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18 Constantin François Volney, Ruins: Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires, To Which is Added the Law of Nature and a Short Biographical Notice, trans. Count Daru (New York, NY: G. Vale, 1853), 19; Constantin François Volney, Les ruines ou méditations sur les révolutions des empires suivies de la loi naturelle et de l’histoire de Samuel: Et précédée de nouveaux aperçus sur la ...
- Gerhard Katschnig
- 2021
Jun 30, 2020 · Amongst all his works, ‘Nation and Nationalism’ is considered to be one of the pioneering contributions by Gellner in the field of modern politics. Gellner’s work has close connections with his own life. He was Jewish by birth, born in Czech in 1925, a British citizen who died in Czech in 1995. Wherever he lived, he had to grapple with ...
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory is a co-production between Nocturnes Productions and the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA, the French National Institute for Audiovisual). It has been funded by the National Center of Cinematography and the moving image , [ 1 ] with the support of the French Ministry of Defence, French pay-TV Orange Cinéma Séries, and Belgian public ...
Aug 7, 2015 · One of the most influential early writers on the subject of the law of nations was the Swiss jurist and philosopher, Emmerich de Vattel. His most famous work, Droit des gens; ou, Principes de la loi naturelle appliqués à la conduite et aux affaires des nations et des souverains (in English, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law Applied to the Conduct and to the Affairs of ...
Arthur Szyk, [5] the son of Solomon Szyk and his wife Eugenia, was born in Łódź, in the Russian partition of Poland, on June 3, 1894.Solomon Szyk was a textile factory director, a quiet occupation until June 1905, when, during the so-called Łódź insurrection, one of his workers threw acid in his face, permanently blinding him.
The author, Charles-Louis de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu (now known simply as Montesquieu), was a French nobleman who first rose to literary fame with the publication of the Persian Letters, a witty account of fictional correspondence between two Persian men observing the customs of 18th-century Europe. He was educated in the law and served in Parlement (an appellate court of the French ...
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Dec 5, 2022 · 1-Sentence-Summary: Why Nations Fail dives into the reasons why economic inequality is so common in the world today and identifies that poor decisions of those in political power are the main reason for unfairness rather than culture, geography, climate, or any other factor. Read in: 4 minutes.
