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Tsarskoye Selo
TSARSKOYE SELO Tsarskoye Selo (known as Detskoye Selo between 1918 and 1937, Pushkin thereafter) is a suburb of St. Petersburg best known for its imperial palaces and its lyceum. The town was established in 1708 on the site of a conquered Finnish village, not long after the founding of St.... Read more |
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University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo at Tokyo, Japan; founded in 1877. In the 1920s it became one of the first Imperial universities and remains one of the most prestigious in Japan. It offers degrees in letters, law, economics, education, engineering, science, medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, and agriculture.... Read more |
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Postcolonialism
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES. Postcolonial studies designates a broad, multidisciplinary field of study that includes practitioners from literary, cultural, and media studies, history, geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and political economy. Postcolonial studies is the analysis... Read more |
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Bogomils
Bogomils , members of Europe's first great dualist church, which flourished in Bulgaria and the Balkans from the 10th to the 15th cent. Their creed, adapted from the Paulicians and modified by other Gnostic and Manichaean sources, is attributed to Theophilus or Bogomil, a Bulgarian priest of the... Read more |
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Ivan Andreevich Krylov
KRYLOV, IVAN ANDREYEVICH (1769–1844), writer, especially of satirical fables, who is often called the "Russian Aesop." The son of a provincial army captain who died when he was ten, Krylov had little formal education but significant artistic ambitions. Entering the civil service in Tver,... Read more |
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Tigray
Tigray ETHNONYM: Tigre Orientation Identification. The Tigray are the largest ethnic group in the Ethiopian province of Tigray and in the Eritrean nation. The Tigray have not been as thoroughly studied as their culturally similar neighbors, the Amhara, with whom they share an "imperial"... Read more |
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Nara
Nara , city (1990 pop. 349,349), capital of Nara prefecture, S Honshu, Japan. An ancient cultural and religious center, it was founded in 706 by imperial decree and was modeled after Chang'an (see Xi'an ), the capital of T'ang China. Nara was (710-84) the first permanent capital of Japan. The noted... Read more |
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Imperial Holly Corp
Imperial Holly Corporation One Imperial Square, Suite 2008016 Highway 90-ASugar Land, Texas 77478U.S.A.(713) 491-9181Fax: (713) 242-6850 Public Company Incorporated: 1924 as Imperial Sugar CompanyEmployees: 1,600Sales: $660 millionStock Exchanges: AmericanSICs: 2062 Cane Sugar Refining; 2063... Read more |
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imperialism
imperialism Domination of one people or state by another. Imperialism can be economic, cultural, political or...manufactured goods. With few exceptions, imperialism imposed alien cultures on native societies. In the 20th century... |
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Said, Edward
...Orient’; it is a founding text of modern postcolonial theory, complemented by the essays collected in Culture and Imperialism (1993). An Edward Said Reader (ed. Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin) was published in 2001. |
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Social Darwinism
...faire, governmental controls, or imperialism. Given its negative implications, few theorists...rhetoric also colored debates over American imperialism, for example, in the writings of historian John Fiske...spread of the anthropological concept of culture; advances in ... |
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States' Rights
...denounced what they considered the dangerous imperialism of the Republicans in Washington and asserted the rights...to the margins of American political culture, although conservatives, including Ronald...liberties, immigrant rights, and anti‐imperialism, late twentieth ... |
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Humor
Humor. Although rooted in Old World cultures, identifiably American forms and traditions of humor began...popularized one of the longest‐lived comic types in American culture—the unschooled rustic whose natural simplicity masked...criticism on the central issues of his day from racism to ... |
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Isolationism
...endorse military preparations, sanction certain forms of imperialism, and engage in outright war, particularly in Latin America...isolate” the United States from either the world's culture or its commerce.By the above definition, American policy... |
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nationalism
...Nationalist sentiment, drawing upon and extolling a common culture, language and history, can be a powerful unifying force...national independence movements against colonialism and imperialism, nationalism is essentially conservative. |
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Modernism
...juxtaposition of images from widely scattered times and cultures, complex intertextual allusion and patterning, and personal...important areas of fin-de-siècle anxiety: the corruption of imperialism and colonialism, urban chaos, political extremism, racism... |
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nationalism, rise of
