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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"American political institutions."”.
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Disaster, Technology, and the Military: The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, and the Impact of the Environment on Cultural Perceptions of the Military
… this trend certainly continued and mirrored political developments that had already been occurring prior to WWI, the public shift in perceptions caused by this military disaster response provided the impetus for a more conservative turn and a decline of the democracy movement over the next …
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From Pittsburgh to Pressburg : the transatlantic Slovak national movement, 1880-1920
… transformed from a fringe idea into a serious political goal. The resulting Slovak national movement helped create the First Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938), a state whose mostly Czech leaders pledged to support Slovak national rights. The multilingual region known as 'Upper Hungary' from …
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Modernism's Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900--1945
… Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900-1945"" credits modern fiction as a principle architect of twentieth-century American abortion politics. Drawing together a wide range of abortion plots from canonical, avant-garde and popular early twentieth-century texts, …
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Institutionalizing class conflict : Gouverneur Morris on mediating class warfare through separation of powers.
… of the Constitution, was driven by a uniquely American political theory, which brought together aspects of the class-based mixed regime with strict separation of powers, but is not reducible to either of those doctrines. Morris thought that class warfare was an inevitable feature of politics, …
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Silent Refuge? A Critical Democratic Exploration of Voice and Authorship among Resettled Iraqis in the United States
… theoretical exploration of the possibilities for political agency for resettled Iraqis in the United States. Grounded in literature suggesting those displaced commonly experience constrained agency framed as "silence/ing" and/or "voicelessness," I identify three requirements to democratic …