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An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning
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Political culture
Political CulturePolitical culture and socializationThe content of political culturesThe future of a theory of political cultureBIBLIOGRAPHYPolitical culture is the set of attitudes, beliefs, and sentiments which give order and meaning to a political process and which provide the underlying... Read more |
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heptarchy
heptarchy [Gr.,=seven-kingdom], name traditionally applied to the kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England in the period prior to the Danish conquests of the 9th cent. The term was probably first used by 16th-century writers who believed that in those early years England was divided into seven... Read more |
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Political Sociology
Political SociologySocial context of political powerElite analysisMacrosociology and political changePolitical sociology and political theoryBIBLIOGRAPHYTwo distinct but converging intellectual traditions are to be found in the theoretical and empirical writings of political sociology. Broadly... Read more |
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Political campaigns
CAMPAIGNS, PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS, PRESIDENTIAL. See Elections, Presidential .... Read more |
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Francisco de Vitoria
Francisco de Vitoria The Spanish theologian and political theorist Francisco de Vitoria (ca. 1483-1546) was the first great theorist of modern international law. He provided an updated, if uneasy, justification for Spain's conquests in the New World. Little is known of the early life of... Read more |
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Geoffrey Plantagenet
Geoffrey ‘Plantagenet’ (1113–51), count of Anjou (1129–51) and duke of Normandy (1144–51), became the husband of Henry I's designated heiress, the Empress Matilda, on 17 June 1128, in a political marriage which was intended to neutralize Anjou's participation... Read more |
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Sir Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps 1813-75, English historian and author. His works include Friends in Council (3 series, 1847-59), dialogues on social and intellectual subjects; The Spanish Conquest in America (4 vol., 1855-61); Realmah (1868), a political novel; and The Life of Columbus (1869). He edited... Read more |
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Kingdom of Naples
NAPLES, KINGDOM OF NAPLES, KINGDOM OF. The early modern kingdom of Naples, whose twelve provinces compromised the southern third of the Italian peninsula, was the military and fiscal cornerstone of Spain's Mediterranean empire from its conquest in December 1503. It provided significant resources... Read more |
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O'Grady, Standish James
...period’, which he later reworked as boys' stories. O'Grady also wrote about the Elizabethan conquest and commented on contemporary politics, particularly as editor of the Kilkenny Moderator (1898–1900), and proprietor of the All Ireland... |
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London, government and politics
London, government and politics. The exceptional size and resources...bridge, pointed the way. Before the Conquest, Saxon rulers had granted London remarkable...Cnut and in the decades before the Conquest the witan had met there more often... |
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IRISH
...the contacts have been complicated by conquest, rebellion, religion, ethnicity, immigration, emigration, politics, and education. As English has advanced...Justice, wrote Irish poetry.The conquest of Ireland In the 16c, the English... |
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Sweyn Estrithsson
...consistent element in the tangled northern politics of the age. After the death of Harold...September 1066 and the subsequent Norman conquest of England, Sweyn came to the forefront of English politics. In 1069 he sent a huge fleet which... |
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Normandy, duchy of
...an extensive movement of conquest and colonization into southern...of expansion. The great conquests in the Mediterranean and...northern France; the Norman Conquest of Britain, for example, was...continuation of the volatile politics of northern France ... |
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Orkney, jarldom of
...in the Hebrides amounted to conquest, but Icelandic tradition claims...definitely a powerful player in the politics of the Irish sea province...more solid evidence for his conquest of the Hebrides. He was remembered...After his death in 1065, his conquest ... |
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Nazi ideology
...or biological character of politics; and it contained the view that...Lebensraum (living space). The conquest of additional land would produce...pursuit of a violent biological politics, directed against racial ‘undesirables...This ambition required the ... |
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veil
...Islamic society some time after the Islamic conquests of the eastern Byzantine lands and the...Prophet's wives. After the Islamic conquests, in an environment in which respectable...Islamist movements and anti-Western politics. Arlene MacLeod's study of lower... |
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San Francisco
...were established in 1776. American conquest took place in 1846, and the first American...Cherny , San Francisco 1865–1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development, 1986...DeLeon , Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975–1991, 1992... |
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history and historians
...were in fact justifications of English conquest and colonization is hardly surprising...Although both were unionist in their politics, their extensively documented accounts...historians shifted their attention from high politics to popular movements, historians of... |
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London, government and politics
London, government and politics The exceptional size and resources...the 12th cent. Before the Conquest, Saxon rulers had granted London...and in the decades before the Conquest the witan had met there more...Dislike of its left‐wing politics and jealousy of ... |
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Sweyn Estrithsson
...consistent element in the tangled northern politics of the age. After the death of Harold...September 1066 and the subsequent Norman conquest of England, Sweyn came to the forefront of English politics. In 1069 he sent a huge fleet which... |
