“…Such leading minds as Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire conceived of a work that would tear down the social order dominated by the Crown and Church, a brave act at a time when heresy could still be punished by death. …”

“…Questions raised by "unnatural" episodes were widely debated at both the local and national levels, and drew the attention of magistrates, bishops, crown, and court. The resolution of such questions was not taken lightly in a world where God and the devil were still fighting for people's souls…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Austin -- Wagner, poetry and music / Théodore de Banville -- An American at Mallarmé's salons, 1889-92 / The evolution of literature (1891) [Interview with Jules Huret] / Stéphane Mallarmé -- Impressionism and after / Paul Gauguin -- Suggestive ert / Odilon Redon -- Decadence and Neo-traditionalism / Maurice Denis -- Notes on Debussy's conversations with Ernst Guiraud, 1890 / Maurice Emmanuel -- Letters to Ernest Chausson / Claude Debussy -- The "First stage" of the fau / Raymond Bonheur -- The first performance of the Faun / Gustave Doret -- Letter to Debussy, December 23, 1894 / Pierre Louÿs -- The circle is now complete, 1913 / Francisc Grierson -- Seeking the exceptional / Alfred Bruneau -- A style of his own, 1895 / Gustave Robert -- Letter to Maurice Emmanuel / Camile Saint-Saëns -- Reviews of Debussy's music / Paul Dukas -- A Jewel among masterpieces / Ernst Decsey -- Modern music begins / Pierre Boulez -- An experiment crowned with success, 1962 / Jean Barraqué -- Bibliography…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Eduardo Higueras Castañeda and Sergio Sánchez Collantes -- The consolidation of the constitutional monarchical system (1874-1902) / Ángeles Lario -- The two monarchies of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 / Javier Moreno-Luzón -- The problem of ritual in the Spanish post-revolutionary monarchical fiction (1833-1868) / David San Narciso -- The royal family as a symbolic fiction: a mixed picture of new forms of legitimacy in Spain's liberal monarchy (1843-1931) / Alicia Mira-Abad, Rosa Ana Gutiérrez-Lloret -- The king on a coin: monarchy, state, and nation through nineteenth-century Spanish coins and stamps / Raquel Sánchez -- The pious crown: the monarchy's religious devotions during the reign of Isabel II / David Martínez Vilches -- The king's descent into the people's assembly: monarchy and liberalism in Spain's nineteenth-century state opening of Parliament ceremony / Oriol Luján -- Royal travels: the modern staging and legitimation of the Spanish monarchy, 1858-1931 / Margarita Barral-Martínez…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Public Music Examinations in Melbourne, 1896-1914 / Kieran Crichton -- Birmingham Cathedral, Royle Shore and the Revival of Early English Church Music / Suzanne Cole -- On the Beat : The Victorian Policeman as Musician / Rachel Cowgill -- The British military as a musical institution, c.1780-c.1860 / Trevor Herbert and Helen Barlow -- Edward Jones, 'Bard to the King' : the Crown, Welsh National Music, and Identity in late-Georgian Britain / Meirion Hughes…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Islamic "Case Law" and the Logic of Consequence / 13. The Crown, the Colonists, and the Course of Zapotec / 14. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gunn -- Servants of the public, servants of the crown : officialdom of eighteenth-century English central government / John Brewer -- The Prussian bureaucracy reconsidered / Rudolf Vierhaus -- The state in Germany : a non-Prussian view / Sheilagh Ogilvie -- Government and administration : everyday politics in the Holy Roman Empire / Christof Dipper -- The state and the poor : eighteenth-century England in European perspective / Joanna Innes -- Manners and the eighteenth-century state : the case of the unsociable Englishman / Paul Langford -- A monument to Frederick the Great : architecture, politics, and the state in late eighteenth-century Prussia / Eckhart Hellmuth -- Reform absolutism and the codification of law : the genesis and nature of the Prussian General Code (1794) / Günter Birtsch -- Codification, consolidation, and parliamentary statute / David Lieberman…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The transition to colonialism: resistance and collaboration -- The first century of British rule, 1757 to 1857: state and economy -- Company Raj and Indian society, 1757 to 1857: reinvention and reform of tradition -- 1857: rebellion, collaboration and the transition to Crown Raj -- High noon of colonialism, 1858 to 1914: state and political economy -- A nation in making? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stacey -- From Rex Wallie to Princeps Wallie : charters and state formation in thirteenth-century Wales / Charles Insley -- The English state and the Plantagenet empire, 1259-1360 / Mark Ormrod -- Politics, sanctity, and the Breton state 1364 / Michael Jones -- The empire of Tamerlane / David Morgan -- Brittany and the French crown : the legacy of the English attack upon Fougères (1449) / Craig Taylor…”

“…The first section deals with host-guest chemistry, focusing on selected calixarenes, cyclodextrins and crown ethers derivatives. In the second and third sections the book presents some issues concerning stoichiometry of metal complexes and lipids and polymers architecture. …”

“…Europe's social model - its system of welfare and social protection - is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. …”

“…Following his career as cardinal protector of the Valois crown, royal administrator of Siena on behalf of Henry II, and papal legate to France on the eve of the Wars of Religion, this book argues that Ippolito's apparent diplomatic access ultimately weakened his family's position in Italy and left it ill-equipped to compete in the changing politics of the peninsula…”

“…In The Icon and the Square, Maria Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century through a shared interest in the Byzantine past, offering a counternarrative to prevailing notions of Russian modernism.Focusing on the works of four different artists-Mikhail Vrubel, Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Tatlin-Taroutina shows how engagement with medieval pictorial traditions drove each artist to transform his own practice, pushing beyond the established boundaries of his respective artistic and intellectual milieu. …”

“…This chapter describes how law for states can achieve some measure of settlement and compliance even in the absence of a crown-wearing, sword-wielding Leviathan standing above"-- Sitio web del editor…”