Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Law, biography'

Writing Women into the Law in Queensland consists, as well as an exegesis, of profiles of seven significant women in the law in Queensland which have been published in A Woman's Place: 100 years of women lawyers edited by Susan Purdon and Aladin Rahemtula and published by the Supreme Court of Queensland Library in November 2005. Those women are Leneen Forde, Chancellor of Griffith University and former Governor of Queensland; Kate Holmes, Justice of the Supreme Court and now of the Court of Appeal; Leanne Clare, the first female Director of Public Prosecutions; Barbara Newton, the first female Public Defender; Carmel MacDonald, President of the Aboriginal Land Tribunals and the first female law lecturer in Queensland; Fleur Kingham, formerly Deputy President of the land and Resources Tribunal and now Judge of the District Court and Catherine Pirie, the first Magistrate of Torres Strait descent. The accompanying exegesis investigates the development of the creative work out of the tensions between the aims of the work, its political context, the multiple positions of the biographer, and the collaborative and collective nature of the enterprise.

Writing Women into the Law in Queensland consists, as well as an exegesis, of profiles of seven significant women in the law in Queensland which have been published in A Woman's Place: 100 years of women lawyers edited by Susan Purdon and Aladin Rahemtula and published by the Supreme Court of Queensland Library in November 2005. Those women are Leneen Forde, Chancellor of Griffith University and former Governor of Queensland; Kate Holmes, Justice of the Supreme Court and now of the Court of Appeal; Leanne Clare, the first female Director of Public Prosecutions; Barbara Newton, the first female Public Defender; Carmel MacDonald, President of the Aboriginal Land Tribunals and the first female law lecturer in Queensland; Fleur Kingham, formerly Deputy President of the land and Resources Tribunal and now Judge of the District Court and Catherine Pirie, the first Magistrate of Torres Strait descent. The accompanying exegesis investigates the development of the creative work out of the tensions between the aims of the work, its political context, the multiple positions of the biographer, and the collaborative and collective nature of the enterprise.

By the dawn of the fifth/eleventh century, al-Bukhārī (d. 256/870) was recognized as the most highly regarded hadith scholar and his Ṣaḥīḥ as the most authoritative book, after the Qur'an. This canonical status promoted a romanticized version of al-Bukhārī that does not reflect the reality that his pre-canonical historical record presents. This study recovers the reality of al-Bukhārī and provides a critical biography of him, tracing the progress of his career and detailing the objectives of his work. It provides a re-assessment of al-Bukhārī's own juridical, theological, and hadith-criticism principles based on an analysis of his own works, arguing that al-Bukhārī was shaped by the split between hadith and ra'y. It distinguishes three stages in his career: early education under ra'y authorities, conversion to hadith-based school, and his critique of the ra'y-based scholars in Transoxania. Al-Bukhārī was a significant contender of theology and law in his own day and certainly promoted a moderate position in theology and law that proved crucial to his future renown. He appears to have been Medinese in law and Iraqi in hadith criticism. His legal theory adopts some of Mālik ibn Anas' (d. 179/795) views and al-Shāfi'ī's (d. 204/820) hermeneutical concepts. His legal method and positive law appear to be systematically anti-ra'y and exhibit a virulent disparage of Abū Ḥanīfa (d. 150/767) and al-Shaybānī (d. 192/804-5). It appears that al-Bukhārī composed the Ṣaḥīḥ over a long period, at least a decade, as the Ṣaḥīḥ itself tends to confirm a chronological progress. This progress, the author contends, was the outcome of al-Bukhārī's long project in Transoxania, combating ra'y and promoting hadith. Al-Bukhārī achieved prominence within hadith-based circles for his unique transmitter-criticism (rijāl) works, particularly al-Tārīkh, but when he conceded that one's utterance (lafẓ) of the Qur'an is created, he was immediately denounced by the hadith-based school. This controversy caused the collapse of al-Bukhārī's career, leading to his demise in Khartank near Samarqand in 256/870.

