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Li, Chun-hoi Benjamin. "Madame butterfly and orientalism." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk:8888/cgi-bin/hkuto%5Ftoc%5Fpdf?B22535305.
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Um, Ji-Young. "War without end : 20th century U.S. wars in Asia and empire structured in dominance /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9359.
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Leoni, Zeno. "Imperialism after Bush : Obama's foreign policy during the global financial crisis and the 'pivot to Asia'." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/imperialism-after-bush(34618dab-77ed-44bd-9726-eecca54c972c).html.
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This dissertation makes a contribution to the third-wave of Marxist debates on capitalist imperialism and to the literature on both American imperialism and Obama’s foreign policy. The theoretical challenge is to bridge the divide between Marxism and International Relations caused by the former’s lack of a comprehensive analysis of the state. This work develops a Marxist analysis of both structures and agencies of imperialism looking at the relation between systemic, societal and individual levels of analysis and it constructs an argument to explain the politics of imperialism. The synthesis between structure and agency is sought, along these analytical levels, within the tension between America’s global geoeconomy and its nationally-informed geopolitical strategy. In the case-study, the discussion on imperialism goes beyond the aftermath of 9/11 and it provides an update about the post-2008, increasingly fragmented global order. It does so by exploring on systemic, societal and idiosyncratic levels of analysis the Obama presidency and the US geostrategic shift to the Asia-Pacific. It highlights both structural and agential factors of domestic politics and foreign policy of Obama’s administrations and it explores the “pivot to Asia” from a global perspective, looking at military, economic, diplomatic and ideological as much as structural and agential forces on a pan-regional scale. Overall, this work concludes that US-China relations manifest a systemic inter-imperialist rivalry. However, it demonstrates that different agencies of American imperialism adopt different approaches to American grand strategy, an argument further confirmed by the final section on the Trump presidency.
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Gillon, Benjamin Thomas. "The triumph of pragmatic imperialism : Lord Minto and the defence of the Empire, 1898-1910." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/643/.
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While relatively neglected in the historiography, the 4th Earl of Minto, who achieved the distinction of serving consecutively as Governor-General of Canada and Viceroy of India from 1898-1910, is more truly representative of the methods Britain adopted to govern its Empire than his more illustrious contemporaries. He was one of the many aristocrats who, while increasingly marginalised in other aspects of British political life, were believed to possess important qualities that made them ideally suited to the highest levels of imperial service. As part of the governing elite, Britain’s aristocrats shared many of the assumptions held by politicians, civil servants and military officers, about imperial governance. Vague notions circulated about Britain’s duty to civilize its possessions, but most policy-makers eschewed ‘ideological’ visions in favour of a more pragmatic approach based on recognition that protecting the empire from both internal and external threats was vital to maintaining Britain’s leading position amongst its rival Great Powers. The pragmatism of its governors provided an element of continuity in the diverse territories of Britain’s empire. This thesis examines the role of Lord Minto in the formation of defence and foreign policy to illustrate the centrality of the pragmatic approach to British imperialism. He held his posts at a time of transition for the Empire. Ideas about the duties of imperial governors were changing, as power shifted either to local governments in the self-governing colonies or back to the metropole from the periphery. Yet as Britain faced an increasing range of challenges, governors remained able to influence many of the decisions made in response. Like most governors Minto worked under a series of constraints. He was forced to repair the damage caused by his predecessors and contain the unrealistic aspirations of his superiors, although, a soldier himself, he found his military colleagues a valuable source of support throughout his career. In Canada Minto worked hard to ensure that Laurier’s government accepted its imperial responsibilities, most notably during the South African war, but also that his British superiors understood Canadian attitudes towards the Empire and rapprochement with America. As Viceroy, Minto’s priority remained protecting the security of the Raj, particularly the strategically vital North West Frontier, often against the insistence of a Liberal government focused on economic retrenchment. That he was able to achieve these aims and restore stability to previously troubled territories is a tribute to the effectiveness of pragmatism.
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Hlosek, Andrea L. "The Mechanics of Russian Foreign Policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia Regional Hegemony or Neo-Imperialism? /." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FHlosek.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.Thesis Advisor(s): Anne L. Clunan, Mikhail Tsypkin. "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p.121-135). Also available online.
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Hellstadius, Jörgen. "Är klassisk imperialism fortfarande relevant? : en komparativ fallstudie av Marocko-Västsahara och Kina-Tibet /." Växjö : Växjö University. School of Social Sciences, 2008. http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:205773/FULLTEXT01.
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King, Amy Sarah. "Imperialism, industrialisation and war : the role of ideas in China's Japan policy, 1949-1965." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:69862b37-49c2-456d-be1d-23759948a920.
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This thesis is a study of the People’s Republic of China’s foreign economic policy towards Japan between 1949 and 1965. In particular, the thesis explores Chinese policy-makers’ ideas about Japan in the wake of the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945), and considers how those ideas shaped China’s foreign economic policy towards Japan between 1949 and 1965. To do so, the thesis employs a four-part ideas framework that examines Chinese policy-makers’ background, foreground, cognitive and normative ideas about Japan, and shows how the interaction between these four different idea types shaped China’s Japan policy between 1949 and 1965. Furthermore, the thesis draws on over 200 recently declassified Chinese-language archival records from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, as well as additional Chinese, Japanese, US and British archival sources. It argues that China’s experience of Japanese imperialism, industrialisation and war during the first half of the twentieth century deeply shaped Chinese ideas about Japan after 1949, though in ways that at first seem counterintuitive. Although Japan had waged a brutal war against China, Chinese policy-makers viewed Japan as an important source of industrial goods, technology and expertise, and a symbol of a modern, industrialised nation-state. However, China’s experience of Japanese imperialism and militaristic aggression often made it difficult to justify the policy of ‘trading with the enemy’. Ultimately, the thesis argues that China sought to expand economic ties with Japan after 1949 because Chinese policy-makers believed that doing so would assist China in becoming a modern and industrialised state, one that was strong enough to withstand foreign imperialism and restore its central position in the international system. Chinese conceptions of Japan thus help to explain how Japan became China’s largest trade partner by 1965, despite the bitter legacy of the War of Resistance and the Cold War divide between the two countries after 1949.
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Rimner, Steffen. "The Asian Origins of Global Narcotics Control, c. 1860-1909." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11587.
