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Books on: the 1940s

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The Continuity of Poetic Language: Studies in English Poetry from the 1540's to the 1940's

Book by Josephine Miles; University of California Press, 1951

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English Poetry--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...NOW THAT we have come to the end of the 1940s, a backward look at the character of poetry...simple major vocabulary: the terms for the 1940s are, it will be remembered, the adjectives...king and lord, are primary still for the 1940s. Indeed these are primary terms for almost...
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Reconciling Modernity: Urban State Formation in 1940s Lebon, Mexico

Book by Daniel Newcomer; University of Nebraska Press, 2004

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Central-Local Government Relations--Mexico--History--20th Century, Church And State--Mexico--Leon (Guanajuato)--History--20th Century, Leon (Guanajuato, Mexico)--Politics And Government--20th Century, Postmodernism--Political Aspects--Mexico, Social Classes--Mexico--Leaon (Guanajuato)--History--20th Century, Social Conflict--Mexico--Leon (Guanajuato)--History--20th Century, Synarchism--Mexico--Leon (Guanajuato)--History

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...ways, Sinarquista doctrine by the late 1940S seemed a more articulate expression of...comun (the common good), and by the late 1940S even increased industrial- ization and...so-called popular aspirations in the 1940s. One astute observer recognized this trend...
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Women, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s

Book by Nicole Huang; Brill, 2005

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China--History--1937-1945, Popular Culture--China--Shanghai, Women Authors, Chinese--China--Shanghai

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Pan Liudai, and other women writers of 1940s Shanghai began focusing on female gender...speaking publicly about sex in the 1920s. The 1940s controversy surrounding women writers then...Whatever topics were considered bold in the 1940s were precisely the issues these women supported...
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Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History during the 1940s and 1950s

Book by Richard Bessel, Dirk Schumann; Cambridge University Press, 2003

Subjects:

Europe--Ethnic Relations, Europe--Social Conditions--20th Century, Germany (West)--Ethnic Relations, Germany--Social Conditions--20th Century, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological Aspects, Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Europe, Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Germany (West), Social Change--Europe--History--20th Century, Social Change--Germany (West)--History--20th Century, Social Conflict--Europe--History--20th Century

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The importance of the 1940s and 1950s as a social and psychological...experience of violence and death during the 1940s were profound and colored all aspects...connections were between the violence of the 1940s and the normality of the 1950s, remains...
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From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s

Book by David Reynolds; Oxford University Press, 2006

Subjects:

Great Britain--Foreign Relations--1936-1945, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--1945-1964, Great Britain--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--1933-1945, United States--Foreign Relations--1945-1953, United States--Foreign Relations--Great Britain, World Politics--1945-1955, World War, 1939-1945--Diplomatic History

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...general survey that follows. During the 1940s and 1950s, perhaps until the end of Macmillans...the sustained international crisis of the 1940s. Both wished to maintain the independence...Japan during the war and, from the late 1940s, against the 9 Quoted in McDonald, ed...

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Journal Articles on: the 1940s

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Nicole Huang. Woman, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s

Journal article by Eugenia Lean; China Review International, Vol. 13, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Woman, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s. by Eugenia Lean Nicole Huang. Woman...Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s. Leiden and Boston: E. J. Brill, 2005...womens writing in occupied Shanghai in the 1940s. How can we connect the predominance of...
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The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s: How Robinson, MacPhail, Reiser and Rickey Changed Baseball

Journal article by Roberta Newman; Nine, Vol. 14, 2006

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A Brooklyn Dodgers Reader (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, The Brooklyn Cyclones: Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island (Book)--Book reviews, The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s: How Robinson, MacPhail, Reiser and Rickey Changed Baseball (Book)--Book reviews, When Baseball Returned to Brooklyn: The Inaugural Season of the New York-Penn League Cyclones (Book)--Book reviews

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The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s: How Robinson, MacPhail, Reiser and...Marzano. The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s: How Robinson, MacPhail, Reiser and...of books. The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, by Rudy Marzano, and Andrew Paul Meles...
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Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s

Journal article by Colin Gordon; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999

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Books--Reviews, Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Colin Gordon Building a Democratic Political...Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s. By David Plotke. (New York: Cambridge...of the New Deal order in the 1930s and 1940s. David Plotkes goal is not only to recount...
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Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s

Journal article by Lauren Borchard; American Studies International, Vol. 39, 2001

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Books--Reviews, Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s (Book)--Reviews

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...Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s by Lauren Borchard Sherrie Tucker. Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s (Durham, NC: Duke University Press...affected all-girl bands in the 1930s and 1940s and their subsequent elision from jazz...
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Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s

Journal article by Roger D. Markwick; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 55, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s. by Roger D. Markwick Political Tourists...Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s. Edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn...went to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, more than 12 are portrayed in detail...

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Magazine Articles on: the 1940s

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Perspectives on Puerto Rico: Intriguing Images of Island Life as Seen through the Lens of Farm Security Administration Photographers in the 1940s

Magazine article by David A. Taylor; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 62, January 2010

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Documentary photography--1940s (Decade) AD, Photography, Documentary--1940s (Decade) AD, Puerto Rican culture--1940s (Decade) AD, Puerto Rican history--1940s (Decade) AD, Puerto Ricans--1940s (Decade) AD

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...Puerto Rico: Intriguing Images of Island Life as Seen through the Lens of Farm Security Administration Photographers in the 1940s. by David A. Taylor ILLUSTRATION OMITTED In her apron, she is bent close to her large, healthy cabbage plants, the lush...
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Eternal Vigilance: Throughout the 1940s, George Orwell Was Formulating the Ideas about Language and Politics That Found Their Ultimate Expression in Nineteen Eighty-Four. the Novelist and Critic Keith Gessen Celebrates Orwell's Essays from This Period-A Plain-Spoken Pleasure, despite Their Contradictions

Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 138, June 1, 2009

Subjects:

English essays--Criticism and interpretation, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Orwell, George--Criticism and interpretation, Orwell, George--Works

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Eternal Vigilance: Throughout the 1940s, George Orwell Was Formulating the Ideas...subjects of the essays Orwell wrote in the 1940s are almost all, in one way or another...that he was writing himself through in the 1940s was the crisis of the war and, even more...
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Men and Women at Work: the Portrayal of American Workers by Three Artists of the 1930s and 1940s

Magazine article by Susan Goetz Zwirn; Art Education, Vol. 57, March 2004

Subjects:

Art education, Art history, Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965), Lawrence, Jacob, Painting, Shahn, Ben, Unemployment, Visual artists

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...Workers by Three Artists of the 1930s and 1940s by Susan Goetz Zwirn (Recommended for...connect the art history of the 1930s and 1940s to today. A confluence of cultural, economic...and political factors in the 1930s and 1940s propelled the neglected image of the worker...
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Growing Up Progressive? Going to Elementary School in Ontario in 1940's

Magazine article by Robert M. Stamp; Our Schools, Our Selves, Vol. 16, Fall 2006

Subjects:

Curricula, Education history, Education policy, Elementary schools, Ontario Canada

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...Going to Elementary School in Ontario in 1940s by Robert M. Stamp Steele Street School...progressive at Steele Street Public School in the 1940s? The success of the 1937 revisions depended...reform through the late 1930s and early 1940s. County inspector Mr. Wightman from nearby...
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Gaslight Melodrama: from Victorian London to 1940's Hollywood

Magazine article; Film Ireland, October 2001

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...Gaslight Melodrama: from Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood GASLIGHT MELODRAMA: FROM VICTORIAN LONDON TO 1940S HOLLYWOOD Guy Barefoot; Continuum IEP euro32...A handful of movies were made during the 1940s that were set at the turn of the century...

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Newspaper Articles on: the 1940s

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1940s Make-Up; Living Fashion

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 2, 2008

Subjects:

Cosmetics

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

1940s Make-Up; Living Fashion. THIS season, celebrities...up artists have fallen head over heels in love with the 1940s. Dita Von Teeses trademark look draws heavily on sexy 1940s styling with scarlet lips and glossy waves. The burlesque...
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VINTAGE GLAMOUR; Why Women Are Turning Back the Clock to Feel Sexy Again.: WARWICKSHIRE Entrepreneur Lynsey le Keux Turns Women into 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s Pin-Ups, Organises Vintage Hair and Make-Up Tutorials, Vintage Weddings and on May 22 Is Hosting a Vintage Burlesque Cabaret Evening. She Tells CATHERINE VONLEDEBUR Why Women Are Turning to Vintage

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), May 15, 2010

Subjects:

Monroe, Marilyn

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Entrepreneur Lynsey le Keux Turns Women into 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s Pin-Ups, Organises...year-old from Rugby said: "I wear a 1940s or 1950s dress and red lipstick every day...authenticity. Themes include 1920s art deco, 1940s forces sweetheart, 1950s kitsch Americana...
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1940s Fashion the Songs at KenCen Art Festival

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 21, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

1940s Fashion the Songs at KenCen Art Festival...current festival, "A New America: The 1940s and the Arts." Even fashion had a formal...launch of the "Fabulous! Fashions of the 1940s" exhibit and you would have heard fashion...
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Barrington to Host Live 1940s Radio Review

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 12, 2010

Subjects:

Benny, Jack, Comedians

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Barrington to Host Live 1940s Radio Review. Byline: Courtesy of RG...radio entertainment as they present "A 1940s Radio Review" to the Barrington Park...comedy performance including actors, 1940s music and live sound effects. "We have...
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Could You Survive the 1940s?; MEET THE FAMILY WHO TRADED IN THEIR TV, SUPERMARKETS AND EVERY MODERN CONVENIENCE TO LIVE IN CHANNEL 4'S 1940S HOUSE

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), January 6, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Could You Survive the 1940s?; MEET THE FAMILY WHO TRADED IN THEIR...MODERN CONVENIENCE TO LIVE IN CHANNEL 4S 1940S HOUSE. Byline: MARION McMULLEN LIVING...applicants to live for two months in The 1940s House. The series, which can be seen...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: the 1940s

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Abstract Expressionism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American...intensely complicated abstract paintings of the 1940s were followed by images of Woman, grotesque...Kline turned to the abstract late in the 1940s and soon developed strikingly original...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...United States and the Soviet Union worsened during the late 1940s. In addition, a serious human problem was presented by Europe...largest since the Department of Defense was created in the late 1940s. Dec., 2002, saw the negotiation of a free-trade agreement...
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Jazz

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...rhythmic and harmonic developments were impeded until the mid-1940s. Jazz is generally thought to have begun in New Orleans, spreading...cool, jazz developed primarily on the West Coast in the late 1940s and early 50s. Intense yet ironically relaxed tonal sonorities...
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Calypso , in Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and wind instruments, and, since they developed in the mid-1940s, steel drums (originally modified oil drums). At first sung...form, became very popular in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s. Probably the most famous of the many 20th-century...
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News Agency

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...M. Pres in Romania. News Transmission From 1915 until the 1940s, news agencies in the United States transmitted most copy over...telephone wires to teletypewriters in newspaper offices. The late 1940s, however, brought the introduction of Teletypesetter machines...

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