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Civil Vengeance

Author : Emily L. King
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739662
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Civil Vengeance written by Emily L. King and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage—the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus—emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture. In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society—church, law, and education—relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston's Antonio's Revenge and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body.

Three Centuries of American Poetry and Prose

Author : Alphonso Gerald Newcomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Centuries of American Poetry and Prose written by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose and poetry selections from the Colonial Period and National Period.

A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage

Author : H. Leon McBeth
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 143367128X
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage by : H. Leon McBeth

Download or read book A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage written by H. Leon McBeth and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion to the The Baptist Heritage, this book provides documents that will enrich the study of Baptist history.

Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality

Author : Sylvia Clute
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612830536
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality written by Sylvia Clute and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in trouble. Our social, financial, and religious institutions are crumbling. Our criminal justice system is a prime example of society’s dysfunction.More than 1 in 100 Americans are now in jail.Taxes now finance the incarceration of 1 in 53 of adults in their 20s.There are now 2.3 million people locked up in the U.S. (the same number of prisoners in Russia and China combined).The U.S. accounts for 5 percent of the world’s population--and 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. What courtroom veteran and law professor Sylvia Clute saw on a daily basis was all too often the miscarriage of justice. Because of her legal background, Clute focuses on legal horror stories to demonstrate her underlying thesis: The crisis in our legal system is merely symptomatic of a rot found in each of our institutions. It is rooted in a philosophy of dualism that pits us against one another. It is rooted in a philosophy that fails to recognize the oneness or unity of all life. Clute unfolds her argument for applying the philosophy of non-duality to not only our criminal justice system, but to all social relationships. She explores the roots of dualist thinking in the religious traditions of the world and offers the hope that if individuals--and societies--can move beyond dualistic thinking, we will create a society that is truly just and authentically caring. Part social policy, part metaphysics, this is a book for all who are looking for a new model for individual and societal relationships.

Rivalry and Revenge

Author : Laia Balcells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107118697
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rivalry and Revenge written by Laia Balcells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the motives of local political elites and armed groups in carrying out violence against civilians during civil war.

Lincoln's Avengers

Author : Elizabeth D. Leonard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393048681
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln's Avengers written by Elizabeth D. Leonard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth, and Secretary of State William H. Seward was brutally stabbed. Clearly a conspiracy was afoot. Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt was put in charge of the investigation and trial. He first set out to punish all of Booth's accomplices and then wanted to go after Jefferson Davis, whom he felt had instigated the assassination—despite stern opposition, not least of all from Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson. Elizabeth D. Leonard tells for the first time the full story of the two assassination trials. She explores the questions that made these trials pivotal in American history: Were they to be used to make the South pay for secession? Were they to be fair trials based on the evidence? Or were they to be points of reconciliation, with the South forgiven at all costs to create a solid union?

The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1794-07 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oregon Voter

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Oregon Voter written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New National Speller

Author : Earl Emery Ramsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The New National Speller written by Earl Emery Ramsey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Elements of Theology

Author : Luther Lee
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382313413
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Theology written by Luther Lee and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

The Liberty Book

Author : John Bona
Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
ISBN 13 : 1424552907
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book The Liberty Book written by John Bona and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News reports bring to our ears daily stories of further intrusion in our lives and increased regulations too many to number. America is losing its heritage of God-given freedoms, which were originally derived from biblical teaching. We sense that our well-sung liberties are being lost to a point of no return. The Liberty Book examines the Christian roots of liberty, idolatry, taxation, foundations for freedom, the right to bear arms, the great freedom documents in history, pro-life and liberty, land rights, social involvement, and more. With God’s help freedom can be revived. We must all work to pull America back from the cliffs-edge fall into tyranny. Our nation is again in search of genuine liberty under God. Discover what Bible-based liberty looks like and how it can be won for you and your children.

War of Vengeance

Author : Lonnie Speer
Publisher : Stackpole Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780811737357
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book War of Vengeance written by Lonnie Speer and published by Stackpole Classics. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Civil War was a vicious conflict that developed in intense hatred between opposing sides. Despite some historians' assertions that this was history's last great "gentlemen's war," the conflict was anything but civil. There is ample evidence to suggest that both sides quite commonly retaliated against one another throughout the war, often in chillingly inhumane ways. Author Lonnie Speer explores this little-known practice of reciprocal wartime violence, focusing on the most notorious and well-documented cases of the war. The author illustrated his claims with the first-hand accounts of numerous prisoners, painting a chilling picture of Civil War military and political policy.