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This dissertation traces the ferment of private ressentiment, public protest and political response to the Asian opium trade from the "Second Opium War (1856-60) to the first, multilateral anti-drug summit in human history, the International Opium Commission in Shanghai (1909). Rather than isolating single anti-opium movements and drug control policies by administration, the focus is on moments and dynamics of ideological proliferation, social mobilization and political lobbying across the borders of societies in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Europe and North America.History
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Kang, Sungwoo. "Colonizing the Port City Pusan in Korea : a study of the process of Japanese domination in the urban space of Pusan during the open-port period (1876-1910)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:607156dd-6a4c-4c3c-a465-aa97d06c8d6e.
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This dissertation aims to analyze the transformation of Pusan by examining the social, political, economic, and cultural changes during the open-port period (1876-1910). Prior to annexation, Pusan, as the first open port in Korea, reflected features of the colonial urban development in which alien power achieved and sustained a hegemonic domination on socio-cultural-economic dimensions of people’s lives. Colonial history in Korea has been divided and moving on parallel lines. The ‘nationalist school’ and the ‘socioeconomic school’ have failed to come together and move us into a deeper understanding of the Japanese colonial period. In order to narrow the gap between the two schools of thought, this thesis suggests looking at ‘colonial modernity’ through the analytical lens of the colonial city of Pusan. The approach examines changes in the social, economic, and cultural life of people rather than through the traditional binary construction of ‘victim versus victimizer’ or ‘colonial repression versus national resistance.’ In particular, I pay close attention to the fact that colonization is a process of imperial expansion by means of colonialists. In the end, the process of colonization in Pusan was a process by which the Japanese settlers expanded in wealth, population, influence, and power. The cluster of factors – enlargement of settlement (living space), the expansion of the economy (economic opportunity), improvement of public enterprises, such as transportation infrastructure, water supply and hygiene (improving quality of life) – were catalysts for the Japanese settlers to take up residence in Pusan. Based on the transformation of the urban space of Pusan at this micro level, I discuss a hierarchy of power relations within the spatial boundary of Pusan. In other words, I focus on human aspects of these changes rather than on systemic changes. I attempt to demonstrate how studying a city can offer a useful category of analysis for the question of ‘modernity’ in Korea.
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Skiles, Debra Faith. "I Would Never Set Foot On American Soil Again: Religion, Space, and Gender: American Missionaries in Korea." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/105129.
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By using three lenses of analysis not often used together, theology, space and gender, this dissertation explores the decisions, practices, and gender dynamics of one group of Protestant religious imperialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Southern Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. The Southern Presbyterian's missionary theology drew not only from Presbyterian beliefs and doctrine, but also from more radical ideas outside the church. This more radical theology emphasized the importance of and expedient nature in achieving world evangelism. To advance world evangelism as quickly as possible, the missionaries' primary focus became converting Koreans to Christianity. Therefore, to convert Koreans, both Korean women and men, the Southern Presbyterians made two more changes, they created sex-segregated spaces to conform with Korean cultural expectations for spatial use and, secondly, used them for intimate, one-on-one evangelism, similar to the "inquiry room" styled evangelism of Dwight Moody. These decisions put American women to work in gender roles that mimicked those of men as primary evangelists, teachers, and tacit pastors to Korean women. These changes in theology, changes in spatial arrangements, and changes in gender roles characterized the Southern Presbyterian mission to Korea.
Importantly, all three of these transformations, when implemented on the ground in Korea, did not contradict with one another, however, instead contributed to the success of the mission with each change supporting the others. While the Southern Presbyterians espoused a conservative evangelical theology, that included conservative social values, their mission theology, based in their belief that they could help usher in the second coming of Jesus, superseded the upholding of Southern gender norms for women. Further, missionaries' intimate evangelism in sex-segregated spaces allowed for evangelism of both Korean men and women in spaces and existing religious styles Koreans already considered as appropriate for religious or quasi-religious activities.
By using three fields of analysis, connections between the rise of Christianity in Korea and missionary inner social dynamics can be seen. Specifically, the analysis sheds light on the significant role a group of evangelizers dedicated to certain theological beliefs not only shape a mission's endeavors but also the lives of the missionaries themselves. Theses lenses of analysis also show that much similarity existed between existing Korean spatial religious practices and the spatial evangelistic methods used by the missionaries. Also, changes within missionary gender roles can be explained which exposes the central work of evangelism done by not only single female missionaries, but married ones as well.Doctor of Philosophy
This dissertation explores the work of one group of Protestant religious imperialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Southern Presbyterian missionaries to Korea, by looking at the missionaries' Christian beliefs, the ways in which the missionaries built their homes and buildings and used them for evangelism, and the jobs they performed on the mission field. The Southern Presbyterian missionaries' Christian beliefs drew not only from the Southern Presbyterian denomination's beliefs and doctrine, but also from more radically evangelical ideas outside the church. This more radical theology emphasized the importance of evangelizing every area of the world to bring the second coming of Jesus. Therefore, the missionaries prime and most important focus was on converting Koreans to Christianity. To accomplish their goal of converting both Korean women and men, the Southern Presbyterians made two more changes, they created spaces where men missionaries would met only with Korean men, and women missionaries would only meet with Korean women. Secondly, they used their created spaces for intimate, one-on-one evangelism. This put American women to work in jobs that mimicked those of men as primary evangelists, teachers, and tacit pastors to Korean women. These changes in beliefs, changes in spatial arrangements, and changes in the jobs men and women did characterized the Southern Presbyterian mission to Korea. By looking at the beliefs, the ways which they organized and used space, and the jobs they did on the mission field, connections between the rise of Christianity in Korea and missionary everyday decisions, life, and jobs can be seen. Specifically, the dissertation sheds light on the significant role a group of evangelizers dedicated to certain theological beliefs not only shape a mission's endeavors but also change the lives of the missionaries themselves. By looking at these factors, this dissertation also shows that much similarity existed between existing Korean spatial religious practices and the spatial evangelistic methods used by the missionaries. Also, changes within missionary gender roles can be explained which exposes the central work of evangelism done by not only single female missionaries, but married ones as well.
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Ruano, de la Haza Jonathan. "The Rise of the United States' Airfield Empire in Latin America, North Africa, the Middle East, and Southern Asia (1927-1945). How America's Political Leaders Achieved Mastery over the Global Commons and Created the "American Century"." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23557.
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This dissertation makes the argument that the Franklin Roosevelt administration (1933-1945) embarked upon a global hegemonic project to transform the United States into a world empire and bring about the "New World Order." In addition, the expansion of U.S. commercial and military air routes was seen as instrumental to the realization of this project.
