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Sufi Movements on British Anti-Colonial Resistance in Bengal of Indian Subcontinent: A Study of Religious and Political Intersections

İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi
This article critically examines the resistance movements initiated and led by Sufi leaders against British colonial rule in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, focusing on present-day Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura ...
Dr. Saeyd Rashed Hasan Chowdury
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Gender inequality in urban British Africa: Evidence from Anglican marriage registers

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the colonial origins and evolution of gender inequality in mission schooling and formal labour force participation across six cities in British colonial Africa, using marriage register data for some 30,000 Anglican brides and grooms well‐positioned to benefit from colonial educational and employment opportunities.
Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Jacob Weisdorf
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Is Imperialism a Stage of Capitalism? An Analysis of the Relationship between Capitalism and Imperialism in the British Empire

, 2019
: The British Empire began in the early seventeenth century and continued into the twentieth century. There have been many different answers to the question of what caused imperialism.

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Chinese May Fourth Movement as Nationalist Discourse

Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2014
This article analyses national discourses that the Chinese and British constructed particularly during the May Fourth Movement. Moreover, the paper will analyse the form, content and function and impact of the May Fourth national rhetoric expressed by ...
Tiina H. Airaksinen
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‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
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English linguistic neo-imperialism in the era of globalization: A conceptual viewpoint. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Zeng J, Ponce AR, Li Y.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s critique of British imperialism

, 2016
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was a famous English writer, a journalist, a philosopher and a Christian apologetic. In his works he dealt with many issues, among which were those concerning significant political questions that were widely discussed
Sadło, Krzysztof
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The Role of International Exhibitions in the Aftermath of Empire: The 1948 British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

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For the 1948 iteration of the Venice Biennale, the first after the Second World War, a painter and a sculptor were chosen to represent Britain: J. M. W. Turner (1775 – 1851), founding figure of the English Romantic landscape genre, and Henry Moore (1898
Claudia Di Tosto
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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Economic factor as the central motive of British imperialism in Africa, 1800 – 1900: the Nigerian experience

, 2018
The motives of Britain in abolishing the slave trade used to be hotly debated by two schools of thoughts led by Sir Reginald Coupland and Eric Williams.
Onor, Sandy Ojang
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