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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"International History"”.
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The Rhodesian crisis in British and international politics, 1964-1965
This thesis uses evidence from British and international archives to examine the events leading up to Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) on 11 November 1965 from the perspectives of Britain, the Old Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), and the United States. Two …
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Conflict, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Postcolonial African Regional Order, 1957-1963
This thesis is a work of International History and an investigation of the birth of inter-African relations from Ghana’s Independence in March 1957 to the establishment in May 1963 of Africa’s first and wholly owned political organisation, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa. The …
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The National Park Service Division of International Affairs: The Case for International Perspectives, 1916-2016
… historians and the NPS on the agency’s national history, these scholars have ignored how the NPS was shaped by and contributed to an international history of national parks. Thus, this thesis addresses this historiographical gap and institutional forgetfulness by examining the agency’s Division …
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Saharan Fallout: French Explosions In Algeria And The Politics Of Nuclear Risk During African Decolonization (1960–66)
… Algerian Sahara. This dissertation pursues an international history of French nuclear ambitions and the resistance and the criticism that they faced at regional, international, and global scales. It does so by tracking radioactive debris from the French explosions—Saharan fallout—and the …
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Repairing the legacies of transatlantic slavery
… enrichment to create a causal chain between the history of transatlantic slavery, via colonialism and segregation, to present-day national and international racial inequality. This thesis argues that such conceptualisations of reparations oversimplify the history and legacy of transatlantic …
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The potential use of land readjustment as an urban redevelopment strategy in the United States : assessing net economic value
… method of land assembly has an extensive international history, but is virtually unknown to professional planners and real estate developers in the United States. Its potential benefits are many. It promises to produce efficient development patterns, maximize value creation, minimize …
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Having a bath in Japan: a biographical study of actress and black belt jūdōka Sarah Mayer (1896-1957)
… was encouraged by founder, Jigorō Kanō, a known internationalist in outlook. As the trip continued, the Japanese government promoted Mayer’s tour as part of the drive for modernism. Primarily, this thesis analyses the reasons for her unprecedented acceptance as a Western woman by Kanō and the …
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Uncovering the Hidden Palestinian City of Jerusalem: Disrupting Power Through Art Intervention
… that emanate from my urban drifts and oral history fieldwork involving 24 Palestinian refugees and exiles, to create Interventions on the written page and through my art practice. My approach to oral history research takes Into account the storyteller-listener dynamic. This includes my own …
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Tracing the ancestral roots and the flow of pedagogical practices in the development of ballet teaching from 1950 to 2016 in Perth, Western Australia
In the history of dance, that of ballet is but a fragment. The art of ballet is affiliated with the arts of music, literature, and those of the visual arts: its international history covering some 500 years. This thesis spotlights Perth, the capital of Western Australia (WA) and one of the world’s …
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Imperial Germany and the Politics of the International Gold Standard, 1834-1879
Thesis abstract redacted (under embargo).
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Analysing the international civil liability regime for oil pollution damage caused by ships and aligning with it the South African civil liability regime for oil pollution damage cause by ships
… extensive, and it is for this reason that the internationalisation of a civil liability regime for oil pollution damage was initially proposed. The first move towards an international civil liability regime came when states which were affected by an unprecedented oil spill made it clear that …
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Isthmuses, Empires, and Internationality, c.1850-1924
… imperial geography, histories of the future, and internationality. In the nineteenth century, technological developments combined with globalising impulses to inspire a range of ambitious transisthmian engineering works. From the perspective of European and North American imperial geographic …