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Kao, Chia-li. "Imperialist ambiguity and ambivalence in Japanese and Taiwanese literature, 1895-1945." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3345077.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 5, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0570.
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Louro, Michele L. "At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/102771.
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This dissertation situates Indian nationalist politics in a broad, international context of anti-imperialist movements beginning in the late colonial and interwar period. The archival record is rich with sources on the international and transnational connections of the Indian National Congress (INC); however, scholarship on the independence movement almost exclusively concentrates on the micro-histories of `locality, province, and nation' or the `subalterns' of India. Instead, this project contributes a much-needed international perspective to Indian colonial history. As a case study, this dissertation traces the relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru, then a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement and later India's first prime minister (1947-1964), and the League against Imperialism (LAI), a significant, yet little studied organization founded in Brussels in February 1927. The League offered a significant space for Nehru, and by extension the Indian National Congress, to interact and build partnerships with political leaders in other colonies, mandates and dependencies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; as well as North American and European social reformers concerned with working class and racial equality. A history of Nehru and his League connections underscores the significance of the international terrain in which Indian nationalists contested empire. In this project I argue that the making of Indian anti-colonial nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s emerged as a complex set of interactions on the ground in India, but also beyond the colonial borders of the subcontinent.
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Jones, Margaret. "British colonial health policy 1900-1940 : Ceylon and the Asian colonies." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325805.
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Seid, Danielle. "Beautiful Empire: Race, Gender, and the Asian/American Femme on U.S. Network Television." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22746.
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Since the earliest days of broadcast television in the 1950s, network television has maintained a keen fascination with Asian/American women, who implicitly helped secure the boundaries of white women’s “empire of the home.” This dissertation inquires into when and how Asian/American women have been represented on U.S. network television. Bringing together questions and analyses of beauty, race, and gender to better understand how Asian/American femininity has been negotiated within the conventions of network television, I argue that the figure I call the Asian/American femme—suspended between feminine subject and feminized object—appeared on network television to mediate and obscure moments of U.S. national and imperial crisis.
In addition to analyses of specific programs and network television texts, this dissertation examines the racialized and gendered mistreatment that Asian/American performers have experienced working within the television industry. By combining textual analysis with analysis of industrial practices and performers’ star-texts, I work to understand how network television has imagined Asian/American women’s gender and sexual debts to the nation, as well as how key Asian/American performers, through their own feminine labor, enact the “resolution” of Asian/American women’s tenuous status in the nation. Far from advancing in a linear progression from stereotypical to more sensitive and complex representations, the Asian/American femme on U.S. network television, I argue, instead demonstrates how television, as a social and racial technology, accommodates shifting racial, gender, and sexual discourses in U.S. dominant culture.10000-01-01
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Bae, Juyeon. "The representation of Asian others in Korean cinema since 2003 : multiculturalism, nationalism and sub-imperialism." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33610/.
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This thesis elucidates current industrial and representational tendencies in South Korean films that depict Asian others. Asian others such as migrant workers, marriage migrants, overseas ethnic Koreans and North Korean defectors have become increasingly important in South Korean filmic discourse and practice since 2003. This thesis examines how contemporary Korean cinema has responded to the multicultural society and how it seeks to articulate Korean nationalism in the globalised era through the appropriation of Asian others. Such films are intertwined with governmental policies of multiculturalism and discourses on globalisation and thus reflect historical formations both inside and outside South Korean cinema. In particular, this thesis places the celebration of multicultural identity in Korean cinema into dialogue with existing debates on nationalism and sub-imperialism. Through case studies of selected films, this thesis investigates the tension between a changing society and emerging sub-imperial perspectives. The specific interest of this thesis lies in the examination of historical, geopolitical and socio-cultural trajectory in the representation of Asian others, since this discursive structure has been formed around Asia and its regional socio-political history. In doing so, this thesis aims to shift the discursive sphere of these films, which is limited to the discussion of multiculturalism and globalisation, to an expanded sphere which embraces historical and regional perspectives.
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Saray, Mehmet. "The Turkmens in the age of imperialism : a study of the Turkmen people and their incorporation into the Russian empire /." Ankara : Turkish historical society, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35696607g.
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Basista, Dante J. "The Uncommon Commoner: William Jennings Bryan and his Opposition to American Imperialism in The Commoner." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1566913229449622.
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Campos, Bruno de. "Formação social indiana." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/101055.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o processo de desenvolvimento econômico e de industrialização da Índia, partindo de sua formação sócio-espacial, dos projetos e ações de caráter desenvolvimentistas após a independência em 1947 e dos atuais estágios do desenvolvimento econômico e industrial do país, consistindo principalmente de levantamento bibliográfico. Teoricamente, levamos em consideração a categoria marxista do Modo de Produção Asiático e a categoria de Formação Sócio-Espacial de Milton Santos. Além dessas, a interpretação de Lenin sobre o imperialismo e os trabalhos de Alice Amsden sobre o desenvolvimento de países asiáticos e periféricos em geral. Iniciamos com uma apresentação mais teórica do Modo de Produção Asiático e da categoria de Formação Sócio-Espacial. Em seguida tratamos do imperialismo e suas consequências para o desenvolvimento indiano. Antes de algumas considerações sobre o exposto, apresentamos o desenvolvimento indiano após sua independência, marcadamente pela presença do Estado, principalmente através de planos quinquenais em pleno sistema capitalista. Enfim, este trabalho aponta que, primeiramente, algumas hipóteses do Modo de Produção Asiático parecem encontrar lugar no caso indiano, como: caráter hidráulico, governo centralizador executando algumas obras de interesse público e a junção entre agricultura e manufatura. Segundo, o imperialismo britânico contribuiu para retardar o desenvolvimento do capitalismo moderno indiano. E por último, a presença do Estado indiano no desenvolvimento econômico e industrial.
Abstract : This study aims to analyze the process of economic development and industrialization of India, from its formation socio-spatial, projects and developmental actions of character after independence in 1947 and the current stage of economic and industrial development of the country, consisting mainly of literature. Theoretically, we consider the Marxist category of Asian Mode of Production and category of Formation Socio-Spatial by Milton Santos. Besides these, the interpretation of Lenin on Imperialism and the works of Alice Amsden on the development of Asian countries in general and peripherals. We begin with a more theoretical Asian Mode of Production and category of Formation Socio-Spatial. Then treat imperialism and its impact on Indian development. Before some thoughts on the above, we present the development after Indian independence, markedly by the presence of the state, primarily through five-year plans in full capitalist system. Finally, this study shows that, first, some hypotheses of Asian Mode of Production seem to find a place in the Indian case, as hydraulic character, centralized government running some works of public interest and the junction between agriculture and manufacturing. Second, British imperialism contributed to retard the development of modern capitalism Indian. And finally, the presence of the Indian state in economic and industrial development.
