk-19602010(d5fba2b2-03ef-4b5b-a851-9264b95ec58a).html.
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Adding a much needed historical and comparative dimension to current debates about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the present thesis provides an analysis of the changing construction and treatment of childhood hyperactivity in Britain and the United States, focusing on the period from 1960 to 2010. The focal point is the historical discrepancy between the two countries in diagnostic and therapeutic practices, and the question of how and why perspectives have increasingly converged over the past 20 years. Whereas British medical and educational professionals continued to rely on environmental explanations and interventions for the vast bulk of disruptive behaviour in school children, the American concept of hyperactivity disorder from the 1960s onwards became increasingly inclusive and biomedical in orientation. This expansion was closely related to the rise of psycho-stimulants as a widely employed treatment for hyperactivity and attention problems in the US. British and other European clinicians, on the other hand, resisted drug treatments up until the mid-1990s, when rates of diagnosis and prescription grew dramatically on both sides of the Atlantic. A key aim of this study is to explore and explain the rise of ADHD and Ritalin in both the American and British contexts, looking at the interplay of political, professional, institutional and socio-cultural factors that have contributed in each case. The study concentrates on three distinct but interconnected spheres which, both separately and in combination, have underpinned and shaped approaches to hyperactivity in the two countries: medicine, education and the wider public arena, represented by parent support groups. While chapters 2, 3 and 4 focus on the medical debates and practices surrounding hyperactivity, and the points of connection and disconnection between the two medico-psychiatric communities, chapters 5 and 6 examine the role of schooling, disability activism, and educational policy, especially that relating to special educational needs. Finally, chapter 7 explores the issue of parent activism which has been an important factor in the growth and critique of ADHD in both settings.
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Zajac, Ronald J. (Ronald John). "The Dystopian city in British and US science fiction, 1960-1975 : urban chronotopes as models of historical closure." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61046.
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In much dystopian SF, the city models a society which represses the protagonist's sense of historical time, replacing it with a sense of "private" time affecting isolated individuals. This phenomenon appears in dystopian SF novels of 1960-75--including Thomas M. Disch's 334, John Brunner's The Jagged Orbit, Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip, J. G. Ballard's High-Rise, and Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren--as well as some precursors--including Wells, Zamyatin's We, Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. In these novels the cities also reveal in their chronotopic arrangement the degree to which revolutionary forces can oppose the dystopian order. While the earlier dystopias see revolution crushed by despotic state power, those of 1960-75 see it thwarted by the dehumanizing effects of capitalism. The period from 1960-75 ends in resignation to an existence in which individual action can no longer effect political change, at best tempered by irony (Disch, Delany).
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Maciel-Padilla, Agustín. "The paradox of U.S. security in the 1990s : trans-border challenges from Mexico in the context of NAFTA." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2012. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-paradox-of-us-security-in-the-1990s(d3c18caf-afe9-4a11-8d4b-922260ce4b77).html.
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In comparison to security relationships characterised by the centrality of the state and the use of force, better explained by the ‘traditional’ security perspective, the U.S.-Mexico security relationship in the 1990s is defined by non-state actors and trans-border concerns from the U.S. point of view. U.S. security concerns regarding Mexico are the result of growing interdependence between the two countries, and the paradox of the bilateral security relationship is that these concerns only intensified in the context of NAFTA. The kind of concerns Mexico indirectly generates for the United States requires for their explanation a non-traditional conception of security. This thesis relies thus on the combination of the ‘Copenhagen School’ and Risk Society theory perspectives to explaining security issues. While drug trafficking from Mexico has been seen as detrimental to the social fabric of the United States because of its impact on the U.S. society, Mexican undocumented immigration has been perceived as a U.S. concern because of the possibility for this flow to weaken the U.S. cultural identity. This thesis also includes the analysis of border environmental challenges, in particular the potential for an epidemic from contaminated water in the region, in order to emphasise that not all pressing border issues are security concerns, as well as the value of non-traditional perspectives to explain those issues that are addressed with far better results through cooperation.
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Somogyi, Alexander Adorjan. "Women and Children First: American Magazine Image Depictions of Japan and the Japanese, 1951-1960." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1525995721331075.
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Hesse, Brian Joseph. "Grand aims and modest means : the parallel evolution of US and South African foreign policies towards Africa in the 1990s." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2635/.
