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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Annexation"”.
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A luscious fruit: America's annexation of Hawaii
This dissertation argues that the annexation of Hawaii was not the result of an aggressive move by the United States to gain coaling stations or foreign markets, nor was it a means of preempting other foreign nations from acquiring the island or mending a psychic wound in the United States. Rather, …
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The Consequences of Annexation on Financial Markets
… study will be to understand the consequences of annexation through a lens that is political and financial. The scope of research will include the three prominent cases of annexation by major powers over the past twenty years. This lends itself to three case studies: Crimea, Kashmir and Hong Kong. …
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The political geography of annexation--Roanoke, Virginia
… factors in Roanoke, Virginia's historic use of annexation. Particular attention was paid to the 1943, 1949, and 1962 annexation suits because they occurred during the period of increasing county opposition to annexation. An historical and political geographic methodology, which focused on …
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An economic analysis of the 1971 Roanoke, Virginia annexation case
… presented in the Ivan R. Young vs. City of Salem annexation hearing which began on 19 April 1971 is analyzed on the basis of economic criteria. The hearing was for a consolidated case consisting of five separate annexation cases in Roanoke County, Virginia. Two cases involved areas which had …
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Nationalism, Soft Annexation and Hybrid Warfare: Putin's Recipe for Russian Resurgence
… the implementation of nationalist driven soft annexation and hybrid warfare tactics meant to destabilize Eastern Europe and limit Western encroachment. All of this, I argue, is done to re-create a geopolitical buffer zone against Western incursion both in a physical and ideological sense- …
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The Feasibility of Annexation: A Cost-Revenue Approach for Bowling Green, Kentucky
… to deal with the problems of urban sprawl is the annexation of such areas by the central city. Before annexation can become a reality, its feasibility from a cost-revenue approach must be assessed. This was accomplished by dividing the urban fringe of Bowling Green, Kentucky, into nine study areas …
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Views of Annexation of the North West Territories and Rupert's Land to Canada
It will be our endeavour to show that the acquisition of Rupert's Land and the North-West by the Dominion of Canada was not a fortunate after-thought of Confederation, but that there were men who recognized the value of opening the west for settlement while Confederation itself was still only a …
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Texas Annexation and the Presidential Election of 1844 in the Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Newspaper
This thesis examines the issue of Texas annexation from the viewpoints of two southern cities: Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. It looks primarily at four major newspapers, two in each city: the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Whig; and the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the New …
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A Case Study on the Annexation of the North Forest Independent School District by the Houston Independent School District
… operate. Studies on the consolidation and annexation of failing school districts are minimal to nonexistent. This study seeks to add to the lack of literature, and inform educational leaders on the process and lessons learned by the largest district in Texas’ annexation of a smaller …
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The Slaveholders, the Mexican Liberals, and the Texan Revolution
… revolt of Texas from Mexico and its subsequent annexation to the United States produced a conflict of opinion. Anti-slaveryites of all degrees united against acceptance of the new republic either in the family of nations or within the United States, The annexation of Texas was one of the …
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The Direct and Indirect Contributions of Western Missionaries to Korean Nationalism during the Late Choson and Early Japanese Annexation Periods 1884-1920.
<p>This thesis sets out to demonstrate the role of Western missionaries and Korean Christians, especially Protestants, on Korean nationalism. The first significant introduction of Protestantism into Korea came in 1884. Within just over thirty years, the Protestant Church in Korea expanded and many …
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A Republican Vision: The Politics of John Tyler
… realm and worked to secure the long postponed annexation of Texas. Achieved in the waning days of his administration, annexation reaffirmed the republican and Jeffersonian vision of preserving the agrarian idyll by expanding into space.
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Η ΠΡΟΣΑΡΤΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΑΣ. Η ΠΡΩΤΗ ΦΑΣΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΝΣΩΜΑΤΩΣΗ ΜΙΑΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΑΡΧΙΑΣ ΣΤΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΚΡΑΤΟΣ (1881-1885)
THE ANNEXATION OF THESSALY AND THE DISTRICT OF ARTA WAS PEACEFULLY REALIZED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARTICLES OF THE TREATY OF CONSTANTINOPLE (MAY 12, 1881). THIS WORK EXAMINES THE PROCEDURES LEADING TO THE INCORPORATION OF THE REGION INTOTHE GREEK STATE REGARDING THE EXECUTION OF THE ARTICLES OF THE …
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Territoriality, Sovereignty and the Nation-state System in Israel-Palestine: The Creation of the Palestinian Bantustan “state” and Shifting Palestinian Resistance Tactics
… in the West Bank attempt to maximize Israeli annexation of the oPt while creating a Palestinian Bantustan “state” to contain and isolate the Palestinian people in non-sovereign territorial enclaves through the use of territoriality as a strategy for exercising sovereignty. In response to this …
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Ideas of Crimea : Crimea in the modern Russian political and cultural imagination
… of national myths help to justify the annexation of Crimea in 2014? Political mythmaking is a process of instrumentalising power narratives that form a bond between the past and the present, reimagining history through elite lenses for their political survival. Myths function as …
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Architecture and development as instruments for political control and marginalization in Lucknow, India
… and development played a crucial role in annexation of Lucknow by the British in 1856, (2) Orientalist architectural criticism was an instrument to justify the annexation of the city and the deposition of its rulers, (3) the British government used urban intervention and massive urban …
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Smuts and the politics of colonial expansion : South African strategy in regard to South-West Africa [Namibia] and the League of Nations Mandate, c.1914-1924
… of South West Africa in 1915, the fight for annexation of the territory in 1918-1919, and his subsequent shaping of the Mandate as Prime Minister of the Union until 1924. In addition it is an investigation of Smuts's motivations during this period. Three significant conclusions emerge from …
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