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  • ...villages were destroyed and burnt, all their fields turned into pasturage. British soldiers enforced this mass of evictions, and came to blows with the inhabi ...tigation, and for English money, they were tomahawked by the redskins. The British Parliament proclaimed bloodhounds and scalping as ‘means that God and Natur ...
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  • ...meworks of human philosophical theory such as German classical philosophy, British classical political economics, and utopianism in France and Britain. The British classical political economics, represented by such economists as Adam Smith ...
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  • ...itish Library, National Library of Wales, Royal Anthropological Institute, British Museum, Louvre, American Library Association, Bettmann Archive, New York Pu ...gender, including women warriors, in Iron Age graves in southern Russia by British archeologist Timothy Taylor. "I think I have identified females who moved i ...
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  • ...ange places he had seen, of his adventures in faraway lands. He was a real British patriot, a Black imperialist, if such was possible. ...nd British officers, and I will conquer the world.” I pictured myself as a British sailor, and read Two Years Before the Mast and Battle of Trafalgar. ...
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  • ...list states have cooperated with fascism. In his collaborationist efforts, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was positively cozy with the Nazis. He a ...rated campaigns against left governments in Chile, Jamaica, Nicaragua, and British Guyana. Within five months, the free-market oppositionists forced the democ ...
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  • ...han, etc.'' The historian tells how, on hearing of the ‘rising’, the brave British officer set off with his men to the town of Castleblayney; how on his way t ...s connection, which coming, as they do, from the pen of a supporter of the British Government and of the Protestant Establishment, are doubly valuable as witn ...
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  • ...ist Revolutionary leaders paid a private visit to Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador, and implored him not to mention the fact that they had been the ...d his nakaz; the Allied ambassadors protested and finally Bonar Law in the British House of Commons, in answer to a question, responded coldly, “As far as I k ...
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  • ...chael Hamilton Burgoyne, Mamluk Jerusalem: An Architectural Study (London: British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and World of Islam Festival Trust, 1987) ...ighteen—without his father’s approval, we are told—to spend two years at a British Church Mission Society school in Malta. From there he went to study at the ...
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  • ...andlord, the shattering of the power of the landlord, the surrender of the British Government to the demand for the abolition of landlordism, all were so many ...ndition of Dublin, for example, as an evidence of the evils resulting from British rule; evils which would assuredly disappear before the beneficent hand of a ...
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  • ...st philosophy are Roy Wood Sellars, Corliss Lamont and Paul Grosser. Among British materialists who have earned wide recognition are Maurice Cornforth, John L ...val of an openly mystical, religious philosophy of history. The well-known British historian, Arnold Toynbee, in his twelve-volume work A Study of History, wr ...
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  • ...ized and armed into “well-regulated” militias to prevent the return of the British and their allies, Native nations and freed Black forces. Thus, the reversio ...ferson, one of the founding fathers of America, borrowed the phrase from a British philosopher named John Locke—one of the founding fathers of liberalism—who ...
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  • ...vernment to recognize the French republic. The present dilatoriness of the British government is probably intended to atone for the Anti-Jacobin war [1792] an ...tricious Paris of the Second Empire! No longer was Paris the rendezvous of British landlords, Irish absentees, American ex-slaveholders and shoddy men, Russia ...
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  • ...l scholars enlisted by the Dutch conquerors of Malaysia and Indonesia, the British armies of India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, West Africa, the French armies of Indo ...r East (China and Japan, mainly). Unlike the Americans, the French and the British--less so the Germans, Russians, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, and Swiss--h ...
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  • ...but also Great Britain. In the great Coal and Railway strikes of 1911 the British Government lent the whole force of the State to defeat the strikers,<ref>Mr ...
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  • ...refused to go has its reasons. Ours have to do with the relations between British sports authorities and South Africa. Great Britain has never accepted the v ...ed since 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union; northern Ireland remained a British colony brutally repressed by London; the Caribbean island of Grenada had be ...
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  • ...n-Gurion, in Rebirth and Destiny of Israel noted candidly that: “Until the British left [May 15, 1948] no Jewish settlement, however remote, was entered or se ...y how months before the entry of Arab forces into Palestine, and while the British were still responsible for law and order in the country – namely before 15 ...
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  • ...#fn10|10]] On the occasion of the Tehran Conference in November, 1943, the British statesman had praised his Soviet counterpart as “Stalin the Great”: he was ...g the great intellectuals. Harold J. Laski, a prestigious supporter of the British Labour Party, speaking in the fall of 1945 with Norberto Bobbio, had declar ...
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  • ...Day’ and ‘Machinery’ the reader has seen the circumstances under which the British working class created an ‘intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power’ fo ====The badly paid strata of the British Industrial Working Class==== ...
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  • ...it meant to live in the First and Second Worlds. In March 1946, the former British premier Winston Churchill had declared that an “Iron Curtain” had descended ...f native savagery (several hundred thousand Kikuyu died in the “war”). The British policy sought to exterminate rather than contain the rebellion, and in the ...
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  • ...raw a parallel to the small colonialist minds that held sway over the vast British empire of his own day. ...Gibbon, ''Memoirs of My Life'', 173.</ref>  He was a firm supporter of the British empire.  While serving as a member of Parliament he voted against extending ...
