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Reign of Virtue

Author : Miranda Pollard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924777
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Reign of Virtue written by Miranda Pollard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. Drawing on governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda, Pollard explores what most historians have ignored: the many ways in which Vichy's politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity with work, family, and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. Pollard shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed.

Reign of Virtue

Author : Miranda Pollard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226673493
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Reign of Virtue written by Miranda Pollard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. Drawing on governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda, Pollard explores what most historians have ignored: the many ways in which Vichy's politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity with work, family, and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. Pollard shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed.

The Republic of Virtue

Author : F. H. Buckley
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594039712
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Virtue written by F. H. Buckley and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public corruption is the silent killer of our economy. We’ve spawned the thickest network of patronage and influence ever seen in any country, a crony capitalism in which business partners with government and transfers wealth from the poor to the rich. This is a betrayal of the Framers’ vision for America, and of the Constitution they saw as an anti-corruption covenant. Most Americans get it, and this explains the otherwise improbable rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. When a country is corrupt, legislative efforts to make things better can actually make them worse. That’s what has happened with our campaign finance laws, says the conservative, and not entirely without reason. We’ve criminalized political speech and sent the message that it’s unsafe to get involved in politics without a lawyer at one’s side. Donor disclosure requirements have also unleashed Internet mobs that attack political opponents. We’d be better off without any of them, Buckley argues in this provocative book. They’re a net with the curious feature that the big fish swim through safely while only the little fish are caught, and those with the wrong political beliefs. All such rules are a disaster, and should be replaced by a different set of laws that focus on crony capitalism and the nexus of legislators and lobbyists that prey on our economy.

Robespierre

Author : Otto Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351492691
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Robespierre written by Otto Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a perverse but almost inescapable phenomenon in the history of violent revolutions that after the first heroic days a colorless bureaucrat will inherit the mantle of leadership. In the Russian Revolution, Lenin was followed by a plodding Stalin rather than a dazzling Trotsky. Even after the American Revolution the celebrated Jefferson barely made it into office as president between two party regulars.The French Revolution was no exception. After the genius and idealism of Mirabeau, Danton, and others who had created the Revolution, it fell into the hands of an unscrupulous and sententious bourgeois lawyer who had been lost among the back benches of the first Estates-General. Like Stalin, Robespierre rose through tireless party service and meticulous attention to detail and finally through the execution of men who had been the real heroes of the Revolution. Unlike Stalin, however, Robespierre was a brilliant orator who ultimately was destroyed on the guillotine by the very terror he had created to eliminate his rivals.In Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue, Otto J. Scott has created an ironic portrait of hypocrisy in power. This biography is a study in moral arrogance, self-proclaimed virtue, and the effectiveness of brutality in the position of political leadership; it is a reenactment of the events that Robespierre came to personify—the Reign of Terror. This political condition has since been re-enacted all too often.

Observations Concerning the Scripture Oeconomy of the Trinity and Covenant of Redemption

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Observations Concerning the Scripture Oeconomy of the Trinity and Covenant of Redemption written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Digest of the Laws, Manners, and Institutions of the Ancient and Modern Nations

Author : Thomas Dew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Digest of the Laws, Manners, and Institutions of the Ancient and Modern Nations written by Thomas Dew and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sands of Empire

Author : Robert W. Merry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743266676
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Sands of Empire written by Robert W. Merry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title takes aim at the prevailing notion that Western civilization and American democracy are universal and can be dictated to the entire world. The author argues that America must accept the reality of fundamental cultural differences in the world and concentrate instead on its vital interests.