In 1993, Charles Moose became Portland, Oregon's first black police chief. A nationally recognized student of the developing theories of community policing, Chief Moose's promotion was also hoped to help strengthen the diversity of the Portland Police Bureau. Ultimately, Portlanders were unable to look past Moose's public outbursts and demeanor and recognize his accomplishments. As a city, they missed an opportunity. This thesis uses transcripts of speeches and policy papers to present some political history to the reader, but also letters to the mayor's office, letters to the editor and the like to consider the social history of 1990's Portland. Some specific touchpoints of Moose's administration are considered, including when he and his wife Sandy moved to the King Neighborhood, the Daniel Binns birthday party and the resulting march on Moose's home, his outburst at the City Council, and other examples of his legendary anger. Moose's role in gentrification, and the policies he created for the Portland Police Bureau to lead that charge will not be ignored. All the while, the context of Oregon's racist heritage is forefront in this paper. By 1999, Charles Moose had left the bureau and accepted a job in Maryland. He was selected for many of the accomplishments that the Portland public had criticized him for. Ultimately, this study will show that Portland missed an opportunity to discuss how they wanted to be policed, and what philosophies they wanted their enforcers to personify.

Ce travail est centré sur Wang Xiaolai 王曉籟 (1887-1967) dont les nombreux engagements dans des domaines tels que le commerce, la finance, la politique et la santé ont fait de lui un acteur exceptionnel de la vie économique et même spirituellede sa cité, Shanghai. Toutefois, ses talents, pour avoir été reconnus au cours des trois périodes clés de l'histoire chinoise dont il a vécu les bouleversements, à savoir : un empire mandchou à son déclin, et deux républiques successives, n'ont pas pour autant fait l'objet à ce jour d'une étude approfondie. Aussi, nous sommes-nous donné pour tâche de réparer cet oubli de l'histoire, en menant une enquête biographique aussi serrée que possible, interrogeant tout d'abord, les archives occidentales et chinoises, la presse écrite, les annales locales. Puis, nous avons accordé une attention toute particulière à l'histoire orale qui est à l'origine de cet effort doctoral. Originaire de Shengxian, dans la province du Zhejiang, Wang Xiaolai par sa position dominante en tant que grand entrepreneur shanghaien des années 20 et 30, financier, président de la puissante Chambre de Commerce de Shanghai mais aussi premier président de la Chambre de Commerce de Zhabei, a acquis une position centrale au coeur même des réseaux des affaires, des finances et de l’industrie du Shanghai républicain. De l’Hôpital Zhixiang, dont il fut le fondateur, au Bouddhiste laïque, et fervent personnage du “visage peint” de l’opéra chinois, à la tête d’une immense fortune et d’une grande famille, Wang Xiaolai apparaît comme un homme d’une débordante énergie. Cette quête biographique se penche sur les évènements historiques qui ont marqué son parcours, et les aspects de sa vie qui ont inspiré ses aspirations et motivé ses ambitions. La recherche trace son ascension financière et politique, et identifie les principaux tournants de sa vie, ainsi que les liens qu’il a forgés avec les principaux personnages de l’époque. Du jeune membre du Guangfuhui, Société pour la Restauration, qui avait pour objectif de renverser les empereurs Qing, Wang rejoint la milice marchande de Zhabei. Il évolue sous le gouvernement nationaliste comme agent de changement politique, tout en demeurant un acteur autonome et puissant dans sa communauté. Il s’est montré déterminé à lutter contre l’agression japonaise lorsque celle-ci s’intensifie. Pendant la guerre, Wang s’exile dans l’arrière-pays de la Chine pour administrer des dispositifs d’aide et de secour, et supervise les ravitaillements qui passent par la Route de Birmanie. Au final ressurgit le portrait d’un homme aux multiples facettes, qui s’est efforcé à travers les décennies de fonder une nation et qui reste une figure emblématique et visionnaire de son époque. C’est la biographie de cet homme singulier mais tout autant l’histoire du Shanghai républicain que nous présentons ici
This dissertation presents a documented biography of Wang Xiaolai 王曉籟 (1887- 1967), elite merchant of Republican Shanghai. The study of this hitherto unexplored life contributes to the lean biographical repertoire of notable figures of the era. A native of Shengxian, Zhejiang Province, Wang’s life spanned five decades of momentous social and political change in modern Chinese history, from late Imperial China, through Republican China, to Communist China. The biographical inquiry examines the historical events that influenced his path, and the facets of his life that inspired his aspirations and drove his ambitions. The research traces Wang’s ascent to financial and political prominence, and identifies the major turning points in his life and the bonds he forged with key figures of the era. From a Guangfuhui youth, Wang became a militia merchant of Zhabei. He evolved under the Nationalist Government as an agent of political change, yet remained a powerful and autonomous actor in his community. Wang demonstrated his resolve in his resistance against mounting Japanese aggression. An elite in exile during the war years, Wang traveled China’s interior administering relief aid and supervising supplies through the Burma Road. As a leading Shanghai entrepreneur, chairman of the powerful Shanghai Chamber of Commerce but also first chairman of the Zhabei Chamber of Commerce, leading lay Buddhist, philanthropic builder of the Zhixiang Hospital, spirited painted face of Chinese opera, patron of a huge fortune and patriarch of a huge family, Wang emerges as a man with boundless energy poised at the heart of social, business, and political Shanghai. Western and Chinese archives, newspapers, and local annals are among the primary sources on which the research is based. Oral history has a special place in this undertaking as it was the motivating factor of this endeavor. The final conclusion reveals a multi-faceted portrait of an emblematic and visionary nation-builder of Republican Shanghai, and is as much the trajectory of a singular individual as it is the history of Republican Shanghai

