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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Late colonial"”.
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Political theologies in late colonial Buganda
… an intellectual history of political debate in colonial Buganda. It is a history of how competing actors engaged differently in polemical space informed by conflicting histories, varying religious allegiances and dissimilar texts. Methodologically, biography is used to explore three …
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Telling Fragments: Politics of the Short Story in Late-Colonial India
… best suited to respond to the urgencies of anticolonial nationalism and the challenges of secular democracy, this thesis stakes a claim for the short story as a form that played a vital role in instilling a radical consciousness in the period leading up to the Independence and Partition of India …
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Race, Gender, and Beauty in Late Colonial India c.1900-1950.
… and modernity for emerging middle-class women in colonial India during a time of global transformation. Most contemporary scholarship to date focuses on the impacts of twenty-first-century skin-lightening markets and advertising without adequately historicising colourism. Taking an …
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Social Production of Hygiene: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism in Late Colonial Bengal and India
… discourse of modern and public colonial institutions in India.
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Race, gender, and recogimiento: Discursive negotiations of space, sexuality, and productivity in late colonial Mexico
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Foreign Objects in Local Contexts: Mortuary Objectscapes in Late Colonial Nubia (16th–11th Centuries BC)
… Century BC (in this thesis referred to as the Late Colonial Period), the ancient Egyptians colonised Nubia—the geographical area which today comprises Egypt south of Aswan and the north of Sudan as far as the 5th Nile cataract. In the Late Colonial Period, the material culture from various …
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'Feats of fancy' and 'marvels of muscle': a social history of swimming in late colonial Melbourne
The history of competitive swimming in nineteenth century Australia has been relatively well documented, with several publications dedicated to the social, cultural and statistical dimensions of the sport. However, little academic attention has been directed toward the manner in which swimming was …
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Maghrebis in Marseille: North African Immigration and French Social Welfare in the Late Colonial and Postcolonial Eras
… the origins of the project they launched in late colonial Marseille, initially under the auspices of a specialized welfare network for Muslim North African clients, to “integrate” Muslims from the Maghreb region of North African (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) into French society, and follows …
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FROM MARKAZ TO MULK: LAHORE, MAGAZINES, AND THE PLACE OF URDU IN LATE COLONIAL INDIA, 1900-1950
This dissertation examines how geographies such as the city, region, country, and world were elaborated in and contributed to the development of 20th century Urdu culture. Focusing on Lahore, where Urdu was not the native language, I show how the city came to be recognized as an important space of …
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Enabling and inhibiting urban development : a case study of Lahore Improvement Trust as a late colonial institution
… 'testing out' or for furthering a particular colonial agenda. These inherent structural beliefs were carried through numerous cycles of 'reform' before being applied onto the Improvement Trust network which, this study argues, followed a strict path dependent paradigm in a late colonial …
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Markets and Hierarchies in Late Colonial Spanish America: The Royal Tobacco Monopoly in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1752--1813
… argue, contrary to the prevailing view, that the colonial state was effective in the extraction of rents. This result casts doubt on the alleged relative weakness of the colonial state in the Andean region. Major remittances were sent to Madrid between 1787--1797, but a great proportion of tobacco …
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ASHRAF 'ALI THANAWI'S BIHISHTI ZEWAR: MUSLIM FEMALE PIETY UNDER THE DEOBANDI MOVEMENT IN BRITISH INDIA
… directed towards women of the ashraf class in late colonial India. The study explores the both religious and secular literature in Urdu produced during the dusk of imperialism in India. It concludes that female piety was similarly imagined by both the 'ulama and the secular writers during that …
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Anti-colonial radio broadcasts to British East Africa and their audiences, c. 1940-1963
… the influence of international broadcasting in late colonial East Africa, focusing on the audiences to radical anti-colonial broadcasters including Radio Cairo, All India Radio, Radio Moscow and Radio Peking. By examining broadcast transcripts, colonial reports and personal memoir, it seeks to …
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Imagining Modernity in the Uganda Prisons Service, 1945-1979
… history of the Uganda Prisons Service in the late colonial and early post-colonial periods. Focusing particularly on prison officers, it advances four key arguments. Firstly, it argues that global visions of the prison were crucial in shaping the Service’s development, its institutional …
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Planning the "Multiracial City" : architecture, decolonization and the design of stability in British Africa (1945-1957)
… families. This dissertation examines how these late-colonial housing projects were part of a larger effort to maintain control over British Africa during a moment frequently described by colonial officials as "instable," but which for many others held the promise of a different, independent …
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“Essentially cyclonic:” Race, gender, and disaster in modern mauritius
… Afro-descendant Mauritians lived, and how the late-colonial state surveilled women’s bodies in response to Malthusian anxieties over population control and ecological stability.
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The arbiter state : governance of the minority at the micro-level
… governance of the minority at the micro-level in late colonial India. While the colonial production of micro-level state authority was inescapably conditioned by numerous political struggles between colonial subjects, the centrality of the minority in this story of state formation and citizen …
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'If We Govern Ourselves, Whose Son is to Govern Us?': Youth, Independence and the 1960s in Lesotho
… about their own conceptions of the nation in late colonial and early independence Lesotho. These youth drew on a wide range of local, national and international ideas to push for institutional change that would benefit themselves as individuals, and the nation as a whole. Tapping into larger …
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The wider KwaZulu-Natal region circa 1700 to the onset of colonialism: a critical essay on sources and historiography
… essay dealing with historical productions on the late independent era (the late “pre-colonial” epoch) of the wider KwaZulu-Natal region. The project pays particular attention to the development of the historiography and examines how it has shaped and in turn been shaped by the source material over …
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Muslim women in colonial North India circa 1920-1947 : politics, law and community identity
… between gender and Muslim community identity in late colonial India. It pursues two broad themes. The first of these is the way in which gender issues were used symbolically by Muslim religious and political leaders to give substance to a community identity based largely on religious and cultural …
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