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The Courtier and the Governor

Author : Sean Burt
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647550760
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Courtier and the Governor written by Sean Burt and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nehemiah Memoir, the narrative of the royal cupbearer sent to rebuild Jerusalem, is central to Ezra-Nehemiah's account of Persian Judah. Yet its emphasis on one individual's efforts makes it a text that ill-fits the book's story of a communal restoration. Sean Burt analyzes the nature of this curious text through the lens of genre criticism and identifies the impact of its use of genres on its early reception in Ezra-Nehemiah. Drawing upon contemporary theorists of literary genre, within the field of biblical studies and beyond, he builds an understanding of genre capable of addressing both its flexibility and its necessarily historical horizon. Burt argues that the Nehemiah Memoir makes use of two ancient genres: the novelistic court tale (e.g. Esther, Ahiqar, and others) and the "official memorial," or "biographical" genre used across the ancient Near East by kings and other governmental officials for individual commemoration. This study contends that the narrative subtly shifts genres as it unfolds, from court tale to memorial. Nehemiah the courtier becomes Nehemiah the governor. While these genres reveal an affinity to one another, they also highlight a central contradiction in the narrative's portrait of Nehemiah. Nehemiah is, like the people of Jerusalem, beholden to the whims of a foreign ruler, but he also simultaneously represents Persia's power over Jerusalem. Burt concludes that the Nehemiah Memoir's combination of these two ultimately incommensurate genres can account for how the writers of Ezra-Nehemiah modified and corrected Nehemiah's problematic story to integrate it into Ezra-Nehemiah's vision of a holistic restoration enacted by a unified people.

The Governors-General

Author : Stephen Saunders Webb
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469600013
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Governors-General written by Stephen Saunders Webb and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic tradition that openly defined English empire as the imposition of state control by force on dependent people. He describes the entire military connection that found expression in the garrisoned cities of England, Scotland, and Ireland and ultimately in the palisaded plantations of Jamaica, Virginia, and New England. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

The Book of the Courtier

Author : Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Courtier written by Baldassarre Castiglione and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of the Courtier

Author : conte Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Courtier written by conte Baldassarre Castiglione and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jonathan Belcher, Colonial Governor

Author : Michael C. Batinski
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813119465
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Belcher, Colonial Governor written by Michael C. Batinski and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as the eighteenth century, New England's ministers were decrying public morality in jeremiads aimed at wayward colonists. Evangelical leaders such as Jonathan Edwards called for rulers to become spiritual as well as political leaders who would renew the people's covenant with God. The prosperous merchant Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757) self-consciously strove to become such a leader, an American Nehemiah. As governor of three royal colonies and early patron of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), Belcher became an important but controversial figure in colonial America. An insightful blend of social and political history, this biography demands that Belcher be recognized as the embodiment of the Nehemiah, perhaps as important in his own realm as Cotton Mather was in religious circles. Grappling with the contradictions of Belcher's actions, the author explains much about the complexities of the world in which Belcher lived and wielded influence and, by weaving together social, religious, and cultural history, portrays in the career of Jonathan Belcher a richly detailed synthesis of the tumultuous late colonial period.

In Search of Empire

Author : James Pritchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521827423
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Empire written by James Pritchard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elusive Empire is the first full account of how during 1670 and 1730 French settlers came to the Americas. It examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with Amerindians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much new evidence, the author explores how the newly constructed societies and new economies, without precedent in France, interacted with the growing international violence in the Atlantic world in order to present a fresh perspective of the multifarious French colonizing experience in the Americas.

The company's governors: Clive, Hastings, Munro, Malcolm, Elphinstone, Metcalfe Thomason, Colvin

Author : George Devereux Oswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The company's governors: Clive, Hastings, Munro, Malcolm, Elphinstone, Metcalfe Thomason, Colvin written by George Devereux Oswell and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Private Diary of Ananda Rango Pillai

Author : Ān̲antaraṅkap Piḷḷai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private Diary of Ananda Rango Pillai written by Ān̲antaraṅkap Piḷḷai and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing Under Tyranny

Author : Greg Walker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191536199
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Writing Under Tyranny written by Greg Walker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the early English Renaissance. It shows the profound effects that political oppression had on the literary production of the years from 1528 to 1547, and how English writers in turn strove to mitigate, redirect, and finally resist that oppression. The result was the destruction of a number of forms that had dominated the literary production of late-medieval England, but also the creation of new forms that were to dominate the writing of the following centuries. Paradoxically, the tyranny of Henry VIII gave birth to many modes of writing now seen to be characteristic of the English literary Renaissance.

