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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"colonial empire"”.
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'French like the others': Colonial Migrants in Wartime France, 1939-1947
… unknown history of how migrants from across the colonial empire experienced the Second World War in France. By the 1930s France possessed the second-largest colonial empire in the world. Although people from across the French empire had resided in the métropole during the interwar period, the …
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City Full of Dreams: Colonial Spaces and Modernity in Interwar Paris
… in sites that linked Paris with France’s colonial empire in the interwar period. I argue that the colonies were a significant part of modern life in Paris, with efforts made to promote the use of colonial materials and motifs and regular attention to the colonies shown by the popular and …
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Shifting alliances and fairweather friends: Luso-American relations, 1941--1951
… Portugal's security needs---the fourth largest colonial empire of the time--demanded the protection of a great naval power. Prior to World War II, Luso-American relations were based on long, but tenuous, commercial ties and a small steady Portuguese immigration stream to the United States. …
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THE IMPERIALISM OF CECIL JOHN RHODES: METROPOLITAN PERCEPTIONS OF A COLONIAL REPUTATION
… the British mining-magnate, politician, and empire builder, epitomised the dynamism and controversy of late-nineteenth century imperialism. In his time he was regarded as a towering figure of the age, not only in Britain and its colonial empire, but throughout the world. He cast a long shadow …
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Portraiture, revolutionary, identity and subjucation: Anne-Louis Girodet’s citizen Belley
… of the Revolutionary government to uphold a colonial empire. The French had declared the abolition of slavery because they needed the slaves to form an army for the defense of the colony of Saint Domingue, which was threatened by military attacks from the British and the Spanish. Hence, with …
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The role of imperial decrees in Ezra-Nehemiah : an ideological and exegetical analysis
… symbiotic relationship between official Persian colonial documents on the one hand, and the religio-cultural text of E- N, on the other, by demonstrating that there exists a dialectical relationship between the imperial decrees, and the E-N narrative in which they are set. The religio-cultural …
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Living French colonial theory : an examination of France's complex relationship with Islam in its African colonies as viewed through the lives of Octave Houdas and Xavier Coppolani
In current scholarship, the colonial period within Africa has long been defined as a controversial era, almost encapsulating the entirety of Occidental hubris in one distinct age of time. By and large, the European powers invaded foreign lands, claimed them as their own by right of superior …
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An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of forced marriage for diasporic south Asian women who have left
… linked to the historic role of British colonial Empire and subsequent conflict in disputed Kashmir. The phenomenon of FM turned out to be a complex but relatively rare practice since all participants had conflated AM/FM and the Forced Marriage Unit had only secured three convictions …
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The Architectural Heritage of Private Non-Monumental Structures: Diu Town
The Portuguese colonial empire spanned nearly 600 years spreading across the southern hemisphere of the globe from South America to South East Asia resulting in a string of littoral settlements. Within the realms of comparative urban and architectural studies on Indo-Portuguese settlements, there …
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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755
… in response to Britain’s growing mercantile and colonial empire, British writers repurposed Jewish histories and political philosophy to promote toleration as a means of maintaining a distinctly Protestant British identity that could accommodate the values of non-Christian cultures. Early …
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British Foreign Policy in the Early Twentieth Century
Dolgozatom fő célja az, hogy átfogó képet nyújtson a századforduló illetve 20. század első pár évének brit külpolitikai helyzetéről, kiemelve az angol-orosz kapcsolatokat. Először a 19. század meghatározó brit külpolitikai jelenségéről, a fényes elszigeteltségről ejtek szót; mit is jelentett ez …
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Dreams of a Tropical Canada: Race, Nation, and Canadian Aspirations in the Caribbean Basin, 1883-1919
… organization, and the state of Britain's Empire in the twentieth century. </p><p>This dissertation explores the key ideas, tensions, and contradictions that shaped the union discourse over time. Race, nation and empire were central to this discourse. Canadian expansionists' efforts to gain …