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Medieval Art & Architecture
Medieval Art & Architecture The Libraries of Professor Joachim Gaehde, Brandeis University and Dr. Lillian M.C. Randall, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore 1,288 titles in ca. 1,475 physical volumes From Brandeis Universisty website Remembering Joachim Gaehde, professor emeritus of fine arts Joachim Gaehde Nov. 26, 2013 Joachim Gaehde, professor emeritus of fine arts, passed away Nov. 24, of pneumonia. He was 92 and lived in Arlington, Mass. A scholar of Carolingian illuminated manuscripts, Gaehde was the eminence grise of the Department of Fine Arts for most of his long tenure at Brandeis, said his colleague Nancy Scott, associate professor of fine arts. Gaehde was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1921. His mother was Jewish, and he survived most of the war years in Nazi Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1950 and later earned his doctoral degree from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. In 1962, Gaehde joined the Brandeis faculty as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor in 1969. He also served as dean of the faculty in the 1970s under President Marver Bernstein. Scott said that Gaehde defined the field of medieval studies at Brandeis, and became well known for his rigorous course studies; his kindly concern and manner toward students; and his wit, elegance and dedication. “As a colleague, [he] held the department to high standards, and at the same time he enjoyed the pleasures of his American life — he favored a blue Fiat convertible, which he drove with the top down in all kinds of weather; loved his Rhodesian Ridgeback dogs, which were part of his daily constitutionals; and was a gourmet cook,” recalled Scott. -
A Political Philosophy of Modernity
Autonomy In and Between Polities: A Political Philosophy of Modernity Gerard Rosich ADVERTIMENT. La consulta d’aquesta tesi queda condicionada a l’acceptació de les següents condicions d'ús: La difusió d’aquesta tesi per mitjà del servei TDX (www.tdx.cat) i a través del Dipòsit Digital de la UB (diposit.ub.edu) ha estat autoritzada pels titulars dels drets de propietat intel·lectual únicament per a usos privats emmarcats en activitats d’investigació i docència. No s’autoritza la seva reproducció amb finalitats de lucre ni la seva difusió i posada a disposició des d’un lloc aliè al servei TDX ni al Dipòsit Digital de la UB. No s’autoritza la presentació del seu contingut en una finestra o marc aliè a TDX o al Dipòsit Digital de la UB (framing). Aquesta reserva de drets afecta tant al resum de presentació de la tesi com als seus continguts. En la utilització o cita de parts de la tesi és obligat indicar el nom de la persona autora. ADVERTENCIA. La consulta de esta tesis queda condicionada a la aceptación de las siguientes condiciones de uso: La difusión de esta tesis por medio del servicio TDR (www.tdx.cat) y a través del Repositorio Digital de la UB (diposit.ub.edu) ha sido autorizada por los titulares de los derechos de propiedad intelectual únicamente para usos privados enmarcados en actividades de investigación y docencia. No se autoriza su reproducción con finalidades de lucro ni su difusión y puesta a disposición desde un sitio ajeno al servicio TDR o al Repositorio Digital de la UB. -
American Capitalism
AC/No.1/March 2016 American Capitalism STATES, NOT NATION: THE SOURCES OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY UNITED STATES Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and Study of Business Enterprise States, Not Nation: The Sources of Political and Economic Development in the Early United States Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University and NBER John Joseph Wallis, University of Maryland and NBER September 2015 Abstract: General histories of the United States focus almost exclusively on developments at the national level. Yet it is well known that most of the important changes that propelled political democratization and economic modernization in the nineteenth century occurred at the state level. The purpose of this paper is to shift the focus of attention to the states without losing sight of the larger story of which they were a part. We accomplish this goal by reexamining aspects of economic development that the states are conventionally acknowledged to have led—the creation of a banking system, the construction of transportation infrastructure, the promotion of corporations—and show that these developments were part and parcel of a more fundamental institutional shift from a “limited access” to an “open access” social order, to borrow the terminology that Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast developed for their book Violence and Social Orders (2009). The United States was not born modern at the time of the American Revolution or even the Constitution. Rather, we contend, the institutional prerequisites for political and economic modernization took shape over the course of the first half of the nineteenth century through a series of mutually reinforcing political and economic changes that occurred at the state level. -
