Sökning: "Contemporary history"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 613 avhandlingar innehållade orden Contemporary history.
16. Coming Full Circle? : Return Migration and the Social Mobility on the Bjäre Peninsula 1860-1930
Sammanfattning : One million three hundred thousand people left Sweden for America between 1860 and 1930. In the same period, approximately two hundred thousand people returned to Sweden. "Coming Full Circle?" is an analysis of the fate and local impact of the local returnees on the Bjäre peninsula in southern Sweden. LÄS MER
17. En omskriven historia : Svensk historisk roman och novell före 1867 : the Swedish historical novel and short story before 1867
Sammanfattning : The historical novel was a new genre in Sweden during the 1820's. It had emerged as a popular literary form in Europe with the writings of Walter Scott, whose Waverley, or t'is sixty years since (1814) is widely regarded as the first historical novel. LÄS MER
18. Heroes and Victims : The Holocaust in Israeli Historical Consciousness
Sammanfattning : The interest in the Holocaust has been growing continuously over the last decades, and this study deals with how the Holocaust has been perceived, interpreted and used in an Israeli context. The central theoretical concept in this study is historical consciousness, and the aim is to analyze the place of the Holocaust in Israeli historical consciousness. LÄS MER
19. Populärkulturen och klassamhället. Arbete, klass och genus i svensk dampress i början av 1900-talet
Sammanfattning : The aim of my thesis is to demonstrate how class was constructed linguistically in Svensk Damtidning (Swedish Woman's Magazine) at the beginning of the 20th century. Theoretically, I call for a renewal of studies of class, thus joining the traditions of post-marxism and feminism. LÄS MER
20. Historia och nationalism : Sverigedemokraternas och Dansk Folkepartis historiska berättelser
Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the relationship between history and nationalism as expressed by the political parties the Sweden Democrats and the Danish People's Party. The study focuses on how the Sweden Democrats and the Danish People's Party convey historical narratives in their party magazines, SD-Kuriren and Dansk Folkeblad, respectively, and in central party documents. LÄS MER