La tesis estudia y analiza las coincidencias, discrepancias, continuidades y cambios de la política contrarrevolucionaria de los gobiernos virreinales de José Fernando de Abascal (1806-1816), Joaquín de la Pezuela (1816-1821) y José de la Serna (1821-1824), así como la composición social, la formación del ejército virreinal peruano y del Alto Perú y la posibilidad de ascenso social que la carrera militar otorgaba. Producto de la crisis política de la monarquía española, durante los años de gobierno de dichos virreyes se llevó a cabo el proceso independentista hispanoamericano dentro del cual el virreinato del Perú jugó un rol fundamental. En este sentido, la tesis reconstruye las relaciones sociales, económicas y políticas que hicieron posible la contrarrevolución por parte del gobierno virreinal. Asimismo, busca comprender la importancia y el rol desempeñado por el sur andino entre 1810 y 1826 y cómo, en determinadas oportunidades, terminó por decidir el futuro político del virreinato del Perú. Para la investigación, se utilizan fuentes documentales de archivos nacionales y extranjeros, las cuales han sido consultadas y cotejadas con las incluidas en la Colección Documental y complementadas con bibliografía especializada. / Tesis

Papers, memoirs, diaries, letters and autobiographies from 1791-1807 are studied to determine the relationship between Jefferson and Burr. A limited examination of congressional records for the same period was made. Monographs and biographies of Jefferson, Burr and their contemporaries were studied. This study shows that the relationship between Jefferson and Burr was one of political expediency and that Jefferson's antipathy toward Burr began in 1791 and not as a result of the House presidential election of 1801. The thesis concludes that Jefferson used Burr's political influence in New England to achieve Democratic -Republican control of the federal government and then used the alleged conspiracy between Burr and the Federalists during the House election of 1801 as an excuse to begin Burr's political destruction.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renata Mourao Crecchi.pdf: 12889816 bytes, checksum: 1c44d7bd5410bdc474064fee2a6f44a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-17 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The present work focuses on illustrations of the pneumatic trough used by Lavoisier. Verify its role as an icon of modern chemistry. For this purpose we have analysed images of this apparatus presented in chemistry textbooks printed during the first half of XX century, regarding its relations to the text and also to ideas concerning the origins of modern chemistry. The selected primary sources include the Traité Elementaire de Chimie de Lavoisier and some Brasilian chemistry textbooks that were available in the first half of the XX century, such as: Noções de Chimica Inorganica (1875) by João Martins Teixeira; Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (1910) de Troost & Ed Pechard; Lições de Chimica (1915) and Chimica Geral Chimica Organica Analyse Chimica (1915) by J. Basin; Elementos de Chimica Inorganica (1918 and 1921) by Tibúrcio do Amaral; Pontos de Chimica (1937) by Almeida Cousin / No presente trabalho focalizamos a ilustração da cuba pneumática usada por Lavoisier. Verificamos seu papel como um ícone da química moderna. Para isso analisamos imagens desse aparato presente em livros didáticos de química, da primeira metade do século XX, suas relações com o texto e com idéias sobre as origens da química moderna. Usamos como fonte primária o Traité Elementaire de Chimie de Lavoisier e os livros didáticos de química que circulavam no Brasil, na primeira metade do século XX, entre eles: Noções de Chimica Inorganica (1875) de João Martins Teixeira; Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (1910) de Troost & Ed Pechard; Lições de Chimica (1915) e Chimica Geral Chimica Organica Analyse Chimica (1915) de J. Basin; Elementos de Chimica Inorganica (1918 e 1921) de Tibúrcio do Amaral; Pontos de Chimica (1937) de Almeida Cousin

