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L’identité britannique au miroir de l’empire
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2008 The decline of the British Empire following the end of the Second World War, the rise of Scottish and Welsh nationalisms in the 1970s as well as Britain integration into Europe and the recent crisis in the multicultural model contributed to a ...
Gilbert Millat
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The Sick Man’s Last Fight: The Role of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War [PDF]
, 2009 The Great War in 1914 to 1918 destroyed mighty empires, and created nations from their ashes. Both the Allied and Central Powers had been dominated by powerful empires. The Ottoman Empire, established by the Turks was at one point the largest empire in
Crouse, Henry A
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The Dublin society in eighteenth-century Irish political thought [PDF]
, 2004 Through an analysis of the debate between Charles Davenant in England, and Arthur Dobbs, Thomas Prior, and Samuel Madden in Ireland, it establishes that the founders saw the society as a response to Ireland's dependent status in the emerging British ...
Livesey, Jim
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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma +2 more
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Ex occidente imperium : Alexander the Great and the rise of the Maurya empire [PDF]
, 2015 Since the nineteenth century, many authors have seen the campaign of Alexander the Great in the Punjab as a pivotal moment in the history of the Indian subcontinent.
Fauconnier, Bram
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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Africa Spectrum, 2013 Review of the monograph:Volker Matthies, The Siege of Magdala: The British Empire Against the Emperor of Ethiopia, Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2012, ISBN 9781558765528 (paperback), ISBN 9781558765515 (hardcover), xviv + 209 pp.
Tekeste Negash
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The fight of William Denton for the Christian's position improvement in the Balkan, and Osman's empire at the beginning of the second half of the 19th century [PDF]
Baština, 2013 William Denton (1815-1888), the priest of Anglican's Church, vicar of the Church of St. Vartolomey in London, came in the spring of 1862 in Serbia with the aim to be acquainted with this country little known to the British's.
Zarković Vesna
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No. 05: The Urban Food System of Bangalore, India [PDF]
, 2017 Bangalore (officially Bangaluru) is one of India’s fastest-growing cities. It is now the fifth-largest urban agglomeration in India, and the capital and primate city of the state of Karnataka in terms of area, population and economic output.
Sami, Neha, Surie, Aditi
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Indigenous Peoples in northern Alberta, including Dené and Cree of the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations (ACFN and MCFN), have been using Indigenous laws and stewardship principles to care for their homelands for thousands of years. Since ACFN and MCFN signed Treaty 8 with Canada in 1899, Alberta's land management policies and
Lori Cyprien +6 more
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