A Lust for Virtue

Author : Philip F. Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313001065
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Lust for Virtue written by Philip F. Riley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. The author demonstrates how this attack on sin expressed the punitive social policy of the French Catholic Reformation and how Louis's actions clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin. As a hot-blooded young prince, Louis XIV paid little attention to virtue or to sin and, despite his cherished title of God's Most Christian King, violations of God's Sixth and Ninth Commandments never troubled him. Indeed, for the first two decades of his reign, he paraded a stream of royal mistresses before all of Europe and fathered sixteen illegitimate children. Yet, midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. Using police and prison archives, administrative correspondence, memoirs, and letters, Riley describes the formation of Louis's narrow conscience and his efforts to safeguard his subjects' souls by attacking sin and infusing his kingdom with virtue, especially in Paris and at Versailles. Throughout his attack on sin, women--so-called Soldiers of Satan--were the special targets of the police. By the seventeenth century, fornication and adultery had become exclusively female crimes; men guilty of these sins were rarely punished as severely. Although unsuccessful, Louis's attack on sin clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin as well as the futility of enforcing a religiously inspired social policy on an irreverent, secular-minded France.

Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office

Author : England. Court of Chancery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office written by England. Court of Chancery and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Pulic Record Ofice: 1333-1337

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Pulic Record Ofice: 1333-1337 written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

After Virtue

Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1623569818
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book After Virtue written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.

Fighting for Virtue

Author : Duncan McCargo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501712225
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Virtue written by Duncan McCargo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting for Virtue investigates how Thailand's judges were tasked by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) in 2006 with helping to solve the country's intractable political problems—and what happened next. Across the last decade of Rama IX's rule, Duncan McCargo examines the world of Thai judges: how they were recruited, trained, and promoted, and how they were socialized into a conservative world view that emphasized the proximity between the judiciary and the monarchy. McCargo delves into three pivotal freedom of expression cases that illuminate Thai legal and cultural understandings of sedition and treason, before examining the ways in which accusations of disloyalty made against controversial former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra came to occupy a central place in the political life of a deeply polarized nation. The author navigates the highly contentious role of the Constitutional Court as a key player in overseeing and regulating Thailand's political order before concluding with reflections on the significance of the Bhumibol era of "judicialization" in Thailand. In the end, posits McCargo, under a new king, who appears far less reluctant to assert his own power and authority, the Thai courts may now assume somewhat less significance as a tool of the monarchical network.

Virtue

Author : Charles E. Curran
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809146851
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Virtue written by Charles E. Curran and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume focuses on virtue using the same perspective that has characterized the previous fifteen volumes in the prestigious series Readings in Moral Theology from Paulist Press begun by Charles E. Curran and Richard A. McCormick in 1979. This volume brings together fourteen previously published articles dealing in a comprehensive manner with the important topic of the role of virtue in moral theology and the Christian life. The contributors to this volume include the most important figures in Catholic moral theology who have written about virtue. In addition the authors represented here come from the different theological perspectives found in moral theology today. The first part deals with the role of virtue in general beginning with an overview of the seminal work of Thomas Aquinas. A second chapter explains the important work of Alasdair MacIntyre while the last two chapters in this part come from the Catholic and feminist perspectives. The three chapters in the second part discuss the role of the various virtues in three different spheres of human existence--professional life, sexuality, and ecology. The third part develops in some depth the significant particular virtues of charity, justice, prudence, courage, and humility. +

Wiseman Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wiseman Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dublin review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Dublin review written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dublin Review

Author : Nicholas Patrick Wiseman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Dublin Review written by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Republic of Virtue

Author : Jefferson Flanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988784062
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Virtue written by Jefferson Flanders and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary France, 1793. When Calvin Tarkington, a young Boston merchant-trader, arrives in Paris on July 4th, he finds a city in turmoil, riven by quarrels between revolutionary factions and threatened by advancing Coalition armies. Calvin's brother Alexander, the family firm's representative in France, has disappeared, suspected by a powerful Jacobin official of spying for the British. As Calvin seeks to clear his brother's name, his quest for the truth takes him from elegant townhouses to squalid gambling dens to the secret chambers of the Masonic Lodge of the Seven Sisters. Drawn into a shadowy world of intrigue and betrayal, Calvin becomes the hunted as France lurches toward the Reign of Terror. Rich in historical detail and suspense, The Republic of Virtue tells a compelling story of love, courage, and loyalty set in a dangerous place at a dangerous time-the darkest days of the French Revolution.