Towards a Sociology of Revolutionary Situations. Reflections on the Arab Uprisings Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi and Olivier Fillieule
Revue française de science politique, 2012/5-6 (vol. 62) Towards a sociology of revolutionary situations. Reflections on the Arab uprisings Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi and Olivier Fillieule ‘Uprisings have a body with which one can engage in combat. Revolutions, on the other hand, have a lot in common with ghosts’. Metternich to Guizot, October 31st, 1847 When we contemplate the apparent domino-effect of upheavals precipitated by the rapid and unexpected fall of Ben Ali on January 14th, 2011, the first image that comes to mind is that of 1848’s ‘Springtime of the Peoples’, when a demonstration in the streets of Paris prompted three days of insurrection, the restoration of the Republic and, thanks to the telegraph, the railways and the rotary press, over ten days of uprisings across cities as distant as Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Milan and Venice. However, just as when considering the revolutions of 1848, we should be wary of overly generalizing interpretations that seek to describe the events of 2010–2012 as the product of a unified wave of insurrections. Aside from the trigger provided by Ben Ali’s downfall, the trajectory, and consequently the shape, taken by the Egyptian, Moroccan, Bahraini, Libyan, Yemeni, and Syrian uprisings were all very different.It is only if we do not understand their respective contexts or if we are blinded by a well-meaning enthusiasm that we may collectively refer to them as the ‘Arab revolutions’. It is too soon to tell if any of these movements can be labelled as revolutionary. Such a question can only be answered with hindsight, in light of the results produced. -
Introduction—On and Off Topic
Le Monde Français du Dix-Huitième Siècle Volume 5, Issue-numéro 1 2020 Transposition(s) and Confrontation(s) in the British Isles, in France and Northern America (1688-1815) Dirs. Pierre-François Peirano & Hélène Palma Introduction—on and off Topic Hélène Palma [email protected] Pierre-François Peirano pierre-franç[email protected] DOI: 10.5206/mfds-ecfw.v5i1.13475 Introduction—on and off Topic It has long been established, mainly with the works of Robert Roswell Palmer, Jacques Godechot, and more recently, Wim Klooster and Janet Polasky1, that a revolutionary wave, promoting more egalitarian and progressive political regimes, swept over Northern America and Europe, France more particularly, in the 18th century. This approach, known as the Atlantic Revolution theory, holds that the 1776 American War of Independence initiated such a philosophical and political process, later reaching Europe. As Robert Roswell Palmer put it in The Age of Democratic Revolution: “The present work attempts to deal with […] what has sometimes recently been called the Atlantic Civilization […]. It is argued that this whole civilization was swept in the last four decades of the eighteenth century by a single revolutionary movement […]. It is held that this forty-year movement was essentially ‘democratic’ and that these years are in fact the Age of the Democratic Revolution”2. It appears however that this revolutionary movement was initiated a long time before 1776. In the 1960s, famous French historian Fernand Braudel had already raised the question -
The Pulitzer Prizes 2020 Winne
WINNERS AND FINALISTS 1917 TO PRESENT TABLE OF CONTENTS Excerpts from the Plan of Award ..............................................................2 PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM Public Service ...........................................................................................6 Reporting ...............................................................................................24 Local Reporting .....................................................................................27 Local Reporting, Edition Time ..............................................................32 Local General or Spot News Reporting ..................................................33 General News Reporting ........................................................................36 Spot News Reporting ............................................................................38 Breaking News Reporting .....................................................................39 Local Reporting, No Edition Time .......................................................45 Local Investigative or Specialized Reporting .........................................47 Investigative Reporting ..........................................................................50 Explanatory Journalism .........................................................................61 Explanatory Reporting ...........................................................................64 Specialized Reporting .............................................................................70 -
