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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"feuding"”.
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Family, Feud, and the Conduct of War in Anglo-Saxon England
… and the cultural and social importance of feuding, it would appear logical that warfare was essentially feud writ large, that conflicts pitted one kin group against another and vengeance for the dead was a major, if not the only, reason for making war. However, royal families often fought …
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Traditional and hybrid leadership styles in Rwanda: examining the common leadership styles, influencing factors, and culture in post-genocide Rwanda.
… past, the country has been marked by ethnic feuding, mass population movements and long exiles in neighbouring countries, and civil wars that culminated in the genocide in 1994. As this research shows in its review of literature of the history of Rwanda's post-independence period, the civil …
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The U.S. Government's Investigation of E.B. Stahlman as an Enemy Alien: A Case Study of Nativism in Nashville
… made many enemies. Stahlman's constant feuding with Luke Lea, who owned the rival Nashville Tennessean, led to an investigation of his citizenship during World War I. Hatred of Germans was at a fever pitch and not only did the Department of Justice examine Stahlman, who actually had been …
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Gypsies in Early Modern Scotland, c.1570-c.1700
… the Protestant Reformation, and the decline of feuding. The thesis introduction outlines the historiographical and methodological issues involved in studying such a socially and historically marginal group, and is followed by two sections, each comprising three chapters. The first section, …
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Organizational Fragmentation and the Trajectory of Militant Splinter Groups
… while inconsistent internal preferences lead to feuding, a lack of cohesion, and a lower likelihood of survival. Although impossible to directly observe, I show that different pathways of organizational breakdown, which one can observe, strongly shape the distribution of group preferences. In …
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Rebellion and Ethnicity in Colonial New York: Jacob Leisler, Nicholas Bayard and their World
… in New York and many years of political feuding that followed, Bayard's personal identity no longer aligned with the New York Dutch ethnicity that had emerged, thus making him one of those driven from the community, while Leisler in memory became the martyr around which the new …