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Showing 1 to 20 of 250 for “"Revolutions"”.
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Revolutions in the Republican Imagination: American Perceptions of the 1848--1849 Revolutions in Europe
"The sudden, dramatic revolutions that occurred throughout Europe in 1848--49 captured the imagination of Americans and generated a diverse variety of responses. The establishment of the Second Republic in France, the Hungarian struggle for independence from the Hapsburg Empire, and Louis Kossuth's …
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French Musical Criticism Between the Revolutions (1830-1848)
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Progress In Scientific Revolutions: The Problem Of Semantic Incommensurability
If two successive theories are semantically incommensurable, we have no way to make a complete comparison of their contents. If so, we have no way to verify that the highly confirmed content of the successor is greater than that of its predecessor, and we cannot verify that scientific knowledge has …
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Cognitive foundations of strategic behavior : from games to revolutions
… I show the importance of public events in revolutions: a self-interested government prevents the generation of common knowledge among the citizenry when times are bad. In the second chapter, I develop a model of cognitive type spaces which incorporates Level-k and Cognitive Hierarchy (CH) …
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The Processes of Degeneration: The Spanish and Russian Revolutions Compared.
… Russian (November 1917) and Spanish (July 1936) revolutions. It examines how two different theoretical approaches to revolution—Marxism and Anarchism—operating under similar structural conditions (underdevelopment, civil war, and crisis) follow parallel trajectories of what I call the processes …
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User-Generated Content and Revolutions: Towards a Theorization of Web 2.0
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how characteristics of Web 2.0, users’ beliefs on freedom of information in the Web, and external forces combine to create social stability and how changes in these factors can lead to revolts. While still an emerging phenomenon, the web has evolved …
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The European Revolutions of 1848 and the Danubian Principality of Wallachia
This thesis uses the Wallachian Revolution of 1848 as a window through which to see and study questions about time, revolution, national and European identity, personal and popular sovereignty, and the relationship between central and local interests in mid- nineteenth-century Europe. It argues …
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Unexpected Unexpected Utilities: A Comparative Case-Study Analysis of Women and Revolutions
Women have been part of modern revolutions since the American Revolution against Great Britain. Most descriptions and analyses of revolution relegate women to a supporting role, or make no mention of women's involvement at all. This work differs from prior efforts in that it will explore one …
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Natural Resource Revolutions: Mexico and Cuba Within the Sphere of U.S. Hegemony
… contexts surrounding both the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions and their struggle against imperialist-driven interventions by the United States in Latin America and the Caribbean. I argue that through strategic decisions, the Mexican and Cuban revolutionary governments were able to ward off U.S. …
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Revolutions and 'Rough Cuts': Bodily Technologies for Regulating Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
Studies on the regulation of sexuality in the Islamic Republic of Iran are often focused on the regulatory tool of criminalization in relation to sex and sexuality. More recently, popular academic debates have centered on the revolutionary sexual practices among a subculture of upper-middle class …
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Computer Revolutions: Reflections on New Communications Technologies and Revolutionary Change in Systems
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The causes of religious wars : holy nations, sacred spaces, and religious revolutions
… to defend holy nations, sacred spaces and revolutions aimed at creating religious governments-and tests three variables for their ability to explain the conditions under which religious wars arise: threat perception, the intertwining of political and religious authority, and the amount of …
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On Cinema and Revolutions: Tricontinental Militancy and the Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution
This thesis explores and analyses the Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution as an expression of Third Cinema, a political and aesthetic project created and sustained by filmmakers throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America during the 1970s. The research is an attempt to place the Cinema of the …
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Prestige, manipulation, and coercion : elite power struggles and the fate of three revolutions
How do leaders win power struggles in Leninist regimes? Many political scientists emphasize the importance of institutions in such regimes. Such institutionalization allegedly provides a mechanism for distributing patronage and debating policies, stipulates rules that delineate a group that selects …
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Revolutions of the heart : cultivating love as a means for personal & collective transformation
This thesis is an exploration of people and places who, through our own lived experiences, have come to realize that the physical, ideological, and institutional separation caused by dominant American cultures and institutional arrangements has had injurious effects on ourselves and our society. By …
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Corresponding Republics: Letter Writing and Patriot Organizing in the Atlantic Revolutions, circa 1760-1792
… early years of the American, Dutch and French Revolutions of the late eighteenth century. The heart of the project is a study of revolutionary leaders' correspondence and epistolary practices. Letters were the lifeblood of all early modern politics--the means to share information, develop …
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Agricultural revolutions in America’s heartland: the corn belt and the making of American capitalism
… the epicenter of two successive agricultural revolutions that fundamentally transformed world accumulation and world nature. The analysis is centered on the development of successive agricultural revolutions over the longue durée of capitalism, with the greatest attention on the nineteenth and …
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A Comparative Study of the Factors that Contribute to the Success of Non-Violent Revolutions
What enables some non-violent revolutions to succeed while others do not? Examining Poland's nonviolent revolution of 1989 and Serbia's Bulldozer Revolution in 2000 as case studies, this thesis analyzes the impact of certain factors on the success of non-violent protests. This thesis argues that …
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