Democracy seems to be in crisis and scholars have started to consider the possibility that “the only game in town” might be rigged. This book theorizes the crisis of democracy from a structural point of view, arguing that liberal representative governments suffer from systemic corruption, a form of political decay that should be understood as the oligarchization of society, and proposes an anti-oligarchic institutional solution based on a radical interpretation of republican constitutional thought. If one agrees that the minimal normative expectation of liberal democracies is that governments should advance the welfare of the majority within constitutional safeguards, increasing income inequality and the relative immiseration of the majority of citizens would be in itself a deviation from good rule, a sign of corruption. As a way to understand how we could revert the current patterns of political corruption, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the institutional, procedural, and normative innovations to protect political liberty proposed by Niccolò Machiavelli, Nicolas de Condorcet, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt. Because their ideas to institutionalize popular power have consistently been misunderstood, instrumentalized, demonized, or neglected, part of what this project wants to accomplish is to offer a serious engagement with their proposals through a plebeian interpretative lens that renders them as part of the same intellectual tradition. In this way, the book assembles a “B side” of constitutional thought composed of the apparent misfits in a tradition that has been dominated by the impulse to suppress conflict instead of harnessing its liberty-producing properties. As a way to effectively deal with systemic corruption and oligarchic domination, the book proposes to follow this plebeian constitutionalism and instituionalize popular collective power. A proposed plebeian branch would be autonomous and aimed not at achieving self-government or direct democracy, but rather at an effort to both judge and censor elites who rule. The plebeian branch would consist of two institutions: a decentralized network of radically inclusive local assemblies, empowered to initiate and veto legislation as well as to exercise periodic constituent power, and a delegate, surveillance office able to enforce decisions and impeach public officials. The establishment of primary assemblies at the local level would not only allow ordinary people to push back against oligarchic domination through the political system but also inaugurate an institutional conception of the people as the many assembled locally: a political collective agent operating as a network of political judgment in permanent flow. The people as network would be a political subject with as many brains as assemblies, in which collective learning, reaction against domination, and social change would occur organically and independently from representative government and political parties.

This thesis contends that Anglo-Saxon studies made a powerful contribution to Thomas Jefferson's development of public concepts of American identity and nationalism in ways that have been elided by scholars preoccupied with Jefferson's classicism. Jefferson's comprehensive survey of Anglo-Saxon grammar, language, law and emigration provided him with a precedent for revolution and helped him develop a model of American nationhood. Jefferson's detailed study of the Anglo-Saxon era set him apart from writers on both sides of the Atlantic in the period 1750-1860, and this thesis will argue that to generalize his interest as 'whig history' or a subscription to a theory of Teutonic superiority is unjustified. Chapter One considers Jefferson's educational background, his exposure to Anglo-Saxon history and the degree to which he might have been encouraged to pursue it. Previous studies of Jefferson's Anglo-Saxonism have presumed that there was a 'Gothic font' from which American Founding Fathers could drink; the detailed study of Anglo-Saxon historiography in this chapter will show otherwise. Chapter Two is concerned with a detailed examination of the collections of books relating to Anglo-Saxon history and language that Jefferson collected throughout his lifetime. If Jefferson was concerned with whig dialogues, or interested in the Saxons as a product of a passion for Tacitus we should find evidence of it here. In fact, the study of Jefferson's library in Chapter Two demonstrates that Jefferson was genuinely an expert Anglo-Saxon scholar and regarded that knowledge base as a political tool. Chapters Three and Four constitute detailed examinations of the nationalist use to which Jefferson put his understanding of early English history. Chapter Three considers the problem of shared heritage with Britain confronting the American statesman in the 1760s and 1770s and his employment of pre-Norman history in resolving this conflict. Chapter Four enlarges upon the study of American national identity, with specific reference to the linguistic debates following on the Revolution. This chapter revolves around a reconsideration of Jefferson's Anglo-Saxon Essay and his attempts to introduce this language into the education of future American statesmen. Jefferson's examination of Anglo-Saxon history, when considered in this light, seems oddly discordant with the simplistic notion of Jefferson as a founder of Teutonic superiority. Chapter Five is interested in Jefferson's impact on historical rhetoric in the nineteenth century. Thomas Jefferson used English history as an aid to separating an American nation from the British Empire and he believed that Americans could look to their Anglo-Saxon ancestors for a precedent that would justify their independence from Britain. He saw in Anglo-Saxon studies a means for appropriating those parts of English history that could underpin a national identity defined by freedom, initiative, and perhaps a racial predilection for democracy, while simultaneously rejecting Britain's authority in his present.

The Cello Concerto in B-flat major, G.482, by Italian composer Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), is the composer's most beloved work for the instrument, as well as one of the most performed pieces in the Classical concerto repertoire. Historically, cellists performing this work have used an edition prepared by German cellist Friedrich Grützmacher (1832-1903). However, an 'original' version that was discovered in 1949 is significantly different from that of Grützmacher. A comparison of both editions has revealed that Grützmacher in fact made considerable modifications to Boccherini's 'original.' Along with the issue of having two editions, cellists that have played the 'original' edition have noted that there are certain practical and interpretative matters that are not favorable to the cellist, particularly in terms of the way the music is notated and how it lacks many details. This dissertation provides clarity to these issues by undertaking a comprehensive analysis of both editions in order to make cellists become aware of the differences between both editions by comparing musical elements from a performance practice viewpoint. In addition, I discuss relevant issues that are present in the 'original' version, ultimately providing an alternative performance edition to this score that is based on historically informed performance (HIP) practices. Finally, I hope to draw attention on how a performance edition like this can be useful as a rare critical source to one of the major works from the eighteenth-century cello repertoire.

