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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Despots"”.
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No Foreign Despots on Southern Soil: The American Party in Alabama and South Carolina, 1850-1857
<p>During the 1850s in the South, the American Party, also known as the Know Nothing Party, rallied southerners culturally and politically around nativism, an anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic ideology. This thesis studies nativism in the Deep South and challenges existing scholarship by Tyler …
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A saga of black deglorification : the disfigurement of Africa in Ayi Kwei Armah's novels
… disentombed and paraded as miscreants and despots, who brutalized and sold their people into slavery. Although Armah glorifies "The Way" in Two Thousand Seasons and "the metaphysics of African healing" in The Healers, the dominant preoccupation of two novel histories is to divest the …
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The Anglo-Dutch Imperial Meridian in the Indian Ocean World, 1795-1820
… that Dutch liberalism was used by Britain’s despots to extend their powers. I follow Chinese migrants who show how engagements between Chinese and British and Dutch colonists determined British policies of landholding and labour. I trace Dutch and British ruling elites who reveal that …
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Religion and the Evolution of Democracy: A Revised Selectorate Model for the Arab Spring
… to the general population. The once secular despots are either gone or are on the way out as evident by the removal of Hosni Mubarak, Zine Abidine Ben-Ali, Saddam Hussein, Muamar Gaddafi, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the currently embattled Bashar Al- Assad. They are being replaced or have already …