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Langhof, Jan G., and Stefan Güldenberg. "King Frederick the Great – Anti-Machiavellian and Servant Leader?" Journal of Management History 26, no. 2 (April 14, 2020): 137–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-05-2019-0034.

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Purpose This study aims to include two major objectives. Firstly, Frederick’s leadership is explored and characterized. Secondly, it is examined as to why a leader may (or may not) adopt servant leadership behavior in the case of Frederick II, King of Prussia. Design/methodology/approach The applied methodology is a historical examination of Frederick II’s leadership, an eighteenth-century’s monarch who has the reputation of being the “first servant of the state.” The analysis is conducted from the perspective of modern servant leadership research. Findings This study shows Frederick remains a rather non-transparent person of contradictions. The authors identified multiple reasons which explain why a leader may adopt servant leadership. Frederick’s motives to adopt a certain leadership behavior appear timeless and, thus, he most likely shares the same antecedents with today’s top executives. Research limitations/implications The authors identified various antecedents of individual servant leadership dimensions, an under-research area to date. Originality/value To the best of authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to look at Frederick's leadership style through the lens of modern servant leadership.

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Storring, Adam L. "‘The Age of Louis XIV’: Frederick the Great and French Ways of War*." German History 38, no. 1 (September 5, 2019): 24–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghz069.

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Abstract This article demonstrates that the military ideas of King Frederick the Great of Prussia up to the Seven Years War (1756–1763) were primarily inspired by France, and particularly by the towering figure of King Louis XIV. It examines the intellectual inspirations for Frederick’s military ideas, showing that French military influence reflected the strength of French cultural influence in the long eighteenth century and the importance of Louis XIV as a model for monarchical self-representation. Frederick’s famous personal command of his armies reflected the Enlightenment concept of the ‘great man’ (grand homme), but Frederick thereby sought primarily to outdo the Sun King, whom Voltaire had criticized for merely accompanying his armies while his generals won battles for him. The example of Frederick thus demonstrates that not only rulers but also enlightened philosophers often looked backwards toward older monarchical examples. Frederick sought to create his own ‘Age of Louis XIV’ in the military sphere by imitating the great French generals of the Sun King. Frederick’s famous outflanking manoeuvres followed the example of famous French generals, reflecting the practice of the more mobile armies of the mid-seventeenth century. Frederick used French practice to justify his attacks with the bayonet, and his ‘short and lively’ wars reflected French strategic traditions. The evidence of French influence on Frederick seriously challenges concepts of a ‘German Way of War’, and indeed of supposed national ‘ways of war’ in general, emphasizing the need for a transnational approach to the history of military thought.

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Walker, Graham. "Frederick the Great." Critical Quarterly 39, no. 4 (December 1997): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8705.00129.

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Jessen, Mathias Hein. "Den filosofiske politiker – Frederik den Store og statsræsonen." Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, no. 59 (March 9, 2018): 55–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/sl.v0i59.104732.

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Frederick the Great (ruled 1740-86) is one of the main figures of Enlightened Absolutism. Frederic was on the one hand an enlightened philosopher deeply inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment. On the other hand he ruled one of the most autocratic states in history and commanded the strongest and most disciplined military force of his time. Despite his many writings, however, Frederick is rarely investigated as a political thinker. The article focuses on the political writings of Frederick the Great and more specifically on his use of the concept of reason of state to legitimize his rule, not least with regard to his enlightened ideals. In this struggle for legitimacy, Frederick abolishes the concept of a personal ruler, and in doing so becomes a fascinating figure in the transition from a personalized government to the abstract, depersonalized concept of the state that still dominates our political reality today.

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Wainwright, David, and Kenneth Mobbs. "Shudi's Harpsichords for Frederick the Great." Galpin Society Journal 49 (March 1996): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/842393.

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Johnson, Hubert C., and Robert B. Asprey. "Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma." American Historical Review 93, no. 2 (April 1988): 440. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1859993.

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Fann, Willerd R., and Robert B. Asprey. "Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma." Journal of Military History 53, no. 1 (January 1989): 102. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1986024.

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Cox, Gary P., and Dennis E. Showalter. "The Wars of Frederick the Great." Journal of Military History 61, no. 1 (January 1997): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2953925.

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Bucholz, Arden. "The Wars of Frederick the Great." History: Reviews of New Books 25, no. 1 (July 1996): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1996.9952613.

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Fann, Willerd R., and Christopher Duffy. "The Military Life of Frederick the Great." Military Affairs 51, no. 3 (July 1987): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1987521.

