Browsing by Subject "Politics and government"
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Rāvaṇa Reclaimed: The South Indian Dravidian Movement's Reclamation of Identity Through the Rāmāyaṇa (thesis)
The Rāmāyaṇa proves itself to be an inimitable and lasting artifact of cultural measurement. The variety of interpretations, filled with intertextual complexity and culturally-specific commentary as well as surrounding ... -
Remembering Franco: Spanish Collective Memory from the Civil War to Today (thesis)
This work will engage four different bodies of literature: that of Franco and his regime, the history of the transition from dictatorship to democracy, the debate over historical memory in Spain, and the broader topic of ... -
The Role of the Military in the Soviet Polity
This paper is an attempt to examine the role that the military plays as an interest group in Soviet politics. Early studies of the Soviet Union tended to stress the hierarchical nature of political control and the penetration ... -
The Trajectory of an Image: Che Guevara's Legacy in the Context of Cultural Memories (poster)
The proliferation of murals, posters, monuments, museums and tourist sites dedicated to Che speaks to the lasting cultural relevance of Che as a man, and Che as a symbol. The various permutations of Che -- seen in the ... -
The Uhlan Chancellor, Franz von Papen and the End of the Weimar Republic
What is the verdict n von Papen? History has yet to pronounce it, but historians of the past generation have not judged his case sympathetically. Todcy and for some time to come students who examine it will ask, above all, ... -
Verdi in Politics
Guiseppe Verdi, one of Italy's famous historical figures, was ironically born a Frenchman. At the time of his birth on October 9 or 10, 1813, Napoleon's administration controlled much of what we now call Italy. Napoleon ... -
The Virginia State Convention of 1829-30
The Convention ended its work January 14, 1830, with the adoption of the Constitution by a vote of fifty-five to forty.[1] On the negative side were all the delegates from the Trans-Alleghany , one of the Valley representatives ...