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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Polities"”.
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Perilous Polities? Regime Transition and Conflict 1950-2000
While evidence continues to mount that democracies resort to military force reluctantly, the transition to democracy may in fact be a dangerous and conflictual one. With the eyes of the world now focused squarely on democratization, a reassessment of the relationship between regime change and …
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Unruly Landscapes: The Making Of 1St Millennium Bce Polities On Cyprus
This dissertation is an examination of emerging landscape practices in one region of Cyprus during the early 1st millennium BCE (ca. 1100-700 BCE). The work argues that shifting environmental contexts and social practices co-constituted a re-investment in this region, the Vasilikos and Maroni …
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(Dys)Functional Polities: The Limits of Politics in the Postcolonial Arab Region
… and Gramsci, and what I call (dys)functional polities. These, I argue, are endpoints on the spectrum of successive political positions that characterise modern polities. In the contemporary globalised world, both the monopoly of violence and hegemony cannot be understood in a localised sense. …
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A regional analysis of the Kaya polities in Korea: Chronology, economy, and sociopolitical interactions in systemic perspective
… of socio-political interactions among Kaya polities. Physical environment, agricultural productivity, and exchange system were examined to explain the development of multiple peer polities in the riverine area. These implications were incorporated in an evolutionary model in a regional …
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The Analysis Of Contact-Era Settlements In Clay, Lowndes, And Oktibbeha Counties In Northeast Mississippi
… were used to evaluate possible locations of the polities of Chicaza, Chakchiuma, and Alimamu discussed in the De Soto chronicles. Sites in Clay, Lowndes, and Oktibbeha counties were chosen due to the existence of the large cluster of sites around Starkville, and because these counties have been …
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An Early Modern Islamicate Port: The Politics and Society of al-Zubāra, 1766 – 1842.
… scattered merchants and ʿulamaʾ –formed such polities and conceived of themselves as part of the broader regional world spanning the Middle East and South Asia. It is of interest then, not merely to see ports such as al-Zubāra as a forerunner to later national histories or as part of a …
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Remaking Chineseness: The Transition Of Inner Asian Groups In The Central Plain During The Sixteen Kingdoms Period And Northern Dynasties
… and local institutions of the Inner Asian polities in the Central Plain, which are the succession system and the local administrative system. In the first case study, through applying the crown prince system, the Inner Asian rulers reached the centralization of authority, which was …
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Interpreting Cultural and Sociopolitical Landscapes in the Upper Piura Valley, Far North Coast of Perú (1100 B.C.- A.D. 1532)
… the sociopolitical interaction between the local polities of the Upper Piura River Valley and the southern foreign Northern North Coast polities has been assessed. The Far North Coast is not an environmentally "marginal" area as compared to the Northern North Coast. Yet, in terms of its …
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Mercenaries in History and the Modern Era: Impact of the Privatized Military Industry on U.S. Security Interests
… mercenaries have been employed by various polities, yet reliance on mercenaries has traditionally weakened empires. The Periclean strategy necessitated an increase in mercenaries during the Peloponnesian War. This increase initiated a self-perpetuating cycle of decline, leaving the …
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From The Mouths Of Mississippian: Determining Biological Affinity Between The Oliver Site (22-Co-503) And The Hollywood Site (22-Tu-500)
… was a period of immense interaction between polities as a result of vast trade networks, regional mating networks which included spousal exchange, chiefdom collapse, and endemic warfare. This constant interaction is reflected not only in the cultural materials but also in the genetic …
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From the Body of the Faithful to the Invention of Religion: The Long Reformation for International Relations
… society granted authority to myriad polities in fifteenth and sixteenth century questions of societal governance. In international relations, the late medieval period has rarely been given much attention; scholars have argued that the late medieval period is too "local" of an event to …
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On the Periphery of a Great "Empire": Secondary Formation of States and Their Material Basis in the Shandong Peninsula during the Late Bronze Age, ca. 1000-500 B.C.E
… is the states that may have been formerly Shang polities and accepted Zhou rule after the Zhou conquest of Shang. On the one hand, this dissertation examines the dynamic social and cultural process in the eastern periphery in relation to the expansion and colonization of the Western Zhou state; …
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Does similarity equal relationship? An archaeological study of Tsindi, a Dzimbahwe site in North-eastern Zimbabwe
… the presence of multiple but independent polities on the landscape. Future research must, however, explore in more detail the nature of the relationships between individual polities such as Tsindi and similar ones such as Mutoko, Tere and among others Harleigh Farm that are associated with …
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The Green Table: Gambling Casinos, Capitalist Culture, and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
… inequality gradually disappeared from European polities, hierarchy and status difference were re-inscribed on a new basis, rooted in cultural distinction and the ability to make decisions in risky circumstances.
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Lasting Marks: The Legacy of Robin Cassacinamon and the Survival of the Mashantucket Pequot Nation
… between these Algonquian and English polities. By operating in the gaps and intersections where these polities met, Cassacinamon and the Pequots carved out a place for themselves within the regional social and political power structure. By focusing on Cassacinamon's story, a greater …
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Consociational democracy : the model and its relevance to conflict regulation in South Africa
… system for South Africa and, more broadly, for polities characterised by extreme ethnic or economic conflict.
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Being Venus: An Alternative Beauty
… in the Medici circle -- ranging from sexual polities to the influence of Humanism. <em>Being Venus</em> VW introduces 1ess commonly-known information about the court of Lorenzo “The Magnificent,” its business dealings, and interpersonal relationships by integrating traditional research in art …
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A Study of Political Borders and Their Formation in the Hellenistic Period
… borders are shown to be as diverse as the polities that developed them, environmentally determined in some cases, artificially delimited in others. They are contested and transgressed, defended and demarcated, recognised and ignored. Their development attests to varied imperial aspirations …
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A History of the Ovambo of Namibia, c 1880-1935
… were organised into different kingships and polities, highly differentiated in social character. This thesis examines processes of socioeconomic change over a period when two separate external forces impinged on the isolated floodplain: firstly merchant capital, followed by colonial rule …
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