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Mork, Noralf. "The fate of innovation : a social history of creativity and curriculum control." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491099.
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Fernandez, Jose Luis. "Kant’s Proleptic Philosophy of History: The World Well-Hoped." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/543456.
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Philosophy<br>Ph.D.<br>The aim of this dissertation is to examine and helpfully elucidate Kant’s proleptic philosophy of history by pursuing lines of thought across both his critical and historical body of work. A key motivation for this goal stems from noticing certain repetitive explications of Kant’s philosophy across, among other subjects, history, biology, religion, teleology, culture, and education, which, as precise and careful in their detail, all seem to converge on key Kantian ideas of teleology and morality. Rather than concentrating on any one aspect of Kant’s proleptic philosophy, I set out to (i) investigate seemingly untenable problems with his characterization of reason in history, (ii) to counter what I take as a misreading, if not misattributions, of Kant’s proleptic, and not prophetic, thoughts on historical progress, (iii) to offer an original reflection on Kant’s use of a famous stoic phrase in two of his political essays, and (iv) to an attempt a close exegesis toward tying notions of teleology and hope with that of need. The approach that I take in these chapters is both problem centered and exegetical, and while I attempt to answer concerns in the secondary literature pertaining to Kant’s proleptic philosophy of history, I also stay close to the primary texts by providing references and citations to key claims and passages which reinforce Kant’s forceful portrait of the poietic power of human reason to create a world hospitable to its rational ends.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Black, Sydney. "The fate of the vamp: Weimar Émigré cinema in the Golden Age of Hollywood." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106621.
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Utilizing film and feminist theory, traditional histories of Germany and America as well as primary source material, this paper's interdisciplinary approach exposes traditional misconceptions regarding the exiled nature of the Weimar émigrés filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Through the construct of the New Woman, or the vamp, this paper explores the emigration to America and the ways in which it affected the filmmaking which had characterized Weimar cinema, while illustrating the changing perceptions of women through the 1920s-1940s. 1930s America would prove to be a short lived period wherein the émigré community was able to craft films which departed from the typical Weimar trope of the vamp, featuring prominent and sympathetic female characters.<br>Pendant l'âge or d'Hollywood, il y avait nombreuses cinéastes émigrés du Weimar – réalisateurs, écrivains, acteurs, techniciens – émigrés qui avaient changé leurs méthodes cinématographiques, et, du quelque part, avaient aussi changé des méthodes d'Hollywood. La littérature populaire sur le sujet de cette période est pleine des références de la caractère d'exile de ces cinéastes, mais, même si cette caractèrisation peut s'appliquer sur certaines de ces cinéastes, il est trop simplistique pour la totalité de la communauté des émigrés. L'approche intérdisciplinaire de cette thèse, en utilisant des théories féministes, des théories de filmes, des histoires traditionelles d'Allemagne et des États Unis, ainsi que des matériaux primaires, sert à exposer les histoires fausses des cinéastes émigrés du Weimar en Hollywood. En regardant la caractère de la Femme Nouvelle en cette période, on peut simultanément tracer la trajet de ces émigrés et leurs idées entre Weimar et Hollywood, ainsi qu'utiliser la cinématographie nationale de ces deux pays comme une lentille en analysant les perceptions changeant des femmes. La traitement vindictive des femmes, un élément caractéristique des filmes du Weimar, était abandonné en les États Unis en les années 1930. Cette période avait furni des opportunités pour la communauté des émigrés de s'éloigner de ces tropes, en fabriquant des films avec des caractères feminines qui étaient fortes et sympathiques.
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Hildreth, Linda A. "The Fate of the Cabinetmaking Trade in Williamsburg, Virginia in the Post-Revolutionary Period." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625435.
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Shaughnessy, Ryan D. "No Sense in Dwelling on the Past? The Fate of the U.S. Air Force's German Air Force Monograph Project, 1952-1969." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253546073.
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Zastepa, Arthur. "Fate and Persistence of Microcystin Congeners in Lakes and Lake Sediments." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30453.
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Cyanobacterial blooms and their toxins are a major water quality and potential health risk around the world. This thesis developed an analytical method for microcystin congeners in sediments in order to examine their fate in lakes and establish the history of toxin-producing cyanobacteria in relation to environmental change using lake sediments. A novel method for both intra- and extracellular microcystins in lake sediments was developed, consisting of accelerated solvent extraction, hydrophilic-lipophilic balance solid phase extraction and multiple reaction monitoring-based HPLC-MS/MS quantitation. The method achieved comparable recoveries of intra- and extracellular cyanotoxins based on nine microcystins and nodularin (marine analogue). The analytical method was validated using surficial and deeper sediments from seven lakes of diverse geography and trophic state. To study the fate of microcystins, a multi-year, whole lake study of Microcystis blooms was conducted to obtain both in situ and in vitro half-life estimates of microcystin-LA (MC-LA), an understudied, but increasingly reported microcystin. MC-LA appeared to undergo slower rates of decomposition and persist longer than the more frequently studied MC-LR. Experimentally, high light intensity increased in vitro decomposition of dissolved MC-LA while high temperature enhanced decomposition in the particulate phase. Sediment deposition measurements and estimates of sediment-pore water distribution coefficients, sediment accumulation rates, and diffusive fluxes indicated that microcystin congeners differ in their fate. Notably, MC-LA preferentially distributed into pore water and remobilized (by diffusion) from sediments and into overlying water while MC-RR adsorbed more strongly to sediment particles. Finally, the sediment record of an eutrophic lake of major recreational importance was examined to identify possible drivers of toxigenic cyanobacteria and determine if the perceived increase in toxigenic cyanobacteria could be corroborated. Microcystins were detected to the bottom of the core (early 1800s), indicating that toxigenic cyanobacteria were present prior to the first permanent settlements. Microcystins were significantly correlated with changes in diatom-inferred nutrients (DI-TP and DI-TKN) within the sediment core as well as with specific algal pigments. Sediment microcystins in the upper layers also significantly correlated with a 20-year monitoring record for water column microcystins suggesting that sediment microcystins can be used as a proxy for past surface water conditions.
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Odergren, Nicoline. "The fate of flesh : A study of the second and third century CE Christian perception of the body." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Antikens kultur och samhällsliv, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-415537.
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This paper studies the perception of the Christian body during the second and third centuries CE. It engages with this question with the aid of early Christian literature from this time period, additionally containing a particular focus on how the Pauline theology of the body influenced later Christian bodily conceptions. By subjecting these works to a close reading and with the aid of an intertextual theory, this thesis attempts to ascertain whether this early Christian perception of the body was fractured in nature, and whether aspects of this division – if evident – can be derived from and ascribed to a Pauline influence. This thesis argues that corporeality was a particularly complex component within the early Christian faith, the fractured nature of which could be derived from the contrasting influences of prior Graeco-Roman and Jewish theologies.<br>Den här uppsatsen studerar den kristna uppfattningen av kroppen under 100- och 200-talet e.v.t. Den behandlar denna fråga med hjälp av tidig kristen litteratur från denna tidsperiod, och inbegriper utöver detta även ett särskilt fokus på hur den Paulinska teologin om kroppen påverkade senare kristna uppfattningar av det kroppsliga. Genom att utsätta dessa verk för en närläsning och med hjälp av en intertextuell teori så försöker den här uppsatsen därmed att avgöra om denna tidiga kristna uppfattning av kroppen var motsägelsefull i sin natur, och huruvida aspekter av denna splittring – om synlig – kan härstamma från eller tillskrivas Paulinsk influens. Den här uppsatsen argumenterar för att kroppslighet var en särskilt komplex komponent inom den tidiga kristna tron, vars splittrade natur kan härstamma från de kontrasterande influenserna av tidigare grekisk-romerska och judiska teologier.
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Ryder, Emily Jennifer Hana. "Memory, perception, reception : following the fate of the victims of Italy's anni di piombo through the writing of their children." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7056/.
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This thesis considers some of those who were killed in politically-motivated attacks, often referred to as ‘terrorism’, which took place during Italy’s anni di piombo. Six works written by victims’ children will be used as a lens through which to examine the collective memory and the victims’ place therein. In recent years, there has been a shift in the way that this period of Italian history - the anni di piombo – has been remembered. Where previously the perpetrators of the violence of those years dominated public discourse, in the last decade the principal narrative has become more victim-centred. The biographical works written by victims’ children have inevitably contributed to this change in the memory narrative. The techniques employed in their writing in order to change the existing public image of their fathers will be analysed in this thesis, along with certain themes that recur throughout the six works and broader victim-centred discussion of this period. Analysis begins with a thorough outline of the political and historical context of the anni di piombo, including case studies of two of the most famous victims of this period and a consideration of the written works of some of the former terrorists. Following this preliminary contextualisation, each of the six books and their authors will be studied in detail to provide a foundation for the analysis contained in the final three chapters. The themes examined in the second half of the thesis are second-generation writing, forgiveness and commemoration. Using these themes as a framework, a rigorous investigation of the place that the victims hold in collective memory; the role their children’s writing has played in shaping and maintaining their public image and the longer-term impact that these changes can be seen to have had within a broader societal and political perspective is undertaken. On the basis of this study, it is evident that the victims’ place in the collective memory of the anni di piombo has changed dramatically since that period of violence concluded. The victims’ children have been very significant in enacting this change and their writing has placed them in a position from which they can continue to exert influence and promote a victim-centred approach to history.
