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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"British policies"”.
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Secession Diplomacy: A Study of Thomas Butler King, Commissioner of Georgia to Europe, 1861
… published by King and their effect on French and British policies. The work will further investigate the direct trade movement of the 1850s and its effect on the southern diplomatic effort.
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An Unlikely Champion: Congressman Mario Biaggi and the Beginnings of a Negotiated Settlement in Northern Ireland
… took these comments as an opening to challenge British policies in Northern Ireland. To aid this effort Biaggi in 1977 formed the Ad Hoc Congressional Committee for Irish Affairs, focusing on human rights in Northern Ireland. Their efforts ran up agains long-established U.S./British diplomatic …
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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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Justifying Revolution: The American Clergy's Argument for Political Resistance, 1763-1783
… clergymen who justified political resistance to British authorities from 1763 to 1783 did so in continuity with previous justifications of political resistance found within Reformed Protestantism. Clergymen such as Jonathan Mayhew who justified a right of resistance in the eighteenth century did …
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John Stuart Mill on representative government
… to politics, which leads to an examination of British policies in regard to representation, the Reform Movement, British party politics, the weighted franchise and women's suffrage. Special attention is given to the impact of Hare's proposals of personal representation on Mill's thought. The …
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The Anglo-Dutch Imperial Meridian in the Indian Ocean World, 1795-1820
What happened when the Dutch and British empires overlapped across the Indian Ocean in the late eighteenth century? Histories of these empires generally focus on their early modern rivalry through patterns of war and trade that subsided after Britain’s invasion of Dutch colonies during the French …
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The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844
… and progress. Dubbed the Great Experiment, British abolition held the possibility of demonstrating free labor more profitable than slavery. Besides elating the world’s abolitionists, always hopeful of equating material with moral progress, the experiment’s success would benefit Britain …