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Smith, Robert W. "Keeping the republic: Ideology and the diplomacy of John Adams, James Madison and John Quincy Adams." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623906.
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This dissertation explores the extent to which the political ideology that formed the basis for the American republic shaped American diplomacy, using John Adams, James Madison and John Quincy Adams as case studies. American statesmen drew on a variety of sources for republican principles of diplomacy. The law of nations and the Scottish political economists supplied the ideas of an international balance of power and freedom of trade. English writers of the Opposition Whig school provided concepts such as political separation from Europe, reliance on a navy for defense, abhorrence of a standing army and, indirectly, the belief that the United States could use its economic power to secure its diplomatic goals.;John Adams began his career with a high degree of confidence in the virtue of the American people and the coercive power of American trade. He combined a classical martial ethic with an Opposition whig strategic sense. Adams's experience in Europe disproved these beliefs, and as president he fell back on the republican realpolitik, based on naval power and separation from Europe, suggested by the Opposition Whig school.;James Madison never held out a classical model of virtue and never lost faith in the coercive power of American commerce. His combination of political economy with Opposition thought led him to reject both an army and a navy as monarchical tools of diplomacy. He saw the Constitution as a vehicle for harnessing American economic power. Madison's conception of a republican diplomacy led him, as secretary of state and president, to rely on the Embargo and similar economic measures.;John Quincy Adams combined republican realpolitik with a sense of Christian purpose and saw American government and diplomacy as a vehicle for moral improvement. Adams's republic rested on a continental union and a diplomacy directed against European colonization, as a manifestation of monarchy. Non-colonization included removing Spain as a neighbor in North America, preventing European political encroachment in the Western Hemisphere, and securing a hemisphere-wide consensus on neutral rights. as a congressman and critic of slavery-driven expansion, Adams demonstrated the persistence of Opposition Whig thought in American politics.
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Peyrer-Heimstätt, Alexandra. "Der Wiener Maler John Quincy Adams /." Wien, 1995. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/21555.
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Bauer, Cornelius. "Postminimalismus als kompositorischer Ansatz : analytische Untersuchungen am Werk John Adams', Michael Torkes und Louis Andriessens bis ca. 1995." Regensburg Roderer, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2793678&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Hinton, Carl Anthony. "The Foreign Policy of John Quincy Adams: A Study in Lockean Synthesis." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625419.
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Smith, Robert Wilmer. "A Republican Abroad: John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625694.
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Carvalho, Maria Inês Panzoldo de. "Depois da revolução, a ordem : um estudo sobre o pensamento político de John Adams." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2008. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/5559.
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Previous issue date: 2008-09-15<br>O objetivo deste estudo é examinar os escritos políticos de John Adams (1735-1826), ator e espectador da Revolução Americana e protagonista político nas duas primeiras décadas de história nacional dos Estados Unidos da América. Adams é considerado o mais erudito dos founding fathers. Sua vida compreende dois períodos cruciais da história política norte-americana: a conquista da independência e a elaboração da constituição. Adams teve participação ativa tanto no esforço de consumar a ruptura revolucionária quanto na fundação do sistema político e constitucional que, em grande medida, subsiste até hoje. Ele concebe a política como ciência e a ciência da política como um empreendimento eminentemente experimental, creditando à natureza humana (desvelada por meio da história) o papel de guia dos legisladores. Após quase dois anos de relativa obscuridade, Adams vem sendo redescoberto graças à relevância de suas perguntas e à presciência de suas respostas aos desafios da época. Das cinzas emerge um intelectual e estadista cujos escritos políticos lançam luz seja sobre o drama fundacional dos Estados Unidos da América, seja sobre problemas perenes da filosofia política. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT<br>O objetivo deste estudo é examinar os escritos políticos de John Adams (1735-1826), ator e espectador da Revolução Americana e protagonista político nas duas primeiras décadas de história nacional dos Estados Unidos da América. Adams é considerado o mais erudito dos founding fathers. Sua vida compreende dois períodos cruciais da história política norte-americana: a conquista da independência e a elaboração da constituição. Adams teve participação ativa tanto no esforço de consumar a ruptura revolucionária quanto na fundação do sistema político e constitucional que, em grande medida, subsiste até hoje. Ele concebe a política como ciência e a ciência da política como um empreendimento eminentemente experimental, creditando à natureza humana (desvelada por meio da história) o papel de guia dos legisladores. Após quase dois anos de relativa obscuridade, Adams vem sendo redescoberto graças à relevância de suas perguntas e à presciência de suas respostas aos desafios da época. Das cinzas emerge um intelectual e estadista cujos escritos políticos lançam luz seja sobre o drama fundacional dos Estados Unidos da América, seja sobre problemas perenes da filosofia política.
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Laur, Lauren A. "Deconstruction of American Exceptionalism in the Collaborative Works of John Adams and Peter Sellars." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363444775.
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Strovas, Scott M. "Musical Aesthetics and Creative Identification in Two Harmonielehren by John Adams and Arnold Schoenberg." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/46.
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The music of John Adams (b. 1947) exemplifies a reinvestment in traditional instrumental genres and musical values that began to take place in contemporary music in the late 1970s and early '80s. His Harmonielehre for orchestra (1984-85) meets many of the conditions of the symphonic genre, including its scoring for full orchestral forces, its multi-movement structure, its presentation of contrary, dialectical melodic gestures, and its dramatic thematic and harmonic conflict. It is thus ironic that Adams would title his composition after a treatise written by Arnold Schoenberg, a figure whose break from the musical past inspired many of the complex and experimental musical models that arose between the publication of his own Harmonielehre (1911, rev. 1922) and that of Adams. But to conclude that Adams' composition is a statement about tonality is perhaps over-simplistic. Examination of the two works reveals more similarities between the composers' artistic philosophies than differences. This dissertation is an attempt to expose these similarities in order to discover the motivations behind Adams' curious decision to title his composition after Schoenberg's treatise, and to gain a deeper understanding of the artistic priorities shared by both composers that arises from the interrelationship between their respective Harmonielehren.
