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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Colonial Expansion"”.
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Smuts and the politics of colonial expansion : South African strategy in regard to South-West Africa [Namibia] and the League of Nations Mandate, c.1914-1924
'Smuts and ,the Politics of Colonial Expansion: South African Strategy in Regard to South-West Africa [Namibia] and the League of Nations Mandate: c.1914-1924' is an analysis of Jan Smuts's central role in the Union's conquest of South West Africa in 1915, the fight for annexation of the territory …
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A critical investigation of the opposition of the Rifi confederation led by Muhammed bin 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi to Spanish colonial expansion in northern Morocco, 1920-1925, and its political and social background
… the summer of 1921, a success which led to the' expansion of the coalition and, in 1923, to the announcement of an independent state in the Rif under the leadership of bin 'Abd al-Karim. This state was able to defeat another Spanish army in 1924 and, in 1925, to inflict a series of defeats upon …
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Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
… and temporality in the constitution of the colonial-capitalist world system from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. World systems and postcolonial approaches to colonial expansion have often reduced questions of theology to a discursive feature of producing difference through …
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Territoriality, Sovereignty and the Nation-state System in Israel-Palestine: The Creation of the Palestinian Bantustan “state” and Shifting Palestinian Resistance Tactics
… It is within this framework that Israeli colonial expansion and construction of the separation barrier in the West Bank attempt to maximize Israeli annexation of the oPt while creating a Palestinian Bantustan “state” to contain and isolate the Palestinian people in non-sovereign …
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Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668
… attempts to address is: what role did the expansion of English colonial trades play in the transformation of English society and government between the Petition of Right and the early years of the Restoration (1628-1668)? My thesis is that during this period, colonial expansion rose to the …
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IMMORTALIZING THE SPIRIT OF THE COLONIZER
"European colonial expansion has institutionalized and simultaneously normalized, at the global level, the supremacy of a class, of an ethno-racial group, of a particular type of state organization, spirituality, an epistemology, a particular kind of institutionalization, a production of knowledge, …
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The Duchy of Courland’s Colonial Networks and Encounters from the Baltic to the Atlantic: 1638-1698
… of the Baltic Sea, was an unlikely candidate for colonial expansion. Yet, in the mid- to late seventeenth century, the ambitions of the dukes, in particular Duke Jakob Kettler (reigned 1642-1682), provided it with a brief colonial presence in Tobago and The Gambia. The Duchy is an extreme example …
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White talk : white South Africans and the strategic management of diasporic whiteness
… racial dispersal of Europe formed as a result of colonial expansion, it argues that since democracy, which has placed white South Africans in a weak position to the immediate centres of state power, white South Africans are constructing typically diasporic dimensions to the way in which they …
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Japan's Asia-Pacific Migrations and the Making of the Japanese Empire, 1868-1945
… migration influenced and transformed Japan's colonial expansion in Asia. Second, the study examines how the Japanese diasporic communities on both sides of the Pacific shaped the Japanese nation and empire at home. Third, from a more theoretical level, it explores the dual identity of Japanese …
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The New Westward Expansion: Settler Colonialism and Gentrification in Paula Fox’s <em>Desperate Characters</em> and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s <em>Sabrina and Corina</em>
… involved in a longer history of settler colonialism in the U.S. In Fox’s novel, newly-arrived gentrifiers, the Bentwoods, engage in a new iteration of conquest in the urban frontier, often frustrated by realities which undermine their aestheticized ideal. The novel maintains an uneasy …
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Company Colonisation and the Settler Revolution, 1820–1840
… and colonisation in relation to the so-called colonial reform movement, 1820–1840, the role of private enterprise has only been obliquely addressed. This thesis offers the first synoptic account of company colonisation at the dawn of the Pax Britannica. Taking the City as its focus, it shows …
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Maintenant nous te parlons, ne dedaigne pas nous ecouter Petitions et Relation Speciale entre les Premieres Nations et la Couronne au Canada, 1840-1860
… the evolution of political relations between the colonial state and Indigenous communities in the Province of Canada from the 1840s to 1860s. It explores how this special relationship is linked with the evolution of the Department of Indian Affairs, and the way it was transposed into a new policy …
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INDIGENOUS CHRISTIANITY: EARLY MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN NIAS, INDONESIA (1865-1908)
Through a critical analysis of missionary and colonial archives, this thesis explores the complex interplay between traditional ‘immanentist’ Nias culture and ‘transcendentalist’ Christianity brought by German missionaries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The early encounter between …
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Care, Coloniality, and Indigeneity in Saskatchewan’s Carceral-Corrections Industry
… has historically operated to facilitate settler-colonial expansion through sequestering Indigenous people and subjecting them to techniques and technologies geared toward reformation (aka “correction”). Drawing on twenty-two months of fieldwork, including participant observation in public forums, …
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From the Edge: the Littoral in Visual and Literary Imaginaries of Mexico
… through to the twentieth century. Bringing decolonial principles and works of Cultural Geography to the analysis of visual and literary materials, and incorporating anthropological and ethnographic stances, the multimedia and interdisciplinary approach adopted here aims to develop modes of …
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Minnesota boy, journeys of mind and place: A memoir; and, International development in the era of mass travel : an essay
… wealth through trade, the increasing momentum of colonial expansion, and the growing literature and business of travel. With the gradual disintegration of the colonial empires following World War Two, and an intensifying ideological competition between the Euro-American states and the Soviet Union …
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Assuming the purple: the rehabilitation of ancient Rome in Victorian culture, 1837-1901
… development, domestic security and overseas colonial expansion. Presenting a unique episode in the classical framing of the English national experience, this period therefore demands evaluation of the role played by classical Rome in contemporary constructions of domestic and imperial …
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A political ecology of the hacienda system: environmental transformation and everyday lives at Guachalá, Ecuador
… plantation systems was a defining signature of colonial expansion in the Americas. The process transformed physical landscapes and social and labor systems to such a degree that these dynamics characterize a new global epoch, the Anthropocene, which is dominated by those ongoing legacies. The …
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