Search Results - "French Revolution"

Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen by Oergel, Maike

“…The aim of this essay is to investigate the concepts of cultural identity and national sovereignty as they emerge in radical German nationalism after 1806 in relation to French Revolutionary ideas and seek to reconstruct a radical revolutionary, i.e. a ‘French Revolution’, context for the idea of German national unity. …”
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Stamp Duty, Propaganda and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars by Oats, Lynne, Sadler, Pauline

“…The purpose of this paper is to explore developments in the newspaper stamp duty and associated taxes during the latter half of that century and early in the nineteenth century, the period following the French Revolution during which England was at war with France. …”
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Between compassion and conservatism: a genealogy of British humanitarian sensibilities by Pupavac, Vanessa

“…Modern British humanitarianism arose out of the contradictions between humanist ideals, expanding social sympathies, and fears of radical political change following the French Revolution. Its development was strongly influenced by middle class evangelical reform circles, exemplified by the abolitionist William Wilberforce. …”
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Les Philosophés kurun ke-18 di Perancis: sifat-sifat reaksioner di sebalik bayang revolusioner by Azmi Arifin

“…The Philosophés and Enlightenment were thought to play an important role in the French Revolution of 1789. They were claimed to champion radical demands for equality and democracy for the people, thus challenging the prevailing aristocratic order. …”
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Distributive justice : who gets what and how by Sulaiman, Kabuye Uthman

“…It is due to distribution of wealth and income that great revolutions such as the French Revolution of 1789, and armed conflicts in many parts of the world have taken place. …”
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Distributive justice : a comparative analysis by Sulaiman, Kabuye Uthman

“…It is due to distribution of wealth and income that great revolutions such as the French Revolution of 1789, and armed conflicts in many parts of the world have taken place. …”
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Introduction To Themed Issue World Heritage: Cultural Resource Management Giving Asia-pacific A Sense Of Place by Blundell, David

“…According to Dario Gamboni (professor at the Institute of Art History of the University of Amsterdam), since the French Revolution, our idea of "world heritage" is more recent, stemming from the 20th century. …”
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Human rights provisions in the holy Quran and in international human rights declarations: a critical analysis by Islam, Aminul, Yahyea, Khalid, Osmani, Noor Mohammad

“…In the circle of lawyers, it is generally and widely believed that the Magna Carta of 1215 was the predecessorof the declaration of human rights in written constitution. The French revolution of 1776 and the American declaration of independence of 1779 borrowed a lot from the Magna Carta in the avowed declaration of the entrenchment of human rights in written constitutions. …”
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Cross-Cultural encounters: the early reception of Charles Dickens in China, 1895-1915 by Lee, Klaudia Hiu Yen

“…In Chapter Three, I shall first consider how in A Tale of Two Cities Dickens makes use of the French Revolution, and the antithesis between the individual and the collective, to comment on contemporary politics before proceeding to consider how the novel was adapted to serve specific political purposes when it was first published in China in an overtly political journal, The Justice, about a year and a half after the Chinese Revolution of 1911. …”
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Byron's "Manfred" and the Greek imaginary by Leman, Lucia

“…Aiming to facilitate an insight into Byron’s formative experiences, the chapter offers a survey of eighteenth-century Philhellenism and its socio-political conditions, namely the institution of the Grand Tour, burgeoning Orientalism, Winckelmann's aesthetic reassessment of the plastic arts (followed by the trends of antiquarianism and the picturesque in British painting) and the French Revolution. Here, I draw an ideological and aesthetic distinction between the Greek imaginary and Gothicism and then I outline Byron's Greek imaginary. …”
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Implementation of the regional administrative decentralization gradual by Hatem, Faris Abdulraheem, Mohd Noor, Noor Farihah

“…However, there are several obstacles to the implementation of administrative decentralization are the lack of experience of the local entities and the lack of financial resources as well as accountability.In addition to the fear of division in countries that consist of multiple nationalities and religions.Some countries such as France implemented the administrative decentralization in stages.France succeeded in decentralization in stages since 1982, but the decentralization experiment at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789 failed when implemented it directly. …”
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