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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"post-colonial period"”.
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Japonų kolonijinio švietimo įtaka Taivano etninėms grupėms /
… the bachelor's thesis is the reforms of Japanese colonial education in Taiwan and their influence on the ethnic groups of the island. The primary goal of the work is to find out what changes in the education system were made during the period of Japanese colonization in Taiwan and to compare how …
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Commercial farming and social change in Mkushi district, 1945-1975
… the context of a changing environment both under colonial rule and in the post-colonial period. It is a case study of Mkushi District in which a farm block was established where white farmers, especially ex-servicemen, were settled on crownland in the 1950s.In this study I argue that ecological …
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Commercial farming and social change in Mkushi district, 1945-1975
… the context of a changing environment both under colonial rule and in the post-colonial period. It is a case study of Mkushi District in which a farm block was established where white farmers, especially ex-servicemen, were settled on crownland in the 1950s.In this study I argue that ecological …
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The impact of history and institutions on economic development
… The first chapter examines the impact of colonial rule on economic outcomes. I compare areas in India which were under the direct control of British administrators with areas which were ruled by local Indian rulers under indirect colonial control. Controlling for potential selection bias …
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Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus".
… Nigeria-is clearly intended to evoke post-Biafra Nigeria, itself the setting of Adichie's other major work, <em>Half of a Yellow Sun</em>. This setting takes <em>Purple Hibiscus</em> beyond the scope of most modern adolescent fiction, creating a complex allegory in which the emergence …
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Sati praktika Indijoje: Istorinė analizė /
… from the perspective of different historical periods and different actors, revealing the conflicting evaluations of the practice of Sati. The main objectives of this research work are: to investigate the practice of Sati in pre-colonial India; to review the evaluations of Sati by the first …
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The Political Economy of Conflict in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire: Foreign Economic Intervention and the Spatial Distribution of Violent Conflict
… to foreign economic intervention in the colonial and post-colonial period and focusing specifically on the impacts of structural adjustment programs on processes of conflict and conflict diffusion. Based on the findings of this paper, conflict in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire …
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A history of the Kano Book Market, c. 1920-2020
… dissertation's main thrust is to document how colonial legacies shaped book traditions well into the post-colonial period. Particular emphasis, however, is given to the book market, which encapsulates the other components of the "book cycle." The dissertation argues that the colonial …
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Resource Depository and Knowledge Creation: The role of the National Archives of Zambia, 1935-2006
… initial archival legislation formulated in the colonial period facilitated the creation of a joint archival institution and services for the Central African territories of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Archives legislation formulated during the Federation of Rhodesia and …
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Resource Depository and Knowledge Creation: The role of the National Archives of Zambia, 1935-2006
… initial archival legislation formulated in the colonial period facilitated the creation of a joint archival institution and services for the Central African territories of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Archives legislation formulated during the Federation of Rhodesia and …
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Labour Unions, Political and the Development of the Swazi Labour Movement 1939-2014.
… trajectory of the Swazi labour movement from the colonial to the post-colonial period. The Swazi labour movement developed and evolved as a consequence of a number of socio-economic, political and legal factors. The capital penetration that occurred in Swaziland during and after World War II led …
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French taste: food and national identity in post-colonial France
This dissertation examines representations of “French” and “foreign” food—in cookbooks and newspapers, TV cooking demonstrations and talk shows, state policies and political debates—and how these helped to redefine French national identity in the last third of the twentieth century. Focusing on how …
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Guns and shikaris: The rise of the sahib's hunting ethos and the fall of the subaltern poacher in British India, 1750-1947
… the history of hunting in India under British colonialism, but with some background on earlier periods and a brief discussion on Nepal and successor states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. The study relies on Indian and British sources including private papers, memoirs, books, and official …
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Labour on commercial farms in Zambia : A case study of the Southern Province, 1945-1980
… and 1980. It does this by attempting to show how post-Second World War technological innovations, rural-to-rural migrations, landlessness and population increase, increased investments and re-investments, the shift in agricultural production, and the participation of private and parastatal …
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A Socio-Environmental History of Dispossession and Displacement in the Zimunya, Marange and Bvumba (Chirara) Communities of Eastern Zimbabwe, 1920s - 2015
… dislocations in Africa were a consequence of colonial rule. While this is true, this research recognizes that dispossession and forced dislocations long predated colonialism. It demonstrates that land expropriation and displacements continued on a wide - scale in the colonial and post-colonial …
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Negotiating power over oil and gas resources in Senegal: The political economy of oil and gas in a ‘new producer’ country.
… exploration and production negotiations from the colonial period in Senegal, as well as contemporary primary evidence from interviews with international oil and gas industry specialists and government officials, I explore the specific set of historical, institutional and political constraints, …
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Immigration, ethnicity and national identity : Maghrebis' socio-political mobilisation and discourse in the inter-war period and during the 1970s in France
It has often been argued that post-colonial immigration in France has posed new challenges to the so-called French Republican model of integration. Indeed, French popular, and to a large extent political and media, discourses have presented postcolonial migrants (especially Maghrebis) and their …
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Shifting Ground: Spatial Representations in the Literature of the Sixties Generation in Egypt
… social, political, and economic changes of the post-colonial period in Egypt. This exploration is framed by the theoretical work of Michel Foucault and Henri Lefebvre and seeks to show that the "spatial shift" that has occurred in the humanities and social sciences can enrich the understanding …
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Articulating kin groups and mines : the case of the Gold Ridge Mining Project in the Solomon Islands
… in historical contact has also sustained in the postcolonial state in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The mmmg cases reviewed in Papua New Guinea show that despite gradual improvement in the nature of relations with social groups in each subsequent mining project, such improvement was …
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Articulating kin groups and mines : the case of the Gold Ridge Mining Project in the Solomon Islands
… in historical contact has also sustained in the postcolonial state in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The mmmg cases reviewed in Papua New Guinea show that despite gradual improvement in the nature of relations with social groups in each subsequent mining project, such improvement was …
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