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The United States is a global superpower at the heart of the international system; South Africa is a regional hegemon on a peripheral continent. Yet, despite the US and South Africa's disparate positions in the international order, this thesis illustrates that the foreign policies of each towards Africa in the 1990s evolved in parallel fashion through four comparable periods, ultimately becoming strikingly similar near the end of the decade. A central feature of this parallel evolution, and eventual congruence, was the correlation between 'grand aims' and 'modest means'. 'Grand aims' refers to the overarching tenets and doctrines that prevailed in US and South African foreign policies towards Africa. During the Cold War and apartheid eras (roughly from the 1950s until 1990), only two predominated (i.e., containment and security). In the 1990s, there were no less than ten. As noted above, such dynamism (over a comparably short period of less than a decade) was tied to the presence of 'modest means' - that is, the limited availability or limited utilisation of resources. In sum, the study argues that when modest means were imposed upon US and South African foreign policy makers, they were often forced to devise new grand aims. Yet even when modest means were willingly employed, this too resulted in the articulation of new grand aims, as actions and ends were made to correspond. In both cases, new foreign policy periods emerged as attention, efforts, and resources were re-prioritised. Modest means, therefore, were a force that not only shaped, but drove, the four-period parallel evolution of US and South African foreign policies towards Africa in the 1990s.
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Megyery, Stefan Imre [Verfasser], Gabriele [Akademischer Betreuer] Metzler, and Marcus [Akademischer Betreuer] Payk. "U.S. Foreign Policy and the influence of „White Supremacy” : der Einfluss soziokultureller Faktoren auf die US-Außenpolitik am Beispiel der US-Bündnissystempolitik von 1945 bis 1960 / Stefan Imre Megyery. Gutachter: Gabriele Metzler ; Marcus Payk." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1081418419/34.
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Megyery, Stefan [Verfasser], Gabriele [Akademischer Betreuer] Metzler, and Marcus [Akademischer Betreuer] Payk. "U.S. Foreign Policy and the influence of „White Supremacy” : der Einfluss soziokultureller Faktoren auf die US-Außenpolitik am Beispiel der US-Bündnissystempolitik von 1945 bis 1960 / Stefan Imre Megyery. Gutachter: Gabriele Metzler ; Marcus Payk." Berlin : Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1081418419/34.
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Mur, Effing Mercè. "US Self-help Literature and the Call of the East: The Acculturation of Eastern Ideas and Practices with Special Attention to the Period from the 1980s Onwards." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/285656.
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Aquesta tesi doctoral, denominada Literatura d’Autoajuda dels EEUU i la Crida de l’ Orient Llunyà: la Acculturaciò d’ Idees i Pràctiques Orientals amb Atenció Especial al Període que va de 1980 en endavant, és un Estudi Cultural sobre la influència del Orient Llunyà dins d’un grup seleccionat de cinc llibres d’autoajuda. Està dividida en tres parts ben definides.
La Primera Part és una introducció al tema d’autoajuda, des d’una perspectiva d’Estudis Culturals: la seva definició, les raons sociològiques, psicològiques i econòmiques de la seva aparició, un intent de categorització tenint en compte diferents corrents de pensament, així com un resum històric dels canvis bàsics en els ideals d’èxit i felicitat tal i com apareixen expressats en la literatura d’autoajuda americana al llarg del temps. L’intent de categorització és enterament meu i està especialment basat en un clar canvi d’orientació al llarg del temps, que ens ajuda a entendre la literatura d’autoajuda com un fenomen socio-cultural en evolució.
En la Segona Part ofereixo un anàlisi cultural exhaustiu sobre la creixent influencia de l’Orient Llunyà en els Estats Units d’Amèrica, des d’una perspectiva històrica, social, psicològica, filosòfica i científica ja que aquesta informació és essencial per establir els contextos històrics, culturals i socials en els que s’ha desenvolupat la literatura d’autoajuda (i les influències orientals que conté). Sense aquest treball de contextualització, hauria estat extremadament difícil tractar autores específics i els seus escrits de forma intel·ligible i transparent.
