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Defending Empire at the United Nations: The Politics of International Colonial Oversight in the Era of Decolonisation [PDF]
, 2017 This article argues that, although anti-colonial delegations to the 1945 San Francisco Conference did not succeed in bringing all colonial territories under the umbrella of international trusteeship, the threat of expanding international oversight shaped
Pearson, Jessica Lynne
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State of Nationalism (SoN): Nationalism and Empire
Studies on National Movements, 2021 Works on nations and nationalism often include an introductory chapter on empires before more substantive matters are examined. Conversely, books on empires typically conclude with summary reflections on the rise of nations.
Yesim Bayar
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Territorial shock: Toward a Theory of Change
L'Espace Politique, 2011 This article tries to explain territoriality as a social assemblage linked to a geographic base which is restructured during crucial (axial) periods in history.
Gertjan Dijkink
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Journal of World Business, 2019 Integrating agency and institutional perspectives, we describe how China’s socio-political institutions create state-owned corporate empires with unique agency conflicts. We develop a framework demonstrating how economically unjustified firm expansion, i.
Jianjun Zhu, Caleb H. Tse, Xu Li
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The Empire Writes Back (to Michael Ignatieff) [PDF]
, 2004 This article critiques the re-legitimisation of empire evident in recent writing by Michael Ignatieff. It begins by locating his work within the larger debate on empire emerging today.
Rao, Rahul
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Klio, 2021 The history of Eurasia has ignited historian's void for many years.The history of a huge continent is a pretext to consider the interactions between individual empires that have functioned in its various parts for centuries.The empires of antiquity and ...
Tomasz Sińczak
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Denmark and Russia: What can we learn from the historical comparison of two great Arctic agricultural empires? [PDF]
Russian Journal of Economics, 2020 We propose that the “historically relevant” comparison of the Danish and Russian Empires from the early eighteenth century until the First World War presents a useful starting point for a promising research agenda.
Elena S. Korchmina, Paul Sharp
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Modeling Strategic Decisions in the Formation of the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding patterns of conflict and pathways in which political history became established is critical to understanding how large states and empires ultimately develop and come to rule given regions and influence subsequent events.
Altaweel, M +3 more
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Mediations: Science and Translation in The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2013 Mediations are a central theme in David Mitchell’s ‘house of fiction’, a set of five novels featuring a complex web of recurring characters, obsessions and literary patterns.
Claire Larsonneur, Hélène Machinal
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