Charlotte
Charlotte city (1990 pop. 395,934), seat of Mecklenburg co., S N.C.; inc. 1768. The largest city in the state and the commercial and industrial leader of the Piedmont region, Charlotte is the third-ranking U.S. banking center as well as an air, transportation, and distribution hub for the Carolina manufacturing belt. Hydroelectricity from the Catawba River powers industries producing textiles, chemicals, clothing, machinery, food, metals, and printed materials.
The Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Queens College, and Johnson C. Smith Univ. are in the city. The Mint Museum of Art is a reproduction of the U.S. Mint located in Charlotte from 1837 until 1913. The city is home to professional football (the Panthers) and basketball (the Hornets) teams. The huge Charlotte Coliseum and high-rise office buildings have transformed the city's skyline since the 1980s. Lowe's (formerly Charlotte) Motor Speedway is in nearby Concord .
The city (settled c.1750) was named for Queen Charlotte , wife of George III of England. Its citizens were among the most outspoken in opposition to the British government, and it was at Charlotte that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was signed in May, 1775. In his brief occupation of the city (Sept.-Oct., 1780), British General Cornwallis called it a "hornet's nest of rebellion." In 1971, Charlotte and Mecklenburg co. became the scene of the first major court-ordered busing program (ended 1999) to eliminate school segregation.
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Imperialism and the anti-imperialist mind.
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/15/1986; ; 700+ words
; Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind, by Lewis S. Feuer...vocabulary have produced so much froth on the lips as "imperialism.' The unenviable task that Professor Feuer has set himself...
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CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
Magazine article from: International Journal; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; CULTURAL IMPERIALISM Essays on the Political Economy of...The questions surrounding "cultural imperialism" are, perhaps, more relevant today...can maintain that empire. Cultural Imperialism: Essays on the Political Economy...
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P.J. Cain. Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism and Finance 1887-1938.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History of Economics Review; 1/1/2003; 700+ words
; P.J. Cain. Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism and...centenary of Hobson's classic Imperialism: A Study. To commemorate this...Hobson's thinking not only on imperialism, for which he is best known...
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Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance, 1887-1938.(Book Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...coauthor, with Tony Hopkins, of British Imperialism, 1688-2000. In Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance...considerably altered his theory of economic imperialism throughout his long and productive life...
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Whatever happened to imperialism?
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 11/1/1990; ; 700+ words
; WHATEVER HAPPENED TO IMPERIALISM? An outsider cannot help noticing...decade: hardly anybody talks about imperialism any more. In 1974, I left Cambridge...after 15 years. When I left, imperialism occupied perhaps the most prominent...
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Dutch expansion in the Indonesian archipelago around 1900 and the imperialism debate.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words
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Ninkovich, Frank: The United States and Imperialism.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...November 2000 The United States and Imperialism is a new addition to Jack P...of America's experience with imperialism. Ninkovich departs from the two...schools of thought about American imperialism among diplomatic historians...
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British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914-1990.
Magazine article from: Business History; 7/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...landmark, and Cain and Hopkins' British Imperialism clearly comes into this class. Most...This two-volume account of British Imperialism greatly expands their original articles...nature of British overseas expansion and imperialism'. British imperialism reflects this...
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Robert Johnson. British Imperialism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Robert Johnson. British Imperialism. Histories and Controversies Series...and controversies about British Imperialism. It offers an introduction, critical...1-4 deal with definitions of imperialism, the nature of British imperialist...
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AWAITING TAUB'S DECISION\ IMPERIALISM MAY SKIP PREAKNESS.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 5/6/2004; 700+ words
; ...as impressive as Smarty Jones's. Imperialism, the third-place finisher at Churchill...and await the Belmont Stakes. Even Imperialism's trainer, Kristin Mulhall, seems...t think Smarty Jones is beatable." Imperialism received more attention before the Derby...
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Empire and Imperialism: Europe
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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imperialism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
imperialism was not used in its modern sense until...and to restrict the word ‘imperialism’ to the later period. It...short of that. ‘Economic imperialism’, for example, means the...
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Imperialism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
IMPERIALISM IMPERIALISM. Americans have long thought of themselves as an "anti-imperial...Woodrow Wilson, the United States defined itself in opposition to the imperialism of other empires. Imperialism, in this American usage, refers...
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Anti-Imperialism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
Anti-Imperialism Robert Buzzanco "America goes not...But then, any examination of anti-imperialism in the United States is replete with...complexity. Whereas in other lands anti-imperialism was often closely identified with the...
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Imperialism in the Middle East and North Africa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
IMPERIALISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA...life (or both) of other nations. Imperialism is generally defined as a phenomenon...and Middle Eastern empires, the term imperialism is rarely used to describe the underlying...
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