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Aarsleff, Hans. "The Berlin Academy under Frederick the Great." History of the Human Sciences 2, no. 2 (June 1989): 193–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095269518900200203.

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Aksan, Virginia H. "An Ottoman Portrait of Frederick the Great." Oriente Moderno 79, no. 1 (August 12, 1999): 203–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22138617-07901016.

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Luebke, David M. "Frederick the Great and the Celebrated Case of the Millers Arnold (1770–1779): A Reappraisal." Central European History 32, no. 4 (December 1999): 379–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938900021750.

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What did it mean when an teenth-century monarch intervened in a legal struggle between social unequals, and decided on behalf of the weaker party? How do historians interpret such an event? In the example under examination here—the cause célèbre of the millers Christian and Rosine Arnold in Brandenburg-Prussia (1770–1779)—the dominant opinion of two centuries has been that King Frederick II's intervention violated justice and the rule of law. Explaining this remarkable continuity of historical attention is easy, for the affair's effects on state-formation in Prussia were far–reaching. On the very day that Frederick ruled in the millers' favor, the king also sacked his chancellor (Grosskanzler), Carl Joseph von Fürst, as well as three members of Brandenburg's supreme tribunal, the Chamber Court (Kammergericht), all for ruling against the millers. In Fürst's place as chancellor, Frederick installed Johann Heinrich Casimir von Carmer, under whom began the process of legal reforms that resulted in the provisional Corpus Juris Fridericianum (1781) and ultimately the General Prussian Code (Allgemeines Preussisches Landrecht, or ALR) of 1794. To some extent, then, Frederick's intervention was the founding act of codification. But it is more difficult to explain the unanimity: with few exceptions, historians and biographers have pronounced the intervention a “judicial catastrophe” (Justizkatastrophe) and declared the millers mere “troublemakers.” This essay will argue that such conclusions are misguided: by framing their questions within the parameters of legal and administrative history, most historians have focused on the legal merits of the Arnolds' suit. In so doing, they have operated on the assumption that a unitary definition of justice prevailed in eighteenth-century Prussia; as a result, most historical appraisals reflect highly partisan contemporary interpretations of the case. But there were at least three distinct “discourses” on justice at work as the case unfolded, each of them corresponding to one of the principal sets of actors in the drama.

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Chesson, Michael B., and Gary L. Ecelbarger. "Frederick W. Lander: The Great Natural American Soldier." Journal of Southern History 68, no. 4 (November 2002): 967. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3069822.

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Lifschitz, Avi. "Tim Blanning, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia." European History Quarterly 46, no. 4 (September 2016): 710–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691416658234b.

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Hochstrasser, T. J. "Book Review: The Wars of Frederick the Great." German History 16, no. 3 (July 1, 1998): 437–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026635549801600317.

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Spicer, Michael W. "Frederick the Great on Government and Public Administration." American Review of Public Administration 28, no. 3 (September 1998): 287–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/027507409802800304.

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Paret, Peter. "Frederick the Great: A Singular Life, Variably Reflected." Historically Speaking 13, no. 1 (2012): 29–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hsp.2012.0011.

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Molnar, Aleksandar. "Boundaries of Enlightened Absolutism: Kant and Frederick the Great." Serbian Political Thought 5, no. 1 (2012): 5–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.22182/spt.512012.1.

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Luvaas, Jay. "Student as teacher: Clausewitz on Frederick the great and napoleon." Journal of Strategic Studies 9, no. 2-3 (June 1986): 150–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402398608437264.

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Craig, G. A. "Frederick the Great and Moses Mendelssohn: Thoughts on Jewish Emancipation." Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 32, no. 1 (January 1, 1987): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/32.1.3.

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Kovalev, А. А. "On the question of the relevance of German Military-strategic Thought (Frederick the Great and Hans Delbruck)." Economic and Socio-Humanitarian Studies 32, no. 4(32) (December 31, 2021): 56–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.24151/2409-1073-2021-4-56-64.

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The main strategic principles of Frederick II are considered, which, having absorbed all the best from the strategic thought from the strategic thought of antiquity, from the treatise of the commander Sun Tzu, were a new word in New Age military strategy. The role of the German military historian Hans Delbrück in the study of Frederick II’s strategy, in comparison with the concepts of Karl Clausewitz, is shown. It is noted that the legacy of military strategists and scientists who studied their experience is applied not only in military, but also in public administration and in international relations. A comparative approach was used, as well as components of historicallogical, political-science and sociological methods of analysis.

