Essays about: "1940s"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 71 essays containing the word 1940s.
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11. Stockholm Concert Hall : Management of a project in the 1920s
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationerAbstract : The beginning of the 20th century was an epoch when new industries were established, migration to the cities were increasing, the service sector was growing, and with an increased middle class. Many of the new developments were endeavors, which we today would call projects. READ MORE
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12. An economic room of one's own : A study of commercial femininity in Swedish beauty advertising 1930–1950
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Based in the rapidly changing economic and cultural rooms of 1930s and 1940s Sweden, this study consults beauty advertising to find how advertiser’s endeavours to reconcile industrial mass consumption with individuality looked in the weekly press and how depictions of femininity changed throughout the interwar period and into the early-post war era. Advertisements found in woman’s weekly magazine Husmodern were studied through a methodology combining theories on narrative and performance, finding that individuality in advertising 1930–1950 was largely achieved in the latter part of the period through an increasingly personal style of advertising, using tropes of friendship and community to inspire consumption in contrast to the anonymity of the earlier period. READ MORE
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13. Making Room for the Holocaust? : Entangled Memory Regimes and Polarized Contestation about the Greek 1940s in Thessaloniki
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumAbstract : The present thesis offers a new perspective on Holocaust memory in Greece by examining the ways in which divergent mnemonic representations about the Greek 1940s, as evidenced in polarized public contestation, influence the position of Holocaust in contemporary Greek collective memory. Adopting a micro-level case-study approach, the thesis focuses on the process of renaming a street in Salonika (or Thessaloniki), by examining public discourses around the issue. READ MORE
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14. The Politics of Preservation : Urban regeneration, identity formation and governance in the creation of Old Linköping open air museum, 1944–1967
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to broaden and deepen the understanding of the urban regeneration and demolition processes taking place in Swedish cities between the 1940s and 1960s. Special attention is placed on how past and present layers of the city were used, conceptualized and legitimized by influential actors within the framework of urban governance. READ MORE
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15. Resistensutveckling i våtarv mot ALS-herbicider i norra Europa
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Crop Production EcologyAbstract : Våtarv (Stellaria media (L.) Vill.) är ett annuellt (ettårigt) örtogräs som växer på åkermarker i större delen av världen. Ogräset har låga krav på växtplatsen och kan orsaka skördeförluster i de flesta odlingssystem. READ MORE
