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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Despotism"”.
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The despotism of fact: Celticism and the transnational critique of capitalism in England and Ireland, 1865-1954
My dissertation examines the history of the ethnological theory of Celticism, tracing its mediation of a broad range of concerns relative to the economic dimension of the colonial relationship between England and Ireland from 1865 until 1954. I argue that by propagating a conception of the Irish …
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Abd al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi's Tabai` al-Istibdad wa Masari` al-Isti`bad (The Characteristics of Despotism and The Demises of Enslavement): A Translation and Introduction
… (The Characteristics of Despotism and the Demises of Enslavement). The fact that <italic>Tabai‘ al-Istibdad</italic> is one of the fewest and most daring works to explore the various effects despotism has had on the different aspects of sociopolitical Arab life makes …
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Newman and the Principle of Development
… and ministrations of the Mother Church; despotism, spoliation, torture, and iniquitous penal laws accomplished their work, and left at the beginning of the nineteenth century, only a remnant of the nation faithful to the fair religion which had saved them from paganism and had been the …
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Saving the "Slaves of Kings and Priests": The United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Catholicism
… the Roman Catholic Church, and monarchism/despotism were all seen by U.S. elites as interconnected forces that undermined the growth and stability of republicanism in Latin America. U.S. politicians were able to manipulate anti-Catholic rhetoric in order to justify certain U.S. diplomatic …
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Multiple Layers and Flavors: The “Death of the Author” in Like Water for Chocolate
… <em>Like Water for Chocolate</em> from the despotism of a single authority controlling the truth of the text and show that the readers are capable of intervening in the work's meaning.</p>
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How Journalists Sustain Their Autonomy under Ownership Change: A Case Study in Taiwan
… market hegemony and subsidiary hegemonic despotism. The changes in ownership resulted in the formalization of control resulting in the break between managers and employees. This division resulted in journalists feeling less autonomous than before. Faced with less autonomy, journalists had …
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Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, the indefatigable and courageous
… convinced of Confederate virtue and Union despotism. Throughout the remainder of his life, Trimble continued to be a diehard warrior espousing the justness of the Confederate cause.
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On the Margins of the Grand Unity: Empire, Violence, and Ethnicity in the Virtue Ethics and Political Practice of Wang Yangming (1472--1529)
… yield an agent of feudal ethics and autocratic despotism engaging in acts of repression; celebratory interpretations yield a man of passionate humanity responding to his conscience. This study eschews a simplistic reading of Wang Yangming's actions and policies as an official by showing the …
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Defining the alter orbis : the Roman view of Parthia in the early Principate
… of their own values, embodying the vices of despotism and licentiousness. In the absence of a decisive military victory, the Roman people used this image of the Parthians to assert their own sense of superiority, while also acknowledging the formidable military strength of their eastern …
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A Colony and Its Law: The Jurisdictional Origins of Extradition in Hong Kong, 1842–1875
… liberty, standing in proud opposition to Chinese despotism, but also a place where no criminal would find refuge. It was in this way that the colony and its law evolved, side by side, out of a primordial soup of jurisdictional plurality.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: vengeance as a vehicle for presenting his moral principles
… moral code concerning revenge against tyrannical despotism as revealed in certain philosophical and religious essays, Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, and The Mask of Anarchy. Chapter II examines the following three philosophical and religious essays by Shelley which illustrate his moral concept of …
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Reconstruction Unbound: American Worldviews In A Period of Promise and Conflict, 1865-1874
… against barbarism and republicanism against despotism and aristocracy. For northern Republicans, the abolition of slavery, Union victory in the Civil War, and policies towards the South constituted one of America's great contributions to the onward march of freedom and progress across the …
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The history and politics of civilisation: the debate about Russia in French and German historical scholarship from Voltaire to Herder
… politics outside the framework of enlightened despotism.
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UNE ÉTUDE FOUCALDIENNE DE LA « FEMME EXOTIQUE » COMME FIGURE PÉDAGOGIQUE DU DÉSIR FÉMININ ALTERNATIF DANS LE ROMAN FRANÇAIS DE 1747 À 1997
… double yoke of race and sex, subjected to the despotism of imitation. The reading of these novels suggests interpreting the use of this exotic figure and the recourse to an imaginary space of 'primitive' civilization as a codified strategy of contestation and resistance, and a possible …
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The Effects of Food, Cover and Competition on Demography, Dispersal and Density of Voles
… however, cost of habitat selection rather than despotism may have maintained the fitness difference. Third, the patterns of dispersal generally conformed to the balanced dispersal model, although unbalanced dispersal occurred in prairie voles, probably due to a time lag in response to habitat …
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Land rights and land conflicts in Kibaale since the colonial settlement
… draws on Mamdani's theory of decentralized despotism to establish the extent to which the post-colonial central governments' maintenance of some rural despotic authorities has undermined the land conflict resolution efforts. I contend that, though the post- colonial governments' maintenance …
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THE WHITE FRAUD: WHITE ELEPHANTS, VALUE, AND EXCHANGE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
… social practices, including so-called “oriental despotism” and what Marx termed the “Asiatic mode of production.” I begin by looking at the ways in which contemporary American writing about white elephants remains vexed about the value and importance of these animals, and still casts them as …
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Psychonalysis, Fantasy, Postcoloniality: Derivative Nationalism and Historiography in Post-Ottoman Turkey
… or its obverse, the fantasy of Oriental/Ottoman Despotism.
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