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20 Jun 2024, 7:19 am
22 Nov 2013, 1:20 am
I also appreciated learning so much about the points of view of foreign key players, such as Lord Palmerston, Karl Marx, and Napoleon. [read post]
25 Sep 2016, 11:12 pm
In Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Napoleon’s friend Pedro ran a long-shot campaign for Class President against cheerleader Summer. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 2:20 am
Instead, Napoleon offered to sell the entire territory to the United States. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 8:34 am
Conversely, one of the attributes of bosses (in Flemming’s words, and of unsuccessful leaders in Napoleon Hill’s terms), is fear of competition from followers. [read post]
20 Dec 2020, 2:20 am
Instead, Napoleon offered to sell the entire territory to the United States. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 4:48 am
And yet Stendhal's most direct exposure to Napoleon was on the march back from Moscow--an episode almost unmatched in the annals of misery and squalor. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 2:49 am
Monroe and Livingston found out Napoleon wanted $22 million for the entire territory. [read post]
25 Jun 2024, 6:04 am
City of Napoleon, issued on June 20. [read post]
25 Jul 2020, 4:34 pm
As a result, Louisiana’s first civil code possesses a didactic quality that is absent from its Napoleonic prototype. [read post]
25 Jul 2020, 4:34 pm
As a result, Louisiana’s first civil code possesses a didactic quality that is absent from its Napoleonic prototype. [read post]
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2020: Call For Papers, University of Southampton, Friday, July 3, 2020
28 Oct 2019, 2:51 pm
Beethoven’s life and music are marked by acute ambivalences towards political power (initially dedicating his Symphony No.3 to Napoléon Bonaparte and then furiously withdrawing that dedication upon learning that Napoleon had declared himself ‘Emperor’), and towards community and social norms (the composer was [in Goethe’s words] ‘an utterly untamed personality’ who often found ‘the world detestable’ but nevertheless joyfully celebrated… [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 9:30 pm
Arbitration remained a vital institution in nineteenth-century England and we investigate how the settlement of disputes changed from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the Arbitration Act 1889. [read post]
10 Dec 2022, 10:00 pm
By way of example, for $9 (pre-tax/tip) you can pick up some house-made ice cream, or some sorbet, or, for $12 (pre-tax/tip), you can choose from six other desserts, such as the Italian Ricotta Cheesecake, Bread Pudding, or Chocolate Cake Napoleon. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 9:30 pm
It was drafted by representatives from Iberian Spain, Spanish America and the Philippines gathered in Cádiz (hence, its common name) during much of the Napoleonic wars. [read post]
17 Aug 2016, 9:30 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]
18 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm
Those who wished to escape debt imprisonment through bankruptcy sacrificed their honor—losing, among other rights and privileges, the ability to vote, to serve on a jury, or even to enter the stock market.Arguing that French Revolutionary and Napoleonic legislation created a conception of commercial identity that tied together the debtor’s social, moral, and physical person, In the Red and in the Black examines the history of debt imprisonment and bankruptcy as a means of… [read post]
20 May 2019, 9:30 pm
The most common approach echoed Napoleon’s “special laws,” which allowed France to reinstate slavery in its Caribbean possessions. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 6:30 am
Here’s an extended abstract:The birth of international criminal law is typically traced to the post-war prosecutions of Nazi and Japanese war criminals by the Allied powers, when in fact the Great Powers frequently turned to internationalized criminal or quasi criminal forums, as well as the rhetoric of ‘humanity’ and ‘civilization,’ to project power, establish narratives, manage public opinion, express dissatisfaction, and defend humanitarian values in the century… [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 12:17 pm
The Hague Peace Conferences, Andrew Carnegie and the Building of the Peace Palace (1898-1913) at 140 Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Internationaal Recht, Preadviezen 1 (2013).The 19th-century international peace movement sprang from the reaction against the devastation and horror the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 had wrought. [read post]