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Norrie, Philip Anthony. "An Analysis of the Causes of Death in Darlinghurst Gaol 1867-1914 and the Fate of the Homeless in Nineteenth Century Sydney." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1862.
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Master of Arts (Research)<br>This thesis examines a ledger which listed all the causes of death in Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney’s main gaol, from 1867 to 1914 when the gaol was closed and all the prisoners were transferred to the new Long Bay Gaol at Maroubra. The ledger lists the name of the deceased prisoner, the date of their death, the age of the prisoner at the time of their death and the cause of death along with any special comments relevant to the death where necessary. This ledger was analysed in depth and the death rates and diseases causing the deaths were compared to the general population in New South Wales and Australia as well as to another similar institution namely Auburn Prison, the oldest existing prison in New York State and the general population of the United States of America (where possible). Auburn Prison was chosen because it was the only other prison in the English speaking world (British Empire and United States of America) that had a similar complete list of deaths of prisoners in the same time frame – in this case beginning in 1888. The comparison showed that the highest death rates were in the general population of the United States of America (statistics on New York State alone could not be found) followed by Auburn Prison followed by the general population of Australia then the general population of New South Wales (the latter two were very similar) and the lowest death rates were in Darlinghurst Gaol. The analysis showed that individuals were less likely to die in the main prison, compared to the relevant general population in New South Wales and New York State despite the fact that 8 – 9% of these prison deaths were due to executions, a cause of death not encountered in the general population. This thesis explores the reasons why mortality rates were lower in prison despite the popular perception was that Victorian era gaols were places of harshness, cruelty and death (think of the writings of Charles Dickens, the great moralist writer who was the conscience of the era) compared to the general free population.
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Smith, Richard Grady. "The figure of Joab and the fate of 'Justice and Righteousness' during David's reign : rereading the so-called 'Court History' according to 2 Samuel 8:15-20:26." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621020.
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Abdalla, Mohamad, and n/a. "The Fate of Islamic Science Between the Eleventh and Sixteenth Centuries: A Critical Study of Scholarship from Ibn Khaldun to the Present." Griffith University. School of Science, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040618.091027.
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The aim of this thesis is to comprehensively survey and evaluate scholarship, from Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) to the present, on the fate of Islamic science between the eleventh and sixteenth-centuries, and to outline a more adequate scholarly approach. The thesis also assesses the logic and empirical accuracy of the accepted decline theory, and other alternative views, regarding the fate of Islamic science, and investigates the procedural and social physiological factors that give rise to inadequacies in the scholarship under question. It also attempts to construct an intellectual model for the fate of Islamic science, one that examines the cultural environment, and the interactions among different cultural dynamics at work. Drawing upon Ibn Khaldun's theory and recent substantial evidence from the history of Islamic science, this thesis also entails justifying the claim that, contrary to common assumptions, different fates awaited Islamic science, in different areas, and at different times. For the period of Ibn Khaldun to the present, this thesis presents the first comprehensive review of both classical and contemporary scholarship, exclusively or partially, devoted to the fate of Islamic science for the period under study. Based on this review, the thesis demonstrates that, although the idea that Islamic science declined after the eleventh century has gained a wide currency, and may have been established as the preferred scholarly paradigm, there is no agreement amongst scholars regarding what actually happened. In fact, the lexicon of scholarship that describes the fate of Islamic science includes such terms as: "decline," "decadence," "stagnation," "fragmentation," "standstill," and that Islamic science "froze," to name just a few. More importantly, the study shows that six centuries ago, the Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun provided a more sophisticated and complex theory regarding what happened to Islamic science, which was not utilised except in the work of two scholars. The thesis tests the adequacy of the different claims by applying them to four case studies from the history of Islamic science, and demonstrate that evidence for specified areas shows that different fates awaited Islamic science in different areas and times. In view of the fact that Ibn Khaldun's theory is six centuries old, and that evidence of original scientific activity beyond the eleventh century emerged in the 1950s, what would one expect the state of scholarship to be? One would expect that with the availability of such evidence the usage of "decline" and other single-faceted terms would begin to disappear from the lexicon of scholarship; scholars would show awareness, and criticism, of each other's work; and development of more and more sophisticated concepts would emerge that would explain the fate of Islamic science. The thesis demonstrates that this did not happen. It argues that the key problem is that, after Ibn Khaldun, there was a centuries-long gap, in which even excellent historians used simple, dismissive terms and concepts defined by a limited, but highly persistent, bundle of interpretative views with a dominant theme of decline. These persistent themes within the scholarship by which Islamic science is constructed and represented were deeply embedded in many scholarly works. In addition, many scholars failed to build on the work of others; they ignored major pieces of evidence; and, in most cases, they were not trying to discern what happened to Islamic science but were referring to the subject as part of another project. Thus, in this corpus of scholarship, one that contains the work of some of the 'best' scholars, the myth of the decline remains not only intact but also powerful. Convinced of its merit, scholars passed it on and vouched for it, failing to distinguish facts from decisions based on consensus, emotion, or tradition. There are very few noteworthy cases where Islamic science is being represented in ways that do not imply negativity. There are also some few narratives that present more complex descriptions; however, even Ibn Khaldun's complex theory, which is arguably the most adequate in the scholarship, is non-comprehensive. Some modern scholars, like Saliba and Sabra, present a challenge to the common argument that Islamic science suffered a uniform decline. However, in the absence of any significant challenges to the common claims of the fate of Islamic science, particularly that of decline, it is evident that, at the very least, the scholarship seems to offer support to the work of discourses that construct the fate of Islamic science in single-faceted, simplistic and reductive terms.
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Impara, Christine Louise. "To Love is Human: Leonid Zorin's A Warsaw Melody Considering Concepts Love and Fate in Russian Culture Reflected in its Theatre Tradition." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1589579622867398.
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Hale, David. "Death and commemoration in late medieval Wales." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2018. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/death-and-commemoration-in-late-medieval-wales(7d14b42e-a69b-4968-9398-aad3b96748e0).html.
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This study examines the attitudes to, and commemoration of, death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and commemoration in Europe. Although there are a number of memorial tombs and some evidence of religious visual art in Wales which has survived from the late medieval period, in comparison with that to be found in many other European countries, this is often neither so commonplace nor so imposing. However, the poetry produced during this period very much reflects the visual material that was produced in other parts of Europe. The poetry shows that the Welsh gentry at that time were familiar with many of the themes surrounding death and commemoration so obvious in European visual art such as the macabre and the fate of both the body and the soul after death. With war, famine and disease being so commonplace during the Middle Ages, and the late medieval period witnessing the effects of the Black Death, it is, perhaps, little wonder that macabre imagery and concerns about the fate of the soul were so often produced in European visual art of the time. These concerns are reflected in the Welsh poetry of the period with several poets composing quite vivid poetry describing the fate of the body as a decomposing corpse after death or allusions to the personification of Death appearing to claim its victims. The tension that many felt between the role of God on Judgement Day and God as Redeemer is also apparent in a number of the poems composed at this time. This study shows how important the role of the poet was amongst the gentry in Wales during the late medieval period, a role which ensured that the patrons of the poets were immortalised in words rather than by physical memorials. It also highlights the importance of poetical works of the period as an important primary source for historical research. Many of the poems give a contemporaneous account of important events of the period such as symptoms of plague victims which confirm that the Black Death was indeed the bubonic form of the plague.
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Kleiman, Paul N. "Fatum ad Benedictum: Moscow-Petushki, Homo Sovieticus, Postmodernism and the Fatidic post-Soviet Irony of Venedikt Vasilevich Erofeev." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1544812318339904.
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Brushett, Kevin Thomas. "Blots on the face of the city, the politics of slum housing and urban renewal in Toronto, 1940-1970." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63408.pdf.
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Casely-Hayford, Augustus Lavinus. "A genealogical history of Cape Coast stool families." Thesis, Online version, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.325493.
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Bonino, Pauline. "La France face à la Convention européenne des droits de l'Homme (1949-1981)." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016CERG0826/document.
