British Empire, Concept of
A British empire of their own? Jewish entrepreneurs in the British film industry
... the concept of ‘cine-variety’, a packed evening’s entertainment that usually consisted of two films, a newsreel, music (an ‘organ interlude’) and variety acts featuring top artistes, exemplifying the Hyams’ ...
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The Second British Empire: The British Empire and the re-emergence of global finance
... Over the past three decades the concept of the international finance center has been going in and out of fashion, but still remains highly contested. Predictably, conceptual debates in this area have tended to ...
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Remembering the Great War in the Dominions of the British Empire
... When historians approach the First World War nowadays they are met with a wave of potential myths and socially created interpretations of the war which do not necessarily portray an accurate account of the military ...
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From the Andes to the Outback : Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire
... sparked British interest in the possibility of naturalising the species and using its wool for textile ...1858, British merchant Charles Ledger conducted a clandestine operation to smuggle alpacas out of ...
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Commodity culture : tropical health and hygiene in the British Empire
... Such advertisements helped maintain climatic fears, even when British scientific and medical circles were moving away from such ideas. By the early twentieth century, further developments in sanitation and ...
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Return to empire : the sikhs and the British in the Punjab, 1839-1872
... the British to deal promptly with a local revolt at Multan, together with their disparaging treatment of some of the d a r b a r ’s leading officers, drove a number of chieftains into open ...the British ...
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Money and Overseas Investments in the Relative Fall of British Empire
... Both theories are satisfactory and could be improved by introducing new focuses and discussion elements. The problem of foreign investments attractiveness and of low domestic returns is solved in the capital proclivity ...
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Loyalism in British North America in the age of revolution, c.1775-1812
... nursed among the Loyal Refugees.’ Authorized by Whitehall to rule without an elected assembly for as long as necessary, the governor and his aristocratic council set about fashioning what was tantamount to a neo-feudal ...
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Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
... of British science and technology, Edgerton claims that the British Empire was the most modern in the ...the British Empire began in the post-First World War period, and moreover that ...
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The British press, British public opinion, and the end of empire in Africa, 1957 60
... to British public opinion when discussing the release of ...the British editors’ lunch meeting with Lord Perth; and, as Lewis and Murphy describe, the actions of the Telegraph correspondent, Donald ...the ...
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British Literature : the career of a concept
... in British literature’ Indeed, Rosebery very deliberately deployed what he termed ‘the safe adjective of British’, because ‘hardly any’ of Burns’s poetry was ‘strictly English’; and he appeared to endorse ...
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Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth Century India: the British in Bengal
... the British state relied on its ability to persuade Indians and Britons alike that it was merely a continuation of India’s ‘ancient constitution’, as Travers’s late eighteenth-century officials ...an empire ...
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Reconstructing Boundaries: Gender, war and empire in British cinema, 1945 1950
... disordered and undisciplined. Sister Phillipa (Flora Robson), seduced by the beauty of the place, becomes preoccupied with her work, planting flowers in the garden instead of vegetables. Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr), ...
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The role of the British Empire in the Attlee governments' social democratic success
... the Empire (Hinds 2001: ...the British Empire during WWII, much as in Europe, and the British-imposed restrictions made it even more difficult to ensure supply (Hinds 2001: ...the ...
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"Are you proud to be British?" : Mobile film shows, local voices and the demise of the British Empire in Africa
... In this article I will illustrate the need to look beyond the film texts, first examining the ways in which the British government sought to standardise the mobile exhibition of film across its colonies. In ...
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The dawn of humane leprosy segregation: transforming leprosarium into home
... In his book ‘Towards a Humane Architecture’, Allsopp suggests a return to the village houses in the past, and rejects the monotonous housing design. He believes building should be human-scaled and intimate in order to be ...
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, FRANCE, AND JAPAN - SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE TREATY OF DECEMBER 13, 1921, BETWEEN THE SAME FOUR POWERS RELATING TO THEIR INSULAR POSSESSIONS AND INSULAR DOMINIONS IN THE REGION OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN
... In conformity with the Agreement between the United States of America, the British Empire, France and Japan, concluded at Washington on February 6, 1922, suppleme[r] ...
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Jane Groom and the Deaf Colonists: Empire, Emigration and the Agency of Disabled People in the late Nineteenth-Century British Empire
... developed between schools, within countries and internationally about which system was superior. In an imperial context, at a time when the English language was preferred as a means of assimilating indigenous ...
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Ameliorating Empire: Slavery and Protection in the British Colonies, 1783-1865
... The debates prompted a response from the free people of color, whose opinions had been excluded from the official survey, and who did not by and large want the laws changed. The Spanish regime had afforded them ...
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British Conservatism and the concept of the nation
... "Conservative RICH, Paul 1986: Ideology and Race in Modern British in Race, Government and Politics Politics" in Britain.. Zig Layton-Henry & Paul Rich.[r] ...
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