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Calderón-Zaks, Michael Aaron. "Constructing the "Mexican race" racial formation and empire building, 1884-1940 /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Peksevgen, Sefik. "Secrecy, information control and power building in the Ottoman Empire, 1566-1603." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85198.
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Conventionally, the era that begins after the death of celebrated Ottoman sultan Suleyman I in 1566 is seen as the beginning of Ottoman decline. In line with the decline paradigm, late sixteenth century is also accepted as a time of political turmoil. This period is characterized by constant power struggles among Ottoman ruling elite and the deterioration of the classical Ottoman political order. Concerning the rise of new power elite (favourites) in the court and bureaucracy vis-a-vis the decreasing power of the sultans and grand vezirs, "evil counsellors" and the inaccessibility of the Ottoman sultan were chronic themes in the Ottoman Empire. Yet, at the same time, in most of the Ottoman political treatises access to and privacy with the sultan is restricted to a very limited number of the servants of the court and bureaucracy. Especially the communication between the sultan and the grand vezir is advised to be a secret. In view of this important political dictum, in the present study it is argued that the power also came from and built by the monopoly on information about the matters of state by the least number of people. In accordance with this view, the power politics of the late sixteenth century Ottoman political arena is analyzed as struggles over controlling the flow of information about the matters of state.
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Goodin, Brett. "Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/101193.
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“Opportunities of Empire” is a collective biography of three uncommon commoners in the early American republic: Richard O’Brien (1758–1824), James Cathcart (1767–1843) and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity and nationhood in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To date, no study has taken a biographical approach to any of the hundreds of American sailors who were held as “white slaves” in the North African “Barbary States.” Biographies of American sailors are typically of distinguished and long-serving naval officers, not of merchant sailors who averaged just 5-10 years at sea. The whole lives of the three subjects of this dissertation therefore provide an ideal opportunity for a fine-grained bottom-up study of how sailors’ meandering life courses influenced and reflected America’s physical, ideological, commercial and diplomatic development. These three men’s lives reflect the wide range of occupational and personal experiences of ordinary and extraordinary Americans of their generation, dramatically intersecting with domestic, transnational and ideological developments in early American nation-building. They tended to New England farms and, during the Revolutionary War, served as sailors in the Continental, Massachusetts and Virginia State Navies. Later they were merchant sailors; captives in the Barbary States; advisors to a foreign Muslim ruler; and soon after securing their freedom they returned to North Africa as American consuls. They went on to become, variously: state politicians; frontiersmen; surveyors in the West; land speculators; authors; and federal bureaucrats. This range of experiences intimately connect fields of United States historiography that scholars typically examine in isolation from one another, including: the self-interest of sailors in the Revolution; America’s place in the world following the Revolution; the development of an American national identity; American Orientalism; “white slavery” in the Barbary States; early American war-making in the First Barbary War; the politically-inspired nature of American masculinity; the merchant-consul system that dominated American diplomatic representation abroad until 1856; Jacksonian era democracy and the spoils system; and territorial expansion with its accompanying “taming of the wilderness.” O’Brien’s, Cathcart’s and Riley’s experiences in these myriad fields, on both the maritime and western frontiers, reflect the haphazard path of self-made men during the early republic. Lacking the innate genius of Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton, typical self-made men depended upon luck and adaptability to secure financial independence and public recognition. The literary and professional contributions of these three sailors also became part of a revolutionary democratization of knowledge, the “Village Enlightenment,” whereby publications of non-elite citizens upended both the production and consumption of knowledge in the fields of law, science, medicine, exploration and religion. While the self-made man celebrated the upward mobility of the ordinary individual, the Village Enlightenment saw ordinary individuals circumvent the professional elites and publish personal insights, thus enabling mass self-making of new generations in the young republic.
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Haines, Timothy Daniel. "Building the Empire, building the nation : water, land and the politics of river development in Sind 1898-1969." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/131eccc5-0dda-22dd-5f83-61deaccd07ac/9/.
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Major attempts to control the natural environment characterized government ‘developmental' activity in twentieth-century Sind. This thesis argues that the construction of three barrage dams across the River Indus, along with a network of irrigation canals, enacted human control over nature as a political project. The Raj and its successor state in Sind, Pakistan, thereby claimed legitimacy through their capacity to benefit humans by re-modelling the landscape. These claims depended on an implied narrative of material progress, which irrigation development was expected to bring about, in a province considered technologically and socially backward. In allocating land that was newly made available for cultivation, government officials found an unprecedented opportunity to also re-shape agrarian society. As well as providing the means by which ‘ideal types' of cultivator could be encouraged to proliferate, the development of Sind's irrigation system was based on concepts of modernization that promoted increasing state intervention in agrarian life to render a ‘disordered' society more easily governable. This trend was constrained, however, by successive administrations' need to balance the lure of radical modernization against the powerful claims on new land of local magnates. The colonial belief in the agricultural, economic, and social benefits of large-scale irrigation projects was transplanted into the post-colonial state. The construction of irrigation works, the colonization of land, and their political implications before and after Independence are therefore analyzed, in order to demonstrate how and why the logic of large infrastructure schemes remained consistent. At the same time, differences in how successive administrations framed and enacted barrage projects are shown to have depended on contemporary circumstances. In the process, the thesis sheds new light on the tensions between and within the central and provincial governments, demonstrating the contested nature of concepts of Imperial governance, nation-building, and material progress.
