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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Empires"”.
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Empires of the Air
A young man growing up in an alternate-history America becomes embroiled in revolution.
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Isthmuses, Empires, and Internationality, c.1850-1924
… twentieth centuries. It considers how and why empires imagined isthmuses as international spaces and the consequences of that internationality. The first section examines isthmuses and international order, and how concessions and international legal mechanisms were invoked to manage isthmian …
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God is the Best Guardian: Islamic Talismanic Shirts from the Gunpowder Empires
Islamic talismanic shirts are fragile and highly ornamented textiles that feature Qur'anic text, magic squares, and other complex design elements common to talismanic objects of smaller, more portable form. The way in which these garments invoke the human body and thus differ from other talismans …
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Georg Joseph Kamel (1661-1706): A Jesuit Pharmacist at the Frontiers of Colonial Empires
… Spanish, English, Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires. My main concern is Kamel’s participation in the global commerce of medical and natural knowledge. Seeking to decentre previous narratives of the mobility of early modern knowledge and recover agencies previously regarded as peripheral, I …
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Art in between Empires: Visual Culture and Artistic Knowledge in Late Mughal Delhi, 1748-1857
This dissertation focuses on the artistic culture of late Mughal Delhi spanning the last century of Mughal rule and the administration of the English East India Company in North India, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. It brings a hitherto unrecognized period of artistic …
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Disputed Borderlands: Entangled Territories between the Spanish and British Empires in Colonial Central America, 1700-1787
… that they were deeply entwined, not only between empires, but also through different levels of imperial administration including the Miskito. Ultimately, the thesis seeks to analyse the impact of these myriad interactions in the Central American borderlands and prove the region’s development was …
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The World That Was : An investigation of lost cities, hidden empires, and their role in online pseudoarchaeological communities.
In recent years, alongside the rise of innovative social media platforms such as TikTok, fast increasing pseudoarchaeological conspiracies have spread across the western world. The legacy of these conspiracies, their uptake on social media, and their impact on heritage identity has largely been …
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Picturing India's "Land of Kings" Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs
… arts literally and metaphorically in between empires, and thus formulated their subjective, and, at times, subversive interpretations of urbanity, territoriality, and history as they circulated among various domains. By tracing the critical role played by artistic practices in the British …
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The Dissolution of Multi-Ethnic Empires and Post-Imperial Inter-Ethnic Relations: The Case of the Soviet Union
The dissertation argues that the relationship between the Russian Federation and the fourteen non-Russian successor states is unequal, with the Russian Federation as the dominant power. It resurrects the old-time construct of the empire as a specific type of political system different from that of …
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Local Elites, Empires, and Responses to the Rise of Islam in the Roman-Sasanian Northern Frontier Region, 640-726
… frontier region’ between the Sasanian and Roman empires. Through a critical examination of sources ranging from well-known works of historiography (including the History attributed to Sebēos) to a range of less well-studied, purportedly contemporary documents (including the so-called Narratio de …
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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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Set in Stone? A Landscape and Material Approach to Provincial Power in the Khmer Empire
The enduring legacy of empires continues to shape today’s geopolitical, economic, and cultural landscapes. Studying empires not only deepens our understanding of persistent structures of power but also expands how we imagine political organization in the present and future. Yet traditional …
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Factors in the evolution of Canada's foreign policy on the colonial issue in the United Nations : an interdisciplinary analysis
… the early 1960s. The decolonisation of colonial empires was an intrinsic part of this major and contentious issue in the United Nations. Newly released classified documents of the Department of External Affairs and official manuscripts from the National Archives of Canada reveal to what extent …
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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
… into a commodity producing colony. Industrial empires, nationalist political elites, rural intellectuals, migrant peasants, and indigenous Cordillerans alike competed over the terms of what the modern “Filipino” would look like as northern resource frontiers produced a global labor force, …
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Things fall apart : the disintegration of empire and the causes of war
… argues that the disintegration and collapse of empires cause wars and crises by creating some of the conditions and causes of war commonly identified by scholars. When empires disintegrate and collapse, the metropole withdraws its power from its peripheral territories and newly independent …
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… population and located near two Christian empires, the Habsburg and the Russian, the latter of which pursued an active expansionist policy against the Ottoman Empire. It also explores the interplay between the politics of local power holders who aimed to enhance their position and the forms …
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Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities in pre-Islamic Arabia
… century, Arabia was on the edge of three great empires (Sasanian, Roman and Aksūmite) and at the center of a lucrative network of trade routes. The project pulls together the various strands of the composite cultural and political milieu of the region, situating its history in relation to the …
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Empire by Law: Ottoman Sovereignty and the British Occupation of Egypt, 1882-1923
… distinctive model of sovereignty, both for late empires and for successor states in the post-Ottoman Middle East. I argue that a new model of client-state sovereignty produced during the course of the occupation, emerged out of the intense imperial rivalry between the Ottoman and Europe Empires …
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