ATH: OCR A Historical Themes: Russia and its rulers 1855-1964
ATH: OCR A Historical Themes: Russia and its rulers 1855-1964

Author: Andrew Holland

Publisher: Hodder Education

Published: 2010-04-30

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1444150782

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ATH: About the series This series is part of Access to History, a most popular and trusted series for advanced level students. This sub-series is designed for A2 students studying the OCR A Historical Themes Unit. The narrative is structured thematically to enable students to view similarities and differences across time, to draw conclusions from these comparisions, and therefore to develop their synoptic skills. Each chapter includes: * exam-style questions and marked answers to help students understand and develop their synoptic skills * key terms to improve students' historical vocabulary * key questions to consider throughout * summary diagrams as helpful revision tools Russia and its Rulers 1855-1964 This title examines the nature of Russian government and its influence on society and people. The theme is explored under the following headings: * The Nature of Russian Government * The Opposition to Regimes * The Impact of the Dictatorial Regimes on Economy and Society * War and Revolution and the Development of Government

Recovering Nonviolent History
Recovering Nonviolent History

Author: Maciej J. Bartkowski

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781785391538

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Ranging from the American Revolution to Kosovo in the 1990s, from Egypt under colonial rule to present-day West Papua and Palestine, the authors of Recovering Nonviolent History consider several key questions: What kinds of civilian-based nonviolent strategy and tactics have been used in liberation struggles? What accounts for their successes and failures? Not least, how did nonviolent resistance influence national identities and socioeconomic and political institutions both prior to and after liberation, and why has this history been so often ignored?

The Treatment of Turkic Etymologies in English Lexicography
The Treatment of Turkic Etymologies in English Lexicography

Author: Mateusz Urban

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788323338666

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The work offers a detailed analysis of Anglo-Turkiccultural and linguistic relations as reflected in Englishvocabulary between the 16th and early 20th centuries.Words attested in historical English texts forwhich a Turkic language acted as an etymologicallink have not yet received a monograph treatmentand the information to be found in etymological dictionariesof English is usually hardly adequate. Theaim of the current book is to rectify this situation.The main part of the study is an etymological dictionaryof 106 lexical items related to material culturethat were adopted from Turkic or via Turkic, whetherdirectly or not. For each entry a chronological list oforthographic variants is provided, followed by a summaryof information on the word's etymology to befound in selected etymological dictionaries of English.A critical survey of these is the point of departure forthe author's own commentary. Through careful analysisof contexts in which the new lexical items cameto be used in English as well as a thorough scrutinyof their formal features the author reconstructs thetransmission routes along which the vocabulary inquestion was transmitted into English.

Reinland
Reinland

Author: Peter D. Zacharias

Publisher: [Winkler?, Man.] : Reinland Centennial Committee

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780919212992

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Reinland was originally a Mennonite settlement in southern Manitoba.

Unarmed Insurrections
Unarmed Insurrections

Author: Kurt Schock

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0816641927

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In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a wave of "people power" movements erupted throughout the nondemocratic world. In South Africa, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, and elsewhere, mass protest demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other nonviolent actions were brought to bear on a rigid political status quo. Kurt Schock compares the successes of the antiapartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philippines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state repression, and which aspects of a state's relations can he exploited by such a challenge. By looking at how these methods of protest promoted regime change in some countries but not in others, this book provides rare insight into the often overlooked and little understood power of nonviolent action.