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Rational Completion of Monoids
"In this thesis, we study rational extensions of monoids with a zero element. This is essentially a generalisation of the corresponding theory for rings as developed in (7) and (6). (See bibliography at the end). For various reasons, we have decided to consider monoids with a zero element, henceforth called monoids, but most of the results can easily be generalised to general monoids. In the first chapter, we first introduce the notion of an M-set, which is essentially a representation of a monoid, and these M-sets play the same role as R-modules for rings. Then, through the rest of the chapter, we introduce all the tools needed to show that the injective hull of an M-set always exists, and we end the chapter by an example: more specifically, we show that the injective hull of the rationals, considered as a partly ordered set, is the set of reals." --
The Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s (1682–1761) Journal of a Voyage in North America
In this new, annotated translation of one of the key texts of eighteenth-century French America, Micah True offers the first complete and reliable English edition of Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s richly detailed account of his voyage through colonial French America.
Personae et personnages dans les récits médiévaux
On connaît l’importance des vitae sanctorum, des « vies de saints », et des exempla dans l’enseignement de l’Église au cours des premiers siècles de l’ère chrétienne. Élément central des biographies de saints et porteur à lui seul du sens de l’« exemple », le personnage a monopolisé l’attention des rédacteurs des vitae et des exempla. Pourtant, dans les récits patristiques, on ne trouve que des personae, des masques, qui renvoient à des modèles le plus souvent dénués de toute vraisemblance et qui ne sont que la concrétisation d’une essence, d’une quiddité: le principe de causalité est absent des récits anciens et l’idée que des lois internes puissent...
Written Culture in a Colonial Context
Exploring the extent to which the control over the materiality of writing has shaped the numerous and complex processes of cultural exchange from the 16th century onwards, this book introduces the specifities of written culture anchored in colonial contexts.
Corpus-based Perspectives in Linguistics
UBLI has conducted field surveys since 2002 and built spoken language corpora for French, Spanish, Italian (Salentino dialect), Russian, Malaysian, Turkish, Japanese, and Canadian multilinguals. This volume features new research presented at the UBLI second workshop on Corpus Linguistics Research Domain, which was held on September 14, 2006. The first part consisting of eleven presentations to this workshop shows a wide range of subjects within the area of corpus-based research, such as dictionary, linguistic atlas, dialect, translation, ancient texts, non-standard texts, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and natural language processing. The second part of this volume comprises ten additional contributions to both written and spoken corpora by the members and research assistants of UBLI.
Property and Dispossession
Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero
The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the U.S. stage, such as John Augustus Stone's Metamora, and for Indian biographies as national historiography, such as the writings of Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and William Apess. With chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero offers an analysis of not only the...
Theory of the Novel
In his theory of the novel, Guido Mazzoni explains that novels consist of stories told in any way whatsoever about the experiences of ordinary men and women who exist as contingent beings within time and space. Novels allow readers to step into other lives and other versions of truth, each a small, local world, absolute in its particularity.
French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815
In the past thirty years, the study of French-Indian relations in the center of North America has emerged as an important field for examining the complex relationships that defined a vast geographical area, including the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, the Missouri River Valley, and Upper and Lower Louisiana. For years, no one better represented this emerging area of study than Jacqueline Peterson and Richard White, scholars who identified a world defined by miscegenation between French colonists and the native population, or métissage, and the unique process of cultural accommodation that led to a “middle ground” between French and Algonquians. Building on the research of Pet...
The Color of Equality
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common humanity and the hierarchical language of race in Enlightenment thought, seeking to understand how eighteenth-century thinkers themselves made sense of these tensions. Using three major Enlightenment encyclopedias from England, France, and Switzerland, the book provides a rich contextualization of the conflicting ideas of equality and race in eighteenth-century thought. Enlightenment thinkers used physical features to categoriz...
