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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Colonial Encounters"”.
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Women, Nature and Labor on Long Island: A Gendered-Environmental Perspective to Colonial Encounters
… a dimension missing from the historiography of colonial America—that is, the intersection of gender and the environment. It reveals that the labor of Long Island’s women, both Indigenous and European, was instrumental to their communities, specifically because of their relationship to the …
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Beyond the Missions: Ethnogenesis in Colonial Paraguay, 1556-1700
… what Spaniards could and could not do in colonial Paraguay. Beyond the Missions,' refers to colonial encounters outside the oft-romanticized Jesuit missions, especially within the provincial capital of Asunción. This research, therefore, complements the scholarship on the Jesuit missions …
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Jewish past and colonial Shanghai: trade, treaty-port, and transitive modernity
This dissertation explores the transnational and colonial encounters of Sephardic Jews and Chinese in treaty-port Shanghai by examining 1) the Jewish networks of capital, goods, and market; 2) Jewish elites and their political activism; 3) transnational legal and political status of Sephardic …
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The Malayan Dilemma: Race, Power and State Formation in Malaya
… dating back to the British and Japanese colonial eras. This study departs from prior studies that have not systematically scrutinised race as a dynamic and historically contingent social category. Instead, by adapting the concepts of racial formation and using a historical institutional …
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Dress as metaphor in diasporic fiction
… its diasporic communities, in the aftermath of colonialism and in the contemporary context of transnationalism. Writers examined span the colonial period to the twenty-first century and are drawn from a broad geographical range; their texts inform an understanding of dressing patterns as …
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Bildung beyond the borders: racial ambiguity and subjectivity in three post-apartheid bildungsromane
… mother city—whose violent, racist histories of colonial encounters, slavery and apartheid have led to a strong social sense of racial group belonging and racial exclusion. It is between and among these strictly policed racial groups that these novels’ protagonists seek belonging and a place in …
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An Empire of Possibilities: Education in Fascist Italy’s African Colonies, 1922-1943
… at school, addressing education as a window into colonial encounters in Eritrea, Somalia, Tripolitania, Cyrenaica, and Ethiopia, fascism’s political projects, and the intertwined processes of nation- and empire-state building in interwar Europe. Building on global history methods, it conceives of …
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Missions and social identities in the Lower Orange River Basin, 1760-1998
… the formation of social identities. Setting the colonial and post-colonial encounters in Gramsci's notion of hegemony as involving asymmetrical class relations and cultural imperialism, I argue that the ongoing role of the universalist Christian churches in shaping patterns of identity has to be …
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Adrift at home: National belonging and narrative form in the rooms of twentieth-century British fiction
… symbolic, and the house as a space unsettled by colonial encounters, war, and immigration. Political upheaval is not merely experienced in but enacted through domestic space, where the room becomes a site of national conflict and occasionally the source of military, imperial, or political power. …
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Seeking the other shore : myth and history in the films of Terrence Malick
… but also as expanding those themes to include colonial encounters with strangeness which underpin the emergence of America as a modem cultural and political entity. Chapter One sets out the historical and mythic terrain upon which all of Malick's films are built, particularly America's …