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Pinning Down a Force in 20th-Century History [PDF]

, 1990
We have a choice: to remember William S. Paley as the television tycoon lionized by the media throughout his life, or to remember him as portrayed in Sally Bedell Smith's new biography, "In All His Glory." The two portraits are not the same, and it remains to be seen which has the greater power - the biographer or the press.
Konner, Joan
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European Planning History in the 20th Century [PDF]

, 2022
The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other ...

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Gestalt theory in 20th-century history

Journal of Vision, 2023
During the century from the 1890 publication of Ehrenfels's proposition on Gestaltqualitäten to the 1989 dissolution of the European states governed by Marxist orthodoxy, Gestalt theory was drawn into the political fray in several ways. It was grotesquely misappropriated during the Nazi regime in support of race, territorial expansion, and war aims. On
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In the shadow of Moscow: the Stalinist reconstruction of the capitals of the Soviet republics

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2015
Looking through the prism of USSR national policy the article analyzes the reconstruction of Stalinist cities. The study is based on the visual analysis of the city landscapes of the capitals of 12 of 15 former Soviet republics. Focusing attention on the
Rasa Čepaitienė
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Students and Superintendents: From “Family Style” to Moral and Political Supervision (Based on Materials of Pedagogical Institute and St. Petersburg University of 1800s – 1850s)

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2020
Introduction. The authors attempt to trace the evolution of relations between students and superintendents based on archival materials of Pedagogical Institute and St. Petersburg University. Methods. The research is carried out within the framework of
Ksenia S. Kazakova, Tatyana N. Zhukovskaya   +1 more
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Center and periphery: borderline cities and borderlines of cities

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2015
„Center and periphery: borderline cities and borderlines of cities" Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 39(1), p.
Rasa Čepaitienė
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There Will be no Strength. (In)coherence and (Im)potency

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016
In 1949, Czesław Miłosz spent a few days in Wroclaw, which was still in ruins after WWII. Six years later Miłosz wrote an interesting poem entitled Pokój (The Room) and created a symbolical vision of the city.
Mateusz Antoniuk
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Blurring boundaries: Towards a Medical History of the Twentieth Century

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2017
This special issue intends to show the potential of medical history to contribute to major historical debates, e.g. on the rise of the welfare state. Together the articles in this issue make clear that medical history, for the twentieth century even more
Frank Huisman, Joris Vandendriessche, Kaat Wils   +2 more
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Women’s hair in Lager narratives

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017
The article offers an analysis of women’s Lager narratives in which the procedure of removing hair from female prisoners of concentration camps was reflected.
Barbara Czarnecka
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Animacy in early New Zealand english [PDF]

, 2012
The literature suggests that animacy effects in present-day spoken New Zealand English (NZE) differ from animacy effects in other varieties of English. We seek to determine if such differences have a history in earlier NZE writing or not.
Hundt, Marianne, Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt
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