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Becker, Jeffrey Alan Terrenato Nicola. "The building blocks of empire civic architecture, central Italy, and the Roman Middle Republic /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1675.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Classics Classical Archaeology." Discipline: Classics; Department/School: Classics.
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Jamshidi, Niayesh. "Building a God: The Cult of Antinous and Identity in the Eastern Roman Empire." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23802.
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This thesis attempts to understand the distribution of Antinous worship in the Roman Empire and why he was worshipped. By examining the written sources and material culture available on Antinous, primary sources both pagan and Christian, and material culture such as the sculptures of Antinous, Antinoopolis and temples dedicated to Antinous, I came to the conclusion that Antinous was worshipped primary in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. The Eastern part of the Roman Empire consisted of people who were of Greek descent. By examining Roman writings against Greek people and culture, I came to the conclusion that there were reasons that people worshipped Antinous. The first was to connect to the imperial center because a Roman emperor established the cult of Antinous. The second was that Antinous was Greek, and because Greeks were seen as inferior by the Roman west, his worship appealed to such people.
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Woodhull, Margaret Louise. "Building power : women as architectural patrons during the early Roman Empire, 30 BCE-54 CE /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Denton, Ashlie Denee. "Building Climate Empire| Power, Authority, and Knowledge within Pacific Islands Climate Change Diplomacy and Governance Networks." Thesis, Portland State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10824754.
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Transnational networks are growing in prevalence and importance as states, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations seek to meet climate change goals; yet, the organizations in these networks struggle between the global, technical and local, contextual sources of power, authority, and knowledge used to influence decision-making and governance. This dissertation analyzes these contestations in Pacific Islands climate change diplomacy and governance efforts by asking: i) What do power relations look like among the Pacific Islands’ networked organizations? ii) To what authority do organizations appeal to access sources of power? iii) What sources of knowledge are produced and reproduced by these organizations? and iv) How do these patterns fit within the broader history of the Pacific Islands and climate change? I draw from interviews, document analysis, event participation, and social network analysis of Pacific Island climate change diplomacy and governance. This examination leads me to propose the concept of "Climate Empire,” which can be understood as the network of knowledge and communicative services that imagine, build, and administer the globe through a decentralized and deterritorialized apparatus of rule.
In the Pacific Islands, Climate Empire upholds technical bureaucratic and scientific approaches to overcoming climate challenges; however, the global spaces in which these approaches are produced are reconnected with the spaces of local resistance through data collection networks and efforts to relocalize knowledge. Thus, the local/global divisions found in diplomacy and governance in the Pacific Islands collectively produce and reform Climate Empire as organizations interact in the network. Further research is necessary to understand the extensiveness of Climate Empire, as well as to ensure the inclusion and empowerment of Pacific Island voices in climate governance for both justice and efficacy.
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Denton, Ashlie Denée. "Building Climate Empire: Power, Authority, and Knowledge within Pacific Islands Climate Change Diplomacy and Governance Networks." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4401.
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Transnational networks are growing in prevalence and importance as states, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations seek to meet climate change goals; yet, the organizations in these networks struggle between the global, technical and local, contextual sources of power, authority, and knowledge used to influence decision-making and governance. This dissertation analyzes these contestations in Pacific Islands climate change diplomacy and governance efforts by asking: i) What do power relations look like among the Pacific Islands' networked organizations? ii) To what authority do organizations appeal to access sources of power? iii) What sources of knowledge are produced and reproduced by these organizations? and iv) How do these patterns fit within the broader history of the Pacific Islands and climate change? I draw from interviews, document analysis, event participation, and social network analysis of Pacific Island climate change diplomacy and governance. This examination leads me to propose the concept of "Climate Empire," which can be understood as the network of knowledge and communicative services that imagine, build, and administer the globe through a decentralized and deterritorialized apparatus of rule.
In the Pacific Islands, Climate Empire upholds technical bureaucratic and scientific approaches to overcoming climate challenges; however, the global spaces in which these approaches are produced are reconnected with the spaces of local resistance through data collection networks and efforts to relocalize knowledge. Thus, the local/global divisions found in diplomacy and governance in the Pacific Islands collectively produce and reform Climate Empire as organizations interact in the network. Further research is necessary to understand the extensiveness of Climate Empire, as well as to ensure the inclusion and empowerment of Pacific Island voices in climate governance for both justice and efficacy.
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Kasecamp, Emily Hager PhD. "COMPANY, COLONY, AND CROWN: THE OHIO COMPANY OF VIRGINIA, EMPIRE BUILDING, AND THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR, 1747-1763." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1574777293217054.
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Kalinowski, Angela V. "Patterns of patronage, the politics and ideology of public building in the Eastern Roman Empire, 31 bce-600 ce." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ35439.pdf.
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Yildirim, Galip Emre. "Sociologie historique de l'Etat turc : une institutionnalisation inachevée." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLN052.