On March 10, 1957, the United States Army Corps of Engineers completed The Dalles Dam and inundated Celilo Falls, the oldest continuously inhabited site in North America and a cultural and economic hub for Indigenous people. In the negotiation of treaties between the United States, nearly one hundred years earlier, Indigenous leaders reserved access to Columbia River fishing sites as they ceded territory and retained smaller reservations. In the years before the dam’s completion, leaders, many of who were the descendants of earlier treaty signatories, attempted to stop the dam and protect both fishing sites from the encroachment of state and federal regulations and archaeological sites from destruction. This study traces the work of Wilson Charley, a Native fisherman, a member of the Yakama Nation’s Tribal Council, and great-grandson of one of the 1855 treaty signatories. More broadly, this study places Indigenous actors on a twentieth-century Columbia River while demonstrating that they played active roles in the protest and management of areas affected by The Dalles Dam.

Using previously untapped archival sources—a substantial cache of letters—my analysis illustrates that Charley articulated multiple strategies to fight The Dalles Dam and regulations to curtail Native’s treaty fishing rights. Aiming to protect the 1855 treaty and stop The Dalles Dam, Charley created Native-centered regulatory agencies. He worked directly with politicians and supported political candidates, like Richard Neuberger, that favored Native concerns. He attempted to build partnerships with archaeologists and landscape preservationists concerned about losing the area’s rich cultural sites. Even after the dam’s completion, he conceptualized multiple tribal economic development plans that would allow for Natives’ cultural and economic survival.

Given the national rise of technological optimism and the willingness for the federal government to terminate its relationship with federally recognized tribes, Charley realized that taking the 1855 treaty to court was too risky for the political climate of the 1950s. Instead, he framed his strategies in the language of twentieth-century conservation, specifically to garner support from a national audience of non-natives interested in protecting landscapes from industrial development. While many of these non-native partners ultimately failed him, his strategies are noteworthy for three reasons. First, he cast the fight to uphold Native treaty rights in terms that were relevant to non-natives, demonstrating his complex understanding of the times in which he lived. Second, his strategies continued an ongoing struggle for Natives to fish at their treaty-protected sites, thereby documenting an overlooked period between the fishing rights cases of the turn of the twentieth century and the 1960s and 1970s. Charley left a lasting legacy that scholars have not recognized because many of his visionary ideas came to fruition decades later. Finally, my analysis of Charley’s letters also documents personal details that afford readers the unique perspective of one Indigenous person navigated through a tumultuous period in the Pacific Northwest and Native American history.

