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The Empire at Home and the Empire Abroad
American Literary History, 2009The movement away from US-centered approaches to America enables scholars to cross disciplinary boundaries and delineate the global forces operating in literary texts. Specifically, as Caroline Levander and Robert Levine put it in special issue of this journal, hemispheric considerations of American literature “excavat[e] the intricate and complex ...
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Empire Within: International Hierarchy and its Imperial Laboratories of Governance
, 2015Introduction Empire as International Hierarchy 1. International Relations Theory: Hierarchy and the Problem of Empire 2. Imperial Laboratories of Violence: A Genealogy of the Camp 3. Imperial Subjects at Home and The Rise of the Modern Surveillance State
Alexander D. Barder
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Empires of Property, Properties of Empire
2018This chapter focuses on the colonists’ claim to property in persons. It looks at the arguments of Kant, Diderot and Cuguano contesting the progressive narrative of civilization and refinement and condemning the ways in which the European spirit of conquest created barbarity and ignorance, and allowed the process of commodification to develop.
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Jesus’ Empire or the Empire’s Jesus?
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2014AbstractIn response to Burton Mack’s argument in “A Secular Bible?” that a Christian myth or “Christian mentality” drives American empire, this essay suggests that Christian myths should be seen as products of empire. As we can see by looking at 19th and 20th century racist and anti-racist versions of Jesus, base determines superstructure at least some
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2018
In the 1960s, as large swathes of the British Empire had either achieved independence or were on the verge of doing so, the UK government commissioned a survey of the smaller territories and attempted to find ways of decolonizing them. It was keen to avoid criticism from the international community, particularly the United Nations Organization. However,
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In the 1960s, as large swathes of the British Empire had either achieved independence or were on the verge of doing so, the UK government commissioned a survey of the smaller territories and attempted to find ways of decolonizing them. It was keen to avoid criticism from the international community, particularly the United Nations Organization. However,
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Empirically analyzing empirical evidence
Science, 2015Psychology One of the central goals in any scientific endeavor is to understand causality. Experiments that seek to demonstrate a cause/effect relation most often manipulate the postulated causal factor. Aarts et al. describe the replication of 100 experiments reported in papers published in 2008 in three high-ranking psychology journals.
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Accountancy and empire. The British legacy of professional organization
, 2010R. H. Parker
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Empirical Measures, Empirical Processes
2018We analyze properties of empirical measures and empirical processes. In particular, point-wise consistency and asymptotic normality of empirical measures are proven, where a point refers to a given Borel set. These results are extended to functionals.
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The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South
, 2018B. Santos
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