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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Colonial Policy"”.
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The makeshift settlement: colonial policy in British West Africa
This thesis examines the evolution of colonial policy within British West Africa, and is based largely on unpublished correspondence between the Colonial office and colonial governors, held in the Public Record Office in London. It argues that the colonial states were unable to generate or …
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Liberalism, Race and Humanitarianism: British Colonial Policy and Jewish Refugees 1938-1943
This thesis studies the British colonial response to Jewish refugees between 1938 and 1943. By assessing Britain’s ‘bystander’ response through the lens of the empire, this study expands on existing historiography and seeks not just to detail Britain’s limited action but also explain it. In this …
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The cabinet committee system and the development of British Colonial Policy, 1951-1964
… the British Cabinet committee system and British colonial policy. Its primary interest is the functioning of the Cabinet committee system and in order to investigate this colonial policy will be analysed. This policy area has been chosen both for its intrinsic interest and because it provides an …
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Pushing Marginalization: British Colonial Policy, Somali Identity, and the Gosha 'Other' in Jubaland Province, 1895 to 1925
… of surrounding Somali sub-clans, which in pre-colonial Jubaland were relatively fluid, open, and—in time—would have allowed these groups to become assimilated into Somali society. British colonial rule however changed this flexibility. Somali identity, once porous and accessible, became …
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Colonial Policy, Social Trust, and Economic Resilience: The Long-term Impacts of Imperial Russian Settlement in Southern Kazakhstan
Almost every country on the planet has a colonial past as colonizer or colonized. Yet scholars still do not fully understand how differential experiences of colonialism affect social and economic processes in the long-term. In this dissertation, I focus on the impacts of colonialism on two linked …
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The activities of the Aborigines Protection Society as a pressure group on the formulation of colonial policy 1868-80
… this end the records of the Society and of the Colonial Office, the body which was directly concerned with the formulation of policy towards native peoples, have been examined in some depth. The organization of the Society is first considered with the object of discovering how it believed it …
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Seeing With Two Eyes: Colonial Policy, the Huron Tract Treaty and Changes in the Land in Lambton County, 1780-1867
… the subject of Upper Canadian history and Indian policy largely accepts the decline of Anishinabe communities as an inevitable consequence of demilitarization after the War of 1812. The fact that Anishinabe peoples continue to live in these same communities as they have for hundreds of years, …
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Church and State in the American Dependencies, 1898-1904: A Study of Catholic Opinion and the Formation of Colonial Policy
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Regime characteristics and health policy reform in the post-colonial state : a comparative case study of the influence of regime characteristics on health human resources policy and policy reform processes in Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, 1970-1990
… democracy and survival/maintenance - on post-colonial health human resources policy processes within one sub-region: the Commonwealth Caribbean; with special reference to Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago (hereinafter called Trinidad) between 1970 to 1990. As I want to comparatively …
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Social Anthropology and British Society, c. 1920-1975
… occurred amidst contemporary debates about colonial policy, discussions about marriage reform, conceptions of urban community and re-imaginings of Britain’s past. The opening chapters of the thesis investigate the relationship between social anthropology and colonial rule in Africa and tell …
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Agricultural change and rural class formation in Iringa district, Tanzania
This thesis is a study of rural development policy in Tanzania with special reference to Iringa District. Its principal aim is to assess the ujamaa (rural socialism) programme. However, an historical approach is adopted and the thesis devotes considerable attention to the development of …
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National identity construction and the popular ballad in nineteenth century Ireland
… century, or at least since it became English colonial policy to force them to retain a distinction upon the gradually assimilating English population with the statutes of Kilkenny 1366, the first of a number of such laws proclaimed intermittently over the subsequent centuries aimed at halting …
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The economic history, political economy and frontier settlement of land in Brazil
… essay examines the economic history of land policy in Brazil, from early colonial policy to the tardy formation of a market for land by the end of the nineteenth century. This is done by comparing the development of the Brazilian land policy with the path that was followed in the United …
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The impact of history and institutions on economic development
… The first chapter examines the impact of colonial rule on economic outcomes. I compare areas in India which were under the direct control of British administrators with areas which were ruled by local Indian rulers under indirect colonial control. Controlling for potential selection bias …
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Negotiating the state at its margins: Colonial authority in Condominium Darfur 1916-1956
The period of British colonial rule in Darfur is prominent in current debates about the roots of recent conflict. It has been argued that the colonial policy of ‘Native Administration’, and the ethnicisation of land rights that it imposed, made large scale violence almost inevitable. In this view, …
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Opium, the British Empire and the beginnings of an international drugs control regime, ca. 1890-1910
… held at different levels of the imperial and colonial administration. Moral, political and commercial concerns amongst some British groups motivated their commitment to end the India-China opium trade. The British no longer sought to defend their revenues derived from exports of opium from …
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Negotiated survival: an archaeological and documentary investigation of colonialism in Beneficios Altos, Yucatan, Mexico
… This dissertation shows that responses to colonial circumstances can be best understood by paying particular attention to the scale of interpretation. Analysis of extensive and intensive archaeological survey data from Beneficios Altos, a frontier Spanish colonial province, reveals the …
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