Domus regis: a Casa Real portuguesa no Rio de Janeiro (1808-1821)

Instituição fundamental à monarquia lusitana, a Casa Real portuguesa abrangia, em seu espaço, centenas de criados, homens e mulheres das mais diversas origens. Com a transferência da Corte para o Rio de Janeiro, em 1808, o príncipe regente d. João reestruturou o seu universo doméstico, estabelecendo aqui, e à semelhança de Portugal, todos os departamentos imperativos à correta execução das tarefas cotidianas da sua Casa: cavalariça, cozinha, serviço de copa, câmara, aquisição de gêneros alimentícios, etc. Esta tese tem como objeto a conformação da Casa Real portuguesa no Rio de Janeiro, entre os anos de 1808 e 1821. Serão analisados aqui a estrutura organizacional da Casa Real; os conflitos suscitados entre os recém-emigrados agentes do espaço doméstico régio e os súditos fluminenses; os mecanismos de remuneração peculiares ao universo doméstico joanino; as formas de acesso à Casa Real; e, finalmente, a estrutura financeira da Casa Real portuguesa. Num quadro mais amplo, procurou-se relacionar a Casa do Rei aos outros poderes instituídos na cidade, agora Corte, do Rio de Janeiro, de forma a demonstrar que o espaço doméstico da monarquia era, também, uma instituição relevante na montagem da administração joanina na América e, conseqüentemente, na transformação de um espaço historicamente colonial em centro do império português.

Dos prelos da impressão régia, a cultura científica do período joanino (1808-1821)

O presente estudo examina o momento fundador da imprensa no Brasil em 1808 e a rotina de funcionamento da Impressão Régia, no Rio de Janeiro, entre 1808 e 1821. Qual era sua estrutura administrativa, sua ordem de despesas, a natureza das ocupações funcionais, enfim, qual era a lógica de funcionamento da casa impressora oficial da Corte no início do Oitocentos? Qual o lugar ocupado pelos impressos naquele contexto?Para melhor compreender a estrutura, a rotina administrativa e de funcionamento da Impressão Régia no Rio de Janeiro, mas, principalmente, os usos e funções da régia tipografia no momento de seu estabelecimento por iniciativa do príncipe regente d. João, foi analisada também parte de sua produção, qual seja, os títulos dedicados às Ciências e às Artes. A partir desses livros, localizados no acervo da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro e na Biblioteca Guita e José Mindlin, em São Paulo, foram estudadas as características biobibliográficas de seus autores e a relação dos mesmos com o poder oficial.Foi possível identificar que os autores dos títulos examinados eram herdeiros da tradição ilustrada portuguesa. Partilhando de uma mesma cultura política, possuíam laços estreitos com membros da Corte, prestando obediência ao príncipe, sendo alguns autores, inclusive, integrantes da junta diretora da Impressão Régia.Assim, além da rotina e funcionamento da casa impressora da Corte, no Rio de Janeiro de d. João, o presente trabalho examina tomando como fonte de análise sua produção editorial no campo das Ciências e das Artes a formação da cultura científica do período Joanino e a rede de sociabilidades existente no Rio de Janeiro, entre 1808 e 1821.

Lordship and the peasant economy, c.1250-c.1400: Robert Kyng and the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds

Schofield, P. (2007). Lordship and the peasant economy, c.1250-c.1400: Robert Kyng and the Abbot of Bury St Edmunds. Past and Present. 195(Sup. 2), pp.53-68. RAE2008

Robert Heinich, Michael Molenda, James D. Russell, Sharon E. Smaldino, Instructional Media and Technologies for Learning, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1996, ss. 446. Steven Hackbarth, The Educational Technology Handbook. A Comprehensive Guide, Educational Technology Publications Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1996, ss. 351

Recenzje i sprawozdania z książek

The martyrs of Golbanti : or missionary heroism illustrated in the lives of Rev. John and Mrs. Houghton, of East Africa / by Robert Brewin.

http://www.archive.org/details/martyrsofgolbant00brewiala

Memoirs of the life and labours Robert Morrison...

http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC11413587 View volume 1

Old Spain in new America , by Robert McLean ... and Grace Petrie Williams ... Issued by the Council of women for home mission.

