Present Past

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150171760X
Total Pages : 405 pages
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Book Synopsis Present Past by : Richard Terdiman

Download or read book Present Past written by Richard Terdiman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about memory—about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.

"Ethically Impossible"

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781508807438
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book "Ethically Impossible" written by and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a request by President Barak Obama on November 24, 2010, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues oversaw a thorough fact-finding investigation into the specifics of the U.S. Public Health Service-led studies in Guatemala involving the intentional exposure and infection of vulnerable populations. Following a nine-month intensive investigation, the Commission has concluded that the Guatemala experiments involved gross violations of ethics as judged against both the standards of today and the researchers' own understanding of applicable contemporaneous practices. It is the Commission's firm belief that many of the actions undertaken in Guatemala were especially egregious moral wrongs because many of the individuals involved held positions of public institutional responsibility. The best thing we can do as a country when faced with a dark chapter is to bring it to light. The Commission has worked hard to provide an unvarnished ethical analysis to both honor the victims and make sure events such as these never happen again.

Leiden Oriental Connections

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004090224
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Book Synopsis Leiden Oriental Connections by : W. Otterspeer

Download or read book Leiden Oriental Connections written by W. Otterspeer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1989 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For review see: J. van Goor, in: Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, jrg. 110, afl. 1 (1995); p. 137-140.

Public Order in Ancient Rome

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521387491
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Book Synopsis Public Order in Ancient Rome by : Wilfried Nippel

Download or read book Public Order in Ancient Rome written by Wilfried Nippel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often identified as a major cause of the Republic's collapse, the absence of a professional police force in classical Rome was in fact a characteristic shared with other premodern states. The mechanisms of self-regulation that operated as a stabilizing force are examined in this study.

The Seduction of Culture in German History

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691121314
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis The Seduction of Culture in German History by : Wolf Lepenies

Download or read book The Seduction of Culture in German History written by Wolf Lepenies and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist's spirit. It is impossible to begin to make sense of this thinking without understanding what Wolf Lepenies calls The Seduction of Culture in German History. This fascinating and unusual book tells the story of an arguably catastrophic German habit--that of valuing cultural achievement above all else and envisioning it as a noble substitute for politics. Lepenies examines how this tendency has affected German history from the late eighteenth century to today. He argues that the German preference for art over politics is essential to understanding the peculiar nature of Nazism, including its aesthetic appeal to many Germans (and others) and the fact that Hitler and many in his circle were failed artists and intellectuals who seem to have practiced their politics as a substitute form of art. In a series of historical, intellectual, literary, and artistic vignettes told in an essayistic style full of compelling aphorisms, this wide-ranging book pays special attention to Goethe and Thomas Mann, and also contains brilliant discussions of such diverse figures as Novalis, Walt Whitman, Leo Strauss, and Allan Bloom. The Seduction of Culture in German History is concerned not only with Germany, but with how the German obsession with culture, sense of cultural superiority, and scorn of politics have affected its relations with other countries, France and the United States in particular.

Vespasian

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131748133X
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Book Synopsis Vespasian by : Barbara Levick

Download or read book Vespasian written by Barbara Levick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a pre-eminent biographer in the field, this volume examines the life and times of the emperor Vespasian and challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation and universally acknowledged achievements. Levick examines how this plebeian and uncharismatic Emperor restored peace and confidence to Rome and ensured a smooth succession, how he coped with the military, political and economic problems of his reign, and his evaluation of the solutions to these problems, before she finally examines his posthumous reputation. Now updated to take account of the past 15 years of scholarship, and with a new chapter on literature under the Flavians, Vespasian is a fascinating study for students of Roman history and the general classical enthusiast alike.

