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Mariano Luis de Urquijo (1769-1817). Biografía política en claroscuro de un personaje y una época
Político, funcionario, escritor, ilustrado, afrancesado, etc.: Mariano Luis de Urquijo pasa por ser uno de los malditos de la Historia Contemporánea española, fustigado por una influyente corriente historiográfica que tiene en Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo a uno de sus maestros más señeros. Esta tesis …
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Ringers of Bells and Teachers of Civilization : the Work of the California Franciscan Missionaries, 1769-1821
<p>In 1769 Spain took active and decisive actions to settle the vast region of her empire known as California. To accomplish the feat she turned to the willing hands of the Franciscan missionaries. The friars willingly answered their call and through their labors assured Spanish hegemony over the …
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The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare: From Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee
… century, and the Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769 marked the climax of the popularisation of his works. It is said that since then, he has maintained his position as the ‘national poet’ of England (or Britain). Although women had supported Shakespeare even before his works had established …
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Wrapped in Meaning: Chumash Cache Caves
… have been deposited in the colonial period (AD 1769 – late 19th century). This region was occupied primarily by the indigenous Chumash people, semi-sedentary hunter-gatherers who were characterised by their complex political organisation, diverse subsistence base, and rich ceremonial tradition. …
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ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΥ ΚΑΒΑΛΛΙΩΤΗΣ (1718; 1789). Ο ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΓΕΝΟΥΣ
… WHICH HE DIRECTED MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS (1748-1769)-. HIS SUPREMELY PRESENCE IN THE NEW ACADEMY,AT A TIME OF CRITICAL IDEOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL FERMENTATIONS, LED THE SCHOOL TO ITS HIGHEST POINT OF EDUCATIONAL RADIATION AND CHANGED IT INTO A BASTION OF RESISTANCE AGAINST THE OTTOMAN TYRANNY AND …
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Advancement of waste management strategies in developing nations (Costa Rica).
… Abstracts International, Volume: 43-05, page: 1769. Adviser: Edwin Tam. Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2004.
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Perfection, History, and Harmonious Individuality: Herder's Ethical Thought, 1765-1791
… Werden Kann" and Journal meiner Reise im Jahr 1769. I then look at an exchange of letters between Herder and Moses Mendelssohn concerning the highest good, or vocation of man. I then look at how the ideas sketched in these earlier works were filled out in Abhandlung ber den Ursprung der Sprache …
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From Mission to Megacity: The Changing Concentration of the Los Angeles City-system
… of population within the region between 1769 and 2000. The Hoover Index of Population Concentration is used to determine the population concentration, and major shifts in the concentration are illuminated by the geography and historical events of the Los Angeles area. The main factors …
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Minister of the Gospel at Haddington The Life and Work of the Reverend John Brown (1722-1787)
… and tracts, including A Dictionary of the Bible (1769), which attracted interest outside Scotland; The Self-Interpreting Bible (1778), upon which his reputation largely rests; and a History of the British Churches (1784), which is perhaps his ablest work. The main sources for Brown’s life are …
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Impact of DTG Use During Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes of HIV-Infected Women in the Western Cape, South Africa
… miscarriages (3.4%), 35 stillbirths (1.9%) and 1769 live births (1735 singletons). Overall rates of prematurity, LBW, HBW, SGA, HBW and LGA were 9.4%, 12%, 13%, 4% and 12%, respectively, and did not differ between WLH and HIV- women. BMI did not affect the association between HIV/TLD and any …
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Pamfletter! : En diskursiv praktik och dess strategier i tidig svensk politisk offentlighet
… in political pamphlets published in 1769 and in 1809–1810, each period representing the onset of democracy and freedom of the press. The aim of the study is twofold. The empirical aim is to examine the political language in the early political debate in pamphlets, with a focus on how …
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The Architectural Patronage of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749)
… with the architect Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) and the significance of his patronage of surveyors and cartographers in relation to his estates and architecture are addressed. By situating Montagu as an important but hitherto largely overlooked figure of the first half of eighteenth-century …
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The Golden Age And The Age Of Gold: Memory And The Alchemy Of History In California, 1877-1888
… from the aging populations of Alta California (1769-1846) in the form of dictated oral memoirs. The diversity of the testators included in the project mirrored the diversity of Alta California, producing a multi-ethnic cultural memory of California that, in spite of that diversity, emphasized …
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Joseph Haydn and the dramma giocoso
… which Haydn wrote, beginning with Le pescatrici (1769) through to La fedelta premiata (1780), within the context of the dramma giocoso tradition. To fully understand this tradition, as well as Haydn's compositional style, the comic and serious genres are analysed first since they are the basis for …
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Code, performance and ideology : the dialogue of reception as dramatic praxis in Voltaire's tragedies
… "Le Triumvirat" (1764) and "Les Guèbres" (1769). Chapter I undertakes the analysis of the textual codes, largely concentrating on the language which resulted from or which perisisted despite external reaction to the text, in order to reconstruct the rules by which language operated in the …
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Textuality and Travel from Gray to Byron.
… the evolution of his Lake District Journal (1769) from private document to public Picturesque work. The third chapter considers travel as a context for textual self- translation in Mary Wollstonecraft's letters to Gilbert Imlay and Letters Written During A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway …
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Wages, employment, and technological change in English cotton spinning, c.1780-1850
… – the spinning jenny (1764), the water frame (1769), and the spinning mule (1779) – have attracted considerable scholarly attention. This thesis analyses newly digitised wage books from cotton spinning firms that used these technologies to revisit established debates on: 1. Hand-spinning wages …
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London Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, 1760-1782: The impact on landscape painting and its reception
… failed to sell his landscape paintings. In 1769, the Royal Academy was established and Joshua Reynolds, in his Discourses, introduced a theoretical platform for evaluation of British art. Landscape painting was marginalised. I suggest that this led to a reduction in the number of landscape …
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Joseph Priestley and the French Connection: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Grammaticography.
… Rudiments of English Grammar between 1761 and 1769. The later editions of Priestley’s grammar have long attracted the interest of historians of linguistic thought for their innovative features, in particular the large appendix of ‘Notes and Observations’ on usage. However, the introduction of …
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