Search for dissertations about: "Republic"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 128 swedish dissertations containing the word Republic.

  2. 16. Reel Socialism : Making sense of history in Czech and German cinema since 1989

    Author : Sune Bechmann Pedersen; Historia; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Socialism; cinema; communism; history culture; film; memory; Germany; Czech Republic; East Germany; Czechoslovakia; 1989; revolution; retro; nostalgia; Ostalgie; coming to terms with the past;

    Abstract : This thesis is a comparative study of the communist past as depicted in Czech and German feature films since 1989, or ‘reel socialism’. It is the first detailed study of post-1989 Czech history films and the first comparative study of German post-reunification cinema. READ MORE

  4. 17. Incumbent Renomination : Accountability and Gender Bias

    Author : Michal Grahn; Elin Bjarnegård; Johanna Kantola; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political recruitment; party politics; proportional representation; gender; incumbency; re-selection; accountability; representation; delegation; preference voting; flexible lists; Czech Republic; Slovakia.; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : Party recruiters in proportional-representation (PR) systems are forced to do what their majoritarian counterparts are not: they need to rank-order all their candidates on the party ballots based on whom they most wish to get elected. Consequently, new candidates and incumbents alike compete for a limited number of electable ballot slots. READ MORE

  5. 18. From Putsch to Purge. A Study of the German Episodes in Richard Hughes’s The Human Predicament and their Sources

    Author : Ivo Holmqvist; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Weimar Republic; Documentary novel; English historical fiction; The Wooden Shepherdess; The Fox in the Attic; 1900-1976; Hughes; Richard; Rise of Nazism; Hitler portraits in literature; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : The two last novels by Richard Hughes (1900-1976), the first in his planned The Human Predicament series, are partly set in Germany in the years between the First and the Second World War. Much of the action in The Fox in the Attic (1961) takes part in and around Munich, culminating in a fictional reconstruction of the so-called Hitler Putsch on November 8-9, 1923, the future dictator's aborted early bid for power. READ MORE

  6. 19. Cultural and socio-political development in south Etruria. : The Biedano region in the 5th to 1st centuries BC

    Author : Hampus Olsson; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Etruscans; Etruscology; Blera; Biedano region; ager Bleranus; Rome; Roman Republic; Roman archaeology; Romanisation; Globalisation; Bilingualism; code-switching; Imperialism; Etruscan prosopography; Etruscans; Etruscology; Etruscan prosopography; Blera; Biedano region; ager Bleranus; South Etruria; Etruria meridionale; Rome; Roman Republic; Romanisation; Imperialism; Globalisation; Bilingualism; Code-switching; Roman archaeology; Etruscan archaeology;

    Abstract : The town of Blera is situated in the southern parts of Etruria and has a history spanning more than 2,500 years. Its location between the two important Etruscan cities of Tarquinii and Caere has meant that Blera, for the entire Etruscan period (c. 750–50 BC), alternatively has found itself in either city’s sphere of interest. READ MORE

  7. 20. Coal, commerce and communism : Empirical studies on energy history in the Czech Republic

    Author : Hana Nielsen; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; industrialization; coal; modern economic growth; central planning; iron and steel; energy efficiency;

    Abstract : This thesis employs an international comparative perspective to empirically analyse the Czech energy transition between 1830 and 2010. It addresses the utilization of energy in shaping modern economic growth through structural and technological change and the implications of those changes on specialization and foreign trade. READ MORE