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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Rebels"”.
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Storytellers, Dreamers, Rebels:
Peter Carey has been discussed in academia since the 1980s. And since then these discussions revolve around postmodernism, postcolonial studies or, indeed, both at once. So, either Peter Carey has been writing the same old novel for nearly thirty years by now, or there are whole worlds in his …
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The rebellious mind: explaining which people become rebels
Conflict scholarship has developed a complex understanding of how socio-economic factors influence the individual choice to join a rebel group, but conflict scholarship also lacks progress an understanding of how an individual’s predispositions toward specific behaviors influence this decision. …
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Inveterate rebels : Nathanael Greene's North Carolina campaign, 1780-1781
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Inveterate rebels : Nathanael Greene's North Carolina campaign, 1780-1781
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Politics among rebels: the causes of division between dissidents
… has established that conflicts with multiple rebels groups are among the most severe cases in terms of duration, fatalities, and possibilities for recurrence. Yet, we know little about why the structure of rebel movements varies. This dissertation seeks to resolve that gap. I argue that the …
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Rebels, Activists, and Repairers: Youth and Social Change in Africa
The popular media commonly depicts children and young people in Africa as either hopelessly undernourished and in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, or as dangerous, unruly and caught up in violence, gang activity, and warfare. As a result there has been a cascade of nongovernmental …
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The Master of the Rebels: Teenage Encounters with Shakespeare, 1944-2012.
… characters and teenage subjects cast as rebels or romantic consumers. I argue that a narrow canon of School Shakespeare has emerged, with Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet recast as plays about romantic consumption, limiting the political roles of teenagers to onlookers rather than rebellious …
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Rebels and representation : Kurdish human rights and the limits of advocacy
… ascertain the implications for human rights when rebels become the only advocates of a population targeted by mass violence. The specific focus is placed on the case of Kurdish rebel organisations from Iraq and Turkey. Lacking an ability to organise freely within either state, these groups …
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I Won't Be Reconstructed: Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, And Popular Song
The following thesis traces the life of a song generally known as “I'm a Good Old Rebel” to explore the impact of popular culture on the creation of Civil War memory. Penned in the aftermath of Lee's surrender and containing lines like, “I hate the Yankee Nation / And everything they do; / I hate …
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Radical Religious Rebels: The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority.
<p>In this thesis, I intend to illustrate the impact that Jerry Falwell had upon the rise of religious fundamentalism within the United States during the latter part of the 20th century. By elucidating the various factors that led Jerry Falwell from a little-known minister from Lynchburg, Virginia …
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Lusty Rebels and Lonely Men: Interrogating 1950s Masculinity in the Films of Nicholas Ray
<p>This thesis explores depictions of masculinity in three 1950s films directed by Nicholas Ray. The male characters depicted in In a Lonely Place (1950), The Lusty Men (1952), and Rebel Without a Cause (1955) fall victim to the inherently performative nature of hegemonic masculinity. Each film …
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Rebels, Wanderers, and Castaways: Characterizing Small Social Groups in the Literature of Empire, 1849-1914
This project uses pivotal texts belonging to several nineteenth-century literary subgenres—adventure fiction, school stories, the historical novel and spy fiction—to argue that literary representations of small social circles create distinct narrative shapes and modes of characterization. The small …
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Thieves Apostates and Bloody Viragos: Female Irish Catholic Rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
… Protestants and their perceptions of female rebels. I was aided by the earlier efforts of historians such as Nicholas Canny and Mary O'Dowd. In the course of this thesis, I intended to argue that the actions of Irish Catholic women in the rebellion were largely determined by their social …
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Playboys, Single Girls, and Sexual Rebels: Sexual Politics 1950-1965: A Trilogy of Significant Developments.
<p>In the years between 1950 and 1965, three significant developments in American culture left women struggling to merge the housewife archetype of the Cold War era with changing attitudes toward sexuality. Because of these cultural shifts, the developments that dominate the research presented here …
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Rebels of Laicacota: Spaniards, Indians, and Andean Mestizos in Southern Peru During the Mid -Colonial Crisis of 1650--1680
The present dissertation studies the conflictive development, construction, and re-definition of ethnicity in mid-colonial Peru. Its focus is on the problem of cultural and ethnic identity formation among Spaniards, Indians, and mestizos (mixed-bloods) in the colonial Andes, and the links and …
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On Mass Media, State Capacity, And Civil Conflict
… capacity literature must assume that prospective rebels possess complete regime capabilities information; whereas, prospective rebels will know to rebel when the regime has a sufficiently weak, low revenue, and/or an incoherent political institution. I begin my dissertation by contending that …
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Transformation of Rebel Movements into Political Parties in Transitions from Civil Conflict: A Study of Rebels' Decision-Making amid Violence in El Salvador and Zimbabwe
… through negotiated settlements in which rebels abandoned their arms and entered the political arena. While many scholars have studied revolution and democratization in depth, few have focused on explaining the transformation of rebel movements into political parties. Under what conditions …
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Intervention, war expansion, and the international sources of civil war
… war. I argue that civil wars expand when rebels and third parties underestimate the government's resolve, and there are three key predictors of interstate war: the size of the local stakes relative to the third party's territory, the rebels' loss of autonomy when receiving external …
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The partisan politics that led to the Spanish-American War
… American intervention in Cuba on behalf of the rebels. This show of support for the Cuban rebels by politicians was designed to rally the American public around a common cause and highlight the difference between them and the unpopular President Cleveland who opposed American involvement in …
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Savage rulers: state-sponsored mass killing during civil war
… not examining what makes civilians buttress the rebels. My dissertation fills this gap by theorizing and testing the linkage between factors that generate civilian support for insurgents and extensive mass killing committed by the government. I claim that secessionist war, external support for …
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