Sökning: "Contemporary history since 1914"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 28 avhandlingar innehållade orden Contemporary history since 1914.
21. En välbyggd maskin, en mardröm för själen : det svenska fängelsesystemet under 1800-talet
Sammanfattning : The general aim of the thesis is to study 19th century Swedish prisons from the point of view of the surrounding discourse and also as a social system. The prison phenomenon grew out of the meeting between prisons as a discourse-produced norm system and the social practice consisting of the reality as experienced by the prisoners and the prison staff. LÄS MER
22. Böcker, bildning, makt : Arbetare, borgare och bildningens roll i klassformeringen i Lund och Helsingborg 1860-1901
Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the question of why and how the issue of workers' education came to be part of both bourgeois and working class formation during the second half of the 19th century and how it contributed to the shaping of new social relations. The theoretical perspective is based on the concept of hegemony indicating that a leading class has to establish and maintain its leadership by gaining consensus from the ruled classes. LÄS MER
23. Bilder av Förintelsen. Mening, minne, kompromettering
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the representation in visual culture of the Holocaust, the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. It is divided into three main parts, each one focusing on a particular aspect of Holocaust representation. LÄS MER
24. The Visible Palm: Market Failures, Industrial Policy and the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry
Sammanfattning : What role the state should and can play in bringing about economic development is one of the longest standing debates in the economic sciences. Yet, previous research has mostly focused on how a variety of industrial policies affect static efficiency. LÄS MER
25. Återkomsten : antisemitism i Sverige efter 1945
Sammanfattning : The study examines the character and development of anti-Jewish thinking as manifested in public discourse in Sweden in the post-war era. Using newspapers, periodicals and other publications as source material, the study seeks to uncover the continuity, discontinuity and renewal of anti-Jewish discourse by analysing the reactions to the assassination of the Swedish UN envoy Folke Bernadotte in Israel in 1948, the impact of the Holocaust on attitudes towards antisemitism, Jews and Israel during the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of anti-Zionism and radical criticism of Israel from the late 1960s onwards, the attitudes towards Holocaust-denial propaganda in the beginning of the 1980s and the public debate on the Lebanon War in 1982. LÄS MER