Adams' title is partly a marker of the types of Romantic-era stylizations that pervade his score. But I argue that the relationship between the two Harmonielehren is not merely cursory. Prevalent themes within Schoenberg's prose can inform the analysis and interpretation of Adams' composition. Adams draws on Schoenberg's treatise as a signifier of his creative identification, one that both complements and departs from the creative model presented in Schoenberg's text. Both Harmonielehren confront the aesthetic expectations of their individual times and places, but while Schoenberg centers his creative identification in a discourse of restless inquiry into new materials and models of musical expression, Adams seemingly subscribes to Schoenberg's presentation of composition as craft, as the working-with and fitting-together-of the pre-existing sound vocabularies of music.
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Holdzkom, Marianne. "Two paths to independence : John and Samuel Adams and the coming of the American Revolution." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/539808.
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The purpose of this thesis was to come to a better understanding of the American mind at the time of the Revolution through biography. Through the use of primary and secondary sources, John and Samuel Adams were used as case studies. John represented the faction in favor of a rigid hierarchy and a natural aristocracy. Samuel represented the artisans and farmers who were fighting for democracy and equality in government. The thesis also discussed the differences between the Adams chapter two, the cousins' backgrounds and respective involvement in the Revolution were discussed. Chapter three was a discussion of the similarities between the Adams cousins. In chapter four, the fundamental differences between John and Samuel were discussed, differences that became apparent during the revolution. cousins and the men they represented. Ultimately by 1800, the new nation had left the cousins behind. The thesis concluded that the Adamses made massive contributions to the revolution, reflecting the eighteenth century American mind and contributing to the establishment of our ultimate form of government.<br>Department of History
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Schreiber, Rebecca A. "(Re)Framing the Storyteller’s Story in John Adams’s "Scheherazade.2"." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin155361836303747.
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Möser, Britta A. "Politische Autobiographien in der frühen amerikanischen Republik : Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson und James Monroe /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392931495.
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Bauer, Cornelius. "Postminimalismus als kompositorischer Ansatz analytische Untersuchungen am Werk John Adams', Michael Torkes und Louis Andriessens bis ca. 1995." Regensburg Roderer, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2793678&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Mathews, Amanda A. ""A Government of Laws and Not of Men": John Adams, Attorney, and the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/526.
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Thesis advisor: Alan Rogers<br>Thesis advisor: Brendan McConville<br>The Massachusetts Constitution is the oldest active constitution in the world — it has been in effect for 228 years. While the state has amended the original document many times since its passage, its essential provisions, which have remained largely unaltered, are undoubtedly the work of a single man — John Adams. John Adams, routinely neglected among scholars, is essential to the development of American political thought. The purpose of this study is to put a magnifying glass on two important aspects of John Adams's life and give them the detailed study that they deserve: his legal career and its impact on the Massachusetts Constitution. The link between his legal career and his political theory is crucial to understanding that document. To write about John Adams's political thought without understanding the two-decade long legal career that drove so much of it leaves one with only a shallow understanding of how that thought developed. It was through the study of numerous legal authors along with his reflection and experiences as an attorney that Adams came to understand how vital the law was for a nation. Indeed, for Adams, law was the basis for good government itself, "to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men."<br>Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008<br>Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: History<br>Discipline: History Honors Program<br>Discipline: College Honors Program
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Zorgniotti, Marc F. "Quotations and Constructivism in Twentieth-Century Violin Chaconnes by John Adams, Hans W. Henze, and Moses Pergament." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276530950.
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Normann, Andrew J. "Twice Collapsed." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1428515708.
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Van, Gilder Erin. "Tackling the Taboo: A Cross-Generational Study of the Adams-Smith Family and Their Moral Struggle with Alcoholism." Otterbein University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=otbnhonors1620461042261468.
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Hume, Blakely K. "He who loves the Workman and his Work improves It| The Religion of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson." Thesis, University of Nevada, Reno, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1545696.
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<p> John Adams and Thomas Jefferson proposed that in order for republican values to flourish in the republic virtue must be cultivated in society. They believed a reasonable religion was the necessary foundation to uphold this virtue. The letters they shared suggested a rationally critiqued faith that would provide the necessary foundation for the republic, one at odds with the rising evangelical religion so popular in the republic. The first goal of this project is to examine their correspondence to show how they used enlightened principles of reason and debate to provide an intellectual inquiry into the historical perversions they perceived in their "Christian" society. For Adams and Jefferson, a properly constructed religion emerged from a series of discussions about its content. The language that they used with each other revolved around three intellectual suppositions about religion. First, the essence of understanding religion, for them, was to examine and critique religious writers, materials, and doctrines. Second, such a critique led them to question specific points of religious doctrine and to determine the accuracy or inconsistency in their faith. Third, this questioning of doctrine led them to an enlightened, well-reasoned, and reformed religious belief. </p><p> While this study speaks to the current historiography and the "culture wars" regarding religion during the Revolution presently debated in American politics, it also provides the ancient and colonial religious context into which Adams's and Jefferson's discussion may be placed. Historians must recover the theological meaning behind the religious conversations these men had with one another to explain what they meant when they chose to define themselves as "Christian." The process of recovering their faith by contextualizing the correspondence of Adams and Jefferson is the second goal of this project. </p><p> By contextualizing their correspondence, historians may decipher Adams's and Jefferson's intentions about religion. The language they use in their letters demonstrates four things. First, they viewed themselves as "real Christians," not as "Deists" or "Unitarians" or "Atheists" as they have been labeled at various stages in their lives and by historians since. Second, they were willing—though privately and only with each other—to use reason and rationality as the basis for their faith. Third, having reason and rationality as the basis for their faith, they critiqued commonly held beliefs of "Christian" society at the time discovering many of those beliefs to be corrupt. Finally, these letters indicate what they believed was an accurate understanding of the religion of their culture without any doctrinal corruption. Interpreting their letters in this context Adams and Jefferson defined religion very differently in their era: they implemented revolutionary enlightenment thinking to reassess their religious beliefs to arrive at a "rational Christianity" which, to them, represented a "purified and enlightened Christianity." Both men understood that this religion was highly contentious and problematic. The faith that emerged was a very different and unorthodox "Christianity," one that would be wholly unrecognizable and unacceptable to not only their culture, but to the cultures that followed.</p>
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Dolan, Thomas Pierce. "History in the thought of the architects of peace in Northern Ireland : Gerry Adams, John Hume, and David Trimble." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25775.