I finalment, a la Tercera Part, em dedico a l’anàlisi de la articulació de la influència de l’Orient Llunyà dins d’alguns dels llibres d’autoajuda més coneguts i més amplament llegits, des de la dècada de 1980 en endavant, en relació a la seva contribució als objectius relacionats amb la felicitat i la pau interior. Això porta a la conclusió de que les cultures de transformació personal, que han arribat a ser una part tan intrínseca de la cultura americana, sovint adopten i adapten idees i conceptes de fonts molt diferents, especialment de l’Orient Llunyà, moltes vegades per cobrir les seves pròpies necessitats, donant un ‘toc americà’ idiosincràtic.<br>Esta tesis doctoral, denominada Literatura de Auto-Ayuda de los EEUU y la Llamada del Lejano Oriente: La Aculturación de Ideas y Prácticas Orientales con Atención Especial al Período que va de los años 1980 en adelante es un Estudio Cultural sobre la influencia del Lejano Oriente dentro de un grupo seleccionado de cinco libros de auto-ayuda. Está dividida en tres partes bien definidas.
La Primera Parte es una introducción al tema de auto-ayuda, desde una perspectiva de Estudios Culturales: su definición, las razones sociológicas, psicológicas y económicas de su aparición, un intento de categorización teniendo en cuenta diferentes corrientes de pensamiento, así como un resumen histórico de los cambios básicos en los ideales de éxito y felicidad tal y como aparecen expresados en la literatura de auto-ayuda americana a lo largo del tiempo. El intento de categorización es enteramente mío y está especialmente basado en un claro cambio de orientación a lo largo del tiempo, que nos ayuda a entender la literatura de auto-ayuda como un fenómeno socio-cultural en evolución.
En la Segunda Parte ofrezco un análisis cultural exhaustivo sobre la creciente influencia del Lejano Oriente en los Estados Unidos de América, desde una perspectiva histórica, social, psicológica, filosófica y científica ya que esta información es esencial para establecer los contextos históricos, culturales y sociales en los que se ha desarrollado la literatura de auto-ayuda (y las influencias orientales que contiene). Sin este trabajo de contextualización, hubiera sido extremadamente difícil tratar a autores específicos y sus escritos de forma inteligible y transparente.
Y finalmente, en la Tercera Parte, me dedico al análisis de la articulación de la influencia del Lejano Oriente dentro de algunos de los libros de auto-ayuda más conocidos y más ampliamente leídos, desde la década de 1980 en adelante, en relación a su contribución a los logros relacionados con la felicidad y la paz interior. Esto lleva a la conclusión de que las culturas de transformación personal, que han llegado a ser una parte tan intrínseca de la cultura americana, frecuentemente adoptan y adaptan ideas y conceptos de fuentes muy diferentes, especialmente del Lejano Oriente, a menudo para cubrir sus propias necesidades, dándoles un ‘toque americano’ idiosincrático.<br>This doctoral dissertation called US Self-help Literature and the Call of the East: the Acculturation of Eastern Ideas and Practices with special attention to the period from the 1980s onwards is a Cultural Study on the Far Eastern influence within a selected group of five self-help literature books. It is divided into three well-defined parts:
Part One is an introduction to the topic of self-help, from a Cultural Studies perspective: its definition, the sociological, psychological and economic reasons for its appearance, an attempt at a categorisation considering different strands of thought, as well as a historical overview of the basic changes in the ideals of success and happiness as expressed in American non-fiction self-help literature through time. The attempt at a categorisation is entirely mine and it is mainly based on a clear shift in goal orientation throughout time, which helps us to understand self-help literature as an evolving socio-cultural phenomenon.
In Part Two, I offer a thorough cultural analysis of the growing Far Eastern influence in the United States of America, from a historical, social, psychological, philosophical and scientific perspective, since this information is essential in order to establish the historical, cultural and social contexts in which self-help literature (and the Eastern influences within it) has developed. Without this work of prior contextualisation, it would have been extremely difficult to approach specific authors and their writings in an intelligible or transparent way.
And finally, in Part Three, I deal with the analysis of the articulation of Far Eastern influence within some of the most well-known and widely read self-help books from the 1980s onward, in the light of their contributions to the achievement of happiness and inner peace. This leads to the conclusion that the cultures of personal transformation that have become such an intrinsic part of American culture, frequently adopt and adapt ideas and concepts from very different sources, especially Far Eastern, often to suit their own needs, giving them an idiosyncratic, American touch.
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Mur, Effing Mercè. "US self-help literature and the call of the east: The acculturation of eastern ideas and practices with special attention to the period from the 1980s onwards." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/285773.
