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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"War of Independence"”.
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IRA activity in Westmeath during the War of Independence, 1918-21.
… The active areas have received the attentions of many historians and commentators. But the ‘other’ areas rarely receive a mention; the mistake is too often made of superimposing a blueprint that was concocted for one county, upon all the rest. True, Westmeath follows the general pattern that …
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Representations of the American War of Independence in the late eighteenth-century English novel
For metropolitan Britons, the American War of Independence began as a traumatic civil war and ended as a global conflict that threatened the integrity of home and empire. This thesis examines the ways in which writers of popular fiction engaged with that crisis, considers why their preoccupation …
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The Sword, The Cross and the Flag: The Theme of Martyrdom in the Greek War of Independence
<p>During the 1820s Greek War of Independence, the works of many European artists and writers played an important role in alerting the Western world to the plight of the Greeks. The success of their efforts was in large measure due to their portrayals of Greeks as heroic martyrs, dying in defense …
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Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence
This dissertation proposes ways out of traumatic silence in contemporary French and Francophone North African fiction. While silence has been the focus of trauma-centered texts in recent decades, I bring in the theoretical frameworks of affect theory, cultural translation, and new media as possible …
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"The Painful Task of Thinking Belongs To Me:" Rethinking Royal Navy Signal Reform during the American War of Independence
This thesis examines the context and causes of signal reform in the British Royal Navy during the American War of Independence. It argues that changes in the ethos of the officer corps before and during the American War of Independence led to a complex period of signal reform. The original system …
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Battlefield tourism: strategies and tactics for the development and tourism planning of the battlefields of the war of Independence/peninsular war in Spain and Portugal
This doctoral thesis falls within the scope of Cultural Tourism and Military Tourism, focusing specifically on Battlefield Tourism in the Iberian Peninsula, and is dedicated to the study of the touristic development of the battlefields of the period between 1808 and 1814, known in Portugal as the …
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Combined operations in the American War of Independence and the Naval War of 1812 in the North American theatre: a comparative study of strategy, tactics and effectiveness
This thesis examines the use of combined operations in the American War of Independence and the Naval War of 1812, hereafter referred to as the War of 1812. It compares the use of combined operations in both wars and examines the extent to which the use of combined operations contributed to the …
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“L’éternel immigré”: identity and radicalism in France since 1962
… carried out by Mohammed Merah, a former friend of his placed more blame on French society for Merah’s radicalization than on any external force. This thesis attempts to address that claim by examining the identity crisis in France and its relationship to both Islamist and far-right radicalism. …
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There Is No Dishonor in Desertion: Army Racial Intolerance and African-American Soldiers' Desertion
… focuses on a study concerning the desertion of African-American soldiers from the United States Army. The data were collected from the period covering the War of Independence to the mid-1960s of the Cold War. The study proposes that there are limits to which these soldiers cannot bear the …
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Avatars of Memory. Rituals and Commemorative Practices in Colombia, 1864-1913
… their region, as a symbolic appropriation of the space – the highlands – that they inhabited. The identity that emerged from that process was the basis on which Antioqueño elites negotiated hegemony with those of the national capital. Here I show for the first time how provincial …
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The gatekeeper: a biography of Liam Tobin
… the contributions that he made to the fight for independence from Britain. Operating as Deputy Director of Intelligence during the War of Independence, he ran the intelligence office located at 3 Crow Street mere yards from Dublin Castle, and worked directly under Michael Collins. Upon entering …
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Československá rozvojová pomoc Alžírské demokratické a lidové republice v letech 1962-1965
Algeria gained its independence on March 19, 1962, after signing the Evian Accords with France. The accords ended Algeria's eight-year war of independence. Czechoslovakia already supported the Algerian side during the war, mainly by exporting arms. On the part of Czechoslovakia, it was primarily a …
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The Government's Executions Policy During the Irish Civil War 1922 -1923
… State Government during the Irish Civil War (1922–23). Following the Irish War of Independence (1919–21) and subsequent Anglo-Irish Treaty Ireland‘s previously united nationalist movement fractured into opposing factions. The ensuing Civil War, fought between the Government and the …
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Soukromé vojenské organizace v USA.
… American soil no later than during the famous war of independence. What has changed about the US private military contractors since these times is their overall number, the amount of countries they operate in, the scale of services they can provide and last but not least, the extent of money …
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Torture, Fiction and the Repetition of Horror: Ghost-writing the Past in Algeria and Argentina
The object of this thesis is to study the attempts made by writers and filmmakers in two very different socio-cultural contexts to depict and elucidate the experience of political violence, particularly torture, in the periods 1954-1962 and 1976-1983. I seek to apply the hypotheses of …
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The neglected war: intervention and extra-state war duration, 1816-2007
Extra-state war, a conflict between a state and non-state actor outside of the state’s borders, is an understudied phenomenon. In order to begin a discussion on this topic, this paper seeks to understand the factors that affect extra-state war duration. Using literature on interstate and intrastate …
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The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… the British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The colonies included in this study are Barbados, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, …
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Catholic Priests and Political Violence in Ireland, 1919-21
… for a time when republicans fought a guerrilla war against the British forces. It has looked at the attitude of priests to the use of political violence during the War of Independence from 1919 to 1921. Drawing from archival and printed sources, the thesis has constructed a picture of the …
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James Magee (1707-1797) and the Belfast print trade, 1771-1781
… (1707-1797) and assesses his contribution towards the Belfast book trade in the eighteenth century. The first chapter discusses the peripheral nature of Belfast printing, outlining the details of Magee’s career (1735-1791) and examining his practices in terms of its provinciality. The second …
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