Sep. 1754 to Dec. 1755

Author : Ān̲antaraṅkap Piḷḷai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Sep. 1754 to Dec. 1755 written by Ān̲antaraṅkap Piḷḷai and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai

Author : Ān̲antaraṅkap Piḷḷai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai written by Ān̲antaraṅkap Piḷḷai and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Administrators of Empire

Author : Mark A. Burkholder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429855524
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Administrators of Empire written by Mark A. Burkholder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, the expansion of Europe overseas required the creation of institutions for governing the conquered peoples, as well as the conquerors, their descendants, and later immigrants. As a group, bureaucrats were essential for the preservation of extensive and long-lasting European colonies. This volume looks in particular at the Americas and sets out the differing responses of Portugal, Spain, Britain and France and the systems they elaborated. A notable theme is the conflict between the demands of the centre, and the local pressures, and the extent to which the bureaucrats often came to identify with these.

The Governor's Dilemma

Author : Kenneth W. Abbott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019259723X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Governor's Dilemma written by Kenneth W. Abbott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Governor's Dilemma develops a general theory of indirect governance based on the tradeoff between governor control and intermediary competence; the empirical chapters apply that theory to a diverse range of cases encompassing both international relations and comparative politics. The theoretical framework paper starts from the observation that virtually all governance is indirect, carried out through intermediaries. But governors in indirect governance relationships face a dilemma: competent intermediaries gain power from the competencies they contribute, making them difficult to control, while efforts to control intermediary behavor limit important intermediary competencies, including expertise, credibility, and legitimacy. Thus, governors can obtain either high intermediary competence or strong control, but not both. This competence-control tradeoff is a common condition of indirect governance, whether governors are domestic or international, public or private, democratic or authoritarian; and whether governance addresses economic, security, or social issues. The empirical chapters analyze the operation and implications of the governor's dilemma in cases involving the governance of violence (e.g., secret police, support for foreign rebel groups, private security companies), the governance of markets (e.g., the Euro crisis, capital markets, EU regulation, the G20), and cross-cutting governance issues (colonial empires, "Trump's Dilemma"). Competence-control theory helps explain many features of governance that other theories cannot: why indirect governance is not limited to principal-agent delegation, but takes multiple forms; why governors create seemingly counter-productive intermediary relationships; and why indirect governance is frequently unstable over time.

The Iroquois Restoration

Author : Richard Aquila
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259324
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The Iroquois Restoration written by Richard Aquila and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1701, the Iroquois, at their nadir after twenty years of warring, sought to rebuild the Confederacy. By design or circumstance, they carried out sophisticated diplomatic relations with their Indian and white neighbors, gradually recouping much of their political, military, and economic power. The Iroquois helped shape the frontier, influencing Westward expansion, the fur trade, and colonial warfare.

The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890 [3 volumes]

Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851096035
Total Pages : 1393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890 [3 volumes] written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 1393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia provides a broad, in-depth, and multidisciplinary look at the causes and effects of warfare between whites and Native Americans, encompassing nearly three centuries of history. The Battle of the Wabash: the U.S. Army's single worst defeat at the hands of Native American forces. The Battle of Wounded Knee: an unfortunate, unplanned event that resulted in the deaths of more than 150 Lakota Sioux men, women, and children. These and other engagements between white settlers and Native Americans were events of profound historical significance, resulting in social, political, and cultural changes for both ethnic populations, the lasting effects of which are clearly seen today. The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political, Social, and Military History provides comprehensive coverage of almost 300 years of North American Indian Wars. Beginning with the first Indian-settler conflicts that arose in the early 1600s, this three-volume work covers all noteworthy battles between whites and Native Americans through the Battle of Wounded Knee in December 1890. The book provides detailed biographies of military, social, religious, and political leaders and covers the social and cultural aspects of the Indian wars. Also supplied are essays on every major tribe, as well as all significant battles, skirmishes, and treaties.

American History and Government

Author : Willis Mason West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book American History and Government written by Willis Mason West and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

France and the Americas [3 volumes]

Author : Bill Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851094164
Total Pages : 1334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book France and the Americas [3 volumes] written by Bill Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, multidisciplinary encyclopedia covering the impacts that French and American politics, foreign policy, and culture have had on shaping each country's identity. From 17th-century fur traders in Canada to 21st-century peacekeepers in Haiti, from France's decisive role in the Revolutionary War leading to the creation of the United States to recent disagreements over Iraq, France and the Americas charts the history of the inextricable links between France and the nations of the Americas. This comprehensive survey features an incisive introduction and a chronology of key events, spanning 400 years of France's transatlantic relations. Students of many disciplines, as well as the lay reader, will appreciate this comprehensive survey, which traces the common themes of both French policy, language, and influence throughout the Americas and the wide-ranging transatlantic influences on contemporary France.