Modern greece Koliopoulos, John S; Koliopoulos, John S; Veremis, Thanos M
2009., 2009, 2009-10-27, 20100101
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Modern Greece: A History since 1821 is a chronological account of the political, economic, social, and cultural history of Greece, from the birth of the Greek state in 1821 to 2008 by two leading ...authorities. Pioneering and wide-ranging study of modern Greece, which incorporates the most recent Greek scholarship Sets the history of modern Greece within the context of a broad geo-political framework Includes detailed portraits of leading Greek politicians Provides in-depth considerations on the profound economic and social changes that have occurred as a result of Greece's EU membership
Based on constraints from Big Bang nucleosynthesis and the cosmic microwave background, the baryon content of the high-redshift Universe can be precisely determined. However, at low redshift, about ...one-third of the baryons remain unaccounted for, which poses the long-standing missing baryon problem. The missing baryons are believed to reside in large-scale filaments in the form of warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). In this work, we employ a novel stacking approach to explore the hot phases of the WHIM. Specifically, we utilize the 470 ks Chandra LETG data of the luminous quasar, H 1821+643, along with previous measurements of UV absorption line systems and spectroscopic redshift measurements of galaxies toward the quasar's sightline. We repeatedly blueshift and stack the X-ray spectrum of the quasar corresponding to the redshifts of the 17 absorption line systems. Thus, we obtain a stacked spectrum with 8.0 Ms total exposure, which allows us to probe X-ray absorption lines with unparalleled sensitivity. Based on the stacked data, we detect an O vii absorption line that exhibits a Gaussian line profile and is statistically significant at the 3.3 level. Since the redshifts of the UV absorption line systems were known a priori, this is the first definitive detection of an X-ray absorption line originating from the WHIM. The equivalent width of the O vii line is (4.1 1.3) m , which corresponds to an O vii column density of . We constrain the absorbing gas to have a density of for a single WHIM filament. We derive for the cosmological mass density of O vii, assuming that all 17 systems contribute equally.
Intratextual Baudelaire: The Sequential Fabric of the
Fleurs du mal and Spleen de Paris by Randolph Paul Runyon
provides a new and provocative answer to the question that has
intrigued readers for ...years: did the poet arrange the Fleurs du
mal in a meaningful order? Runyon believes so, but not in the
way most have conceived the question. Barbey d'Aurevilly's claim
that there was a "secret architecture" hidden in the
Fleurs has long misled scholars by leading them to look
for some overarching hierarchical organization, when they should
have been looking for how the poems actually fit together, each to
each, in the sequential fabric of the text. This is what Runyon has
done, in a meticulous reading of every poem and its place in the
sequence. Intratextual Baudelaire provides the most
thorough analysis available of the textual changes Baudelaire made
between the first and second editions and shows why he made them:
so that the sequential structure would be preserved despite the
addition of new poems and the deletion of those judged obscene.
Extending his analysis to the Spleen de Paris with the
same attention to detail and awareness of textual changes, Runyon
shows that Baudelaire's prose-poem collection displays the same
rigorous sequential structure. Both collections are revealed as
marvels of self-referential intratextuality. Whether one agrees
with Runyon or not, Intratextual Baudelaire will certainly
generate discussion among French studies scholars.
El 28 de septiembre de 1821 se declaró la Independencia del Imperio Mexicano. Poco se ha reparado en el hecho de que el nacimiento de México se llevó dentro de la vigencia de un orden constitucional ...moderno, regido parcial y temporalmente por la Constitución española de 1812 y por los principios establecidos en el Plan de Iguala y los Tratados de Córdoba, considerados como las primeras leyes fundamentales, hasta que el congreso mexicano expidiera la primera constitución propiamente mexicana. Este hecho y este acto jurídico fueron únicos en la historia política latinoamericana y reflejaron una vocación constitucionalista.
This paper aims at unpacking the cultural, historical and political significance behind the representations (including pictures, caricatures, journalistic articles, etc.) and self-representations of ...Rachel Félix (1821–1858), the first prominent Jewish performer on the French and British and American stage, as a prism which may afford a broader discussion about the literary formations of the figure the Jewish female artist Félix, renowned for her exquisite beauty and daring sensuality, serves as an excellent paradigm of how Jewish artists used and, at times, manipulated their “biblical"/"oriental"/ “sensual” beauty with the aim of promoting their artistic career. My discussion, adopting a New Historicist outlook, also aims at explaining the correlation between such literary formations and their political implications with regards to the representation of Jewish artists. Since the identity of an actress is so obviously “constructed,” and because of the intricate relationship between the Jewishness, artistic vocation and femininity, the figure of Félix provides a direct engagement with a particular set of cultural and political assumptions about Jewish female artists. Looking at Félix's literary and artistic representations by her contemporaries and at her own self-representation as reflected on the stage and in her letters leads us to a better understanding of the relationship between the cultural, political and artistic constructs of Jewish female artists.
Examinamos el proceso de elección de diputados para las Cortes de Madrid en la provincia de Guanajuato en 1820 y mostramos su compleja organización y realización en distintos niveles. Estos comicios ...se llevaron a cabo en un contexto de alta efervescencia debido a que la restaurada Constitución de Cádiz había creado expectativas de que las demandas políticas y económicas de los guanajuatenses —entre ellas la creación de una diputación provincial— serían atendidas y resueltas en las Cortes. La aspiración a tener esa representación política y el interés por el trabajo parlamentario se volvieron una constante en la región entonces. Así, sugerimos que el análisis de este proceso genera nuevas explicaciones de la transición del régimen virreinal al inicio de la vida nacional.
Las leyes sancionadas desde 1821 establecieron la ingeniería institucional de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Las mismas tenían como finalidad reformar la situación de varias corporaciones y modificar ...las características políticas, económicas, sociales y territoriales de la provincia autónoma. Para los pueblos rurales de la misma, algunas de estas reformas, como la eliminación de los cabildos, la creación de los juzgados de paz y la ley de elecciones significaron profundos cambios en relación con las dinámicas político-electorales desarrolladas durante la década revolucionaria. Este artículo tiene como finalidad evidenciar, analizar y relacionar las modificaciones que estas reformas generaron. Para lograr nuestro cometido y vislumbrar con nitidez las implicancias de las mismas realizaremos una comparación entre las características existentes durante la década revolucionaria y la posterior. En este análisis comparativo tomaremos en consideración algunas variables significativas como: la competencia existente en las elecciones, los elegidos en ella, la participación electoral, el rol de las autoridades locales en las elecciones, las concepciones existentes sobre la representación política y el sujeto de imputación soberana. Este cotejo permitiría pensar los cambios que estas reformas implicaron en las dinámicas político-electorales como en las relaciones entre los pueblos rurales y el poder central de la provincia.
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