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LIM, SHIRU. "FREDERICK THE GREAT AND JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT ON PHILOSOPHY, TRUTH, AND POLITICS." Historical Journal 61, no. 2 (October 25, 2017): 357–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x17000310.

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AbstractThe prize question of the Berlin Academy of Sciences for 1780, on the utility of deception, has attracted both controversy and scholarly interest. Yet very little attention has been dedicated to the question's peculiar beginnings in the correspondence between the philosopher and mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, in a discussion concerning the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. This correspondence not only reveals the prize question's complex genealogy in long-standing debates on the true ends of philosophy, but also helps revise conventional frameworks for understanding the relationship between philosophy and politics in Enlightenment Europe. Far from an adornment intended to boost the ‘Enlightened’ credentials of an absolutist king, d'Alembert held the momentum in this relationship, and recruited Frederick to his own campaign of promoting publicly useful philosophy. ‘Philosophy’ here amounted to a commitment to the truth and its public defence, rather than subscription to or belief in a specific set of ideas or political reforms. Placing pressure on rulers to disavow deceitful politics, the far-reaching implications of this conception of philosophy for political life were no less ambitious than the agendas espoused by protagonists of a supposed ‘radical Enlightenment’.

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Baer, George. "Invincible Generals: Gustavus Adolphus, Marlborough, Frederick the Great, George Washington, Wellington." History: Reviews of New Books 22, no. 2 (January 1994): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1994.9948922.

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Mintzker, Y. "Rebellious Prussians: Urban Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors." German History 32, no. 1 (October 17, 2013): 137–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ght066.

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Case, Holly. "Whose Absolutism?" Current History 120, no. 824 (March 1, 2021): 121–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/curh.2021.120.824.121.

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Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was an Enlightenment philosophe as well as an absolute monarch. His writings, available in a new translation, reveal a complex character and raise questions about government and autocracy in contemporary Europe.

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Scott, H. M. "Aping the Great Powers: Frederick the Great and the Defence of Prussia's International Position 1763-86." German History 12, no. 3 (July 1, 1994): 286–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gh/12.3.286.

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Scott, H. M. "Aping the Great Powers: Frederick the Great and the Defence of Prussia's International Position 1763-86." German History 12, no. 3 (October 1, 1994): 286–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026635549401200302.

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Jupp, Peter J. "The Landed Elite and Political Authority in Britain, ca. 1760–1850." Journal of British Studies 29, no. 1 (January 1990): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/385949.

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Significant change in the relationships between rulers, elites, and political authority is a common feature of the major European states in the last half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries. In Russia, under Peter III and Catherine II, the nobility was released from the obligation to serve the state as established by Peter the Great and allowed to own property, engage in trade and manufacturing, and participate in local assemblies. In the course of the nineteenth century the hereditary landowning nobility, particularly the wealthiest elements of it, became firmly entrenched in the upper reaches of the bureaucracy without ever being able to dominate it. In Prussia, under Frederick the Great and Frederick William III, noble and gentry landowners were allowed to filter into the ranks, especially the higher ranks, of the bureaucracy; this reversed the embourgeoisement that had occurred under Frederick William I, but not so far as to threaten seriously the bureaucracy's loyalty to the Hohenzollerns or to weaken its reputation for efficiency. Thus the great reforms that followed the defeat by France in 1807 and were designed in part to lay the basis for recovery were executed by a combination of noble and non noble officials, and the latter were especially encouraged in order to ensure that merit rather than birth prevailed as the qualification for state service. In both cases, it could be argued, rulers found it necessary to recruit officials as well as an officer corps from the landed classes when war and territorial aggrandizement expanded the scope of government; they were loath to encourage the idea that landed wealth could automatically bestow political authority.

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Kohl, Katrin. "Hero or Villain? The Response of German Authors to Frederick the Great." Publications of the English Goethe Society 81, no. 1 (March 2012): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0959368312z.0000000005.

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Jacobs, Wilbur R. "National Frontiers, Great World Frontiers, and the Shadow of Frederick Jackson Turner." International History Review 7, no. 2 (May 1985): 261–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07075332.1985.9640379.

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Medved, Mladen. "Rebellious Prussians: urban political culture under Frederick the Great and his successors." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 24, no. 4 (May 24, 2017): 647–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2017.1303995.

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Painter-Morland, Mollie. "A Response to William C. Frederick." Ruffin Series of the Society for Business Ethics 4 (2004): 177–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ruffinx200445.