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Ramamurthy, Anandi. "Representations of colonial and imperialist ideologies through the images of African and Asian people in British advertising 1880-1960." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298255.
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Harris, Melissa Manlulu. "Filipino American National Democratic Activism: A Lens to Seek Historical Justice for U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1526018921857459.
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Kim, Julie. "Red Lights, White Hope: Race, Gender, and U.S. Camptown Prostitution in South Korea." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1480.
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U.S. military camptown prostitution in South Korea was a system ridden with entangled structures of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. This thesis aims to elucidate the ways in which racial ideologies, in conjunction with gendered nationalist ideologies, materialized in the spaces of military base communities. I contend that camptowns were hybrid spaces where the meaning and representation of race were constantly in flux, where the very definitions of race and gender were contested, affirmed, and redefined through ongoing negotiations on the part of relevant actors. The reading of camptown prostitutes and American GIs as sexualized and racialized bodies will provide a nuanced understanding of the power dynamics unique to camptown communities. The first part of this study consists of a discussion of Korean ethnic nationalism and its complementary relation to U.S. racial ideologies. Denied of an ethnonational identity, camptown prostitutes denationalized themselves by rejecting Korean patriarchy and resorting to White American masculinity to craft a new self-identity. Another component of this thesis involves American GIs and their racialized self-identities. Recognizing American soldiers as products of a specific political and social context, I argue that military camptowns were largely conceived as spaces of normalized abnormality that provided a ripe opportunity to challenge existing social, economic, racial, and sexual norms.
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Howard, Andrew T. "Problems, Controversies, and Compromise: A Study on the Historiography of British India during the East India Company Era." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1492789513835814.
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Salter, Tiffany M. "Decolonizing Forms:Linguistic Practice, Experimentation, and U.S. Empire in Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494246148681761.
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Martínez, Taberner Guillermo. "La región del Nanyō. El Japón Meiji y las colonias asiáticas del imperio español, 1858-1898." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/80040.
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La reapertura de Japón y la transformación del período Meiji tuvieron implicaciones
regionales que llevaron al reforzamiento de los vínculos con las colonias asiáticas del
imperio español durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. En el marco de las relaciones
iniciadas con el proyecto para la firma del tratado hispano-japonés de 1868, destacaron tres
procesos históricos. El primero fue la incorporación del gobierno español al sistema de
“tratados desiguales” vigente en Japón. En segundo lugar, el papel de las islas Filipinas,
Marianas y Carolinas en la nanshin-ron 南進論 o “teorías del avance hacia el sur” a la hora
de fomentar la penetración de los intereses japoneses en el Nanyō 南洋o región de los
“mares del sur”. Finalmente, destacó la intensificación de las relaciones entre los
archipiélagos japonés y filipino durante la última década de este siglo. El análisis de estos
procesos permite observar cómo el declive de un imperio español que trataba de conservar
sus colonias asiáticas, discurrió paralelamente al ascenso de Japón como una nueva potencia
que exploraba las posibilidades de expandir sus intereses en la región donde estaban
localizadas dichas colonias.The reopening of Japan and the transformation during the Meiji period had regional implications linked to the intensification of the relationship with the Asian colonies of the Spanish empire during the second half of the 19th century. In the context of the relationships initiated with the project for the Japanese-Spanish treaty of 1868, it is possible to highlight three historic processes. First is the Spanish project to join the unequal treaty system established in Japan. Secondly is the role of the Philippine, Marianas and Caroline islands within the nanshin-ron 南進論 or “theories of the advance towards the South Seas” to promote the penetration of the Japanese interest in the Nanyō 南洋 or “South Seas”. Lastly is the process of strengthening linkages between Japan and the Philippines during the last decade of this century. The analysis of these processes allows us to observe how the decline of a Spanish empire trying to maintain its Asian colonies was parallel to the rise of Japan as a new power, which explored new possibilities to expand its interests in the region where these colonies were located.
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Tierney, John. ""Plunged Back with Redoubled Force": An Analysis of Selected Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry of the Korean War." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396829149.
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Cadusale, M. Carmella. "Allegiance and Identity: Race and Ethnicity in the Era of the Philippine-American War, 1898-1914." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1472243324.
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Sokolsky, Mark D. Sokolsky. "Taming Tiger Country: Colonization and Environment in the Russian Far East, 1860-1940." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468510951.
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Miller, Perry Dal-nim. "The Military Camptown in Retrospect: Multiracial Korean American Subject Formation Along the Black-White Binary." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1187385251.
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Cleland, Kat. "Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1019.
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This thesis examines the experiences of fairgoers at the Lewis and Clark Centennial, American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair held in Portland, Oregon from June to October of 1905. Historians have framed world's fairs and international expositions as sites of legitimating narratives and restagings of empire and nationhood. This thesis focuses on women, Asian Americans, and Native Americans who interrupted and disrupted the performance and exhibition of U.S. imperialism in the specific case of Portland, Oregon. It considers who benefitted from or endured loss in the demonstrations of imperial culture at the Fair. Following the premises that metropolitan and colonial histories should be considered in the same analytical field and that the systemic power of domestic imperialism in the United States extended beyond Native Americans into the experiences of most nonwhite American communities, this thesis adds a metropolitan approach to Native-American history and, in turn, applies a more colonial approach to the study of African-American, Asian-American, and working-class women's histories. In three chapters, this study explores a range of disruptions at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial - patched over by the Exposition's civic elites and overlooked by previous historians of the Fair - that shed light on the politics of race, class, and gender within the processes of empire and nation building in the turn-of-the-century West.
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Xu, Chong. "Construction d’une administration de sécurité : défense et maintien de l’ordre public dans la Concession française de Shanghai, 1849-1919." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019IEPP0011.
