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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"British Government"”.
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Special advisers: Their place in British government
… attempts to establish whether their place in the British system of government has become institutionalized. Interviews with 160 advisers, ministers and former officials, a questionnaire completed by advisers, and relevant contemporary literature, provided the principal data. The literature, with …
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The Attitude of the British Government Toward Colonial Currency 1751-1775
… were legislated for the American colonies by the British Parliament. The Act of 1751 prohibited in the New England colonies the further issuance of paper bills of credit having a legal tender quality. The Act of 1764 extended the prohibition to all the colonies. As a result of the artificial …
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Red scare Britain: anti-communism in British government and politics during the early Cold War, 1945-56
This thesis examines governmental and political anti-communism in Britain during the early Cold War. It seeks to understand how domestic anti-communism exhibited itself in different facets of the British nation including state policies, political rhetoric, party politics, and the trade union …
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From British Nationality to Political Resistance: BN(O) Status and the Vision for a Hong Kong Crown Dependency
On June 30, 2020, the Chinese government imposed the National Security Law in Hong Kong following prolonged protests. The Chinese imposition violated the agreements on freedoms and autonomy stated in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration. To redress this violation, the British government has …
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The Biopolitics of Famine: British Means of Colonial Control
… class that acts as an indirect agent of the British government by mirroring their state-level actions against the colonized at a community level. To exert their power, the comprador class utilizes biopolitics, wielding the power of food and shelter over their fellow countrymen in a strikingly …
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Negotiating National Identity: A Study of Nationalist Rhetoric during the British Voluntary Recruiting Movement, 1914-1916
… weeks of the outbreak of World War I, the British Army faced a critical demand for more soldiers to replenish its casualties and to compete with the mass conscript armies of the Central Powers. Hesitant to break from its tradition of non-conscription, the British government relied on a …
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Nearly the new world: refugees and the British west Indies, 1933-1945
… subject from the different perspectives of the British Government, West Indian colonies, refugee organisations and refugees themselves. It is divided into three parts, the first examining local, national and international concerns of the British Government towards its colonies in the Caribbean. …
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Blame avoidance in government communication
Governments’ policies and actions often precipitate public blame firestorms and mediated scandals targeted at individual or collective policy makers. In the face of losing credibility and resources, officeholders are tempted to apply strategies of blame avoidance which permeate administrative …
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County Cork: the experience of members of the establishment whose houses were burned in the IRA arson campaign, 1920-23
… military reasons, loyalty of house owners to the British government and agrarianism. The geographical distribution of these burnings is also provided to reveal how active individual IRA brigades were that operated within the county. Though there were few areas of the county left unaffected by the …
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The Impact of The Wyndham Land Act 1903 on County Galway
This thesis examines, how a conservative British government introduced a scheme of land purchase in Ireland in i903, which effectively abolished the landlord system on the island. The work is focused on how this affected one region, County Galway, during the period 1903-21. Divided into five parts, …
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The participation of the Zulus in the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
… settlers in Natal. the Governmell~ of Natal, the British Government and the Government of the S.A. Republic or those subjects of the Transvaal and Natal who becarne involved in the internal faction struggles in Zululand. The matter will only become intelligible by explaining the complexity of …
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John Buchan (1875-1940) and the First World War: A Scot's Career in Imperial Britain
… (1875-1940) who, through the avenue of the British Empire, formed political alliances that enabled him to enter into the power circles of the British government. Buchan's involvement in governmental service is illustrative of the political and financial advantages Scots sought in Imperial …
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The Organisational Work of Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair. (1857-1939)
… in many different capacities on behalf of the British government, including the post of Viceroyalty to Canada which they held from 1893-97.
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Architecture and development as instruments for political control and marginalization in Lucknow, India
… and ideological tools, in the process of British colonial formation in Lucknow, from 1765 to 1858. Results show: (1) Architecture 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 …
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Fleet Street's dilemma : the British press and the Soviet Union, 1933-1941
British press opinion concerning the Soviet Union in the 1930s contributes to an understanding of the failed cooperation, prior to 1941, between the British and Soviet Governments. During the trial of six British engineers in Moscow in 1933, the conservative press jingoistically responded by …
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