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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Territorial expansion"”.
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Toward a “Greater Morocco”: Moroccan irredentism and Cold War territorial expansions
… thesis presents a series of case studies on the territorial expansion plans inspired by the concept of “Greater Morocco,” and irredentist ideology supported by Morocco’s ultra- nationalist politicians, notably Allal Al-Fassi, and implemented by the Moroccan government during the Cold War. The …
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The french influence in New England
… Chapitre 4: "Religious Freedom", Chapitre 5: "Territorial Expansion", Chapitre 6: "Influential Pioneers", Chapitre 7: "Accomplishments and Versatility".
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"We Only Have Words Against/ POWER SUPERPOWER": Literary Politics and the Subversion of Imperialism in Dos Passos' U.S.A.
Despite a history of territorial expansion, "In the United States it is almost heresy to describe the nation as an empire" (Van Alystne 6). Refuting such tendencies for historical revisionism, Dos Passos' U.S.A. portrays an America where both classical and neoteric imperialisms pervade American …
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Nurturing utopia : Jeffersonian expansionism in contexts, 1760-1810
… I call the Jeffersonian ideology of westward territorial expansion. It consists of five chapters, all looking at a different aspect of this ideology, and it focuses on the years 1780-1810, a period when (from a broad perspective) Jefferson can be considered to have been at the height of his …
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Istanbul viewed : the representation of the city in Ottoman maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
… their making relates both to Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion and to the appropriation of Constantinople as its new capital. Their cartographic language combines, in different manners, the familiar conventions of Islamic miniature painting with artistic forms encountered and assimilated …
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Liberalism and the problem of colonial rule : three-stages in Anglo-American thought
… early twentieth century, the West, through the territorial expansion of empire, established itself as the dominant authority within the global political order. Ideologically inspired conflicts in the first half of the twentieth century, Cold War tensions and the process of decolonization, …
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The production of rurality : social and spatial transformations in the Tamil countryside 1915-65
… a) urbanization understood simply as the territorial expansion of certain kinds of built environment associated with commodity production; and b) urbanization as the reproduction of capitalist modes of production of space on an expanded, planetary scale. Empirically, the dissertation …
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Violence and American Statebuilding, 1860-1895
… with overarching state priorities including territorial expansion, industrial discipline, and the generation of racial order. The dissertation narrates an ideological and institutional story centred on ascertaining whether the US was invested in maintaining a monopoly over the legitimate use …
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Saving the "Slaves of Kings and Priests": The United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Catholicism
… anti-Catholic rhetoric to sanction U.S. territorial expansion while opponents relied on exclusionary anti-Catholic rhetoric to justify halting the further acquisition of territory. Regardless of how they were used, both missionary and exclusionary anti-Catholic rhetoric resonated with …
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Maintaining Empire
… While existing research on empire focuses on territorial expansion, this study proposes a working definition of empire that centers on coercion and manipulation of the domestic population to demonstrate how empires sustain themselves. Additionally, this thesis portfolio demonstrates how …
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Šintoistinės maldyklos už Japonijos įtakos ribų imperijos ekspansionizmo laikotarpiu /
… particularly in the context of the political and territorial expansion of the Japanese empire at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter provides the historical and religious context for the emergence of State Shinto in …
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Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy
The territorial expansion of Rome in the second and first centuries B.C. was accompanied by an influx of foreign luxuries and fashions into Italy. Roman,society and literature responded to this influx ambiguously, but the overall tone was one of disapproval. The association of luxury with women, …
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Exporting the racial republic: African colonization, national citizenship, and the transformation of U.S. expansion, 1776-1864
… claims to political rights, the bounds of US territorial expansion, the removal of native populations in North America, and the racialization of national citizenship, both at home and abroad. By examining African colonization from these perspectives, this dissertation argues that the United …
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Voices of the War in Donbas: Exploring Identities in the Affected Communities Through the Prism of War Songs
… vision of the war, aiming for cultural and territorial expansion as a means of fulfilling a historical mission.
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National Identities in the Context of the USSR's Westward Expansion: Visions of Poles and Ukrainians in Soviet Cinema, 1925-1941
… the ideological groundwork for Soviet westward expansion and, from 1939, incorporating Poland’s eastern territories into the Stalinist state. It shows how images of the Polish enemy remained a constant feature on the Soviet screen throughout the 1920s and 1930s. It outlines how filmmakers, …
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Planting improvement : the rhetoric and practice of scientific agriculture in northern British America, 1670-1820
… justification for British imperialism through territorial expansion and early modern economic development. British American and anglophone colonists of a range of status positions embraced agricultural improvement, though to different degrees and in different ways. For all settler-farmers, …
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An archaeological investigation of the Kirfi area, northern Nigeria: craft, identity and landscape
… deployed to understand cultural developments and territorial expansion in African societies. Ideas about economic systems, settlement and social factors resulting in population movements and the definition of cultural identities are key to exploring the complex cultural make- up of the last …
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