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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Franco-Prussian War"”.
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Ars Gallica: The Societe Nationale De Musique and Its Role in French Musical Life, 1871-1891
… explores the origins and effects of the post-war reform movement of which the Societe was one manifestation, and extensive space is given over to an examination of French concert life during the Second Empire and in the twenty years after the Franco-Prussian War, with particular emphasis …
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Representations of War and Conflict in the Painting of Gustave Doré
… using the working title Representations of War and Conflict in the Painting of Gustave Doré, proposes to explore one of Gustave Doré’s little-known, but extensive oeuvres in painting. That is, the artist’s representation of conflict through the modes of history painting and allegory. With an …
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The age of maps : cartography, imperialism and nationalism in Great Britain and France, 1870-1914
… rivalries, thescramble for colonies, the Franco-Prussian War and the Boer War.
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FROM FANTAISIE TO HISTOIRE: APPLYING AN “ALSATIAN LESSON” TO CHINA
… inaccurate portrayal of Alsace amidst the Franco-Prussian War, by exploring the fundamental questions of why the text could adapt so well to the Chinese soil, and how this piece of fiction participated in the shaping of China’s concept of patriotic education. From the naming of characters …
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VISUALIZING MASCULINITY: MEN, FAMILY, AND COUNTRY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH PRINT CULTURE
… rising feminist movement, and the loss of the Franco-Prussian war, will ground my project historically. Popular lithographic prints, from the 1840s to the early 1900s, remarked not only on masculinity itself—the ways in which men should act and look—but also on the ways in which any departures …
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Sacred A Cappella Composition in France from Pius X to Vatican II
… (post-Revolution through and just beyond the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71) precedes an v examination of nineteenth century scholarly rediscovery and implementation of authentic plainsong in worship in addition to the strengthening of conservative ordinances governing the manner and style of …
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Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound, 1870-1930
… in the historical period beginning with the Franco-Prussian War and ending with the introduction of early information theory in the late 1920s. In opposition to popular accounts of changes in listening practices around 1900, which typically take the disembodied voices of new media such as the …
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Aesthetics in Ruins: Parisian Writing, Photography and Art, 1851-1892
… demolition during Haussmannisation (1853-70) or war (1870-71) challenge conceptions about space (inside/outside, up/down, visible/invisible), time, and the individual in relation to the city. In view of tracing the transformation of the ruin ethos in relation to modern sensibilities towards the …