Strange Means of Governing Simal, Juan Luis
Journal of modern European history,
01/2017, Letnik:
15, Številka:
2
Journal Article
This article proposes a reassessment of the Spanish Restoration through a study of its connections with, and departures from, European post-war strategies. Dominating accounts focus on two ...intertwined narratives: the definitive displacement of Spain from the category of great power, and the political involution of King Ferdinand VII’s reactionary monarchy. These aspects were highlighted by numerous contemporaries and have been considered by most historians, yet they would benefit from a reappraisal that is comparative and considers transnational entanglements. This article addresses whether the character of the Spanish Restoration differed from the processes that were experimented in other parts of Europe and, if so, what the consequences of its particular situation were both for Spain and the international order.
Stampone provides a historical source for William Wells Brown's Miralda. Over the last decade, scholars have become intensely interested in the sources that comprise substantial portions of William ...Wells Brown's many works--especially the four versions of Clotel; or, The President's Daughter, the first African American novel. Yet no one has attempted to elucidate the name Miralda, a relatively minor character in the first novel who is named Mary and who, beginning with Miralda, becomes the novel's eponymous heroine and in the last two versions receives the name Clotelle, recalling the name of her mother and heroine of the first version of the novel.
Biochemical investigation of bioactive compounds from the marine
demospongiae Clathria (Thalysias) vulpina
(Lamarck, 1814) (family
Microcionidae
) resulted in the isolation of two previously ...undescribed 22-membered macrocyclic lactone derivatives clathrolide A and B from its organic extract. Structural elucidation of the compounds were carried out using spectroscopic analysis. Clathrolide A exhibited greater antihypertensive (IC
50
0.44 ± 0.02 mM), anti-inflammatory (IC
50
0.74 ± 0.04 mM), anti-hyperglycemic (IC
50
0.85 ± 0.01 mM), and antioxidant (IC
50
0.70 ± 0.03 mM) activities compared to clathrolide B. Among various bioactivities, such as antihypertensive, anti-inflammatory, anti-hyperglycemic, and antioxidant properties, angiotensin converting enzyme attenuation potential of clathrolide A was found to be significantly greater, and comparable with the standard antihypertensive drug, captopril (IC
50
0.36 ± 0.03 mM). Higher electronic properties (topological polar surface area 133.52) along with comparatively lesser docking score and binding energy of clathrolide A with the aminoacyl residues of angiotensin-I converting enzyme (−12.38 and −12.91 kcal/mol, respectively) recognized its prospective inhibitory property against the enzyme catalyzing the rate-limiting step to form the vasoconstrictor angiotensin-II.
William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was a vocal abolitionist, a frequent antagonist of Frederick Douglass, and the author of Clotel, the first known novel by an African American. He was also an extensive ...plagiarist, copying at least 87,000 words from close to 300 texts. In this critical study of Brown's work and legacy, Geoffrey Sanborn offers a novel reading of the writer's plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of capitalizing on the energies of mass-cultural entertainments popularized by showmen such as P. T. Barnum. By creating the textual equivalent of a variety show, Brown animated antislavery discourse and evoked the prospect of a pleasurably integrated world. Brown's key dramatic protagonists were the "spirit of capitalization"—the unscrupulous double of Max Weber's spirit of capitalism—and the "beautiful slave girl," a light-skinned African American woman on the verge of sale and rape. Brown's unsettling portrayal of these figures unfolded within a riotous patchwork of second-hand texts, upset convention, and provoked the imagination. Could a slippery upstart lay the groundwork for a genuinely interracial society? Could the fetishized image of a not-yet-sold woman hold open the possibility of other destinies? Sanborn's analysis of pastiche and plagiarism adds new depth to the study of nineteenth-century culture and the history of African American literature, suggesting modes of African American writing that extend beyond narratives of necessity and purpose, characterized by the works of Frederick Douglass and others.
Contributeurs : Antoine Débois, Françoise Dubosson, Selina Follonier, Isaac Genoud, Nicolas Gex, François Jacob, Jean-Jacques Langendorf et Nicolas Morel.