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Cette thèse de doctorat s’intéresse à une question peu étudiée par l’historiographie de la Chine moderne et pourtant fondamentale pour la compréhension de l’impérialisme dans l’histoire de la Chine moderne. En s’inscrivant à la croisée de trois chantiers historiographiques, connexes, mais distincts, l’histoire urbaine, l’histoire des empires et l’histoire des forces de l’ordre, elle cherche à mettre en lumière la circulation des techniques et des savoirs de l’État moderne comme « statecraft » au niveau de la ville entre les empires européens et l’État chinois. Son objet central est la question de la défense et du maintien de l’ordre public dans la Concession française comme révélateur à la fois des relations entre les autorités françaises et locales, des tensions éventuelles entre les empires, de la hiérarchisation administrative de l’Empire français sur place, et la répartition du pouvoir de commandement militaire entre autorités civiles et militaires, dans le but d’éclairer la mise en place de l’administration municipale de Shanghai avant l’installation de la municipalité de Kuomintang en 1927 à trois niveaux. Comment les rapports existent-ils entre les trois municipalités au sein de la ville? Comment les autorités françaises construisent-elles une administration de la sécurité sur place? Enfin, comment cette administration de la sécurité répond-elle aux défis de la guerre et du conflit militaire ?This doctoral thesis focuses on a question that has been little studied by the historiography of modern China but that is nevertheless fundamental to the understanding of imperialism in the modern history of this nation. By positioning itself at the intersection of three historiographical camps that are connected and yet distinct—urban history, the history of empires, and the history of the forces of law and order—this thesis will seek to emphasise the idea that the circulation of the skills and knowledge-base of a modern state were an example of “statecraft” within the city of Shanghai, which occupied an intermediary position between the European empires and the Chinese state. The primary focus of the thesis is the issue of defence and the maintenance of public order in the French Concession of Shanghai as being indicative of the relations that existed between the French and local authorities, the possible tensions between the empires, the administrative hierarchy of the French Empire on the ground, and the distribution of the power of military command between the civil and military authorities. The objective is to shed light on the shaping of the municipal administration of Shanghai before the establishment of the Kuomintang municipal authority in 1927 on three levels: what form did relations between the three municipalities within the city take? How did the French authorities build a security administration on the ground? Lastly, how did this security administration respond to the challenges of war and military conflict?
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Cunliffe, Sydney. "British Imperialism and Tea Culture in Asia and North America, 1650-1950." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5831.
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This paper examines how British imperialism brought about transnationally related changes in the trade and production of Asian tea as well as tea culture and politics of North America between the mid-seventeenth and the mid-twentieth century. These changes reflected a growing theme of globalization in the local political and social histories of the two continents, which developed as a result of Britain’s imperialist policy of utilizing Asian-grown tea to finance the British Empire, especially its colonial rule in Asia and North America. Westernized consumption of Asian black tea with sugar was developed in Britain after the mid-seventeenth century, and was exported to its settler colonies, including those in North America. It was not only the domestic consumption of Chinese tea in Britain but also its popularity in the British colonies which led to the dramatic increase of tea importation from China and to the Anglo-Chinese Opium War (1839-1842). Such demand for the Asian herb further led to its plantation in India and Ceylon under British control from the mid-nineteenth century. British imperialism and tea consumption also influenced tea culture in colonial New England, and especially, heavy taxation on the import and retail of Chinese tea sparked the American Revolution. Nonetheless, British-style tea culture still left a permanent legacy in the United States in the post-revolutionary era. By contrast, in Canada, the British-style tea culture, especially Britain’s new policy toward reciprocal trade benefits with its colonies from the late eighteenth century, resulted in expanding revenues for colonial governments. The popularity of British tea culture in Canada and other remaining colonies not only enhanced colonists’ identity with Britain and ensured its imperialist cultural hegemony overseas but also helped the British-controlled tea product in India and Ceylon to prevail over the previously prevalent Chinese tea in the international market by the early twentieth century.Graduate
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"Myths and realities of French imperialism in India, 1763-1783." Tulane University, 1989.
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The epochs of Indian History have been determined from time to time by the appearance of foreign influences. Of immeasurable significance for India was the coming of the Europeans, for it eventually transformed the political destiny of the country. Inevitably, France, one of the five great European maritime powers of the time, had been vitally involved in this historic process. Yet, though there exists a cornucopia of material on French commercial history in the East Indies and on the various military and commercial phases of the Anglo-French rivalry in India, no one has so far undertaken to study the true character of the French presence in India from 1763 to 1783, within the setting of French global policy after the Seven Years' War. This is what the present study has endeavored to do According to conventional wisdom, and even scholarly opinion, the French were imperialistic in India. Yet a review of the French government's policy from 1763 to 1783 shows that, on the contrary, the French were, with remarkable consistency, non-expansionist in India. The Indian policy of the French government constituted only one part of its wider strategy to unseat British predominance throughout the world, and to retrieve France's position as a first-rank Power in Europe. The French government schemed to attack the founts of British power in India and in North America, not to succeed to British domination in these regions, but to liberate them In India, the French through a policy of diplomatic intrigue, labored to expel their rivals from the country. The story of the French presence in India post-1763 is largely the story of a desperate struggle by Frenchmen to block the extension of British imperialism in the region. The ultimate end was to restore freedom and liberty on the Indian soil. The French government may have aspired to establish in India a network of trade but not an empire of conquest. The prevailing belief that the French conflict with the English in India was primarily a conflict for an 'Indian Empire' may now be revealed for what it always was: a mythacase@tulane.edu
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Carbone, Lucia Francesca. "‘Romanizing’ Asia: the impact of Roman imperium on the administrative and monetary systems of the Provincia Asia (133 BC – AD 96)." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8222TP0.
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The impact of Roman power on the pre-existing administrative and economic systems of the conquered provinces has been a significant issue of scholarly debate for decades. In the last two decades attention has shifted from the idea of Romanization as a top-down phenomenon to a much more articulated process, in which the element of cultural interaction between the conquering power and the conquered populations was central and led to the creation of locally hybrid cultural forms.
This dissertation analyzes the ways in which local cultures and identities interacted with Roman ones in the years between Attalus III’s testament and the end of the Flavian age. I chose to focus my research on these centuries as they include four key moments for the Provincia Asia: 1) the moment of its institution in 129/6 BC with the related issues due to Aristonicus’ rebellion and the necessity of establishing effective provincial administrative and economic structures; 2) the years between the Mithridatic wars and Caesar, when the province spiraled into debt and the Asian monetary system had to adapt to the extra taxation requested by Sulla and then to the change in the role of the societates publicanorum, who were deprived of the farming of the decuma by Caesar; 3) the years of the Civil War between Antony and Octavian and its aftermath, which gave increasing importance to the conventus and to the introduction of Roman currency into the province, both in the circulating monetary pool and as an account unit; 4) the post-Augustan age, which saw an increasing standardization in the ‘local’ monetary systems of the province, with respect to both silver and bronze coinage, and the final ‘victory’ of the conventus over the pre-existing administrative structures, as shown by the fact that even municipal taxation and local cults were by then organized according to the conventus system.