La investigación estudia las estrategias y narrativas biográficas que se desarrollan en contexto electoral. Tras una exhaustiva revisión bibliográfica, se propone una original tipología de narrativas biográficas: i) orígenes y primeros años; ii) memorias traumáticas; iii) curriculum vitae; iv) vida familiar y amorosa; v) estilo de vida. Para comprobar su utilidad, se estudian las campañas de Argentina 2015 y Ecuador 2017; en concreto, las estrategias biográficas desplegadas por Mauricio Macri, Daniel Scioli, Lenín Moreno y Guillermo Lasso. La investigación se complementa con un análisis de las entradas de los candidatos en Wikipedia, que es la principal fuente de consulta biográfica, y de los contenidos publicados en Instagram, que es, de todas las redes sociales, la que suele revelar más detalles de la intimidad de los políticos. En cuanto a la metodología, se combinan técnicas del Análisis del Discurso, análisis de contenido cuantitativo y cualitativo, y entrevistas en profundidad a spin doctors. La tesis contribuye a la investigación y a la práctica profesional de la comunicación política con un modelo de análisis y un protocolo práctico para la inclusión de estrategias biográficas en una campaña electoral.
This research studies the biographical strategies and narratives that are developed in an electoral context. After a comprehensive bibliographic review, we proposed an original typology of biographical narratives: i) origins and early years; ii) traumatic memories; iii) curriculum vitae; iv) family and love life; v) lifestyle. To verify its utility, we studied the presidential campaigns of Argentina 2015 and Ecuador 2017, specifically, the biographical strategies deployed by Mauricio Macri, Daniel Scioli, Lenín Moreno and Guillermo Lasso. The research is complemented by an analysis of the candidates' entries on Wikipedia, which is the main source of biographical consultation, and of the content published on Instagram , which is, of all social networks, the one that usually reveals the biggest details of politicians' intimacy. Regarding methodology, we used a combination of techniques of Discourse Analysis, quantitative and qualitative content analysis, and in-depth interviews with spin doctors. The thesis contributes to the research and professional practice of political communication with an analysis model and a practical protocol for the inclusion of biographical strategies in electoral campaigns.

Au cours des dernières années, l'intérêt pour les causes et les conséquences de la corruption en Argentine est allé crescendo, tant au niveau de l'université que des organisations non-gouvernementales locales, des agences internationales, et des médias. La majorité des recherches a adopté une perspective macro-structurale qui se centre sur la mesure du phénomène dans le secteur public et s'intéresse aux opinions et aux représentations d'informateurs qualifiés et de leaders d'opinions. Notre recherche, en revanche, s'interroge sur la manière dont opèrent les trames de corruption dans un quartier de la classe ouvrière du Conurbano Bonaerense. Dans ce but, elle reconstruit les expériences quotidiennes à partir de situations caractérisées comme étant liées à la corruption à partir de récits de vie. La question qui guide cette recherche est : comment opèrent les trames de corruption sur un territoire ? Plus spécifiquement : quelles sont leurs caractéristiques ? Dans quels domaines s'affirment-elles ? Quelles sont leurs mécanismes ? Quels sont les acteurs sociaux impliqués ? Quelles sont les conséquences que mentionnent les personnes dans leurs récits ? Quelles sont et comment s'expriment la domination et les micro-résistance liées aux formes de corruption ? Nous avons déployé une stratégie multimodale qui repose sur la réalisation d'une trentaine d'entretiens semi-structurés de personnes appartenant à la classe ouvrière et d'informateurs clefs. Parallèlement, nous avons réalisé une observation participante en passant une période prolongée sur le terrain, la complétant par l'analyse de documents, et de données statistiques qui permettent d'aborder en profondeur la thématique
Corruption is a social problem that has been widely debated in recent years, both in social sciences and the media. Most of the academic literature analyzes from a macro-social perspective the harmful effects of corruption on democracy and the economy. On the contrary, the present study analyzes corruption from a micro-social perspective, which recuperates the meanings constructed by social agents, the type of social relations ingrained in corrupt practices and the consequences of this phenomena for people's lives. The aim of the study is to analyze the corrupt practices affecting the lives of residents of a working class neighborhood of the Northern Gran Buenos Aires. We study these practices from people's perspectives. We mainly took into account the influence of their biographic experiences and their class affiliation in the way they understand corruption. Corruption is analyzed as part of asymmetric social relations of domination-subordination. In this context, we study weedy micro-resistances of workers, which could be understood as micro class fights oriented to create autonomous social organizations. The methodological strategy consists on a multi-method approach. We carried out 30 semi--structured interviews to urban working class people and key informants. At the same time, we performed a participant observation during two years, which was complemented with documents, photos, and statistical data

