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Showing 1 to 20 of 261 for “"Nation Building"”.
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Wilderness Nation: Building Canada's Railway Landscapes, 1885-1929
Central to Canadian identity is a national consciousness of inhabiting a country of vast landscapes, which are often identified as "wilderness." This thesis explores the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's use of architecture, landscape, and spatial techniques to construct Canadian concepts of …
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Tracing Anti-Communist Nation-Building in South Korea
… has always been the cornerstone of South Korea’s national identity. The Rhee government, the very first of the post-Independence era, created the basis for anti-communist state-building. This thesis focuses on how the South Korean and the U.S. governments succeeded in internalizing anti-communism …
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State and Nation-building, stabilization, and development in Afghanistan
… than two decades of conflict, capped by a severe nationwide drought in 1999-2001, and faces a complex, interrelated set of political, administrative, economic, and social challenge. The objective of this study was to analyze Afghanistan's human development based on specific criteria such as …
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Manpower development and nation-building : Singapore's experience
… is the most fundamental means of enabling a nation to acquire the capacities to bring about its desired future state of affairs -- a more mighty and wealthier nation. Singapore's brief nation-building history justifies the emphasis accorded to the importance of good quality human resources …
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Racial nation building in Panama: Mestizaje and US influence
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Abusua, age, and nation building in postcolonial Ghana, 1949-2000
… on public encounters between the institutions of nation and family, this study asks how state agendas in Ghana—amid transitions from colonial oversight to independence influenced, absorbed, reflected, or deflected widespread social values and practices. Governmental vision that targeted fiscal and …
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“Reckoning the nation: 19th century statistics, probability theory and nation-building.”
… the ‘black box’ of statistics through an examination of an early phase of social statistical history: the national statistics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. My research question asks: how were statistical techniques - including list-making, social category standardization and …
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Tribal economic development bonds : lessons learned and implications for nation-building
… peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development." Despite the premise of this commitment, Tribal Governments face limitations on the ability to issue tax …
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Mass schooling, Nation Building and the Sovereignty of the Kenyan state
… of this study was to investigate whether Kenya's national policies of education are consistent with the principles of nation building and state sovereignty. The investigation involved developing eight multiple regression models. Each model utilized one dependent variable, one independent variable …
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Politics of Nation Building & Belonging: Democratization, Revolution, Civil War, & the Modern Salvadoran
… cooperation. My study of the Salvadoran nation building process is essential for understanding both distrust of the state and social polarization because democracy without constitutional constraint infringes on freedom, prosperity, peace and in a broader context contributes to the erosion …
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Architecture and Nation-building in Mid-20th Century Urban Turkey and Iraq
… moments in the development of each countries' nationalisms (the 1930s in Turkey and the 1950s in Iraq). The plans it focuses on are Hermann Jansen's plan for Ankara and Constantinos Doxiadis' plan for Baghdad.
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The Battle For The Battle of Adwa: Collective Identity and Nation-Building
… the opportunity to create a new Ethiopian nation.</p> <p>The Battle of Adwa represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of the nation of Ethiopia. That evolution stretches back 3,000 years, and through its long history of nation-building, Ethiopian nationalism has evolved along with the …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity and nationhood in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To date, no study has taken a biographical approach to any of the hundreds of American sailors who were …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity and nationhood in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To date, no study has taken a biographical approach to any of the hundreds of American sailors who were …
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Stateless nation building: early Puerto Rican cinema and identity formation (1897-1940)
… centers on the processes of Puerto Rican national identity formation as seen through the historical development of cinema on the island between 1897 and 1940. Anchored in archival sources in film technology, economy, and education, I argue that Puerto Rico’s position as a stateless nation …
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Values, nation building and control: The Singapore mass media in the next lap
… relationship with and control of the media as a Nation Building apparatus. It looks at the Government’s continued desire to control the media and struggle to re-negotiate its position due to the development of new media technologies, such as satellite television, which have the ability to elude …
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Lumberjacks, Muscular Christianity, and Nation Building: Creating an Aspirational Canadian Masculinity, 1820 – 1912
… a new masculine ideal and symbol of a Canadian national identity. Examining Canadian literature, both fiction and non-fiction, through gender and cultural history methodologies and interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, such as intersectionality, literary cartography, literary geography, and …
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Mega-events in Kyrgyzstan (1991-2017): Power legitimacy and Unintended/Indirect Nation-building
… historical commemorative dates and/or mark the national culture. Namely, I look into the following mega-events: Osh City’s 3000-year anniversary in 2000, Kyrgyzstan’s 2200-year anniversary in 2003, Manas Epic’s1000-year anniversary in 1995 and the World Nomad Games (WNG) introduced in 2012. The …
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