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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Old Regime"”.
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Masks and masking practices in old regime France and the French Revolution
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution
… costume, setting, and characters. In the Old Regime, the theatrical representation of Roman Catholic clerics and garb was prohibited from the public theater. After 1789, however, societal norms surrounding the treatment of religious objects were radically transformed. The collapse of the …
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"""Vive La Republique. Vive L'empereur."": Military Culture and Motivation in the Armies of Napoleon, 1803--1808"
… proposes that over time, the Napoleonic regime did increasingly promote values such as honor, glory, and aggressive heterosexuality that were difficult to reconcile with the principles of the French Revolution. Napoleon also sought to restore traditional sources of military motivation in …
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South African obligation under international law to prosecute and punish perpetrators of gross human rights violations and to provide compensation for victims
… by a general amnesty for the perpetrators of the old regime, shielding those who committed atrocities and gross violations of human rights from any criminal prosecutions. Spain is probably the most prominent example for a country having chosen this way but amnesty laws have also been passed, inter …
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A Compliant Court: The Political Effects of the Addition of Judgeships to the United States Supreme Court Following Electoral Realignments
… the branches. When a new party replaces the 'old order' in both the legislature and the executive branches, the possibility for conflict emerges with the Court. Justices who make decisions based on old regime preferences of the party that had appointed them to the bench will likely clash with …
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La cárcel y el control del delito en Navarra entre el Antiguo Régimen y el Estado liberal
We hold that a social history of the punitive institutions brings us closer to the development of the control of the disturbance and to the processes of criminalization of a social order (this one, in Navarra, even with the crisis of the Old Regime, discoursed basically integrated). We tackle it …
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Corresponding Republics: Letter Writing and Patriot Organizing in the Atlantic Revolutions, circa 1760-1792
… in the fragmented political landscape of the old regime. Yet even though most studies of revolutionary politics make heavy use of private correspondence, nobody had yet examined the ways in which patriots' reliance on private letters and networks shaped the revolutions' broader political …
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Retrospective Revolution: A History of Time and Memory in Urban Russia, 1903--1923
… and habit. The abject failure of the old regime to satisfactorily engage this conversation and to offer meaningful solutions would render such nostalgia into a bitingly transgressive critique of autocracy, mass consumerism, of private property and unfettered capitalism. Drawing from …
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The Sudanese comprehensive peace agreement: how could the comprehensive peace agreement become the basis for either unity or disintegration of the Sudan?
… deepened because successive Northern Sudanese regimes have not honoured previous agreements. Among the Southern Sudanese, in particular, there is increased support for secession. Secondly, the agreement is not being implemented fully, in both spirit and letter, and it could therefore collapse. …
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Gaussian processes for state space models and change point detection
… to time series into a change point framework. Old data, from an old regime, that hinders predictive performance is automatically and elegantly phased out. The computational improvements for Gaussian process time series approaches are of even greater use in the change point framework. We also …
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Die Erfindung der Moderne: Das Manifest Refus global und die identitätsstiftende Rezeption von Surrealismus und Automatismus in Québec
… modern state they were creating. The end of the old regime was also the beginning of a new Quebec nationalism which is important for the new reception of Automatism. The intellectuals discovered the Refus global and saw in Borduas their spiritual father in their claim for an original Quebec …
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Metric reform as a workshop of scientific and economic governance in revolutionary France
… simultaneously constructing the new political regime and their place within it. This dissertation considers the early history of the metric system as a testing ground to investigate how the scope and reach of both scientific expertise and state action changed in France during the revolutionary …
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Law, Autonomy, and Local Government: A Legal History of Municipal Corporations in Canada West/Ontario, 1850-1880
… the supervision of local government by the old-regime, soft law grand jury, and the new-regime hard law prison inspectorates. I investigate whether the newly created township councils were able to express community norms through the property tax appeal process. Finally, I consider the …
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A Monster for Our Times: Reading Sade across the Centuries
… present. Ever since he was imprisoned under the Old Regime following highly publicized instances of physical and sexual abuse, Sade has remained a controversial figure who has been both condemned as a dangerous criminal and celebrated as an icon for artistic freedom. The most enduring aspect of …
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Opératrice dans les coulisses: Re-evaluating filles de l’Opéra Through the Case of Élisabeth-Claire Le Duc (1721-1793)
… of their place in Parisian society of the Old Regime, a great number of questions remain as to the material realities of the filles de l’Opéra. What were they paid? Where did they live? Why did they pursue prestigious lovers? Did they obtain social and financial mobility? What did they …
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Crisis del Antiguo Régimen y liberalismo en Calahorra (La Rioja) 1788-1840
Esta investigación explica a través de Calahorra el cambio producido en España desde la crisis del Antiguo Régimen, el reinado de Carlos IV y la influencia de la Revolución francesa, hasta el final de la Primera Guerra Carlista, cuando se cierra el primer ciclo del liberalismo español con la …