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Cette thèse a pour objet d’analyser l’État turc ainsi que les mutations sociopolitiques et économiques que connait son entité sociale. Elle vise à explorer en profondeur ladifficile construction de l’État en Turquie face aux problèmes multiples qui affectent profondémentson développement politique. Qu’est-ce qui fait que l’État ne soit pas parvenu à produire uneintégration politique du territoire suffisamment solide pour qu’elle corresponde au modèle de l’Étatnation ? La question est bel et bien de nature politique et nous conduit à essayer de comprendre etd’expliquer la nature du pouvoir politique turc, autrement dit à saisir et à étudier la réalité et laspécificité de l’ordre politique dont l’État a été le vecteur. Notre enjeu est bien de réfléchir sur l’État,son cadre, sa nature et sa portée. Autrement dit, il s’agit de faire un travail de nature historique quinous amène à examiner la question de l’institutionnalisation dans le cadre d’une sociologie de l’Étatturc qui récapitule le processus de construction spécifique de ce dernier.Cette recherche inclut la genèse de l’État turc, son évolution politique et administrative jusqu’audéveloppement actuel du pays. Pour mieux comprendre cela, il a fallu analyser les mécanismes deconstruction de l’État. La situation actuelle de l’État turc se caractérise clairement par la permanencedes trois points que nous paraissent fondamentaux : l’existence d’une bureaucratie déterminante,l’importance d’un pouvoir charismatique fort et la présence d’une armée qui occupe une placepolitiquement puissante et limite l’action indépendante des gouvernements. Le maintien de ces troisfacteurs a empêché la construction d’un État institutionnalisé doté d’un système politiquedémocratique au sens occidental du terme. On assiste alors à la difficile construction d’un ordrepolitique stableThe aim of this thesis is to analyse the Turkish State as well as the socio-political andeconomic changes experienced by its social entity. It aims to explore, in depth, the difficultconstruction of the state in Turkey in the face of the many problems that profoundly affect its politicaldevelopment. What makes the state fail to achieve a sufficiently strong political integration of theterritory to fit the nation-state model? The question is indeed of a political nature and leads us to tryto understand and explain the nature of Turkish political power; in other words to grasp and study thereality and the specificity of the political order of which the State has been the vector. The challengeis to reflect on the State, its setting, its nature and its scope.This research includes the genesis of the Turkish state, its political and administrative evolution andthe current manifestation. To better understand this, it was necessary to analyse the constructionmechanisms of the state. The current situation of the Turkish state is clearly characterised by thepermanence of the three points that I consider fundamental: the existence of a decisive bureaucracy,the importance of a strong charismatic power and the presence of an army occupying a politicallypowerful place, which limits the independent action of governments. The maintenance of these threefactors has prevented the construction of an institutionalized state with a democratic political system,in the Western sense of the term. This thesis bears witness to the difficulties of constructing a stablepolitical order
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Erickson, Valerie J. "Mapping England's Trade Through Depictions in English Emblems." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2258.
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This thesis explores the growing interaction between England and foreign countries comparing their trade with contemporary later sixteenth century and seventeenth century English emblems. The emblems used are those available over the internet from several different library and university sources. As England expanded its trade throughout the world, English emblems began to show the exchange occurring between England and its various trading partners. Historians have largely overlooked this valuable source of information. By studying emblems historians gain invaluable insight into the economy, society, politics, religion, and other matters with which England was concerned.
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Sun, Lin. "The economy of empire building : wild ginseng, sable fur, and the multiple trade networks of the early Qing dynasty, 1583-1644." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c04d3888-fea6-43d9-9a86-1c84967b5d71.
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This project examines the multiple trade networks of the early Qing period and argues that the early Manchu rulers accumulated wealth from trade in the process of Qing empire formation. Empires come to mean rule over extensive, far-flung territories, far beyond the original 'homeland' of the rulers. The Qing empire was such a case, as it expanded from a tiny town in Northeast Eurasia to Chinese territory where Ming China ruled. This thesis thus sheds new light on the Qing empire from the economic aspect - describing how the Qing rulers, based on the fusion of steppe and agricultural economies, constructed the Qing empire. The time frame covered spans from 1583, when Nurhaci started to embark on internal conflicts with other local Jurchen tribes, to 1644, when the Manchus seized control of Beijing, claiming rulership of China. The thesis builds on the archival sources in Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, and Korean, as well as contributing to the understanding of the remarkable economic transformation over the course of the Qing empire. Previous academic scholarship in Chinese, Japanese, and English focuses on the bilateral trade connections between Nurhaci and Ming China. The primary aim of this thesis, however, is to counter this scholarship by differentiating between the achievements of Hong Taiji and those of Nurhaci over the course of the early Qing empire building. Additionally, it explores wealth accumulation via the establishment of multiple trade networks that developed during Hong Taiji's reign. These multiple trade networks were centred on two prized goods sourced from the Jurchen territory: wild ginseng and sable fur. These valuable items were crucial sources of income for the Qing.
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Garcia, Octavio. "African Slavery and the Impact of the Haitian Revolution in Bourbon New Spain: Empire-Building in the Atlantic Age of Revolution, 1750-1808." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/565893.
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This dissertation examines the ways that slaves and free blacks participated in and shaped the Bourbon Reforms in New Spain (Mexico and Central America) during the period of 1750-1808. By framing the Bourbon Reforms in this part of the Americas through an Atlantic World perspective, centered on the importance of slavery to European empire-building efforts in the eighteenth century, this dissertation argues that the politics of difference was vital to these imperial ambitions even in places where the slave population was relatively small. In the context of the slave and free black populations, the Spanish Empire determined its politics of difference on prejudices against blacks informed by skin color. Slaves and free blacks, nonetheless, actively participated in Bourbon imperial projects through litigation, forcing negotiations by escaping slavery, giving service in the militias defending the frontiers, borderlands, and imperial cities, and forging important kinship ties that shaped their identities and social networks that they used to negotiate their position in the imperial order. I argue that a pivotal moment when racism exacerbated the relationships of slaves and free blacks with the Crown was the Haitian Revolution. Although racist attitudes were already present against blacks, the Haitian Revolution demonstrated that slaves could eradicate slavery and the colonial order associated. The impact of this revolution was profound and even affected regions of the Americas that had small slave populations.