In this thesis I present new insights into aspects of Peter Guthrie Tait's life and work, derived principally from largely-unexplored primary source material: Tait's scrapbook, the Tait–Maxwell school-book and Tait's pocket notebook. By way of associated historical insights, I also come to discuss the innovative and far-reaching mathematics of the elusive Frenchman, C.-V. Mourey. P. G. Tait (1831–1901) F.R.S.E., Professor of Mathematics at the Queen's College, Belfast (1854–1860) and of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (1860–1901), was one of the leading physicists and mathematicians in Europe in the nineteenth century. His expertise encompassed the breadth of physical science and mathematics. However, since the nineteenth century he has been unfortunately overlooked—overshadowed, perhaps, by the brilliance of his personal friends, James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865) and William Thomson (1824–1907), later Lord Kelvin. Here I present the results of extensive research into the Tait family history. I explore the spiritual aspect of Tait's life in connection with The Unseen Universe (1875) which Tait co-authored with Balfour Stewart (1828–1887). I also reveal Tait's surprising involvement in statistics and give an account of his introduction to complex numbers, as a schoolboy at the Edinburgh Academy. A highlight of the thesis is a re-evaluation of C.-V. Mourey's 1828 work, La Vraie Théorie des quantités négatives et des quantités prétendues imaginaires, which I consider from the perspective of algebraic reform. The thesis also contains: (i) a transcription of an unpublished paper by Hamilton on the fundamental theorem of algebra which was inspired by Mourey and (ii) new biographical information on Mourey.

This dissertation offers a history of napalm from its invention in 1942 at Harvard University to President Barack Obama's signature on 21 January 2008 of the first U.S. treaty to limit its use. It describes the incendiary weapon's creation through a partnership between government and academia; deployment in both Europe and the Pacific, culminating with the firebombing of Japan's major cities in 1945; extensive use during the Korean War, and many other conflicts; and transformation in public opinion from a marvel to a monster so horrible Pentagon commanders won't mention it, and commentators routinely cite it as an icon of savage cruelty. The history traces this change in public opinion to media coverage during the Vietnam War that raised awareness of the weapon's effects on civilians; protests against the war and the Dow Chemical Corporation that started in 1965 and defined the gel as barbaric; U.S. defeat in Vietnam; commentary by opinion makers after the war, especially Hollywood film-makers; the rise of a global popular culture linked by electronic media; changes in international law; and development of alternative weapons. The study concludes that napalm's story highlights the significance of worldwide communications and popular culture, the increased importance of civilian casualties in war, the important role social movements and international law play in the formulation of social norms, and the increasing power of global opinion to constrain national authorities.

Historians are unfamiliar with the frontier attorney. We know little of who he represented, what types of cases he litigated and his day-to-day labors. Nathaniel Hart Davis practiced law in Montgomery, Texas from 1850 to 1883; by examining his career we may shed light on these issues. Davis specialized in civil law. Debt collection dominated his practice, but he also litigated land disputes, probate, slave law and divorce cases. He represented the propertied citizens of Montgomery, nearly always acting on behalf of the plaintiff. His energies were devoted primarily to out-of-court tasks: gathering information, tracking down debtors, buying and selling real estate for speculators, and disposing of probate property and debts. Davis was not the stereotypical incompetent, ignorant, parasitical frontier attorney. A cautious, learned man, Davis fulfilled a vital role in his community. He tried to ensure relatively smooth business transactions in an unstable Texas economy.

Michel Foucault's archaeology of the silence of madness in the age of reason circumvents the discipline of psychiatry by refusing to contest the latter on its own terms. The success of Foucault's project of giving voice to the mad is achieved, however, at the expense of neglecting a long history of resistance to the silencing of madness, to which autobiographical writings by people said to be mad have contributed. The first phase of my dissertation focuses on mind-problem memoirs published since the late 1960s, a period in which an international psychiatric survivor movement has emerged. My readings of these memoirs examine how they elaborate ways of negotiating encounters with psychiatry in everyday life, and how they reveal the contingency of naturalized psychiatric practices. The second phase begins with the identification of certain questions that are not prominent among the concerns of political activists struggling to displace the psychiatric system. In the course of articulating a critique of narrative, I introduce the phrase "order of making sense" to describe a moral injunction—to respond and contribute to narrative reason—that acts as a regulative ideal. The third phase consists of fragmentary writing about personal experiences that, in spite of being framed by competing theoretical perspectives, destabilize boundaries. My increasing emphasis on the body, understood as a multiplicity of forces that are not amenable to the formation of coherent subjectivity, opens up the possibility of a revaluation of non-knowledge and the absence of work. The fourth phase concludes a dissertation whose unanticipated discontinuities are both caused by, and a mode of expression of, persistent mind problems. With the delineation of a post-Nietzschean aesthetic of the materialist sublime, the political strategies of psychiatric survivors, including my critique of narrative, are surpassed by the intensities of unproductive expenditure. Until mind problems are no longer pathologized as troubled being that stands in need of direction, the project of overcoming the condition of internal exile remains imperative. Yet it is the anti-project of exceeding sense—through an affirmation of being troubled by eternal recurrence—that most exposes the limits of the age of reason.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
Graduate

