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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Tories"”.
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The reading of Newton in the early eighteenth century : Tories and Newtonianism
… which Newtonian natural philosophy could be put. Tories and Jacobites frequently used Newton's science in political and religious debate to defend Tory High-Anglicanism and Scottish Episcopalianism, in spite of the numerous examples of Tory High-Church natural philosophers who saw Newton and his …
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The Tories and the Soviets: the British conservative reaction to Russia, 1917-1927
… occasion, almost as contentious an issue for the Tories as it was for the Labour party. For some Conservatives , dislike of Communism as an ideology was tempered at times by a desire to make accommodations with the Russian Communist state .</p>
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Thorns in the side of patriotism: Tory activity in southwest Virginia, 1776-1782
… (Botetourt, Montgomery, and Washington Counties) Tories is important because of the presence of the all-important Lead Mines in what was then Montgomery County. During the Revolution the Montgomery Mines supplied the needs of the Continental Army, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the state of …
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Jonathan Swift, political journalist.
… the Whigs in 1710, and his realignment with the Tories. His first journalistic effort for the Tories was the Examiner, a Tory periodical. Swift's task was to defend Robert Harley's coalition Ministry, and to castigate the late Whig Administration. His success was largely a result of his brilliant …
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Phallic/ies and Hi(s)stories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, From Slave Spirituals to Rap Music
… both lyrics and texts, ""Phallic/ies and His(s)tories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, from Slave Spirituals to Rap Music"" traces the unique---and ironic---survival and transformation of a literary political tradition initiated by the male members of an early nineteenth-century …
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A Standalone High Frequency Receiver System
… organized by the Air Force Research Labora- tories (AFRL). The systems are calibrated to selected sites and thus require Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) characterization of the sites. The project includes building and using four standalone systems with associated power, antenna, RF, and …
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British Conservatism, 1945-1951: adapting to the age of collectivism.
… to office just six years later. While the Tories languished in the wilderness, Labour enacted a series of sweeping changes, nationalising large swathes of the economy, establishing a National Health Service and implementing many of Beveridge’s social insurance recommendations. When the …
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Jonathan Boucher: Moderate Loyalist and Public Man
… to understand Jonathan Boucher, the Tory of Tories, the adversary of Locke and egalitarian principles, the spokesman for Filmer in America, and the divine rights advocate. The whole complex of Boucher's life has been examined, with particular emphasis on the pre-Revolutionary years of crisis …
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Imitation Learning with Superhuman Policy Gradient Optimization for Sequential Cancer Treatment Decisions
… complete, temporally consistent patient trajec- tories, enabling safe and reproducible training. Unlike conventional behavior cloning, SPGO optimizes a subdominance loss that explicitly rewards surpassing the expert across multiple clinical outcomes, including relapse at year three and …
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POLITICS AND PERSONAL LIFE IN THE ERA OF REVOLUTION: THE TREATMENT AND REINTIGRATION OF ELITE LOYALISTS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY VIRGINIA
… to the Crown, sought to identify and remove Tories in their communities, and worked to prevent the reentry of these Loyalists into postwar Virginia. Those loyalists who attempted to return to Virginia realized that continual attention was required to shape and present an image that would …
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The structure of politics in Cheshire, 1660-1715
… the county. In chapter four the local Whigs and Tories' views on religion and the constitution are dealt with in greater detail. This chapter also examines the reasons behind the Duke of Monmouth's progress through Cheshire, and haw the Crown's determination to defeat the Exclusionists affected …
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The television policies of the UK administrations of Margaret Thatcher and John Major 1979-1997
… partly from internal contradictions within the Tories' overall free-market project. The thesis concludes with an examination of the light that Tory television policy during this period sheds on the wider political debate on `Thatcherism' and the international context of UK television policy …
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A Soldier of the Revolution: Joseph Winston and the Surry Backcountry of North Carolina
… of bitter internecine strife, as Whigs and Tories struggled for supremacy. It is the intent of this thesis to demonstrate that Joseph Winston made a variety of important contributions to the Revolution in Surry County. His contributions to government were threefold: he was a member of the …
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The social and economic history of The Standard and Fleet Street 1653-1900
… urging of The Duke of Wellington and other High Tories. Under the editorship of Dr. Stanley Lees Giffard, the paper opposed Parliamentary Reform and the repeal of the Corn Laws and was strongly anti-Papist in outlook. The diverse personalities of two key figures in the paper's early days, Dr. …
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The political debate over war strategy, 1689-1712.
… background of the expectations of both Whigs and Tories that England would now fight as naval auxiliaries; and attenti-on is drawn to the wide-spread interest in Caribbean warfare. The internal disputes within the Tory ministry in 1702-04 over war strategy are analysed, and the strategic ideas of …
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Butlers of the Mohawk Valley: Family Traditions and the Establishment of British Empire in Colonial New York
… John Butler and grandson, Walter Butler were Tories and Loyalists during the American Revolution. An imperial identity was one that they claimed for themselves in a country where other, alternative identities were possible. For the Butlers, the British imperial ethos informed the nature of …
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Les voies/voix radicales en Angleterre, 1789-1848
… from revolutionary reformers to paternalistic Tories. We were interested to clarify the meaning of the term radical because its inclusive nature was overlooked by historians. That’s why the term radical figures in the original title of our dissertation Les voix/voies radicales (radical …