Becker, Peter
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Administory
This introduction explores several approaches to the analysis of administrative culture. It argues that we should go beyond an often simplistic equation of culture to the informal dimensions of an administrative organization. Instead, administrative culture emerges from the interrelations between the formal and informal aspects of administration an...
Depommier-Cotton, Célia
This dissertation is the first monograph on the subject of Stendhal and Europe. Covering a great range of Stendhal’s writing, and focusing on lesser-known texts and materials, it aims to explore his perception of national character, and the role of inter-European dialogue in his realism. Part One hypothesizes the importance of national identities a...
Nagel, Anne
Poised between a waning magico-theological tradition of symbolic dream interpretation and the rising influence of scientific dream theories, which equated dreaming with disorder, the dream occupied a unique space in nineteenth-century Great Britain. Dreams were coming untethered from signification, as natural philosophers deemed their content indec...
Rinaldi, Clémence
Cet article analyse les stratégies mises en œuvre par l’Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs, en tant que première société d’artistes femmes en France, pour rentrer dans le moule et se fondre dans le paysage artistique de la fin du XIXe siècle. Alors que de nombreux préjugés pèsent sur la pratique artistique des femmes et entravent leur carrière...
Di Stefano, Roberto
Argentina presents a singularity, in religious matters, within the context of Latin America: unlike all other countries, with the sole exception of Costa Rica, it never separated Catholic Church and State. Furthermore, and in this case unlike Costa Rica, it never signed a concordat with the Holy See either. This did not prevent the country, however...
Söderlund, Joel
This thesis analyses speeches by Charles XIII of Sweden to the Assembly of the Estates from 1809 to 1818, showing how Charles legitimised himself, the new regime he represented and his two successors, Charles August, and Charles John. The legitimisation focuses on the rhetorical meaning that Charles chronologically gives to the key concepts he util...
Lindgren-Ciampi, Pontus
The aim of this thesis is to analyse how the Serbian and Bulgarian nineteenth-century intellectual elites constructed concepts of national identity in media-discourses on linguistic purity, as well as how these purist discourses were situated within their unique Balkan cultural-historical contexts. The dissertation places itself in the field of his...
Farías Velásquez, Isabel
Since the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, due to rural-urban migration, a type of popular housing became popular in the main cities of Chile: the conventillo. This house was characterized by housing many people from the popular class who lived in terrible conditions and under a social regime that violated them...
Esteba Ramos, Diana
Through the collation of a corpus of advertisements of modern language courses appearing in the Spanish press of the 19th century, the aim of this article is to present some reflections on the usefulness of this non-canonical source for the study of the ideas about the process of teaching and learning foreign languages. More specifically, we will f...
Adams, Caitlin
This thesis conceives and reveals a hitherto unconceptualized aspect of plebeian life: linguistic economies. It defines and demonstrates linguistic economies as an historical phenomenon, and a conceptual tool for historical analysis. Employing this concept, the thesis analyses how labouring families used, exchanged, and adapted language in England ...