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Notre recherche a pour objectif d'expliquer pourquoi la France, qui pourtant est un des pays à l'origine de la Convention européenne des droits de l'Homme, met vingt-cinq ans à ratifier cette Convention, et même trente ans avant d'autoriser le droit de recours individuel. Pour ce faire, nous avons dû prendre en compte de nombreux facteurs.Tout d'abord, l'évolution politique interne à la France. En effet, sous la Quatrième République, la question des colonies puis la question de la liberté de l'enseignement vont bloquer le processus de ratification. Puis, à partir de 1956 et du début de la guerre d'Algérie, la question de la ratification est bloquée. Aux débuts de la Cinquième République, la vision gaulliste de la justice et de l'Europe retardent de nouveau la ratification, malgré des mobilisations de parlementaires et de certains juristes. Finalement, au début des années 1970, la situation se débloque, Pompidou se montre plus européen et s'allie avec les centristes, c'est à la faveur d'un accord politique et après une mobilisation de nombreux acteurs menée par René Cassin, la Convention est ratifiée en 1974, mais avec des réserves et sans le droit de recours individuel. Il faudra attendre l'arrivée de Mitterrand au pouvoir pour que soit autorisé ce droit de recours. Tout au long de cette période, différents acteurs se sont mobilisés en faveur de la ratification de la CEDH.Au-delà des accords politiques, la ratification peut s'expliquer par tout une série de facteurs contextuels qui vont dans son sens et qui sont dans la continuité de l'avant Seconde Guerre mondiale. Tout d'abord, sur le plan interne, le contrôle de constitutionnalité est progressivement accepté par les juristes et les responsables politiques, ce contrôle marque la remise en cause du légicentrisme français, remise en cause nécessaire pour accepter la CEDH. Parallèlement, s'installe progressivement un droit européen, mis en place par la CJCE, l'acceptation de ce droit par les institutions politiques et judiciaires françaises et l'intérêt porté par la CJCE aux droits de l'Homme dans les années 1970, leur permettent de se familiariser avec l'idée qu'un droit externe, protecteur des libertés publiques, peut avoir une influence sur le droit français. La mise en place de la Commission puis de la Cour EDH et le développement de leur jurisprudence, qui est respectueuse des intérêts des Etats, va permettre de faciliter l'acceptation de ces institution. Enfin, la question droits de l'Homme, qui a été quelque peu mise de côté après 1950, revient en force à partir de la fin des années 1960 et devient à cette époque un concept, une idée omniprésente dans les médias et les discours politiques. Tous ces facteurs montrent une évolution de l'air du temps et des idées dominantes. Leur évolution est parallèle à l'acceptation de la CEDH, certes, ce ne sont pas des facteurs directs, mais ils marquent l'implantation dans la société des idées sous-jacentes dans la Convention EDH<br>Our research aim to explain why it took twenty-five years to France to ratify the ECHR, even though France was one of the ECHR founding countries. We even had to wait until 1981, to see the individual petitions authorized in France. There are several factors to take into account.First, domestic politics are important. Under the Fourth Republic, colonial issues and then freedom of education are preventing France to ratify the Convention. Then, there are the Algerian war which completely block any possibility of ratification. After 1958, de Gaulle is the Président and his vision of justice and Europe are not compatible with the ECHR, therefore, the ratification is once more postpone, even though jurists and politicians are mobilized. Finally, at the beginning of the 1970s, Pompidou is more open to European ideas and he needs to make an alliance with the centrists. After a long mobilisation, led by René Cassin, the ECHR is ratify in 1974, with reserves and without individual right to petition. We have to wait until 1981, and François Mitterrand to see this right recognized. During this period, we have to emphasize the role of various actors who mobilized in favor of the ratification.In parallel to these political evolutions, the background changed between 1950 and 1970, and led to an easier acceptance of the ideas at the heart of the ECHR. First of all, judicial review is more and more accepted in France by both jurists and politicians. This review questioned the french legicentrism and make the acceptance of a conventional control easier. During the same period, a European Law is created by the European court of justice, which led to a better familiarity (not yet acceptance) with the possibility of having internal law influenced by an external one.The work of the European Commission of Human Rights and the European Court, is also instrumental into the acceptation of the ECHR. Their jurisprudence, in this period, takes into account the reluctance of the Member-States to see an external body judge their law, therefore, the ECHR doesn't seem to be menacing. Finally, we see the rise of Human Rights during this period, starting in the 1960s. Human Rights became in the 1970s a central issue in domestic and foreign affairs, medias and public society took an interest in their defense. It became central in politics. All these factors show an evolution of the mainstream ideas which led to an easier acceptation of the ECHR, even though there are not directly linked
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Regina, Christophe. "Femmes, violence(s) et sociéte face au tribunal de la sénéchaussée de Marseille (1750-1789)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3022.
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Les femmes sont-elles violentes ? Simple question qui appelle a priori une réponse évidente mais qui dans les faits semble avoir quelques difficultés à retrouver une réponse. Vision biaisée, regards troublés, les lectures du rapport des femmes à la violence tendent à réduire, à minimiser ou à réfuter l'exercice quotidien d'une violence féminine renvoyée à l'exceptionnel et à l'anormalité. Les femmes seraient par définition moins violentes que les hommes. Mais quels sont les fondements de pareil postulat ? Afin d'y réfléchir ont été investies dans le cadre de cette thèse les archives du tribunal de la sénéchaussée de Marseille afin de questionner les formes, les occasions et les expériences de la violence ordinaire auxquelles les femmes étaient confrontées. Se défaisant de l'idée d'un phénomène jugé mineur et ponctuel, les sources exploitées ont permis d'appréhender l'ordinaire des violences marseillaises, resituant aux sexes la part respective qui leur revient en la matière et permettant de nuancer l'idée d'une faible participation féminine aux actes violents ainsi qu'une réflexion sur les formes et manifestations des violences. Les femmes tout à tour actrices et victimes de ces usages tiennent une place fondamentale au sein de la société des voisins qu'elles envahissent, modèlent et contrôlent en partie. La litigiosité féminine a constitué l'angle d'approche retenu pur considérer au travers du regard judiciaire et de ses imperfections, le quotidien ordinaire d'une ville importante d'Ancien Régime : Marseille. La violence est processeur d'une dynamique sociale à laquelle les femmes prennent activement part, qu'elle la subissent ou qu'elles l'exercent<br>Are Women violent? The answer to this simple question would seem a priori obvious, but in fact it is difficult to offer a convincing explanation. Statistics and data on female violence tend to reduce, minimize or disprove the idea that female violence might take place on a daily basis, suggesting rather that it is the exception, or at the very least an abnormal occurrence. Apparently, women are inherently less violent than men. But what is the basis for such a premise? In order to answer this question, we have studied the records of the Seneschal of Marseilles' court. These judicial archives allow us to understand the forms, opportunities and experience of everyday violence that women faced. Setting aside the idea that this was a minor and irregular phenomenon, these sources provide evidence of violence in the everyday life of Marseilles' inhabitants and attribute to each sex their proper place in this behavior, while enabling a nuanced analysis of the idea that women were less inclined to violence and providing insight into the forms and manifestations of such violence. Women, both actresses and victims of these practices, were key players within the society in their ability to enter, shape and partially control their neighbourhood. By studying cases presented to the courts by women, it is possible to adopt the judge's perspective, with its insight and imperfections, of daily life of a major city under the Old Regime: Marseilles. Violence was a social dynamic process in which women were actively involved, whether as victims or aggressors. By comparing analytical tools and approaches of sources, it is possible to study both the working and the elite classes
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Jaumain, Serge. "Les petits commerçants belges face à la modernité (1880-1914)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213069.
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Cartonnet, Jean-François. "Veuve Clicquot , une grande maison de Champagne face à la conjoncture, management et gestion financière, 1900-1939." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040187.
