Search for dissertations about: "1920s"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the word 1920s.
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1. Changing the Colours of the World. Modernism and Modernity in Chinese Drama and Film, 1919-1937
Abstract : This dissertation examines the role of modernism and modernity in Chinese spoken drama and film during the years between the May Fourth Movement and the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. This influence is traced through close readings of a selection of works in different categories, underlining relevant themes and structures that are recurring in both drama and film. READ MORE
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2. Rethinking civilisation in a European feminist context: History, nature, women in Elin Wägner's Väckarklocka
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3. Railroading and Labor Migration : Class and Ethnicity in Expanding Capitalism in Northern Minnesote, the 1880s to the mid 1920s
Abstract : In the 1880s, capitalism as a social and economic system integrated new geographic areas of the American continent. The construction of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad (D&IR), financed by a group of Philadelphia investors led by Charlemagne Tower and later owned by the US Steel was part of this emerging political economy based on the exploitation of human and material resources. READ MORE
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4. The Coming of Sound Film in Sweden 1928-1932 : New and Old Technologies
Abstract : This dissertation examines the coming of sound film in Sweden during the years 1928–1932, and the reception of mechanically recorded sounds both in the trade press and among audiences. The novelty of sound film opened up for a negotiation of the perception of sound and image, as it made visible the film medium’s technological construction, before this visibility was once more absorbed by the cinematic discourse. READ MORE
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5. Insurance and cartels through wars and depressions : Swedish Marine insurance and reinsurance between the World Wars
Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to enhance our understanding of Swedish marine insurers' choices of business strategies under the potentially difficult business circumstances of the interwar period 1918-1939. Little previous research exists on marine insurance during the interwar period. READ MORE