War and Empires
Questioning the Wilsonian moment: the role of ethnicity and nationalism in the dissolution of European empires from the Belle Époque through the First World War
... World War as the breakthrough moment of Wilsonian self-determination within the multi-ethnic states and empires in ...Great War that politicized ethnicity as never before and made it into a marker of ...
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Aftershocks: Violence in Dissolving Empires after the First World War
... civil war, the absence of a centralised state authority with a monopoly on violence allowed new, less inhibited paramilitary groups to operate in parts of Ireland and ...German empires differed, the ...
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The Struggle for the Eurasian Borderlands: From the Rise of Early Modern Empires to the End of the First World War
... resettlement, or expulsion’ of restless ethnic minorities in the frontier areas (p. 533). And the inevitable reaction of minority groups to such repressive measures was outright resistance, replicating again the old ...
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Chinese refugee children and empires: the politics of international adoptions in cold war Hong Kong
... the war the colonial government was already eager to delegate social services to local religious and charitable organisations, in its aftermath it rather expected that ‘the costs of [refugees’] integration into ...
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Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750 1850
... In this book Holger Hoock outlines the material and psychological investment of culture in the process of British identity-formation from the mid 18th to the mid 19th century. Studying the context of national ...
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The first meeting of the Roman and Parthian empires : geopolitical context and consequences
... Although it would seem that Tigranes could not wait to travel such a long distance to his native capital to assume the diadem. Appian states that Tigranocerta was founded at the place where he was first crowned. 137 This ...
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World Empire or a world of Empires?
... The Bush administration’s bellicose stance was raising ever bigger question marks about the USA’s true relation to the international institutions in whose name it had so far acted. Whether it had ever subordinated itself ...
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Serhii Plokhy. The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires.
... Building upon all this scholarship, Plokhy takes the “people and places” analysis further and proposes that it was not the Novhorod-‐Siverskyi area, but rather the Starodub region that was most familiar to the author, ...
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Signifying the West: Colonialist Design in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
... In Shadow, you skip a generation to play Nathaniel’s grandson Chayton Black during Red Cloud’s war. Advised by Billy Holme, you must set up trading posts and a railroad, which stirs up attacks from the Sioux. You ...
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Empires, bureaucracy and the paradox of power
... European empires were often a-modern, or de-modernizing, in their governing ...World War II , and as late as 1950 in French West Africa the administration’s ability to record basic statistical information ...
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Incentives in Merchant Empires: Portuguese and Dutch Labor Compensation
... (e.g. war, good agricultural year) and worker’s e¤ort, for which the author is very ...of war, or because current workers were not as diligent as former ...
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Empires of Information
... Indonesia Calling was collaged together some years after the events it narrates took place. In effect, only the film’s opening graphic sequence takes place in the present (of 1948), the rest of the film is all flashback, ...
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Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
... World War focuses on repertoires of power, focusing both on the particularities of Soviet-style economic monopoly and on the more general politics of personal, patrimonial rule that emerged first under Stalin and ...
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Commandeering Empires: Egypt, Tripoli, and Tunis in the Age of Revolution, 1774-1835
... another war with the Russia Empire, one notable figure stands out for his cautious stance against further hostilities with ...of war that had engulfed the majority of the sultan’s advisors and remained the ...
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War against architecture, identity and collective memory
... 2000. War of July 2006 came next where the fiercest battles took place and many martyrs sacrificed themselves defending their city and homeland (Fares and Fares, 2013; Fares et ...
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Europe's India Words, People, Empires, 1500 1800
... Yet, it appears to me entirely possible, in keeping with this book’s project of writing more holistic cultural and intellectual histories, that one could use apparently mundane records o[r] ...
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Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World
... introduction, and where Empires of Knowledge makes contributions as a collective endeavor, it is often by uniting fields of scholarship that are too commonly kept at arm’s-length. Contributors draw on a diverse ...
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Europe and Syria: Diplomacy, Law and War
... The difference between Ukraine and Iran on one hand and Syria, Libya, and Serbia on the other may well lie in Europe’s fear of war with Russia and Iran. The positions of various EU States respecting the 2003 Iraq ...
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The kingly man : an examination of the monarchical theories of the Hellenistic and Roman Empires
... This thesis examines the attitudes to government common to Greek and Roman writers who lived between the advent of the Hellenistic Age and the heyday of the Roman Empire in the second ce[r] ...
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Week 4.Technology
... Allows Europe to conquer South America (New World) and Colonize/create Empires in India, Africa, and ChinaV. Age of Exploration Inventions.[r] ...
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