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To Develop the Colonial Estate: The Reasons for British West African Railways [PDF]
, 2011 This Dissertation is a history of reasons and motivations behind building the first railways in British West Africa. It analysis Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Lagos and Northern Nigeria from the early 1890s to 1906.
Bruckner, Andrew
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International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 18
, 2012 Editorial This issue of BMSAES contains the proceedings of the Annual International Egyptological Colloquium, entitled Mariners and traders: Connections between the Red Sea littoral, Arabia and beyond, and Rudolfo Fattovich’s Raymond and Beverley ...
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Meridiano 47, 2017 Resenha do livro: Ferguson, Niall. Império. Como os britânicos construíram o mundo moderno.
João Fábio Bertonha
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Canada [cartographic material].
, 1925 Map of Canada showing Provinces. It also shows the Canadian escutcheon.; Plate 3 from: Atlas of the British Empire : reproduced from the original made for Her Majesty Queen Mary's Doll's House / by Edward Stanford Ltd., cartographers to the King. London :
Edward Stanford Ltd.
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The British Empire and the Muslim world [PDF]
, 2001 By the 1920s the British Empire embraced substantially more than half the Muslim peoples of the world. For much of the twentieth century Britain was the greatest influence over their development. Imperial security in large part dictated which territories
Robinson, Francis
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 21
, 2014 Editorial This issue presents new work on Roman, Late Antique and Medieval Egyptian collections primarily in the UK, Germany and France. Several of the articles presented herein have their origins in aspects of presentations delivered at a workshop held
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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