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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Great Britain History"”.
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The birth of English literature
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Social Darwinism and British imperialism, 1870-1900
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Publishing Swinburne; the poet, his publishers and critics
This thesis examines the publishing history of Algernon Charles Swinburne during his lifetime (1837-1909). The first chapter presents a detailed narrative from his first book in 1860 to the mid 1870s: it includes the scandal of 'Poems and Ballads' in 1866; his subsequent relations with the somewhat …
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Nuclear weapons and British defence policy. An examination of nuclear aspects of British foreign and defence policy 1940-1990.
… to understand the role of nuclear weapons in Britain's defence and foreign policies. It works from the assumption that decisions in relation to nuclear weapons, can only be understood in the context of a broader overview of the British state's policies since the 1940's. In turn Britain's …
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Baptists and Britons: Particular Baptist Ministers in England and British Identity in the 1790s
This study examines the interaction between religious and national affiliations within a Dissenting denomination. Linda Colley and Jonathan Clark argue that religion provided the unifying foundation of national identity. Colley portrays a Protestant British identity defined in opposition to …
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A historico-legal overview on the impeachment system under the United States and the United Kingdom constitutions and any relevance to Malta
The process of impeachment is one which is central and essential to the functioning of a healthy and democratic legal system, the absence of which would guarantee office holders immunity both from prosecution and accountability as well as removal from the office which they hold. This dissertation …
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No Slip-Shod Muse: A Performance Analysis of Some of Susanna Centlivre's Plays
… of this cautious and paranoid era of theatre history has been to shy away from examining the plays in any depth, and fall back on pigeonholing them. But why were the playwrights turning out the work that they did? What is truly representative of the period? Continued examination may stop us …
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John Buchan (1875-1940) and the First World War: A Scot's Career in Imperial Britain
… of Information's Intelligence Bureau to forward Britain's propaganda effort. The study also considers his literary contributions, his Parliamentary service, and, when raised to the peerage as Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield, his royal commission as Governor-General of Canada. This dissertation …
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Humeral torsion and activity-related change in the human upper limb and pectoral girdle. A biomechanical investigation and social implications.
… in which the architecture is modified to enable greater biomechanical efficiency in distributing strain, reducing the need of increased cortical thickness. Changes in humeral torsion related to strenuous activity have been identified, although in the blade-injured samples it is decreased torsion …
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Inside Queen Victoria's household: The ladies of the royal nursery and schoolroom, 1839-1889
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The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition
The dissertation argues that the development of the British abolition movement was based on the abolitionists' perception that their actions were kairotic; they attempted to shape their own kairos by taking temporal events and reinterpreting them to construct a kairotic process that led to a …
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