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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Unfree"”.
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The Unfree in the Anglo-Norman Realm c.1000-c.1100 with special reference to slavery
This thesis is a comparative study of the unfree in Normandy and England in the eleventh century. The unfree formed a large percentage of the population in these areas, along a scale from the most unfree, the slaves, to the nearest to freedom, arguably the villeins. Although this thesis is …
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Frontier Capitalism and Unfree Labor in Middle Appalachia: The Development of Western Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1760-1840
<p>Slavery and unfree labor have been a subject of growing interest for historians, particularly when dealing with frontier areas and the rise of capitalism. Recent studies have shown that slavery and unfree labor existed well into the antebellum period in the North despite the lack of legal …
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BIVALENT SOCIAL FREEDOM: A DEFENCE
… To this end, they make a distinction between unfreedoms and mere inabilities: one is unfree when one’s inability is brought about by others (in the above example, the workers) but merely unable when one’s inability is brought about by oneself or nature (in the above example, the landslide). …
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"An Army of Working Men:" Military Labor and the Construction of American Empire, 1865 to 1915
… It argues that soldiers constituted a partially-unfree labor force essential to the advance of U.S. imperialism. The project draws on government reports, military records, court-martial testimonies, memoirs, letters, and newspapers. It examines the U.S.’s military labor regime in pre-statehood …
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"White Slaves of California": Race, Religion, and the Railroad in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's <i>The Squatter and the Don</i>
… of race-making, the railroad, religion, and unfree labor.</p>
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Yellowing the Logarithm: How Money Solved the Problem of Freedom
… a basis for social order, alongside the value of unfree persons, imported into the colonies for their capacities to labor, as private goods, or commodities. This evidences an emergent aspect of monetary value that has to do with both republican conceptions of political society and liberal …
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Jews and Muslims under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula in the mirror of fueros and cartas de población, c. 1017-1189
… distinguished between the treatment of free and unfree Muslims, constituting a major point of contrast between the status of these groups and that of Jews in such legislation. Using these themes, the different chapters of the dissertation explore the diachronic evolution of these clauses in …
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School Principals' Work in Grenada
… instructional supervision, and high volumes of unfree labour. Limited governmental and denominational supports, inadequate and outdated infrastructure, pedagogy, and resources, negative public regard for some schools, and intimidation dictated day-to-day undertaking of work, driving high rates …
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Contextual Effects and Support for Liberalism: A Comparative Analysis
… and well- to-do people in politically unfree societies experience little value change or even express growing conservativism (compared to other demographic groups) as their societies develop economically. To explain this finding, I suggest that political regimes, especially non-free …
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‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827
… New Yorkers—male and female, free and unfree, native and immigrant—could and did participate in legal proceedings. Complainants and witnesses relied on the processes of law rather than actual verdicts to establish order in their personal lives and in their communities. This dissertation …
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Ghosts in the Machine: The Black/Africanist Presence in the Sea Novels of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville
… as human and symbolic embodiments of the "unfree" within this "open independence of the sea," both writers were able to dramatize a dialectical relationship between blacks/slavery and the sea itself.</p> <p>Very little attention has been paid to the black characters and the black presence …
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Freedom in the thought and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
… of freedom for African Americans, the poor, and unfree people around the world. This dissertation takes a comprehensive approach to answering the question: What did King envision when he spoke of freedom? To answer that research question I address King's interpretation of freedom; the …
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The ideal of liberty in the political philosophy of David Hume
… of liberty holds that we might be rendered unfree not only by the actual exercise of interference, but by our being subject to the arbitrary power of someone else, by our being under his domination, by our freedom being dependent on someone else’s will. It is as important to ascertain the …
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The Northern Cape frontier zone, 1700 - c.1815
… the conditions under which many Khoisan became unfree labourers within the colonial economy. The many instances of primary resistance, guerrilla warfare, rebellion, flight and protest which are discussed in these pages serve as testimony to the fact that the subjugation of the Khoisan was …
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The making of White Australia: Ruling class agendas, 1876-1888
This thesis argues that the colonial ruling class developed its first White Australia policy in 1888, creating most of the precedents for the federal legislation of 1901. White Australia was central to the making of the Australian working class, to the shaping of Australian nationalism, and the …
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The making of White Australia: Ruling class agendas, 1876-1888
This thesis argues that the colonial ruling class developed its first White Australia policy in 1888, creating most of the precedents for the federal legislation of 1901. White Australia was central to the making of the Australian working class, to the shaping of Australian nationalism, and the …