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Showing 1 to 20 of 431 for “"Political History"”.
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Political history of McLennan County.
… is intended to include the major events in the history of McLennan County from a political point of view, to show the influence that certain leaders have had upon the destiny of the country, and to depict the part played by this county in the affairs of state. In short--it has been the purpose …
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Political history of the Serbian media in transition (2000-2006)
… and extent of the media reform is set by the political elite through political culture and institutions. Partially successful transformation of Radio Television Serbia into a public service broadcaster shows that mere introduction of regulatory models from mature democracies into a country …
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Freemasonry and the Political History of Sierra Leone: 1890 – 1992
… fresh analytical framework, provides an original history of Freemasonry in Sierra Leone, and explains how it developed into an institution based on a narrow social stratum in the capital city, failing to deliver on its ideals of equality and openness. It reassesses Cohen’s thesis of the political …
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Contribution of Kapasa Makasa to Zambia's political history from 1947 to 1991
… white domination to a sufficiently high level of political consciousness to demand a change in the status quo.Another major argument of this study is that although Makasa held such important posts in the nationalist government which he served for twenty seven years,his contribution to national …
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The Socioeconomic and Political History of Tanda Women, Zimbabwe, C. 1963-2024
This thesis examines the socioeconomic and political history of Tanda women, Zimbabwe, from 1963 to 2024. It posits that these women actively leveraged periods of armed conflict and socioeconomic upheaval to contest patriarchal systems and redefine conventional gender roles, thereby asserting their …
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Water First : a political history of hydraulics in Vietnam's Red River Delta
… infrastructure has depended upon the active political and economic participation and support of water users, and not the absolute power of the state. The political economic history of the hydraulic bargain highlights the relative power of peasants to influence the direction of large-scale …
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Water First : a political history of hydraulics in Vietnam's Red River Delta
… infrastructure has depended upon the active political and economic participation and support of water users, and not the absolute power of the state. The political economic history of the hydraulic bargain highlights the relative power of peasants to influence the direction of large-scale …
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A Socio-Political History of Griqua Women in Griqualand East, c. 1950 – 2005
This thesis examines the social and political history of Griqua women in Kokstad, South Africa, between 1950 and 2005. It explores how women shaped, resisted and were shaped by the political structures of their time. Although the East Griqualand Pioneers Council (EGPC) emerged as the leading …
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Policing the Borders of An Empire: A Political History of Tagging (1960–2008)
… targets fundamental questions about the political history of electronic monitoring in the US -- a practice also known as tagging. I concentrate on the understudied and essential period that starts in 1960 with the birth of electronic monitoring and ends in 2008 with the Postville raid, …
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Aspects of the social and political history of Langa Township, Cape Town, 1927-1948
This study focuses on the social and political history of Africans in Langa Township from 1927 to 1948. Langa conveniently and justifiably serves as a good case study of the urban African experience because it is the area in Greater Cape Town, during this period, where there was the largest …
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Competition Between Public and Private Revenues in Roman Social and Political History (200-49 B.C.)
This dissertation applies the principles of fiscal dissertation to the study of the Roman Republic. I argue that the creation of a profitable empire allowed the ruling elite to end their reliance on domestic taxation to fund state activity, and that Rome's untaxed citizens were effectively …
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The British general election of 1923; an anomaly or the election that changed British political history?
… an election that changed the course of British political history. The research that underpins the thesis draws substantially on a broad range of primary sources from political archives and an analysis of national and local newspapers.
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Cairo’s Coffeehouses In The Late Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Centuries: An Urban And Socio-Political History
… EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURIES: AN URBAN AND SOCIO-POLITICAL HISTORY Alon Tam Heather J. Sharkey Coffeehouses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Cairo were an urban hub for working- and middle-class men, as well as for a growing number of women, for politicians, revolutionaries, intellectuals, and …
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Reflections in Stone: Four Venetian Villas of Andrea Palladio as Expressions of Sixteenth Century Venetian Political History
… wished to project to the world. The economic and political turmoil of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century forced Venice to reevaluate its position. While architecturally aligning itself with the authority of ancient Rome, Venice extolled the inner strength and accord of its political …
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Political history TV dramas and the representation of Confucian China : the regulation, emergence and politics of a new genre
… a distinctive television genre categorised as ‘political history TV drama’ (PHTD), produced in Mainland China since the 1980s. Situating the genre in its historical and political contexts of production, I make particular reference to the orchestrating role of the Chinese state, the political …
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Avian Nation: a cultural and political history of blue cranes in southern Africa, from the precolonial past to present
… the blue crane as a historical agent and history-maker in its own right. In pursuit of writing birds into African history, this study considers what blue cranes themselves have done to actively shape, influence, change, and inspire human histories. It is being argued here that despite the …
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