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This paper addresses the inherent danger of relativism in any naturalistic theory about moral decision-making and action. The implications of Frederick’s naturalistic view of corporations can easily lead one to believe that it has become impossible for theevolutionary firm (EF) to act with moral responsibility. However, if Frederick’s naturalistic account is located within the context of hisand other writers’ insights about complexity science, it may become possible to maintain a sense of creative, pragmatic moral decision-making in the face of supposedly deterministic forces. Business’s most creative response to moral dilemmas takes place “at the edge of chaos,” where a temporary order comes into being via self-organization. This process of self-organization is influenced by a great number of variables. Some of these variables are the x-factor configurations of individuals and groups, which cannot necessarilydetermine, but can influence the moral-decision-making process. Moral responsibility becomes part of a complex process throughwhich creative, value-driven solutions emerge.

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Gibson, Jennifer. "Couples Who Collaborate: James Ransome and Lesa Cline-Ransome." Children and Libraries 16, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/cal.16.2.16.

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Married couple James Ransome and Lesa Cline-Ransome are a truly prolific pair. They have created a great number of award-winning picture-books together—titles like Satchel Paige, Young Pele, Quilt Alphabet, Before There Was Mozart, Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass, My Story, My Dance, and Light in Darkness.

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Boettcher, Susan R., and Mary Lindemann. "Liaisons Dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great." Sixteenth Century Journal 39, no. 4 (December 1, 2008): 1178. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20479185.

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Simms, B. "Liaisons Dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great." German History 25, no. 3 (July 1, 2007): 440–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02663554070250030803.

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Sperber, Jonathan. "Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great." Central European History 40, no. 1 (February 27, 2007): 146–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938907000350.

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Helmreich, Ernst C. "The Course of German Nationalism: From Frederick the Great to Bismarck, 1763–1867." History: Reviews of New Books 20, no. 3 (April 1992): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.1992.9949663.

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Whaley, Joachim. "Liaisons dangereuses. Sex, Law and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great." Journal of Early Modern History 11, no. 1-2 (2007): 169–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006507780385251.

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SCHUI, FLORIAN. "PRUSSIA'S ‘TRANS-OCEANIC MOMENT’: THE CREATION OF THE PRUSSIAN ASIATIC TRADE COMPANY IN 1750." Historical Journal 49, no. 1 (February 24, 2006): 143–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x05005157.

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In 1750 Frederick II of Prussia created a new trade company in Emden. Diplomats, merchants, and other observers in Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Hamburg reacted with great concern to this Prussian bid to join the world of overseas commerce. These concerns were not unfounded. Frederick pursued his goal with great determination. The article explains why Prussia embarked on this ultimately unsuccessful venture and why established commercial powers such as Britain or the Netherlands felt threatened by the new competitor. In this context the article explores an international debate about political economy that was associated with the creation of the Prussian trade company. This debate took place in Britain, the Netherlands, Hamburg, and Prussia. The case of the Prussian Asiatic trade company suggests that the concepts of Oceanic and Atlantic history need to be extended beyond the narrow stretch of coastal regions. In the Prussian case the drive to join the world of overseas commerce originated from the inland and from a country that had traditionally been oriented towards overland commerce and European expansion. The study of the events and debates associated with the creation of the trade company also suggests a partially new perspective on Prussia's economic policies in the period.

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Middleton, Charles R., and Karl W. Schweizer. "Frederick the Great, William Pitt, and Lord Bute: The Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756-1763." American Historical Review 97, no. 5 (December 1992): 1514. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2165985.

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Lambert, John. "‘Of great value to his generation’: the life of Frederick Rowland OBE, 1871–1937." Kleio 29, no. 1 (January 1997): 68–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00232089785380041.

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Taylor, David. "Florian Schui, Rebellious Prussians: Urban Political Culture Under Frederick the Great and his Successors." European History Quarterly 47, no. 4 (September 25, 2017): 784–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691417729639aq.

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Kagel, Martin. "Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz." Monatshefte 104, no. 2 (2012): 274–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mon.2012.0055.

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TURNER, F. "The great chain of perception: a response to David Marr's Vision by Frederick Turner." Journal of Social and Biological Systems 10, no. 4 (October 1987): 399–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0140-1750(87)90061-3.

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Salisbury, Richard V. "Great Britain, The United States, and the 1909–1910 Nicaraguan Crisis." Americas 53, no. 3 (January 1997): 379–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1008030.

