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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Consul"”.
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Lord Cromer as Orientalist and social engineering in Egypt, 1882-1907
… to Egypt in September 1883. He was appointed Consul General and remained until May, 1907, as the virtual ruler of Egypt. As an Orientalist, Cromer manipulates the Egyptian's 'mind' by representing it in his works. As Consul General, he attempts to manipulate that 'mind' through reforms. Lord …
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Political Conspiracy in Napoleonic France
… his decision to change the government from the Consulate to the Empire. His ambitious personality drove him to achieve as much power and prestige for himself as possible, a point discussed by numerous historians, but the conspiratorial actions designed to strike him down provided the …
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Everyday Life and Experimental Fiction in France, 1957–1966: A Literary-Conceptual History
… (1959) and Marguerite Duras’s *Le Vice-Consul* (1966) instead approach the everyday from the fact of suffering and in the thick of coexistence. The negative tenor of *Le Planétarium* speaks to Stanley Cavell’s insistence that any vision of human betterment must start from the harms that …
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Learning how to extract information from scanned documents
In recent years, there has been a lot of interest in methodologies for extracting information from text-based documents. Specifically in the medical field, a recent challenge has been to extract information from different types of scanned medical documents, such as patient registration forms, …
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The anatomy of a conqueror: the image and reality of Lucius Aemilius Paullus
… better understanding of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, consul of 182 and 168, and one of the crucial figures in Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean. Paullus is most often represented as a man of pristine virtue and philhellenic persuasion, and his resulting image has clouded both the man and the events …
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‘The Paradise of the Southern Hemisphere’: The Perception of New Zealand and the Maori in Written Accounts of German-speaking Explorers and Travellers 1839-1889
… Friedrich August Krull, the first German Consul in New Zealand, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, the resident geologist on the Novara expedition, Julius von Haast, the founder and director of the Canterbury Museum, Andreas Reischek, the taxidermist and collector, as well as other notable …
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The free world confronted: the problem of slavery and progress in American foreign relations, 1833-1844
… into the experiment’s results from the American consul in Jamaica, Robert Monroe Harrison. Upon receiving the findings, Upshur expedited measures to annex Texas, catalyzing the sectional crisis that ended in eventual civil war. In part those hostilities resulted from southerners’ newfound …
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The Origins of British-American Cooperation in Foreign Affairs 1897-1920
… during his tenure (1897-1905) as British pro-consul in South Africa and is known as the Kindergarten/Round Table. The second group, the Inquiry, was established in 1917 by Woodrow Wilson and his chief advisor, Colonel Edward House, to develop policies as the U.S. adjusted to great-power …
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CHICKPEA AQUAFABA AS AN EMULSIFIER IN FOOD-OIL SYSTEMS
… for AQ production: CDC Leader, CDC Orion, CDC Consul, CDC Luna, and Amit. Emulsion capacity and stability of AQ derived from different chickpea cultivars were determined. Physicochemical properties of different chickpea cultivars, such as hundred seed weight, seed coat incidence, seed …
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Malcolm Lowry's design-governing postures : a rhetorical analysis of Under the volcano
… to amplify the fragmentation endured by the Consul, the people closest to him and, in fact, the entire world around him. Indeed, Lowry offers up a cogent cautionary vision of a twentieth-century world disintegrating because it lacks that force singularly capable of unifying it -- love.
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The Controversial Career of George Nicholas Sanders
… and he subsequently appointed Sanders Consul-General to London. In 1854, the Senate failed to confirm Sanders' appointment, voting 49 to 10 against him. His bizarre behavior, acrimonious criticism of political opponents, and close friendship with the European revolutionaries had …
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Inertial Perturbations to Inertialess Magnetohydrodynamic and Rotating Flows
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… they returned to North Africa as American consuls. They went on to become, variously: state politicians; frontiersmen; surveyors in the West; land speculators; authors; and federal bureaucrats. This range of experiences intimately connect fields of United States historiography that scholars …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… they returned to North Africa as American consuls. They went on to become, variously: state politicians; frontiersmen; surveyors in the West; land speculators; authors; and federal bureaucrats. This range of experiences intimately connect fields of United States historiography that scholars …
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Estilo de comando das oficiais da Brigada Militar da região metropolitana de Porto Alegre
Esta pesquisa avalia o estilo de comando das oficiais da Brigada Militar da região metropolitana de Porto Alegre/RS que, a partir de 1985, foram incluídas na Corporação. Baseia-se em autores como Peert Hofsted, Patrícia Aburdene e John Naisbitt que identificam diferenças entre os padrões de …
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Studien zur amerikanischen Oper im mittleren 20. Jahrhundert
Diese Arbeit umfaßt grob den Zeitraum ab dem Börsenzusammenbruch 1929 bis Mitte der 1960er Jahre. Zu dieser Zeit entstanden die wohl typischsten Werke der amerikanischen Oper. Aus einer wirtschaftlich bedrängten Lage waren die amerikanischen Opernkomponisten gezwungen, wirkungsvolle und …