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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 7898 avhandlingar innehållade ordet History.
16. Interkulturalitet och historia : Historieundervisningens teori och praktik i en mångkulturell värld
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate interculturality in history as an idea and practice. Two overarching research questions are raised, each concerning the theoretical and practical levels: How can history, as a field of knowledge and teaching, be related to intercultural learning as a normative practice? What obstacles and opportunities for teaching and learning emerge when intercultural historical learning is the goal? This thesis comprises four published studies. LÄS MER
17. Låtsaskrigen : föreställningar om krig, maskulinitet och historia i krigsspel under 200 år
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates how different wargames relate to notions of war, masculinity and history. It poses the question how the concept of authenticity is used in relation to wargames portrayal of war, masculinity and history. The outline of the thesis is chronological, spanning roughly from the 19th century to the present. LÄS MER
18. Dress Matters : Clothes and Social Order in Tallinn, 1600-1700
Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the relationship of clothes and social order in early modern Europe. The period has often been characterised as inert and immobile, with especially middling and poorer people living in a sartorially drab world, but a number of historians have demonstrated that it was also a period of profound material change, with consumer demand, democratisation of fashion and global trade engendering cosmopolitan sensibilities earlier than thought. LÄS MER
19. Att projicera det förflutna : Historiebruk och historieförmedling i svensk skolfilm 1970–2000 utifrån de regionala AV-centralernas utbud
Sammanfattning : Karlsson, Martin; Att projicera det förflutna. Historiebruk och historieförmedling i svensk skolfilm 1970–2000 utifrån de regionala AV-centralernas utbud [Projecting the past: Use and mediation of history in Swedish educational films 1970-2000] Department of Humanities, Mid Sweden University, SE-871 88 Härnösand, SwedenISBN 978-91-974902-8-8Swedish text with a summary in English This dissertation analyses a significant element of Swedish historical culture, namely how history was used, communicated and (re)constructed in films with historical themes, available to Swedish schools from 1970 to 2000. LÄS MER
20. Stoutwear and the Discourses of Disorder : Constructing the Fat, Female Body in American Fashion in the Age of Standardization, 1915-1930
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines how fashion media discourses created the conditions through which the fat, female body was both known and constructed within the context of the early large-size garment industry in the United States, or what between the years 1915 and 1930 was known as “stoutwear.” Drawing on a wide array of media sources, including women’s and fashion magazines, trade journals, catalogs and style guides, and employing Michel Foucault’s archaeological method, the dissertation examines the productive nature of fashion discourse in the construction and constitution of the fleshy body, or how the discourses of stoutwear brought order to the disorderly, fat, female body. LÄS MER
