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Desobediência Civil em 'Estrada de Palha': um 'western' português alentejano

Anglo Saxonica, 2020
At a time of widespread corruption and conformity, a director, Rodrigo Areias, emerges to project onto the big screen the disenchantment of a collective feeling that nothing can change in a country where the law of the jungle rules. In this scenario, the
Maria Antónia Lima
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The Serbian state in the work of Byzantine historian Doucas [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2007
While the first two chapters of Doucas's historical work present a meagre outline of world history - a sketch which becomes a little more detailed from 1261 on, when the narration reaches the history of the Turks and their conquests in Asia Minor - the ...
Nikolić Maja
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Representation of Despotism and Revolutionary Temper in Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí’s Baṣọ̀run Gáà

Yoruba Studies Review
Baṣọ̀run Gáà was a hegemonic and dictatorial prime minister of the Old Òyó Empire. His leadership style has attracted the attention of some scholars, with the exception of his literary and filmic representation.
Solomon Olusayo Olaniyan
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The image of princess Sophia in historical novels of 1870–1880 [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика
The article analyzes of the image of princess Sophia in historical novels The Throne and the Monastery (1878) by P. Polezhaev, The Tsar Maiden (1878) by Vs. Solovyov, For Whose Sins? The Great Schism (1878) and Tsar Peter and Ruler Sophia (1880)
Puriaeva , Nadezhda Nikolaevna
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Fourierist legacies: from the ‘Right to the Minimum’ to ‘Basic Income’ [PDF]

, 2001
The origins of the idea of a “basic income” remain to be fully explored. An idea with currency mainly in Europe, a basic income is conventionally defined as an income unconditionally granted to all on an individual basis, irrespective of the level of any
Cunliffe, John, Erreygers, Guido
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The Priesthood of All Believers and Other Pious Myths [PDF]

, 2005
(excerpt) Now, to be sure, this was not the first time this had happened to me. I looked for the friendship between Luther and Melanchthon and discovered that they were colleagues not friends.
Wengert, Timothy
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Mariamne face à l’absolutisme et à la tyrannie : de la fin du XVIe siècle aux Femmes illustres ou les Harangues héroïques des Scudéry (1642) et à La Gallerie des femmes fortes de Le Moyne (1647)

Etudes Epistémè
The subject of Herod and Mariamne has enjoyed considerable success in France since the time of the Catholic League, in the context of the debate on the legitimacy of resistance to tyranny.
Lisa Zeller
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Federalism and Investor Protection: Constitutional Restraints on Preemption of State Remedies for Securities Fraud [PDF]

, 1997
Warren discusses the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act and the National Securities Market Improvement Act, among other issues. Predominant federalism postulates foreclose the proposed intrusion into investors\u27 tort remedies traditionally ...
Warren, Manning Gilbert, III
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Emperors, Usurpers, and the City of Rome

, 2015
Abstract When the historian Sextus Aurelius Victor came to write (circa 360–361) his brief account of the reign of the third-century emperor Philip, he noted with approval how that emperor, after settling affairs in the East, had visited Rome, overseen the construction of a new cistern in Trastevere, and celebrated in 248 the city’s ...
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A Civic Republican Analysis of Mental Capacity Law [PDF]

, 2018
This article draws upon the civic republican tradition to offer new conceptual resources for the normative assessment of mental capacity law. The republican conception of liberty as non-domination is used to identify ways in which such laws generate ...
O'Shea, Tom
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