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This thesis explores the historical imaginations exhibited by the key political architects of the Northern Ireland Peace Process: Gerry Adams, John Hume and David Trimble. It compares and contrasts ways in which each has engaged the ideological resource of history throughout their respective biographies, exploring the various visions of history, both Irish and otherwise, that have intrigued them, and the environments and experiences that moulded their view of the past. Exploiting a wide range of archival sources, along with original interviews and conversations with the ‘peacemakers’ themselves, it considers how Adams, Hume and Trimble learnt about history; how they subsequently imagined and wrote about it, and how they ultimately applied it within their influential political thinking. It is a study of the relationship between historical and political imagination, delivering fresh and revealing intellectual profiles of the ‘peacemakers’. Significantly, it demonstrates how ideas and visions of history, commonly perceived as somehow to blame for conflict in Northern Ireland, were put to positive use by Adams, Hume and Trimble. It therefore considers how visions of history contributed to the ideological evolution of peace and political stability on the island.
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Pirilli, Lydia. "John Adams' "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky": Examination of an earthquake/romance." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/6834.
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In 1995, John Adams, Peter Sellars, and June Jordan collaborated on the
contemporary opera/musical I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky. Based
around the 1994 Los Angeles, California earthquake, the work follows the struggles and
daily lives of seven diverse twenty-somethings. This paper examines the creation of the
work and compiles all available information about professional performances and
recordings. An exploration of musical content in relation to characterization is supported
by a stylistic description of every piece. There is also a more detailed analysis of three
ensemble numbers. The conclusion is a discussion of the dramatic connotations of the
earthquake and how the work fits into the paradigm of Shakespearean comedy.<br>Thesis (M.M.)--Wichita State University, College of Fine Arts, School of Music
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Mayo-Bobee, Dinah. "Book Review of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic by Charles N. Edel." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/722.
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Laycock, Frances Catherine. "Contemporary opera as relevant and effective socio-political critique : two case studies / F.C. Laycock." Thesis, North-West University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1360.
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Dennehy, John A. "James Sullivan and the Birth of Massachusetts Republicanism." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1941.
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Thesis advisor: Alan Rogers<br>The following narrative traces the political lives of James Sullivan, Christopher Gore, Rufus King and John Quincy Adams, four Massachusetts men who were actively involved in the creation of state and national policy during the formative years of the new republic. Their years of public service bridged the critical period between the Revolution and the period of Democratic- Republican dominance. Because they knew each other so well, corresponded with one another on a regular basis, and held so many different state and national government posts, their lives provide an ideal vehicle to explore and better understand the changes that were taking place in post-Revolutionary Massachusetts. Their stories help trace the evolution of Massachusetts from a Federalist stronghold into a legitimate multi-party state firmly committed to the national union. The primary figure in this study is Sullivan, the oldest of the four men, who was the state's highest ranking Republican leader during much of the Federalist Era. A staunch opponent of the Federalist assumption that government should be in the hands of the natural gentry and ruling class, he spent his adult life promoting equal access to power. After serving as a member of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress from 1774 to 1776, Sullivan was an active participant in the creation of the new state government. He later served as attorney general for seventeen years, from 1790 to 1807, through several Federalist administrations and served as a member of state legislature for many years. He also was a member of the Supreme Judicial Court and, in the final years of his life, governor of the Commonwealth. Because he participated in or observed firsthand the most significant political events of his day, his words also help trace, as few others could, the gradual transformation of Massachusetts from a one party state to a multi-party state. His election as governor in 1807 was clear evidence of the growing strength of the Republican Party in Massachusetts and of the extent to which the emerging national consensus had grown. Christopher Gore, whose stature and perspective were more deeply rooted in the colonial past, stood in stark personal as well as political contrast to Sullivan. As a conservative Federalist who often served as spokesman for his party during this period, Gore was a major player in the Massachusetts legal community and government between the American Revolution and early years of the nineteenth century. He stubbornly adhered to the aristocratic belief that the government should only be managed by the propertied class and traditional ruling elite. Where Sullivan was a sentimental moralist who hated everything British, Gore was the stern and unyielding spokesman for the merchant class who seemingly admired everything British. Where Sullivan's father had emigrated from Ireland, the victim of oppressive Penal Laws, Gore's father was a Tory, who fled Boston with the British in March 1776. Though Gore himself supported the Revolution, he was never able to shed, or indeed temper, his attachment to Great Britain in later years. As perhaps the most passionate defender of everything British in the years after the Revolution, Gore's habits and customs reflected the old deferential order and embodied everything Sullivan opposed. Despite their personal and political differences, Sullivan and Gore shared a close personal friend. Rufus King was a longtime confidant of both men, corresponding with each of them over many years. Though King's habits and background were more similar to those of Gore than Sullivan, he was less rooted in the colonial past than his conservative friend. Though an ardent Federalist, he was respected by men on both sides of the political aisle and served not only as a bridge between the two parties, but as a bridge between the two branches of his own party. It is because he enjoyed such a close personal relationship with Sullivan and Gore, and corresponded with both men on a regular basis, that King provides a unique vehicle