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military and militarism, sociological studies of
...into the involvement of the military in politics, both in the developed and developing...many forms which militarism can take in politics (direct rule, indirect influence, strategic...wars between states express an urge for conquest that arises from a desire for improved... |
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Eden, (Robert) Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon
...stepped down over the government's recognition of Italy's conquest of Abyssinia, while the underlying cause was his struggle...especially as Churchill left the running of day-to-day politics to him, basking in his glory as a war hero. Again Foreign... |
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Conservative Party
...less reformist of the (normally) two main parties in British politics. It has a longer history than any other political party, perhaps...continuity reflects that of the nation which has not suffered conquest, major defeat, or social revolution. |
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Italy
...particularly for southerners.Another central element in Italian politics until the conclusion of the Lateran Treaties in 1929, and...social and electoral reform on the one hand and nationalism (conquest of Libya in 1911–12) on the other. Against the inclinations... |
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Nazi
...supported Hitler in his mission to launch Germany on a war of conquest. By now virtually the whole German nation supported him...plans have ensured that Nazism has disappeared from mainstream politics, although occasional resurgences do occur in extreme right... |
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Ecuador
...capital. The Spaniard PIZARRO united the region to his Peruvian conquests in 1535 and installed his brother, Gonzalo, as governor...this broke up (1830) it became a separate republic, whose politics reflected the tension between the conservative landowners... |
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Nottinghamshire
...difficult for the Normans to pronounce, was dropped after the Conquest. By the treaty of Wedmore of 878 it was retained by the Danes and...wars caused great distress and gave a radical tinge to local politics. Brandreth's Pentrich rising of 1817 was in part the product... |
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Quisling, Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonsson
...became a general staff officer by the age of 24. He entered politics in 1931 and was Minister of Defence (1931–2). He left...December 1939, in order to encourage him to undertake the conquest of Norway. After the invasion of April 1940, as leader of... |
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Rereading the Conquest: Power, Politics, and the History of Early Colonial...
Rereading the Conquest: Power, Politics, and the History of Early Colonial...important sixteenth-century sources on conquest-era Michoacán: the Spanish legal...deeply implicated in conquestera politics, a period of intense internecine... |
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Democrats Must Oppose Bush's Imperial Conquests.(Politics&Opinions)
Byline: Nicholas von Hoffman Not more than 48 hours after the Democratic disaster, the first e-mail money pitch arrived. John Kerry, recovered from his grieving, wrote that "I understand the strength, commitment, and passion that are at the core of what we built together--and I am determined to |
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Conquest to feature on BBC Politics Show.
THE CONQUEST march is to feature on the BBC's Politics Show this Sunday. THE CONQUEST march is to feature on the BBC's Politics Show this Sunday. It will be...hospital cuts in the region. The Politics Show South East has an exclusive... |
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Politics: No conquest solution: SF.(News)
...the gun from Northern Ireland politics will not be done by ''conquest, surrender or humiliation...remove the guns from Irish politics will be a very, very straightforward...removal of guns from Irish politics and that common ground could... |
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"We will dirk every mother's son of you": five points and the Irish conquest...
...with this rough-and-tumble style of politics. Their use of these tactics helped Irish...real positions of power in New York City politics. Like all New Yorkers, Five Pointers...experience the new riotous style of mass politics. (3) In the new political environment... |
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No Ordinary Conqueror; Josh Ritter Eschews Politics for Heartland Rock on...
...intertwines love, war, faith and politics over a bracing 91/2 minutes...new album, "The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter," leaves politics behind. On it, he seems...songs." As for "Historical Conquests," he says: "It's not... |
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"WHAT IN THE WORLD HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, MY LOVER?" SEX, SERVITUDE, AND...
...refracting lens of the intervening Spanish conquest. Posterity has been the more inclined...some of the written texts smack of post conquest adjustments (some even include mention...the majority of them are clearly pre-conquest in theme and format. Some version of... |
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UNIONS SAVOR CONQUEST.(Opinion/Commentary/Editorial)(COLORADO POLITICS)
Byline: Peter Blake ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Who owns Denver? The unions like to think they do. And that may be why Mayor John Hickenlooper is having trouble getting his proposed charter amendment overhauling city pay policies through Denver City Council. Carmen Rhodes, political director of the Denver |
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Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics,...
...Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society. Volume 1: From Conquest and Colonization Through Reconstruction...ethnicity into the more familiar history of politics and economic development." The first volume... |
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The violence of the letter: land claims and continuing colonial conquest in...
The recent struggle over lands in southern Ontario near Caledonia points to the continuing problem with land-claims policy in Canada. This sentence could be used to begin an article every few years, only the place names change: the recent struggle at Grassy Narrows, the recent struggle at Stoney |
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