La tesis estudia y analiza las coincidencias, discrepancias, continuidades y cambios de la política contrarrevolucionaria de los gobiernos virreinales de José Fernando de Abascal (1806-1816), Joaquín de la Pezuela (1816-1821) y José de la Serna (1821-1824), así como la composición social, la formación del ejército virreinal peruano y del Alto Perú y la posibilidad de ascenso social que la carrera militar otorgaba. Producto de la crisis política de la monarquía española, durante los años de gobierno de dichos virreyes se llevó a cabo el proceso independentista hispanoamericano dentro del cual el virreinato del Perú jugó un rol fundamental. En este sentido, la tesis reconstruye las relaciones sociales, económicas y políticas que hicieron posible la contrarrevolución por parte del gobierno virreinal. Asimismo, busca comprender la importancia y el rol desempeñado por el sur andino entre 1810 y 1826 y cómo, en determinadas oportunidades, terminó por decidir el futuro político del virreinato del Perú. Para la investigación, se utilizan fuentes documentales de archivos nacionales y extranjeros, las cuales han sido consultadas y cotejadas con las incluidas en la Colección Documental y complementadas con bibliografía especializada. / Tesis

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T14:16:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edaival Mulatti.pdf: 1316493 bytes, checksum: 2ddebbfbb24364b182ea454f86c50397 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-10-23 / The Royal Institution, English organization founded at the end of the eighteenth century in London and existing in this day and age as an institution dedicated to research in the theory and dissemination of science, was born with the purposes of an institution of public character, depending on financial contributions. Within a conception of science, categorized by its founders as "useful science," the Royal Institution had as main goals, the diffusion of knowledge and application of science in the life of the population. For the present work, we studied up some of the social and political circumstances present in England at the end of the eighteenth century, and provided evidence to the understanding of the reasons that enabled the creation of that institution. Also, we tried to identify in the creation and consolidation of that institution, the role played by personalities of the time, as Joseph Banks, Benjamin Thompson, Thomas Young, Thomas Garnett and Humphry Davy. This work was based on the study of the following documents: "Proposals for forming by subscription, in the Metropolis of the British Empire, the Public Institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by Philosophical Lectures and courses of Experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life.", document-creation of the Royal Institution, authored by Benjamin Thompson and dated March 1799,"The discourse introductory to the Course of Lectures on Chemistry , Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution, on the 21st of January, 1802," inaugural lecture of the Royal Institution Humphry Davy, and "The Bakerian Lecture, on some chemical Agencies of Electricity," lecture in which Davy presented the results of their research on electrolysis, made the Royal Institution and presented at the Royal Society on November 20 de1806. The focus of this work was in the study of the model for dissemination of knowledge established on the origins of the Royal Institution, as well as some of the changes that have made this model a strong point of support for the Royal Institution to be seen, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, as a major scientific institutions of England / The Royal Institution, organização inglesa fundada no final do século XVIII em Londres e existente nos dias de hoje como uma instituição voltada a pesquisas no campo teórico e divulgação da ciência, nasceu com os propósitos de uma instituição de caráter público, dependendo financeiramente de contribuições. Dentro de uma concepção de ciência, categorizada por seus fundadores como ciência útil , a Royal Institution tinha como principais objetivos, a difusão do conhecimento e aplicação da ciência na vida da população. Para o presente trabalho, estudou-se algumas das circunstâncias sociais e políticas presentes na Inglaterra no final do século dezoito, e que forneceram elementos para o entendimento dos motivos que propiciaram a criação de tal instituição. Procurou-se também identificar, na criação e consolidação dessa Instituição, o papel desempenhado por personalidades da época, como Joseph Banks, Benjamin Thompson, Thomas Young, Thomas Garnett e Humphry Davy. Esta dissertação baseou-se no estudo dos seguintes originais: Proposals for forming by subscription, in the Metropolis of the British Empire, a Public Institution for diffusing the knowledge and facilitating the general introduction of useful mechanical inventions and improvements, and for teaching, by courses of Philosophical Lectures and Experiments, the application of science to the common purposes of life , documento de criação da Royal Institution, de autoria de Benjamin Thompson e datado de março de 1799, A discourse introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry, Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal Institution, on the 21st of January, 1802 , palestra inaugural de Humphry Davy na Royal Institution, e The Bakerian Lecture, on some chemical Agencies of Electricity , palestra na qual Davy apresentou os resultados de suas pesquisas sobre eletrólise, efetuadas na Royal Institution e apresentadas perante a Royal Society em 20 de novembro de1806. O ponto central desse trabalho situou-se no estudo do modelo de difusão do conhecimento formulado nas origens da Royal Institution, bem como em algumas de suas modificações que fizeram desse modelo um forte ponto de apoio para que a Royal Institution se projetasse, no início do século dezenove, como uma das principais instituições científicas da Inglaterra