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Victory over Spain in 1898 provided the United States with the opportunity to pursue the various options that imperial status now offered. Indeed, under the influence of the strategic precepts of an Alfred Thayer Mahan, the messianic expansionism of a Josiah Strong, the extended frontier concept of a Frederick Jackson Turner, and the now seemingly obtainable economic aspirations of a James G. Blaine, North Americans looked to their newly established imperial arena with anticipation and confidence. It would be the adjacent circum-Caribbean region, for the most part, where the United States government would attempt to create the appropriate climate for the attainment of its strategic, economic, and altruistic goals. Acquisition of the Canal Zone in 1903 served in particular to focus U.S. attention on the isthmus. Accordingly, whenever revolutionary violence erupted in Central America, the United States government more often than not took vigorous action to ensure the survival or emergence of governments and factions which were supportive of North American interests.

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Weida, Courtney Lee. "Frederick Froebel’s philosophies of drawing: Play, representation and invention." Visual Inquiry 2, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/vi.2.1.43_1.

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This article explores the drawing practice within the educational philosophies of Frederick Froebel. Froebel offers art education and studio practice a great deal of influential approaches, unique media inspirations and enduring philosophical contexts for drawing. Froebel introduced exercises in linear drawing with horizontal and vertical lines, outline drawing of contours, free-hand and nature drawing, circular drawing and drawing from memory. Froebel also suggested more exploratory drawing activities in the service of observing, connecting and evoking form. His approaches towards drawing as varied explorations of nature, contour and shape with unique art media can open up pedagogical possibilities for the rich understanding of form and playful, sensory experiences in contemporary art education.

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Hesketh, Robin. "A great adventure: From quantitative metabolism to the revelation of Chinese science." Biochemist 34, no. 3 (June 1, 2012): 40–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio03403040.

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By the end of the 1930s, Frederick Gowland Hopkins had built his Cambridge laboratory into the pre-eminent institute of biochemistry that was a magnet for scientists from all over the world. Even so, it was an exceptional event that saw a young Chinese student leave a homeland at that time relatively isolated from the West and embark on a research career in his department. Within 2 years, she had published a highly influential set of papers on metabolism in the Biochemical Journal, a field that some 70 years on has once again become a major focus as its role in cancer is dissected. From the outset, however, she had come under the spell of the legendary polymath Joseph Needham to whom she would dedicate the rest of her life in a partnership that would unveil the astounding history of Chinese science to the world.

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Reuter, Timothy. "John of Salisbury and the Germans." Studies in Church History. Subsidia 3 (1994): 415–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0143045900003410.

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One of the very noticeable features of John of Salisbury’s later letters is the frequency with which they refer to the affairs of the empire and its ruler Frederick Barbarossa; indeed, they are an important source for the history of the empire in the 1160s. There is no mystery about why this should have been so. The papal schism which broke out in 1159 and which was sustained by Barbarossa was of great importance for John and his circle, both in itself as a matter of great concern to those who cared about the church, and in particular because its progress often affected the course of the dispute between Becket and Henry II.

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Mandiringana, E., and T. J. Stapleton. "The Literary Legacy of Frederick Courteney Selous." History in Africa 25 (1998): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3172188.

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In the works of many generations of white writers on Africa, the “Great White Hunter” has remained one of the most powerful and enduring images. A model of Caucasian masculinity, he quickly masters a hostile and wild environment in ways which amaze the aboriginal population, who are usually portrayed as savage and incompetent. Perhaps the best known real-life example of this classic image was Frederick Courteney Selous, a product of the English public school system, who hunted elephants in southern and central Africa during the 1870s and 1880s. Never having made much money from the ivory trade because of the dwindling number of elephants, Selous became an employee of Cecil Rhodes' British South Africa Company (BSAC) in the 1890s and worked towards the colonization of Southern Rhodesia. After fighting against the Ndebele in 1893 and 1896, Selous eventually based himself in England and became a recognized environmental expert, safari guide, and collector/seller of zoological specimens.Through writing six books and numerous articles from 1881 to the 1910s, Selous successfully created and popularized an image of himself as a skilled, yet sporting, hunter, a painfully honest gentleman of the bush, and a friend, as well as leader, of Africans. He was an adventurer with a dramatic habit of narrowly escaping danger and these episodes were often illustrated through drawings in his books. Discussing one such incident, a writer of hunting stories once remarked that “throughout Lobengula's country the story went that Selous was the man even the elephants could not kill. It helped to build the ‘Selous Legend’ among the Rhodesian tribes.”

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