The Poetical register, and repository of fugitive poetry

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Poetical register, and repository of fugitive poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stir Up, O Lord

Author : Kevin Carey
Publisher : Sacristy Press
ISBN 13 : 1908381531
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Stir Up, O Lord written by Kevin Carey and published by Sacristy Press. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking commentary on the Book of Common Prayer offers historical context for its composition and a reflection upon its broader message.

From Caledonia to Pictland

Author : James E. Fraser
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628207
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book From Caledonia to Pictland written by James E. Fraser and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2009 Saltire Society History Book of the Yea. rFrom Caledonia to Pictland examines the transformation of Iron Age northern Britain into a land of Christian kingdoms, long before 'Scotland' came into existence. Perched at the edge of the western Roman Empire, northern Britain was not unaffected by the experience, and became swept up in the great tide of processes which gave rise to the early medieval West. Like other places, the country experienced social and ethnic metamorphoses, Christianisation, and colonization by dislocated outsiders, but northern Britain also has its own unique story to tell in the first eight centuries AD.This book is the first detailed political history to treat these centuries as a single period, with due regard for Scotland's position in the bigger story of late Antique transition. From Caledonia to Pictland charts the complex and shadowy processes which saw the familiar Picts, Northumbrians, North Britons and Gaels of early Scottish history become established in the country, the achievements of their foremost political figures, and their ongoing links with the world around them. It is a story that has become much revised through changing trends in scholarly approaches to the challenging evidence, and that transformation too is explained for the benefit of students and general readers.

The Furies

Author : Arno J. Mayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823439
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Furies written by Arno J. Mayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great romance and fear of bloody revolution--strange blend of idealism and terror--have been superseded by blind faith in the bloodless expansion of human rights and global capitalism. Flying in the face of history, violence is dismissed as rare, immoral, and counterproductive. Arguing against this pervasive wishful thinking, the distinguished historian Arno J. Mayer revisits the two most tumultuous and influential revolutions of modern times: the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Although these two upheavals arose in different environments, they followed similar courses. The thought and language of Enlightenment France were the glories of western civilization; those of tsarist Russia's intelligentsia were on its margins. Both revolutions began as revolts vowed to fight unreason, injustice, and inequality; both swept away old regimes and defied established religions in societies that were 85% peasant and illiterate; both entailed the terrifying return of repressed vengeance. Contrary to prevalent belief, Mayer argues, ideologies and personalities did not control events. Rather, the tide of violence overwhelmed the political actors who assumed power and were rudderless. Even the best plans could not stem the chaos that at once benefited and swallowed them. Mayer argues that we have ignored an essential part of all revolutions: the resistances to revolution, both domestic and foreign, which help fuel the spiral of terror. In his sweeping yet close comparison of the world's two transnational revolutions, Mayer follows their unfolding--from the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Bolshevik Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Masses; the escalation of the initial violence into the reign of terror of 1793-95 and of 1918-21; the dismemberment of the hegemonic churches and religion of both societies; the "externalization" of the terror through the Napoleonic wars; and its "internalization" in Soviet Russia in the form of Stalin's "Terror in One Country." Making critical use of theory, old and new, Mayer breaks through unexamined assumptions and prevailing debates about the attributes of these particular revolutions to raise broader and more disturbing questions about the nature of revolutionary violence attending new foundations.

Payback

Author : Thane Rosenbaum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604369X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Payback written by Thane Rosenbaum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and replace with the order and codes of courtroom justice. What, if anything, distinguishes punishment at the hands of the government from a victim’s individual desire for retribution? Are vengeance and justice really so very different? No, answers legal scholar and novelist Thane Rosenbaum in Payback: The Case for Revenge—revenge is, in fact, indistinguishable from justice. Revenge, Rosenbaum argues, is not the problem. It is, in fact, a perfectly healthy emotion. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of lawful outlets through which to express it. He mounts a case for legal systems to punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes as part of a societal moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged. Indeed, the legal system would better serve the public if it gave victims the sense that vengeance was being done on their behalf. Drawing on a wide range of support, from recent studies in behavioral psychology and neuroeconomics, to stories of vengeance and justice denied, to revenge practices from around the world, to the way in which revenge tales have permeated popular culture—including Hamlet, The Godfather, and Braveheart—Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs to be more openly and honestly discussed and lawfully practiced. Fiercely argued and highly engaging, Payback is a provocative and eye-opening cultural tour of revenge and its rewards—from Shakespeare to The Sopranos. It liberates revenge from its social stigma and proves that vengeance is indeed ours, a perfectly human and acceptable response to moral injury. Rosenbaum deftly persuades us to reconsider a misunderstood subject and, along the way, reinvigorates the debate on the shape of justice in the modern world.