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Published: 01 April 2014
... poles. She transferred to the Ministry of Munitions where she spent her time “typing endless huge sheets of figures” that “went up every night to Winston Churchill personally.” In her spare time Iris continued to write poetry. She also became aware of the domestic effects of World War I, including...
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The Unsteady Apprentice
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Lawrence J. Friedman and Anke M. Schreiber
Published: 12 August 2014
... perspective—after World War I. authoritarianism Critical Theory Escape from Freedom Fromm Frankfurt Frankfurt Institute for Social Research Freud Sigmund Freudianism Fromm Erich Fromm Erich affiliations Fromm Erich amorous interests Fromm Erich education Goethe Johann von Wolfgang Marx Karl...
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Authority Versus Anarchy: Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature
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Stefan Jonsson
Published: 01 October 2013
... Western countries, brought about by the dual force of the workers' movement and the women's movement; second, World War I, with its patriotic frenzy; and third, the Russian revolution, which many Europeans perceived as the ultimate “revolt of the masses,” especially in Germany, which experienced its own...
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Setting the Agenda: From Conversion to Witness—and Back
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Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon
Published: 07 October 2014
...This chapter considers missionary movement after World War I. Missionary activity during the interwar period and beyond was notable for the founding of institutions of higher education and medical facilities, which were more acceptable to the new nationalist governments than were primary...
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World War II Poetry, Reloaded
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William Logan
Published: 08 April 2014
... with the added burden of sometimes assuming a naive idealism out of tune with the times, and if not with the times then with the soldiers. war poets war poetry soldiers World War I World War II Great War Britain America Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War ...
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Published: 29 November 2016
... volunteers in World War I wearing of mackintoshes by in world war i Women’s Volunteer Reserve Amatt W G Daily Telegraph Phosferine advertisement for Craik Jennifer Daily Mail promotion of men’s raincoats in Derry & Toms department store group identity uniforms and men Shannon Brent uniforms...
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History of POW Treatment in the United States: From the Revolutionary War to the Korean War
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Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault
Published: 07 March 2017
... process Supreme Court Vallandigham Clement Best Geoffrey Dunant Henri International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC Nicholas II Russian Czar Rules of Land Warfare manual World War I Adee Alvey Lansing Robert Daniels Josephus Germany Pershing John J Japan Soviet Union World War II Eager...
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Super Soybeans
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Kara Newman
Published: 21 October 2014
... as a major crop. It then examines how soybeans became a lauded food item during World War I and how Chicago emerged as the financial center of the soybean universe. It also recalls the Great Salad Oil Swindle and how it happened. adhesives soy based biodiesel soy based chicken fabrics soy based...
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History and Contemporary Trends in Conventional Arms Export Controls
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Jennifer L. Erickson
Published: 19 May 2015
...This chapter charts the key events in the twentieth-century global arms trade; during the post-World War I and interwar years, the Cold War, and the early 1990s and beyond. During the post-World War I, these successive initiatives—St. Germain Convention (1919), Geneva Arms Traffic Convention (1925...
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Published: 17 June 2014
...This chapter discusses Roxy's role in facilitating cooperation between Washington and the commercial film industry following the United States' entrance into World War I on April 6, 1917. He produced and exhibited propaganda films that helped link Washington's predominately American-born...
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Published online: 19 November 2015
Published in print: 28 January 2014
...Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the “population bomb” in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem concerned...
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World War I: Nationalism, Independence, and the Fate of the Missionary Enterprise
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Eleanor H. Tejirian and Reeva Spector Simon
Published: 07 October 2014
...This chapter discusses the impact of World War I on the missionary movement in the Middle East. World War I forced missionary institutions to shift their activities from evangelism to relief and assistance, the activities now generally ascribed to nongovernmental organizations. From the standpoint...
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“Mr. Butler’s Asylum”
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Michael Rosenthal
Published: 09 June 2015
... of the international mind and minister without portfolio for world peace, courtesy of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It also examines Butler's system of international cooperation; Columbia's commitment to World War I effort and its faculty's support of the American military involvement in the war...
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Published: 14 May 2013
...This chapter explores how the friendship between Stein and Faÿ mirrored the uneasy political climate in the wake of World War I. The anxieties bred during the war years had strained international relations—“friendship” had thus become overtly tied to the workings of power. In line...