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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Expansionism"”.
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Nurturing utopia : Jeffersonian expansionism in contexts, 1760-1810
This work is a study of what I call the Jeffersonian ideology of westward territorial expansion. It consists of five chapters, all looking at a different aspect of this ideology, and it focuses on the years 1780-1810, a period when (from a broad perspective) Jefferson can be considered to have been …
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The strategy & politics of expansionism: United States foreign policy toward Cuba and the Philippines in 1898
… cut" theory at understanding foreign policy expansionism. At least, it is not apparent here that realism should be displaced by a domestic politics paradigm. Practically, what follows reveals the ability of Great Powers to expand 1s not necessarily thwarted due to internal characteristics …
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To the Ends of the Earth: A Study of the Explorative Discourse Promoting British Expansionism in Canada
Between 1760 and 1833, English explorers systematically filled in the map of British North America. Many of those explorers worked for two fur-trading companies: the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. In pursuit of new sources of fur, they opened western Canada to European …
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The Impact of the Russian Military System on Nineteenth Century Russian Expansionism in the Caucasus and Central Asia
This work explores the Russian military system after the Napoleonic Wars, and the impact the military ideologies developed therein had on Russian expansionist efforts in two separate conflicts. The Russian conquests of the Caucasus and Central Asian regions are the expansionist efforts under focus, …
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Digital expansionism : exploring the U.S.-China technology dynamic through cybersecurity policy and international marketing strategies in the Cloud Computing Sector
The U.S. and China remain largely separated from one another in terms of technological market access, with both sides implementing policy regimes serving as official or unofficial barriers to international trade, especially evident in data-sensitive industries, such as cloud computing. The result …
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Reacting to Hitler: Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, and Romanian foreign policy, 1933-1939
… been portrayed as “victims” of Nazi German expansionism. In this work the foreign policies of Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and Romania from 1933 to 1939 were examined through the paradigm of Hitler's major foreign policy achievements to explore this prevalent notion and to discern why the …
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Charles Dickens' Trope of Great Gulfs: Irony in Bleak House
… that the English were using to justify their expansionism into "lesser'' intellectually and morally developed parts of the world, most notably Africa. He also uses the trope of cannibalism in terms of consumption in several different ways to illustrate the Great Gulfs between England and …
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The Mormon Colonies of Northern Mexico: A History, 1885-1912
… with American notions of economic and political expansionism. The study of the character of the colonists' thought and culture, provides explanation for the difficulties imposed on Mexico Mormons during and after the 1910 Revolution. Finally, this dissertation seeks to chronicle a frontier …
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The Underwood stereograph travel system : a historical and cultural analysis
… middle-class tourism, and burgeoning U.S. expansionism. A conclusion points the way to further study by considering the stereograph's role in the shift towards the visual bias of knowledge.
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The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the United States Response
… a renewed American commitment to resist Soviet expansionism. This thesis examines the conditions that led to the Soviet invasion, the conduct of the war, and the Soviet decision to end its occupation in 1989. Also examined is the response of the United States to the occupation and Washington's …
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The Second Lost Cause: Post-National Confederate Imperialism in the Americas.
… influences of Manifest Destiny, expansionism, filibustering, and southern nationalism in the antebellum era directly influenced post-bellum expatriates to attempt colonization in Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, and Brazil.</p><p>A comparison between the antebellum language of …
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Occupation and resistance in southern Iraq: a study of Great Britain’s civil administration in the Middle Euphrates and the Great Rebellion, 1917-1920
… pursuits in the Persian Gulf, fears of Russian expansionism in Persia and Central Asia, and German expansionism in Iraq. Seeking the opportunity to secure its imperial interests in Ottoman Iraq, and to join France and Russia in the European conflict with the Central Powers, Great Britain …
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The Making of an American Imperialist: Major Edward Austin Burke, Reconstruction New Orleans and the Road to Central America
… Democrat who went on to become a proponent of expansionism and imperialism in Honduras—illuminates the transnational implications of Reconstruction and its aftermath. Through careful examination of personal papers, news accounts, promotional materials, Congressional testimonies and other …
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On Historical Missions and Modern Phenomena: A Comparison of Germany and the USA on their Way towards the Second World War.
… crisis.</p><p>It became clear that neither expansionism nor racism were genuine German ideologies. In fact, the American Manifest Destiny served as a role-model for German plans in the East. Even the racist concepts of the Third Reich were strongly influenced by American scientists. The main …
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MANIFEST DESTINY IN CHINA: A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICAN INDIAN WARS OF THE 1800S WITH CHINA’S STRIKE HARD CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE UYGHUR MUSLIMS OF XINJIANG PROVINCE
… actually exist. Among them, geographic expansionism, domestic imperialism, and forced assimilation act as the broader themes through which to compare these overt conflicts of influence. Conversely, the differences in cultures, locations, and points in history provide new opportunities to …
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Remapping the U.S. "Southwest": Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces, 1885-1958
… cultural formation as a byproduct of westward expansionism. This project argues that early Mexican American writers offer an alternative paradigm of transnationalism for understanding the literature, culture, and geography of the U.S. Southwest as it has been imagined in Anglo American cultural …
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This Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery
… a vital national shift toward violent expansionism. However, due to tacit agreements among public officials to refrain from debating the influence of slavery on federal policy, the fundamental arguments of the war - why it was undertaken, how it was to be fought, why it had to be won - …
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The design and social meaning of Australian type specimen books, 1880-1901
… between typographic design and colonial expansionism.
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MISSION 2066 : a national park for the Antrhopocene
… and is rooted, in the United States, in American expansionism and nationalism.The site of this thesis is Glacier National Park in Montana, paradoxically named as one of the last bastions of pristine wilderness in the United States as well as the poster child for cataclysmic climate change. Its …
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Future Nelsons: A quantitative social history study of British naval cadets, 1884-1894
… make-up which sheds a new light on British expansionism; the consistency of the navy in its training and promotion of officers, and the success of Britannia as an educational institution.
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