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Author : Gianpaolo Urso
Publisher : Edizioni ETS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Terror et pavor written by Gianpaolo Urso and published by Edizioni ETS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Schechter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022649960X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France written by Ronald Schechter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought, examining a neglected yet crucial chapter of our complicated romance with terror. For centuries prior to the French Revolution, the word “terror” had largely positive connotations. Subjects flattered monarchs with the label “terror of his enemies.” Lawyers invoked the “terror of the laws.” Theater critics praised tragedies that imparted terror and pity. By August 1794, however, terror had lost its positive valence. As revolutionaries sought to rid France of its enemies, terror became associated with surveillance committees, tribunals, and the guillotine. By unearthing the tradition that associated terror with justice, magnificence, and health, Schechter helps us understand how the revolutionary call to make terror the order of the day could inspire such fervent loyalty in the first place—even as the gratuitous violence of the revolution eventually transformed it into the dreadful term we would recognize today. Most important, perhaps, Schechter proposes that terror is not an import to Western civilization—as contemporary discourse often suggests—but rather a domestic product with a long and consequential tradition.
Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri XV. Cum versione anglica ... Or, Ovid's Metamorphoses, with an English translation ... By John Clarke ... The seventh edition written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josiah Ober
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400828805
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Knowledge written by Josiah Ober and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad. Democracy and Knowledge is the first book to look to ancient Athens to explain how and why directly democratic government by the people produces wealth, power, and security. Combining a history of Athens with contemporary theories of collective action and rational choice developed by economists and political scientists, Josiah Ober examines Athenian democracy's unique contribution to the ancient Greek city-state's remarkable success, and demonstrates the valuable lessons Athenian political practices hold for us today. He argues that the key to Athens's success lay in how the city-state managed and organized the aggregation and distribution of knowledge among its citizens. Ober explores the institutional contexts of democratic knowledge management, including the use of social networks for collecting information, publicity for building common knowledge, and open access for lowering transaction costs. He explains why a government's attempt to dam the flow of information makes democracy stumble. Democratic participation and deliberation consume state resources and social energy. Yet as Ober shows, the benefits of a well-designed democracy far outweigh its costs. Understanding how democracy can lead to prosperity and security is among the most pressing political challenges of modern times. Democracy and Knowledge reveals how ancient Greek politics can help us transcend the democratic dilemmas that confront the world today.
Author : Seth William Stevenson
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Roman Coins, Republican and Imperial written by Seth William Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cathie Carmichael
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317514831
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Routledge History of Genocide written by Cathie Carmichael and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Genocide takes an interdisciplinary yet historically focused look at history from the Iron Age to the recent past to examine episodes of extreme violence that could be interpreted as genocidal. Approaching the subject in a sensitive, inclusive and respectful way, each chapter is a newly commissioned piece covering a range of opinions and perspectives. The topics discussed are broad in variety and include: genocide and the end of the Ottoman Empire Stalin and the Soviet Union Iron Age warfare genocide and religion Japanese military brutality during the Second World War heritage and how we remember the past. The volume is global in scope, something of increasing importance in the study of genocide. Presenting genocide as an extremely diverse phenomenon, this book is a wide-ranging and in-depth view of the field that will be valuable for all those interested in the historical context of genocide.
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Publisher : Firenze University Press
ISBN 13 : 8855186116
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai) written by and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to build a solid and proper contribution to the contemporary global debate on the experience of democracy and its possibilities as the most effective mediator of a series of challenges, a debate that is necessarily rooted in the critical reassessment of its Greek cultural heritage. The book is articulated around the identification of a concrete problem: the need for studies that critically discuss Athenian democracy, seen as a daily problem and practice, based on its staseis (crises) and metabolai (changes), and whose solutions and strategies may still contribute to the reflection on the social, intellectual and ethical-political challenges of contemporary democracy.
Author : Martha Caroline Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521765935
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War written by Martha Caroline Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory of Attica and focused, instead, on the sea and the empire. Thucydides shows that Pericles' reconceputalization of the city led the Athenians both to Melos and to Sicily. Toward the end of his work, Thucydides demonstrates that flexible thinking about the city exacerbated the Athenians' civil war. Providing a thorough critique and analysis of Thucydides' neglected book 8, Taylor shows that Thucydides praises political compromise centered around the traditional city in Attica. In doing so, he implicitly censures both Pericles and the Athenian imperial project itself.
Author : Alberto Ferreiro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004215387
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia (Update) written by Alberto Ferreiro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bibliography includes material published from 2007 to 2009. Following on from the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) and its first update (Brill 2007) this volume covers recent literature on: Archaeology, Liturgy, Monasticism, Iberian-Gallic Patristics, Paleography, Linguistics, Germanic and Muslim Invasions, and more. In addition, peoples such as the Vandals, Sueves, Basques, Alans and Byzantines are included. The book contains author and subject indexes and is extensively cross-indexed for easy consultation. A periodicals index of hundreds of journals accompanies the volume. Further updates are to be expected at intervals of three years.
