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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"European expansion"”.
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The Ashley Series as Native American Persistence: Lowcountry Indians in the Period of European Expansion
… of South Carolina during the period of European expansion have fallen victim to historical and anthropological assumptions regarding cultural decline and acculturation. These assumptions have been used by scholars to explain the `disappearance' of these Indians following the Yamasee War. …
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The Response of Elite European Merchant Companies to European Expansion into Asia and the Americas, c.1492-c.1530
This thesis analyses the multi-national European merchant-banking companies who dominated European commerce at the beginning of European engagement with the Americas and with Asia via the Cape Route, focusing upon how they responded to these changes. In the first decades of the sixteenth century, …
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Anglo-Moroccan relations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with particular reference to the role of Gibraltar
… country should be seen not just as a response to European expansion, but also as a continuation of the sultanate’s historical development as a state based partly on the control of trade. It is further argued that Mawlay Sulaymān and his successor Mawlay ‘Abd al-Raḥmān (r. 1822-59) essentially …
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Governing Imperial Borders: Insights from the Study of the Implementation of Law in Qing Xinjiang
… Different from many historians studying European expansion, who argue that law was an important tool of forced acculturation, my research on Xinjiang shows that the Qing rulers managed to integrated this area without full acculturation. The story this dissertation is telling is one of the …
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… between the 1780s and 1850s and promoted European imperialist aims in the Ottoman Empire. For this purpose, it provides an analysis of Ottoman rule on a borderland inhabited by a Christian population and located near two Christian empires, the Habsburg and the Russian, the latter of which …
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Technological Adaptation on the Frontier: An Examination of Blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781
… aided the continued success of the fur trade and European expansion in North America.</p>
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Changes in landscape patterns and associated forest succession on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado
… mining-related disturbances associated with European expansion and the subsequent suppression of wildfires in the region. Photos are compared using parameters representing landscape characteristics (i.e., total cover area, number of patches, mean patch size) estimated from geographic …
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The ambiguity of God : a post-colonial inquiry into the politics of theistic formulation in South Africa
… category in the Othering discourse by which European expansion into Southern Africa was promulgated. Chapter Two opens by observing that colonial constructions of Otherness served not only to "erase" (Spivak) autochthonic identity, but also to eulogize and assert the colonial Self. …
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Italy and the Sanusiyya: Negotiating Authority in Colonial Libya, 1911-1931
… for the Libyan nation. As a latecomer to the European "Scramble for Africa", the Italian occupation of the Libyan territories has received little attention in Italian historiography or in larger works on late European imperialism. The perception that the Italian colonial project in North …
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Leuchtkäfer & Orgelkoralle
Leuchtende Käfer und Medusen, phosphoreszierende Meereswellen oder zu Stein erstarrende Korallen faszinierten den bisher vornehmlich als Dichter portraitierten Naturforscher Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838). Intensiver noch als den zoologischen und geologischen Phänomenen, widmete er sich der …