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Aquesta tesi doctoral, denominada Literatura d’Autoajuda dels EEUU i la Crida de l’ Orient Llunyà: la Acculturaciò d’ Idees i Pràctiques Orientals amb Atenció Especial al Període que va de 1980 en endavant, és un Estudi Cultural sobre la influència del Orient Llunyà dins d’un grup seleccionat de cinc llibres d’autoajuda. Està dividida en tres parts ben definides.
La Primera Part és una introducció al tema d’autoajuda, des d’una perspectiva d’Estudis Culturals: la seva definició, les raons sociològiques, psicològiques i econòmiques de la seva aparició, un intent de categorització tenint en compte diferents corrents de pensament, així com un resum històric dels canvis bàsics en els ideals d’èxit i felicitat tal i com apareixen expressats en la literatura d’autoajuda americana al llarg del temps. L’intent de categorització és enterament meu i està especialment basat en un clar canvi d’orientació al llarg del temps, que ens ajuda a entendre la literatura d’autoajuda com un fenomen socio-cultural en evolució.
En la Segona Part ofereixo un anàlisi cultural exhaustiu sobre la creixent influencia de l’Orient Llunyà en els Estats Units d’Amèrica, des d’una perspectiva històrica, social, psicològica, filosòfica i científica ja que aquesta informació és essencial per establir els contextos històrics, culturals i socials en els que s’ha desenvolupat la literatura d’autoajuda (i les influències orientals que conté). Sense aquest treball de contextualització, hauria estat extremadament difícil tractar autores específics i els seus escrits de forma intel·ligible i transparent.
I finalment, a la Tercera Part, em dedico a l’anàlisi de la articulació de la influència de l’Orient Llunyà dins d’alguns dels llibres d’autoajuda més coneguts i més amplament llegits, des de la dècada de 1980 en endavant, en relació a la seva contribució als objectius relacionats amb la felicitat i la pau interior. Això porta a la conclusió de que les cultures de transformació personal, que han arribat a ser una part tan intrínseca de la cultura americana, sovint adopten i adapten idees i conceptes de fonts molt diferents, especialment de l’Orient Llunyà, moltes vegades per cobrir les seves pròpies necessitats, donant un ‘toc americà’ idiosincràtic.<br>Esta tesis doctoral, denominada Literatura de Auto-Ayuda de los EEUU y la Llamada del Lejano Oriente: La Aculturación de Ideas y Prácticas Orientales con Atención Especial al Período que va de los años 1980 en adelante es un Estudio Cultural sobre la influencia del Lejano Oriente dentro de un grupo seleccionado de cinco libros de auto-ayuda. Está dividida en tres partes bien definidas.
La Primera Parte es una introducción al tema de auto-ayuda, desde una perspectiva de Estudios Culturales: su definición, las razones sociológicas, psicológicas y económicas de su aparición, un intento de categorización teniendo en cuenta diferentes corrientes de pensamiento, así como un resumen histórico de los cambios básicos en los ideales de éxito y felicidad tal y como aparecen expresados en la literatura de auto-ayuda americana a lo largo del tiempo. El intento de categorización es enteramente mío y está especialmente basado en un claro cambio de orientación a lo largo del tiempo, que nos ayuda a entender la literatura de auto-ayuda como un fenómeno socio-cultural en evolución.
En la Segunda Parte ofrezco un análisis cultural exhaustivo sobre la creciente influencia del Lejano Oriente en los Estados Unidos de América, desde una perspectiva histórica, social, psicológica, filosófica y científica ya que esta información es esencial para establecer los contextos históricos, culturales y sociales en los que se ha desarrollado la literatura de auto-ayuda (y las influencias orientales que contiene). Sin este trabajo de contextualización, hubiera sido extremadamente difícil tratar a autores específicos y sus escritos de forma inteligible y transparente.