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Harcourt, Ambre d'. "Les bâtiments à l'épreuve du temps : assurer la durabilité du bâti dans le monde romain (IIIe s. av. J.-C. - IIIe s. apr. J.-C.)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H086.
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De nombreux exemples attestent des écroulements fréquents dans les constructions d'époque romaine, notamment dus à des défauts de construction. Néanmoins, l'étude des textes montre une bonne connaissance des facteurs de destruction, soudains ou progressifs, et de leurs modalités d'action sur les édifices, ainsi que la prise en compte de ces éléments dans la conception des bâtiments (matériaux, techniques de préservation, mais aussi anticipation des opérations d'entretien et de réparation). Même si l'étude des modes de financement et de l'organisation des chantiers fait apparaître une distinction de fait entre travaux d'entretien et de réparation, cette distinction n'est pas thématisée dans les sources antiques.Malgré la mise en place et le renforcement, sous l'Empire, d'un corpus législatif concernant l'état matériel et l'aspect des bâtiments, notamment publics, ces dispositions, tout comme les autres mécanismes dont la jurisprudence donne témoignage, n'avaient pas pour objet premier d'assurer la conservation des édifices. La distinction entre restauration et reconstruction est moins claire qu'en français, la notion de valeur économique du bâtiment étant essentielle, davantage que sa forme matérielle.Le discours moral et politique qui accompagne les opérations de restauration, notamment sous l'Empire, accorde également peu d'importance à la persistance matérielle des édifices, la continuité de la fonction étant au contraire primordialeMany examples make it clear that building collapses were frequent in Roman times, particularly due to structural defects. Nevertheless, the analysis of the texts shows a high knowledge concerning the destruction factors, whether sudden or progressive, and their modalities of action on the buildings. It also shows the taking into account of these elements in the construction methods (materials, preservation techniques, but also anticipation of maintenance and repair operations). Although the study of the financing and of the organization of the construction works reveals a de facto distinction between maintenance and repair works, this distinction is not drawn in the ancient sources.Despite the establishment and strengthening, under the Empire, of a legislation concerning the physical state and the appearance of buildings - including public buildings these provisions, just like the Other mechanisms that the case law testifies, were not designed to preserve buildings. The distinction between repairs and rebuilding is less relevant than nowadays, the notion of economic value of the building being on the contrary essential, more than the material form of the building. Moreover, in the moral and political discourse that accompanies the restoration operations, especially during the Empire, the material persistence of the buildings is not granted a significant importance, whereas the continuity of its function is considered the most important thing
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Low, An Chee. "Two essays in corporate finance." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186598647.
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Auvertin, Remi. "Habiter dans les agglomérations du nord de la Gaule (I-IIIè siècle) : Analyse architecturale de la maison romaine." Thesis, Lille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LIL3H012.
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Cette thèse propose une étude systématique des modes d’habitat dans les agglomérations du nord de la Gaule, aussi bien d’un point de vue architectural que culturel. La maison romaine septentrionale se démarque considérablement de son homologue méditerranéen : il s’agit d’insister sur les particularismes régionaux, notamment à propos de l’organisation de l’espace et de son usage, mais aussi de passer outre certains paradigmes, tel celui de la Streifenhaus/Strip house. Le cadre proposé est compris entre Seine et Rhin, du Ier au IIIe siècle. Ainsi cette thèse, bien que répondant aux problématiques de l’archéologie régionale repose sur un cadre euro-régional et intègre à l’aire d’étude l’Allemagne (Rhénanie), la Belgique, les Pays-Bas et le Luxembourg. La thèse rend ainsi accessible une documentation éparse et inédite : environ cinq-cents maisons sont analysées et redessinées ; soixante-dix d'entre elles, jugées représentatives, font l'objet d'un catalogue qualitatif.Le fil conducteur de cette étude est la diversité. L'archéologue fait face à une hétérogénéité marquée à tout niveau d'analyse, du statut hiérarchique et fonctionnel des agglomérations aux techniques et matériaux employés dans les maisons, jusqu'aux répertoires typologiques. Mettre en ordre cette diversité permet d'observer des phénomènes macro-régionaux, mais également de mettre en valeur le rôle de chaque communauté locale dans la définition de la forme de la maison. Le premier volume propose l'analyse architecturale, typologique et fonctionnelle de l'habitat. Il aborde également des points moins conventionnels, comme l'étude du confort ou de la durabilité des constructions, en s'appuyant sur la comparaison ethnographique et l'archéologie expérimentale. Le deuxième volume comprend l'inventaire des sites étudiés, le catalogue qualitatif, ainsi que l'ensemble des plans des maisonsThis thesis proposes a systematic study of the ways of housing in the urban areas of northern Gaul, from both an architectural and a cultural point of view. The northern Roman house stands out considerably from its Mediterranean counterpart: it emphasizes regional particularities, especially with regard to the organization of space and its use, but also to bypass certain paradigms, such as the Streifenhaus/strip house. The considered setting covers the area between the Seine and the Rhine, from the 1st to the 3rd century. Thus this dissertation, although responding to the problems of regional archaeology, is based on a Euro-regional framework and includes the Northern France, Germany (Rhineland), Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in the study area. The