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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Class conflict"”.
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These People are Not Your People: Class Conflict and Ideology in Faulkner's Sanctuary
… William Faulkner's assessment, the mixing of the classes fails because very different ideologies have emerged and are in competition and conflict with one another. The discourses and therefore the ideologies of the characters in Sanctuary are seen to be in conflict with one another, with persons …
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Institutionalizing class conflict : Gouverneur Morris on mediating class warfare through separation of powers.
… theory, which brought together aspects of the class-based mixed regime with strict separation of powers, but is not reducible to either of those doctrines. Morris thought that class warfare was an inevitable feature of politics, but that separation of powers provided the proper institutional …
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Between God and Mammon : politics, class conflict, and the southern Irish state, 1922-45
Although it is well understood that working-class politics and the political Left have been marginal forces in Irish political life, the question "Why?" has been underexamined, often attributed to the Labour Party's refusal to contest the 1918 parliamentary elections. This dissertation analyses the …
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Revolution, Reform, and Class Conflict in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron-Mills
… not accurately depict contemporaneous working-class culture. Davis depicts workers as isolated and helpless in the face of the forces that oppress them rather than giving voice to the workers’ movement of her time. Although Davis depicts workers in a debased state, the text’s narrator holds out …
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When Cultures Collide: How Primitive Masculinity and Class Conflict Derailed the Patrick J. Hurley Diplomatic Mission to China, 1944-1945
… his cultural understandings of gender and class. Working-class men in the United States from the early-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century often fostered an aggressive model of manhood that opposed the Victorian values of the middle and upper classes. Instead of valuing restraint and …
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Articulating class : language and conflict in English literature from Gaskell to Tressell
… the 1830s and 1914 and which have the working class as their central focus, the thesis examines various ways in which class conflict inheres within the textual language, particularly as far as the representation of working-class speech is concerned. The study is made largely within V. N. …
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The Younger Generation in Brecht's Dramatic Work
… it has not been sufficiently noticed that major conflicts in Brecht's dramatic work, commonly identified as class conflict, develop along generational lines. It is the purpose of this study to trace such generational constellations through several stages of Brecht's creative development, and to …
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The sociology of recurrent ceremonial drama: Lewes Guy Fawkes Night, 1800-1913
… a consequence, it is argued, the development of class conflict and class consciousness did not occur. Rather, expressions of 'popular conservatism' and community orientation remained the dominant modes of expression throughout the latter half of the century. Empirical evidence both supports this …
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Land Owners and Law Givers: Relations Between Yeomen and Planters in the South Carolina Back Country during the Early Republic, 1790-1830
… in the 1860s was slowly created through years of class conflict and cooperation between planters and yeoman farmers. The South Carolina backcountry developed during the decades of the Early Republic, reacting to the formative events of the nation during that time, such as the Second Great …
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An Archaeological Model of the Construction of Monks Mound and Implications for the Development of the Cahokian Society (800 - 1400 A.D.)
… may have precluded the development of class conflict and, at the same time, permitted the development of large-scale societies. The analysis of monumental construction focuses primarily on the construction of Monks Mound. Through a combination of stratigraphic and chronometric data, the …
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Memories of War: Race, Class, and the Production of Post Caste War Maya Identity in East Central Quintana Roo
… more attention paid to the Maya version of the conflict."" By highlighting their own often-silenced views of history in relation to the Caste War of Yucatan, and by looking at the way in which memory works to maintain a complex local, national and transnational identification, this dissertation …
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War and Unemployment in an Industrial Community: Barrow-in-Furness 1914-1926
… but focussing closely on methods of working class self-sufficiency. The thesis will conclude by addressing three important questions which emerge from this study. Firstly, drawing the various themes together, the thesis will analyse the impact of war and depression on social perceptions and …
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The active chorus : the mass strike of 1917 in eastern Australia
… the Great Strike of 1917, arguably the biggest class conflict in Australian history. For over two months up to 100,000 workers confronted an enraged and belligerent combination of conservative state and federal governments, employers, the establishment press and a middle class which was …
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Communists vs. Conservatives and the Struggle for the Hungarian Soul in Canada, 1940-1989
… nationalist conservatives. Both sides in this conflict struggled for ownership of Hungarian national symbols and the right to be seen as the “true” guardians of Hungarian identity in Canada. While religious differences between Roman Catholic and Calvinist Hungarian immigrants served as a …
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Class and community in an Egyptian textile town
… conditions underlying the development of class relations in an Egyptian industrial town, al-Mehalla al-Kubra. The research was directed at understanding social and economic relations among groups in the textile industry in al-Mehalla in terms of the reality which exists there, without a …
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Who makes the game? Examining private ownership in professional sports
… became the norm as the result of social class conflict in the mid-nineteenth century, and the efforts of upper-class sport participants to exclude the working class from the playing field. A decades-long effort to first prevent, and later control, working class sport participation …
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Beyond Allegory: Postcolonial Debates in Science Fiction
… literature and the pertinent analysis of binary class struggles in First World literature, typified by Fredric Jameson’s 1986 essay “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” have long been canonized in literary studies. The undertaking of a postcolonial debate on literary …
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"Liberal democracy as a Kuhnian paradigm : applying a model confronted by irreconcilable accumulated anomaly as a normative prescription for the organisation of global society"
… socialist theorists who retain the concept of class conflict, can offer a potential new paradigm that can solve the problems that have plagued all previous models up to and including liberal democracy.
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'Toast and Torpedoes': World War Two Naval Warfare on Film 1939-1960
… what the films reveal of attitudes about social class, gender roles, and 'the enemy'; and how this has been modified since 1945. It considers changes in representation between wartime and post-war films by analysing a selection of films using an empirical and historical methodology developed by …
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The Making Of The Corporate Agri-Food System In Egypt
… of smallholder agriculture, growing class conflict, desert ecosystem damage, public health crises (namely, an overweight/obesity epidemic and Avian flu pandemic), and the capitalization of agriculture and food systems of neighboring countries. The dissertation examines specifically …
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