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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Australia and Oceania"”.
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A New Framework of Enterprise Unionism: A Comparative Study of Nine Asian Countries
… enterprise union system in Japan (>90%), Thailand (90%), and Malaysia (80%), where the state has consistently implemented an enterprise union system; and a dominant, but unstable enterprise union system in Korea (90%) and the Philippines (71%), where the state has implemented an enterprise …
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"Mahatma Gandhi's ""Constructive Programme"": Building a New India"
… a largely ignored but vital aspect of Mahatma Gandhi's public career---his constructive program. He coined this term after he returned to India for good, using it to refer to a range of programs and practices whereby he hoped to radically reorient Indians physically, psychologically, socially, …
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"The Cartography of Epistemology: The Production of ""National"" Space in Late 19th Century Japan"
Through careful reading of Shiga's Landscape, this dissertation demonstrates the complex processes of creating a tradition of topographic writings. On the one hand, Shiga's text embodies scientific discourses to explain the beauty of Japanese landscape. At the same time, he makes a link to a …
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Space, History and Mobility: A Historical Inquiry of Seoul as a Mobile City From 1970 to 2000
… of space, communication technologies, and society by focusing on the recent modern urban history of Seoul from 1970 to 2000. In this dissertation, I attempt to understand the history of Seoul as it has experienced movement and stasis. The concept of mobility organizes this dissertation. …
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After the Demolition: Constructing the Communal Riots of 1992--1993 in the Indian Media
"The demolition can be seen as a moment of weakening, but not rupture, of the liberal-secular consensus in the nation. The continuing strength of the hegemony built around secularism has forced even those on the Hindu right to position themselves as the ""true"" secularists in order to retain …
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A History of the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, 1973--2005
… with the orchestra's many levels of development and the various growing pains it has experienced on the way to achieving professional status. Of particular concern are the financial struggles the orchestra faced during the difficult economic situation in Japan in the 1990s and the steady …
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Missionary Identities and Identifications: U.S. Presbyterians in Korea, 1884--1934
… encounter between U.S. Presbyterian missionaries and Koreans. I focus my approach in terms of the specificity of, and the variation within, this encounter, in order to determine its impact on missionary identities and identifications, and to elucidate the processes and negotiations of culture and …
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"""Proving Chamorro"": Indigenous Narratives of Race, Identity, and Decolonization on Guam"
… movements on Guam, who is and who is not ""Chamorro"" is the source of consternation and debate among Chamorros, and between Chamorros and the colonizer, the United States. The concept of ""who is Chamorro"" is infused with a complex racial tapestry; one woven through three …
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The Body Politic: Imperial Masculinity, the Great War, and the Struggle for the Indian Self, 1914--1918
… The battle, carried out via the metropolitan and Indian presses, hinged upon the question of Indian masculinity. This tenet arguably served as the chief conceptual guarantor of continued British mastery over the subcontinent, undergirding not only its monopoly on higher-level positions in the …
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Wedding Women to Tradition: The Politics of Marriage in the Indian Diaspora, 1947--2002
… contends that marriage is crucial for understanding migration in the post-war era when family reunification became the cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy. In particular, the migration experience of Indian women was profoundly mediated by marriage and the family, as the majority migrated to …
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On the Margins of the Grand Unity: Empire, Violence, and Ethnicity in the Virtue Ethics and Political Practice of Wang Yangming (1472--1529)
… philosophy---his learning of the mind-heart---and his political career (practice) have generally been framed in the larger context of a reading of Neo-Confucianism as a whole. Condemnatory interpretations of Neo-Confucian philosophy yield an agent of feudal ethics and autocratic despotism …
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Creating a Russian Colonial Community: City, Nation, and Empire in Tashkent, 1865--1923
… Even as they asserted their links to Europe and Russia, settlers consistently resisted central dictates. Colonial residents across the social scale argued that their special role as emissaries of European civilization had engendered a unique society and culture in the city. Settler autonomy …
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National Integration: The State in Search of Community
… out the intellectual context---Euro-American and South Asian---of the problem. Chapter 2 is a discussion of the political issues involved in writing and teaching history with a view to integrating the people in a state. Chapter 3 reconstructs the histories of the three communities studied on …
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External Influences and Regime Transition: Five Transitions in Twentieth Century China and Taiwan
… in a domestic political system, broad and specific. Broad vulnerability, or the general degree to which the domestic status quo can be insulated from the external world, may in theory substantially modulate external impacts. However, this study finds it to be far less salient than any …
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The Shanghai Capitalist Class and The Nationalist Government, 1927-1937
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606727.pdf: 16666580 bytes, checksum: 645051977b11aeb97789aff14cee9be0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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A Place in the Sun: The Foreign Ministry and Perceptions and Policies in Japan's International Relations, 1931-1941
… study examines the institutional, educational, and career backgrounds of Foreign Ministry officials, and evaluates the role that they played in Japan's foreign relations between 1931 and 1941. The Foreign Ministry, though a civilian institution, occupied one of the most influential positi
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Japanese imperialism and the Indian Nationalist Movement: A study of the political and psychological impact of possible invasion and actual occupation, 1939-1945
This dissertation is a study of the political and psychological impact of Japanese Imperialism on the Indian Nationalist Movement between 1939 and 1945. It assesses the Indian response to both the possibility of an invasion by Japan and to the stark reality of an actual occupation by her. While …
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An analytical study on the formation of the rural communes in China, 1958
Abstract not available.
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