Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Confederation"”.
-
A Generic Approach To Confederation Romanticism
… the work of Canada's first school of poets, the Confederation group of Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, Charles G. D. Roberts, and Duncan Campbell Scott, has yet to receive the close critical attention that it deserves. A study of the often-noted but never thoroughly-examined influence of the …
-
Ice Action Database for the Confederation Bridge Piers
… accurately. During the design of piers of the Confederation Bridge, various design parameters including ice velocity, ice thickness, rubble height, ride up and ridge keel properties were considered in the assessment of ice action. To study the relationship between design models and reality …
-
Cakaudrove : ideology and reality in a Fijian confederation
… the ideology of chieftainship in Cakaudrove, a confederation of chiefdoms in eastern Fiji, and then contrasts it with the reality of power possession. According to the ideology, the paramount Tui Cakau was a godlike figure who, by mediating between the temporal and spiritual worlds, controlled …
-
Cakaudrove : ideology and reality in a Fijian confederation
… the ideology of chieftainship in Cakaudrove, a confederation of chiefdoms in eastern Fiji, and then contrasts it with the reality of power possession. According to the ideology, the paramount Tui Cakau was a godlike figure who, by mediating between the temporal and spiritual worlds, controlled …
-
The Irish in New Brunswick: from early times to confederation
L'auteur fait l'historique de la présence d'irlandais au Nouveau-Brunswick.
-
Relaxation of prestressed steel used in construction of the confederation bridge
… prestressing steel used in construction of the Confederation Bridge is undertaken. Relaxation is measured by monitoring the reduction in stress level in an elastically strained specimen and maintained at a constant extension. Two testing methods are adopted for the experimental program, namely, …
-
Union Democracy in France: The French Democratic Confederation of Labor (Cfdt)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7500469.pdf: 19505097 bytes, checksum: 1a8a36c2ecfaacc62f6b3a7f3480f62d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
-
The Art of Sharing: The Richer Provinces Versus the Poorer Provinces Since Confederation
… moves from the establishment of subsidies at Confederation across the later decades of the nineteenth century into the twentieth century as politicians and bureaucrats gradually realized that few modern federations survive without relative equality among the member governments. It explores the …
-
The Confederation Paysanne as 'peasant' Movement: Re-appropriating 'peasantness' for the advancement of organisational interests
… (the altermondialiste movement in France), the Confederation paysanne (CP) - which literally stands for 'peasant confederation' - has been presented in academic and activist circles as a key player in the struggle against neoliberal globalisation, and as a contributor to the emergence of new …
-
Choices, challenges and the power of integration: regionalism and confederation in the East African community - a hypothesis generating study
… within regions. It also introduces the idea of a confederation as a possible alternative to a federation with a monetary union. Through assessing the work of David Mitrany and Ernst B. Haas, this paper tracks the failings within the foundations of regional integration theory through to New …
-
THE CEMENT OF INTEREST: INTERSTATE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, INTERSTATE COMMERCE, AND THE TRANSITION FROM THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION TO THE CONSTITUTION, 1783-1786
… Convention of 1787. Under the Articles of Confederation (1781-1789), interstate tariffs impeded domestic commerce and free trade with foreign countries threatened to undermine America’s economic independence. These two problems suggested a dual solution: free and equal trade within the U.S. …
-
The 1866 Fenian Raid on Canada West
… reactions towards the Fenian Brotherhood in the Confederation era. Its focus is on the impact of the Fenians on the contemporary public mind, beginning in the fall of 1864 and culminating with the Fenian Raid on the Niagara frontier in June 1866. Newspapers, sermons, first-hand accounts, and …
-
The French Confederation Generale du Travail and the International Secretariat of National Trade Union Centres (1900-1914):French syndicalist attitudes towards internationalism and the International Labour Movement
This thesis examines relations between the French Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) and the labour movements of other countries in the years leading up to the First World War. The aim of the study is to examine the CGT's policy of internationalism in practice, both in relations with other …
-
Rights jurisprudence and the charter : evaluating the changing structure of Canadian federalism /
… jiirisprudence in Canada dates back as far as Confederation in 1867. Between this date and 1982, the organizing principle of Confederation - federalism - has kept this jurisprudence solely within the supremacy of Parliament, subject to its confines and division of powers. After 1982, however, a …
-
“Smole Trifeles“: The Itinerant in British North America
The earliest attempt to form a confederation among the British colonies in North America occurred with the creation New England confederation in 1643. For the next one hundred thirty-four years various attempts would be made to organize British America colonies into a confederacy. "Smole Trifeles": …
-
National Project, Regional Perspective: Newfoundland, Canada and Identities, 1949-1991
… element in this enduring struggle. After confederation, a cultural revival in the province further entrenched its distinct identity during the same period in which it was acclimatizing to a new Canadian reality. The main goals of this research are to comprehend how Newfoundland understood …
-
The ordinances of 1784 and 1787
… Ordinences of 1784 and 1787, enacted during the Confederation period for the temporary government of the Federal lands in the West, division of those lands into new states, and eventual admission of the new states into the Union. An attempt is made to give the background of the ordinances, to …
-
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
This thesis examines the course and political action of the war in the Rif mountains in northern Morocco between 1921 and 1926. After the declaration of a joint Franco-Spanish Protectorate over Morocco in 1912, the Spanish army attempted to impose its authority over the part of north Morocco which …
Page 1 of 5