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A Frail Liberty

Author : Tessie P. Liu
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496232291
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book A Frail Liberty written by Tessie P. Liu and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Frail Liberty traces the paradoxical actions of the first French abolitionist society, the Société des Amis des Noirs (Society of the Friends of Blacks), at the juncture of two unprecedented achievements of the revolutionary era: the extension of full rights of citizenship to qualifying free men of color in 1792 and the emancipation decree of 1794 that simultaneously declared the formerly enslaved to be citizens of France. This society helped form the revolution’s notion of color-blind equality yet did not protest the pro-slavery attack on the new citizens of France. Tessie P. Liu prioritizes the understanding of the elite insiders’ vision of equality as crucial to understanding this dualism. By documenting the link between outright exclusion and political inclusion and emphasizing that a nation’s perceived qualifications for citizenship formulate a particular conception of racial equality, Liu argues that the treatment and status distinctions between free people of color and the formerly enslaved parallel the infamous divide between “active” and “passive” citizens. These two populations of colonial citizens with African ancestry then must be considered part of the normative operations of French citizenship at the time. Uniquely locating racial differentiation in the French and Haitian revolutions within the logic and structures of political representation, Liu deepens the conversation regarding race as a civic identity within democratic societies.

A Frail Liberty

Author : Tessie P. Liu
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496227298
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book A Frail Liberty written by Tessie P. Liu and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By mapping the quandaries of racial equality in Atlantic revolutions, A Frail Liberty contrasts the treatment and status of two colonial populations with African ancestry to document the link between exceptionalism and political inclusion.

Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution

Author : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution written by Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Karen Green: Frail Sister

Author : Karen Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938221194
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Karen Green: Frail Sister written by Karen Green and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Bough Down, a found, collaged and lovingly amended inquiry into how women disappear Artist and writer Karen Green's second book originated in a search for a woman who had vanished: her Aunt Constance whom Green knew only from a few family photos and keepsakes. In her absence, Green has constructed an elliptical arrangement of artifacts from an untold life. In this rescued history, Green imagines for her aunt a childhood in which she is bold, reckless, perspicacious, mischievous; an adolescence ripe with desire and scarred by violation and loss; and an adulthood in which she strives to sing above the incessant din of violence. Constance--one half of a sister duo put to work performing as musical prodigies in the dirt-poor town of Oil City, Pennsylvania. during the Great Depression--escapes as a teenager to the USO and tours a ravaged Italy during World War II. Soon after she returns to an unsparing life in New York City, she disappears. Green traces her dissolution in a deftly composed trove of letters Constance writes to her beloved sister and those she receives from dozens of men smitten by her stage persona, along with her drawings, collages and altered photographs. Though told mostly from Constance's point of view, Frail Sister is also haunted by the voices of the transient, the absent and the dead. The letters (a few real, many invented) expose not only the quotidian reality of war but also the ubiquitous brutality it throws into relief. Nimble, darkly funny and poignant, Frail Sister is possessed by the disappeared, giving voice to the voiceless, bringing into a focus a life disintegrating at every edge.

Saving Lady Liberty

Author : Claudia Friddell
Publisher : Thinkingdom
ISBN 13 : 1635923662
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Saving Lady Liberty written by Claudia Friddell and published by Thinkingdom. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of how the Statue of Liberty got its pedestal when Joseph Pulitzer, a Jewish immigrant and famous newsman, created one of the first American crowdfunding campaigns to raise money for it. When Joseph Pulitzer first saw the Statue of Liberty's head in Paris, he shared sculptor Auguste Bartholdi's dream of seeing France's gift of friendship stand in the New York harbor. Pulitzer loved words, and the word he loved best was liberty. Frustrated that many, especially wealthy New Yorkers, were not interested in paying for the statue's needed pedestal, Pulitzer used his newspaper, the New York World, to call on all Americans to contribute. Claudia Friddell's text and Stacy Innerst's illustrations capture this inspiring story of how one immigrant brought together young and old, rich and poor, to raise funds for the completion of a treasured national monument.

Liberty

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Liberty written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religious Liberty in America

Author : Charles Miles Snow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Liberty in America written by Charles Miles Snow and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech

Author : Wendell Bird
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197509207
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech written by Wendell Bird and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the revolutionary broadening of concepts of freedom of press and freedom of speech in Great Britain and in America in the late eighteenth century, in the period that produced state declarations of rights and then the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act. The conventional view of the history of freedoms of press and speech is that the common law since antiquity defined those freedoms narrowly, and that Sir William Blackstone in 1769, and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield in 1770, faithfully summarized the common law in giving a very narrow definition of those freedoms as mere liberty from prior restraint and not liberty from punishment after something was printed or spoken. This book proposes, to the contrary, that Blackstone carefully selected the narrowest definition that had been suggested in popular essays in the prior seventy years, in order to oppose the growing claims for much broader protections of press and speech. Blackstone misdescribed his summary as an accepted common law definition, which in fact did not exist. A year later, Mansfield inserted a similar definition into the common law for the first time, also misdescribing it as a long-accepted definition, and soon misdescribed the unique rules for prosecuting sedition as having an equally ancient pedigree. Blackstone and Mansfield were not declaring the law as it had long been, but were leading a counter-revolution about the breadth of freedoms of press and speech, and cloaking it as a summary of a narrow common law doctrine that in fact was nonexistent. That conflict of revolutionary view and counter-revolutionary view continues today. For over a century, a neo-Blackstonian view has been dominant, or at least very influential, among historians. Contrary to those narrow claims, this book concludes that the broad understanding of freedoms of press and speech was the dominant context of the First Amendment and of Fox's Libel Act, and that it enjoyed greater historical support.