to explore the differences between the two parties during this critical period in Massachusetts political history. The fourth subject of this study is John Quincy Adams. The fiercely independent one-time Federalist, who, though born many years after Gore, King, and Sullivan, became active in politics at a very young age and crossed political paths with all three men on a regular basis. Although born a member of the second generation of political leaders, Quincy Adams identified with the first generation of Revolutionary leaders. He matured early and took part in every critical debate that took place after the ratification of the Constitution. From the beginning, Quincy Adams charted an independent course and played a critical role in the growth of the Republican Party. John Quincy Adams is particularly relevant to this study because his political transformation reflected the change in attitude that was taking place in Massachusetts and the country in the early years of the nineteenth century. He represented a commitment to the interests of union over sectional concerns. A strong and independent unionist throughout his life, Quincy Adams eventually came to represent a new global nationalism. In many respects, Quincy Adams was the `transition man' in post- Revolutionary America. The son of a colonial who was very much a product of the deferential society of the eighteenth century, young Adams came to embrace the principle of majority rule. His elevation to the highest political posts in the country marked the final stage in America's transition from colony to union to nation. James Sullivan, Christopher Gore and Rufus King each played significant roles in the establishment of constitutional government in Massachusetts and in the United States. Though he was considered a member of the so-called Hancock faction, a group viewed as primarily anti-Constitutionalist, Sullivan was an independent thinker. He would call for greater legal safeguards for the benefit of the more vulnerable and for the end of the practice of multiple office holding which had long been a tool of the ruling elite to maintain power and influence. A vocal proponent of the national government before King, Gore and Hancock, Sullivan had long recognized the importance of strengthening the central government. His embrace of participatory government and of law aimed at protecting all classes of people naturally appealed to a wider audience would continue to contribute to the democratization of Massachusetts politics. With a new national government in place and a new political era begun, Sullivan, King, Gore, and soon Quincy Adams, were uniquely positioned to play significant, if competing, roles in the coming struggle. This narrative differs from other secondary works on post-colonial Massachusetts in several respects. Firstly, the significant role played by Sullivan in the growth of Republicanism in Massachusetts has been largely overlooked by historians. His persistent calls for equal access to power stood in stark contrast to the views of the Federalists who dominated Massachusetts government in the years after the American Revolution. His active participation in regional politics both during and after the Revolution helped the people of Massachusetts in their transition from colony to state. Furthermore, he was one of the first Massachusetts political leaders to insist on placing the new central government on a sound financial footing. Indeed, his call for a strengthened and sufficiently financed national government predated the efforts of Massachusetts Federalists, including King and Gore. He was, I contend, one of the first political leaders of either party to be considered a true `nationalist.' While Quincy Adams' support for Jefferson's Embargo and his conversion to Republicanism have been well documented, this work explores the link between Sullivan and Quincy Adams, and details the critically important role they played in the national debate over how to respond to British aggression towards American shipping and American sailors. Though Gordon Wood and other historians point to the Embargo as the single biggest failure of Jefferson and his Republican supporters, I contend the opposite is true. The Embargo highlighted the central difference between the two parties, and though it provided Federalists with a temporary victory, it also sowed the seeds of their defeat. The Embargo enabled men like Sullivan and Quincy Adams to clarify one of the central issues of the post-Revolutionary period, ... national honor. Though Paul Goodman correctly points out that Republicanism tapped into the growing sense of nationalism in the country, I carry the discussion further and detail the growing disconnect between the Federalist Party and the American people. Quincy Adams, in particular, articulated the need to announce to the world that the United States would not submit to foreign aggression. Furthermore, his call for a stronger and expanded union, even if it meant a loss of power and prestige for Massachusetts, would soon strike a chord with a growing majority of Americans. Quincy Adams personified the shift in the national mood and represented a new national perspective. When John Quincy Adams left the Federalist Party, many Americans left with him<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: History
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Hastings, Jason Michael, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Christian rebellion theories as delivered by St. Paul from Mars Hill by Augustine, Calvin and Adams." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2003, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/181.
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This thesis explicates teh rebellion theories of three reowned Christian political thinkers and evaluates the extent that each can communicate an intelligible rebellion theory to a non-Christian audience. Augustine of Hippo, at a dawn of the medieval ages, John Calvin of Geneva during the Reformation and John Adams of the USA in the midst of the Enlightenment are the three thinkers selected for consideration. These thinkers have produced ideas that have transcended time and geographical location. Rebellion is an issue of the utmost political importance as it reveals the limits, and the first principles of politics. The issues surrounding the involovement of religion in politics have created a place for confusion in minds of many people today. The issues surrounding religion and politics need further elucidation. The way these thinkers were able to translate the divine command from Romans 13:1, which decrees an absolute prohibition against rebellion, into an intelligible rebellion theory to non-Christians, is an important consideration in this thesis.<br>ix, 158 leaves ; 28 cm.
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Kernan, Thomas J. "The Percussion Group Cincinnati: A History of Collaboration between Ensemble and Composer." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275918212.
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Malanson, Jeffrey J. "Addressing America: Washington's Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1852." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2649.
