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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"Massacre"”.
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John Adams and the Boston Massacre trials
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Reconstructing a film in fragments : Xasuqii means massacre
The thesis discusses techniques for reconstructing a film about mass graves in Northern Somalia (Somaliland), the search for unanswerable questions, and navigating the trauma involved in the cinematic process. In 2019, Somalia is just as fragmented as it was during colonization. During the Somali …
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The massacre at My Khe 4: a different story.
… those historians who have mentioned the 'other' massacre in Son My have usually presented it as a strand in the story of My Lai. Careless research has led some to argue that the massacres were the result of an order to destroy Son My and its people and the US Army has also been accused of trying …
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Uncovered : the cover-up of the My Lai massacre.
In the midst of a war that was being fought not on open battlefields but in dense jungles, an atrocious event occurred in the presence of soldiers of the United States military. Over five hundred Vietnamese civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, died at the hands of U.S. soldiers …
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Massacre, memoir, and myth: The 1866 Fetterman Fight, a reconstruction
… histories of the 1866 Fetterman Fight, or Massacre. Thesis foci include myths of the 1866 Fort Laramie Treaty, the July 1866 Skirmish at Crazy Woman's Fork, Jim Bridger's role from May 1866 to spring 1867, and the December 1866 Fetterman Fight. Beginning in 1867, Colonel Carrington, Captain …
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Written on the Rocks': The Mythopoetics of the Almo Massacre
… the evolved narrative associated with the Almo Massacre, in which 295 overland emigrants, camped at the Silent City of Rocks along the California Trail, were said to have been massacred by a vast accumulation of united Indian nations. This examination includes a review of the historic context of …
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Written on the Rocks': The Mythopoetics of the Almo Massacre
… the evolved narrative associated with the Almo Massacre, in which 295 overland emigrants, camped at the Silent City of Rocks along the California Trail, were said to have been massacred by a vast accumulation of united Indian nations. This examination includes a review of the historic context of …
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"too notorious to be denied": The Murdering Gully Massacre(s)
… thirty Aboriginal people had been killed in a "massacre" that involved "Hamilton, Taylor and Broomfield". Seven other Aboriginal people would provide similar accounts. Eight weeks later, Sievwright arrived at the massacre site to find Taylor had fled, and local colonists provided depositions …
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Boipatong : the politics of a massacre and the South African transition
The Boipatong massacre has been widely recognised as a key moment in the South African transition, yet limited scholarly attention has been given to the details of this event. The massacre is frequently cited as an example of state complicity in the political violence that shook the country during …
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Commitment Beyond Morality: American Complicity in the Massacre at El Mozote, El Salvador, 1981
… thesis will discuss in depth the most important massacre perpetrated by the Salvadoran military. While the American government maintained publicly that respect for human rights was one of the main goals of its mission in El Salvador, the six billion dollars of aid and American actions in the …
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The Sand Creek Massacre and the History of Greater Reconstruction in the American West
… project, I plan to center the 1864 Sand Creek massacre that took place in the southeastern Colorado Territory as a marking point in the Civil War in the West and Greater Reconstruction. This massacre involved the brutal murder and mutilation of an estimated 200 Cheyenne and Arapaho people by …
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Through the Fog of History: The Nanjing Massacre through the Lens of Documentary Modes
… the processes of constructing history in Nanjing Massacre documentaries tell us about the shifting patterns shaping the event's collective memory?", this thesis explores two aspects of the Nanjing Massacre documentary films: the historical representation and the construction of the collective …
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Instability of Empire: Earthquake, Rumor, and the Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese Empire
… explains the incident empirically---the massacre of Koreans sheds light on the development of subjective narratives on collective violence in the culture of empire. In an attempt to explore the relationships that weave together disaster, rumors, massacre, and narrative-making in an …
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Du suffrage universel au massacre identitaire : Violences électorales en Côte d'Ivoire (1990-2011)
Depuis le retour du multipartisme dans les années 1990, la Côte d'Ivoire a connu de multiples crises pré et postélectorales violentes. Comment la violence électorale à haute intensité s'est-elle déployée dans le jeu électoral national ivoirien entre 1993 et 2011 ? Notre étude montre que ces crises …
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Enduring suffering: the Cassinga Massacre of Namibian exiles in 1978 and the conflicts between survivors' memories
… into 'living testimonies' of the Cassinga massacre. Customarily, at every occasion marking this event, a survivor is delegated to unpack, on behalf of other survivors, 'memories of Cassinga' so that the inexperienced audience understands what happened on that day. Besides survivors' …
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Monumental Change: Recontextualization and Inclusion Through the Lens of Denver’s Civil War Monument and the Sand Creek Massacre
… Engagements includes Sand Creek. The Sand Creek Massacre was an attack on a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho by Colorado’s 3rd Regiment that resulted in the murder and mutilation of hundreds of members of the tribes. This thesis examines the impact of past and current efforts to …
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The price of freedom: the battle of Saltville and the massacre of the Fifth United States Colored Cavalry
… Saltville Va. (Oct. 3, 1864) and the subsequent massacre of wounded prisoners from the 5th United States Colored Cavalry has been a neglected and misinterpreted topic. The narrative follows the Federal advance from Kentucky to southwest Virginia including Confederate delaying actions. The work …
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British reactions to Amritsar and Croke Park : Connections and comparisons
… explores British reactions to the Amritsar Massacre 1919 and the Croke Park Massacre 1920. It centres on the British Government’s response to these massacres, and the perspectives of two opposed political groups: the British and Irish Unionists, and the Labour Party. Connections and …
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