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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Colonial government"”.
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The Colonial government and the great depression in Northern Rhodesia: Administrative and legislative changes, 1929-1939
… administrative and legislative changes that the colonial government made in response to the impact of the Great Depression in Northern Rhodesia. It reveals that the government mainly responded to the decline in government revenues, the widespread poverty and destitution and the distortion of …
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The Colonial government and the great depression in Northern Rhodesia: Administrative and legislative changes, 1929-1939
… administrative and legislative changes that the colonial government made in response to the impact of the Great Depression in Northern Rhodesia. It reveals that the government mainly responded to the decline in government revenues, the widespread poverty and destitution and the distortion of …
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The Greek-Cypriots' education in Pafos' province from October's revolt to the Independence (1931-1960)
… context, which includes both the Church and the Colonial Government' s involvement. It also includes an appraisal of education ' s operation and content in Pafos' province and particularly the school' s management, the type of the schools that operated that time as well as the students' …
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The Natal government's policy towards amakhosi in the former Kingdom of KwaZulu 1846-1910
The policy of the Natal Colonial government towards amakhosi was overtly hostile. In 1843 the British forcefully took over a large territory, which formerly belonged to kwaZulu, from the Voortrekkers. They renamed their newly acquired land as Natal. Three years later a Boundary Commission was …
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The constitution of the colonial labor subject: Labor law in colonial India, 1881 to 1936
The Colonial project in India, which was based on the appropriation of an economic surplus, was given legitimacy with a discourse that spoke of the social, moral, and political redemption of the 'natives'. This discourse was grounded in an Orientalism--i.e., the Oriental as the subject and object …
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Positive Contribution of Saving and Credit Cooperatives in the Development of Rombo District: a Case Study of Mashati SACCOS
… have the required knowledge and therefore government and the society must take measure of training enough people who are qualified, to serve the institution. It is recommended that, the SACCOS should provide sufficient professional human resources by training and develop different cadre to …
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From indigenous to colonised: the recruitment practice of the British colonial administration in Hong Kong, 1845 – 1932
… practice of the British Hong Kong (HK) Colonial Government before the Japanese occupation (from 1845 to 1932), as well as its corresponding influencing factors. By understanding the HK Government’s dynamic attitude towards different nationalities, the work discusses the national …
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The admission of slaves and 'prize slaves' into the Cape Colony, 1797-1818
… were admitted into the Cape colony by the Cape colonial government, even though the government was opposed to slave importation in principle and law (Slave Trade Act, 1807) from 1797-1818. The colonial demand for slaves was at its height after the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie's (VOC) …
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Labor movement and labor policy under the American military government in Korea, 1945-1948
… aided former collaborators of the Japanese colonial government and rightist politicians while destroying the largest workers' mass organization on the ground that it was dominated by leaders allied or sympathetic to the Soviet dominated North Korean government. This was the case even though …
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Labour, Environment and Empire in the South Atlantic (1780-1860)
… and imperial environmentalism) and Empire (colonial government, authority and freedom) evolved in the micro-histories of the South Atlantic islands in a very peculiar way, making them precious case-studies to assess wider themes in a new perspective.
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The history of the occupation of land in the Cape Colony and its effect on land law and constitutionally mandated land reform
… Cape Colony by pastoral indigenous communities, colonial governments and non-indigenous settlers, and the significant role these patterns of occupation played in the development of land law in the colony until the end of the nineteenth century. This investigation shows that pastoral indigenous …
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Colonial taxation and taxpayers in Sierra Leone, c. 1890-1937.
This dissertation examines the history of colonial taxation and taxpayers in Sierra Leone during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is concerned with the interaction between tax systems and inequality: how existing inequalities feed into the design of tax systems, and in turn, how …
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Economic and social change in the communities of the wetlands of Chobe and Ngamiland, with special reference to the period since 1960
… are explored. It tracks the efforts of the colonial government to eradicate disease and establish the foundations of a cattle industry in this ecologically sensitive and economically marginal area leading up to independence in 1966. Then it examines the articulation of development strategies …
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A Kenyan Revolution: Mau Mau, Land, Women, and Nation.
… the largest ethnic group in Kenya, resisted colonial authority, which culminated into what became known as Mau Mau, led by the Kenya Land Freedom Army. During this time, the British colonial government imposed laws limiting their access to land, politics, and independence. The turbulent 1950s …
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Scarcity, government, population: The problem of food in colonial Kenya, c. 1900-1952
… focus arguably limits the capacity of government policies to address contemporary food problems. It does so by obscuring both the specific food insecurity dynamics linked to the continent's ongoing urban transitions, as well as the potential for more systemic food strategies. Yet …
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The differential educational characteristics of West Sumatran and West Javanese migrants in Jakarta : a socio-historical approach
… was mostly influenced by the failure of both the colonial government school system and the Islamic Modernist movement's school system to penetrate into rural areas of West Java.
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The differential educational characteristics of West Sumatran and West Javanese migrants in Jakarta : a socio-historical approach
… was mostly influenced by the failure of both the colonial government school system and the Islamic Modernist movement's school system to penetrate into rural areas of West Java.
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Divorcing Tradition: Marriage, Family and Female Homosociality in Puerto Rican Literature
… family imposed locally and by the colonial government. Their narratives construct alternative histories and cultural identities for Puerto Ricans precisely because they are realized through various types of female-female love, rather than being predicated on traditional heterosexual …
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The civil-military conflict in British West Florida, 1763-1783
After the Seven Year's War, the British government decided to keep a large military force in North America. To coordinate these forces, the Crown decided to continue the office of Commander in Chief. The Commander in Chief had broad authority over the military in the American colonies. This …
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Walking the Rift: Alfred Robert Tucker in East Africa, idealism and imperialism, 1890 – 1911
… the investment in imperialism practiced by colonial personnel. Based on extensive archival research this study advocates an alternative proposal; missionaries caught in the grinding of contradictory opposites. Alfred Robert Tucker, as a professional artist, captured this tug-of-war on canvas …
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