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Thesis advisor: David Quigley<br>This dissertation argues that George Washington's Farewell Address established the foundational principles of U.S. foreign policy and was the central text through which citizens of the Early Republic came to understand the connections between the nation's domestic and foreign ambitions. In the eyes of most Americans, the Declaration of Independence affirmed their ideals and the Constitution established their government, but it was Washington's principles that would ensure the nation's maturation into a world power. The Address became deeply embedded in the popular consciousness through annual readings on Washington's birthday, frequent discussion of its principles in the press, and as an integral component of the civic education of the nation's youth. Ordinary Americans far removed from the nation's capital and from complicated debates over particular foreign policies and their implications could still express an informed opinion on the wisdom of those policies based on their understanding of the Farewell. "Addressing America" goes beyond this popular story to illuminate how the Farewell shaped the fundamental disagreement over the conduct of U.S. foreign policy from 1796 to 1852. When Washington issued his valedictory he intended it as a flexible and pragmatic statement of the general principles that should guide the construction of foreign policies aimed at protecting American interests. An essential part of Washington's wisdom was the recognition that the nation's interests would change over time, and thus so too would its foreign policies. Five years later, incoming President Thomas Jefferson summarized his approach to foreign policy in his inaugural address of 1801 by promising "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." This phrase was universally seen as an allusion to the Farewell Address and it immediately entered the popular lexicon as a way of pithily describing the nation's core foreign policy principles. Over time "entangling alliances with none" became associated directly with Washington. More than just a case of misattribution, the linking of this phrase to the Farewell permanently altered the meaning of the Address for most Americans; instead of a flexible statement of general principles, it became a rigid prescription for a permanent foreign policy of virtual isolation from the rest of the world. In the fifty years after Jefferson's inaugural, the overarching narrative of American foreign policy is the conflict between these competing interpretations of the Farewell Address and how these differences in principle produced a varied understanding of both U.S. foreign policy and America's place in the world. This dissertation is the first work of historical scholarship to conduct a sustained examination of the ways that Washington's Farewell Address was understood over time by early Americans and how it fundamentally shaped their view of the United States and its place in the world<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: History
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Taylor, Anthony Gordon. "John Adams’s Gnarly Buttons: Issues of History, Performance and Style." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1185548983.
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Barton, Thomas. "Music place and the creation of cultural memory: A study of Benjamin Brittten's War Requiem, John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls and Steve Reich's Different Trains." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.537504.
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Dowd-Lukesh, Summer. "Pseudodemocratic Rhetoric and Social Hierarchies: The Relative Lack of Influence of Rousseau's Radical Egalitarianism on Early American Political Thought." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/438.
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Enlightenment theorists like John Locke and Montesquieu were incredibly influential for the American Revolution. However, while Jean-Jacques Rousseau is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment writers in history and while his work was very influential in Europe, especially during the French Revolution, Rousseau's theories were not widely read and he is not considered a strong influence on American political theory. In this thesis, I argue that Rousseau is considered noninfluential in particular because of the conflict between his theories of communtarianism and egalitarianism and Federalist political projects that aimed to convert the United States into a large, mercantalist, international presence. Anti-Federalists were much more receptive to Rousseau's theories but were unable to commit to them fully because of their reliance on chattel slavery and his firm opposition to the institution. Finally, I argue that the tensions between early American politicians and Rousseau's theories of egalitarianism showcase the pseudodemocratic nature of early American politics and rhetoric and explain American government's oligarchic tendencies.
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Svensson, Kristofer. "Beyond Ecophony." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteori, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1351.
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Avant-Rossi, Joan. "Michael Nyman, The man who mistook his wife for a hat." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-6135.
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Hatty, Matthew James II. "Ouroboros." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1357344483.
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Pierce, Justin Wade. "A Performance Guide to David Kechley's "In the Dragon's Garden" with an Investigation of the Saxophone-Guitar Duo Genre." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1609135/.
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American composer David Kechley was profoundly impacted by a 1990 trip to the Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto, Japan. The composer describes the finely raked, small white stones in the midst of fifteen large rocks in the Japanese Zen garden as "planned randomness." Kechley's inaugural composition for saxophone-guitar duo, In the Dragon's Garden, reflects his experience at the Ryoan-ji Temple. The use of minimalistic compositional techniques without literal repetition in the work represents a departure from the first generation of Minimalist composers, such as LaMonte Young, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, and John Adams. An analysis of minimalistic compositional elements, combined with an interview with the commissioning ensemble, the Ryoanji Duo, provides insights into the interpretation and preparation of this complex work. Furthermore, this document contains helpful information pertinent to the saxophone-guitar duo. Details on balance and amplification, orchestration, and collaboration with the composer will supply performers and composers with essential knowledge needed to participate in this growing musical medium.
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Gerard, Garrison. "EverWind: Original Composition and Analytical Essay on the Role of Inspiration and Nature in Music." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538726/.
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This paper provides an overview of the inspiration, research, and creative process involved in the composition of EverWind for orchestra and electronics. EverWind is based on field recordings from the American Southwest. The composition uses pitch material derived from spectral analysis of the recordings, and it incorporates a fixed media element using the field recordings that are then electronically manipulated to various degrees; this fixed media element is played alongside the orchestra. The paper also analyzes John Luther Adams' Dark Waves for Orchestra and Electronics and R. Murray Schafer's Music for Wilderness Lake in order to place EverWind within the broader musical context.
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Kabot, Damian. "Hierarchical development in ecclesiologies of Johann Adam Möhler and John Henry Newman." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Chalifour, Bruno. "Le paysage de la photographie américaine de paysage : 1960-1990." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2058.
