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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"popular protest"”.
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The Experience of Soldiering: Civil-Military Relations and Popular Protest in England, 1790-1805.
… from below’ approach, it will re-evaluate the popular experience of mass arming, by focusing upon two relatively neglected branches of the armed forces, the army and militia. Three central themes have been selected for investigation: The recruitment process, the experience of soldiering in the …
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When citizen politics becomes uncivil: Between popular protest, civil society and governance in Jamaica
… civil society by exploring the proclivity for popular protest in Jamaica and the intersections between popular citizen protest, civil society and governance in this context. It scrutinizes the tenor of contemporary civilian politics and assesses the consequent impact on the quality of civil …
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Protest Music of the Vietnam War: Description and Classification of Various Protest Songs.
<p>The Vietnam War and subsequent protest movement remains one of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history. This thesis is an attempt to define and describe the protest movement as well as the varied popular protest songs that came from this era. Building on a previous study written by Elizabeth …
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Saints and subverters : the later Covenanters in Scotland c.1648-1682
… came to endorse a mix of religious dissent, popular protest and armed resistance the likes of which had been hitherto unseen in early modern Scotland - if not the wider early modern world. As a result, the thesis challenges traditionally static views of seventeenth century Scottish society …
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Duty and Dependency: The Life and Career of Edward James Jarvis, 1788-1852
… piracy in Malta in the early 1820s or land protests in Prince Edward Island during the 1830s. In his rulings he sought to administer colonial law in a fair and impartial manner, thereby consolidating the property regime in the latter colony. His role as Chief Justice, however, meant that he …
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Speech and silence: freedom of speech and processes of censorship in early imperial Rome
… and peer pressure among the elite, and popular political protest. Most of the evidence presented is literary, reflecting the interests and concerns of the elite authors and their intended audience, though where relevant reference is made to inscriptions, graffiti and dipinti. The thesis …
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A Social and Economic History of the 1797 Fleet Mutinies at Spithead and The Nore
… for historiographies of labour relations and popular protest. I have analysed the evidence used in previous studies to support the interpretation that the mutinies were revolutionary in their intentions and concluded that this does not provide a credible case. For the first time, I have …
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State, Dissidents, and Contention: Iran, 1979-2010
… Iran witnessed once again waves of increasing popular protest? What are the processes and mechanisms behind the routinization of collective actions in Iran since the early 1990s, which continue despite state repression? Why and under what circumstances does a strong authoritarian state that has …
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Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690–1705
… pirates of history and the history of piracy in popular culture’. Throughout the thesis, the life of James Kelly, an English pirate, provides a narrative thread and chronological anchor for the study. In Chapter I, the socio-political subordinance of the English East India Company at the …
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Public opinion, crime and the police in Preston, c.1815-1914
… regard to political and industrial radicalism, popular recreation and their use of published crime statistics. A number of findings have emerged through the course of this study. From the outset the two main objections noted by Palmer towards the establishment of the new police, namely the fear …
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Improvement and environmental conflict in the northern fens, 1560-1665
This thesis examines ‘improvement’ of wetland commons in early modern England as a contested process of rapid environmental change. As a flagship project of agrarian improvement, drainage sought to alchemise pastoral fen commons into arable enclosed terra firma and promised manifold benefits for …