The model of ‘middle-ground imperialism’ is useful for understanding the process of progressive standardization of Asian administrative structures and monetary system, not as a top-down process but rather as a bilateral interaction between Roman and local cultures, as I have shown in the case of the progressive standardization of Asian provincial administrative structures (Chapters 1 and 2) and monetary systems (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6).
According to this research the transformative age for the Romanization of the Provincia Asia was not the Augustan Age, but the Second Triumviral Age.
The main heuristic tools for drafting the picture of the administrative and economic life of Provincia Asia are a database of Asian civic issues (both silver and bronze) between 133 BC and AD 96 that I have constructed out of the data in BMC, SNG Copenhagen and SNG Deutschlands – van Aulock (for pre-Antonian issues) and in RPC I-II (from Mark Antony up to the Flavians), and three epigraphic databases that include the epigraphic attestations of denarii, assaria and drachmae in the province of Asia between the 2nd century BC and the 2nd century AD, for a total of 372 inscriptions. All these databases are included here as Appendices (I – X).
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Kung, Ling-Wei. "The Great Convergence: Information Circulation, International Trade, and Knowledge Transmission Between Early Modern China, Inner Asia, and Eurasia." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-atfx-y779.
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This dissertation investigates China’s relationship with Inner Asia—encompassing Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang—by focusing on information exchange, economic integration, and worldview formation from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries in an international context. Supplementing modern and classical Chinese sources with multilingual materials in Tibetan, Mongolian, Manchu, Japanese, and a range of European languages, my research diversifies scholarly understanding of China’s development as a nation by emphasizing the significant roles of Inner Asian peoples in building the Qing empire. I argue that, instead of a marginal hinterland, Inner Asia was the contact zone that brought Eurasian cultures and knowledge systems together. Moreover, this work challenges the binary discourse of metropole/periphery in the history of imperialism, colonialism, and globalization by demonstrating that the integration of knowledge systems in modern Eurasia started from Inner Asia. Engaging with the scholarship of comparative world history, I argue for the Great Convergence, a novel term that signifies the information exchange, economic integration, and knowledge formation that mobile communities and intelligence networks in Inner Asia facilitated between China, South Asia, and Europe.
My research features interdisciplinary methods that bridge the gap between international history and world philology, among other disciplines. This dissertation analyzes information and economic networks between China and Inner Asia. More broadly, the present study contributes to the literature on imperialism, transnationalism, mobility, ethnicity, and science/knowledge in global and comparative contexts. To be specific, this dissertation investigates how Inner Asian mobile communities, such as Tibetan monks, Mongolian pilgrims, and Ladakhi caravans facilitated Qing understandings of other Eurasian empires, including Tsarist Russia, Ottoman Turkey, Mughal India, Afsharid Iran, and Durrani Afghanistan. Moreover, I argue that Qing information gathering significantly promoted the international integration of information networks and knowledge systems in early modern Eurasia. Finally, this dissertation generalizes historical trends of knowledge exchange to explore the phenomenon of the Qing empire’s knowledge involution caused by political censorship and information non-transparency. Accordingly, this research sheds light on knowledge divergence between China and Europe to answer why the Qing empire did not achieve a modern scientific revolution compared with its European counterparts.
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Suva, Cesar. "Nativizing the Imperial: The Local Order and Articulations of Colonial Rule in Sulu, Philippines 1881-1920." Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110541.
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This study is of how local legitimacy anchored and influenced
colonial regimes in the southern Philippine archipelago of Sulu
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In
particular, it explores how the internal contest to establish a
native moral order defined the dimensions of Sulu’s
incorporation into the American Empire upon its arrival in 1899.
It also provides further insight into a general pattern of
native-colonial interaction throughout island Southeast Asia: a
region where chiefly rule was often leaned upon by western
empires of the nineteenth century. Through this discussion,
orthodox notions of colonization, conquest, resistance and of the
workings of modern colonial states, are re-examined. Most
importantly, it will reveal how local understandings of
governance and legitimacy, much more than American ones,
profoundly affected the formation of the ‘modern’ order in
Sulu.
Through an examination of correspondence and dialogues with
colonial officials, combined with contemporary and later
twentieth century ethnographies and local oral literature
recording colonial events, this study will venture to make the
following key points: Firstly, The Americans, at their arrival
in Sulu in 1899, slid into a long-established role as the
colonial faction in the lingering contestations between elite
rivals after the death of Sultan Jamalul Alam in 1881. Secondly,
the Tausug, the predominant ethnic group in Sulu, were not
opposed to foreigner rule, as much as they were opposed to what,
in their understanding, was immoral rule. Individual Americans
filled the local role of the stranger king, an institution
produced out of the highly mobile, cosmopolitan Austronesian
world of which Sulu and other insular Southeast Asian societies
form a part. The alien-ness of the stranger king gave them the
objectivity to mediate and bring justice over native faction
leaders, who themselves were too enmeshed in the web of vendettas
and jealousies that fueled conflict. When Americans played this
locally determined role incorrectly however, they could rapidly
lose their legitimacy. Third, what emerged in the first few
years of the twentieth century were two different articulations
of rule in Sulu. One was the rapidly constructed ‘modern’
colonial state found in American annual reports and
correspondence to the metropolises of Manila and Washington. The
other was the state as performed in Sulu by colonial agents for
the local inhabitants, framed in the morality evidenced in the
rituals of rule by local datu. As time went on, the Americans
built the physical and institutional trappings of their modern
state around the Tausug, reifying the cleavage between colonial
and local. What resulted was ambivalence toward the modern state
for its disconnection with the locality, and the persistence of
an unofficial, locally driven parallel state with its
pre-colonial rituals fully functioning in the shadow of the
colonial state. Colonial rule in Sulu was a delicate,
multi-faced and mutually stabilizing balance sustained by local
leaders and colonial officials in keeping these rationalities
complimentary rather than contradictory. A closer look at this
interaction reveals the ways in which human societies in close,
often antagonistic interaction, can rationalize and legitimize
the operation of the state.
