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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Third Republic"”.
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Nourishing the political body: Banquets in early Third Republic France, 1878 – 1914
… the place of workers in society, women’s rights, republicanism versus monarchy as the form of government, and expansion of the French empire – were advanced at banquets, ritualized gatherings over food and drink. Drawing on the key historical success of banquets as a means of political …
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The mezzo-soprano onstage and offstage: a cultural history of the voice-type, singers and roles in the French Third Republic (1870–1918)
… in the French repertoire composed during the Third Republic (1870–1940). By analysing primary sources such as newspaper articles, contractual documents, correspondence, scores and images, this dissertation reconstructs the mezzo-soprano’s history in a pivotal time and geographical location, …
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Jules Ferry and Henri Maret: The Battle of Church and State at the Sorbonne, 1879-1884
… Minister of Public Instruction for the French Third Republic, wished to secularize education in France through a series of legislative actions in order to modernize France, as he understood the term. Henri Maret, the Dean of the Theology Faculty at the Sorbonne, sought to prevent this. This …
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Gramscian Perspectives on Populism
… are then applied to different periods of the Third Republic of France, 1870-1940. This paper looks at this French example because it features unique relationships between populism, ideology, and the experience of liberalism prior to World War II. The third section demonstrates the implications …
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Gaston Bachelard's scientific philosophy: an approach to science and technology studies
… of positivism and pragmatism defended by the Third Republic. Bachelard's writings represent an important contribution to a new vocabulary in epistemology, and they influenced scholars such as Georges Canguilhen, Alexandre Koyré, Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. His works definitely deserve …
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Eugenics in the garden: architecture, medicine, and landscape from France to Latin America in the early twentieth century
… fear of social degeneration in France during the Third Republic (1870-1940), moved from the realms of medicine and law to architecture and urban planning, becoming a political subtext in the building of modem Latin American nations that viewed France as a primary cultural and scientific paradigm. …
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From Aesthetics to Politics in the Dreyfus Affair
… ideas such as individualism, truth, and the Republic, in order to illustrate their structural role in the intellectual world of the fin de siècle. As a result, I have termed the four chapters 'micro-histories of ideas' to convey the way in which individual concerns provide a window onto the …
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Terroir after the terror : landscape and representation in nineteenth-century France
… the French Revolution through to the early Third Republic (1790-circa 1880), combining object study with environmental history to draw out the political stakes of seemingly picturesque scenes. Looking beyond painting to include an analysis of decorative arts and visual culture, this study …
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Consuming democracy : local agencies and liberal peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo
… on the first legislature of the Congolese Third Republic (2006-2011) this thesis provides a case study of how local agencies consume liberal democracy within the National Assembly, and make it their own. It discusses current liberal peace building practices as a process of mutual …
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Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature
… demonstrating that the instability of the French Third Republic created an atmosphere that contributed to a proliferation of conspiracy theories targeting every faction imaginable, from right-wing and leftist groups to Freemasons, Jesuits, and Jews. Serving as both the subject of fictional works …
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Aesthetics in Ruins: Parisian Writing, Photography and Art, 1851-1892
… second spans the 1870-1871 conflagration and the Third Republic. An interdisciplinary and dialogic approach reveals the exchanges between different media (literature, journalism, painting, photography) aiming to convey the paradoxes of Paris's modern ruins. Moreover, close reading and comparisons …
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The Republic and its children: French children's literature, 1855-1900
… changes that took place during the Second Republic, the Second Empire and the watershed events leading to the establishment of France’s Third Republic in September 1870, a distinctive genre of children’s literature took root in France. Editors, authors and illustrators who had vested …
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The descriptive miniatures of Alphonse Hasselmans and Henriette Renié: an examination of the pedagogical and artistic significance of salon pieces for harp
… and religious environment of France during the Third Republic, explains how government and gender stereotypes affected the lives of these musicians. It also provides a concise history of the role of the harp in Parisian salons and assesses the importance of program music during the belle époque …
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Emile Durkheim: the narrative of a liminal subject
… capacity to confirm Durkheim as political in the republican sense and a ‘subject’ (Foucault) of the French Third Republic.
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On Colonial Textuality and Difference: Musical Encounters with French Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
… history, the July Monarchy, Second Empire, and Third Republic. Chapters draw on archival research, reception studies, travel journals, government reports, cultural and political history, and musical analysis to explore the ways in which music, broadly defined, addressed social issues of …
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Massenet, Marianne and Mary : Republican morality and Catholic tradition at the opera
The social and political practice of the French Third Republic resonated with a variety of contrasting ideologies which were reflected in cultural products and their reception, including opera. The operas of Jules Massenet, the most successful Parisian opera composer of his time, provide a good …
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'French like the others': Colonial Migrants in Wartime France, 1939-1947
… focus on the 1930s and 1940s, which crosses the Third Republic, Vichy and Liberation eras, demonstrates the treatment of colonial migrants was not just about specific political regimes but firmly rooted in entrenched racial stereotypes of North Africans and Vietnamese that persist in France today.
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Symphonic Culture in Paris, 1880-1900: The Bande à Franck and Beyond
… "serious" music, and how this conception shaped Third Republic attitudes about orchestral genres, absolute music, and program music. Second, I examine how French composers responded to the legacy of Wagner in non-theatrical genres. Finally, I discuss how these four musicians fashioned a cultural, …
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