Introduction to Section III

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-154
Author(s):  
María del Pilar Blanco ◽  
Joanna Page
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Power ◽  
American Science ◽  
Botanical Study

As outlined in the introduction to this volume, one of the characteristic qualities of Latin American science is its close and complex imbrication with politics in the region. Among other spaces, eighteenth-century criollo critiques of metropolitan political power in the Americas were also played out in the theater of science. This is evident, as Antonio Lafuente has demonstrated, in such examples as the botanical study carried out in Mexico between 1801 and 1804 by Mariano Mociño and Luis Montaña to test the validity of each plant’s medicinal qualities; this set of experiments became a platform on which local scientists contested the imposition of European methods and theories by the metropolis....

The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
Christine Adams
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Marie Antoinette ◽  
Louis Xvi ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Realm

The relationship of the French king and royal mistress, complementary but unequal, embodied the Gallic singularity; the royal mistress exercised a civilizing manner and the soft power of women on the king’s behalf. However, both her contemporaries and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians were uncomfortable with the mistress’s political power. Furthermore, paradoxical attitudes about French womanhood have led to analyses of her role that are often contradictory. Royal mistresses have simultaneously been celebrated for their civilizing effect in the realm of culture, chided for their frivolous expenditures on clothing and jewelry, and excoriated for their dangerous meddling in politics. Their increasing visibility in the political realm by the eighteenth century led many to blame Louis XV’s mistresses—along with Queen Marie-Antoinette, who exercised a similar influence over her husband, Louis XVI—for the degradation and eventual fall of the monarchy. This article reexamines the historiography of the royal mistress.

scholarly journals Discussing plagiarism in Latin American science

EMBO Reports ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 677-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Vasconcelos ◽  
Jacqueline Leta ◽  
Lídia Costa ◽  
André Pinto ◽  
Martha M Sorenson
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Science

Latin-American science fact or fiction

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. N73-N74
Author(s):  
Carlos Corredor
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Science

Political, Social, and Cultural Legacies

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-252
Author(s):  
J.S. Grewal
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
The Third ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cultural Legacies

A long struggle for political power that culminated in the establishment of Khalsa Raj in the third quarter of the eighteenth century was the most striking legacy of Guru Gobind Singh. Significantly, a wide range of literature was produced during this period by Sikh writers in new as well as old literary forms. The Dasam Granth emerged as a text of considerable importance. The doctrines of Guru Granth and Guru Panth crystallized, and influenced the religious, social and political life of the Khalsa. The Singhs formed the main stream of the Sikh Panth at the end of the century. Singh identity was sharpened to make the Khalsa visibly the ‘third community’ (tisar panth).

The Personnel of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen, 1791-4

1940 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 12-53
Author(s):  
R. B. McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Independent Voters ◽  
United Irishmen

One of the most noticeable features of Irish political life in the 'later eighteenth century, is, that though political power was :oncentrated in comparatively few hands, there was a very large leasure of political freedom. One could in fact sum up the system by saying that it was oligarchy tempered by discussion. As a result, voluntary and unofficial societies and clubs arose for the purpose of educating and influencing public opinion, and were the nuclei of much political thought and action. There [were Whig Clubs, Constitutional Clubs, Societies for the [Preservation of Liberty and Peace and Associations of Independent Voters. Thus there was nothing very strange in the Iformation, in November 1791, of a Dublin branch of the newly bounded Society of United Irishmen. But this group was to prove unique in at least one respect.

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