A descriptive catalogue of the Massachusetts exhibit of colonial books ath the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, 1607-1907.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Full title of first report: ... Annual report of the Massachusetts bar association, containing the constitution, a list of officers and members and the proceedings at the first annual meeting, 1911

Judgments delivered in the courts of the United States for the District of Massachusetts : [1865-1877] /

Mode of access: Internet.

A comparison of the Fitchburg railroad, with other Massachusetts railroads, made up from official returns,

Mode of access: Internet.

Reports of cases argued and determined in the Circuit court of the United States, for the First circuit ... Containing the cases determined in the districts of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode-Island

"Advertisement," v. 1, signed: J. Gallison; on t.-p. of v. 2: By John Gallison ..

Reports of cases argued and determined in the Circuit court of the United States, for the First circuit ... Containing the cases determined in the districts of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, [Maine] and Rhode Island, in the years 1816[-1830] ...

Vols. 3-5 published by Hillard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins

An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies.

Mode of access: Internet.

Memoir of Theophilus Parsons, chief justice of the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts; with notices of some of his contemporaries.

Mode of access: Internet.

Publications of the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report of the State Board of Charity of Massachusetts.

Report year irregular.

The annual report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Hospital School at Canton.

Vols. for 1907/08-<1914/15> have title: First- annual report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Hospital School (for the care and education of the crippled and deformed children of the commonwealth).

The Gentleman-Scholar at Home: Domesticity, Masculinity, and Civility in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting

This dissertation examines the gentleman-scholar depicted at home in Dutch seventeenth-century genre paintings, focusing primarily on art created in the Northern Netherlands from the 1630s through the 1670s. The methodological approach is art historical but also pertains to history of architecture, history of dress, and gender studies. Employing the framework of the 'Ages of Man', this thesis investigates three related pictorial themes: the student, the scholar in his prime, and the aged scholar. Variations of male scholarly figures and the accoutrements of the study have a long history in Europe. Prototypical sources include religious history paintings of learned hermit-saints; artistic interest in the allegorical Saturnine persona; portraits of famous scholars; and the iconography of scholarly melancholy implied through vanitas allusions in portraiture and genre paintings. While the majority of Dutch genre paintings pertain to themes of women, male domestic routines form a small but important subset of this imagery and have not been studied. By the 1640s, this subject is readily identified by his setting, clothing, and actions. The ubiquity of scholarly attributes, such as books and globes, paired with the wearing of scholarly robes suggest the merits of intellectual curiosity and the privileges of studying as a pastime and designating a room as a study (studeerkamer). Distinct themes in genre also imply the challenges and rewards of scholarly activity pursued in concert with masculine civic and familial duty. Central to the development of this pictorial theme were: the innovative treatment of learned men by Rembrandt and his circle; the fijnschilder subjects of Dou; and the practice of amateur study by elite men, as suggested by the art of Vermeer. As this dissertation reveals, this convention did not grow to be consistent across the Northern Netherlands, nor was artistic interest limited to university towns. Rather, the larger relevance of scholars in Dutch society is evident in visual and literary sources. The domesticity of this figure in genre painting suggests that scholars mediated between an active and a contemplative life. Societal respect was garnered for scholars through their balance of familial and social duties with the honorable pastime of scholarly leisure.

The Collusion of Feminist and Postmodernist Impulses in E.L. Doctorow’s "Ragtime"

Many critics of Doctorow have classified him as a postmodernist writer, acknowledging that a wide number of thematic and stylistic features of his early fiction emanate from the postmodern context in which he took his first steps as a writer. Yet, these novels have an eminently social and ethical scope that may be best perceived in their intellectual engagement and support of feminist concerns. This is certainly the case of Doctorow’s fourth and most successful novel, Ragtime. The purpose of this paper will be two-fold. I will explore Ragtime’s indebtedness to postmodern aesthetics and themes, but also its feminist elements. Thus, on the one hand, I will focus on issues of uncertainty, indeterminacy of meaning, plurality and decentering of subjectivity; on the other hand, I will examine the novel’s attitude towards gender oppression, violence and objectification, its denunciation of hegemonic gender configurations and its voicing of certain feminist demands. This analysis will lead to an examination of the problematic collusion of the mostly white, male, patriarchal aesthetics of postmodernism and feminist politics in the novel. I will attempt to establish how these two traditionally conflicting modes coexist and interact in Ragtime.

Espiritualidad y política: una propuesta tibetana para la transformación del orden mundial

La Revolución Espiritual promovida por el Dalai Lama plantea una unión entre espiritualidad y política. El proyecto de una ética universal, que se inscribe dentro de dicha Revolución, busca impactar la manera en que las relaciones internacionales se desarrollan, dándole prevalencia a los valores humanos. Sin embargo, esa proposición se encuentra ligada al contexto de exilio en el marco del conflicto sino-tibetano que afecta al continente asiático. Por esto, en la presente monografía, haciendo uso de los conceptos de marco de acción colectiva e identidad inscritos en la corriente de los movimientos sociales en la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales, se pretende determinar la relación entre identidad tibetana, marco de acción colectiva y la propuesta de una ética universal. Para ello se recurre, metodológicamente, a textos y a trabajo de campo en Bogotá. Así, se pretende establecer la relación entre espiritualidad y política como propuesta tibetana atravesada por el conflicto sino-tibetano.

Diagnóstico del Tratado de Libre Comercio de Estados Unidos frente a las estrategias de internacionalización para las PYME de Colombia hacia Maryland y Massachusetts

La firma de Tratados de Libre Comercio se ha convertido en una influencia para el desarrollo de investigaciones que permitan determinar y evidenciar oportunidades que lleven al incremento de la balanza comercial lo cual entraña a su vez una serie de retos en cuanto a la competencia de las empresas locales en mercados foráneos para la exportación de productos y servicios más allá de las materias primas y la importación de ciertos bienes para la especialización y optimización en procesos operativos. El estudio de los antecedentes del TLC entre Colombia y Estados Unidos es fundamental para comenzar el diagnóstico del proyecto, de modo tal que se identifique el impacto que ha tenido a través del tiempo este acuerdo y la influencia que produce en los sectores económicos en Colombia el comportamiento de esta relación en la actualidad. Es necesario identificar las oportunidades de las PYME en Colombia, especialmente en las exportaciones hacia los estados de Maryland y Massachusetts; y determinar la demanda que se puede llegar a suplir en estos estados por parte de las PYMES de nuestro país, basados en las importaciones actuales que se están generando por parte de los mismos desde el mundo entero tomando como referencia Wiser y Trademap, bases de datos de comercio exterior.