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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Political alliances"”.
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Essays in Development Economics and Political Economy
… research on mobile money to study the impact of political alliances between local politicians on household economic outcomes.
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ANNA DI SAVOIA IMPERATRICE E REGGENTE RUOLI E STRATEGIE DI POTERE FEMMINILE ATTRAVERSO LE CRISI DEL XIV SECOLO A BISANZIO.
… to a flexible use of her legitimacy and skilful political alliances, Anne was able to find effective responses to the multiple and profound crises of her reign.
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The Concept of Israel in the Old Testament and its Divine Purpose: an Exegetical and Theological Analysis
… links, intermarriage relationships, and political alliances. In a spiritual sense, the term Israel served as a characterizing title granted to Jacob first, to his descendants next, and then to all who accepted Yahweh as their God and demonstrated a genuine change in their moral lives …
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Native Lands in Enemy Territory: Indigenous and Asian American Veteran Erasure and Resistance in the Literature of War
… on war illuminates the unexpected social and political alliances between these communities as well as the various ways that military service and refugee status reshaped both. The novels that I explore here document these significant historical processes through various literary movements and …
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Murals and the Development of Merchant Activity at Chichen Itza
… in a vast economic network that created political alliances and syncretic art styles. Focusing on the mural tradition of Chichen Itza, this study proposes a chronological sequence for the wall paintings by examining their style, subject matter, and architectural setting. Analysis of the …
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Brasil Junho/2013: movimentos de rua e o direito de reunião aspectos sociais e constitucionais
… invaded the streets without leaders or political alliances that influence. The contesting movement began with the claim of reduced tariffs for public transport with the Movimento Passe Livre (MPL) of São Paulo then proceeded to question the whole system. Topics such as decent public …
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The Lost Cause: An Examination of the Defeat of the Confederate States of America
… infrastructure, economic diversity, industry, political strength, political alliances, and unity. In addition to the tangible deficits of the South, the Confederacy was also engaged in a struggle to create a nation while simultaneously waging war against an established nation. Each of these …
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That We May Exert Our Influence More Powerfully: Race, Politics and Identity in Ohio's Southeast Borderland, 1802-1865
… of free African Americans created a hostile political climate for African Americans. Despite anti-Black legislation and the fragility of freedom along Ohio's southern border, African Americans continued moving into Southeast Ohio, forming small communities across the rural landscape. As they …
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Conflicting narratives, the emergent third way, and peace: a constructivist approach to Ethiopia's conflicts
… constructed narratives shape elite perceptions, political alliances, and conflict dynamics. Through qualitative methodology - including in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and secondary analysis - the research reveals a deeply contested political landscape. While support for a federal …
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Debating sustainable development in global climate change policy: The “Cancún agreements” v. the “People’s agreement of Cochabamba”
… juxtapose these two climate conferences, and the political maneuvering of various political actors that led to them, to demonstrate how various national, regional, and international power configurations led to two very different approaches to climate policy. In doing so, I will demonstrate that …
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Disco Jalebi : an ethnographic exploration of Gay Bombay
… in the light of its emergent cultural, media and political alliances. I realize that Gay Bombay is a community that is imagined and fluid; identity here is both fixed and negotiated, and to be gay in Gay Bombay signifies being 'glocal' - it is not just gayness but Indianized gayness. I further …
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Thomas Swann: political acrobat and entrepreneur
… Party and began a decade of numerous shifting political alliances, in which he was a bellweather in anticipating the wave of the future. In 1864 Swann won election as Governor of Maryland on the Unionist ticket. In 1867 the Maryland legislature elected him to the United States Senate, but he …
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John Buchan (1875-1940) and the First World War: A Scot's Career in Imperial Britain
This dissertation examines the political career of Scottish-born John Buchan (1875-1940) who, through the avenue of the British Empire, formed political alliances that enabled him to enter into the power circles of the British government. Buchan's involvement in governmental service is illustrative …
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The Alternation Fallacy: Turnover without Transformation in Zambia (1991-2015)
… conflicts have far-reaching consequences for the political party system by giving rise to new parties, re-orientating ethnic and political alliances, and contributing to turnover in elections. However, the dissertation reveals that both the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy and the Patriotic …
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The Feasibility of Integrated Water Resources Management in Pakistan
… participatory irrigation policies have made political alliances in order to function exacerbating biases in water allocations. The study concludes that for IWRM to be effective, it must be accompanied by land redistribution to weaken the political power of landlords, legislative changes to …
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Picturing women in Urania by Mary Wroth and Clelie by Madeleine de Scudery
… context of a society functioning on the basis of political alliances, I move on to analyse ‘The loci of the feminine’, i.e. the configuration of female spaces in two texts. This analysis is developed in parts two and three of this thesis. The first part begins by examining the cultural milieux of …
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Life on the edge: Community and trade on the Anglo -American periphery, Pemaquid, Maine, 1610--1689
… with one another over land, commercial and political alliances. The English fishing settlement of Pemaquid was a key player in this world. Pemaquid emerged as one of New England's earliest year-round settlements after its beginning as a migratory fishing station in the early 1610s. In those …
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Tangled Lines: the Origins, Performance, and Effects of Commercial and Recreational Fishing Discourses in Carteret County, North Carolina
… to nature-society research in the fields of political ecology, cultural and economic geography, and environmental history. This project has three main objectives: (1) To analyze how historic narratives about fish and fishing have changed over the past century; (2) To evaluate the resource-use …
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Inventing "crime" in a lawless land: legal conflict, racial formation, and conquest in the North American interior
This dissertation analyzes the changing political relationships between European agents of empire, who were usually associated in some way with the fur trade, and indigenous peoples of the continental interior north and west of Lake Superior. It examines the period between the fall of New France in …
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Space-times of Exile: Mobility, Temporality, and Place-making among Kurdish and Left-wing Political Refugees from Turkey in Greece
… fieldwork among Kurdish and left-wing political refugees from Turkey and North Kurdistan (Eastern and Southeastern Turkey) in Greece between 2020 and 2022, this dissertation addresses questions of space and time in political exile as a lived experience of displacement/emplacement. Since …
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