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La période 1960 – 1990 a été agitée et féconde aux États-Unis malgré l’échec du projet de Grande Société et de lutte contre la pauvreté du président L.B. Johnson. L’Amérique a profité des retombées de sa domination économique et militaire pour financer l’éducation, le logement (G.I. Bill) ainsi que les arts (N.E.A.). De 1960 à 1990 la photographie est entrée massivement à l’université, dans les musées et dans le marché de l’art. Le paysage a toujours été un genre artistique privilégié aux États-Unis, de la peinture du dix-neuvième siècle à la photographie depuis son invention qui coïncide avec la découvertes de nouveaux territoires qui crée le pays. Le médium a documenté le développement territorial du pays puis s’est affirmé sur la scène de la photographie créative occidentale. Les années considérées vont voir la photographie créative américaine passer d’une période « romantique » tournée vers l’abstraction et le monde intérieur de l’artiste, conséquence des persécutions politiques de l’immédiat après-guerre, vers une réflexion ontologique et expérimentale, pour finalement traiter de problèmes de société tout en restant connectée aux réflexions esthétiques et philosophiques communes aux autres arts. Au sortir des années 1980, la photographie américaine de paysage, celle des grands espaces mais également celle des espaces humanisés, urbanisés, domine la scène internationale inspirant un renouveau du genre en Europe, au Canada, au Japon,…. Lancé par une exposition alors jugée mineure en 1975, le phénomène New Topographics est devenu planétaire et perdure. Ces quinze dernières années, de nombreuses expositions des paysagistes américains de cette période ont circulé à travers le monde, phénomène révélateur de leur rôle dans notre culture occidentalo – planétaire ainsi que pour l’histoire du médium<br>During the 1960 – 1990 period, in spite of the psychological and economical fall-outs of the various wars (Cold War, Korea and Vietnam ) undermining L.B. Johnson’s hopes and plans for a Great Society and his War on Poverty, the American government used its world supremacy and the derived wealth acquired in the wake of W.W. II (the USA was the only western country whose industrial production was impacted positively) to finance popular housing, adult education (G.I. Bill), and the arts (N.E.A.). During those years photography crashed the doors of academia, museum and art institutions, and entered the art market. Landscape has always been a major genre in the American visual arts, from the paintings of the nineteenth century (the Hudson River School, the Luminists) to photography. An interesting synchronicity can be observed between the birth, growth and coming of age of both the medium and the country. Landscape photography participated in the creation of an American identity. A century later, during what we can now call the Golden Age of American landscape photography from New Topographics in the 1970s to the advent of color photography in the 1980s, photographers turned their lenses back toward the east at the damage done and the state of the landscape left behind. The production of wall-size prints followed, competing for attention with paintings on the walls of museums and galleries that welcome them. Since the Culture Wars of the late 1980s and the 1990s, and the defunding of the arts that ensued, the rest of the world has caught up, influenced by the traveling exhibitions and publications of that generation of American photographers
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Hase, Alexander Von. "Travaux relatifs à l'histoire des idées politiques à la fin du 18e [s. ] : autour de Mirabeau et de Gentz : Mirabeau et la législation prussienne : un inédit du futur révolutionnaire (1788)." Montpellier 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988MON10034.
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La thèse comprend trois parties. La première est constituée de plusieurs articles publiés de 1970 à 1985 dans trois grandes revues allemandes de recherche ("Historische Zeitschrift", "Saeculum" et "Archiv fur Kulturgeschichte"). La plupart de ces articles sont consacrés au publiciste allemand Friedrich v. Gentz (1764 - 1832), connu comme conseiller de Metternich. La deuxième et troisième partie consistent dans la présentation de deux inédits de Mirabeau ("de la tolérance" et "analyse raisonnée du projet d'un nouveau code prussien"). La présentation de l'écrit "de la tolérance" a fait l'objet d'un doctorat de 3e cycle, intitule "Mirabeau et la tolérance" (Faculté de droit, Montpellier, 1985). Son contenu est résumé dans un article de [l'auteur] ("Mirabeau et l'idée de la tolérance") qui fera partie d'un ouvrage intitulé : "la tolérance : naissance et affirmation d'une idée de l'époque moderne" (éd. Michel Peronnet). La troisième et principale partie consiste dans la présentation de "l'analyse raisonnée d'un projet de nouveau code prussien", rédigée par Mirabeau en 1788. Elle est consacrée aux relations de Mirabeau avec la Prusse en général et spécialement à son examen critique du AGB (Allgemeines Gesetzbuch) qui est pour lui "un des plus beaux livres que ce siècle ait produit".
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Moore, J. Aaron. "Hell, maybe it's you, Adam the mimetics of troubled identifications in Paradise Lost /." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-2/moorej/jaaronmoore.pdf.
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Lummis, Katherine. "Educating to Change the World: John Dewey, Jane Addams, and W.E.B. Du Bois in Turn-of-the-Century America." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/474.
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Thesis advisor: Cynthia L. Lyerly<br>This study is based on the premise that navigating boundaries of the self is a historical, ideological process. Up until the turn of the century, categories of race, class, and gender were seen as fixed constructions that grounded individual selves within non-negotiable spheres. The advent of modernity, however, witnessed a number of political, economic, and social changes. Reformers in the early 1900s were thus able to renegotiate the structures of American public life, using education as their primary means. By combining accepted, unifying, pragmatic principles with more radical ideas of social revolution, John Dewey, Jane Addams, and W.E.B. Du Bois were able to rethink class, gender, and race and thereby attempt to mold anew the identity of the American public<br>Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004<br>Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: History<br>Discipline: College Honors Program
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Mohamed, Adam [Verfasser], Gabor [Akademischer Betreuer] Wiese, and John [Akademischer Betreuer] Cremona. "Some explicit aspects of modular forms over imaginary quadratic fields / Adam Mohamed. Gutachter: John Cremona. Betreuer: Gabor Wiese." Duisburg, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1018731385/34.
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Rembold, Sandra. "Das Bild des Menschen als Grundlage der Ordnung die Beiträge von Platon, Aristoteles, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Walter Eucken und Friedrich August von Hayek." Berlin dissertation.de, 2006. http://www.dissertation.de/buch.php3?buch=5100.
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Rembold, Sandra. "Das Bild des Menschen als Grundlage der Ordnung : die Beiträge von Platon, Aristoteles, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Walter Eucken und Friedrich August von Hayek." Berlin dissertation.de, 2007. http://www.dissertation.de/buch.php3?buch=5100.
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Hawley, Cody Ryan. "The Uses of Community in Modern American Rhetoric." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7680.
