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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"British Empire"”.
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Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century British Empire
… operation and significance of elections in the British colonies of Jamaica, New South Wales and the Cape, from 1849-1860, with a particular focus on the creation and reconstruction of ideas of politically-entitled British subjecthood over this period. Beginning with the first elections under a …
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Shugborough Hall, the Ansons and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
… making it one of the most valuable prizes in British naval history. The Commodore and his older brother, Thomas Anson (1695-1773), subsequently used this prize money to renovate Shugborough, turning it from a modest brick house into a Neo-Classical mansion, complete with Grecian and Chinese …
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Contesting Whiteness: Race, Nationalism and British Empire Exhibitions Between the Wars
This study examines how various actors used the British Empire exhibitions of the interwar period to contest the privileges of whiteness found throughout the empire, demonstrating that imperial race relations were profoundly situational, even when focused on the maintenance of privilege. It …
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In Ruin Unreconciled: Women Writers and the End of the British Empire
… reflect on the wider historical condition o f British imperial contraction and late colonial settler crisis. The women writers in question are from Ireland, India and southern Africa, and thus their works deal with some o f the key sites o f British imperial crisis and collapse in the last …
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Selling the British Empire Exhibition 1924 Through Mass Media and Material Culture
The British Empire Exhibition of 1924/25 was intended to bring together the many nations that made up the British Empire, to improve trade and to better understand other nations after the turmoil of the First World War. The end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century saw …
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Staging an Empire: How Late Victorian Theatre Represents Public Perceptions of the British Empire
ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: STAGING AN EMPIRE: HOW LATE VICTORIAN THEATRE REPRESENTS PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Nicholas Appleton, Master of Arts, 2019 Thesis Directed By: Mircea Raianu PhD, Assistant Professor of History This thesis denotes the changing perception of the British empire …
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The herds shot round the world : native breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
… of Great Britain's expanding agro-pastoral empire. Specifically, it examines how the distribution and circulation of breeds of livestock native to the British Isles influenced understandings of kind and location-of the dynamic interaction between heredity, human influence and environmental …
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The British Empire and the Early Cold War: A Comparison of Hong Kong and Cyprus
… ground. It does so by identifying and comparing British policies in two geostrategic colonies, Hong Kong (1938‐1952) and Cyprus (1941‐1955), where there operated two of what policymakers considered to be the British Empire’s most critical communist threats: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and …
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Confronting the challenge of socialism: the British Empire Union and the National Citizens’ Union 1917-1927
… received little attention from historians: the British Empire Union (BEU) and the National Citizens’ Union (NCU). It assesses the ideology, activity and impact of these bodies between 1917 and 1927. Difficulties arise in this task due to the absence in the archives of substantial amounts of …
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Opium, the British Empire and the beginnings of an international drugs control regime, ca. 1890-1910
This thesis will examine British attitudes and agendas during the build-up, proceedings and aftermath of the Shanghai Opium Commission (1909) which marked the first step towards the establishment of an international drugs control regime. The research is presented chronologically and draws on a wide …
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Butlers of the Mohawk Valley: Family Traditions and the Establishment of British Empire in Colonial New York
… human experience. The Butlers were part of those British imperial currents that washed over mid Atlantic America for the better part of the eighteenth century. In particular their experience reinforces those studies that recognize the impact that the Anglo-Irish experience had on the British …
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Imperial wards: South Asian women doctors and the networking of medical institutions in the late-Victorian British Empire
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Habeas Corpus, the Rule of Law and the Second British Empire: A Case Study of Colonial New South Wales
… touted as one of the most prized gifts of the British Empire to be bestowed on colonial subjects. And yet a growing number of studies have started to expose the contingency of the law’s protective force for colonial inhabitants, and the numerous ways in which the law’s protective value could be …
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Empire and Emergency: Reverberations of the British Empire in the Authorisation of Internment under the Defence of the Realm Acts
… of State to intern individuals, including British subjects, he deemed to be “of hostile origin or association” for the purpose of “securing public safety or the defence of the Realm”. The Defence of the Realm Acts, the primary legislation enacted for British home security during the war, …
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Change and Transition in a Professional Scots Family 1650-1900
… Fife to professionals in Scotland and the British Empire. Whilst the necessary generalisations around much of the writing of Scottish history usually refer to the particular as a source of illustration, the methodology of this study reversed that focus and linked the family experience to …
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Imperial Intentions and Independent Interests: The Ohio Company of Virginia and its Agents, Thomas Cresap and Christopher Gist, 1748--1752
… of Virginia in 1748, in an attempt to expand the British Empire's claim in the Ohio River Valley by enlarging the colony of Virginia. This thesis analyses these two agents of empire and their trade and diplomacy with the Indians of the Ohio Valley, as well as their mapping and surveying. This …
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