Sökning: "the postwar era"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden the postwar era.

  1. 1. An indirect route to equality : taxing consumers to build the Swedish welfare state

    Författare :Gunnar Lantz; Thomas Pettersson; Lena Andersson-Skog; Svante Prado; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Taxation; progressivity; economic history; consumption taxes; VAT; tax incidence; regressive taxation; inequality; income distribution; equity; distributive justice; fairness; household budget surveys; tax policy; welfare state; postwar era; institutions; corporatism; EEC; EFTA; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

    Sammanfattning : The question of who paid for the welfare state in postwar Sweden has been subject to extensive debate. Many have focused on the comparatively high, and steeply progressive, taxes on income. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Order in Ruins : British Society and the Media Assemblage of The World at War c. 1970-1975

    Författare :Allan Burnett; Mediehistoria; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Media history; History; Media; History; 20th Century; Media analysis; media and communication studies; Media and democracy; media and political engagement; media and politics; media and power; media and social relations; Media ecology; media ethics; Deleuze and Guattari; McLuhan; Gender history; British history; Social history; Memory studies; Nationalism; Transnational; National Identity; Second World War; Cold War; Cold War culture; European history; African history; Television; television production; television and everyday life; television history; Film and history; film as historical source material; television culture; film analysis; film archives; film archive; Oral history; Media technology; broadcasting history; 1960- och 1970-tal; 1970s; Assemblage theory; Public history; Postcolonial; war history; Military history; Holocaust memory; memory culture; history culture; British Empire; Enoch Powell; Thatcher; New Left; history of class divisions; Women s movement; Women s history; postmodernity; generational relation; generational shift; Holocaust; postwar era; Journalism and New media; Journalistic culture; journalistic ideology; journalistic roles; journalistic practices; journalistic techniques; Anglo-american; European Community; Decolonisation; Decolonization; migrational history; National identity; Communities of belonging; Globalisation; nuclear age; atomic age; Apocalyptic narrative; Apocalyptic; documentary; Documentary film; documentaries; Filmmaking; Filmmakers; Soviet history; Nazi Germany;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies a period of intense crisis and creativity in British media, society, and culture, when the settled outcome of the Second World War (WW2) was perceived to be disintegrating. The post-world-war order was becoming an ‘order in ruins’. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Nazismens sensmoral : Svenska erfarenheter i andra världskrigets efterdyning

    Författare :Johan Östling; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nazism; experience; Reinhart Koselleck; conceptual history; the Second World War; the postwar era; Sweden; German culture; Thomas Mann; stigma; cultural radicalism; natural law; generation;

    Sammanfattning : At the core of this study is an enquiry into the experiences of Nazism and the conclusions that were drawn from them. The prime concern is the ideological and intellectual arena in Sweden in the wake of the Second World War, but throughout the study the Swedish case is examined against a more general international background. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Mad Pursuits : Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction

    Författare :Gwendolyn Haevens; David Associate Professor; Leerom Medovoi; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; early postwar American fiction; popular psychoanalysis; narrative therapy; narrative identity; narrative theory; representation of identity; script theory; therapeutic narration; fugitive selves; J.D. Salinger; Ralph Ellison; Sylvia Plath; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : Mad Pursuits: Therapeutic Narration in Postwar American Fiction examines three mid-century American novels—J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963)—in relation to the rise and popularization of psychoanalytic theory in America. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Dystopiernas seger : totalitarism som orienteringspunkt i efterkrigstidens svenska idédebatt

    Författare :Johan Stenfeldt; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ideological debate; Sweden; postwar era; Cold war; totalitarianism; dystopian ideologies; dystopian trilemma; experience; expectation; history of effects; Nazism; communism; liberalism;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to dissect the process of ideological orientation in the public debate of postwar Sweden. Crucial to the study is the idea of a generic totalitarianism; a concept used both on a scholarly and a political level, focusing on the similarities between communism and Nazism, and the diverging guiding potential of this totalitarianism idea in different times and situations. LÄS MER