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This study examines the functions of the term “community” in American social and political rhetoric. I contend that community serves as a god-term, or expression of value and order, which rhetors use to motivate actions, endorse values, include/exclude persons, and compensate for modern losses. Informed by the philosophy of Kenneth Burke, I explore the general features of “rhetorics of community,” including community’s ambiguity and status as an automatic good, the relationship between community and modernity, the myth of communal loss, and the uses of community as a site of political unity and contest. I analyze the writings of John Humphrey Noyes, Jane Addams, and the Southern Agrarians as paradigm cases of utopian, progressive, and traditionalist rhetorics respectively, and I discuss how community is constructed in order to navigate the tension between self and society, correct for the failures of modern individualism, and propose competing visions of the social order.
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Fouquet, Etienne. "Morale et économie : une recherche de principes de limitation de la pensée économique : applications particulières aux cas de Adam Smith, John Rawls et Amartya Sen." Poitiers, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010POIT5003.
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La question de savoir s'il est possible de trouver un ou des principes permettant de limiter l'influence que peuvent exercer sur la société la pensée économique, et les comportements qui lui sont associés, a souvent été évoquée par la philosophie. L'influence de cette dernière semble aujourd'hui affaiblie par le développement d'une science économique moderne d'inspiration libérale, tout particulièrement dans le monde anglophone. L'œuvre de trois penseurs qui en sont issus est analysée de manière détaillée : celles d'Adam Smith, de John Rawls, et d'Amartya Sen, économiste de renom ouvert aux questions philosophiques soulevées par les deux premiers. Sans recourir à un système de pensée préétabli à partir de considérations philosophiques, morales, ou religieuses, cet examen approfondi est stimulé par la question initiale. L'évolution de la pensée économique est étudiée en parallèle, avec un accent mis sur le monde anglo-américain où l'influence de la doctrine utilitariste a été particulièrement marquée. Ce n'est qu'au terme de ces recherches que peut se préciser l'axe principal d'une critique de la pensée économique : ses bases anthropologiques apparaissent comme des plus limitées, ce que les développements mathématiques impressionnants qui l'ont accompagnée finissent par occulter<br>The issue of knowing whether it is possible to find one or several principles able to limit the influence on society of economic thought, and associated behaviour, has often been raised by philosophy. To-day, the latter’s influence appears weakened by the development of modern liberal economic science, particularly in the English speaking world. The work of three of its representative thinkers, namely Adam Smith, John Rawls, and Amartya Sen, a prominent economist opened to philosophical issues raised by the first two, is scrutinized. Without any preconceived thought based on philosophical moral or religious considerations, this scrutiny is stimulated by the opening question. The progress of economic thought is reviewed in parallel, mainly in the English and American world where the influence of utilitarianism has been particularly strong. It is only when these inquiries have been completed that can be specified the main axis of a critique of economic thought: the limits of its anthropological basis tends to be occulted by its impressive mathematical developments
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Benchekara, Mohammed. "Du mécanisme au libéralisme : essai sur la naissance de l'économie politique de Thomas Hobbes a Adam Smith." Paris 10, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA100197.
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L'objectif de cette thèse est d'essayer de comprendre pourquoi la thèse leibnizienne a été longtemps écartée comme paradigme permettant de penser la double autonomie de l'ordre social et de l'individu au profit de la thèse newtonienne. Les obstacles épistémologiques sur lesquels toute la pensée économique a bute trouvent leurs racines dans les caractéristiques métaphysiques et les postulats épistémologiques du modèle newtonien. Le retour à Leibniz permet de considérer ces difficultés sous un nouveau jour. La philosophie politique (Hobbes, Locke, Hume) inaugure la transposition de la conception newtonienne dans le social selon des configurations différentes. Pour Hobbes le politique doit régir intégralement la société civile considérée comme une machine. Pour Locke le politique dans la personne du magistrat doit aider à l'émergence d'un ordre social. Pour hume la société s'organise d'elle-même à partir de données économiques et la régulation politique est réduite au minimum. L'économie politique smithienne est une réaction contre l'intervention extérieure du politique dans l'émergence de l'ordre social, qui est en fait un relent métaphysique de l'intervention du dieu newtonien dans l'univers. Une telle intervention représente un frein à l'autonomie de l'individu et de la société<br>The aim of this thesis is to understand how Leibniz’s model was for a long time ignored as a paradigm allowing the thinking of the double autonomy of the social order and the individual which was not the case of the newton's model. The epistemological obstacles of the flowing of the economical thought take place in the metaphysical features and the epistemological postulates of newton's model. The political philosophy (Hobbes, Locke, and Hume) starts the transposition of newton's concepts in the social in different ways. For Hobbes, politics as to organist totally the civil society which is considerate as a machine. For Locke, politics (government) has ti help the emergence of a social order. For Hume, the society has a spontaneous organization using the economical bases. The political readjustment is much reduced. Using Leibniz’s model, Smith’s political economy creates the autonomy of the social order and the individual without political support, which is seen as a metaphysical interference of newton's god in the universe. This interference represents actually a brake to the autonomy of the individual and the society
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Diatkine, Daniel. "De la convention à l'illusion : les conceptions monétaires de Locke, Hume et de Smith, premiers textes." Paris 1, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA010008.
