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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"National Politics"”.
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Conservatives, National Politics, and the Challenge to Democracy in Britain, 1931-37
… attitudes to democracy, the constitution, Labour politics, state intervention, Liberalism, and the party’s own electoral base. Conservative intellectual debate mostly demanded loyalty to Baldwin and the parliamentary system of government. As such it provided a major cultural, intellectual, and …
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Civic visions, national politics, and international designs : three proposals for a new urban center in Tehran (1966-1976)
… proposed plan, prepared by Llewelyn-Davies International, consisted of a large plaza and two boulevards lined with governmental and commercial buildings-an extravagant project made possible by the 1973 oil boom that quadrupled Iran's revenue. But the Shah's vision was never realized: construction …
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NAVIGATING ‘NATIONAL FORM’ AND ‘SOCIALIST CONTENT’ IN THE GREAT LEADER’S HOMELAND: GEORGIAN PAINTING AND NATIONAL POLITICS UNDER STALIN, 1921-39
… the interaction of Georgian painting and national politics in the first two decades of Soviet power in Georgia, 1921-1939, focussing in particular on the period following the consolidation of Stalin’s power at the helm of the Communist Party in 1926-7. In the Stalin era, Georgians enjoyed …
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The Sentinels of Order: A Case Study of Social Control and the Minneapolis Settlement House Movement, 1897-1950 (Minnesota)
… had a significant influence on city and often, national politics, they comprised only a small portion of the national settlement house community. Little emphasis has been placed on the smaller settlements that spanned the distance from New York to Los Angeles.
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Politics of the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism and Diplomacy in Afghanistan (1919–2001)
Amid the wave of heightened nationalism sweeping across the Middle East in the wake of World War One, Afghanistan gained ‘independence’ from British control of its foreign affairs. Afghan political leaders immediately sought to form a progressive nation-state from a culturally, ethnically and …
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The lobbying activities of provincial mercantile and manufacturing interests against the renewal of the East India Company’s charter, 1812-1813 and 1829-1833
… interests could exercise minor influence on the national politics. This thesis has contributed to three issues related to Cain and Hopkins’ gentlemanly capitalist thesis. The firs issue is the degree of influence of provincial commercial and manufacturing interests on the formation of Britain’s …
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Soe Hok-Gie : a biography of a young Indonesian intellectual
… set against the background of Indonesian politics during the 1960s. The biography begins in Chapter 1 by sketching Soe's family background and considering those factors that moulded and conditioned his personality and his perceptions of the world around him: the immediate family circle, …
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Soe Hok-Gie : a biography of a young Indonesian intellectual
… set against the background of Indonesian politics during the 1960s. The biography begins in Chapter 1 by sketching Soe's family background and considering those factors that moulded and conditioned his personality and his perceptions of the world around him: the immediate family circle, …
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The political relationship between central government and the local administration in Yorkshire, 1678-90
… of early modern England. In this thesis the politics of the period is re-evaluated with the help of source material deriving specifically from Yorkshire. Its primary focus is the complex relationship between central government and its agents on the one hand and a wide range of local …
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'Now of little significancy'? The Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, 1651-1688
… that the convention played an important part in national politics despite an apparent decline in influence. Under the English occupation in the 1650s it was one of the very few national institutions to survive and it was successful in lobbying for the burghs’ interests and also as a consultative …
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The European Revolutions of 1848 and the Danubian Principality of Wallachia
… see and study questions about time, revolution, national and European identity, personal and popular sovereignty, and the relationship between central and local interests in mid- nineteenth-century Europe. It argues that liberal intellectuals in the two Danubian Principalities thought about their …
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Dragging Out (In)Difference: Explorations of the Cultural and Affective Politics of Drag Queens' Performances in Toronto, Canada
… meditation on theaffective, cultural, and national politics of drag performance amongst drag queens and other “feminine-expressing/presenting” drag performers in Toronto, Canada. Based on 24 months of fieldwork within various queer urban spaces and drag performance contexts as both an …
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Using the Local News: Campaigns, Newspapers, and Accountability
… local newspapers remain critical to American politics. Local newspapers inform and empower voters, but are subject to influence and distortion by campaigns. I establish the importance of local newspapers by testing for differences in political knowledge between readers of local and national …
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Presidential Campaigns, White Evangelicals, and the New Republican Coalition
… competitive and increasingly important in national politics. Secondly, leading white evangelical ministers are able to serve as mediators between Republican politicians and their own followers. Their authority among their followers rests on a widespread feeling among white evangelicals that …
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Jorge Eliecer Gaitan and his term as mayor of Bogota, Colombia, June 1936 to February 1937
… of April 9, 1948, ended a twenty-year career in national politics.<sup>1</sup> The Colombian writer-diplomat, Juan Lozano Y Lozano, has distinguished Gaitan as the man most responsible for creating a "new mood: in twentieth century Colombian politics.<sup>2</sup> Essentially, this "new mood" is …
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The politics of English : a study of classroom discourses in a township school
… without a consideration of the history and national politics of English in that country. But, as all these writers emphasise, politics also extends to the contemporary local context in which the learning takes place, the roles and relationships in the classroom, and to literacy practices.
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Creating the modern South: political development in the Tar Heel State, 1945 to the present
… World War, the interaction between state and national politics played a significant role in the development of the state's two-party system. By the end of the twentieth century, a competitive two-party system supplanted one-party politics. Historians have written extensively about political …
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Limits of Liberation: Youth and Politics in Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement
… and socialist transformation. Although the MST’s politics of redistribution have attracted significant attention from activists and academics worldwide, little ethnographic attention had yet been paid to the experiences and subjectivities of rural youth affiliated with the movement. By attending …
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Youth Politics between Informality and State Violence in Nairobi, Kenya.
This thesis explores the complex politics of youth in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, as they negotiate between a globalized neoliberal economy and a very localized regime of state violence carried out by police. Situating youth politics in Kenya’s post-independence political history, it …
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