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Loyalism in Massachusetts: The Characteristics and Motivations of the Harvard Loyalists
… have sought to explain the motivation of these loyalists as a result of the characteristics and interests common to the social, economic, or geographical groups that were most frequently opposed to the Revolution.</p> <p>William Nelson, for example, suggested that rank and file loyalists tended …
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Victims of Liberty: Virginia's Response to Loyalists and Loyalism in Williamsburg, 1770-1781
… in many ways, mirrored in their treatment of loyalists in the state. By examining publications on loyalism in the Virginia Gazelle between 1770 and 1781, and the Loyalist Claims Records, it is clear that Virgin ia, which was once tolerant and sometimes encouraging of loyalist and patriot …
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REVOLUTIONARY NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE LOYALIST EXPERIENCE: "SURELY WE HAVE DESERVED A BETTER FATE"
… situation, the lives of many of the province's Loyalists, and by classifying the Loyalists through their connections with Great Britain.</p><p>Governor Benning Wentworth tightly controlled the colony through a network of family and business associations which came to dominate the politics and …
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POLITICS AND PERSONAL LIFE IN THE ERA OF REVOLUTION: THE TREATMENT AND REINTIGRATION OF ELITE LOYALISTS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY VIRGINIA
… underestimate the extent and nature of Virginia loyalists. Patriots throughout the state feared and loathed outright demonstrations of loyalty to the Crown, sought to identify and remove Tories in their communities, and worked to prevent the reentry of these Loyalists into postwar Virginia. Those …
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"Walking the Queen's highway": ideology and cultural landscape in Nothern Ireland
… efforts in Northern Ireland for decades. Both loyalists and nationalists parade, but it is the annual marching season of the loyalist fraternal orders through nationalist neighborhoods that, in some cases, result in chronic violence. Nationalist residents attempt to forestall and combat …
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Ethnicising Ulster’s Protestants: Tolerance, Peoplehood, and Class in Ulster-Scots Ethnopedagogy
… began to be pursued by certain unionists and loyalists more desirous of ‘something more racy of the soil’ (Dowling 2007:54). Peace-building in Northern Ireland had undergone something of a cultural turn: the armed struggle over constitutional and civil rights questions began in the eighties to …
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Politics and rebellion in County Kildare 1790-1803
… founded in 1795, was viewed suspiciously by loyalists in 1798 and 1803 despite government patronage. In the years before the 1798 rebellion loyalist, liberal and radical divisions surfaced at a local level. They continued to a lesser extent in the post rebellion years. The disaffection …
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The Natal government's policy towards amakhosi in the former Kingdom of KwaZulu 1846-1910
… supporters of the Royal House, and the loyalists, supporters of the Natal Colonial Government. The loyalists strictly enforced their rule over the supporters of the Royal House, while the latter fiercely resisted the imposed order and were calling for the return of the hereditary and …
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Thorns in the side of patriotism: Tory activity in southwest Virginia, 1776-1782
… Loyalism in general, as well as the presence of Loyalists in Virginia and the other twelve colonies. The work then focuses on the people who settled in and the environment of southwest Virginia. Characteristics of some ethnic groups, especially the Germans, made them more susceptible to becoming …
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The unlawfulness of the African National Congress' cadre deployment policy in its affect on an efficient administration: is an administration loyal to the ANC compromising service delivery in South Africa?
… evidenced that the policy's preference for party loyalists over persons most fit for purpose leads to mismanagement and instability in the administration. As a result, the efficiency of the administration is compromised by the ANC's cadre deployment policy. This is not to argue, however, that the …
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The unlawfulness of the African National Congress' cadre deployment policy in its affect on an efficient administration: is an administration loyal to the ANC compromising service delivery in South Africa?
… evidenced that the policy's preference for party loyalists over persons most fit for purpose leads to mismanagement and instability in the administration. As a result, the efficiency of the administration is compromised by the ANC's cadre deployment policy. This is not to argue, however, that the …
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Korean Electoral Behavior: The 1992 and 1997 Presidential Elections
… Both Kim Young-Sam's and Kim Dae-Jung's loyalists were crucial to the winning candidates in the 1992 and 1997 elections respectively. How did people vote? To address this question a logit analysis of voter turnout was employed. Comparing the 1997 election to that of 1992 the findings …
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Duty and Dependency: The Life and Career of Edward James Jarvis, 1788-1852
… He was one of a group of second-generation Loyalists who began their careers in the colony of New Brunswick, and brought many of his generation’s beliefs regarding law and empire to his judicial roles, whether confronting piracy in Malta in the early 1820s or land protests in Prince Edward …
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The Military in Kilkenny 1800-1870
… from the wholehearted support of local loyalists to an open hostility of the army shown by sections of Kilkenny’s citizenry. Primarily, this is the story of the rank and file soldier and the brutalised, disciplinary regime under which he served. The cramped stuffy living conditions, the …
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Rivalry in International Relations: A Mimetic Approach to the Case of the Rivalry in Northern Ireland (1963-2020)
… between Republicans/Nationalists/Catholics and Loyalists/Unionists/Protestants in Northern Ireland as it developed around two intractable issues: that of territory (1964-1998), and that of language (1998-2020). In contrast to the existing literature, the MRF shows that the atypical …
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“Put a crapaud in a suit and people will vote for the PNM”: A critical examination of patronage, loyalty, and the structuring force of party partisanship in Trinidad
… is spoken of the conflicting subjectivities of loyalists that are obscured by their exercise of franchise once every few years. In truth, there are limited options to reject one’s socio-historical conditioning towards a party in Trinidad because, here, political identities are also psycho-social …
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The Role of Dramaturgy in Change Management in Shell Oman Marketing Company
… and in bringing together the supporting team and loyalists. Another contribution of this research that is not available in other studies is that the importance of context and culture. That although metaphors and storytelling are used in many organisations across the world, they resonate …
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Seeing With Two Eyes: Colonial Policy, the Huron Tract Treaty and Changes in the Land in Lambton County, 1780-1867
… this does not sufficiently explain why fellow Loyalists and settlers did not accept Anishinabe peoples as partners in a province that both communities helped establish. While policy is an important part of this process, it is only a part of this story. My focus is on the relationships …
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The Evolution of Poltical Violence in Jamaica 1940-1980
… influence of partisan politics, whereby party loyalists dependent on political patronage were encouraged by the parties to defend local constituencies and participate in political conflict. Within this system the Jamaican general election process became ominous and violent, exemplifying how …
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