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Ramparts of empire : India's North-West Frontier and British imperialism, 1919-1947 [PDF]
textThis study examines the relationship between British perceptions and policies regarding India’s North-West Frontier and its Pathan inhabitants and the decline of British power in the subcontinent from 1919 to 1947.
Marsh, Brandon Douglas
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Popular imperialism and the military 1850-1950
Between 1800 and 1900 popular perceptions of the military underwent a significant transformation. The reputation of the 'rapacious and licentious soldiery' was replaced by a widerspread enthusiasm for the soldier as patriot and hero, as personified in ...
MacKenzie, John M. 1943-
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Photography and the Imperial Propaganda: Egypt under Gaze
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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The political, economic, social and military developments in the High Commissioned Territories (HCT) throughout much of the 19th and 20th centuries were highly influenced by their southern neighbor.
Deborah Shackleton
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Abstract Race and language collaborate in structuring educational inequities, creating urgency for teacher education to equip all teachers to equitably serve racialized multilinguals as antiracist language educators. Emphasizing the inseparability of racial and linguistic justice, this article examines teacher candidates' (TCs') learning journeys ...
Monica Shank Lauwo
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Revolting Against Imperialism and Capitalism in Sherlock Holmes: a Game of Shadows (2011)
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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Beauty Both Ubiquitous and Exclusive: Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and the Great Exhibition
This brief article focuses upon Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley’s response to the Great Exhibition of 1851, both her celebration of luxury goods in her poetry and her poetry as such a consumer good.
Daniel Brown
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
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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"Indian Muslim Freedom Fighters Based in Afghanistan and Soviet Russia "
At the outbreak of the First Word War, the Indian Muslim freedom fighters headed towards Afghanistan and thence to Soviet Russia to devise a strategy to pulverize the British Indian government through an alliance of the powers that were hostile to the ...
Dr. Abdullah Khan, Nasir ud Din
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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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