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The Evolution of Territorial Conquest After 1945 and the Limits of the Territorial Integrity Norm

International Organization, 2020
Past studies conclude that a territorial integrity norm caused territorial conquest to decline sharply after 1945, virtually subsiding after 1975. However, using new and more comprehensive data on territorial conquest attempts, this study presents a ...
D. Altman
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The great agrarian conquest: the colonial reshaping of a rural world

Asian Studies Review, 2020
Up through the 1980s, agrarian history constituted a central subject matter in the study of colonial South Asia. Assuming that virtually everyone in the Indian countryside had always been settled agriculturalists who lived in villages, agrarian history ...
T. Ali
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The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

, 2020
Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasure of gold and silver being unloaded at Seville’s docks in 1537, a teenaged Pedro de Cieza de Leon vowed to join the Spanish effort in the New World, become an explorer, and write what would become the earliest ...
Pedro Cieza de León
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Virgil and the Conquest of Chaos

Antichthon, 2020
The hunt for Virgil’s sources has been, by unspoken agreement among Latinists, largely abandoned. This regrettable development may in part have been a by-product of the justifiable revulsion against the excesses of Quellenforschung as practised c. 1880-c.
Nicholas Horsfall
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No Conquest, No Defeat

, 2020
In early 2019, the Islamic Republic of Iran marked its fortieth anniversary, despite decades of isolation, political pressure, sanctions and war. Observers of its security policies continue to try and make sense of this unlikely endurance.
Ariane M. Tabatabai
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The Russian Conquest of Central Asia

, 2020
This book tells the story of how Central Asia became Russian. With the fall of Kazan in 1552 Medieval Muscovy had extended its frontier to the Volga. It reached the Caspian in 1556, with the capture of Astrakhan, and by the end of the sixteenth century ...
Alexander Morrison
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Transcending Conquest:

2017
There are twelve chapters divided into three sections: 1) life, death, and mortuary practices; 2) colonial entanglements, frontiers, and diversity; and 3) identity and the body under colonialism. The first and second sections offer a global perspective on the effects of colonialism and culture contact on community health: indigenous converts living in ...
Melissa S. Murphy, Haagen D. Klaus
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The English Conquest of Jamaica

, 2017
chapter 4, she provides an account of how women managed and directed the estates of their underage sons. The last three chapters are taken up with discussion of women’s social, political, and philanthropic roles.
C. G. Pestana
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Climate of Conquest

, 2019
What can war tell us about empire? Climate of Conquest is built around this question. Pratyay Nath eschews the conventional way of writing about warfare primarily in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that Mughal
Pratyay Nath
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Towards a post-conquest South Africa: beyond the constitution of 1996

Conquest, Constitutionalism and Democratic Contestations, 2018
Sebakwa taodisong ye ke gore bao bago tseyelwa naga ka dikgoka ba nale tokelo ya go lwela gore naga ya bona e boele go bona. Ye ke tokelo yeo molaotheo wa 1996 o e gatakileng wa etsa okare sebakwa gase gore naga ye yago bitswa Afrika-Borwa ke bafenyi ...
M. Ramose
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