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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Mandeville"”.
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An anatomy of power: the early works of Bernard Mandeville
The thesis takes Mandeville's medical works at Leiden as a starting point. Translations of his first three works - all originally published in Latin - lay the foundation for a consideration of his approach to medicine, medical discourse and the contemporary seventeenth-century debates on Cartesian …
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Il conflitto tra ragione e passioni nel pensiero morale, economico e politico di Bernard Mandeville
… conflict between reason and passion in Bernard Mandeville’s moral, economic and political thought My PhD dissertation focuses on Bernard Mandeville (1670-1732), a Dutch philosopher who moved to London in his late twenties. The aspect of Mandeville’s thought I take into account in my research is …
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Mandeville's Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
… its time, a historicized approach reveals that Mandeville's project is better understood in terms of his intolerant universalism. I argue that in casting non-Christians as proto-Christians who stand as evidence of Christianity's global spiritual hegemony, the author appropriates and consumes …
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Eulalie de Mandeville: An Ethnohistorical Investigation Challenging Notions of Placage in New Orleans as revealed through The Lived Experiences of a Free Woman of Color
… plaçage through the case of Eulalie de Mandeville, a free woman of color and both the daughter of Pierre de Marigny de Mandeville, one of the largest land owners in New Orleans, and the sister of Bernard Marigny, land owner and founder of the Faubourg Marigny, a historic neighborhood in …
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L'alveare in fiamme: la ricezione della favola delle api nello spazio pubblico britannico (1714-1733)
… britannica della Favola delle api" di Bernard Mandeville tra gli anni venti e trenta del Settecento. Questo studio intende esaminare la fortuna dell'opera di Bernard Mandeville alla luce dei linguaggi e dei mezzi di comunicazione attraverso cui essa venne presentata al pubblico britannico. "
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Silent Cities: Sensationalism and Removed Populations within Fourteenth Century Western Christian and Muslim Travel Accounts of Baghdad and Jerusalem
… two Christian travelers, Marco Polo and John Mandeville, and one Muslim traveler, Ibn Battuta. As a basis of comparison, I discuss the twelfth century Muslim traveler, Ibn Jubayr. I specifically analyze Baghdad and Jerusalem due to the fact that they represent cities of centrality for Muslims …
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Educare la democrazia. Educativo e politico nella tradizione liberale
… contrattualistico (Locke), evoluzionistico (Mandeville, Hume, Smith), giuridico-morale (Kant), liberal-democratico (Tocqueville) e sociale (Dewey). Da tale analisi emerge un particolare modello pedagogico, di natura indiretta e asistematica, che pone al centro della propria riflessione la …
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Genre and Politics in the Historical Fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley
… explore William Godwin’s second historical novel Mandeville; or, A Tale of the Seventeenth Century (1817). It will focus on Godwin’s examination of individual motivation and the impact of trauma. <br/><br/>Chapter III will study Mary Shelley’s Valperga; or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, …
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Élaboration du nouveau programme « Techniques d’administration et de gestion » : tenir compte des besoins de la population étudiante du Collège Lionel-Groulx
Les programmes collégiaux techniques du secteur de l’administration font présentement l’objet d’une révision de programme. Le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur (MES) a décidé d’abolir trois programmes pour les remplacer par un seul qui comportera des compétences au choix des institutions. …
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The more we know; the less we know: the effects of interpersonal networks on employees misperception of peers preferences to utilize family-friendly benefits
Pluralistic ignorance is a situation in which individuals inaccurately perceive the attitudes of their peers within their work group to be different from their own and subsequently align their behavior with what they mistakenly believe are the attitudes of their peers. Prior research on has tended …
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Assessing the Exotic: Authority, Reason, and Experience in the Construction of Medieval Natural Knowledge
… as well as the travel narrative The Book of John Mandeville, on the other hand, may have been produced within an educated context but were consumed by a diverse cross-section of the reading population. By looking at these four texts together I explore the ways epistemic structures shift from the …
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History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age
… Burney’s The Wanderer (1814), William Godwin’s Mandeville (1816), and Mary Shelley’s Valperga (1823), my discussion concludes by arguing that Godwin’s and Shelley’s extension of the mode of historical fiction initially envisioned by Godwin in the revolutionary decade, and their shared endeavour …
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Measurement of the fifth structure function in quasi-elastic proton knock-out from carbon
This thesis reports the first measurement of the 'fifth structure function' in coincident electron scattering. This new observable breaks the symmetry for detecting nuclear decay products above and below the electron scattering plane when the incident electrons are longitudinally polarized. 560 MeV …
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The synthesis of a water-soluble molecule containing a hydrophobic cavity.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Chemistry.
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Tectonics of the Ålen area, central Norway
Investigation of primary features preserved within the Tremadocian - Lower Ordovician Fundsj∅ Group indicate that the succession accumulated in a deepwater environment. The ca. 4-5 km thick Fundsj∅ Group exposed in the Ålen area is dominated by thin-bedded, terrigenous clastic metasediments which …
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Injuries and illnesses in athletes with spinal cord injury during the 2012 London Summer Paralympic Games
… of a mere 16 athletes at the 1948 Stoke-Mandeville Games, to a large multi-code event of 4176 athletes competing in 20 different sporting codes at the 2012 London Summer Paralympic Games. Unlike able-bodied athletes, Paralympic athletes represent a heterogenous group of people with a …
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Implications of language and cultural differences on the quality of healthcare provided by expatriate healthcare practitioners in Lesotho public hospitals: Development of an intervention
… in most countries (Aluttis et al., 2014; Mandeville et al., 2016). This strategy has been shown to pose some communication challenges due to linguistic and cultural differences between healthcare practitioners and patients. Many international studies indicate that the presence of language …
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