A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations

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Total Pages : 364 pages
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Book Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by : Joseph Mazzini Wheeler

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The Emperor of Law

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191092258
Total Pages : 321 pages
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Book Synopsis The Emperor of Law by : Kaius Tuori

Download or read book The Emperor of Law written by Kaius Tuori and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator. The Emperor of Law explores how the emperor came to assume the mantle of a judge, beginning with Augustus, the first emperor, and spanning the years leading up to Caracalla and the Severan dynasty. While earlier studies have attempted to explain this change either through legislation or behaviour, this volume undertakes a novel analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction: by analysing the process through historical narratives, it argues that the emergence of imperial adjudication was a discourse that involved not only the emperors, but also petitioners who sought their rulings, lawyers who aided them, the senatorial elite, and the Roman historians and commentators who described it. Stories of emperors settling lawsuits and demonstrating their power through law, including those depicting 'mad' emperors engaging in violent repressions, played an important part in creating a shared conviction that the emperor was indeed the supreme judge alongside the empirical shift in the legal and political dynamic. Imperial adjudication reflected equally the growth of imperial power during the Principate and the centrality of the emperor in public life, and constitutional legitimation was thus created through the examples of previous actions - examples that historical authors did much to shape. Aimed at readers of classics, Roman law, and ancient history, The Emperor of Law offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the much debated problem of the advent of imperial supremacy in law that illuminates the importance of narrative studies to the field of legal history.

A History of Political Ideas from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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Publisher : Duquesne
ISBN 13 : 9780820704555
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Political Ideas from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by : Philippe Nemo

Download or read book A History of Political Ideas from Antiquity to the Middle Ages written by Philippe Nemo and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides a context for understanding today's super states by tracing the origins of political thought from the earliest prestates through subsequent eras, including the philosophers and thinkers of the Greek city-state, Roman law, and the Christian Gospels; Nemo further examines the influence on political organization that extends from canon law and the influence of numerous Christian thinkers"--Provided by publisher.

Violence in Republican Rome

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ISBN 13 : 9780198152828
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis Violence in Republican Rome by : Andrew William Lintott

Download or read book Violence in Republican Rome written by Andrew William Lintott and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the aristocracy of the Roman Republic destroy the system of government which was its basis? The answers given by ancient authorities are moral corruption and personal ambition. The modern student finds only too inevitable the causal nexus of political conflict, violence, militaryinsurrection and authoritarian government. Yet before the era of intense violence Rome had an apparently stable constitution with a long history. In this revised edition of his classic book, for which he has written a new introduction, Andrew Lintott examines the roots of violence in Republican lawand society and the growth of violence in city war and the power of armies. It suggests in conclusion that this disaster was more the outcome of folly in the choice of political means than depravity in the choice of ends.

A Bible History of Baptism

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Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040755511
Total Pages : 589 pages
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Download or read book A Bible History of Baptism written by Samuel Baird and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Bible History of Baptism" by Samuel J. Baird. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

A Baptist Meeting-house: the Staircase to the Old Faith; the Open Door to the New

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Total Pages : 230 pages
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To the Council of Chalcedon, A.D. 451

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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Book Synopsis To the Council of Chalcedon, A.D. 451 by : Christopher Wordsworth

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A Catholic Christian Church the Want of Our Time

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Total Pages : 98 pages
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Book Synopsis A Catholic Christian Church the Want of Our Time by : John James Tayler

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Europe Inc

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Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Book Synopsis Europe Inc by : Belén Balanyá

Download or read book Europe Inc written by Belén Balanyá and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades the major international corporations have become industrial lobbyists within the European Community, to such an extent that they pose a threat to democracy. In turn the EC has been very receptive to the political agenda of corporate interest groups, in particular to the notion of making Europe a free trade zone.

A Church History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Book Synopsis A Church History by : Christopher Wordsworth

Download or read book A Church History written by Christopher Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Brief Historical Sketch of the Catholic Church on Long Island

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Total Pages : 156 pages
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Book Synopsis A Brief Historical Sketch of the Catholic Church on Long Island by : Patrick Mulrenan

Download or read book A Brief Historical Sketch of the Catholic Church on Long Island written by Patrick Mulrenan and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: