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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"purges"”.
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Building Coercive Capacity: Three Essays
… "Fending Off Shield and Sword: How Strategic Purges of State Security Personnel Protect Dictators" focuses on the strategic use of purges by leaders to undermine adverse collective action among officials. I test the theory that leaders purge according to factional ties to undermine collective …
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A Man Moste Meete': A Nationwide Survey of Justices of the Peace in Mid-Tudor England, 1547-1582
… VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, and reveal that purges of the commissions of the peace were far more common than is generally believed. Furthermore, purges appear to have been religiously-based, especially during the reign of Elizabeth I. There is a gap in the quantitative data beginning in 1569, …
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Yugoslav war cinema : shooting a nation which no longer exists
… Yugoslavia and the brutal anti-Stalinist purges following Yugoslavia's break with the Cominform. With the disintegration of Yugoslavia, "Yugoslav" cinema faced an uncertain future. Post-socialism marked the re-emergence of the war film genre that critically examined the conflicts that tore …
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The almost empty that Is full : a patient search in nature
… the environment heightens human experiences and purges excess energy. However, the contemporary trend of thinking has been one that views nature as sources of extraction, either scenically or resources wise. The reverence to the mountains and rivers has largely been lost in the shifting of …
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Yorkshire politics, 1658-1688.
… successfully In all these spheres. No major purges of local office holding took place until 1679-1683 when Charles II removed his most determined political opponents with the general support of Yorkshire's loyalist gentry. James II purged opponents of his catholicising policy and alienated …
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The Saturnalian Spirit: Hazlitt, Lamb, and Hunt on Restoration Comedy
… as a saturnalian comedy--a comedy that purges the unsettling energies and drives that civilization must normally repress. Hazlitt begins the argument in his Lectures on the English Comic Writers while Lamb enunciates it most clearly in his often-misunderstood essay, "On the Artificial …
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Human Mutation/substitution Rate: Variability, Modeling And Applications
… genetic variation, and in turn selection purges deleterious variants from the population. Understanding both is critical for discovering causal genes and variants behind diseases or making inferences about evolutionary processes. Human mutation rate varies significantly across the genome …
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The Proud Plaintiff: The Mattachine Society of Washington, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Invention of Gay Pride, 1957-1969
… the fight against the federal government’s gay purges; indeed, the Society is most known for the first gay pickets of the White House and its militant slogan, “Gay is Good.” These histories, however, have overlooked a crucial component of the MSW’s story: its legal alliance with the American …
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Microvascular strategies for damage restoration
… reinstated by crack closure, which continuously purges healing agents from the channel to prevent blockage. Multiple healing cycles of up to 190% healing efficiency are demonstrated for a microvascular composite using the air-driven approach.
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The scholar advocate: Rudolf Schlesinger's writings on Marxism and Soviet historiography
… and Moscow. He left the Soviet Union during the purges, having been described as ‘alien to the party’, and made his way to the UK where he fostered a reputation as an informed and prolific scholar. This investigation is not intended to be a biography of Schlesinger, but rather an ‘intellectual …
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The formation of the Paris Jacobins: principles, personalities and politics, 1789-1793
… of Societal officers and committees, the use of "purges," and the development of factions and factional disputes. It begins with a discussion of the character of the Paris Jacobins and an examination of the importance of personalities in the revolutionary experience. The core of the sources used …