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1. On traite des conceptions monétaires développées par Locke, Hume et dans les premiers textes d'Adam Smith (la théorie des sentiments moraux et les lectures on jurisprudence. . . ). On montre que la théorie monétaire de Locke est partie intégrante de sa philosophie politique. En effet la convention monétaire apparait comme l'élément déstabilisant l'état de nature, en permettant l'accumulation rationnelle de la richesse. Elle engendre la constitution de groupes sociaux aux intérêts opposés et désignés sous les termes : landed interest et moneyed interest. Le gouvernement civil est alors justifie par sa politique visant à maintenir un excédent de la balance des paiements afin de conserver à la quantité de monnaie un niveau jugé adéquat et indiqué par le taux d'intérêt naturel. 2. Les conceptions Humiennes expriment une double critique, philosophique et économique, à l'égard de celles de Locke. Du point de vue philosophique, la thèse selon laquelle "la raison ne saurait s'opposer aux passions" exclue la possibilité d'opposer le pouvoir politique a la passion acquisitive. D'un point de vue économique, la quantité de monnaie ne peut avoir le rôle de variable stratégique qu'elle possède chez Locke. On montre la difficulté de l'analyse de Hume : d'un côté, Hume affirme que la monnaie est indispensable à la généralisation des échanges, d'un autre côté, il cherche à démontrer sa neutralité (comme l'exprime sa conception de la théorie quantitative de la monnaie et du mécanisme d'ajustement automatique de la balance commerciale). 3. On peut, de la même façon, montrer que la position de Smith à l'égard de Hume s'inscrit dans un double registre, philosophique et économique. Smith récuse la thèse Humienne selon laquelle "la raison ne peut s'opposer aux passions", grâce à la théorie de l'impartial Spectator. Celle-ci laisse ouvert un espace où peut se déployer une activité rationnelle et en même temps non nécessairement conforme à la justice. C'est le marché qui assure l'adéquation des fins privées à la finalité sociale. Du même coup, Smith opère une substitution du marché à la monnaie comme mode de socialisation et construit, par là-même, le concept de richesse réelle.
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Kahn, Patricia Hymson. "HOW THE SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENT IMPACTED HANDIWORK AT HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL IN HINDMAN, KENTUCKY DURING 1902-1920." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1047354711.
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Spickschen, Sarah [Verfasser]. "Johann Adam Kerstings Vorlesungen über Tiergeburtshilfe und Rindviehseuche an der Roßarzneischule Hannover : Transkription und Besprechung einer Abschrift von Johan Heinrich Kauffmann, Hannover 1783/84 / Sarah Spickschen." Hannover : Bibliothek der Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1065277164/34.
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Haverkamp, Simon L. H. "'Si Adam et Eva peccaverunt, quid nos miseri fecimus?' : the reception of Augustine's ontological discourse on the soul in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4513.
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Thesis analyses the reception of Augustine of Hippo's (354-430) ontological discourse on the soul in late antiquity and the early middle ages, more specifically in the sixth and the ninth centuries. Since Augustine never wrote a 'De anima', nor always presented his readers with definite answers to questions, there was room for later authors to interpret and improvise. This thesis focuses on 4 texts: Cassiodorus Senator's 'De anima', Eugippius of Lucculanum's massive florilegium the 'Excerpta ex operibus Sancti Augustini', both from the sixth century, Gottschalk of Orbais' letter 'Quaestiones de anima', and John Scottus Eriugena's apologetic 'De divina praedestinatione liber', both from the ninth century. This thesis establishes that, apart from Cassiodorus, the author's main interest in Augustine's ideas on the ontology of the soul rests on the way it impinges on their contemporary predestination debates. Cassiodorus consciously wanted to produce a Christian De anima in a classical vein. Especially the question of the origin of the soul takes the interest of Eugippius and Gottschalk. This is an important question for predestination debates, since it is supposed to explain technically how original sin came to be universal. Augustine never found a satisfactory answer to this thorny question. Eriugena's genius lies in building an original ontology of the soul on Augustine's own foundations which sidesteps this problem of the origin of the soul entirely.
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Roberts, Heulwen Mary. "Architect of empire: Joseph Fearis Munnings (1879-1937)." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8969.
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New Zealand-born architect Joseph Fearis Munnings (1879-1937) is largely forgotten in the country of his birth. Considering the importance of his public works in Bihar and Orissa, India (1912-1919) and his prominence as a school architect in New South Wales, Australia (1923-1937), recognition of his architectural achievements is long overdue.
This thesis takes as its premise the notion that early twentieth century architecture in colonial New Zealand, India and Australia was British, the rationale expounded by G. A. Bremner in Imperial Gothic– Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire (2013). My thesis argues that, considering Munnings’ colonial upbringing and English training, the styles he employed reflected his and his clients’ identity as British. It explores the extent to which Munnings adapted British styles, by incorporating features appropriate for colonial conditions. Drawing upon the work of Ian Lochhead on the achievements of Samuel Hurst Seager, my thesis considers the role played by Seager in mentoring Munnings and guiding his philosophy of architecture. Peter Scriver’s papers, ‘Edge of empire or edge of Asia’ (2009) and ‘Complicity and Contradiction in the Office of the Consulting Architect to the Government of India, 1903-1921’ (1996), also inform my analysis of Munnings’ work in India.
To enable an analysis of Munnings’ work, this study divides his career into chronological stages: Early experiences and training, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1879-1903 Architectural training, London, England, 1903-1906 Partnership with Hurst Seager and Cecil Wood, Christchurch, 1906-1909 Work with Leonard Stokes, London, 1909 Responsibilities and achievements, India, 1910-1918 Contributions and achievements, New Zealand, 1919-1923 Partnership with Power and Adam, Sydney, Australia, 1923-1937.
This thesis, the first comprehensive study of Munnings’ career, illuminates the extent of his architectural legacy in India, his significant contribution to school architecture in New South Wales, and asserts his place as an architect of the British Empire.
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Anderson, Maureen Jolie. "On Familiarity and Defamiliarization in the Use of Appropriated Material in Film, and Its Consequences on Narration| A study of Artavazd Peleshian's Our Century, Johan Grimonprez's dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Adam Curtis' It Felt Like a Kiss." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1538754.
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<p> The text presented here is a study of the editing and appropriation techniques of three constructivist films and their affect on narrative: Artavazd Peleshian's <i>Our Century,</i> Johan Grimonprez's <i>dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y</i> and Adam Curtis' <i>It Felt Like a Kiss.</i> An analysis of these techniques is done through the lens of the Russian Formalists, Victor Shklovsky and Mikhail Bakhtin and their respective concepts of defamiliarization and familiarization. Attention is paid to formal analysis in relation to historical context.</p>