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18 Dec 2019, 1:16 pm by Daniel Shaviro
This has been a tough last couple of months in some ways, for me as for our country.In terms of my professional activities, my forthcoming book, LITERATURE AND INEQUALITY: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age, remains on-track for April 2020 publication by the Anthem Press. [read post]
30 Oct 2019, 10:56 am by Daniel Shaviro
The book's projected publication date is April 1, 2020, or just over 5 months from now.The current working title, which could change again, is Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Age of Napoleon Through the First Gilded Age.An earlier draft was 110,000 words. [read post]
11 Oct 2015, 8:24 am
 Court is closed Monday, honoring Napoleon Bonaparte Broward's reign as 19th governor of Florida (tis true, you can look it up). [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 4:45 am
And I found many articles about the physical smallness of Vladimir Putin, such as "Vladimir Putin and the rise of the 'short kings'/Critics suggest Russian leader has 'Napoleon complex' but numerous world leaders match his stature" (The Week) and, from 2018, "Putin, a Little Man Still Trying to Prove His Bigness" (The New Yorker)("'He walks like someone who thinks, How do I walk like a cool guy? [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 12:00 pm by Dan Ernst
But in fact, we can trace investor-state arbitration back much further — nearly a century further — to a long forgotten but nonetheless fascinating dispute between the Suez Canal Company and Egypt, arbitrated by a commission of legal and diplomatic luminaries appointed by Napoleon III, the Emperor of France. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 10:41 am by Paula Black
Napoleon Hill "The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." [read post]
3 Sep 2016, 8:49 pm
For example, Napoleon Sarony—the nineteenth-century photographer whose case established that photographs might be protected as works of art—was fond of marching along Broadway dressed in a red fez and high-top campaign boots, proclaiming his special status as a celebrity. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 9:30 am by Karen Tani
Having lived as free persons in Saint Domingue since the revolutionary emancipations of the 1790s, these people had been swept into a large exodus of war refugees in 1803, as the Napoleonic expeditionary assault ravaged the colony. [read post]
31 Oct 2022, 3:43 pm
"In the story, the ribs take their place inside a lusciously long sentence:In her right hand was a plastic sack containing spareribs lathered in a gooey red sauce, two ears of corn still wrapped in the blackened tinfoil in which they’d been roasted over the grill, a container of what looked to be potato salad, and dessert, lots of dessert: two napoleons, a wedge of cherry pie, and a fistful of chocolate-dipped strawberries she’d picked out herself, after the hostess, whose… [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 8:54 am
For example, Napoleon Sarony—the nineteenth-century photographer whose case established that photographs might be protected as works of art—was fond of marching along Broadway dressed in a red fez and high-top campaign boots, proclaiming his special status as a celebrity. [read post]
27 Oct 2019, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
War captivity and social interactionsConclusionEpilogue: Napoleon the prisoner of peaceFurther information is available here. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 11:41 am
French law of the period reflected the egalitarian system of inheritance brought about by the French Revolution, even after reforms instituted by the Napoleonic Code. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
The lecture, which is part of the Florida State University History Department’s Legal History Series, “is sponsored by the FSU Department of History’s Institute on Napoleon & the French Revolution and the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, with the generous support of the Weider Foundation. [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 12:20 pm by Daniel Shaviro
 So why would he now write a book called Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age? [read post]
17 Nov 2012, 5:15 pm by David Friedman
Novik's novels, like those, are set during the Napoleonic wars, and closely linked to the British navy. [read post]