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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"empire-building"”.
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A modern empire building, Ralph Budd
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Business and Engineering Administration, 1955
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Reading foreign policy archives: how regime-made disasters, pointillism, and citizen-perpetrators underpin U.S. Empire-building
<p>This political project analyzes documents within the foreign policy archives of the Bush Jr., Obama, and Trump administrations to tell a story of how U.S. imperial relations are constructed to reproduce differential rule, exploitation, and the distribution of subject positions. Through a …
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Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire
… the various Christian communities of the Ottoman Empire. In each instance, the Jesuits faced obstacles to their efforts to Catholicize the Christian Orient. Through an examination of the Jesuit experience in the early modern Ottoman Empire, I argue that particular historiographical trends …
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Sympathy for the Devil : American imperialism in film.
While empire-building, and imperialism more broadly, are now generally regarded as unacceptable justifications for military action, the fumes of imperialistic rhetoric that surround military intervention to this day are not so easily dispersed. The post-9/11 age of the War on Terror has reinscribed …
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Empire of energy : environment, geopolitics, and American technology before the age of oil
… the United States physically built its global empire. Between 1840 and 1930, empire building involved the establishment of a network of naval bases and coaling stations. By focusing on energy, I reconceptualize the American overseas empire as neither inevitable nor geographically predetermined. …
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Empire Rules: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
… multi-ethnic literature of the U.S. (MELUS) and empire. Namely, contemporary MELUS invites a reckoning with U.S. Empire, an amalgamation of settler colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, which works through ahistorical and transhistorical cultural narratives. In turn, contemporary multi-ethnic …
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Imperial designs: fashion, cosmetics, and cultural identity in Japan, 1931-1943
… imperial history that posit Japan’s nation- and empire-building projects as separate entities, one extending out from the other, I place women and gender at the heart of my analysis in order to show how nation and empire were mutually constituted through a singular process of colonial modernity. …
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Poland for Poles: Nationalist Imaginaries and the Reproduction of Sexual and Racialized Otherness
… as neither white nor Catholic) others and nation|empire-building. It theorizes Poland as concept (meaning sociological entity shaped by multiple competing actors with shifting degrees of definitional power) and method (meaning process and reading theory) while also seeing it as a site of …
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Approaches to council housing management: a study of 'best value' implementation in two London boroughs
… shape' when conditions allow, rather than 'empire build' as competing theories maintain (Dunleavy 1991). It is hypothesised that Best Value was in part devised to check 'empire building' tendencies and this is a flawed assumption that could lead to unintended policy outcomes. This notion is …
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Revolutionary Republics: U.S. national narratives and the independence of Latin America, 1810-1846
… south and west as a form of Anglo-American empire-building. By transposing traditions of revolutionary inheritance onto the wars for independence in Spanish America, writers reinforce the ideology of U.S. exceptionalism. The study’s geographic focal points are Cuba, Mexico, Texas, and …
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Perpetual Strangers: Buriyad Citizenship in the Russia-Mongolia Borderlands, 1822-1939
… from that of mediated participants in Romanov empire-building to that of alleged enemies of the state. By following Buriyads across borders as they transformed from an isolated community of Russian imperial subjects to a diaspora of Soviet and Mongolian citizens, this dissertation reveals …
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Land Matters: Stories of Survival, Peasant Roots & Peasant Futurisms
… of Survival” section deconstructs narratives of empire building, colonization, nation-state borders of exclusion, and the often-traumatic experiences of a refugee, illegal immigrant, and temporary guest who immigrated to Canada not by choice, but as an act of survival. This opening section is …
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Market, Medicine, and Empire: Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in the Interwar Years
… between global capitalism, modern medicine, and empire through a close study of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals during the interwar years. As one of the leading drug companies in East Asia at the time, Hoshi embodied Japan's imperial aspirations, rapid industrial development, and burgeoning consumer …
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The Russian-Soviet Resettlement Policies and Their Implications for Ethno-Territorial Conflicts in the South Caucasus
… resettlement practices carried out by respective empires in the South Caucasian borderland. According to this time period, the most affected ethnic groups involved in the Russian-Soviet resettlement policies were Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Germans and Russians.As a contribution to transhistorical …
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Rebels, Wanderers, and Castaways: Characterizing Small Social Groups in the Literature of Empire, 1849-1914
… or extending models of authority in the age of empire. While studies of the literature of empire often focus on the figure of the solitary “imperial man” or the consolidation of large imperial bureaucratic systems, the scalar scope of this project considers what lies in between. While the …
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The English in America: National Identity and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1620--1688
… study underscores the mutuality of nation- and empire-building in the seventeenth century. Books are, arguably, the most culturally significant luxury items regularly traded across the ocean in the period, and yet, book ownership was so fundamental for colonists that one man was accused of being …
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Essays on international corporate cash holdings
… previous literature. Consistent with managerial empire building prediction, my study reveals that firms deplete their excess cash by overinvesting and this effect is exacerbated in countries with weak governance. The result of greater sensitivity of investments to excess cash support agency costs …
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From a “Contagious” to a “Poisonous Yellow Peril”?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s – 1950.
… larger transpacific exchanges during American empire-building. Examining the lives of Japanese and Japanese Americans through the lens of public health and agriculture reveals how some species can be included while others could not.
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Statebuilding in Afghanistan : a case study of empire in denial
This dissertation provides an assessment of statebuilding practices in Afghanistan, focusing on practitioner experiences in infrastructure and rural development projects. After numerous interventions and decades of international development, Afghanistan remains a failed state. This dissertation …
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A stirring of cultures: The contest for place, belonging and identity in Australia
… society they have roots in past eras of empire building, racism and the movement from agrarianism to industrialisation. The characters are drawn from my own experiences and, as such, validate both the creative work and give the exegesis substance. Jeanie Bayona is an Aboriginal woman who …
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