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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Mutiny"”.
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The mutiny on the Meermin
During February and March of the year 1766, Dutch slaving vessel, the Meermin, be the site of an act of violent resistance, murder and an abortive bid for freedom. Approximately 140 Madagascan slaves revolted against the VOC crew manning the vessel and assume control of the ship; they were …
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The Bengal army and the outbreak of the Indian mutiny
… mutinied in 1857. It begins by comparing the pre-mutiny trends in the Bengal Army to those in its sister armies of Madras and Bombay: in particular the Bengal Army's changing pattern of recruitment, its growing list of professional grievances, the deteriorating relationship between its sepoys and …
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Mutiny on the Bounty : California Newspaper Reaction to WPA Strikes in July 1939
<p>What would be the reaction of American citizens to welfare recipients striking against the government which aided them?</p> <p>In July, 1939, over one hundred thousand Works Projects Administration (WPA) workers protested a change in working hours and salary by striking. WPA, created by …
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Scripting Anxiety/scripting Identity: Indian Mutiny, History, and the Colonial Imaginary, 1857--1911
… Identity examines the impact of the 1857 Indian Mutiny on British and Indian cultural consciousness and collective memory. I focus on anxious articulations about material objects, racial and sexual identities, and religion to argue these are symptomatic of a greater problem in mutiny narratives. …
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Scripting anxiety/scripting identity: Indian mutiny, history, and the colonial imaginary, 1857-1911
… Identity examines the impact of the 1857 Indian Mutiny on British and Indian cultural consciousness and collective memory. I focus on anxious articulations about material objects, racial and sexual identities, and religion to argue these are symptomatic of a greater problem in mutiny narratives. …
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A Social and Economic History of the 1797 Fleet Mutinies at Spithead and The Nore
… conclude that this was a, but not the, cause of mutiny. Through the study of mutineer writings, rhetoric, and behaviour, I argue that insult and hurt pride were key motivators of mutiny and that relative rather than absolute naval conditions were pivotal causes of dissatisfaction. I assert that …
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The gatekeeper: a biography of Liam Tobin
… 1924 Tobin and his comrades organised the Army Mutiny, which saw officers refuse their demobilisation orders and remove arms from various barracks across the country. While the mutiny was short-lived and was never viewed as a significant military threat to the government, the crisis lasted three …
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The impact of British Christian missionaries on Indian religious, social and cultural life between 1800 and 1857. With particular reference to the role of missionaries in the events leading up to the 1857 Mutiny
This study examines the impact of British Christian missionaries in the north of India between 1800 and 1857. The study focuses on the cross cultural encounter between the Christian Missionaries and the Muslim inhabitants of three Indian cities: Agra, Delhi and Peshawar. Alongside this, the role of …
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Peril, Pestilence, and Perfidy: The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877
When the British recaptured Lucknow after the Mutiny and Rebellion of 1857, they set about reconsolidating their power in Oudh. They devoted the next two decades perfecting a system of political, economic, and social control that would make future mutinies impossible. Their experience during the …
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Rite of Association: The Figure of the Secret Society and Victorian Democratic Debate
… ""papal aggression"" (1850), the Indian Mutiny (1857--58), and the unification of Italy (1859--70). These events and the democratic debates surrounding them serve as the context for close readings of literary texts like Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833--34), Wilkie Collins's The …
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"Because We Were Too English:" John Kaye and the 1857 Indian Rebellion
… it as an institution of progress. After the 1857 Mutiny, Kaye re-examined his standpoint on British interference in India. He did not forsake his paternalistic viewpoint, which allowed Kaye to examine how British actions had caused a divide between the British officers and the sepoys.
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Reconciling the "mystery letter" : Frémont's fourth expedition, John Kern Strecker, and the Baylor University Museum.
… letter weaves a harrowing tale of starvation, mutiny, and cannibalism. Significant to the history of the Western frontier, the letter also holds relevance to one of Baylor University's most beloved sons, John Kern Strecker. Revisiting Strecker and the Baylor University Museum through the lens …
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"About as shapeless as the Man in the Moon" : the representation of desire and transition in six films of Charles Laughton
… Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII, Mutiny on the Bounty, Les Misérables, Rembrandt and The Hunchback of Notre Dame communicate a thematically and stylistically coherent vision of human identity. Through these performances, Laughton expresses the limits and possibilities of freedom …
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Flack
… Moby Dick and invoked in Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny. It owes a substantial debt to Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, Joe Klein's Primary Colors, and Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972.</p>
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Singularity Deferred
… act of mass murder, and is forced to lead a mutiny against a ship's captain. In the course of events, he learns the necessity of taking control of his situation instead of being victimized by it. He sees the promise of a working anarchist society in action, and comes face-to-face with the …
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Religious allegory in Herman Melville's Billy Budd
… after Claggart accuses Billy of inciting mutiny. Billy's fatal blow represents Christ's triumph over Satan. The religious allegory prevails through the execution, the counterpart of Christ's crucifixion, and Billy's symbolic ascension.
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The surface image and ulterior psyches: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's anti-Nazi propaganda
… styles in an attempt to inspire an internal mutiny. This thesis argues that Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore's anti-Nazi resistance acts are a political performance that relies on multiple subject positions, invisibility, and absence as its dominant strategies. Cahun and Moore’s acts of …
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Military Aviation in Ireland 1921- 1945
… traumas of demobilisation, the Anny mutiny and reorganisation processes of 1923/24. The manner in which the Army leadership exercised command over, and directed aviation policy and professional standards affecting career pilots is examined in the contexts of the contrasting …
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The historical archaeology of settlement at Pitcairn Island 1790-1856
… entire population to Norfolk Island in 1856. The mutiny aboard the Bounty has been the focus of intense interest since news of the event first reached England in 1790 and a rich literature has substantially documented the subsequent voyage of HMS Pandora to capture those mutineers who chose to …
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