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The Effects of Linguistic Imperialism in the EFL Classroom
Enletawa Journal, 2013 This article attempts to analyze and reveal the effects of linguistic imperialism in English Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. First, it will address global English language as the global standard language, that has imposed American and British ...
Mary Addison Romero Pinto
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Legacies of British Imperialism in the Contemporary UK Asylum–Welfare Nexus
Social Sciences, 2022 This article traces the imperial roots of the contemporary asylum–welfare nexus. It explores how English colonial governance exported Poor Law legislation firstly to colonial America (USA) and secondly to British North America (Canada).
Rachel Humphris
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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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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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Photography and the Imperial Propaganda: Egypt under Gaze
Cultural Intertexts, 2021 The mid-Victorian era and the Edwardian period witnessed important advances in graphic arts leading to the invention of photography. The eastward imperial expansion of Britain during this period resulted in the emergence of different representations of
Fatima Zohra HAMRAT
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No More Uncertain: The Future of the Gurkhas in the British Army
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2019 Nepalese soldiers, known as the Gurkhas, have been serving in the British Army for over 200 years and have become to be considered an integral part of this military organization. Their long history of service includes participation in the two world wars,
Paulina Stanik
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Revolting Against Imperialism and Capitalism in Sherlock Holmes: a Game of Shadows (2011)
Humaniora, 2017 The purpose of the study was to reveal the struggle among imperialism, capitalism, and social class dominance found within Guy Ritchie’s A Game of Shadows (2011), which was set in Britain, France, and Germany in 1891. British imperialism, capitalism, and
Alberta Natasia Adji
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