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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"revolt"”.
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Ionian Revolt, Reconsidered
… times supporter, Persian Empire than the Ionian Revolt. The Ionian Revolt, composed of the Naxian Expedition, Ionian and Cypriot Revolts, and the Battle of Lade, was an attempt by some Ionian Greeks to overthrow Persian tyranny for their own personal despotisms. Herodotus, as an opponent of …
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"Family relationships in ""The Revolt of Islam"""
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412132.pdf: 10440627 bytes, checksum: ade7a3a15125f93697307116f933ffd7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Dignity'S Revolt: Threat, Identity, And Immigrant Mass Mobilization
This dissertation analyzes the unprecedented, nationwide immigrant rights protest wave of 2006 and its effects on the national electorate and policymaking process. Specifically, the study focuses on three research questions: 1) What explains the surprising rise and abrupt decline of the …
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Revolt and tradition in the thought of Emily Dickinson
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to show two major influences in the thought of Emily Dickinson which contributed greatly to two antithetic doctrines which commanded her loyalty. One of these two was a reverence which she felt for the Puritan concepts of life; the other was a revolutionary trait …
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Revolt, Passion, Freedom: A Collection of Short Stories Exploring Absurdism
… stories that each focus on a facet of absurdism (revolt, passion, and freedom), and explores the ubiquity of its themes through different settings and times. The format of short stories was chosen due to its ability to connect readers with the characters and ideas presented within, making it a …
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Art In Revolt: Material And Meaning In The 80 Years' War
The Dutch Revolt against Habsburg Spain, also known as the 80 Years’ War (1568–1648), was instigated by an attack on images: in 1566 Calvinists stormed Catholic churches across the Low Countries, stripping their walls of “idols.” With shattered glass and beheaded statues, the beeldenstorm, or the …
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The Absurd and Film: From the Existential Moment to Metaphysical Revolt
In recent cinematic history, films have often expressed through the experiences of characters an 'existential moment' in which fundamental assumptions about life are questioned and potentially rendered meaningless. The purpose of this project is to follow two accounts of this expressed moment in …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
“Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century” examines depictions of black rebellion in American and African American literature spanning from the 1830s to the early 1900s. From enslaved uprisings and black armies to worker strikes and insurgent plots, black …
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The Last Victorian Knight: A Study of T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
… Lawrence's early life and his role in the Arab Revolt of 1916 but not the Lawrence legend, as they are two very different people. Lawrence's masculinity and the early Victorian ideals of asceticism and chivalry shaped his world view and how the world viewed him. His unique style of masculinity …
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Revolution in the Mines: An Analysis of the Miners' Revolt of 1969-1970
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Returning to the rand revolt: centering settler colonialism and racial capitalism in labour history
This study focuses on the Rand Revolt, a white mineworkers strike that occurred in 1922, as a lens into the white working class in the early 20th Century, Witwatersrand, South Africa. This strike is significant because the events surrounding its conclusion led to the co-optation of the white …
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From the Grand Serail to the Great Revolt: Constitutionalism and Revolution in Lebanon, 1925-27
… 1926 Lebanese constitution and the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927. Although, they take place simultaneously, one ushering the other, the literature pertaining to these formative years almost exclusively discusses them as isolated events. The constitution and the revolt are steeped in the …
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The Greek-Cypriots' education in Pafos' province from October's revolt to the Independence (1931-1960)
… the British administration from October' s revolt (1931) till the Independence of Cyprus (1960). This aim includes an examination of the administration of education in Pafos and its organisation within the historical context, which includes both the Church and the Colonial Government' s …
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Patriotic Protest, Racist Revolt, or Just Another Event: Television News Framing of the Tea Party Movement
<p>Research on the relationships between mass media and social movements has focused largely on the ways in which newspapers and mainstream television networks represent leftist movements. The conservative, pro-capitalist Tea Party movement, which began to receive national news coverage in February …
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Revolt against the West a comparison of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900-1901 & the current war against terror
This thesis compares the Western response to two radical challenges in eras considerably removed in time: the 1900-1901 Boxer rebellion in China and today's Islamic terror. It brings a much-needed historical perspective to bear in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the contemporary Western …
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