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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"French politics"”.
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Revolution of the right: explaining the rise of the front national in light of the 2008 financial crisis
… National from the fray to the mainstream of French politics, and the political situation in France is particularly volatile due to the economic mismanagement during the financial crisis of 2008, so it was more susceptible to growing strength of a far right party. </p>
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George Sand Was Not a Man, or Was He? An Egalitarian's Stand Against Gender Division and Its Impact on the Role of Women in Nineteenth Century France
… on the controversial life of nineteenth century French novelist, George Sand. The paper examines the political climate surrounding Sand, her ancestry, upbringing and position on the rights of women in the context of her egalitarian ideals. Her values were influenced by nineteenth century French …
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Neoplatonic identities : literary representation and the politics of Queen Henrietta Maria's court circle
… to her connections with France and with French politics. In contrast to previous studies of her life, I am concerned not only with her position as a Catholic in a Protestant country, but with her status as a culturally and politically active woman. I discuss the significance of her …
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A Mediterranean Connection: French Ambassadors, the Republic of Venice, and the Construction of the Louisquatorzien State, 1662-1702
… dissertation considers for the first time how a politics of accommodation characterized the Crown’s rapport with a selection of diplomats in the years of Louis XIV’s personal rule. </p> <p>Specifically, I examine five ambassadors serving Louis XIV in the Republic of Venice. Focusing on French …
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The Conservative Power and the debate on constitutional guardianship in the United States and France, 1776-1815
… which played a central role in both American and French Revolutionary constitution-making from 1776-1815. Focusing primarily on the writings of Thomas Paine, James Madison, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Condorcet, Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès, Germaine de Staël, and Benjamin Constant, it demonstrates that the …
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Emile Durkheim: the narrative of a liminal subject
… within these texts that connect Durkheim with French politics between 1858 and 1917. To broaden this research scope even further an examination of the level of reflexivity (Bourdieu) that underlies the above situations occurs. The aim is to affirm which of the above interpretations of Durkheim …
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On Colonial Textuality and Difference: Musical Encounters with French Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
As France expanded its empire in North Africa, French artists, writers and explorers traveled to Algeria in order to gain artistic inspiration and greater understanding of the culture, geography and inhabitants of the new colony. This dissertation places music within the context of French colonial …
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Levelling Up and Territorial Cohesion: The Places that Now Matter? French and British Regional Policy and Institutions since 2017
… with the aim of tackling regional inequalities. French and British regional policies have rarely been compared. British comparative policy literature has focused on Anglophone countries while French academics compare continental initiatives. However, unlike those, France and the United Kingdom …