Kosovo and the New Imperialism

Imperialism in New Testament Films

Imperialism in New Testament (related) films relates to an important aspect of the reception of the Bible in film. After a brief investigation of the concept imperialism, this contribution explores particular instances where imperialism and NT themes intersect in film: the relationship between imperialism, Jesus-followers and Romans; satirical approaches to imperialism in NT films; and, the int...

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Imperialism and the Communist International

Commercial Imperialism?

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries’ decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and supporting leaders during the Cold War. Our presumption is that the US had greater influence over foreign l...

Gender, culture and imperialism

Recent years have witnessed a small avalanche of critical historical work on British imperial culture across the social sciences and not least within geography. The inspiration behind the critical interest in empire, knowledge and power was undoubtedly Edward Said’s groundbreaking and provocative Orientalism. Waves of debate have permeated throughout the social sciences and humanities in respon...