Durante a II Guerra Mundial milhares de homens e mulheres, náufragos de embarcações atacadas e/ ou afundadas no que ficou conhecido pela Batalha do Atlântico, foram salvos por navios portugueses ou chegaram e receberam apoio nos seus territórios que neste período incluíam colóni…
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This dissertation critically interprets the international dimension of the Ukrainian crisis in 2013, crisis that intensified in the 2014 and resulted in an armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia in eastern part of Ukraine and occupation of Crimea. It argues this crisis to be …
This study seeks to analyse the evolution of the European International Business Academy's Annual Conferences between the years 1999 and 2011. A collection of the 2221 documents presented across the defined period was processed with the use of a computer-aided tool - the Latent …
World War II was the most devastating war in human history in terms of loss of life. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, plunged the United States into war. Less than seven thousand military nurses were on active duty at the time of the attack. By the end of…
This dissertation, “Grassroots Ecumenism: Christianity and Decolonization in France and Algeria, 1940-1965” is the first major study of how French Protestant and Catholic engagement in the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) reshaped Christianity in the modern world and inf…
This comparative study examines the various forms of British intervention in Egypt and Iraq during World War II, and the nature of Britain's informal empire in the Middle East. The focus is on the British Embassies which served as the local point of contact between Britain and t…
In this dissertation American World War II memorials function as locations for an examination of how Americans use meanings about World War II for socio-political purposes in the present. The central focus of this study is the 2004 Neo-Classical Revivalist National World War II …
Since the World War II era, the United States Army has been heavily involved in nation-building. Although these represent the majority of the missions that were executed in the last sixty years, the army still primarily focuses on planning, organizing and training to fight conve…
This study is concerned with the artistic rewriting, in French and by writers and filmmakers of West African origins, of the massacre of Thiaroye (Senegal), the1944 mutiny of African soldiers severely repressed by the French army. The corpus is formed by the following works: a p…
This study seeks to understand through qualitative interviews the experience of World War II male veterans, ages 79-84. The study explores the World War II veterans' memories, attitudes, and motivations in engaging in this war that involved the entire world. The primary reason t…
Contemporary research and public discourse have recently drawn attention to the different perspectives of men and women on their social, political and cultural environment. However, when it comes to the topic of the identity and behavior of perpetrators in concentration and exte…
During World War II, the U.S. government attempted to shape how Americans made sense of the war and control how they understood its meaning. Despite the government’s comprehensive efforts and major accomplishments like changing American geographic identity and reinterpreting end…
This dissertation examines the postwar activism of both black and white southern veterans in Georgia and the South. As part of the growing effort to understand the complexities and contradictions of the Second World War's impact on the region, this study offers the first in-dept…
During World War II, the Croatian ultra-nationalist Ustaša persecuted nearly two million Serbs, Jews, and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia, a state that included present-day Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. The Ustaša-run Jasenovac concentration camp became a lasting symb…
This dissertation explains the apparent transformation of people who only two decades before were considered the most isolated and isolationist in the United States into volunteer diplomats and Cold War specialists. It begins with a question of place: how did people who seemed p…
This dissertation examines the impact of World War II and German occupation on individual lives, social communities, and the Soviet state in Belorussia. A seemingly remote and marginal space, this Soviet republic and European borderland in fact encapsulated the extremes of twent…
This dissertation explores the effect of political performance on Jewish-American cultural identity during the World War II era. With the rise of Hitler, many previously secular and assimilated Jewish theatre and film artists embraced their ethnic heritage and used their work as…
The rulers of the four principalities on Java represented an important political force in pribumi (indigenous Indonesian) politics. Therefore, during World War Two, the Japanese occupying authorities, as the prewar the Dutch colonial rulers had done, maintained them in their pos…
This thesis is a study of the ways in which historical portrayals of World War II are used to promote national identity construction in America. The first chapter will detail the promotion of American exceptionalism by the 2008 game “Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway” and the way…