http://www.archive.org/details/oldspaininnewame00mcleiala

Exploring the Zionist evolution of Robert Briscoe: History and memory

Robert Briscoe was the Dublin born son of Lithuanian and German-Jewish immigrants. As a young man he joined Sinn Féin and was an important figure in the War of Independence due to a role as one of the IRA’s main gun-procuring agents. He took the anti-Treaty side during an internecine Civil War, mainly due to the influence of Eamon de Valera and retained a filial devotion towards him for the rest of his life. In 1926 he was a founding member of Fianna Fáil, de Valera’s breakaway republican party, which would dominate twentieth-century Irish politics. He was first elected as a Fianna Fáil T.D. (Teachta Dála, Deputy to the Dáil) in 1927, and successfully defended his seat eleven times becoming the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1956, an honour that was repeated in 1961. On this basis alone, it can be argued that Briscoe was a significant presence in an embryonic Irish political culture; however, when his role in the 1930s Jewish immigration endeavor is acknowledged, it is clear that he played a unique part in one of the most contentious political and social discourses of the pre-war years. This was reinforced when Briscoe embraced Zionism in a belated realisation that the survival of his European co-religionists could only be guaranteed if an independent Jewish state existed. This information is to a certain degree public knowledge; however, the full extent of his involvement as an immigration advocate for potential Jewish refugees, and the seniority he achieved in the New Zionist Organisation (Revisionists) has not been fully recognised. This is partly explicable because researchers have based their assessment of Briscoe on an incomplete political archive in the National Library of Ireland (NLI). The vast majority of documentation pertaining to his involvement in the immigration endeavor has not been available to scholars and remains the private property of Robert Briscoe’s son, Ben Briscoe. The lack of immigration files in the NLI was reinforced by the fact that information about Briscoe’s Revisionist engagement was donated to the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv and can only be accessed physically by visiting Israel. Therefore, even though these twin endeavors have been commented on by a number of academics, their assessments have tended to be based on an incomplete archive, which was supplemented by Briscoe’s autobiographical memoir published in 1958. This study will attempt to fill in the missing gaps in Briscoe’s complex political narrative by incorporating the rarely used private papers of Robert Briscoe, and the difficult to access Briscoe files in Tel Aviv. This undertaking was only possible when Mr.Ben Briscoe graciously granted me full and unrestricted access to his father’s papers, and after a month-long research trip to the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv. Access to this rarely used documentation facilitated a holistic examination of Briscoe’s complex and multifaceted political reality. It revealed the full extent of Briscoe’s political and social evolution as the Nazi instigated Jewish emigration crisis reached catastrophic proportions. He was by turn Fianna Fáil nationalist, Jewish immigration advocate and senior Revisionist actor on a global stage. The study will examine the contrasting political and social forces that initiated each stage of Briscoe’s Zionist awakening, and in the process will fill a major gap in Irish-Jewish historiography by revealing the full extent of his Revisionist engagement.

Dealing with emergent design science research projects in IS

Multiple models, methods and frameworks have been proposed to guide Design Science Research (DSR) application to address relevant classes of problems in Information Systems (IS) discipline. While much of the ambiguity around the research paradigm has been removed, only the surface has been scratched on DSR efforts where researcher takes an active role in organizational and industrial engagement to solve a specific problem and generalize the solution to a class of problems. Such DSR projects can have a significant impact on practice, link theories to real contexts and extend the scope of DSR. Considering these multiform settings, the implications to theorizing nor the crucial role of researcher in the interplay of DSR and IS projects have not been properly addressed. The emergent nature of such projects needs to be further investigated to reach such contributions for both theory and practice. This paper raises multiple theoretical, organizational and managerial considerations for a meta-level monitoring model for emergent DSR projects.

Robert Morin, « Les Pensées philosophiques de Diderot devant leurs principaux contradicteurs au XVIIIe siècle » (Paris 1975), 168 p.

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Bach, Emmon, Introduction aux grammaires transformationnelles, traduction française de Robert Sctrick (ou Strick ?), Paris, Armand Colin, 1973, 218 pages

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THE PIANO MUSIC OF ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) AND JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833- 1897): A SURVEY OF CONCERTI, VARIATIONS, AND CHARACTER PIECES

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), in some ways Robert Schumann's artistic descendant, are the most important and representative German piano composers during the Romantic period. Schumann was already a mature and established musician in 1853 when he first met the young Brahms and recognized his talents, an encounter that had a long-lasting affect on the lives and careers of both men. After Schumann’s mental breakdown and death, Brahms maintained his admiration of Schumann’s music and preserved an intimate relationship with Clara Schumann. In spite of the personal and musical closeness of the two men, Schumann’s music is stylistically distinct from that of Brahms. Brahms followed traditions from Baroque and Classical music, and avoided using images and expressive titles in his music. Brahms extraordinarily intermingled earlier musical forms with multicolored tones of German Romanticism. In contrast, Schumann saw himself as a radical composer devoted to personal emotionalism and spontaneity. He favored programmatic titles for his character pieces and extra-musical references in his music. While developing their own musical styles as German Romantic composers, Schumann and Brahms both utilized the piano as a resourceful tool for self-realization and compositional development. To investigate and compare the main characteristics of Schumann and Brahms’s piano music, I looked at three genres. First, in the category of the piano concerto, I chose two major Romantic works, Schumann’s A minor concerto and Brahms’s B-flat major concerto. Second, for the category of piano variations I included two sets by Brahms because the variation framework was such an important vehicle for him to express his musical thoughts. Schumann’s unique motivic approach to variation is displayed vividly in his character-piece cycle Carnaval. Third, the category of the character piece, perhaps the favorite medium of Romantic expression at the piano, is shown by Schumann’s Papillons and Brahms’s sets of pieces Op.118 and Op.119. This performance dissertation consists of three recitals performed in the Gildenhorn Recital Hall at the University of Maryland, College Park. These recitals are documented on compact disc recordings that are housed within the University of Maryland Library System.