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La pérennité de la maison Veuve Clicquot parmi les grands noms du champagne depuis plus de deux siècles n’est pas l’effet du hasard. Elle est le fruit de la résilience d’une entreprise familiale dotée d’une vision inscrite dans la durée, d’un dynamisme entrepreneurial doublé de prudence patrimoniale, attachée à des rapports sociaux de type paternaliste avec son personnel. Entreprise mondialisée depuis son origine, elle a su très tôt combiner le capital, le marché, l’outil de production, le travail, et conserver sa cohérence. De 1900 à 1939 ses conditions de fonctionnement sont profondément modifiées. Si la Belle Epoque offre un environnement de stabilité, bien qu’entamé par la crise du phylloxéra, l’après-guerre se caractérise par les dommages de guerre, les convulsions des prix et des changes, la crise de 1929, les grèves de 1936 et 1937. Cependant l’entreprise parvient à perpétuer sa stratégie d’expansion en harmonie avec le marché haut de gamme du champagne de qualité. La Maison fait face avec succès aux aléas de la conjoncture, et offre une leçon de modernité. Elle adapte ses prix à l’instabilité monétaire, encadre et dynamise son réseau d’agents distributeurs. Elle pratique une politique agressive d’achats de raisins et de vins faits pour faire face à la demande, développe et modernise ses capacités de production. Une politique sociale généreuse fidélise employés et ouvriers. La succession des générations s’organise dans le consensus familial. Une forte profitabilité nourrit l’autofinancement, conforté par les prêts consentis par les associés, et assure à la famille dividendes, intérêts et gains potentiels en capital. Une structure financière saine et équilibrée assure la pérennité de l’entreprise, même aux pires moments<br>The permanence of Veuve Clicquot among the most illustrious names of champagne firms for more than two centuries is not a mere accident. It is the outcome of resilience for a family enterprise with a long term vision, business dynamism coupled with precautionary investment, eager to maintain social relationships of a paternalistic kind with its workers.As a global company since its origin, it could early combine capital, market, production tool, labour, and preserve coherence. From 1900 to 1939, its working conditions are deeply altered. While the Belle Epoque period offered a stable environment, although altered by the phylloxera crisis, the post war years are characterized by war damages, convulsions of prices and exchange rates, the 1929 depression, the 1936 and 1937 strikes. However the firm succeeds in perpetuating its growth strategy in conjunction with the top-of-the-range market of high quality champagne.The firm successfully copes with ups and downs of the economic cycle, and teaches a lesson of modernity. It adjusts its selling prices to monetary instability, drives and stimulates its resellers network. It pursues an aggressive buying policy for grapes and wine, in order to meet demand, develops and modernizes its production capacity. A generous social policy retains workers and staff. The succession of generations fosters family consensus. A high profitability fuels self-financing, consolidated through shareholders loans, while providing the family with dividends, interest and potential capital gains. A sound and balanced financial structure secures the future of the company, even at the worst moments
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Knoblauch, William M. "Selling the Second Cold War: Antinuclear Cultural Activism and Reagan Era Foreign Policy." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1330967967.
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Müller, Moira Anne. "Moira. Destino y Iibertad en el pensamiento antiguo." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/313996.
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En el presente trabajo de investigación nos hemos preguntado por la evolución de las primeras nociones de destino y libertad en el mundo antiguo y por la relación entre ambas. La tesis principal que defendemos es que los conceptos en cuestión desconocen una evolución en sentido filosóficamente “progresista”. La noción de destino no evoluciona desde una representación concreta a un concepto abstracto, ni al revés, sino que desde los más remotos tiempos la mente humana piensa mediante abstracciones y personificaciones. Igualmente, no se puede hablar de una progresiva determinación por parte de los poderes del destino (determinismo) ni a la inversa. La noción de libertad tampoco está sujeta a un proceso de desarrollo lineal, en el cual pase de una vaga noción de autonomía a una libertad absoluta. En el pensamiento antiguo las prenociones de destino y libertad nunca se presentan de forma absoluta, sino en una relación de mutua dependencia y condicionamiento. Las interpretaciones de lo que está y lo que no está en manos del hombre mantienen una línea general de continuidad. El pensamiento arcaico y clásico no difiere radicalmente del pensamiento helenístico. Aunque los nombres y las funciones del destino cambian, y se puede hablar de una interiorización, las decisiones humanas siempre contienen un factor de necesidad, interna o externa. Pero no solamente la voluntad del hombre sigue vulnerable y flexible, sino que también la noción del destino se presenta influenciable por otros poderes y por los dioses. Aunque el hombre antiguo no puede dominar el destino, puede introducir ciertos cambios, pero sobre todo puede determinar su estado interior. Puede decidir qué actitud tomar ante los avatares inevitables de la vida y cómo afrontar el sufrimiento. Esta idea está presente tanto en la poesía épica, lírica y trágica como en el pensamiento clásico y helenístico.<br>In the present dissertation we had the aim to investigate the development of the prenotions of destiny and freedom in ancient Greek thought. Our research consists of two parts. The first part is dedicated to the research of the development of the first ‘contours’ of destiny in Archaic, Classic and Hellenistic thought. We have studied mainly the works of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca and Alexander of Aphrodisias. We sustain the idea that there is no linear development of the notion moira, as some scholars maintain. Instead of a progress from a concrete representation to an abstract one, or the other way around, we observe the coexistence between a concrete image of the word moira (a chthonic goddess) and her abstract representation (the first expressions of the conception of destiny). Many scholars have made conjectures about the existence of a universal, abstract and superior Moira, who ordained the Justice and the right distribution of the whole cosmos. But in our research we did not find a glimpse of this philosophical and absolute Moira in any archaic or classical text. In the second part of the present investigation we have tried to demonstrate that the notion of freedom is not subject to a progressive development either. In the poetry of Homer the hero is not a marionette in the hands of the gods, and in the tragedies of Euripides we do not observe what some scholars have called the ‘secularization’ or ‘emancipation’ of the human ‘will’. Instead of a radical rupture between the archaic and the classic thought we observe continuity of perspective: the notions of destiny and freedom are never absolute but mutually conditioned. The Archaic, Classic and even Hellenistic poetry, describe the human being as vulnerable to external and internal influences, but also as capable of taking daily decisions. The same idea of fragility is applied to the conception of destiny. The manifestations of necessity are never absolute, but open to the changes of the contingency, the decision of the gods and the input of human action. The need of an unconditioned and absolute free will, opposed to an absolute Destiny, was unknown to the ancient Greeks. The responsibility of the human being was explained through its limitations and not through an infinitive capacity of volition.
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Beydoun, Ahlam. "La souveraineté du Liban face à l'épreuve." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213094.
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Brosseau, Cédric. "Le Canada face à l'Empire: La crise navale de 1910." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28639.
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La société canadienne s'enflamme en 1910 à la suite de l'introduction, par le premier ministre Sir Wilfrid Laurier, d'un projet de loi voulant l'organisation d'un service naval canadien. Que ce soit à la Chambre des communes, en assemblées populaires, en famille ou dans les médias, la défense maritime du Canada retient dorénavant l'attention des Canadiens.
Présente au Canada sporadiquement depuis la Confédération, cette question, devenue fondamentale suite à l'émergence de nouvelles puissances militaires remettant en cause la domination de l'Empire britannique, force le Dominion à agir. Après des années de tentatives évitées ou avortées, la question se pause directement : autonomie nationale ou participation impériale?
Le débat qui en découle, la crise navale de 1910, divise profondément la société canadienne. Limitée trop souvent à un antagonisme entre Canadiens français et Canadiens anglais par l'historiographie, cette crise traverse aisément les frontières ethniques traditionnelles du pays. En effet, elle résulte principalement d'un affrontement entre autonomistes et impérialistes, chacun avançant un programme spécifique quant à l'avenir souhaité du Dominion.
Grandement intéressée par la question, la population s' active et intervient au sien du débat via diverses organisations populaires, en écrivant à ses représentants politiques et en participant à des assemblées publiques. Les médias sont eux aussi captivés, les journaux du pays abordant abondamment le sujet pendant la crise. Ainsi, cette dernière s'avère une véritable crise nationale, les tendances autonomistes et impérialistes s'étalant sur l'ensemble du territoire tout en divisant presque également le peuple canadien.
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Merrington, Graham. "The fate and transport of heavy metals from historic metalliferous mine sites." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323156.
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Zoldan, Yann. "Résister, transmettre et exister face à l'oppression politique." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU20028.