Richard Feetham was Judge President of the Natal Provincial Division from 1 May 1930 to 18 July 1939. He succeeded Dove Wilson who was an able but not a very learned or dynamic Judge President. Thus, at the time of his appointment the Natal Court and its judgments were treated with little respect by the other provincial divisions. Feetham JP, unlike his predecessor, was not only a scholar with a towering intellect but a man endowed with outstanding leadership qualities. He was thus ideally suited to bring about a change for the better in the status of the Natal Court. He did this by taking a dynamic lead and presided over and delivered a high proportion of the courts' judgments. He also set his brethren an excellent example by the high standard he set for himself and his court and which they emulated. This thesis thus also covers the careers of these puisne and acting puisne judges and their contribution towards the better administration of justice in Natal. In 1930 there existed in Natal a disinct system of dual practice with a de facto Bar. This system had been a vexed question in the minds of Natal lawyers for two decades but when Feetham JP was confronted with it he immediately addressed the controversial issue and brought about the necessary reforms to divide the legal profession and bring Natal into line with the rest of South Africa. This reform raised the quality of pleading and manner in which the law was presented. It also provided the Natal Bench with able personnel for the future from within Natal. Accordingly this thesis also assesses the careers of the main legal practitioners of that period and their contribution towards the development of the administration of justice in Natal. In less than ten years Feetham JP thus transformed the Natal Provincial Division from being weak and ineffectual to a position where it became a division respected for its Bench, judgments and legal profession. During the course of time history has confirmed the overall significance of Richard Feetham's Judge Presidency.
Thesis (LL.M.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1988.

This study examined the context of the Medieval Islamic qadi Ibn Taymiyyah in 14th century Bahri Mamluk Syria and Egypt and his incarcerations and death in prison by order of Sultan Nasser al-Muhammad Qalawun for ijtihad. This study demonstrated Ibn Taymiyyah practiced ijtihad, held the rank of mujtahid, and incurred the wrath of the Sultan. The evidence indicates that Taymiyyah’s independent reasoning held specific social, legal, and political threats to Qalawun, the Bahri Mamluk Sultan, during his third reign. The significant role Taymiyyah’s ijtihad played in the Sultan’s imprisonment calls for a review of previous scholarship emphasizing the role of jealousy by the religious elite and affection for Taymiyyah by the Sultan as significant factors in his conflicts.
Department of History

In 1514, at the age of thirty, the Spanish cleric Bartolome de Las Casas underwent a profound spiritual transformation that caused him to 'condemn the repartimientos or encomiendas as unjust and tyrannical and to leave his Indians and renounce them to the governor.' From that moment on he emerged as the most unrelenting and abrasive defender of the Indians in the history of Latin America. Las Casas' legacy is complex and difficult to evaluate in absolute terms. As a uniquely multifaceted individual, Las Casas is remembered as a priest, writer, politician, theologian, prophet and jurist among other things. For his efforts on behalf of the Indians, Las Casas is variously depicted as a savior of the Indians, an apostolic prototype of love, piously fanatic, the creator of the 'Black Legend' of the Spanish conquest, or as an 'authentic expression of the true Spanish conscience.' This study of Las Casas attempts to re-interpret his life and work from the perspective that he was a benevolent and paternalistic representative of Spanish imperialism in America rather than the unblemished larger-than-life hero depicted by his admirers. Perhaps one of the most revealing and significant examples of the Las Casas' role as another face of Spanish imperialism can be found in the similarity between some of his early proposals, and those put in practice by viceroy Francisco de Toledo in Peru in the late sixteenth-century. Whereas Las Casas had suggested his policies to the crown as a benevolent form of systematizing the exploitation of the land and its inhabitants and as a measure to prevent the decimation of the Indians, Toledo's application of his own policies were designed to increase the imperial sphere of influence and while they resulted in a considerable increment in profits for the crown, they also brought about a significant decrease of the indigenous population In order for Las Casas to be fully understood, he must be seen not only in the context of defender of the Amerindians, but as a full, active and willing participant in the imperialist domination of the New World by Spain, and perhaps the best known representative of benevolent Spanish imperialism in our continent
acase@tulane.edu

Ma'afu, born in Tonga about 1826, was a son of Aleamotu'a, Tu'i Kanokupolu and a cousin of Tupou I, king of Tonga. When aged about 21, he came to live in Fiji and within fifteen years established a power base to rival that of any indigenous chief. In 1865, a Wesleyan missionary visiting the island of Vanuabalavu paid a call on Ma'afu at his home in Lomaloma.