The Pacific Guano Islands: the Stirring of American Empire in the Pacific Ocean
THE PACIFIC GUANO ISLANDS: THE STIRRING OF AMERICAN EMPIRE IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN Dan O’Donnell Stafford Heights, Queensland, Australia The Pacific guano trade, a “curious episode” among United States over- seas ventures in the nineteenth century,1 saw exclusive American rights proclaimed over three scores of scattered Pacific islands, with the claims legitimized by a formal act of Congress. The United States Guano Act of 18 August 1856 guaranteed to enterprising American guano traders the full weight and authority of the United States government, while every other power was denied access to the deposits of rich fertilizer.2 While the act specifically declared that the United States was not obliged to “retain possession of the islands” once they were stripped of guano, some with strategic and commercial potential apart from the riches of centuries of bird droppings have been retained to this day. Of critical importance in the Guano Act, from the viewpoint of exclusive or sovereign rights, was the clause empowering the president to “employ the land and naval forces of the United States” to protect American rights. Another clause declared that the “introduction of guano from such islands, rocks or keys shall be regulated as in the coastal trade between different parts of the United States, and the same laws shall govern the vessels concerned therein.” The real significance of this clause lay in the monopoly afforded American vessels in the carry- ing trade. “Foreign vessels must, of course, be excluded and the privi- lege confined to the duly documented vessels of the United States,” the act stated. -
Yale and the Study of Near Eastern Languages in America, 1770-1930
Yale and the Study of Near Easter n Languages in America, 1770-1930* Benjamin R. Foster “The very peculiarity of our national destiny, in a moral point of view, calls upon us not only not to be behind, but to be even foremost, in intimate acquain- tance with oriental languages and institutions. The countries of the West, including our own, have been largely indebted to the East for their various culture; the time has come when this debt should be repaid.” -Edward Salisbury, 1848 Introduction As the reverend Johann Christoph Kunze journeyed from Halle to Philadelphia in 1770, he noted with distaste that his shipmates were no representatives of the best educational tra- ditions of his land. Yet the sturdy farmers who accompanied him were to fare better professionally, as a group, than the learned Kunze, for events were to prove that no American col- lege had then a place or resources for a German scholar of Hebrew. Scarcely more than a century later, two American universities, one of them in Philadelphia, were proud to recruit two Leipziger Assyriologists to their nascent Semitic departments. What had occurred in the meantime? The history of American scholarship in biblical, Semitic, and Near Eastern languages may be divided into eight main Benjamin R. Foster, Professor of Assyriology Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 1 phases: (1) the Colonial period, in which biblical scholarship was honored in New England along the lines set by Cambridge, Oxford, and Scottish universities; -
Calendar of Roman Events
Introduction Steve Worboys and I began this calendar in 1980 or 1981 when we discovered that the exact dates of many events survive from Roman antiquity, the most famous being the ides of March murder of Caesar. Flipping through a few books on Roman history revealed a handful of dates, and we believed that to fill every day of the year would certainly be impossible. From 1981 until 1989 I kept the calendar, adding dates as I ran across them. In 1989 I typed the list into the computer and we began again to plunder books and journals for dates, this time recording sources. Since then I have worked and reworked the Calendar, revising old entries and adding many, many more. The Roman Calendar The calendar was reformed twice, once by Caesar in 46 BC and later by Augustus in 8 BC. Each of these reforms is described in A. K. Michels’ book The Calendar of the Roman Republic. In an ordinary pre-Julian year, the number of days in each month was as follows: 29 January 31 May 29 September 28 February 29 June 31 October 31 March 31 Quintilis (July) 29 November 29 April 29 Sextilis (August) 29 December. The Romans did not number the days of the months consecutively. They reckoned backwards from three fixed points: The kalends, the nones, and the ides. The kalends is the first day of the month. For months with 31 days the nones fall on the 7th and the ides the 15th. For other months the nones fall on the 5th and the ides on the 13th. -
John Quincy Adams Influence on Washington's Farewell Address: A