thesis therefore makes a sparse and unpublished documentation available: about five hundred houses are analysed and redrawn; seventy of them, considered to be representative, are the subject of a qualitative catalogue.The common thread of this study is diversity. Archaeologists face significant heterogeneity at all levels of analysis, from the hierarchical and functional status of urban areas to the techniques and materials used in houses, to typological repertoires. Bringing this diversity into order makes it possible to observe macro-regional phenomena, but also to highlight the role of each local community in defining the shape of the house. The first volume presents the architectural, typological and functional analysis of houses. It also addresses less conventional issues, such as the study of the comfort or durability of buildings, based on ethnographic comparison and experimental archaeology. The second volume includes the inventory of the sites studied, the qualitative catalogue, as well as all the plans of the houses
Diese Arbeit bietet eine systematische Untersuchung der Wohnverhältnisse in den Städten von Nord-Gallien in römischer Zeit, sowohl aus architektonischer als auch aus kultureller Sicht. Die nördlichen Typen des Römerhauses heben sich deutlich von ihren mediterranen Pendants ab: Es geht in dieser Arbeit darum, diese regionalen Besonderheiten hervorzuheben, insbesondere in Bezug auf die Raumgestaltung und -nutzung, aber auch bestimmte Paradigmen wie das Streifenhaus zu überschreiten. Der untersuchte Raum liegt zwischen Seine und Rhein; die untersuchte Zeitspanne reicht vom 1. bis zum 3. Jahrhundert. Diese Arbeit basiert also, trotz ihrer Beschäftigung mit lokalen archäologischen Fragen, auf einem euro-regionalen Rahmen und umfasst Nordfrankreich, Deutschland (Rheinland), Belgien, die Niederlande und Luxemburg als Untersuchungsbereich. Die Arbeit macht damit eine verstreute beziehungsweise bislang unveröffentlichte Dokumentation zugänglich: Etwa fünfhundert Häuser werden analysiert und neu gezeichnet; siebzig von ihnen, die als repräsentativ gelten, sind in einem Katalog erfasst.Der rote Faden dieser Studie ist die Diversität. Archäologen sehen sich mit einer ausgeprägten Heterogenität auf allen Ebenen der Analyse konfrontiert, vom hierarchischen und funktionalen Zustand der städtischen Gebiete über die Techniken und Materialien, die in Häusern verwendet werden, bis zu typologischen Repertoires. Eine Systematisierung dieser Vielfalt erlaubt es, makroregionale Phänomene zu beobachten, aber auch die Rolle jeder lokalen Gemeinschaft bei der Definition der Hausform hervorzuheben. Der erste Band stellt die architektonische, typologische und funktionale Analyse des Wohnens vor. Es geht dabei auch um weniger konventionelle Themen wie die Untersuchung des Komforts oder der Langlebigkeit von Gebäuden, die auf ethnographischen Vergleichen und experimenteller basiert.Der zweite Band enthält eine Bestandsaufnahme der untersuchten Standorte, einen Katalog sowie alle Pläne der Häuser
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Lanzillotti, Ian Thomas. "Land, Community, and the State in the North Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria, 1763-1991." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408624340.
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Starý, Jan. "Historický vývoj výstavby bytových domů a jeho vliv na tržní ceny bytů v současnosti v Liberci." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Ústav soudního inženýrství, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232777.
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This thesis on historical development of the construction of residential buildings and its effect on market prices of dwellings currently in Liberec accompanies the issue of correlation between architectural styles and price currently. It is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is focused on explaining concepts such as housing, housing stock, housing market and its failure, which follows the historical description of the construction of residential buildings. In other chapters of this part is talking about urban planning and housing policy. The practical part looks at this issue from the perspective of a particular town, which is Liberec. For him the basic information about the local conditions, history of architecture and subsequently through the commodities market tested real estate prices mentioned correlation and era of construction. The main source of research is in the thesis comparing average prices per m2 for each building type. During and at the end, the results are commented and compared.
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Su, Po-Yu, and 蘇柏瑜. "Cost Stickiness of Empire-Building Incentivesand Analysts’ Earnings Forecast." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b736g3.
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財務金融暨會計碩士班(會計學程)
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This paper uses a sample of firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange over the 2007-2016 period to mainly discuss the influence analysts’ earnings forecast by different cause of cost stickiness. Cost stickiness is divided into empire-building incentives and economic effect in this paper. Empire-building incentives are a manager motivated by self-interest which tends to make the company grow more than its optimum scale for elevate manager's position and power. The economic effect causes the company to adjust the input and demand of capacity appropriately. As the motives of empire-building incentives were vested in the manager's self-interest behavior, it is more difficult to analyze than the economic effect. As a result, I find that there is higher earnings forecast error and dispersion when analysts are analyzing companies that have cost stickiness caused by empire-building incentives. In the economic effect, we find that analyst can figure the economic effect and cause the lower earnings forecast error and dispersion when analysts are analyzing companies that have cost stickiness caused by economic effect.
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Chen, Yi-Ting, and 陳怡婷. "Managerial Empire Building and Discretionary R&D decision." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/dxd4xu.