Ladislav Machoň - životopis umělce - dějiny architektury - přestavba Klementina - právnická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy - Můstek a Státní regulační komise pro Prahu a okolí - Řivnáčova vila v Jevanech - Augusta Müllerová PřestožesejménoarchitektaLadislavaMachoně(1888-1973)vodbornéliteratuře objevuje poměrně často a jeho vybrané realizace zde bývají běžně zastoupeny, komentáře k nim se většinou bez invence opakují. Disertační práce proto přináší kompletní přehled Machoňovy tvorby a jejích stylových proměn. Směřuje tak k prvnímu úplnému zhodnocení architektova díla v kontextu moderní meziválečné architektury Československa. Vzhledem k nezvykle širokému rozsahu Machoňova díla, kopírujícího vlastně formální vývoj architektury první poloviny dvacátého století, se práce zaměřuje na čtveřici jeho pražských projektů ze dvacátých a třicátých let. Ta reprezentuje jednak odlišné typy zakázek a zároveň různá období Machoňovy tvorby. Při úpravě barokního Klementina pro účely univerzitní a technické knihovny musel architekt vedle funkčnosti knihovního provozu dbát památkové hodnoty areálu. Realizací právnické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy upozadil sám sebe jako tvůrce, aby vzdal hold svému vzoru Janu Kotěrovi. Návrhem zástavby na Můstku, nové brány do Starého Města, se musel popasovat s požadavky regulačního plánu včetně...

吳昶興.
論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2001.
參考文獻 (p. 191-245)
中英文摘要.
Available also through the Internet via Dissertations & theses @ Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Wu Changxing.
Lun wen (Zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2001.
Can kao wen xian (p. 191-245)
Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.

Summaries in German and English
Text in German
Angestoßen durch ein vom evangelischen Jugendwerk getragenes Projekt hat sich eine zu-nehmende Zahl von Jugendgemeinden in Orten und Bezirken der württembergischen Lan-deskirche etabliert. Diese Jugendgemeinden zielen auf verbindliche gottesdienstliche Ge-meinschaft und verstehen sich nicht nur als Jugendarbeit, sondern wollen ein eigenes Ge-meindebewusstsein entwickeln. Da sich Jugendgemeinden naturgemäß besonders auf das Jugendalter konzentrieren, werden sich junge Erwachsene eine andere geistliche Heimat suchen müssen, sobald sie sich zu sehr vom Jugendalter entfernen. Diese Masterarbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, Faktoren zu ermitteln, die zu einem gelingenden Wechsel ehemaliger Mitglieder von Jugendgemeinden in landeskirchliche Ortsgemeinden beitragen, bzw. Faktoren zu finden, die zu einer Abwanderungsbewegung derselben führen. Dafür werden Leitfadeninterviews mit ehemaligen Mitgliedern von Jugendgemeinden durch-geführt und entsprechend der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse nach Philipp Mayring ausgewertet. Auf Basis dieser ermittelten Faktoren sollen Handlungsempfehlungen zur Erneuerung der Praxis entwickelt werden sowie die Faktoren mit der praktisch-theologischen sowie inner-kirchlichen Diskussion in Verbindung gebracht werden.
Initiated by a project of the youth division of the protestant church in Württemberg, an in-creasing number of youth churches (“Jugendgemeinden”) have been formed in different parishes and districts of the protestant church in Württemberg (“Evangelische Kirche in Würt-temberg”). These youth churches view themselves as more than the current understanding of normal youth ministry. They conduct regular youth worship services, have a congregation of committed members and develop the self-understanding of an actual church. Because youth churches target a teenage demographic, its members are placed in the position of needing to search for another church home once they become too old for the youth church. This dissertation aims to find factors which aid the transition of former members of youth churches into protestant local church congregations (“landeskirchliche Ortsgemeinden”) and respectively find factors which lead to migration outside these protestant church congregations. To that end, guided interviews are conducted with former members of youth churches and are analyzed by employing the qualitative content analysis method by Philipp Mayring. These determined factors form the basis for recommendations for action and a renewed church practice. They are discussed within the practical-theological and church context.
Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology
M. Th. (Practical Theology)