Y finalmente, en la Tercera Parte, me dedico al análisis de la articulación de la influencia del Lejano Oriente dentro de algunos de los libros de auto-ayuda más conocidos y más ampliamente leídos, desde la década de 1980 en adelante, en relación a su contribución a los logros relacionados con la felicidad y la paz interior. Esto lleva a la conclusión de que las culturas de transformación personal, que han llegado a ser una parte tan intrínseca de la cultura americana, frecuentemente adoptan y adaptan ideas y conceptos de fuentes muy diferentes, especialmente del Lejano Oriente, a menudo para cubrir sus propias necesidades, dándoles un ‘toque americano’ idiosincrático.<br>This doctoral dissertation called US Self-help Literature and the Call of the East: the Acculturation of Eastern Ideas and Practices with special attention to the period from the 1980s onwards is a Cultural Study on the Far Eastern influence within a selected group of five self-help literature books. It is divided into three well-defined parts:
Part One is an introduction to the topic of self-help, from a Cultural Studies perspective: its definition, the sociological, psychological and economic reasons for its appearance, an attempt at a categorisation considering different strands of thought, as well as a historical overview of the basic changes in the ideals of success and happiness as expressed in American non-fiction self-help literature through time. The attempt at a categorisation is entirely mine and it is mainly based on a clear shift in goal orientation throughout time, which helps us to understand self-help literature as an evolving socio-cultural phenomenon.
In Part Two, I offer a thorough cultural analysis of the growing Far Eastern influence in the United States of America, from a historical, social, psychological, philosophical and scientific perspective, since this information is essential in order to establish the historical, cultural and social contexts in which self-help literature (and the Eastern influences within it) has developed. Without this work of prior contextualisation, it would have been extremely difficult to approach specific authors and their writings in an intelligible or transparent way.
And finally, in Part Three, I deal with the analysis of the articulation of Far Eastern influence within some of the most well-known and widely read self-help books from the 1980s onward, in the light of their contributions to the achievement of happiness and inner peace. This leads to the conclusion that the cultures of personal transformation that have become such an intrinsic part of American culture, frequently adopt and adapt ideas and concepts from very different sources, especially Far Eastern, often to suit their own needs, giving them an idiosyncratic, American touch.
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Pillard, Thomas. "Négociations identitaires : le film noir français face aux bouleversements de la France d’après-guerre (1946-1960)." Thesis, Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100066.
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Bien que le terme « film noir » soit généralement réservé au cinéma hollywoodien, cette appellation a en réalité été forgée dans la France des années 1930 pour désigner des films français, et elle renvoie plutôt à une forme transnationale, circulant entre l’Europe et Hollywood. C’est à ce titre que l’on se propose de l’étudier dans le cinéma hexagonal, en montrant que le genre noir s’inscrit en France dans le cadre d’une tradition ancienne, et en analysant l’évolution du « film noir français » après-guerre, selon une approche historique et culturelle. En postulant que le film noir est indissociable d’un discours sur la modernité, cette thèse montre qu’il existe trois actualisations de la forme « noire » dans la France de 1946-1960, qui témoignent chacune des ambivalences d’une nation en transition, devant négocier le basculement entre l’Occupation et l’entrée dans la société de consommation : le « réalisme noir » exprime un fort pessimisme ayant des implications nostalgiques, masculinistes et nationalistes ; la « série noire pour rire » propose au contraire une réappropriation ludique de l’Histoire et de la modernité ; le film de gangsters confronte des personnages vieillissants marqués par la guerre aux mutations contemporaines et à l’American way of life. Par sa diversité même, le film noir français illustre ainsi les contradictions de la France d’après-guerre : désireuse de se plonger dans l’avenir mais obsédée par son passé traumatique, en partie séduite par la « tentation américaine » mais déterminée à conserver sa « francité »<br>Although the term « film noir » is generally associated with Hollywood cinema, this generic label was originally coined in France in reference to French films made in the 1930s, and the « noir » genre defines a transnational form which circulated between Europe and Hollywood. We intend to study « noir » films in French cinema through this lens, highlighting that the genre is rooted in an old French tradition. Our analysis of the evolution of French film noir foregrounds historical and cultural aspects, positing that film noir articulates a critical discourse on modernity. This doctoral thesis shows that the « noir » form underwent changes which evidenced the ambivalence of identity in a nation in transition between 1946 and 1960, that had to negotiate the cultural shift from Occupation to the Consumer society : the « noir realism » cycle expressed a strong pessimism that has nostalgic, masculinist and nationalist implications, in opposition to the « série noire pour rire » which illustrated a playful reappropriation of History and modernity ; last but not least, gangster films built on the contrast between older characters, marked by the burdens of war, and contemporary mutations, including the development of the American way of life in France. Through its diversity, French film noir reveals the contradictions of post-war French society : the country was keen to dive into the future but obsessed with its traumatic past ; in part seduced by the « American model », it was however determined to keep its « French identity »
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Davis, Davena. "[The] dayspring from on high hath visited us" : an examination of the missionary endeavours of the Moravians and the Anglican Church Missionary Society among the Inuit in the Arctic regions of Canada and Labrador, (1880s-1920s)." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=107379.
