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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"American imperialism"”.
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American Imperialism in the Middle East: 1920 – 1950
… During the 1920s, the rise to power began with American oil companies pursuing economic opportunities in the region’s oil fields. Britain maintained the predominant position in the Middle East until the end of the World War II, but the hardships of war limited Britain’s military and financial …
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Sympathy for the Devil : American imperialism in film.
While empire-building, and imperialism more broadly, are now generally regarded as unacceptable justifications for military action, the fumes of imperialistic rhetoric that surround military intervention to this day are not so easily dispersed. The post-9/11 age of the War on Terror has reinscribed …
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American Imperialism and the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines
… Philippines unanimously consider the advent of American rule in the Philippines as the period when the Catholic Church ceased to be a major force in colonial administration, following the dissolution of Spanish Patronato Real or Patronato Regio, the formal system of church-state union in which …
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This Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery
… "The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery," Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis, December 2011 My dissertation examines the national context of the Second Seminole War and argues that it was begun at the behest of Deep South slaveholders …
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: An Analysis of the Consequences of 20th Century American Imperialism and Nuclear Testing Upon the Marshall Islands and its Inhabitants
… of my thesis at the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association’s 11th Annual Meeting at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA. Professor Poblete organized the “Current Perspectives on Pacific Histories” roundtable and allowed me to be a part of this panel. Though this project …
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The white saviour complex in three contemporary American novels
… Industrial Complex’ became popular when Nigerian-American Teju Cole criticised a polarising documentary, Kony 2012, in a series of social media posts. Cole argues that the complex allows white saviours to be lauded for showing support to poor Africans while ignoring the structural, systemic and …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
This dissertation examines the intersection of American imperialism and the protest culture of dissenting Protestantism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century through the lens of an American-born apocalyptic movement: Seventh-day Adventism. Invoking biblical apocalypticism to foreground …
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American Economic Imperialism and the Spanish-American War Era
American history and education always viewed the Spanish-American War era of 1898 as a time when imperialism unexpectedly became foreign policy. However, American imperialism would differ from the form it took in European countries. America would promote a “noble imperialism” that would elevate the …
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Blackouts made visible : a visual-textual analysis of Sarah Glidden's comics journalism
… particularly concerned with refugees created by American imperialism and how American journalists--working in comics or not--can position themselves to ethically represent these refugees. Ultimately, a close-reading of Rolling Blackouts suggests that comics journalism's documented concern with …
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Be Our Guest - International Students in Contemporary Multiethnic Literature
… the US’s use of international student to spread American Imperialism to third world countries. I use Moshin Hamid’s novel to illustrate how international student are only esteemed in terms of their economic value to the country. Finally, I share my own experience in a non-fictional creative …
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Making English the lynchpin for globalisation of education in Sri Lanka: quality versus equality
… beliefs that English was a symbol of Anglo-American imperialism, which made them resist its reintroduction. Unfounded fears of imperialism and shortsighted political and nationalist policies have made Sri Lankans realise that English is not a symbol of Anglo-American imperialism but a …
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Mobilization Nation: Mass Movements in the People's Republic of China
… America-Aid Korea Campaign began in response to American involvement in the Korean War. As the conflict raged across the Bohai Gulf millions of Chinese were mobilized to fight, what they interpreted to be American imperialism in Korea. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese men and women participated …
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In the Vanguard: The Colombian Novel Between the Wars
… in an overall consideration of Latin American vanguard literature. Taking exception to this view, this study focuses on Colombian novelists who have contributed not only to the development of the modern Colombian novel but also to the formation of the avant-garde. Chapter One defines …
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Beyond nostalgia: a walking guide to American small-town literature, 1940-1960
… construct which masks the workings of American imperialism. I argue that, to the contrary, the small town serves as a model in which authors examine the tensions inherent in American life. To say that a thing is a model is not to say that it is an ideal. Rather, as with scientific …
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America's Moral Responsibility?: The Debate over American Intervention in the Near East after WWI
… cause in particular was foremost in the minds of Americans. Many Americans felt the United States had a moral responsibility to help Near Eastern Christians. For many observers, American interest coupled with the opportunity for increased participation in Near Eastern affairs made it seem likely …
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Test Cases: Reconfiguring American Law, Technoscience, and Democracy in the Nuclear Pacific
This dissertation is a sociolegal history of American nuclear weapons testing and contamination in the Marshall Islands. It uses weapons testing as a window into changing patterns of America’s offshore imperialism following World War II. Tracing the legal aspects of testing and contamination, it …
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The Compressed Modernity of Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan: Digital Activism, Human Rights Discourse, and Intertwined Sexual, Political and National Identities
… group organized in 1990. Compared to Euro-American social movements, Taiwanese <em>tongzhi</em> activism has experienced a “compressed modernity” (Chang, 1999, 2010a, 2010b), which accelerates cultural and social transformations. Although Taiwanese academia has been significantly influenced …
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Visions of Possibilities: (De)Constructing Imperial Narratives in Star Trek: Voyager
… are infused with ongoing ideologies of Euro-American imperialism that prioritizes Western bodies and ways of engaging with living and nonliving beings. This restriction severely hinders possible responses to the present environmental crisis of the era often called the 'Anthropocene' through …
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