Power Play: Social Dissent and the Gentry Hegemony in Eighteenth-Century Virginia

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-78
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Power Play

scholarly journals Prácticas sociales y control territorial en el Caribe Colombiano (1750-1800). El caso del contrabando en la península de la Guajira

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 38-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Esther Gutiérrez Meza
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Territorial Control ◽  
Power Play

El presente estudio se centra en la manera como el control territorial y la disputa por el poder sobre la circulación mercantil dinamizaron las relaciones sociales de los individuos que habitaron el Caribe colombiano en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, más específicamente, en la península de la Guajira. Se mostrará como los pobladores de esta península  se favorecieron de la geografía de su territorio para vincularse a las dinámicas de la circulación mercantil mediante la ejecución de prácticas como el contrabando.Palabras clave: península de la Guajira, contrabando, territorio, parcialidades, capitanes.Social Activities and Territorial Control in the Colombian Caribbean, 1750-1800. The Smuggling Situation in La Guajira Peninsula AbstractThis study focuses on how the territorial control and power play on the commodity circulation quite dynamic social relations of individuals who lived in the Colombian Caribbean during the second half of the eighteenth century, more specifically, on the peninsula Guajira. It will show how the inhabitants of this peninsula are favored in the geography of its territory to be linked to the dynamics of commodity circulation by implementing practices such as smuggling.Keywords: Guajira Peninsula, Smuggling, Territory

scholarly journals The Atrides Saga and Power Play: The Dilemma Between Freedom and Death on the Theatrical Scene

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Maria Sgouridou ◽  
Georgios Bitsakos
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Theatrical Production ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Myth ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Ugo Foscolo ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Power Play

Thyestes’ myth is difficult to read: cruel, abominable, but also multidimensional. And this is why it is adaptable to multiple interpretations, highlighting the different aspects of tyranny within different political, socio-cultural and philosophical contexts during the centuries. Thyestes, the protagonist of the tragedy, serves, with his unique characteristics, as an example to the spectator in order to understand and improve his own situation, even his very existence. First, we will take a look upon the theatrical production by Petros Katsaitis, author of a tragedy based upon this myth in 1721. At that time, Greece does not yet exist as a national state, being under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. Thus, Katsaitis highlights the complex historical reality in which he lives in person. The German author Christian Felix Weiße writes his Atreus und Thyest in 1766 in the philosophical context of Enlightenment, with a focus on the anthropological education of his audience. Ugo Foscolo, being between Italy and Greece, between Neoclassicism and Romanticism, in his Tieste (1797) recalls the memories of modernity’s Ancient Greek roots and re-elaborates the myth by reinvesting it with civil and political sense. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to present three versions of an ancient Greek myth composed during the eighteenth-century in three different regions of Europe in order to highlight the potential impact of this tragedy on the viewer's reception and in relation to the historical-cultural and philosophical trends of the time.

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