Author : David García Domínguez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111431770
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Connected Histories of the Roman Civil Wars (88–30 BCE) written by David García Domínguez and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a distinctive take on the civil wars that unfolded in the Late Roman Republic. It frames their discussion against the backdrop of the Mediterranean contexts in which they were fought, and sets out to bring to the centre of the debate the significance of provincial agency on a traumatic and complex process, which cannot be understood through an exclusive focus on Roman and Italian developments. The study of the late Republican civil wars can be productively read as an exercise of ‘connected history’, in which the fundamental interdependence of the Mediterranean world comes to the fore through a set of case studies that await to be understood through a properly integrative approach. Our project brings together an international and diverse lineup of scholars, who engage with a wide range of literary, documentary, and archaeological material, and make a collective contribution to the reframing of a problem that requires a collaborative and interdisciplinary outlook, and can yield invaluable insights to the understanding of the Roman imperial project.
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Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Alison Rosenblitt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472580605
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Rome after Sulla written by J. Alison Rosenblitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome after Sulla offers a new perspective on the damaged, volatile, and conflictual political culture of the late Roman republic. The book begins with a narrative of the years immediately following the dictatorship of Sulla (80-77 BC), providing both a new reconstruction of events and original analysis of key sources including Cicero's pro Roscio, Appian, the Livian tradition, and Sallust's Historiae. Arguing that Sulla's settlement was never stable, Rome after Sulla emphasises the uncertainty and fear felt by contemporaries and the problems caused in Rome by consciousness of the injustices of the Sullan settlement and its lack of moral legitimacy. The book argues that the events and the unresolved traumas of the first civil war of the Roman republic triggered profound changes in Roman political culture, to which Sallust's magnum opus, his now-fragmentary Historiae, is our best guide. An in-depth exploration of a new, more Sallust-centred vision of the late republic contributes to the historical picture not only of the legacy of Sulla, but also of Caesar and of Rome's move from republic to autocratic rule. The book studies a society grappling with a question broader than its own times: what is the price of stability?
Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Selections from the Metamorphoses and Heroides of Publius Ovidius Naso, with a Literal and Interlineal Translation on the Hamiltonian Translation, as Improved by Thomas Clark written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ovid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Selections from the Metamorphoses and Heroides of Publius Ovidius Naso, with a Literal and Interlineal Translation on the Hamiltonian System as Improved by Thomas Clark written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801418761
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Seneca's "Hercules furens" written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John G. Fitch's new Latin text of Seneca's play, Hercules Furens, is based on a collation of the chief manuscripts, including the Paris manuscript T.
Author : Luis Silva
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473826896
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Viriathus written by Luis Silva and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle years of the second century BC, Rome was engaged in the conquest and pacification of what is now Spain and Portugal. They met with determined resistance from several tribes but nobody defied them with more determination and skill than Viriathus. Apparently of humble birth, he emerged as a leader after the treacherous massacre of the existing tribal chieftains and soon proved himself a gifted and audacious commander. Relying on hit and run guerrilla tactics, he inflicted repeated humiliating reverses upon the theoretically superior Roman forces, uniting a number of tribes in resistance to the invader and stalling their efforts at conquest and pacification for eight years. Still unbeaten in the field, he was only overcome when the Romans resorted to bribing some of his own men to assassinate him (though they reneged on the agreed payment, claiming they did not reward traitors!). Though renowned in his day Viriathus has been neglected by modern historians, a travesty that Luis Silva puts right in this thoroughly researched and accessible account. Portuguese by birth, the author draws on Portuguese research and perspectives that will be refreshing to English-language scholars and his own military experience also informs his analysis of events. What emerges is a stirring account of defiance, heroic resistance against the odds and, ultimately, treachery and tragedy.
Author : Antonio Culebras
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0824741919
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Sleep Disorders and Neurological Disease written by Antonio Culebras and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neuroclinical aspects of sleep and asserts that all sleep problems originate in brain dysfunction, whether structural as in brain tumors, behavioral as in insomnia, degenerative as in fatal familial insomnia, neurochemical as in narcolepsy, or neuromuscular as in sleep apnea. Examines the role of melatonin in sleep initiation and maintenance! Written by a varied group of international experts who focus on the fabric of neurological mechanisms and manifestations that underlie sleep, Sleep Disorders and Neurological Disease investigates the refreshing properties of sleep and its influence on alertness, attention, concentration, memory, and mood describes sleep dysfunction resulting from common neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis explains intrinsic sleep disorders such as narcolepsy and idiopathic CNS hypersomnia outlines the historical development of the neurochemistry, electrophysiology, neurophysiology, and chronobiology of sleep disorders investigates sleep pathology and sleep disorder medications discusses parasomnias, including sleep-wake transition and arousal disorders covers state dissociations such as Charles Bonnet syndrome and phantom limb phenomena suggests treatments for improving the sleep of patients with extrapyramidal disorders and more!
