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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Modern-state Building"”.
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The Anglo-Dutch Imperial Meridian in the Indian Ocean World, 1795-1820
… of these empires generally focus on their early modern rivalry through patterns of war and trade that subsided after Britain’s invasion of Dutch colonies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815). Instead, this thesis unearths the relationship between Britain’s capture of …
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Landing Security: Risk, Endogeneity, and the Archives of Colonialized Planning in Morocco
… secure allegiances, quell anxieties, and fortify state sovereignty. This power does not only lie in the material possession of land or its potential for economic investment, but also in the bureaucratic processes through which land tenure becomes legitimate, stable, and thus uncontestable. …
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“Obstructed embrace”: The ID card institution in Shanghai, 1945-1949
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Metric reform as a workshop of scientific and economic governance in revolutionary France
… the intellectual and scientific elites, state administrators, large-scale traders, members of the artisanal world and of the engaged reading public. In the revolutionary period, members of these different (and fluctuating) groups formulated, influenced, and responded to a metrological …