...1945communism, Nazism, capitalism, colonialism, anti-imperialism, fascism, and other ideologies fought it out around the world...nationalism remains, because it is based on a common heritage, culture, language, and religion. It is usually, although not always... |
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Jones, Sir William
...1784) and developing an appreciation of Indian law and culture unusual in a European. Having mastered Sanskrit, he translated...in Britain to the developing forces of Christian cultural imperialism. He was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1772. Edward... |
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imperialism
...are three major theories of imperialism.1. The first notes the...more important reason for imperialism concerns events outside Europe...onwards. Another was the use of imperialism by state leaders as a machiavellian...the superiority of Western culture (as ... |
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globalization
...emergence of a global cultural system. It suggests that global culture is brought about by a variety of social and cultural developments...the distinction between globalization and modern patterns of imperialism? There are also difficulties in specifying the relationships... |
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millenarianism
...Melanesia. These usually believe that the ancestors or a culture hero are on their way back to this world in a magic ship to create...by colonialism. The movements are fundamentally opposed to imperialism and use a religious idiom to attempt to explain the power... |
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Tibetan religion
...Panchen Lamas, Tibet has paid for its own pre-Buddhist imperialism by relentless cycles of Mongolian and Chinese invasion...that, the systematic dismantling of Tibetan religion and culture began. The accusation of genocide against China by the International... |
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labour aristocracy
...principal protagonists (who included sociologists of class and culture) disputed the definition of the concept itself; the role of...the British working class and nineteenth-century British imperialism. The debate petered out—largely unresolved—but yielded... |
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Ur
...antiquity on the River Euphrates; it had a sophisticated culture and a history of prosperity. It has been thoroughly excavated...Priestly editor during the era of Babylonian (Chaldean) imperialism around the 7th cent. BCE. It was the home of Abraham before... |
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Culture and Imperialism
...controversial book Culture and Imperialism (1993), has direct...introduction to Culture and Imperialism he writes: "About...Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism provides...understand the power of ... |
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Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South...
Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia. Edited by DAVID ARNOLD and RAMACHANDRA GUHA. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS... |
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Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia
Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia. Edited by DAviD ARNOLD and RAMACHANDRA GuHA. Delhi: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS... |
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Culture and Imperialism.
...relationship between culture and empire." He says...the one hand, and imperialism on the other"; he...looking at culture and imperialism carefully ... we...we can also call it imperialism does not mean that...things, one called ... |
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Culture and Imperialism. (book reviews)
...to aesthetic and idealist cultures but also by a deliberate...provocative tactic by which these cultures (such as Eliot's poetics...analysis of the operations of imperialism. But there is also in the...indication as to the ways in which culture and ... |
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Culture and imperialism.
...perspective, in which Western culture is inherently superior. Lost...s new book, Culture and Imperialism, offers readers a pathway...Said argues, the reality of imperialism as a global political and...very important to culture and ... |
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The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England,...
...their own vibrant political cultures, in which "the sense of...convincingly argues that this culture "owed far less to aristocratic...pioneering work, which treats imperialism as an almost invariably unifying...connection between aggressive imperialism and ... |
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The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England,...
The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785. By Kathleen Wilson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), paper. Who was important in... |
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Japan's total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism.(Review)
...empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism (Twentieth-Century Japan...contribution to theories of imperialism and colonialism in general...that Japanese militarism and imperialism in Manchuria, far from being... |
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Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism.(Review)
Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, by Louise Young. Berkeley, California, University...most important segment of Japanese incremental imperialism. Japan had obtained a partial foothold in the... |
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