The Law of Nations

Author : Emer de Vattel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Nations written by Emer de Vattel and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Essential Russell Kirk

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516145
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Russell Kirk written by Russell Kirk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement’s most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirk’s was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible complexity of human experience to the requirements of any ideological straitjacket. With The Essential Russell Kirk, literary critic George A. Panichas captures the breadth and depth of Kirk’s intellectual project by gathering together forty-four of the most masterful of Kirk’s essays, along with a unique chronology told in Kirk’s own words and a substantial introduction that articulates the deep humanism that animated Kirk’s philosophy. The result is a carefully assembled volume that gives us a fuller picture of an extraordinary man and writer, one whose labors had, and continue to have, remarkable repercussions on the American literary and political landscape.

Herald of Gospel Liberty

Author : Elias Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1686 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Herald of Gospel Liberty written by Elias Smith and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Samson

Author : Jeremy Schipper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190689781
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Black Samson written by Jeremy Schipper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States has never existed without a Black Samson. Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King were identified with Moses, African Americans linked those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson. In Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper investigate legal documents, narratives by enslaved persons, speeches, sermons, periodicals, poetry, fiction, and visual arts to tell the unlikely story of how a flawed biblical hero became an iconic figure in America's racial history. Along the way, Schipper and Junior engage the work of African-American luminaries, including Fredrick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, and many others. From stories of slave rebellions to the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights era and the Black Power movement, invoking the biblical character of Samson became a powerful way for African American intellectuals, activists, and artists to voice strategies and opinions about many race-related issues, including slavery, education, patriotism, organized labor, civil rights, and gender equality. As this provocative book reveals, the story of Black Samson became a story of America's contested racial history"--

Herald of Gospel Liberty

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Herald of Gospel Liberty written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A new spelling, pronouncing, and explanatory dictionary of the English language ... With an appendix, containing an account of the heathen gods and goddesses, ancient heroes, etc

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Author : William SCOTT (Teacher of Elocution.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis A new spelling, pronouncing, and explanatory dictionary of the English language ... With an appendix, containing an account of the heathen gods and goddesses, ancient heroes, etc by : William SCOTT (Teacher of Elocution.)

Download or read book A new spelling, pronouncing, and explanatory dictionary of the English language ... With an appendix, containing an account of the heathen gods and goddesses, ancient heroes, etc written by William SCOTT (Teacher of Elocution.) and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Democracy in Iran

Author : Ali Gheissari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195396960
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Iran written by Ali Gheissari and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave concern both for the stability of the region and for the safety of the global community. President George W. Bush labeled it part of the "Axis ofEvil," and rails against the country's authoritarian leadership. Yet as Bush trumpets the spread of democracy throughout the Middle East, few note that Iran has one of the longest-running experiences with democracy in the region. In this book, Ali Gheissari and Vali Nasr look at the political history of Iran in the modern era, and offer an in-depth analysis of the prospects for democracy to flourish there. After having produced the only successful Islamist challenge to the state, a revolution, and an Islamic Republic, Iranis now poised to produce a genuine and indigenous democratic movement in the Muslim world. Democracy in Iran is neither a sudden development nor a western import, Gheissari and Nasr argue. The concept of democracy in Iran today may appear to be a reaction to authoritarianism, but it is an old ideawith a complex history, one that is tightly interwoven with the main forces that have shaped Iranian society and politics, institutions, identities, and interests. Indeed, the demand for democracy first surfaced in Iran a century ago at the end of the Qajar period, and helped produce Iran'ssurprisingly liberal first constitution in 1906. Gheissari and Nasr seek to understand why democracy failed to grow roots and lost ground to an autocratic Iranian state. Why was democracy absent from the ideological debates of the 1960s and 1970s? Most important, why has it now become a powerfulsocial, political, and intellectual force? How have modernization, social change, economic growth, and the experience of the revolution converged to make this possible?Gheissari and Nasr trace the fortunes of the democratic ideal from the inchoate demands for rule of law and constitutionalism of a century ago to today's calls for individual rights and civil liberties. In the process they provide not just a fresh look at Iran's politics but also a new understandingof the way in which democracy can develop in a Muslim country.

A full report of the speeches delivered at a meeting of the protestant gentlemen of the county of Armagh, 5th October, 1826 at a dinner given to colonel Verner

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Author : sir William Verner (1st bart.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A full report of the speeches delivered at a meeting of the protestant gentlemen of the county of Armagh, 5th October, 1826 at a dinner given to colonel Verner written by sir William Verner (1st bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Malady

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0593238893
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Our Malady written by Timothy Snyder and published by Crown. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny comes an impassioned condemnation of America's pandemic response and an urgent call to rethink health and freedom. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life and the first light of a new year came through his window, he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, not recognized in America as a human right but without which all rights and freedoms have no meaning. And that was before the pandemic. We have since watched American hospitals, long understaffed and undersupplied, buckling under waves of ill patients. The federal government made matters worse through willful ignorance, misinformation, and profiteering. Our system of commercial medicine failed the ultimate test, and thousands of Americans died. In this eye-opening cri de coeur, Snyder traces the societal forces that led us here and outlines the lessons we must learn to survive. In examining some of the darkest moments of recent history and of his own life, Snyder finds glimmers of hope and principles that could lead us out of our current malaise. Only by enshrining healthcare as a human right, elevating the authority of doctors and medical knowledge, and planning for our children’s future can we create an America where everyone is truly free.