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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Imperial Government"”.
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Monetary Authorities: Market Knowledge and Imperial Government in the Colonial Philippines, 1892 - 1942
… my dissertation tracks how the legitimacy of imperial government became heavily dependent upon the colonial state's capacity to manage and stabilize the monetary and financial system for the economic and social benefit of its subjects. Thus, despite the United States' growing global economic …
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The Responses of the Roman Imperial Government to Natural Disasters 29 BCE-180 CE
<p>This dissertation examines the practice of imperial disaster relief between 29 BCE and 180 CE. It focuses upon both the process of disaster aid delineating how Roman emperors were petitioned for assistance, the forms disaster relief took, and the political motives individual emperors had for …
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Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
… role in discussions of political power, imperial government, tyranny, and tyrannicide. While there have been literary treatments of Caesar from William Shakespeare to the present, little has been done to trace the image of Caesar through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. The …
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China in Africa. An assessment of China's role in developing infrastructure and providing aid to development projects. An imperialist model of governance? Or is China redefining the way we assess international relations?
"The original meaning of imperialism was a simple one: 'imperial government,' that is, empire in the classical sense (such as existed in ancient Rome, China, and Greece). In more recent times, imperialism has become synonymous with western hegemony in Africa and Asia from the 18th through the 20th …
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Famine and the politics of food relief in United States relations with Ethiopia : 1950-1991
… the primary goal of its foreign relations, the Imperial Ethiopian Government opposed U.S. efforts to place land reform and agricultural development at the centre of its priorities in Ethiopia from 1950 to 1974. Although the Revolutionary Government, which deposed the Imperial Government and …
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Husbands scorned and fathers ignored : a social analysis of the Acts of Thomas
… lead to the persecution of the group, not by the imperial government, but by local paterfamiliarum whose families had been partially converted to this brand of celibate Christianity. The group responded to this threat by a variety of means, chief among which were strategies of confusion through …
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Domestic slaves in bulozi: the transition from slavery to freedom, 1780 - 1925.
… clause in 1918 in line with the demands of the imperial government. Finally, the 1925 Proclamation abolished all forms of slavery in Bulozi.
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Domestic slaves in bulozi: the transition from slavery to freedom, 1780 - 1925.
… clause in 1918 in line with the demands of the imperial government. Finally, the 1925 Proclamation abolished all forms of slavery in Bulozi.
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THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND THE BRITISH IMPERIAL DILEMMA
… histories of Confederation - the imperial government in Britain actually played a more active and dynamic role due to the strategic and political pressures arising from the American Civil War. Rather than this being a basic ‘withdrawal’, or ‘abandonment’ in the face of US power as …
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State aristocracy : resident senators and absent emperors in Late-Antique Rome, c. 320-400
… the end of the century, there were only two imperial visits to Rome. Secondly, a series of ceremonial, institutional and fiscal recalibrations magnified the visibility and extractive capacity of the imperial state. This doctoral thesis explores the impact of these developments on senators in …
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German Politics and the 'Jewish Question', 1914-1919
… and almost constant political crisis, the German government faced issues concerning citizenship, minority rights, religious identity, nationhood and statehood. My dissertation analyses these issues through the prism of the so-called 'Jewish Question'. The Jewish Question, I contend, casts …
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Terrorism, Law, and Sovereignty in India and the League of Nations, 1897-1945
… societies using bomb assassinations against the government. Chapter 2 then examines how these discussions change in the context of the First World War, when a language of war and concerns regarding third party German involvement provide the opportunity for the imperial government to strengthen …
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The Reaction of the the Russion Orthodox Church During the First Year of Communist Persecution
… <p>The red flag of Communism proclaimed the new government. Wherever it was seen there followed death and destruction. Russia was now truly red with the blood of her own people. Thousands were killed for political reasons, and countless thousands died as martyrs for their faith. Communism had a …
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The Power of Resurrection: Early Christian Resistance Through the Rise of Disciplinary Power
… was successful in overtaking the Roman Imperial government because it activated underlying disciplinary mechanisms of power in a world governed and controlled by sovereign power. Through this activation it created a space within which the Christian subject could be formed and envision …
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Telecommunications and underdevelopment: a policy analysis of the historical role of Cable and Wireless in the Caribbean
… quick and efficient links with a remote imperial Centre. In this thesis, we argue, however, that the Caribbean component of this colonial telecommunications system was designed not just to improve imperial political administration of a distant and scattered region, but even more directly …
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Commonwealth and states, 1901-1910 : a study of the executive and administrative relations of the seven governments of Australia in the first decade of the federal system
… of Australia, on 1 January 1901, added a new Government to the six already existing within the continent. The new Government had jurisdiction over the whole of the territory occupied by the six established Governments and removed, either at once or after an interval, some of the powers which …