This article discusses the consequences of Napoleon’s downfall for the world’s first modern post-slavery state, Haiti. It focuses on the interplay between the French colonial office’s diplomatic ...missions that were lobbied by dispossessed planters to recover the lost colony and the Haitian propaganda to guarantee national independence. These relations ultimately contributed to a shift in French colonial politics towards Haiti, from military conquest and re-enslavement to financial indemnification. Taking the rhetoric of pacification beyond Europe, French diplomacy presented racial hierarchies as an extension of the 1814 compromise between old and new elites in metropolitan France. The Haitian side, however, insisted on the sharp contradiction between the supposed reconciliation in France and a quasi-restoration of the Ancien Régime colonial. Drawing on Haitian, French and British source material, this article analyses how Haitian propaganda attacked the precarious political legitimacy of Restoration France from an extra-European viewpoint to exert pressure on European colonial politics. Relying on Haiti as a model for slave emancipation, British abolitionists significantly contributed to excluding the option of the Ancien Régime colonial. The debate on Haiti’s future forced Louis XVIII’s government to ponder the political risks of colonial restoration. In the outcome, financial indemnification became France’s primary condition for recognising Haitian independence in 1825.
Dans la foulée d’une première étude détaillant le contexte où fut rédigé et publié en 1919 Le bassin de la Sarre. Clauses du traité de Versailles. Étude historique et économique, nous analysons la ...pensée exprimée dans cet ouvrage de Paul Vidal de la Blache et de Lucien Gallois. Nous expliquons comment cette pensée, en combinant science et rhétorique, élabore un récit géographique qui présente l’histoire de la Sarre sous un jour favorable à la France.
Tohopeka Braund, Kathryn H; Abram, Susan M; Collins, Robert P ...
2012, 2012-08-30
eBook
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide arrayof evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this ...troubled period.   Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama was both ancient homeland and new frontier where a complex network of allegiances and agendas was playing out. The fabric of that network stretched and frayed as the Creek Civil War of 1813−14 pitted a faction of the Creek nation known as Red Sticks against those Creeks who supported the Creek National Council.  The war began in July 1813, when Red Stick rebels were attacked near Burnt Corn Creek by Mississippi militia and settlers from the Tensaw area in a vain attempt to keep the Red Sticks’ ammunition from reaching the main body of disaffected warriors. A retaliatory strike against a fortified settlement owned by Samuel Mims, now called Fort Mims, was a Red Stick victory.  The brutality of the assault, in which 250 people were killed, outraged the American public and “Remember Fort Mims” became a national rallying cry.   During the American-British War of 1812, Americans quickly joined the war against the Red Sticks, turning the civil war into a military campaign designed to destroy Creek power. The battles of the Red Sticks have become part of Alabama and American legend and include the famous Canoe Fight, the Battle of Holy Ground, and most significantly, the Battle of Tohopeka (also known as Horseshoe Bend)—the final great battle of the war. There, an American army crushed Creek resistance and made a national hero of Andrew Jackson. New attention to material culture and documentary and archaeological records fills in details, adds new information, and helps disabuse the reader of outdated interpretations.   Contributors Susan M. Abram / Kathryn E. Holland Braund/ Robert P. Collins / Gregory Evans Dowd / John E. Grenier / David S. Heidler / Jeanne T. Heidler / Ted Isham / Ove Jensen / Jay Lamar / Tom Kanon / Marianne Mills / James W. Parker / Craig T. Sheldon Jr. / Robert G. Thrower / Gregory A. Waselkov
By 1849, theNarrative of William W. Brownwas in its fourth edition, having sold over 8,000 copies in less than eighteen months and making it one of the fastest-selling antislavery tracts of its time. ...The book's popularity can be attributed both to the strong voice of its author and Brown's notoriety as an abolitionist speaker. The son of a slave and a white man, Brown recounts his years in servitude, his cruel masters, and the brutal whippings he and those around him received. He provides a detailed description of his failed attempt to escape with his mother; after their capture, they were sold to new masters. A subsequent escape attempt succeeds. He is taken in by a kind Quaker, Wells Brown, whose name he adopts in gratitude. Shortly thereafter, Brown crosses the Canadian border. Brown'sNarrativeincludes stories of fighting devious slave traders and bounty hunters, various antislavery poems, articles and stories (written by him and others), newspaper clippings, reward posters, and slave sale announcements.A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings selected classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available as downloadable e-books or print-on-demand publications. DocSouth Books are unaltered from the original publication, providing affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.
This book offers a radically new interpretation of the entire
philosophy of J. G. Fichte by showing the impact of
nineteenth-century psychological techniques and technologies on the
formation of his ...theory of the imagination-the very centerpiece of
his philosophical system. By situating Fichte's philosophy within
the context of nineteenth-century German science and culture, the
book establishes a new genealogy, one that shows the extent to
which German idealism's transcendental account of the social
remains dependent upon the scientific origins of psychoanalysis in
the material techniques of Mesmerism. The book makes it clear that
the rational, transcendental account of spirit, imagination, and
the social has its source in the psychological phenomena of
affective rapport. Specifically, the imagination undergoes a double
displacement in which it is ultimately subject to external
influence, the influence of a material technique, or, in short, a
technology.
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