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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Age of Revolution"”.
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From Sheffield to Raleigh: a Radical Publishing Network in the Age of Revolution
The launch of the Sheffield Society for Constitutional Information in 1791 is recognised by historians as one of the earliest and most radical expressions of organised working class calls for parliamentary reform in England. Research for this thesis has shown that Joseph Gales, the Sheffield …
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Why Black Nationalism and Cuban Communism were incompatible during an Age of Revolution, ca. 1950 – 1970
<p>The people of the African diaspora across the Americas had long looked for a way out of the situation that had been imposed on them since their arrival as slaves. Black nationalism was created in the early 1900s as a last-ditch effort by former slaves to take control of their lives, communities, …
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The eye of the needle: magnetic survey and the compass of capital in the age of revolution and reform
This thesis charts the globalising role of British geomagnetism in the age of revolution and reform. In the earlier decades of the nineteenth century, significant fiscal-military state resources were directed toward linking three momentous magnetic enterprises: Admiralty reform of practical …
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The Affair or the State: Intellectuals, the Press, and the Dreyfus Affair
In his introduction to The Age of Revolution historian Eric Hobsbawm considers "a few English words which were invented, or gained their modern meanings, substantially in the period" between 1789 and 1848. The list includes 'capitalism', 'socialism', 'aristocracy', 'liberal', 'conservative', …
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All the King's Men: Slavery and Soldiering at the Cabrits Garrison (1763-1854)
<p>This dissertation investigates the archaeology of Atlantic world wars and slavery on the island of Dominica during the Age of Revolution (c. 1774-1848). Using archival and archaeological evidence from households at the Cabrits Garrison occupied by lower status personnel in the British army, …
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Identity politics and intellectual trajectories in Bukhara, 1917-1924
This analysis of the intellectual trajectories and changing political identities of liberal proponents of reform in Bukhara in the early communist period is concerned primarily with three questions: First, what can a close study of the Bukharan intelligentsia reveal about their intellectual lineage …
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Operating Outside of Empire: Trading Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1783-1815
<p>Operating Outside of Empire: Trading Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1783-1815, looks at markets and ships as spaces for negotiation between merchants and the state. The dissertation follows the experiences of former British colonists in America who won independence and then immediately tried …
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Determined to Be American: Regulating Immigration and Citizenship in the Early American Republic, 1783–1815
… regulations that partitioned the populace of the early Republic into parties which battled over the United States’ racial, socioeconomic and ideological composition. The newly independent nation’s precarious international position led to arguments about migration that proved inextricably …
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UNA REPUBBLICA SENZA DEMOCRAZIA. PER UNA STORIA TRANSNAZIONALE DEL MODELLO REPUBBLICANO CONSERVATORE TRA FRANCIA, SANTO DOMINGO E STATI UNITI ((1793 - 1804).
The aim of this research project is to investigate and evaluate the transnational nature of the conservative republican model at the end of the 18th century. Moreover, this project examines how this conservative sentiment was conveyed between France, Santo Domingo and the United States through …