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Davis, Davena 1940. ""The dayspring from on high hath visited us" : an examination of the missionary endeavours of the Moravians and the Anglican Church Missionary Society among the Inuit in the Arctic regions of Canada and Labrador, (1880s-1920s)." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74051.
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TSAI, SHI-ZEN, and 蔡世仁. "The Influence Study of US Aid Literary Institution on Taiwan Literature Field in 1960s." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65e9a9.
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碩士<br>國立臺北教育大學<br>台灣文化研究所<br>106<br>Abstract
Cold War began after World War II. Since then, there was no large scale fighting be-tween the Eastern and Western bloc. However, these two blocs competed in military, political, foreign affairs, economic, social and cultural areas. United States, therefore, established USIA in order to “export” American values and culture and to compete with Eastern bloc in cultural arena. USA set up USIS office in Taiwan, which is an ally of USA. The USIS office in Taiwan executed US Aid literary institution by applying many schemas to fulfill the purposes of exporting the American values and culture. This thesis is to review and analyze the US Aid literary institution operating schemas. The schemas includes cash assistance to literary magazines, translation Taiwan contempo-rary literature works, scholarship for authors to study in IWP, Fulbright scholarships. By analyzing these cultural activities to reach the conclusion that US Aid literary institution indeed had impressive impact in 1960s Taiwan literary field.
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Hrynkow, Christopher. "Players or pawns?: student-athletes, human rights activism, nonviolent protest and cultures of peace at the 1968 summer olympics." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/22069.
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The image of two US athletes with black glove-covered fists raised on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics is iconic. However, despite a number of academic studies, articles, books, lectures and films addressing this moment, the deeper story behind that student-athlete protest at Mexico 68 is little known. It was far from being a merely spontaneous or violent action. In fact, the protest was part of a concerted and largely peaceful effort to highlight several systemic injustices of the late 1960s by a group named the Olympic Project for Human Rights. As will be demonstrated in this thesis, it follows that the deeper story of the student-athlete protests at Mexico 68 are ripe with significance from both: (1) a Peace Studies perspective, focussing on structural injustice, and (2) a Conflict Resolution Studies viewpoint, which upholds value in the constructive settling of disputes. Employing a Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) lens, which keeps both sets of concerns in view, and undertaking descriptive and analytical approaches that bring the voice of the athletes to the fore as much as possible given the limitations of this study, allows for a discussion of remarkable student-athletes interacting not only within the competitive structure of their sport at the Olympics, but also amongst social, institutional, and political contexts. This approach becomes foundational for the conclusion that the athletes involved in protests at Mexico 68 were players (i.e., agents) and not pawns, in relation to complex socio-political forces, which sought to manipulate and oppress them. Moreover, this PACS approach allows for twelve concrete lessons flowing from the stories of the athletes to be delineated for their contemporary relevance in a world where far too many injustices remain. In short, the main protest is herein presented as an awe-inspiring moment, simultaneously as a compass and a key, which when integrated with a PACS perspective serves to guide us towards a fuller understanding of the Olympic Project for Human Rights and it goals, unlocking what is revealed in this study to be a potentially important moment in the history of cultures of peace.
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Kocmichová, Linda. "J.K. Toole, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. a Ken Kesey: Autorita a groteska v americké literatuře šedesátých let." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-307973.
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The dissertation focuses on the impact of authority and grotesque in the U.S. literature of the 1960s. The key theoretical approaches used for the analysis were: Bakhtinian theory concerning popular carnival culture and Vizenor's theory concerning tricksters, Deleuzian notion of repetition and schizoanalysis and the theory of Foucault concerning power and anti- authority struggles. The main task of the analysis was to trace the common and differentiating features which were demonstrated in the novels in the form of anti-authority struggles and forms of madness, which is viewed as a deliberating force. The authors were chosen for their challenging attitudes toward the forms of power exercised over the American society and for the usage of the grotesque as a tool to convey a subversive message. The analysed authors were John Kennedy Toole and his A Confederacy of Dunces, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and his Slaughterhouse 5 and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Kim, Zukweon. "The comparison of geographic and industrial patterns of Japanese and US foreign direct investment (FDI) from the 1970s to the 1990s toward convergence? /." 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/51955084.html.