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Gannon, Shane. "Translating the Hijra the symbolic reconstruction of the British Empire in India /." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/435.
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Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Alberta, 2009.Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on July 30, 2009). "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Dept. of Sociology". Includes bibliographical references.
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Huang, Hsiao-Ting, and 黃小庭. "Modern Western Imperialism and the Economic Development of the Colony in Southeast Asia: A Case Study of the Philippines during the American Colonial Period (1898-1942)." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ns564j.
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After the United States entered the second industrial revolution, the domestic economy flourished. In order to transfer the excessive financial resources and products in the United States, the US government planned to expand overseas markets. After the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States acquired the Philippines as the only colony in the Asia-Pacific region. The motivation of the United States colonizing the Philippines is to obtain economic benefits; therefore when the US government adopted the economic policy, it wanted to turn the Philippines into a place suppling raw materials, a market for dumping US goods and a place for US capital investment. This study aims to analyze the colonial economic policies adopted by the United States colonial rule over 40 years, including land reform, internal tax system reform, the establishment of monetary and financial systems, etc... By analyzing those economic policies, we can realize their background, content and impact on the Philippines. Although the US economic policies enhanced the economic prosperity of the Philippines, the purpose of the American colonization of the Philippines is the same as that of other European imperialists in Southeast Asia that is, obtaining its own interest by taking the economic control of the Philippines.
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Peng-Seng, Steven. "Le panasiatisme en Asie : une construction de l’identité asiatique et japonaise, 1900-1924." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12489.
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La recherche sur le développement du panasiatisme en dehors du Japon a été longtemps négligée par les historiens. Ce mémoire est une tentative de décloisonnement du panasiatisme afin de mieux comprendre son émergence en Asie et son rôle dans la construction de l'identité asiatique entre 1900 et 1924 en examinant le discours de cinq acteurs de l’« idéologie ». Utilisant comme perspectivel'histoire globale, il démontre comment le panasiatisme en Asie s'inscrit dans un réseau de contacts et
de circulation d'idées intra-asiatique au début du 20e siècle, réseau influencé principalement par deux concepts dans sa définition de l'Asie: la race jaune et la civilisation asiatique. Tentant de mieux comprendre la relation entre la pensée en Asie et au Japon, le mémoire explore aussi les similarités et différences entre eux, notamment la création d'une identité et de la perception du Japon comme modèle de modernisation et chef du continent qui se propagent en Asie à travers la rhétorique panasiatique.Research on the development of Pan-asianism outside Japan has long been neglected by historians. This thesis is an attempt of decompartmentalization of Pan-asianism to better understand its emergence in Asia and its role in the construction of an Asian identity between 1900 and 1924. This will be done by examining the speech of five actors of this "ideology." Using a Global History perspective, it demonstrates how Pan-asianism in Asia is part of a network of contacts and circulation of ideas in the early 20th century which was mainly influenced by two concepts in its definition of Asia: the yellow race and the Asian civilisation. Other than trying to better understand the relationships between Pan-asianism in Asia and Japan, this master’s thesis also explores the similarities and differences between them, especially the creation of an identity and a perception of Japan as a model of modernization and leader of the continent that spreads in Asia through Pan-asianism’s rhetoric.
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Girouard, Kim. "Médicaliser la maternité en Chine du Sud : l'exemple des postes médicaux consulaires français, 1898-1938." Thèse, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/8326.
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L’histoire de la médicalisation de la maternité en Chine reste encore mal connue et ce mémoire constitue une amorce pour tenter de défricher ce riche et vaste terrain. Il examine dans quel cadre et dans quelle mesure la prise en charge de la maternité des femmes chinoises a évolué au sein des postes médicaux consulaires français du sud de la Chine (Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan), de l’arrivée des premiers médecins en 1898, jusqu’à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale en 1938. Il démontre comment a pu se traduire l’œuvre médicale française en matière de prise en charge de la grossesse, de l’accouchement et des soins à donner au nouveau-né dans les établissements de santé consulaires, et tente de voir jusqu’à quel point, pourquoi et dans quels domaines précisément l’offre de soins à l’occidentale proposée par les Français dans ces régions a pu atteindre les futures et nouvelles mères chinoises.The history of medicalization of maternity in China is still poorly understood and this master thesis is a first step in the attempt to clear this rich and vast ground. It examines the context in which and to what extent the care of the Chinese women’s maternity has evolved in the French medical consular posts of Southern China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan), from the arrival of the first doctors in 1898 until the eve of the Second World War in1938. It demonstrates how the French sanitary mission took care of pregnancy, childbirth, and new-born health in the consular health establishments, and attempts to see how far, why, and in what areas specifically the Western health care proposed by the French in these regions could have reached the future and new Chinese mothers.
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"Collaboration as an alternative mode of anti-colonialist resistance: a postcolonial of the Asia-West binarism inscribed in the Asian theological movement." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/295835.
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Doyle, Kimberley Anne. "Archipelagos of Peace: Australian Peacekeepers in Bougainville, East Timor and Solomon Islands 1997-2006." Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/104836.
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Since 1945 Australians have served as peacekeepers across the world in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific. They have contributed to one of the most startling attempts at worldwide collective security in human history. That sweeping story has been well explored, but the experiences of peacekeepers themselves have remained rather elusive. And yet peacekeeping outcomes largely depend on what happens at the ground level between people. The central aim of this thesis is to pull these stories from obscurity and demonstrate that peacekeepers’ recollections, descriptions and perspectives are a central and necessary part of peacekeeping histories. That story is explored here by examining Australian peacekeepers’ oral histories of serving in Bougainville, Solomon Islands and East Timor between 1997 and approximately 2006. These are valuable case studies because all three peace operations overlapped in the same decade, all occurred under the same Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and all were elided together in strategic and political discourse. More significantly, each was also bound, in Australian imaginations, to a nebulous region called ‘the Pacific’. This unique intersection of the three operations creates opportunities to explore broader questions about Australia’s relationship with the Pacific. Though not exclusively used, peacekeepers’ narratives are central to this history. Over sixty Australians from across the country shared their stories for this work. The peacekeepers’ came from three different organisations – the Australian Defence Force, the Australian Public Service and the Australian Federal Police. Exploring what peacekeeping meant to people across these three organisations means this history tells a more varied story than would be possible by focusing solely on one group. That variety also makes it possible to further dissect the nuances and connectedness of peacekeepers’ representations of national, regional and Pacific identities. Ultimately, this is a history of peacekeeping is centred by peacekeepers’ own experiences. All History is, of course, people centred in its own way, but it does not inevitably follow that people are always the centre of the narrative. They often exist in and amongst events swirling around them, actors for sure, but not necessarily the stars. That has certainly been the case for peacekeeping histories so far. We need those stories, but we need the ones in this thesis too. Peacekeeping in the Pacific has very much been about relationships, about very human attempts to understand what it means to build peace in varied and complex contexts; and doing so while labouring under various historical and cultural inheritances that complicated and made specific peacekeepers’ struggles and experiences. This is a story that meets peacekeepers in that space while also showing that those experiences say much about being Australian, being a peacekeeper and being in the Pacific at the turn of the century.