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  • In 1911, Ernest Rutherford, a British physicist, calculated how alpha rays would be scattered by an atom of gold, ...instance, which contains treasures putting it on a par with Louvres or the British Museum, was closed to ordinary folk for a long time. ...
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  • ...eir brain ceased to think, their eyes to see. The thoroughly “respectable” British jurymen answered by a verdict that sent them to the next assizes on a charg ...sts and manufacturers which have heretofore given credit and reputation to British wares in general? What has this been owing to? To nothing more probably tha ...
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  • ...n military history. Hit-and-run attacks by Spanish irregulars supported by British and Portuguese troops and matériel introduced the <span class="i">guerrilla ...entieth century, or U.S. tactics in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. As one British observer of the Boer War commented in 1901: “If there is one certain educat ...
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  • ...heless, we should not forget that there are Blacks of Belgian, French, and British nationality and that there are black republics. How can we claim to grasp t ...peoples he studied—Pueblo Indians from Arizona or the Blacks from Kenya in British East Africa—have had more or less traumatic contact with the white man. We ...
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  • ...lism alike. Lexis even judges that Rodbertus is at least the equal of ‘his British rival’ in power of abstract thinking, and by far his superior in ‘virtuosit ...ortance for accumulation will be demonstrated below in another connection. British policy in India and French policy in Algeria are the classical examples of ...
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  • ...with Saudi Arabia in the mid-1940s (intended by both parties as a check on British ambitions in the region), and its first formal alliance commitments were Tu ...hemselves,” according to the head of Israeli military intelligence), while British access to the same source was much more limited.<sup>61</sup> Access to thi ...
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  • ...rmies landed on the Arctic coast to seize the northern part of Russia; the British grabbed Baku, oil capital of the south. Agents of the Entente incited and p ...agency in London May 12, 1927; the forged “Zinoviev letter” which swayed a British election. These were only the most spectacular of a whole series of raids, ...
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  • ...s as equally irrational and violent. “This is a delightful country,” wrote British trader Alexander Henry about the Northern Plains in 1800, “and were it not Dakotas, Nakotas, and Lakotas had been trading with the French and British for decades by the time the Lewis and Clark expedition arrived. By the earl ...
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  • ...t interested in singing headlines, editorializing, or selfexamination. The British Invasion was in full swing, and American airwaves were clogged with the kin ...Better," much to the delight of a crowd that screamed and wailed like the British band's most ardent teenage followers. ...
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  • ...ysis of Data from the World Health Survey Programme,” <span class="epub-i">British Medical Journal</span> 226 (2008), 1482–86; Charles Hirschman, Samuel Prest ...setting the tone for the men under their command. Sir Robert Thompson, the British counterinsurgency expert who helped defeat the Communist insurgency in Mala ...
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  • ....”<ref>Yitzhak Rabin made this comment a number of times, including on the British Grenada Productions documentary film ''The Sword of Islam'' (1987). He also As the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq loomed in early 2003, Hezbollah wanted to step out of the ...
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  • ...tuart Mill, judging at least from his polemic against the ''‘soi-disant’'' British liberals (among them, perhaps, Acton and Gladstone), who, during the Americ ...ed the ‘political principles’ characteristic of ‘the purest periods of the British Constitution’—those that subsequently caught on and prospered in free Ameri ...
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  • ...ippines, a mural-painter in Nicaragua, a legally-elected prime minister in British Guiana, or a European intellectual, a Cambodian neutralist, an African nati ...llow the same restrictive ideological approach. When we behaved as did the British in their relations with the socialist countries we were accused of being pr ...
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  • In the same manner, British psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff (2010 : 371) agrees that a “psychiatric diagn ...omy, and castration” (Szasz 2000: 36). Widely recognised as the founder of British psychiatry, Henry Maudsley was particularly vocal in his disdain for those ...
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  • ...hrough came in the 1920s and 1930s as a result of discussions mostly among British and Soviet Marxists. Building on V, I. Vernadsky’s notion of the biosphere, ...m for error variance. The data and coefficients have been deposited in the British Museum and may be published someday. Sample data are shown in Tables 1-1984 ...
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  • At the meeting of the British Association held in Glasgow in 1901, A. W. Rücker, the president of the phy ...
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  • ...peasantry an amount of interest equal to the annual interest on the entire British national debt. Small-holding property, in this enslavement by capital towar ...
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  • ...tly than others. In the 172os, one of the things that most scandalized the British public when conditions at debtors' prisons were exposed in the popular pres ...the example of dried cod, supposedly used as money in Newfoundland. As the British diplomat A. Mitchell-Innes pointed out almost a century ago, what Smith des ...
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  • ...urther and further west. In Australia and New Zealand, all attempts of the British government to establish artificially a landed aristocracy came to nothing. ...identally at most also a means designed to make communism plausible to the British public. If therefore any form of misuse should compel Owen's society to do ...
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  • ...ic (and “soundly” opportunist) Mr. and Mrs. Webb and you will see that the British trade unions long ago recognised, and have long been carrying out, the task ...
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  • ...dvantageous situation on the one hand, to the insular peculiarities of the British, and to the cruel suppression of the French movements on the other, that fo ...
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  • ...outh shut. He talked about empires, the Roman, the Greek, the Spanish, the British. He told me white people created empires because they were more civilized t ...
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