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Showing 1 to 20 of 1285 for “"Empire"”.
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Maintaining Empire
… imperialism, exploring the relationship between empires and their subjects using the cases of the United States of America and Japan. While existing research on empire focuses on territorial expansion, this study proposes a working definition of empire that centers on coercion and manipulation of …
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Inland empire wildlife bingo
Game designed to stimulate an interest in wildlife conservation and local history.
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Inland empire wildlife bingo
Game designed to stimulate an interest in wildlife conservation and local history.
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Empire, Province, and Power: Chorbadzhi (Çorbacı) Networks in the Ottoman Empire, 1790s-1860s
Provincial political culture in the Ottoman Empire went through multiple transformations and crises during the later eighteenth century leading to power reconfigurations in localities across the Empire. Although Muslim local notables (ayans) of this period have enjoyed a sustained scholarly …
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The Bedouin of the Fatimid Empire: Faith vs. Politics in a Medieval Islamic Empire
The Fatimid Empire was initially established in 296/909 in North Africa. The capital was later shifted to Cairo from where the Fatimid imams controlled vast areas of the Islamic world, each with its own unique set of ethnicities. Powerful Arab Bedouin tribes were concentrated on the fringes of the …
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Staging an Empire: How Late Victorian Theatre Represents Public Perceptions of the British Empire
ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: STAGING AN EMPIRE: HOW LATE VICTORIAN THEATRE REPRESENTS PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Nicholas Appleton, Master of Arts, 2019 Thesis Directed By: Mircea Raianu PhD, Assistant Professor of History This thesis denotes the changing perception of the British empire …
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Instability of Empire: Earthquake, Rumor, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire
… on collective violence in the culture of empire. In an attempt to explore the relationships that weave together disaster, rumors, massacre, and narrative-making in an empire, this project explores rumors, trial discourses, and commemoration as sites of analysis to create a window on the …
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Escape from the Evil Empire
… chorus, and orchestra, ‘Escape from the Evil Empire’ was created with the idea of composing original music for an epic, major motion picture. The original text speaks of unwanted souls in a nation from which they must escape. Screaming women, textpainting, heavy percussion, dissonance, and …
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Thinking Beyond Identity, Nationalism, and Empire
This project explores how and why an Americanized form of Zionism became an effective movement in American Jewish life. In the quest for a just and lasting resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most scholarly attention has been focused on the state (and people) of Israel and the people of …
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Shakespeare and England's Empire, 1780-1800.
… and 1800. Chapters investigate landscape art and empire in the Boydell gallery, death and imperial subjectivity, gender and form in appropriations of Shakespeare by women artists and writers, caricatures that reference Shakespeare during these years, the use made of Shakespeare by prominent …
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Falmouth and the British Maritime Empire
… important base within an ever-expanding British empire. From here, people, letters, goods and information travelled back and forth from Cornwall to the rest of the world. This thesis investigates the extent to which Falmouth was a significant part of Britain’s maritime empire during the period …
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A modern empire building, Ralph Budd
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Business and Engineering Administration, 1955
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Empire Day : a novel and critical commentary
Empire Day: a novel and critical commentary consists of my novel, Empire Day, and a critical commentary discussing the process of writing it, and the problems of form and theme with which the narrative engaged. The novel documents the military service of conscripts fighting in an unnamed, undefined …
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Empire and poetry in the Roman republic
… I rethink the interface between poetry and empire in the last two centuries of the Roman republic. I bring together republican Latin poetry and historical approaches to Roman imperialism in a kind of Saidian ‘contrapuntal reading’. This allows new insights into the poetry of Lucilius and …
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Sport Without Guarantees: Critical Pedagogy Against Empire
"This project is part manifesto, part personal narrative, and part sociocultural criticism about the need to enact a performative cultural study of sport. Written in the progressive-minded tradition of Norman K. Denzin, Henry Giroux, Lawrence Grossberg, and Peter McLaren, the author poignantly---at …
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