49 research outputs found

    From Apathetic to Amiable: The British Empire and Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia, 1916-1974

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    Imperial Ethiopia was one of only two African states to retain its independence during the Scramble for Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The most famous leader of Ethiopia was Emperor Haile Selassie, who ruled from 1930 to 1974. However, his involvement in international affairs date to 1916 when he was the Heir Apparent. The British Empire, which controlled colonies neighbouring Ethiopia, was the largest polity that the emperor conducted diplomacy with. This project examines how the British government’s attitude towards Ethiopia evolved between 1916 and 1974. The central change that happened was that Britain became friendlier to Ethiopia, having shifted from being apathetic and dismissive to more collaborative and respectful. From 1916 to 1935, Britain was dismissive of Ethiopia, although they were interested in keeping Lake Tana, one of the main reservoirs of the Nile River, flowing freely. During the diplomatic crisis leading up to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1937), Britain tried to use Ethiopia as a bargaining chip with Fascist Italy. Nonetheless, Selassie spent his exile in the United Kingdom. When Italy joined the Axis side of the Second World War in 1940, Britain worked with both Selassie and Ethiopian patriot fighters to help liberate the country. For the remainder of the 1940s, Britain helped stabilize the war-torn country via the British Military Administration. While Selassie leaned more heavily on American military funding in the 1950s and 1960s, Britain shifted to a Soft Power approach towards Ethiopia. Despite crises like the abortive coup attempt of 1960 and the outbreak of the Eritrean War of Liberation, Britain remained a close ally of Selassie up until the Derg coup of 1974. This dissertation represents the most comprehensive analysis of British-Ethiopian relations between 1916 and 1974

    The emergence of the English art school system

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    This thesis deploys a Foucauldian genealogy to critique the historical emergence of the English art school system. The first part considers the ancient values that transform the idea of the artist as distinctly different from that of the artisan; the second part considers the transformation of art itself, from serving the wealthy patron to its co-option by government to improve public taste and national economic success. This gave rise to a national system of art education. The third part considers the final emergence of the English art school in its modern form, and almost simultaneously, its disappearance as an autonomous institution within the wider education ecology. This was described at the time as the ‘Murder of the Art Schools’. This thesis contends that, rather than being murdered, the art schools were seen in the end, despite centuries of development and state support, to have failed in their aims either to raise the level of public taste or to provide professional training for industries which depended on good design and craftsmanship. Subsequently, the art schools became irrelevant as a state concern and were absorbed into the polytechnics. This thesis further contends that far from being the radical, creative centres of their own imagining, the art schools were often regressive, hierarchical, solipsistic, prone to the whims of charismatic individuals and in thrall to their own historical origins. They had scarcely advanced in any meaningful sense over several centuries. Ultimately, the English art school system, in the view of the state, became both irrelevant and obsolete

    Concordância das Obras de Walter H. Pater

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    Concordância, em 4 volumes, de New Library Edition of the Works of Walter Pater (10 vol., London, Macmillan, 1910), bem como dos artigos não coligidos "Coleridge's Writings" e "The Poems of William Morris".N/

    Scholars in Action (2 vols)

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    In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.; Readership: All interested in the Republic of Letters, the history of Enlightenment and the history of early modern knowledge, scholarship and science

    Shakespeare

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    Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of Shakespeare. Contains The Complete Works of Shakespeare

    History of Psychology

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    Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of the History of Psychology. Contains: The Mind and the Brain by Alfred Binet; Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud; The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James; The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James; Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology by C. G. Jung; Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay; The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. Thorndike

    Early United States Political Thought

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    Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of the Early United States Political Thought. Contains: The Federalist Papers, The Anti-Federalist Papers, Constitutional Convention Debates Vol. I and II, A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention

    Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy

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    Openly licensed anthology focused on the theme of Anicient and Medieval Political Philosophy. Contains Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles; The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides; The Republic by Plato Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato; Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle; The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius; Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavell

    Post-Heideggerian Drifts: From Object-Oriented-Ontology Worldlessness to Post-Nihilist Worldings

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    This paper rethinks the dynamics of what Heidegger called the modern Gestell ”“ i.e. dynamics behind the fulfilment of nihilism ”“ as that of an “unworlding” on whose subsequent “worldlessness” today’s Object-Oriented Ontology may be said to build. Also, it questions whether Heidegger’s early-Greek-oriented thought on being does not actually solicit an altogether different drift on the horizon of the possible, namely: that of thinking and re-experiencing dwelling in terms of retrieved “worldness.” Lastly, it reflects on the conditions of possibility that such dwelling, and its concomitant “worldings,” must meet, in dialogue with Heidegger, present-day animism studies, and non-religious Greek views on the sacred and the divine, in connection to which it articulates, and endorses, the concept of post-nihilism in contraposition to today’s nihilist philosophical wanderings

    Isogeny-based post-quantum key exchange protocols

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    The goal of this project is to understand and analyze the supersingular isogeny Diffie Hellman (SIDH), a post-quantum key exchange protocol which security lies on the isogeny-finding problem between supersingular elliptic curves. In order to do so, we first introduce the reader to cryptography focusing on key agreement protocols and motivate the rise of post-quantum cryptography as a necessity with the existence of the model of quantum computation. We review some of the known attacks on the SIDH and finally study some algorithmic aspects to understand how the protocol can be implemented
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