Sökning: "outbreak of the First World War"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden outbreak of the First World War.

1. 1. Att hålla folket på gott humör : Informationsspridning, krigspropaganda och mobilisering i Sverige 1655-1680

   Författare :Anna Maria Forssberg; Arne Jarrick; Jan Glete; Maria Sjöberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; information; propaganda; war propaganda; mobilisation; legitimation of power; power resources; negotiations; state formation; church history; Karl X Gustav; Karl XI; early modern history; 17th century; Sweden.; History subjects; Historieämnen;

   Sammanfattning : Starting around 1500 a period of state formation changed the European map. The scattered medieval principalities were replaced with more centralised and better organised states with permanent armies. Sweden was quite successful in competing with these states and experienced a period of expansion. LÄS MER

3. 2. Vårt eget fel : moralisk kausalitet som tankefigur från 00-talets klimatlarm till förmoderna syndastraffsföreställningar

   Författare :David Larsson Heidenblad; Historia; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; moral causality; climate change; divine punishment; notions of collective threat; notions of collective responsibility; outbreak of the First World War; the threat of nuclear war; the Cuban missile crisis; cultural history; thought-figures; mass communication; longue durée; Sweden; secularization; victimization;

   Sammanfattning : The starting point of this study is the striking similarities between late modern notions of anthropogenic climate change and premodern ideas about divine punishment. In both these cases the occurrence of future disasters have been directly linked to the moral behavior of the endangered. LÄS MER

4. 3. Two Quests for Unity : John Dewey, R. G. Collingwood, and the Persistence of Idealism

   Författare :Bruno Hamnell; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Dewey; R. G. Collingwood; Idealism; Pragmatism; Liberalism; Unity; Experience; Practical Knowledge; Intellectual History; History of Philosophy; Anglo-America;

   Sammanfattning : After having dominated philosophical thought in Britain and the United States during the end of the nineteenth century, idealism was in steady decline by the outbreak of World War I. Its ideas and ideals seemed unsuited to face the transition from Victorianism to modernism and the rapid social changes of the post-war era. LÄS MER

5. 4. Politique étrangère francaise en mer Baltique (1871-1914) : De l'exclusion à l'affirmation

   Författare :Xavier Fraudet; Alf W Johansson; Christian Koninxck; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; French foreign policy 1871-1914; the Baltic Sea; diplomacy; naval instrument; financial loans; culture; isolation; the revenge; ententes; History subjects; Historieämnen;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a contribution to the study of French foreign policy in the time of “old diplomacy” in Northern Europe. Aiming to fill a gap, the object of investigation is French foreign policy in the Baltic area between 1871 and 1914 (from the French defeat during the Franco-Prussian War to the outbreak of the First World War). LÄS MER

7. 5. Gränslösa rörelser för fred 1889–1914 : Aktörskap, strategi och begreppsvärld hos socialistisk och liberal fredsaktivism

   Författare :Fredrik Egefur; Forskarskolan i historia; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Fredsrörelser; Sociala rörelser; Andra internationalen; Nobels fredspris; Fred; Antimilitarism; Pacifism; Internationella fredsbyrån; NGOs; Peace movement; Social movement; The Second International; Nobel Peace Prize; Peace; Anti-militarism; Pacifism; The International Peace Bureau; NGOs;

   Sammanfattning : During the 25 years before the First World War in 1914 two different kinds of peace movements, one bourgeois-liberal and one socialist, were organised to fight militarism and war. The two movements – represented by the International Peace Bureau and the Second International, respectively – grew in size between 1889 and 1914. LÄS MER