Essays about: "Interwar Period"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Interwar Period.
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1. The Far-Right and the Use of History : Finnish fascism from the interwar period to the present
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : The main research question of this thesis is how history is used for political gain by the far-right in Finland. The aim is to study not only the use of history but, rather, specifically, the patterns of that use. Two theories have been utilized. READ MORE
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2. 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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3. Regional Dispersions : Wages and Institutions in the Interwar Period
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : In this thesis I analyze regional labor markets in the interwar period using a firm-level wagedatabase. Using wages for both men, women, and minors I show that previous studiesunderestimate regional inequalities. Wages for all workers converged slightly between 1922and 1930 but male wages diverged. READ MORE
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4. War, peace and the women’s voice : A study of the newspaper Tidevarvet and its view on women´s rights and the peace during the interwar period
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/ReligionsvetenskapAbstract : The purpose of this essay is to study articles from the newspaper Tidevarvet during the newspapers first years 1923-1924, and the newspapers last year, 1936. The main focus will be on the topics about women’s right and the peace issue. READ MORE
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5. The European Union in the time of crises: the internal struggle against the ideology of growth
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : In the recent years, a growing body of research across both the social and natural sciences coming from a Marxist tradition has been focusing on the correlation between greenhouse gases emissions and economic development through the modern times. Throughout various research, the scholars argued that the link responsible for the climatic crisis lies in the very premise of the current economic model – reliance on relentless growth. READ MORE