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Exister dans ce monde n’est pas toujours autorisé, l’oppression politique et ses paradigmes que sont le colonialisme et le fascisme, ont pour volonté de briser les individus ou de les voir disparaître. En conséquence, de nombreuses personnes doivent leur existence à des résistances. Dans les suites de la seconde guerre mondiale et d’après les cendres du nazisme, nous sommes allé à la poursuite des existences à la marge, de ce qui perdure dans la transmission après les traumas historiques. Cette recherche nous a conduit à explorer différentes thématiques : le sionisme, la Shoah, les processus de paix et partir sur différents terrains : le nord de l’Irlande, Israël, Palestine, la région autonome juive de Russie. Les réalités rencontrées sont empreintes de traumatismes historiques qui inscrivent les sujets dans une existence, celle-ci devient possible par la transmission d’une narrativité historique propre. Les identités sont constituées dans le récit que chaque sujet et sa communauté d’affiliation produisent, récit qui est celui d’une ré-existence, d’une résistance. L’individu en révolte est métissé entre son historicité subjective, l’Histoire qui l’entoure et la culture qu’il porte et par qui il est porté. Les sujets qui sont entrés en résistance veulent prendre place dans l’Histoire et transmettre, résister et devenir. Nous avons vu nos sujets dans leur quête d’idéal faire référence à un passé recomposé, celui-ci est un territoire imaginaire peuplé de héros idéalisés et d’une mystique particulière. Cette filiation imaginaire a une valeur thérapeutique, elle semble venir colmater les blessures et traumatismes historiques. Les actualités politiques au plus proche de nous illustrent les propos que nous développons dans cette thèse comme par exemple les réalisations spectaculaires d’individualités en mal d’existence. Ces actualités questionnent de nouveau nos thèmes de recherche : que dire sur le retour du fascisme, de l’antisémitisme ? Quel sens donner aux histoires silencées, aux non-dits ou mal-dits coloniaux ?<br>To exist in this world is not always permitted. Political oppression and its paradigms: colonialism and fascism are willing to break people or to make them disappear. Consequentially, many people owe their existences to resistances. In the aftermath of the Second World War and over the ashes of Nazism this research has been in pursuit of fringe existences: what remains through transmission after historical traumas. This research drives us to explore different themes: Zionism, Shoah, peace processes. It leads us toward various research fields: In the north of Ireland, Israel, Palestine, and the Autonomous Jewish Region of Russia. Realties that we met are marked with historical traumas. Those traumas etched the existence of subjects. Existence becomes possible through the transmission of historical narratives. Identities are constituted by narratives that each subject and their community are creating. The narrative is a re-existence: a resistance. Revolted individuals are crossed between their subjective historicity, their surrounding history, the culture they carry within and the culture that they are carried by. Subjects who joined resistance want to take place in History to transmit, to resist and to become someone. It has been shown that in their quest for ideal they have to refer to a recomposed past. This past is an imagined territory inhabited by idealized heroes and a specific mystic. This imagined filiation has a therapeutic value; it seems to cure traumatic injuries and historical traumas. Political news highlights what we are developing in this thesis, as for instance the spectacular acts of individuals in lack of existence. These news raise again our research themes: What can we say about the fascist and anti-Semitic return? What sense could we give to silenced histories, to colonial unspoken or bad spoken?
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Aka, Koffi Sabine. "Les romanciers ivoiriens face à l'Histoire. 1990 - 2009. Textes et contexte." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA062.
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Le roman postcolonial relève de l’interprétation de l’Histoire inhérente à l’écrivain d’origine africaine. En l’absence de sens acceptable pour les intéressés, la fiction interroge et met en exergue les aspects occultés de l’Histoire. L’étude s’attache à mettre en évidence des grilles de lecture autres qu’occidentales permettant de comprendre l’Histoire immédiate, thématique de plus en plus marquée chez les romanciers contemporains de Côte d’Ivoire. L’on se propose d’analyser la façon dont les romanciers ivoiriens des années quatre-vingt-dix à nos jours problématisent le thème de l’Histoire, comment ils l’intègrent à la trame narrative et pourquoi. La gestion d’une Histoire européo-centrée est un exercice délicat mais essentiel pour sortir de l’impasse. Les écrivains cherchent à doter leur peuple d’une Histoire à l’africaine ; Histoire compliquée par le colonialisme. L’étude vise à montrer comment cette évolution correspond à une urgence pour les auteurs : ceux-ci tentent en effet, à travers l’écriture romanesque, de trouver des réponses à la fragilisation des structures étatiques et de conjurer le spectre de la guerre civile amorcée par l’instrumentalisation du concept de l’Ivoirité. L’analyse porte sur les représentations mentales et culturelles, et l’on interrogera les catégories littéraires de façon à rendre compte de la façon dont elles induisent une vision de l’Histoire<br>The postcolonial novel is linked to the interpretation of History inherent to the african native writer. Without any acceptable understanding for the people concerned, fiction examines and brings out various occulted aspects of History. This study' s purpose is to underline some ways to interpret History other than from a western point of view, allowing the understanding of present History, a theme more and more present with contemporary Ivorian novelists. We propose to analyze the way Ivorian novelists, from the 90's until today, are treating History and how and why they integrate it into their fiction. The management of a european-centered History is a touchy but essential exercise to break the deadlock. Writers are willing to give their people an african History, complicated by colonialism. The study's goal is to show how this development is an urgency for the authors: in fact they try, through fiction, to find answers to the weakening of state structures and to ward off the specter of civil war initiated by the manipulation of the concept of "Ivoirité". The analysis focuses on the mental and cultural representations and we will go through the various literary categories, in order to summarize the way they induce a vision of History
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Khalaf, Elias Mustafa. "Identity, fame and solace in Shakespeare's English history plays excluding the second tetralogy." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316152.
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Spicer, Charles. "'Ambulant amateurs' : the rise and fade of the Anglo-German Fellowship." Thesis, Institute of Historical Research (University of London), 2018. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/9193/.
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This thesis chronicles the fortunes of the Anglo-German Fellowship, the British society founded in 1935 that advocated friendship with Hitler’s Germany up to its suspension in October 1939 following the outbreak of war. Drawing on newly discovered and previously overlooked primary sources, thematic and chronological methods are combined to explore how the Fellowship’s leaders played a bigger role in the diplomatic crises of the late 1930s than previously acknowledged. Supported by its sister organisation in Germany, the Fellowship attracted support from British royal, political, diplomatic, aristocratic, business, financial, military, sporting and intelligence elites with its membership reaching nine hundred by 1938. Funded by business and financial interests and patronised by Anglo-German royalty, it was influenced by the German high command, welcomed by elements of the British establishment and infiltrated by British, German, Russian and Jewish intelligence agents. To the extent it has been covered in the secondary literature, those assessing the Fellowship have classed it alongside the nasty, the eccentric and the irrelevant within ‘the Fellow Travellers of the Right’ tradition. This thesis challenges those stereotypes, arguing that it has been consequently misinterpreted and underestimated both by scholars and in popular culture over the last eighty years. Using primary sources to build an objective prosopography of its membership, evidence is offered that the Fellowship was more than a fringe pressure group and dining club and achieved international credibility as a lobbying body, diplomatic intermediary and intelligence-gathering tool. Having surveyed the heritage of earlier transnational friendship societies, this thesis examines the business and economic motives, on both sides of the North Sea, in founding the Fellowship, before charting how it then recruited support from across the political spectrum. Arranging landmark meetings between British politicians and the National Socialist leadership, it proved itself as a conduit for diplomatic dialogue with Germany. The central chapters probe the prosopography to highlight the Fellowship’s penetration of the British Establishment before lifting the lid of respectability to measure the extent to which it harboured pro-fascist and anti-Semitic enthusiasts for Hitler’s Germany. As the narrative moves into the final three years before war, two chapters explore how the Fellowship accessed the central political and diplomatic bodies in both countries including Downing Street, the houses of parliament, British political parties, Hitler’s Chancellery, the NSDAP, both foreign ministries and their embassies while simultaneously establishing dialogue with those opposing Hitler’s regime and challenging the wisdom of appeasement. Finally, the organisation’s legacy is examined to ask whether, by developing a different flavour of appeasement to Chamberlain’s, it offered a real alternative to war and whether this contributes to the continuing discourse surrounding inter-war appeasement.
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Hayashi, Ann Koto. "Face of the enemy, heart of a patriot : Japanese-American internment narratives /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248981262.
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Gilbert, Kimberly Julie. "Understanding local adaptation and effective population size in the face of complex demographic history." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59519.