La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons Undergraduate Research La Salle Scholar Winter 1-7-2019 John Quincy Adams Influence on ashingtW on’s Farewell Address: A Critical Examination Stephen Pierce La Salle University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/undergraduateresearch Part of the Constitutional Law Commons, First Amendment Commons, International Law Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Society Commons, Legal History Commons, Legislation Commons, Military History Commons, Military, War, and Peace Commons, National Security Law Commons, President/Executive Department Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Pierce, Stephen, "John Quincy Adams Influence on ashingtW on’s Farewell Address: A Critical Examination" (2019). Undergraduate Research. 33. https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/undergraduateresearch/33 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the La Salle Scholar at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Research by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. John Quincy Adams Influence on Washington’s Farewell Address: A Critical Examination By Stephen Pierce In the last official letter to President Washington as Minister to the Netherlands in 1797, John Quincy Adams expressed his deepest thanks and reverence for the appointment that was bestowed upon him by the chief executive. As Washington finished his second and final term in office, Adams stated, “I shall always consider my personal obligations to you among the strongest motives to animate my industry and invigorate my exertions in the service of my country.” After his praise to Washington, he went into his admiration of the president’s 1796 Farewell Address. -
Ell Wish List 4-23-17
ELL WISH LIST 4-23-17 (Detailed instructions for use by Librarians of the maintenance file (Wish List.xlxs file) are in the Library Procedures Manual.) REMEMBER: ALL DONATED BOOKS MUST BE IN GOOD CONDITION. TO LOOK THROUGH A CATEGORY, use the scroll bar to move up or down through the file. There are 6 categories: Category # of Books Page# Fiction ~190 2-6 Historical Fiction ~ 50 7-8 Non-Fiction ~100 9-11 Biography & Autobiography ~ 50 12-13 History ~100 14-16 Children's ~100 17-19 Note: All categories are sorted by Title, except for Children's, which is organized by age groups and is not sorted into any particular order within the age groups. TO LOCATE A SPECIFIC BOOK, proceed as follows: 1. From the Taskbar, click the spyglass icon, 2. In the Find pop-up window , enter all or part of either the book title or an author’s name and click NEXT, 3. Continue clicking NEXT, until program reports no additional matches were found. About search criterion: When you enter search criterion into the FIND box, what you enter is what you get! For example, if you enter the words "The", "A", or "An" as part of a title, the system is going to find a lot of books, because these words are in many book titles. Same thing for authors' names, if the author has a common first name. So, omit common words, such as "The", "A" and "An" in title searches and avoid common first names, like "John", when searching with an author's name. -
Fonds Ehrmann Date De Titre Auteur Editeur Cote Publication L'italie Déçue ; Texte Imprimé / Giorgio Quartara Quartara , Giorgio F
Fonds Ehrmann Date de Titre Auteur Editeur Cote publication L'Italie déçue ; Texte imprimé / Giorgio Quartara Quartara , Giorgio F. Alcan 1936 EHR 1 Les alliés contre la Russie avant, pendant et après la guerre Zaïontchkovsky , A. A. Delpeuch [1926] EHR 2 mondiale ; Texte imprimé : faits et documents / [A. Zaïontchkovsky et alii] ; préface de Victor Margueritte Histoire diplomatique (1815-1870)... Novembre 1930 [-juin 1931] ; Guyot , Raymond -- 1877-1934 Centre européen de la -1931 EHR 3 Texte imprimé : cours... / Raymond Guyot ; [publ. par] Institut des Dotation Carnegie hautes études internationales et Centre européen de la Dotation Carnegie Les Organisations de blocus en France pendant la guerre ; Texte Gout , Jean Plon 1926 EHR 4 imprimé : 1914-1918 / publié sous l'inspiration de Denys Cochin,.. ; par un groupe de ses collaborateurs : Jean Gout, Fouques-Duparc, Francis Rey [et al] 1914-1918. Le Triomphe des forces économiques ; Texte imprimé : Consett , M.W.W.P -- Contre-Amiral Société d'éditions 1924 EHR 5 Exposé des transactions à la faveur desquelles l'Allemagne put géographiques maritimes s'approvisionner pendant la Grande Guerre, avant sa débâcle sous et coloniales la pression des forces économiques / Contre-Amir Die deutschen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch 1914 ; Texte Allemagne , 1871-1945 . Auswärtiges Amt Deutsche 1927 EHR 6 imprimé / herausgegeben von Graf Max Montgelas und Prof. Verlagsgesellschaft für Walter Schücking Politik und Geschichte Die deutschen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch 1914 ; Texte Allemagne , 1871-1945 . Auswärtiges Amt Deutsche 1927 EHR 7 imprimé / herausgegeben von Graf Max Montgelas und Prof. Verlagsgesellschaft für Walter Schücking Politik und Geschichte Die deutschen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch 1914 ; Texte Allemagne , 1871-1945 .