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碩士國立東華大學
會計與財務碩士學位學程
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Previous literature found that the managerial motivation of the empire building is a kind of agency problem. Managers may act on the basis of self-interest, which is not conducive to the benefits of the company or stakeholders. So, this paper use a sample of U.S. software firms from 2003 to 2017 to investigate the impact that managerial empire building has on discretionary R&D decision. I find that when managers with high incentives to build empire will increase R&D expense expenditure and R&D capitalization expenditure to achieve their self-interested activities. Furthermore, in additional tests, I change the dependent variable to total R&D expenditure to test the impact of managerial empire building. The empirical results show that when the managers with high incentives to build managerial empire, the situation of excessive investment in total R&D expenditure will be more serious than the underinvestment.
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Chen, Chi-Wen, and 陳祈文. "Managerial Empire Building and Investment Efficiency：The Role of Board Characteristics." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86p8np.
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碩士國立東華大學
會計與財務碩士學位學程
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The object of this study is to investigate the association between managerial empire building (MEB) and corporate investment efficiency using the data of listed firms from Taiwan Stock Exchange and Gretai Securities Market of over the period 2003 to 2016. This study employs a model developed by Benlemlih and Bitar (2016) to examine whether there is an impact on MEB to corporate investment efficiency. The results show that there is positive association between managerial empire building and investment inefficiency. Second, this study explores whether the board effectiveness will affect the relationship between MEB and investment inefficiency. The effectiveness of board monitoring mechanism is measured by board size, board ownership, chairman of the board and president, and the proportion of outside directors. The empirical results show that when there is an efficient board monitoring mechanism, the impact of MEB on the investment inefficiency will be reduced. Specifically, if the board size larger, the proportion of outside directors higher, CEO and the board of director non-overlapping, and higher board ownership, the impact of MEB to corporate inefficiency will actually be attenuated.
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Tzu-YiYu and 游子儀. "Managerial Empire Building and Segment Reporting Quality: The Role of External Auditors." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24604190721714526538.
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Song, Jin-Fu, and 宋進福. "Managerial Empire Building and Real Earnings Management: The Role of Audit Committee." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7rdmwf.
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碩士國立東華大學
會計與財務碩士學位學程
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Using a sample of listed firms in Taiwan over the period of 2012 to 2016, this research aims to investigate the impact that managerial empire building has on real earnings management. I find that when managers with high incentives to build managerial empire will engage in more real earnings management to hide their self-interested activities. Furthermore, I argue that audit committee will affect real earnings management induced by managerial empire building incentive. With regard to the role of audit committee, my results indicate that audit committees with more both financial experts or accounting experts and meeting frequently attenuate the agency problem of managerial empire building and consequently decrease real earnings management. However, when existing the agency problem of managerial empire building, the more members of audit committee, the more real earnings management that firms exercise.
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Murphy, Brian Phillips. "Empire state building : interests, institutions, and the formation of states and parties in New York, 1783-1845 /." 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3312156.
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Tolosa, Olazabal Juan. "Tackling the metals and mining industry crisis : Anglo American’s successful restructuring plan." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/26900.
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This paper studies the metals and mining industry during the last commodity super-cycle,
which triggered by explosive growth of emerging economies helps understand the empire building
behavior engaged in by leading mining companies and the financially distressed industry at the
end of the cycle in early 2016. The study documents the costly asset acquisition plans and the
excessive leverage levels pursued by various firms, hence finding additional evidence of
managerial overconfidence and excessive corporate investment theories during boom cycles. With
further aim of understanding successful company restructuring processes, we present the case of
Anglo-American, a diversified metals and mining company that faced the wrath of plunging
commodity prices on top of an enormous debt pile and major operational inefficiencies. The
analysis of the company’s trajectory during the boom cycle and the radical restructuring plan
implemented to enhance long-term prosperity serves as a proxy for future commodity super-cycles
and helps flag certain actions taken by managers at times of favorable economic conditions.Esta tese estuda a indústria mineira durante o último super-ciclo das commodities o que, desencadeado por um enorme crescimento das economias emergentes, ajuda a perceber o comportamento de empire building adoptado por empresas que lideram a indústria, bem como as dificuldades financeiras sofridas no fim do ciclo, no início de 2016. Este estudo documenta o dispendioso plano de aquisição de ativos e os excessivos níveis de endividamento adoptados pelas empresas e, por esta razão, vai de encontro às teoria de excesso de confiança por parte dos gestores da empresa e de excesso de investimento empresarial. Com o objetivo adicional de perceber processos de restruturação bem sucedidos, apresentamos o caso da Anglo-American, uma empresa diversificada da indústria mineira que sofreu o impacto da descida do preço das commodities, num momento em que estava sobre-alavancada e com elevadas ineficiências operacionais. A análise da trajetória da empresa durante o ciclo de expansão, aliado ao seu plano de restruturação radical implementado para melhorar a perspetiva de longo prazo, serve como um indicador para o futuro super-ciclo das commodities e ajuda a sinalizar ações levadas a cabo pelos gestores aquando de condições económicas favoráveis.
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Pruitt, James Herman. "Leonard Wood and the American Empire." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9307.
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During the ten years following the Spanish American War (1898 to 1908), Major General Leonard Wood served as the primary agent of American imperialism. Wood was not only a proconsul of the new American Empire; he was a symbol of the empire and the age in which he served. He had the distinction of directing civil and military government in Cuba and the Philippines where he implemented the imperial policies given to him by the administrations of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. In Cuba, he labored to rebuild a state and a civil society crippled by decades of revolutionary ferment and guided the administration's policy through the dangerous channels of Cuban politics in a way that satisfied – at least to the point of avoiding another revolution – both the Cubans and the United States. In the Philippines, Wood took control of the Moro Province and attempted to smash the tribal-religious leadership of Moro society in order to bring it under direct American rule. His personal ideology, the imperial policies he shepherded, and the guidance he provided to fellow military officers and the administrations he served in matters of colonial administration and defense shaped the American Empire and endowed it with his personal stamp.
