Sökning: "USA: historia"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden USA: historia.
1. Höstens spöke : de svenska polioepidemiernas historia
Sammanfattning : Polio epidemics appeared in Sweden in 1881 and at the turn of the 20th century the disease became an annual feature in the epidemiological pattern. Due to vaccination starting in 1957 epidemics ceased to exist in Sweden around 1965. LÄS MER
2. A Mention to Those not Mentioned : Yizkor Books and Holocaust Memory 1943–2008
Sammanfattning : Yizkor books are communal memorial books commemorating Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust, produced as a result of communal activity. This study analyses the production and function of Yizkor books. LÄS MER
3. Tools of Hegemony : Military Technology and Swedish-American Security Relations, 1945-1962
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis analyze the process whereby Sweden gained access to American guided missiles during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It also tracks the Swedish efforts to develop guided missiles domestically. LÄS MER
4. Den politiska läroboken : Bilden av USA och Sovjetunionen i norska, svenska och finländska läroböcker under Kalla kriget
Sammanfattning : During the Cold War, Norway was a member of NATO, Sweden was neutral but depended on Western support in the event of a crisis, while Finland's foreign policy priority was to win and retain the Soviet Union's confidence. The purpose of the thesis is to study whether the three small states' different foreign policy choices had consequences for the ways in which the Soviet Union and the USA were depicted in school textbooks for history, geography, and social sciences in the period 1930 to 2004. LÄS MER
5. Have Money, Will Travel : Scholarships and Academic Exchange between Sweden and the United States, 1912–1980
Sammanfattning : The large-scale transatlantic mobility of students, teachers, and researchers is a twentieth-century phenomenon that has contributed to the reshaping of international cultural, economic, and political relations into the twenty-first century. Through and as part of this development, the United States transformed into a powerful and influential country on the global stage. LÄS MER
