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SNP falls short of a majority in Scottish election but aiming for independence referendum
… of the constituency vote, an increase of 1.2 percent over its vote in 2016, and 40.3 percent of the regional party … election of the Scottish Parliament on May 6, 1999. The British Labour Party had long been committed to some degree … an 11-point “roadmap” for a new referendum in the event the pro-independence parties won a majority in the …
European Studies Council
Lidia Plaza
PhD Student
… Plaza … Lidia Plaza I work on the late eighteenth-century British Empire exploring issues of political economy, … American Revolution and the rise of Industrialization in British politics and policy and the how the empire developed … nineteenth century and came to dominate geopolitics for over a century. Department: History lidia.plaza@yale.edu …
MacMillan Center
Douglas Rae on "Capitalism: Knowledge Drives Wealth"
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… topics including economics, American government, business over the course of his academic career. Rae’s lectures … business tactics, uniting the profits of oil and rail. He talked then about Henry Ford and the assembly line …
MacMillan Center
Connected histories of the first South American republics
… 19th century. Ossa explored the changing meanings of local sovereignty after the crisis of the Spanish Monarchy during … sectors in the context of the “reversion of power and sovereignty to the people” amidst the imperial crisis, and the “uncertainty, complaints over bad government, hopes for the restauration of the common …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
The Negro Mind Reaches Out (excerpts)
… the matter again, especially in the memory of that great event of these great years, the World War. Fruit of the … empire to-day walks its dark colonial shadow, while over all Europe there stretches the yellow shadow of Asia … the Sudan, black troops in French Africa, black troops in British West Africa, black troops in Belgian Congo, black …