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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"State Formation"”.
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Military Institutions and State Formation in the Hellenistic Kingdoms
… and the capacity to wage war remained central to state formation in the Hellenistic Age (323-31 B.C.). The creation of institutions and recruitment of populations sufficient to field large armies took a great deal more time and continual effort than has generally been imagined. By bringing …
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Geopolitics, State-Formation and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario
… histories of France, Britain, the United States, Ontario, and Quebec in order to show that capitalism did not arrive on the shores of the St. Lawrence River with the first settlers. The dissertation also brings together pieces of the uneven intra-regional histories of these regions, and …
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The Malayan Dilemma: Race, Power and State Formation in Malaya
… unravels the history behind the making and transformation of the country’s three major race categories – Malay, Chinese, and Indian – as the legacy of a series of power struggles dating back to the British and Japanese colonial eras. This study departs from prior studies that have not …
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Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access.
… the middle of the sixteenth century, the Spanish state set in motion a process of territorialization to control access to forest resources for naval shipbuilding, affecting state and local relations, the politics of resource accessibility, and forest management practices all over Spain. This …
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The post office and state formation in modern China, 1896-1949
… Imperial/Chinese Post Office contributed to the formation of the modern Chinese state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In particular, this is a study of how the nineteenth and twentieth century internal and external crises in China began a process in which the Post Office …
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Seeing Turkish state formation processes: Mapping language and education census data
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Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria
… has developed as an ideology within a regional state system where Kurds lack national representation or recognition. This ideology has manifested itself into a fractured movement where the contemporary state borders that separate the Kurdish population at large have proven to be both a limiting …
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Census-taking, political economy and state formation in Britain, c. 1790-1840
… institutions of the modern British state. This dissertation is about why legislators and political economists first sought to quantify demographic change in the early nineteenth century. The first chapter explains the administrative organisation of census-taking under John Rickman, …
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Statebuilding versus state formation: the political economy of transition in Iraq and Libya
… exemplary of a decline in the expectations that statebuilding fervour can contribute to the full-fledged transformation of societies intervened upon. From the intervention in Iraq under the banner of “armed liberalism” to the “post-interventionist” approach that guided the intervention in Libya, …
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Solid State Formation of Barium, Strontium, and Lead Feldspars in Clay - Sulfate Mixtures
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Worlds of Authority, Communities of Practice, and State Formation in Early 1st Millennium Central Korea
Processes of state formation remain a key topic of debate in archaeology, with linear evolutionary models coming under increasing scrutiny and alternative models of social complexity accompanying these critiques. Studying the transition from Mahan (Late Iron Age; 100 BC – 300 AD) to the Baekje …
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Building on Sand: The Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army and State Formation in South Sudan
This thesis examines the state formation process in South Sudan through an in-depth, historicized analysis of the exercise of power of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). It explores key elements of the trajectories of state formation in South Sudan by examining the nature …
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Universal pensions in Mexico City : changing dynamics of citizenship and state formation in a global city
… at city residents 70 years of age or older. A state-centered framework for social policy analysis is used to understand why and how was this policy implemented at the local level considering that it pertains a policy area that is normally restricted to national states. In order to show that …
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Exploring Legal Multiculturalism in the Irish Sea: Multiculturalism, Proto-Democracy, and State Formation on the Isle of Man from 900-1300
… between proto-democracy, multiculturalism, and state formation. In the introduction, I express the desire to ascertain how legal multiculturalism on the Isle of Man could be viewed as a product of the shared proto-democratic character of the Irish and the Norse legal traditions. Further, I wish …
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Imperialism, state formation and the establishment of a Muslim community at the Cape of Good Hope, 1770-1840 : a study in urban resistance
One of the most significant and yet least studied developments of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Cape Town is the emergence and growth of a muslim community. So dramatic was this process, that by the end of the period of slavery, well over two thirds of the town's non-European …
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The archaeology of Mapela Hill, South-Western Zimbabwe
… with the development of class distinction and state formation. However, most research focus has been on K2 and Mapungubwe in the Middle Limpopo Valley, the presumed first state capitals of the region. Mapela Hill is a site located outside the Middle Limpopo in south western Zimbabwe. …
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