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Continental Ambitions

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681497360
Total Pages : 1213 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Continental Ambitions written by Kevin Starr and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 1213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Starr has achieved a fast-paced evocation of three Roman Catholic civilizations Spain, France, and Recusant England as they explored, evangelized, and settled the North American continent. This book represents the first time this story has been told in one volume. Showing the same narrative verve of Starr's award-winning Americans and the California Dream series, this riveting but sometimes painful history should reach a wide readership. Starr begins this work with the exploration and temporary settlement of North America by recently Christianized Scandinavians. He continues with the destruction of Caribbean peoples by New Spain, the struggle against this tragedy by the great Dominican Bartolom矤e Las Casas, the Jesuit and Franciscan exploration and settlement of the Spanish Borderlands (Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Baja, and Alta California), and the strengths and weaknesses of the mission system. He then turns his attention to New France with its highly developed Catholic and Counter-Reformational cultures of Quebec and Montreal, its encounters with Native American peoples, and its advance southward to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The volume ends with the founding of Maryland as a proprietary colony for Roman Catholic Recusants and Anglicans alike, the rise of Philadelphia and southern Pennsylvania as centers of Catholic life, the Suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, and the return of John Carroll to Maryland the following year. Starr dramatizes the representative personalities and events that illustrate the triumphs and the tragedies, the achievements and the failures, of each of these societies in their explorations, treatment of Native Americans, and translations of religious and social value to new and challenging environments. His history is notable for its honesty and its synoptic success in comparing and contrasting three disparate civilizations, albeit each of them Catholic, with three similar and differing approaches to expansion in the New World.

The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution

Author : Anna Plassart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300323
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution written by Anna Plassart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of ideas have traditionally discussed the significance of the French Revolution through the prism of several major interpretations, including the commentaries of Burke, Tocqueville and Marx. This book argues that the Scottish Enlightenment offered an alternative and equally powerful interpretative framework for the Revolution, which focused on the transformation of the polite, civilised moeurs that had defined the 'modernity' analysed by Hume and Smith in the eighteenth century. The Scots observed what they understood as a military- and democracy-led transformation of European modern morals and concluded that the real historical significance of the Revolution lay in the transformation of warfare, national feelings and relations between states, war and commerce that characterised the post-revolutionary international order. This book recovers the Scottish philosophers' powerful discussion of the nature of post-revolutionary modernity and shows that it is essential to our understanding of nineteenth-century political thought.

Internationalism and the State in the Twentieth Century

Author : Cornelia Navari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134861451
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Internationalism and the State in the Twentieth Century written by Cornelia Navari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using in-depth analysis of power relations, material changes and developments in ideologies, this essential text provides an accessible and student friendly historical introduction to the changing relations between states. The subjects covered include long term trends relating to war, the changing balance of power, decolonisation, the European system and the Cold War. This volume is essential reading for all those interested in the history of International Relations in the twentieth century.

Zimbabwe since the Unity Government

Author : Stephen Chan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135742685
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Zimbabwe since the Unity Government written by Stephen Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe has moved from a condition of restricted expression to one of many contradictory expressions. Politics has lost none of its compromises and conflicts, but it has been amplified by an explosion of voices. For the first time, a genuine debate is possible among many actors, insiders and outsiders, and the question marks over Zimbabwe and its future are no longer in terms of a narrow choice between one party and another, one outlook or another. Compromise government has meant complexity of debate. This does not preclude disillusionment within debate, but it does include vigour and imagination in debate. This book includes essays from renowned scholars, governmental and diplomatic figures, and prioritises contributions by Zimbabweans themselves. The essays provide a blend of academic and practitioner observation and judgement which no other volume has done. This book was published as a special issue of The Round Table.

Continent

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Continent written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Far Eastern Question

Author : Thomas Franklin Millard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book The Far Eastern Question written by Thomas Franklin Millard and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America and the Far Eastern Question

Author : Thomas Franklin Millard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America and the Far Eastern Question written by Thomas Franklin Millard and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Liberal Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Liberal Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Liberal Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New Introduction to American Studies

Author : Howard Temperley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317867378
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book A New Introduction to American Studies written by Howard Temperley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it actually means to study a culture. Ideals such as the commitment to liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and new light is shed on the sometimes contradictory ways in which these ideals have informed the nation's history and culture. For introductory undergraduate courses in American Studies, American History and American Literature.