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Evolution is driven by four major processes that create, maintain, or eliminate genetic diversity within and among populations: mutation, gene flow, genetic drift, and natural selection. My thesis examines the role of demographic history and its interactions with each of these processes in impacting the evolution of populations. Demographic history can cause various states of non-equilibria in populations creating the potential to mis-inform important evolutionary inferences. Such inferences may be key for making conservation decisions in applied biology. Chapter 2 investigates methods for estimating effective population sizes under the assumption-violating scenario of migration among populations. Effective population size is proportional to the amount of genetic drift a population experiences, yet gene flow can affect measures of drift and thus estimates of population size. Using simulated data to understand the impact of migration on estimation accuracy, I find that two existing estimation methods function best. I next present two studies on species range expansions and the roles of migration, mutation, selection, and drift on expansion dynamics. Range expansion is a common demographic history in many species and can lead to non-equilibrium genetic scenarios. The first of these studies shows the interaction of deleterious mutation accumulation and local adaptation to environmental gradients during range expansions (Chapter 3). The interplay of expansion load, mutation load, and migration load lead to different levels of local adaptation in expanding populations. Chapter 4 examines the ability of species to expand over patches of environmental optima under different genetic architecture regimes. Expansion is enhanced by certain genetic architectures, and each of these interacts with the size of patches on the landscape as well as how strongly selection varies across patches. My final study assesses the reproducibility of analyses using the common stochastic algorithm structure (Chapter 5). This research finds 30% failure of reproducibility for results from structure using published datasets and elucidates the reasons for failure of reproducibility. In sum, my thesis contributes to our understanding of how gene flow, population size, heterogeneous selection, and mutation interact to impact the genetics of populations and thus the fate of evolving biodiversity.<br>Science, Faculty of<br>Graduate
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Mathee, Mohamed Shaid. "Muftîs and the women of Timbuktu : history through Timbuktu's Fatwās, 1907-1960." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13446.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-279).<br>This dissertation is about the social history of Timbuktu during the colonial era (1894 - 1960). This dissertation, firstly, takes fatwās from Timbuktu's archives as its historical source, a source the aforementioned scholars paid very little attention to or consciously ignored. Although fatwās are legal documents, this dissertation shows that fatwās are a historical source. Secondly, it looks at the history of ordinary men and women in their everyday lives.
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Vickberg, Maria. "In Der Fuehrer’s Face : Hur populärkultur kan nyttjas för politisk propaganda." Thesis, Linnaeus University, School of Cultural Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-4031.
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Ruaud, Olivier. "L’humour pour écrire l’Histoire : le dessinateur Forges face aux paradoxes de l’Espagne franquiste." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30091/document.
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En 1977, deux ans après la mort du général Franco, au coeur du processus transitionnel, le dessinateur Forges publie les Historiciclos, une histoire de l'Espagne franquiste en bandes dessinées. Adoptant en apparence l'organisation d'une publication historiographique et se basant sur un corpus de la presse de l'époque rompue à la non information quand il ne s'agissait pas de désinformation, le dessinateur joue ironiquement avec les aspects officiels et officieux de l'Histoire qu'il questionne. Au-delà de la dimension historique, ce travail est également l'occasion d'explorer différents procédés, graphiques et textuels, visant à relever la gageure de la représentation humoristique d'une dictature de presque quarante ans<br>In 1977, two years after General Franco has died, in a transitional process Forges,a drawer, published comics in Los Historiciclos, a story of Spain under Franco’s regime. Resuming apparently the organization of historiographical publication and focusing on a lack of information or simply disinformation, the drawer ironically plays with official and non-official aspects of the history he relentlessly questions. Beyond the historical aspects he emphasises, his work is also the opportunity to explore different narrative technics, either graphic or textual so as to challenge, with humour, Spain under almots 40 years of Franco’s dictatorship
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KONG, Rong. "The British at Wei-Hai-Wei : a case study of an ill-fated colony." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2017. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/his_etd/10.
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In 1898, Russia, Germany and France forced the Qing government to cede them one territory each, which challenged the traditional predominance of the British in China. The British lost no time to acquire leased territories in the era of scrambling for concessions. Wei-Hai-Wei, an isolated leasehold in Northern China, was therefore occupied by the British.
Two years after the takeover, Wei-Hai-Wei was transferred from the Admiralty and the War Office to the Colonial Office. However, the British invested little to construct this territory during its 32-year leasehold. Faced with limited funds, the Commissioner, James Stewart Lockhart, took several measures to develop the leasehold- all of which failed. The uncertain tenure of Wei Hai Wei, as many then policy-makers stated, played a very important part in discouraging Parliament’s financial support. Besides its intrinsic limits, the British policy and international factors also influenced the status of the colony. My research focuses on why and how the British changed their policy at Wei Hai Wei in its early days and what the Commissioner did to develop this colony. I will analyze the reason why Wei Hai Wei turned into an ill-fated and ignored colony of the British Empire. I argue that although the British kept the territory for 32 years in total (1898-1930), its development and future was mostly determined in its first ten years of leasehold. Researching the first decade of Wei Hai Wei can provide insight into British imperial policy in northern China in the late 19th and early the 20th century.
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Costa, Débora. "Contra fato, há argumento." Florianópolis, SC, 2001. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/79877.
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Monteiro, Mariana Moronari. "Caracterização termofísica de bio materiais de mudança de fase por meio da metodologia T-History." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2018. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/32591.
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Previous issue date: 2018-09-03<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) e Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPQ).<br>O armazenamento de energia térmica vem sendo considerado como uma viável solução para reduzir os problemas associados à natureza intermitente e variável dos recursos renováveis. Os materiais utilizados nos sistemas de armazenamento térmico de calor latente são denominados materiais de mudança de fase (PCM), os quais armazenam e liberam energia durante sua mudança de fase. As ceras de palma, soja e carnaúba foram estudadas neste trabalho como bio materiais de mudança de fase e suas propriedades termofísicas foram determinadas por meio da metodologia experimental T-History. Um aparato experimental foi desenvolvido para a obtenção do histórico de temperatura dos materiais analisados. A parafina eicosano, por ser um material amplamente estudado no meio cientíco e possuir suas propriedades termofísicas definidas e reportadas na literatura, também foi caracterizada neste trabalho para validar tanto o sistema de medição quanto a metodologia utilizada. O método T-History original e modificado foram aplicados para a comparação dos resultados obtidos por diferentes metodologias de análise. A influência da taxa de resfriamento sobre comportamento térmico dos materiais e sobre o valor das propriedades calculadas foi analisada por meio do uso de diferentes ambientes de resfriamento. Baseando-se nos resultados apresentados, o método T-History original foi apropriado para a caracterização termofísica do eicosano e sua aplicação gerou resultados consistentes, apresentando boa concordância com os valores reportados na literatura. Em geral, os comportamentos térmicos das ceras vegetais estudadas foram diferentes. Dentre as ceras vegetais estudadas no trabalho, a cera de carnaúba do tipo 4 apresentou o maior calor latente de fusão e as ceras de carnaúba tipo 3 e de soja apresentaram os maiores valores para condutividade térmica. Por meio dos ensaios realizados em diferentes ambientes de resfriamento, verificou-se experimentalmente que de fato o aumento da taxa de resfriamento influenciou os dados obtidos, resultando em grandes desvios e baixa precisão na determinação das propriedades termofísicas dos PCMs. Devido à escassez de dados referentes ao uso da metodologia T-History para a determinação das propriedades das ceras vegetais, foi difícil identificar qual o método de análise mais apropriado para a caracterização das ceras. No entanto, como o método modificado foi desenvolvido especificamente para analisar materiais que não apresentam sua mudança de fase em um patamar bem definido, ele se tornou mais adequado para a determinação das propriedades termofísicas das ceras vegetais estudadas este trabalho. Apesar do método modificado possuir limitações, ele apresentou grandes avanços com relação à metodologia T-History original.<br>Thermal energy storage has been considered as a viable solution to reduce the problems associated with the intermittent and variable nature of renewable resources. The materials used in the latent heat storage systems are called phase change materials (PCMs), which store and release energy during their phase change. The palm, soybean and carnauba waxes were studied in this work as bio phase change materials and their thermophysical properties were determined using the T-History methodology. An experimental apparatus was developed to obtain the temperature history of the analyzed materials. Eicosano paraffin, because it is a material widely studied in the scientific milieu and has its defined thermophysical properties and reported in the literature, was also characterized in this work to validate both the measurement system and the methodology used. The original and modified T-History method were applied to compare the results obtained by different analysis methodologies. The influence of the cooling rate on the thermal behavior of the materials and on the value of the calculated properties was analyzed through the use of different cooling environments. Based on the presented results, the original T-History method was appropriate for the thermophysical characterization of eicosano and its application generated consistent results, presenting good agreement with the values reported in the literature. In general, the thermal behavior of the studied vegetable waxes was different. Among the vegetable waxes studied in the study, carnauba type 4 wax presented the highest latent heat of fusion and the waxes of carnauba type 3 and soybean had the highest values for thermal conductivity. By means of the tests performed in different cooling environments, it was verified that in fact the increase in the cooling rate influenced the obtained data, resulting in large deviations and low precision in the determination of the thermophysical properties of the PCMs. Due to the lack of data regarding the use of the T-History methodology to determine the properties of vegetable waxes, it was difficult to identify the most appropriate method of analysis for the characterization of waxes. However, because the modified method was specifically developed to analyze materials that did not present their phase change at a well defined level, it became more suitable for the determination of the thermophysical properties of the vegetable wax studied in this work. Although the modified method has limitations, it has made great strides in relation to the original T-History methodology.
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Palace, Wendy. "Losing face : the British foreign service and the question of Tibet 1904-1922." Thesis, Durham University, 1995. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5475/.
