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Description:: During the eighteenth century, European trade with Asia was characterized by the importation of sophisticated manufactured goods in exchange for silver. The features of Euro-Asian trade testify to the vitality of the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese economies in the period before the Great Divergence. Many European observers, however, mistook them...
Keyword:: France, India, Great Divergence, Orientalism, and eighteenth-century
Subject:: History
Creator:: Blake Smith
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/18/2018
Date Modified:: 01/28/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation constitutes a re-evaluation of the popular and critical understanding of eighteenth-century libertinage. In particular, I contest the distinction between sentimentalism and libertinage, which are typically seen as two, irreconcilable approaches to emotional expression. As sentimentalism became prominent in the second half of the eighteenth century, I argue, it...
Keyword:: libertinage, eighteenth-century literature, Casanova, Vivant Denon, France, and Mirabeau
Subject:: French and Italian
Creator:: Bradley Reichek
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/06/2018
Date Modified:: 09/06/2018
Date Created:: 2008-04-25
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation asks how deepening global inequalities reshape the ways families negotiate “economic moralities,” normative expectations of material obligation and entitlement. It focuses on the families of middle class migrants: French-educated Senegalese urbanites whose diplomas no longer protect them from discrimination in Paris but who, among Africans, are still construed...
Keyword:: transnational families, France, food sharing, Senegal, children, and migration
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Chelsie Jeannette Yount-Andre
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/09/2018
Date Modified:: 04/09/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The vaudeville remains an oft-overlooked genre of French song that was popularized by Paris’s fairground theaters and street singers on the Pont Neuf. Many histories of French music point to the middle of the eighteenth century as the period when the vaudeville began its rapid disappearance from the city’s musical...
Keyword:: French Revolution, French popular song, France, vaudeville, théâtre de société, and timbres
Subject:: French literature, Theater history, and Music history
Creator:: Harmon, Jenna M
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14645 and etdadmin_upload_662497

Description:: What is the role of entrepreneurship – a predominantly market-based approach – in addressing social problems such as inequality and social exclusion? How do entrepreneurial organizations with a distinctly social purpose (often referred to as hybrid organizations) manage additional imperatives, such as those related to democratic governance? Based on 70...
Keyword:: France, hybrid organizations, inequality, social entrepreneurship, and democratic governance
Subject:: Management and Sociology
Creator:: Radoynovska, Nevena
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14446 and etdadmin_upload_625989

Description:: This dissertation, titled “Empire of Ruins: France in Roman Africa, 1830-1900,” explores the relationship between French colonialism in Algeria and Tunisia and the study of Roman Africa in the nineteenth century. Its central argument is that the French study and use of Roman ruins produced a version of Roman history...
Keyword:: Roman Africa, Tunisia, French Empire, France, Algeria, and Romanization
Subject:: European history
Creator:: Biddlestone, Jessica
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_682359 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14784

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