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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Revolts"”.
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The path to free education: exploration of student revolts in South African Universities from an archival perspective
Forms of student resistance for social change have challenged and shaped the political customs of South Africa for decades. This was shown in the recent 2015/16 student uprisings in tertiary institutions that brought the public to a standstill and provided immediate debate on the future of …
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User-Generated Content and Revolutions: Towards a Theorization of Web 2.0
… and how changes in these factors can lead to revolts. While still an emerging phenomenon, the web has evolved from a set of hyperlinked pages to an increasingly social experience with user-generated content. Sites that harness Web 2.0 technologies typically increase in usefulness as more users …
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The Kurdish nationalist movement and external influences
… are. The primary topics covered are Kurdish revolts, leaders, Kurdish political evolution, and the roles which local and non-Middle-Eastern countries have played in Kurdish national development. The primary countries, as actors, are: Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the United States, and the …
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Victims of Hope: Explaining Jewish Behavior in the Treblinka, Sobibór and Birkenau Extermination Camps
… of the Treblinka, Sobibór, and Birkenau revolts using secondary sources and selected survivor testimony. Finally, in Chapter VI, I isolate select parts of the previous narratives and apply my argument to demonstrate its validity as an explanation for Jewish behavior.
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Ionian Revolt, Reconsidered
… of the Naxian Expedition, Ionian and Cypriot Revolts, and the Battle of Lade, was an attempt by some Ionian Greeks to overthrow Persian tyranny for their own personal despotisms. Herodotus, as an opponent of tyranny, should write this account with praise for this attempted coup. His account …
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The Bengal army and the outbreak of the Indian mutiny
… context of the recent historiography of military revolts. Its conclusion is that the essential cause of mutiny in 1857 was not the defence of caste and religion, as is generally supposed, but service issues particular to the Bengal Army.
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Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV's France
… and the Crown's military response to fiscal revolts, and the enforcement of Louis XIV's religious policies, focusing on the dragonnades of the 1680s and the counterinsurgency campaign waged against Protestant rebels in the mountains and plains of Languedoc. The study examines: (1) the …
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Beyond the Movement: Contention, Affinities and Convergence in New York, Cairo and Paris
Amid the 2011 Arab Revolts, and the subsequent worldwide Occupy movement, social movement scholars faced sudden, powerful mass mobilisations without easily identifiable resources, networks, or forms of organisation underlying them. These instances of mobilisation beyond the scope of what we …
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Awakened Lambs: Jewish Armed Resistance in the Ghettos, 1939-1944
… reveal that whether planned or spontaneous, revolts in the ghettos were mainly motivated by the desire to die with dignity and only occasionally in the hope of saving the participants or the ghetto inhabitants.
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The Magic, the Mountain and the Muti: towards an interpretation of Marikana as marronage
… the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre, the 1960s Mpondo Revolts and the 2000s Xolobeni protests. In light of this, I suggest that the Marikana striker's political praxis are indicative of a unique epistemology of resistance - an epistemology that points to a longer and yet, more invisible lineage of …
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… Empire, from the Napoleonic Wars until the Greek revolts, reveals how diplomacy on the borderland became an important instrument to promote and oppose European expansionism at the Porte. It also reveals how local elites used their role in the Ottoman diplomacy to survive the political changes that …
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Empire Displaced: Ottoman-Habsburg Forced Migration and the Near Eastern Crisis, 1875-1878
… but over the course of three years cascaded into revolts and violence across the Ottoman Balkans and led to a major European diplomatic crisis. The Treaty of Berlin of 1878, which ended the violence, reconfigured the political geography of the Balkans, making the former Ottoman provinces of …
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A compendium of Colombian policing challenges : from Pablo to present
… Colombia saw violence continue with peasant revolts in the 1920s and 30s, la Violencia in the 1940s, the formation of the insurgent groups like the FARC and ELN in the 1960s, the creation of drug cartels in the 1970s and their transformation into narco-terrorist groups and then micro …
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Domestic slaves in bulozi: the transition from slavery to freedom, 1780 - 1925.
… other hand, slaves themselves staged a number of revolts to show disapproval of their status leading to Lewanika issuing a proclamation ‘Abolition of slavery’ in the year 1906, which King Yeta III upheld but repealed the Compensation clause in 1918 in line with the demands of the imperial …
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Domestic slaves in bulozi: the transition from slavery to freedom, 1780 - 1925.
… other hand, slaves themselves staged a number of revolts to show disapproval of their status leading to Lewanika issuing a proclamation ‘Abolition of slavery’ in the year 1906, which King Yeta III upheld but repealed the Compensation clause in 1918 in line with the demands of the imperial …
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Black British subjects in Cuba: race, ethnicity, nation, and identity in the migratory experience, 1898-1938
… foreign intervention, social and political revolts, and economic depressions). The racial, ethnic, and identity dynamics in the interaction between the migrants, Cuban society, and the consular representatives are examined in detail. The study avoids the generalisations that are prevalent in …
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Trama: Artists’ Initiatives and the Politics of Autogestión in Contemporary Argentina
… the aftermath of the economic crisis and popular revolts of December 2001. Premised on the notion that the crisis encompassed significant transformations in all spheres of life, the thesis examines the key role of artists’ initiatives based on autogestión in the reconfigurations within the art …
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