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This thesis deals with the evolution and conduct of British policy towards Tibet from the Young husband Expedition in 1904 (in itself the most extreme example of the 'forward policy' on India's frontiers in this period) to the Washington Conference of 1922 (which called for a more subtle approach to the definition and defence of essential British interests). It examines the interaction, in a complex quadrilatereal relationship, of the four branches of the British foreign service primarily involved in Tibetan policy: the Foreign Office and the India Office in London, the Viceroy and the Government of India, and the China service based in Peking. It seeks to elucidate the ways in which British policy-making sought to accommodate the interests of India with the imperatives of policy towards other major powers, notably Russia, China and Japan. Considerable emphasis Is placed upon the problems and contributions of those charged with the implementation of policy 'on the spot', and the ways in which their ability to act independently (as Younghusband had done in 1904) was eroded by the increasing control of their activities by the growing official bureaucracies in London, in a world made smaller by the extension of the rapid growth of communications. Finally, the effects of the new international climate after the First World War are evaluated in terms of their Impact upon Britain's Tibetan policy. Since this thesis is primarily about the evolution of policy making within the British foreign service, it is based largely on British primary sources, both official and private, and upon the extensive memoir literature produced by the participants. It does not purport to represent or anaylse in detail the views of the Tibetans themselves or seek to pass judgement upon the impact of great-power politics upon their aspirations, though the radical differences in their values and priorities will be apparent.
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Fradet, Thibault. "Vulnérabilité et perception face aux tremblements de terre en France, 1650-1850." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLV135/document.
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Cette thèse d’histoire vise in fine l’amélioration des méthodologies de détermination de l’aléa qui reposent sur les données macrosismiques dans le cas des séismes historiques. A cette fin, l’effort de recherche fondamentale, de même que l’analyse de la vulnérabilité des sociétés du passé face aux aléas naturels passent par la création et l’utilisation d’outils méthodologiques applicables aux séismes historiques (critique historique, lexique, cartographie). La thèse se compose de deux parties à la fois distinctes et indissociables : d’une part la vulnérabilité des populations anciennes aux tremblements de terre, d’autre part celle du bâti ancien. Mêler la mise en contexte des documents disponibles à une recherche archivistique robuste et fine permet d’intégrer le comportement des communautés touchées.Les bornes chronologiques choisies correspondent au développement de la presse et la naissance de la science moderne d’une part, l’entrée dans l’ère de la Révolution industrielle d’autre part. Ce choix est également motivé par la disponibilité restreinte et l’analyse plus complexe des documents pour la période qui précède le XVII e siècle et la naissance de la sismologie pour la seconde partie du XIX e siècle.Trois cas d’études (Bagnères-de-Bigorre, 1660 ; Manosque, 1708 ; Entre-Deux-Mers, 1759) permettent d’explorer bon nombres de pistes de recherches menant à une appréhension, analyse et interprétation desdocuments historiques par l’utilisation d’outils créés spécialement dans ce but<br>This thesis of history is ultimately the improvement of the methodologies of hazard based on macroseismic data in the case ofhistorical earthquakes. To this end, the effort of basic research, as well as the analysis of the vulnerability of societies of the past to natural hazards involves the creation and the use of methodological tools applicable to historical earthquakes (historical criticism, lexicon, and mapping). The thesis consists into two parts at once distinct and indivisible: firstly the old vulnerability to earthquakes, secondly the vulnerability of ancient buildings.Mixing the context of the available documents with a robust and thin archival research allows integrating the behavior of affected ommunities.Selected time-series terminals correspond to the development of the press and the birth of modern science a hand, entering the era of the Industrial Revolution on the other. This choice is also motivated by the limited availability and more complex analysis of the documents for the period preceding the 17th century and the birth of Seismology for the second part of the 19th century.Three case studies (Bigorre, 1660; Manosque, 1708; Entre-Deux-Mers, 1759) allow exploring many leads of research leading to a better apprehension, analysis and interpretation of historical documents by theuse of tools specifically created for this purpose
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Kubler, Corinne. "La face cachée des Rougon-Macquart d'Emile Zola." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA019/document.
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Selon nous, la face cachée des Rougon-Macquart réside dans l’articulation de deux histoires : l’une légitime, affichée, déclarée - l’histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire - l’autre cachée, illégitime, non déclarée - l’histoire culturelle et intellectuelle également sous le Second Empire. Cette histoire a culturelle a pu être mise en place car elle repose sur les deux aspects développés par cet auteur : l’aspect social en découpant la société en cinq mondes et l’aspect naturel ou héréditaire (la reproduction). En effet, avec cette histoire culturelle, nous retrouvons ce même découpage en cinq mondes : le monde des arts et des lettres, le monde des sciences, le monde des sciences humaines, le monde de l’information et de la communication et un monde à part (la mythologie et la religion). Cette histoire culturelle a également été envisagée sous l’angle de la reproduction textuelle et non plus sexuelle avec la mise en place d’une véritable machinerie à reproduire les textes-sources (ou textes insérés). La bande-reproductrice ou la bande-annonce qui définit le type de texte ; l’annonce (ou le texte reproduit). Le roman expérimental résiderait davantage dans la mise en place de cette autre histoire qui, de manière souterraine, a permis à Zola de réfléchir sur les différentes méthodes de composition et d’écriture qu’impliquent cette reproduction textuelle comme l’acte de reproduire. Si nous avons défini ces cinq mondes culturels , nous nous sommes davantage attachées à étudier le monde de l’information et de la communication, et en particulier le monde journalistique. Une telle approche nécessite sa prise en compte pour redéfinir tant l’esthétique zolienne que naturaliste<br>According to our view, the hidden of the Rougon-Macquart lies in expression of two histories : a legitimate one, which is stated, declared – the natural and social history of family under the Second Empire – and the other one, which is hidden, illegitimate and undeclared – the cultural and intellectual history under the Second Empire as well. The set up of this cultural history was made possible because it relies on the two aspects developpedby this autor :the social aspect by dividing society into five worlds and the natural or hereditary one (reproduction). Indeed, with this cultural history, wie find the same division :the world of Arts and literature, the world of sciences, the world of human sciences, the world of information and of communication and a world apart (mythology and religion). This cultural history was also considered from the angle of textual reproduction, and not fromthe angle of sexual reproduction with the setting up of an authenthic machinery able to reproduce the source texts (or inserted texts). This machinery includes an announcer or reproducer, the announce or reproduction verb in charge of defining the source text ; the reproductive or announcing substance which definies the sort of text ; the announce (or the reproduced text).The experimental novel would more streuously reside in the setting up of this other history which in an underlying way enabled Zola to ponder on the different compsition and writing methods wich this textual reproduction involves as the act of reproducing. If we have defined these five cultural worlds, we have even more studied the world ofinformation and of communication, and the journalistic world in particular. This sort of approach requieres to take it into account in order to redefine Zola’s and Naturalim’s aesthetics
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Whittle, Meg. "Philanthropy in Preston : the changing face of charity in a 19th century provincial town." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305990.
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Walker, Glenn. "The changing face of the Kawarthas: land use and environment in nineteenth century Ontario." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119407.
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This dissertation examines how changes in material culture and patterns of land use recreated the landscape of Fenelon and Verulam Townships, Ontario, between 1820 and 1900. Immigrants brought new visions of the landscape, productive techniques and forms of recreation. Though they had a clear understanding of the landscape they wanted to fashion, it was largely based on experience in Britain. As settlers and Ojibwas transformed the Kawarthas, they had to adapt this foreign culture to the conditions they found. This study explores processes of planning, surveying and distributing land; the establishment and operation of farms; manufacture of timber, lumber and other forest produce; the construction of canals and railways; hunting, trapping, fishing, recreation and tourism. A generation or two after resettlement began, the nascent communities finally created an agricultural landscape, prosperous villages, large-scale forest production, improved transportation networks and infrastructure for leisure. The emerging economies, cultures, societies and ecological relationships represented ways of life that had evolved to suit the Kawartha Lakes region.<br>Comment les changements de la culture matérielle et des modèles d'utilisation des sols ont restructuré le paysage des cantons de Fenelon et de Verulam en Ontario, entre 1820 et 1900. C'est le sujet de la présente thèse. Les immigrants ont insufflé leur vision de l'aménagement des terres, des techniques de production et des types d'activités récréatives. Certes avaient-ils une idée claire du type d'aménagement qu'ils souhaitaient implanter mais leur expérience reposait essentiellement sur le contexte britannique. Ainsi, à mesure que les colons et les Ojibwas transformaient les Kawarthas, ils ont dû adapter cette culture étrangère aux conditions locales. Cette thèse examine les processus de planification, d'arpentage et de distribution des terres; l'établissement et l'exploitation de fermes; l'exploitation forestière et l'industrie connexe; la construction de canaux et de chemins de fer; la chasse, la trappe, la pêche, les loisirs et le tourisme. Une ou deux générations après le début du remembrement territorial, les collectivités naissantes ont réussi à mettre en place un aménagement des terres agricoles, des villages prospères, une production forestière à grande échelle, des réseaux de transport améliorés et une infrastructure du loisir. Les économies, cultures, sociétés et relations écologiques émergentes représentaient des modes de vie qui ont évolué en fonction du contexte de la région de Kawartha Lakes.
