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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"Radicalism"”.
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Student Radicalism in Tennessee, 1954-1970
This dissertation examines student radicalism in Tennessee between Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in Kent, Ohio in May 1970. As the first statewide study of student activism, and one of the few examinations of …
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The Growing Threat of Islamic Radicalism in Europe
… is becoming a proverbial Petri dish for Islamic radicalism. The declining birthrates of native Europeans and the increasing immigration rates of Muslims are giving radical Islamists the chance to preach their culture and religious views, including those of extreme radical nature, e.g., jihadism, …
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Fabricating radicalism : Ephraim Pagitt and seventeenth-century heresiology.
… England 'fabricated' the religious radicalism which they claimed to describe. This means that many of the heresies in heresy-lists and related polemics (what I have called 'heresiology') were embellished and exaggerated through a variety of verbal and metaphorical strategies. This …
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“L’éternel immigré”: identity and radicalism in France since 1962
… its relationship to both Islamist and far-right radicalism. It argues that the lingering legacies of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) have contributed greatly to the current identity crisis in France, especially with regards to the North African and Muslim communities, as well as the …
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Back to Black: Black Radicalism and the Supplementary School Movement
… was applied to inequalities in schooling. Black radicalism argues for a Black independent education. Black supplementary schools are spaces organised by concerned members of the Black community and offer extra teaching of mainstream curricula and also Black studies. These are presented as …
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Asymmetry of will : the effect of religious radicalism on state military doctrine
… In particular I explore the effect of religious radicalism on Iran's acceptable casualty rates for its naval operations. A successful ideologically based strategy appears to have three necessary components: terrorism as a tool for pursuing political objectives, religious ideology as a generator …
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The origins and impact of an American radicalism : a history of Technocracy, Inc.
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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The feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor in Victorian Britain and Ireland
… an examination of the feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor. Despite the growth of interest in the political and social campaigns of nineteenth century women, Helen Taylor has remained a marginal figure of historical enquiry, referenced mainly in terms of her relationships with her …
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Films Lost in the Cosmos: Radicalism and the Reception of Jean-Luc Godard's Movies
… avoid totalizing assumptions about a film's radicalism, build bridges between real experience and theory, and enrich the humanism-masquerading-as science of much of film theory with a sense of play and performance. I conclude with an example of this confessional analysis, as I use my …
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An Analysis of Prophetic Radicalism in the Social Crisis Preaching of Kelly Miller Smith, Sr.
ABSTRACT AN ANALYSIS OF PROPHETIC RADICALISM IN THE SOCIAL CRISIS PREACHING OF KELLY MILLER SMITH, SR. Anthony Tyshawn Gardner, PhD The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2019 Chair: Dr. Hershael W. York This dissertation provides an analysis of the social crisis preaching of Kelly Miller …
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
Scholars often view political texts as mere propaganda, characterized by rigid ideologies rather than the nuance of literature. This text argues the opposite through a study of post-1945 American radical movements. Far from generating simple propaganda, social movements create rhetoric and imagery …
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Reform Ideas of the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers (Free Trade, Cobden, Radicalism, Manchester School, England)
Historians have long recognized the central role of the Anti-Corn-Law League and its members in promoting the cause of repeal of the corn laws and adoption of free trade, but there is much evidence to suggest that their interest in the cause of reform went well beyond the mere repeal of the corn …
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Radicalism at the Margin : The New Emergence of the Chinese Trotskyist Movement in Hong Kong, 1969-1981
… the “unknown” Trotskyist history of Chinese radicalism. Compared to previous studies on Chinese Trotskyism in mainland China prior to 1952, based on newly-available archival sources and other primary materials, this thesis explores the new political emergence of Chinese Trotskyist movement in …
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Community Photography: Radicalism and a Culture of Protest in the London-based Photography Collectives of the 1970s
‘Community photography’ in the London-based photography collectives was born of the social and political conditions in Britain in the 1970s. It drew impetus from protest within the Women’s Liberation Movement, and experience from political campaigns on childcare, sub-standard housing, the …
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Alternative Ulster: voices of political radicalism, cultural empowerment and social dissent within loyalist paramilitarism in Northern Ireland since 1966
This thesis considers the political thought that has been threaded throughout the history of loyalist paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland since the outbreak of the modern troubles in the mid-1960s - a political voice that would often speak in more radical tones than anything else emanating …
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Exporting radicalism within the empire: Scots Presbyterian political values in Scotland and British North America, c.1815-c.1850
This thesis offers a reinterpretation of radicalism and reform movements in Scotland and British North America in the first half of the nineteenth century by examining the relationship between ecclesiology and political action. It considers the ways in which Presbyterian political theory and the …
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