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Tomlins, David Brennan. "The Cold War and US-Guatemalan Relations During the 1960's." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-10026.
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During the 1960's Guatemalan stability began to falter due to a political and social breakdown; guerilla violence and government repression emerged from this decade as common occurrences. In response to the instability within Guatemala, the US focused on providing significant financial aid to bolster a weak economy, while simultaneously working with the Guatemalan police and military to create more efficient and modern internal security forces capable of combating Communist subversion. Despite US attempts to foster stability, in 1963 President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes was removed from office by a military coup organized by his opponents within Guatemala.
The Lyndon B. Johnson administration continued to support the Guatemalan government and continued to provide economic and military assistance. Despite US assistance, the internal social and political divisions in Guatemala continued to result in violence. In the midst of the escalating violence, elections were held in 1966 and the center left candidate Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro was elected as the new president of Guatemala. The election of a politically left president further radicalized the Guatemalan right, which resulted in attempted coups and acts of terror. The violence from the leftist guerillas and the radical rightist elements forced Mendez Montenegro to allow the military to use harsh counter-terror strategies to bring the country under control. Despite negative developments, the US consistently tried to help build Guatemalan stability. Unfortunately, its policies ignored the socio-economic inequalities, and internal division which was the biggest problem facing the nation. The internal political division that created the violence and instability made it impossible for any US assistance to have a meaningful impact. During the 1960's these developments in Guatemala paved the way for the violence and genocide of the 1980's and solidified a policy of US involvement that was inadequate and ineffective.
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Hsieh, Jui-yang, and 謝瑞陽. "The Trend of the US Trade Policy in Stepping into the 21st Century－Analyzing the US Trade in the 1990s." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84324771771121372711.
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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>美國研究所<br>89<br>In the 1990s, the world situation changed remarkably due to such events as the collapsing of the Soviet Union, the development of regional economy, the creation of World Trade Organization and the outbreak of Asian financial crisis. Through analyzing the impacts of these events on the US trade policy, this thesis intends to foresee its trend in the years to come.
The components of this thesis are listed as follows:
1. Analyzing the US trade and economic situation in the 1990s, the influence of interest groups and the interaction between the legislation and administration branches of the United States on its trade policy.
2. Probing the change of the US trade after the integration of European Union and the outbreak of Asian financial crisis, and analyzing the influence of the Americas on the US trade.
3. Studying how the US, under the WTO rules and regulations, implemented its trade policy and held its position in the new round of WTO negotiation.
4. Researching the feasible policies of the US trade on Asia, Europe and the Americas at the turn of the century.
The major findings of this thesis include:
1.After the end of the cold war, economics has been playing a crucial role in determining the capacity and leadership of the US on the world stage. Trade policy constitutes the fundamental part of the US economic policy and foreign relations.
2. Judging from the lessons that the US suffered a great loss of trade interests from the Asian financial crisis, the US, in the years ahead, will strive to improve the architecture of the global economy and trading system to prevent the reoccurrence of the crisis. The US will also endeavor to broaden the market access to Asia and the Americas and strengthen the economic partnership with EU to secure its economic benefits.
3.It remains a US strategy to expand the range of trade liberalization for accelerating globalization. To build a new economy, the US has been focusing on opening the markets for high-tech sectors and the new fields such as information technology, telecommunications, the Internet, electronic commerce and biotechnology.
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Comert, Hasan. "Financial evolution and the declining effectiveness of US monetary policy since the 1980s." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3445154.