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Yanikdağ, Yücel. "'Ill-fated' sons of the 'Nation' : Ottoman prisoners of war in Russia and Egypt, 1914-1922 /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402544592298.
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Lacis, Indra K. "Fame, Celebrity and Performance: Marina Abramović--Contemporary Art Star." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1396625700.
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Lim, Sean. "The Relationship Between Metabolic Circumstance and Epigenetic Acetylation in Myoblast Fate and Function." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42659.
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Muscle tissue is grown and maintained by muscle stem cells termed satellite cells. Activated satellite cells become myoblasts, which must proliferate then differentiate into functional muscle. This process, known as myogenesis, is controlled by a cascade of epigenetic regulatory events. One facet of this regulation is histone acetylation, which can be influenced by the availability of metabolites within a cell. In this study, the ability of glucose, pyruvate, or glutamine to change histone acetylation levels in cultured myoblasts was investigated. Changing concentrations of glucose or pyruvate had no effect but decreasing the availability of glutamine in cell culture from 2mM to 0.2mM resulted in proliferating myoblasts accruing a hyperacetylated histone phenotype. However, when the same concentration of glutamine was used on differentiating myoblasts the hyperacetylated phenotype was lost and no change to differentiation was observed. This study demonstrates the potentials and limitations of altering epigenetic acetylation with metabolic circumstance. -- Le développement du tissu musculaire est soutenu par les cellules souches musculaires, communément appelées cellules satellites. Les cellules satellites activées se transforment en myoblastes qui doivent ensuite proliférer et se différencier en muscle fonctionnel. Ce processus, connu comme myogenèse, est contrôlé par une cascade de régulation épigénétique. Un aspect de ce processus est l’acétylation d’histones, qui peut être influencée par la disponibilité de métabolites dans la cellule. Dans cette étude de cas, la capacité du glucose, pyruvate, ou glutamine à changer les niveaux d’acétylation d’histones a été examinée. Le changement des concentrations de glucose ou de pyruvate n’a généré aucun effet, mais la diminution de la disponibilité de la glutamine dans la culture cellulaire de 2mM à 0.2mM a eu pour résultat une prolifération de myoblastes présentant un phénotype d’histones hyper-acétylées. Pourtant, quand la même concentration de glutamine a été utilisée pour différencier les myoblastes, le phénotype hyper-acétylé n’a pas été observé et aucun changement de différenciation n’a pu être détecté. Cette étude démontre le potentiel et les limites des modifications de l’acétylation épigénétique selon les circonstances métaboliques.
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Brock, Claire. "The feminization of fame from Rousseau to de Staël." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2477/.
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This thesis seeks to address the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding what I will suggest was the reconceptualization of fame in the second half of the eighteenth and the first two decades of the nineteenth centuries. The only previous analyses of celebrity in this period by Leo Braudy and by Frank Donoghue have claimed categorically that even though a democratization of fame occurred in this period only men had sufficient access to the fame machine and thus to the experience of the frenzy of renown. While I argue that this period witnessed the birth of modern concepts of celebrity, I will suggest that a modernization necessarily entailed a feminization of fame. Traditionally, heroic self-sacrifice had led to assured immortality, but with the rapidly expanding print culture of this period, celebrity was often instantaneous, achieved during a lifetime rather than a lifetime achievement. With the dissemination of the media, the rise of newspaper and periodicals and thus, more importantly, the increasing visibility of the celebrity as a person to be admired and emulated came the means to seduce an eager audience by manipulating one’s career or personal image. Opening with an examination of the confessional politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau who sought and found a desiring audience for this outpouring of private sensibility and thus initiated a discourse of fame which no longer relied upon the classical stoicism apparent since Ancient Rome, I will investigate how women writers not only ‘puffed’ themselves in the press, but actively engaged in constructing distinct authorial personae in and through their writings. Far from cowering anonymously in the shades, women writers were actively seeking and achieving the limelight, attaining a level of cultural centrality previously thought by critics such as Braudy and Donoghue to be unattainable. Embracing the public and publicity itself, they took advantage of the shifting mechanics of celebrity to place their writings and, ultimately, themselves, on the rostrum, more than eager to gain literary laurels.
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Macdonald, Alexandra. "The Public Face(s) of Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire/"The Shop on the Corner of Wing's Lane"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153788.
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The Public Face(s) of Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire: Vice, Theatrics, Politics, and the Press in the twenty years between 1784 and 1804, Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire (1738-1816), appeared in over fifty extant satirical prints. Satirized for both her excessive girth and for her transgressive pastimes, Albinia was a constant target of the press and artists alike. While her behaviour was not unique for the period, the fact that she was involved in, and consequently satirized for, so many different types of public and semi-public activities makes Albinia an exceptional case. The combination of longevity and satirical breadth present in the extant satirical imagery of Albinia offers a unique opportunity to explore major societal debates that took place in Georgian England though an examination of the visual record of a single figure. This study provides the first detailed examination of the ways in which Albinia was represented in print culture, contextualizing these works within their social and political contexts. in so doing, it, to paraphrase Linda Colley, charts the world of eighteenth-century London in a life, and a life in the world of eighteenth-century London. "The Shop on the Corner of Wing's Lane": Retail Spaces in Colonial Boston Between 1754 and 1775, retailer and merchant Samuel Abbot operated a retail space in colonial Boston. on any given day, Abbot participated in what T.H. Breen has termed the "empire of goods" that came to dominate the British Atlantic world after 1740. This study of Abbot's shop attempts to reconstruct both the physical space in which he worked and plied his trade – situating his shop in the city, neighborhood, and street wherein it was located – and begins to examine the day-to-day retail activities that took place "on the corner of Wing's lane, near the town dock." Focusing on the twenty-year period between 1754 and 1774, it illuminates the physicality of shopping and retailing in colonial Boston in the years leading up to the American Revolution to build up a picture of the materiality of Boston shops in the eighteenth century and to interpret the impact of space on polite shopping practices. Colonial Boston was a city shaped by consumption; however, consumption was also shaped by the city. It is thus important to re-place these practices within the physical spaces in which they took place, as architectural space, of both the shop itself and the city's urban space writ large, impacted practices of consumption.
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Douglas, Sarah K. "The Price of Pestilence: England’s response to the Black Death in the face of the Hundred Years War." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1436982201.
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Roberts, Elizabeth, and elizabethjillroberts@gmail com. "Freedom, Faction, Fame, and Blood: British 'Soldiers of Conscience' in Three European Wars." Department of History, University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2317.
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PhD<br>This thesis examines the participation of British ‘soldiers of conscience’ in the Greek War of Independence, the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish War. By considering both the response of the British government to the participation of its nationals in foreign conflicts, and the perceptions and experiences of the volunteers themselves, it argues for the applicability of a legitimating ‘politics of violence’ as means for understanding the historical construction of warfare.
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Pluta, Larissa. "Face Value: An Iconographic Analysis of the Corbels of Chartres Cathedral." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216674.
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Art History<br>M.A.<br>The numerous figurated corbels of Chartres Cathedral were inscribed with semiotic content. Works in this genre were formerly disregarded by researchers because of their perceived lack of meaning. Trends in modern scholarship have challenged this misconception, and recent technological innovations have facilitated the study of these objects. The category would be more appropriately termed "secondary" rather than" marginal," as the former offers a semantically unencumbered assessment of the role of these sculptures. Originally designed for the cathedral's twelfth-century western complex, the corbels were likely members of a series that encircled the entire perimeter of the building. The use of human and animal head motifs for their decoration exemplifies a pervasive historical practice in architectural sculpture. The preservation of the corbels in the Gothic reconstruction of the cathedral substantiates their significance to medieval viewers. Study of the surviving pieces is complicated by the loss of the contextual framework provided by the remainder of the series. The examination of material evidence indicates a record of artistic engagement with these works. Iconographic analysis of individual corbel images reveals both correspondences with the thematic context of the primary sculptural program and independent signification. This project is intended as a useful starting point for additional inquiry, as investigations of secondary sculpture at other sites may bring new insight to its manifestations at Chartres.<br>Temple University--Theses