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Graham-Jones, Brian Clay Hunter Christopher. "The fractal nature of lightning an investigation of the fractal relationship of the structure of lightning to terrain /." 2006. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07082006-194027.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2006.Advisor: Christopher Hunter, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 26, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 122 pages. Includes bibliographical references.
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Chokobaeva, Aminat. "Frontiers of Violence: State and Conflict in Semirechye, 1850-1938." Phd thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/124879.
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In August 1916, the native nomads of southern Semirechye rose in
a popular rebellion that reduced the colonial presence in the
region to several beleaguered towns and settlements. While the
rebellion claimed over 3,000 victims in the settler society, the
punitive actions of the authorities led to a far greater loss of
life among the native communities. Beyond the loss of life, the
uprising had much broader implications. The decimation of the
nomadic population, which had shrunk to less than two thirds of
its pre-rebellion level, and the plans of the government to
resettle the remaining nomads in the geographically isolated and
resource poor area of Naryn suggest that the administration came
to view the rebels as a potential threat not only to the
well-being of the settlers, but also to the integrity and
security of the colony at large. The rebellion had in effect
engendered long-standing concerns among the Russian military and
statesmen about the ability of the metropole to protect its
borderlands and maintain sovereignty in the ethnically and
religiously “alien” regions. Indeed, the then military
governor of Semirechye, General Fol’baum, framed the rebellion
in the strictly state-centred terms: “the situation” he said
of the rebellion “could change so suddenly that the entire
Russian enterprise will come to ruin in Semirechye.”
Placing the uprising of 1916 and the region of Semirechye, where
the uprising was at its most violent, at the heart of the broader
political history of Russian imperialism, this thesis examines
the forms and strategies of state-building in the colonial
context. Semirechye’s frontier position – on the border with
the Qing Empire – and its ethnic diversity make it an ideal
region from which to study the relationship between the centre
and the periphery. At the same time, treating the uprising of
1916 as a point of rupture, which had ushered in the “continuum
of crisis” that engulfed the Russian Empire during World War I
and determined, to a considerable extent, the course and content
of the early Soviet policies in the region, allows us to
understand how certain conceptions of nationality became central
to questions of state security and sovereignty.
Substantively, this study traces the political history of
Semirechye from the early years of conquest and colonization in
the second half of the 19th century until the beginning of World
War II, which the region entered as a part of the Kyrgyz Soviet
Socialist Republic. Organized around the cross-cutting themes of
empire, state, and nation, this thesis advances the key
proposition – that sovereign power is predicated on the control
of territory and population. Crucially, this study demonstrates
that both the imperial and later Soviet state sought to impose
and consolidate its power over the region’s landscape and
peoples through the establishment and use of institutions,
policies, and practices targeted at the management and
supervision of Semirechye’s natural and human resources.
Furthermore, by arguing that both governments sought to fashion
popular loyalties, create a productive labour force, and develop
the economy for the purposes of national defence, this thesis
highlights the critical continuities between the imperial and
Soviet practices and ideas in governing the region.
By examining Semirechye as a zone of state formation, this thesis
also illuminates the critical nexus of state-building and control
over natural resources and foregrounds the relationship of
asymmetry and dependence between the centre and the periphery
accomplished through the seizure of the region’s vital
resources – namely agricultural land and livestock.
In order to develop these arguments, the thesis draws upon
approaches from history, political science, and anthropology.
Based on archival research, this study contributes to current
debates on colonialism and state formation.
Drawing attention to the security rationale of the
state-sponsored programmes of nation-building, such as the
national delimitation and the policies of indigenization,
implemented by the Soviet administration, this study offers a
departure from the long-standing view of ideology as the primary
engine of the state-led national construction in Central Asia.
Instead, this thesis argues that the “affirmative action”
principles of the early Soviet regime were grounded in the
efforts of the government to mobilize resources of the region to
maintain the regime’s internal and external security.
Consequently, the harmonization of the Soviet and ethnic
affiliations under the rubric of Soviet nations allowed the
Bolshevik leadership both to enforce the boundaries of the state
and to mobilize the indigenous population for the task of nation
and state-building.
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Gerien-Chen, James. "Between Empire and Nation: Taiwan Sekimin and the Making of Japanese Empire in South China, 1895–1937." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-x5b9-xc87.
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After the Japanese colonization of Taiwan in 1895, colonial and diplomatic officials sought to encourage, regulate, and surveil the movement of individuals from Taiwan to the south China treaty-ports by conferring upon those who traveled there the legal designation Taiwan sekimin, or “registered Taiwanese.” Japanese officials and sekimin alike fashioned the Taiwan’s inhabitants, their capital, their socio-economic networks, and Taiwan’s colonial institutions as the basis for expanding the Japanese empire’s political and economic influence. This legal status afforded sekimin the extraterritorial protection of local Japanese consulates and subjected them to consular oversight. Over time, the category of Taiwan sekimin was expanded to include local and overseas Chinese whose support Japanese officials sought to garner. This dissertation charts the transformation of Taiwan sekimin as a juridical and social category and argues that it was central to Japanese colonial policy in Taiwan and imperial ambitions in south China. By tracing these changes, this dissertation shows how efforts by Japanese and Chinese officials, as well as by sekimin themselves, drew upon and reshaped the existing social and commercial networks that linked Taiwan to the south China treaty-ports and conditioned Japanese imperial and Chinese imperial and national state formation in south China.