Years of Peril and Ambition

Author : George C. Herring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190649232
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Years of Peril and Ambition written by George C. Herring and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is the first volume of a new split paperback edition of that masterwork, making this award-winning title accessible to those with a particular interest in the first half of the United States' history. This first volume of Herring's international narrative charts the rise of the United States from a loose grouping of British colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast of North America into an emerging world power at the end of World War I. It tells an epic story of restless settlers pushing against weak restraints; of explorers, sea captains, adventurers, merchants, and missionaries carrying American ways to new lands. It analyzes countless crises, some resulting in war and others resolved peacefully. Above all, it is the tale of United States' expansion, commercial and political, across the North American continent, into the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean regions, and, economically, worldwide. Herring brings this first segment of America's dramatic emergence as a superpower to a close with the United States' post-World War I rise to the status of the world's most powerful nation, poised -- however unsteadily --for global engagement in what would be called the American Century. Years of Peril and Ambition highlights the ongoing impact of the nation's international affairs on the household names of U.S. history but also on ordinary citizens. Featuring a grand cast of characters, encompassing statesmen and presidents, diplomats and foreigners, and rogues and rascals alike, this fast-paced account illuminates the central importance of foreign relations to the existence and survival of the nation.

Continental Achievement

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1642291358
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Continental Achievement written by Kevin Starr and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America , the first volume of Kevin Starr's magisterial work on American Catholics, the narrative evoked Spain, France, and Recusant England as Europeans explored, evangelized, and settled the North American continent. In Continental Achievement: Roman Catholics in the United States, the focus is on the participation of Catholics, alongside their Protestant and Jewish fellow citizens, in the Revolutionary War and the creation and development of the Republic. With the same panoramic view and cinematic style of Starr's celebrated Americans and the California Dream series, Continental Achievement documents the way in which the American Revolution allowed Roman Catholics of the English colonies of North America to earn a new and better place for themselves in the emergent Republic. John Carroll makes frequent appearances in roles of increasing importance: missionary, constitution writer for his ex-Jesuit colleagues, prefect apostolic, controversialist and defender of the faith, bishop, founder of Georgetown, Cathedral developer, archbishop and metropolitan, and negotiator with the Court of Rome. In him, the Maryland ethos regarding Roman Catholicism reached a point of penultimate fulfillment. Starr also vividly portrays other representative personalities in this formative period, including Charles Carroll, the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence; his mother, Elizabeth Brooke Carroll, Sulpician John DuBois, whose escape from France in 1791 was arranged by Robespierre; convert Elizabeth Bayley Seton, founder of the first American sisterhood, the Sisters of Charity;Stephen Moylan, Muster-Master General of the Continental Army; Polish military engineer Thaddeus Kosciuszko; Colonel John Fitzgerald, an aide-de-camp to General Washington; Benedict Flaget, the first Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky; merchant sea captain John Barry, who fought and won the last naval battle of the war; and William DuBourg, Bishop of Louisiana, who offered a Te Deum in a ceremony honoring General Andrew Jackson after his victory in the Battle of New Orleans. With his characteristic honesty and rigorous research, Kevin Starr gives his readers an enduring history of Catholics in the early years of the United States.

Open Borders

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Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 153450740X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Open Borders written by and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "open borders" refers to a policy of allowing free movement between countries without restrictions or border control. In an era characterized by the Brexit referendum and the Trump administration's policy of restricting immigration in the U.S., the prospect of borders being open may seem improbable. A number of politicians, policymakers, economists, and citizens assert that referendums and restrictions are the best way to address the economic and social issues that the international community faces today. This volume helps readers examine the issue of open borders from a variety of angles, examining its economic, social, political, moral, and legal aspects.

The Canada Year Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Canada Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of England and the British Empire ...: To 1485

Author : Arthur Donald Innes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A History of England and the British Empire ...: To 1485 written by Arthur Donald Innes and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canada Year Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Canada Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Living Age

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: