Japan's World War II balloon bomb attacks on North America

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Mikesh
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
World War

Negotiating 'Plainness' and Gender: Dancing and Apparel at Christian Weddings in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, 1913-1944

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Urban-Mead
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
World War ◽  
Protestant Denomination ◽  
Brethren In Christ ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Brethren In Christ Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Teaching

AbstractThis article analyzes the phenomena of dancing and wedding apparel in weddings of rural members of an unusual Protestant denomination of Anabaptist origins in Matabeleland, colonial Zimbabwe. The focus is on gendered aspects of African Christian adaptation of mission teaching amongst Ndebele members of the Brethren in Christ Church. The church in North America was firm at home on the matter of dancing (it was forbidden), and internally conflicted regarding men's garb. In the decades preceding World War II, African members of the church embraced fashionable dress for grooms and dancing at wedding feasts as common practice at BICC weddings. However, in a gendered pattern reflecting Ndebele, colonial and mission ideas of women's subjection, African women's bridal wear adhered to church teaching on Plainness, while African men's did not.

scholarly journals Transmission patterns of smallpox: systematic review of natural outbreaks in Europe and North America since World War II

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibha Bhatnagar ◽  
Michael A Stoto ◽  
Sally C Morton ◽  
Rob Boer ◽  
Samuel A Bozzette
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
World War

The Academic Study of Hadith in North America Universities

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 66-84
Author(s):  
Fatma Betül Altıntaş
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
Research Area ◽  
World War ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Current State ◽  
Academic Study

Scholarly interest in Islamic studies has increased over the last decade. The academic study of Islam in North America emerged from Orientalism; after World War II it gave way to area studies and, in the mid-twentieth century, started to be addressed as a separate research area. However, the subfield of Hadith studies remainsneglected. In comparison to its role and the approach at modern academic institutions in the Muslim world, Hadith studies in North American universities seem to have received attention mainly in terms of this body of literature’s authenticity. This paper uses qualitative research methods to provide an overview of the historical and contemporary academic study of this subfield and examine the space allocated to it within the broader Islamic studies curriculum. Examining and analyzing its legacy and current state in the academy will help us clarify the general acceptance of this subfield within those institutions.

Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Casassas ◽  
Sérgio Franco ◽  
Bru Laín ◽  
Edgar Manjarín ◽  
Rommy Morales Olivares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
World War ◽  
Turn On ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Working Populations

This chapter focuses on contemporary social movements in Europe and Latin America that are taking shape as forms of action that aim not only at defending some achievements of ‘reformed capitalism’ but also at exploring the possibility of forms of social and economic organisation that go beyond purely capitalist logics. More specifically, it examines the efforts of these movements as they try to regain control over production and distribution. The chapter first considers the meaning of the post-World War II ‘social deal’ as well as the actors, historical trajectories and societal self-understandings that contributed to its emergence. It then explains why, both in Europe and North America and in Latin America, the guarantee of degrees of socio-economic security went hand in hand with a decrease of collective economic sovereignty. It also analyses the effects of the neo-liberal turn on the working populations' socio-economic security and on the social deal.

Ecologies of Witnessing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Pollin-Galay
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
World War ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Power Of Language

This book reassesses contemporary Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the remembrances of Holocaust victims who remained in Lithuania with those who resettled in Israel and North America after World War II, the analysis reveals meaningful differences based on where they chose to live out their postwar lives and whether their language of testimony was Yiddish, English, or Hebrew. The differences between their testimonies relate to notions of love, justice, community—and how the Holocaust did violence to these aspects of the self. The argument illuminates the multiple places that the Holocaust can fill in Jewish historical memory. Beyond the particular Jewish case, the book raises fundamental questions about how people draw from their linguistic and physical environments in order to understand their own suffering. The analysis challenges the assumption of a universal vocabulary for describing and healing human pain.

The Linguistic Society of America and North American Linguistics, 1950–1968

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archibald A. Hill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The University ◽  
Annual Summer

Summary The author, Secretary-Treasurer of the Linguistic Society of America during the crucial phase of the post-World War II growth of linguistics as an autonomous academic speciality, 1950–1968, reports on the events that shaped the LSA and the discipline in North America in general. Whereas the Society counted only 829 members, individual and institutional, in 1950, the total number had risen to 4,375 by 1968. The author narrates, in a year-by-year manner, the acitivities that held the Society together during this period and furthered the exchange of ideas among the different generations of linguists, namely, (1) the annual meetings, traditionally held at the end of December, at which both established scholars and fledgling researchers presented papers and had them discussed; (2) the annual summer institutes, first held for a number of years in a row at the University of Michigan and subsequently at several other campuses in the United States, and (3) the publication of Language, the Society’s organ, ably edited by Bernard Bloch from 1941 until his death in 1965.

Moroccan Jews in Modern Times

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Norman A. Stillman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Ashkenazi Jewish ◽  
World War ◽  
Arab Nationalism ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
School Network

Until the mid twentieth century, Moroccan Jewry constituted the largest non-Ashkenazi Jewish community and had more than double the population of any other Jewish community in the Islamic world. Under the influence of the Alliance Israélite Universelle school network, French colonialism, the experience of World War II and the innate tensions between Zionism and Arab nationalism, the Jews of Morocco underwent a variety of transformations and ultimately the dissolution of the community as a result of the mass exodus to Israel, France and North America.

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