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This dissertation argues that the effectiveness of US monetary policy has been decreasing since the beginning of the 1990s. This is in contrast to the literature which either argues that it has not weakened or that the weakening started much later. There have been two very important trends in the relationship between the Fed policy rate and the financial markets. I call them “dual decoupling”, namely decoupling between the Fed rate and prices of financial assets on one hand, and the Fed rate and quantities in financial markets on the other. Both of them mean increasing the degree of endogeneity of price and quantity determinations in financial markets independently of the Fed. In other words, the influence of the Fed in determining the prices and quantities of financial assets has decreased considerably. This study claims that these developments are the direct product of four factors: (i) the transformation of the US financial system, (ii) increasing competition, (iii) increasing centralization tendencies, and (iv) decreasing balance sheet constraints on financial firms. These factors can be understood as the result of four other very interrelated dynamic forces: (i) rapid innovation in financial markets, (ii) deregulation trends in the regulatory framework, (iii) policy choices of the Fed, and (iv) increasing financial integration. The first chapter is an introduction. The second chapter sets out the theoretical groundwork for the dual decoupling argument. The third chapter develops a theoretical framework to investigate the implications of decreasing balance sheet constraints on financial firms. It also presents a simulation framework that shows the possibility of decoupling between Fed policy tools and expansion of the balance sheets of financial markets. The fourth and fifth chapters provide strong empirical evidence related to gradual decoupling between the Fed rate and prices of assets in US financial markets. This study also presents evidence that foreign capital flows can even affect interest rates within the US. In this vein, foreign capital flows might have been one of the factors behind especially low long-term interest rates in the period after 2001. Moreover, the findings of this paper indicate that as opposed to Bernanke (2004a) and many others; it is not plausible to argue that “improvements in the execution on monetary policy can plausibly account for a significant part of the Great Moderation.” Although this dissertation is silent about the reasons behind the Great Moderation, it makes a strong case against the argument of monetary policy improvement. This reading of developments in US financial markets and monetary policy does not fit the story being told by most economists. Most of them believe that central banks, and specifically the Fed, are very powerful in fine-tuning their economies. For them, as long as central banks control their official interest rates, they have enough leverage to affect their own economies. Most of the current macroeconomic modeling practices and monetary policy advices are based on this strong belief. Therefore, if the arguments developed in this study are true, the relevance of the dominant current macroeconomic modeling and monetary policy advices based on these models should be reconsidered.
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Zezuláková, Schormová Františka. "Us and Them: Presenting America 1948-1956." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-352576.
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1 Abstract This MA thesis discusses contemporary US literature in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1956 in order to see how the US was represented through the chosen American writers and their works. The first two chapters look at how the parallel canon was established, both from historical and theoretical perspective. The third chapter discusses Langston Hughes as the representative of American poetry. It shows how Hughes was used to draw attention to racial inequality in the US. Howard Fast as the superstar of the "Czechoslovak America" is the focus of the fourth chapter. The cases of both Fast and Hughes show that contemporary US authors published in Czechoslovakia at that time were chosen for the way they depicted the US racial and social inequality and the repression of political opposition, and identified themselves as members of the so called progressive America. Reading Hughes and Fast from the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain contributes to Czech scholarship on the 1950s and adds new perspectives to the contemporary reconsiderations of American leftist writers.
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Tsao, Yulung, and 曹郁龍. "The Effect of Interest Rate Change on the Stock Market: Evidence from US stock market on 1990s." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28592651300762128838.
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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>財務金融學研究所<br>90<br>Interest rate and corporate earning move the US stocks market. The Fed decides short-term interest rate through FOMC. The Fed’s mandated goals are to create price stability and generated conditions conducive to full employment. The Fed watches all economic activities and use monetary policy as tool to reach its goals. How the change of Fed fund rate affect stock market? What moves the Fed to change the interest rate? Investors anticipate such a Fed rate change by looking at economic indicators for signals. Can investors get extra return by using these economic indicators to predict and react the Fed’s rate change? This thesis reviews 1990s U.S. economic activities and stock market date.
This thesis first reviewed 12 economic activities and find out the reasons why the Fed change rate. CPI and Industries Production seem to be the most important factors that move the Fed’s monetary policy.
Secondly, the thesis exam stock market, S&P 500 index and its 10 sectors, react to the change of interest rate.
In the short-term effect, there is not significant effect at all because the prediction of rate change from brokerage firm, banks are getting more precise.
In the longer term (more than 1 month), when the Fed ease rate, technology sector, retails sector and financial sector have more effect than S&P 500 index. Health care sector and Basic material sector beat the S&P 500 index when the Fed raise fed fund rate. Investors can beat the market before or after rate change by reallocating their investment portfolio.
The conclusion to this thesis is that investors can get extra return by using these economic indicators to predict and react the Fed’s rate change only in the longer term, especially in 1-year effect.