Taiwan sekimin ranged from wealthy elites, petty merchants, and doctors and other professionals trained in colonial Taiwan, to young anti-colonial activists drawn to China, criminal elements who formed gangs, and disreputable proprietors of opium and gambling establishments. Diverse though the category was, the status of Taiwan sekimin became, at times, the basis of individuals’ appealing for Japanese consular protection, and at others, the basis of Japanese officials’ laying claim to exercising jurisdiction over individuals considered Japanese subjects. By exploring how Taiwan sekimin individuals both supported and challenged the ideologies and institutions of the Japanese empire at its margins, this dissertation reveals their role in entrenching a Japanese imperial sphere across and beyond the region between 1895 and the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
The legal and spatial bounds of Taiwan sekimin as a juridical and social category were central to intra-imperial and inter-imperial contestations for power in south China. Contention over the Japanese empire’s economic and political ambitions led to contestation over the legal boundaries of Taiwan sekimin between Japanese colonial officials in Taiwan and local consular officials, who sought to regulate the mobility of people, ideas, and capital between Taiwan and the treaty-ports. Over time, Japanese officials also sought to channel the support of sekimin through new institutions. These institutions expanded the spatial scope of jurisdictional contests within and beyond the treaty-ports and thus the scope of imperial power; these institutions also rendered Japanese imperial ambitions more contingent on the support of the sekimin. Chinese local, national, and diplomatic officials also actively challenged the legality of sekimin status and the inclusion of individuals these officials considered Chinese nationals under its purview, particularly after the rise to power of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Guomindang) in the late 1920s. In the 1930s, the concept of Taiwan sekimin was increasingly at odds with Chinese national conceptions of social and economic order. This dissertation shows that, in this context, conflicts involving sekimin were not just local scuffles to be resolved on the interpersonal level but laden with ideological import, leaving the sekimin caught between the logics of empire and nation.
This dissertation draws on Japanese- and Chinese-language materials from Japan, Taiwan, and China. It reads official sources “along the grain” to reveal the logic that organized knowledge production about the sekimin and “against the grain” to reconstruct a history largely beyond the purview of bureaucratic institutions. By exploring the competing inter- and intra-imperial claims to authority over Taiwan sekimin, this dissertation argues that jurisdictional contestation had legal and spatial implications in linking Chinese national and Japanese imperial state formation in south China.
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"Building the ‘Bridge of Hope’: The Discourse and Practice of Assisted Emigration of the Labouring Poor from East London to Canada, 1857-1913." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-07-1600.
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Between 1857 and 1913 approximately 120,000 of the labouring poor from the East End of London were assisted to emigrate to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and sometimes South Africa in order to transplant surplus urban labour to emerging colonial markets and to provide the poor with a means of personal and financial improvement. These charities described the work they did as building “The Bridge of Hope for East London.” By the end of the nineteenth century, Eastenders had long been plagued by poverty, dependency on the Poor Law, and periods of unemployment. Typecast as morally, socially, economically, and racially degenerate in an emerging slum discourse, Eastenders were rarely considered ideal colonial emigrants. For Canada, these emigrants made poor prospects for the westward-expanding nation intent on recruiting agricultural immigrants. At times over the course of these six decades, the Canadian government grew so concerned about their migrations that it took legal measures to bar their entry. By 1910, Canada effectively banned charitably assisted emigration from East London in an attempt to control its borders and dictate the kinds of immigrants it desired even when they were English. Despite these shortcomings and obstacles, assisted emigrants from East London made new lives for themselves and their families in Canada most often in cities. We know something about their experiences from letters some of them wrote to the emigration charities that sponsored them. As a migrant group, they present a unique type of English settler in Canada. Forever failing, despite their many successes and their integration, to meet the ideal imperial British standard, Eastenders were considered undesirable on both sides of the Atlantic – a blight on British prosperity at home and unsuitable representatives abroad. Eastenders occupied an uneasy “third space” struggling to fit in somewhere between home and empire. This dissertation, employing analytical models and methodologies inspired by the ‘New Imperial History,’ the ‘British World’ model, post-colonial theory, and transnationalism seeks to understand why and under what circumstances Canada restricted charitable emigration from East London by 1910. It examines how British charities, politicians, commentators, and, above all, emigrants developed and experienced an imperial discourse and practice of assisted emigration over the course of six decades under ever-changing economic circumstances at home. Overall, it argues that British emigration charities, under the mounting pressures of poverty at home and spurred on by liberal and imperial reformist attitudes, rarely heeded Canadian warnings about the sending out of poor urban emigrants from East London even though they were English. Instead, these emigrationists developed a system of assisted emigration that largely suited their own objectives of poverty management. East End emigrants experienced this system with varying degrees of success, failure, benefit, and harm. The dissertation explores their experiences in two case studies in addition to three chapters on the evolution of assisted emigration discourses and practices in the East End. In placing assisted emigration of the urban poor from East London at the centre of a discussion of late nineteenth and early twentieth century intra-imperial responses to poverty, the dissertation reveals a complex interplay between social welfare, liberalism, and migration in two disparate but connected parts of the ‘British World,’ home and abroad. In doing so it fosters a deeper understanding of the evolution of colonial immigration policy and complicates the limits of race and class for studies of English emigration.