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Murtuza, Miriam Rafia. ""Play up, play up, and play the game" : public schools and imperialism in British and South Asian diasporic literature." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1375.
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This dissertation examines literary representations of the intersection between British imperialism and British and British-modeled public schools. I categorize British writers who have addressed this nexus in their literary works into two groups, idealists and realists, based on their views of British public schools, imperialism, and the effectiveness of the former in sustaining the latter. I present two examples of idealists, Henry Newbolt and the contributors to The Boy's Own Paper, followed by two examples of realists, Rudyard Kipling and E. M. Forster, who have often been viewed as opposites. I then provide an example of a South-Asian diasporic realist, Selvaduari, who builds upon the critiques of British realists by revealing the contemporary offspring of the marriage between British public schools and imperialism. By analyzing works by idealist and realist authors, I demonstrate the importance of public schools and school literature in promoting and sustaining as well as critiquing and condemning imperialism.text
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Vrudhula, Rajiv M. "The Bengali Babu : ideology, stereotype, and the quest for authenticity in colonial South Asian literature /." 1999. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9951849.
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Lai, Huang-wen. "The Turtle Woman’s Voices: Multilingual Strategies Of Resistance And Assimilation In Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule." 2007. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/60.
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"殖民地知識分子之興起: 以香港、台灣及新加坡作個案." Thesis, 2009. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6074934.
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Colonial intellectual is a good point of entry for making sense of anti-colonial movement because in many cases they constituted the pioneer of the movement. Moreover, in some cases, they became the founding father of new nations. However, such an important social category received inadequate attentions.The main concern of this research is: how to make sense of the fact that in some colonies, anti-colonial movement were stronger while in others, the subjects were silent. The present writer would use colonial intellectuals from three areas (Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore) as cases to illustrate the development of anti-colonial movements in above three areas in late nineteenth Century and Early Twenty Century.
Using the theory of institutionalization as theoretical framework, the present writer argued that the level of institutionalized of the society is the prime mover of the event. To view colonial society as a social group, it is argued that only in those societies reaching a high level of institutionalization, then members of the society would develop a kind of locally oriented vision of the society. That kind of vision is the necessary condition of anti-colonial movement. In the following thesis, the present writer would discuss in what way colonial governance, migration, and the conditions of pre-colonial society shaped the level of institutionalization of the discussed cases.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.
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Nagayama, Chikako. "Fantasy of Empire: Ri Kōran, Subject Positioning and the Cinematic Contruction of Space." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19156.
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This thesis emerged from my emotional, tactile, and intellectual access to the actress, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (a.k.a. Ri Kōran or Li Xianglan), who embodied the cultural hybridity of Manchuria and represented a ‘modern girl’ on screen. I analyze four wartime melodrama-adventure films, in which she co-starred with Japanese actors: Song of the White Orchid (Byakuran no uta, 1939), China Nights (Shina no Yoru, 1940), Vow in the Desert (Nessa no chikai, 1940), and Suzhou Nights (Soshū no yoru, 1941).
The formation of domesticity played an integral part in the making of modern nation-states. Intertexualizing with the discursive formation of the ie (house/family) between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries, I first demonstrate that Japanese film subjects are made to embody the imagined Imperial nation through gendered performances in Song of the White Orchid. The interior and exterior are constructed to mirror the notion of imperial nation and the Asian ‘other’.
Next, I extend the analytical framework to the three films, China Nights, Vow in the Desert, and Suzhou Nights, which employ films’ specific locations for different operations of gendered and ethnicized positioning. I also pay attention to some of the climaxes, which unconventionally present psychological dramas outdoors and action scenes indoors. Especially, my interest in this part of analysis is in interrelating metaphors of bodily boundary and national border. As delineating the signification of body and nation, I situate the relay of the gaze in the simultaneous blurring of bodily boundary and national communities that coincides with melodramatic highlights located outdoors.
In order to shape a Japanese imperial subject, the films symbolically negotiate with three levels of power dynamics: the establishment of a national identity, the mimicry of the West, and the significance of China in Japanese imperial modernity. The delineation of cinematic space and subject positioning in Ri Kōran’s films reveals that Chinese, Japanese and the West are constituted as shifting positions that respectively represent past/obstructions, present/a mobile agency, and future/the envisioned goal. Ri Kōran attracts spectators’ gaze and mediates multiple locations to identify with, while Japanese male protagonists embody the gaze by making his corporeality absent.
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(8803058), James P. Podgorski. "Korean and American Memory of the Five Years Crisis, 1866-1871." Thesis, 2020.
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This project examines the events from 1866 to 1871 in Korea between the United States and Joseon, with a specific focus on the 1866 General Sherman Incident and the United States Expedition to Korea in 1871. The project also examines the present memory of those events in the United States and North and South Korea. This project shows that contemporary American reactions to the events in Korea from 1866 to 1871 were numerous and ambivalent in what the American role should be in Korea. In the present, American memory of 1866 to 1871 has largely been monopolized by the American military, with the greater American collective memory largely forgetting this period.
In the Koreas, collective memory of the five-year crisis (1866 to 1871) is divided along ideological lines. In North Korea, the victories that Korea achieved against the United States are used as stories to reinforce the North Korean line on the United States, as well as reinforcing the legitimacy of the Kim family. In South Korea, the narrative focuses on the corruption of Joseon and the Daewongun and the triumph of a “modernizing” Korean state against anti-western hardliners, and is more diverse in how the narrative is told, ranging from newspapers to K-Dramas, leading to a more complicated collective memory in the South.
This Thesis shows that understanding the impact that the first state-to-state encounters had on the American-Korean relationship not only at the time but also in the present, is key to analyzing the complicated history of the Korean-American relationship writ large.