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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"military state"”.
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The Scientific-Military State, Science and the Making of American Government, 1776-1855
… the intertwined formations of the American state and American science. It argues that, from the founding of the republic, scientific knowledge was at the heart of the formation of the federal government, and the federal government was an important force in the development of science in …
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Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668
… group of merchants, peers, and MPs mobilized the military and financial technologies of colonization to support Parliament’s war against Charles I, their ventures in the Indian and Atlantic oceans resonated in the halls of Westminster and the chambers of state finance. In the crucible of civil …
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Military recruiting in the Scottish Highalnds 1739-1815: the political, social and economic context
… of government, landlords and tenantry using estate papers, notably the Macleod of Dunvegan and Gordon Castle Muniments, the Forfeited Estates papers and Campbell of Breadalbane collection. Recruiting is analysed within the context of rapid socio-economic change. The emphasis is on tenant …
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Democracy, Citizens' Media, and Resistance: A Study of the New River Free Press
… community that is home to a large technical, military, state university. After first reviewing major scholarly criticism of mainstream media in a democratic society and characteristics and debates about citizen's media, this thesis uses interviews of key staff members and textual analysis of …
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An Investigation into the Role of Local Government in Enhancing the Public Participation in Sindh, Pakistan: Policy and Practice in Service Delivery
… to participation have been ever increasing. The military establishment’s hold on the central state policies has weakened the public empowering national laws. Furthermore, the local government’s role to initiate meaningful local community involvement in development projects of the decentralised …
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The eye of the needle: magnetic survey and the compass of capital in the age of revolution and reform
… of the nineteenth century, significant fiscal-military state resources were directed toward linking three momentous magnetic enterprises: Admiralty reform of practical magnetic navigation; novel electromagnetic research; and British engagement in an international campaign to survey the earth’s …
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The Administration of the Land Tax in England 1643-1733
… agriculture the mid-seventeenth century state with its outdated tax system was politically and militarily weak. Civil war and its aftermath created the urgent and protracted supply need which instigated the creation and honing of radically new effective tax forms and processes which …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… of Myanmar’s then capital, Yangon, as the military launched a coup that marked the beginning of Myanmar’s decades-long international isolation. In not dissimilar fashion, the Khmer Rouge marched into Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, on 17 April 1975, overthrowing the fledgling Lon Nol …
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Parliamentary Control of Public Money
This dissertation analyses the idea that parliament controls public money in parliamentary constitutional systems of government. That analysis proceeds through an historical and contemporary examination of the way legal practices distribute authority over public money between different institutions …