Diese Arbeit soll die Rolle der Zeichen am genannten Gebäude untersuchen. Im Verlauf der Analyse sollen drei Funktionen der Zeichen bewiesen werden. Zunächst erfolgt die Ausarbeitung der allgemein bekannten Verwendung der Steinmetzzeichen als "persönliches Zeichen" und "Abrechnungszeichen" am Beispiel der Frauenkirche. Als eigentliches Endergebnis der Arbeit steht die Feststellung der weiteren Nutzung der Steinmetzzeichen als "Versetzzeichen" oder auch "Versetzmarke". Sie können an besonderen Stellen des Gebäudes im engen Zusammenspiel mit zusätzlich in den Stein eingebrachten Steinzeichen auftreten. Solche Markierungen werden als "Zusatzzeichen" benannt. Die sich daraus ableitenden Besonderheiten werden gleichfalls dargestellt. Um sich der betreffenden Fragestellung zu nähern, war eine Erfassung und Dokumentation aller gefundenen Steinzeichen notwendig. Ein Studium des Trümmerberges und des vorangegangenen Einsturzes der Kirche ist als erster Arbeitsschritt erfolgt. In dieser Folge entstand als Ergebnis eine umfangreiche Datenbank. Deren Inhalt wird mit Hilfe verschiedener Grafiken anschaulich gemacht. Die vorgelegte Arbeit kann die aus der bisherigen Diskussion zur allgemeinen Thematik offenen Fragen nicht mit allgemein verbindlichen Antworten abschließen. Sie kann jedoch die Auseinandersetzung bereichern, in dem am Beispiel der Frauenkirche zu Dresden spezifische Besonderheiten des Zeichenwesens aufgezeigt werden.

Diese Arbeit soll die Rolle der Zeichen am genannten Gebäude untersuchen. Im Verlauf der Analyse sollen drei Funktionen der Zeichen bewiesen werden. Zunächst erfolgt die Ausarbeitung der allgemein bekannten Verwendung der Steinmetzzeichen als "persönliches Zeichen" und "Abrechnungszeichen" am Beispiel der Frauenkirche. Als eigentliches Endergebnis der Arbeit steht die Feststellung der weiteren Nutzung der Steinmetzzeichen als "Versetzzeichen" oder auch "Versetzmarke". Sie können an besonderen Stellen des Gebäudes im engen Zusammenspiel mit zusätzlich in den Stein eingebrachten Steinzeichen auftreten. Solche Markierungen werden als "Zusatzzeichen" benannt. Die sich daraus ableitenden Besonderheiten werden gleichfalls dargestellt. Um sich der betreffenden Fragestellung zu nähern, war eine Erfassung und Dokumentation aller gefundenen Steinzeichen notwendig. Ein Studium des Trümmerberges und des vorangegangenen Einsturzes der Kirche ist als erster Arbeitsschritt erfolgt. In dieser Folge entstand als Ergebnis eine umfangreiche Datenbank. Deren Inhalt wird mit Hilfe verschiedener Grafiken anschaulich gemacht. Die vorgelegte Arbeit kann die aus der bisherigen Diskussion zur allgemeinen Thematik offenen Fragen nicht mit allgemein verbindlichen Antworten abschließen. Sie kann jedoch die Auseinandersetzung bereichern, in dem am Beispiel der Frauenkirche zu Dresden spezifische Besonderheiten des Zeichenwesens aufgezeigt werden.