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Modernizing Conquest
My research leads me to the conclusion the international human rights system's separation of the “indigenous problem” from the “colonial problem” is important. It is important to the way in we understand indigenous rights today, and it is important in terms of the ways in which we understand this …
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Behind closed doors: Men's conquest sex talk
This dissertation is an analysis of young men's sex talk. In order to collect data for this study methodological triangulation was employed. In all, 39 interviews were conducted and transcribed concerning how men talk about sex. Notes from seven workshops concerning men's sex talk, in which 118 men …
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Artificial Intelligence for a Castle Conquest Simulation Game
Umělá inteligence představuje široce zkoumaný obor, který významně přispívá k vý- voji nových technologií. Existuje mnoho různých přístupů k implementaci umělé inteli- gence a hry mohou sloužit jako prostředí užitečné pro jejich testování. Tato práce má za cíl vytvořit jednoduchou strategickou hru …
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The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction
<p>William Faulkner is famous for stating he agrees with Henri Bergson's optimistic philosophy of time, a philosophy that emphasizes human freedom and action precisely as they relate to time. However, many of Faulkner's characters are defined by their stagnant and lethargic personalities which …
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Mexican arts and crafts since the conquest of Cortes
<p>Everyone interested in visiting Mexico should familiarize himself with its arts and crafts, for it has been truly said that "art is the expression of life,"<sup>1</sup> and the whole Mexican civilization is inextricably interwoven with its arts.</p>It is the purpose of this thesis, not to …
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Conquest and change : Mongol herding in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia
I examine changing herding practices in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, contrasting the perspectives of herders with those of local officials and scientists. I also carried out comparative fieldwork in a similar steppe environment in Mongolia. I present a model for research which involves exploring …
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Does conquest pay? : the exploitation of occupied industrial economics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1992.
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The historicity of the chroniclers on the conquest of Mexico.
… of those chroniclers pertaining to the Conquest of Mexico. Few of us forget that Cortés was the conqueror of Mexico City, but fewer of us remember that for nearly two decades after the fall of the Aztec capital he was the outstanding figure in a series of brilliant movements which added …
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The Function of Writs in England before the Norman Conquest
… court culture. Chapter One introduces the pre-Conquest writ corpus, providing a definition of this diplomatic typology alongside a historiographical overview and methodological outline. Chapter Two moves on to deal with the transmission and preservation of Anglo-Saxon writs, analyzing aspects …
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Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing
… within Mexico reflect colonial anxieties about conquest and domestic policy. American travel writers' encounters with domestic violence in Mexico reflect the anxieties surrounding American entitlement to Mexico and the bodies of the people living there. The fourth chapter observes limitations on …
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Impact of the Arab conquest on late Roman settlement in Egypt
The Arab conquest of Egypt in 642 AD affected the development of Egyptian towns in various ways. The actual military struggle, the subsequent settling of Arab tribes and changes in administration are discussed in chapter 1, with reference to specific sites and using local archaeological sequences. …
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To undo the conquest: nationalism, socialism and the Irish Revolution, 1910-1936
This study investigates the forces and structures that produced and shaped the Irish Revolution and the subsequent modern Irish state. The project essentially asks: what accounts for limited socioeconomic change during and after the Irish Revolution? It argues that nineteenth-century Ireland …
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The formation of a colonial society : Belize, from conquest to Crown Colony
The purpose of the thesis is to examine the socioeconomic development of the British Settlement at Belize in its formative period from the seventeenth century to the establishment of Crown Colony rule in 1871. The connections between the political economy and the social structure of the Settlement …
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The Heroics of Conquest: Hernán Cortés in the Early Modern Hispanic Epic
This thesis explores the representation of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in four epic poems spanning the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, investigating how the politico-historical conditions of early modern Spain and Mexico gave rise to varying concepts of heroism. Through an …
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"The conceit of this inconstant stay": Shakespeare's Philosophical Conquest of Time Through Personification
<p>Throughout the procreation sonnets and those numerous sonnets that promise immortality through verse for Shakespeare's beloved young man, the poet personifies time as an agent of relentlessly destructive change. Yet Shakespeare's approach to the personification of time, as well as his reactions …
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Dryden and the Solution to Domination: Bonds of Love In the Conquest of Granada
… overlooked as a serious work, John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada is frequently touted as a play of absurd bombast. However, in this work I will demonstrate how it is a play that Dryden did not take lightly, and can be interpreted as a piece of social theory. As such, the play responds to …
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Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest
The contact of two different cultures in the colonization process produces a zone of cultural mingling that resembles Victor Turner's concept of "liminality" referring to states or persons that elude classification. This study considers the repercussions of colonization on the lives of women …
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