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The Headless Republic

Author : Jesse Goldhammer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801441509
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Headless Republic written by Jesse Goldhammer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Headless Republic, Jesse Goldhammer explores how the French revolutionaries retrieved a set of ideas about founding violence from the classical Romans and early Christians and incorporated it into postrevolutionary debates that echoed into the twentieth century. By linking sacrifice as expressed in revolutionary practices to modern French theory, Goldhammer shows how ancient ideas of violent political renewal made their way into the contemporary age.Goldhammer elucidates the theoretical and practical significance of sacrificial violence during the Revolution, and then turns his attention to postrevolutionary intellectuals whose work is inspired by the founding sacrifices of the French Republic. Showing how Georges Bataille, Joseph de Maistre, and Georges Sorel adapted concepts of sacrifice to their own particular political agendas--whether reactionary or revolutionary--Goldhammer challenges conventional readings of these three thinkers as "bloodthirsty intellectuals." Instead, he argues, their work reveals the limits of violence as an agent of political change and attacks the forms of violence later adopted by fascist regimes. More broadly, Goldhammer makes the case for including ancient concepts of collective bloodshed in the modern lexicon of political violence.

The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution

Author : Cecilia Feilla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016297
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution written by Cecilia Feilla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Remarkably, the most frequently performed and popular plays from 1789 to 1799 were not the political action pieces that have been the subject of much literary and historical criticism, but rather sentimental dramas and comedies, many of which originated on the stages of the Old Regime. Feilla suggests that theatre provided an important bridge from affective communities of sentimentality to active political communities of the nation, arguing that the performance of virtue on stage served to foster the passage from private emotion to public virtue and allowed groups such as women, children, and the poor who were excluded from direct political participation to imagine a new and inclusive social and political structure. Providing close readings of texts by, among others, Denis Diderot, Collot d'Herbois, and Voltaire, Feilla maps the ways in which continuities and innovations in the theatre from 1760 to 1800 set the stage for the nineteenth century. Her book revitalizes and enriches our understanding of the significance of sentimental drama, showing that it was central to the way that drama both shaped and was shaped by political culture.

Rip Van Winkle’s Republic

Author : Andrew Burstein
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807178039
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rip Van Winkle’s Republic written by Andrew Burstein and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Published in England and America in 1819–1820, and universally praised for its inventive characters and soul-searching qualities, including the immortal tales “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” the volume enjoyed remarkable transatlantic success, allowing Irving to become the first of his nation to support himself as a professional author. In this distinctive collection, historians and literary scholars come together to reassess Irving’s imaginative world and complex cultural legacy. Alternately a satirist and a nostalgia merchant, Irving was ever absorbed in reconstituting a lost past, which the volume dubs “Rip Van Winkle’s Republic.” The assembled scholars explore issues of Anglo-American culture, the power of imagery, race, and the treatment of time and history in Irving’s vast body of literature, as well as his status as a bibliophile, an antiquarian, and a prominent figure in an age of literary celebrity. Edited by acclaimed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Rip Van Winkle’s Republic marks a rediscovery of this marvelous author of social satire and fabled tales of the past.

Human Rights and Constituent Power

Author : Illan Wall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136644148
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Constituent Power written by Illan Wall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging the current political and jurisprudential thought on constituent power with a radical political re-thinking of human rights, Ilan Rua Wall develops the idea that human rights must be considered as a non-metaphysical process of 'right-ing'.

Law's Imagined Republic

Author : Steven Wilf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196906
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Law's Imagined Republic written by Steven Wilf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law's Imagined Republic shows how the American Revolution was marked by the rapid proliferation of law talk across the colonies. This legal language was both elite and popular, spanned different forms of expression from words to rituals, and included simultaneously real and imagined law. Since it was employed to mobilize resistance against England, the proliferation of revolutionary legal language became intimately intertwined with politics. Drawing on a wealth of material from criminal cases, Steven Wilf reconstructs the intertextual ways Americans from the 1760s through the 1790s read law: reading one case against another and often self-consciously comparing transatlantic legal systems as they thought about how they might construct their own legal system in a new republic. What transformed extraordinary tales of crime into a political forum? How did different ways of reading or speaking about law shape our legal origins? And, ultimately, how might excavating innovative approaches to law in this formative period, which were constructed in the street as well as in the courtroom, alter our usual understanding of contemporary American legal institutions? Law's Imagined Republic tells the story of the untidy beginnings of American law.

The Flowery Republic

Author : Frederick McCormick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Flowery Republic written by Frederick McCormick and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England

Author : John F. McDiarmid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317023838
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England written by John F. McDiarmid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its challenging, paradoxical thesis that Elizabethan England was a 'republic which happened also to be a monarchy', Patrick Collinson's 1987 essay 'The Monarchical Republic of Queen Elizabeth I' instigated a proliferation of research and lively debate about quasi-republican aspects of Tudor and Stuart England. In this volume, a distinguished international group of scholars examines the idea of the 'monarchical republic' from the 1530s to the 1640s, and tests the concept from a variety of points of view. New suggestions are advanced about the pattern of development of quasi-republican tendencies and of opposition to them, and about their relation to the politics of earlier and later periods. A number of essays focus on the political activity of leading figures at court; several analyse political life in towns or rural areas; others discuss education, rhetoric, linguistic thought and reading practices, poetic and dramatic texts, the relations of politics to religious conflict, gendered conceptions of the monarchy, and 'monarchical republicanism' in the new American colonies. Differing positions in the scholarly debate about early modern English republicanism are represented, and fresh archival research advances the study of quasi-republican elements in early modern English politics.

Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic

Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199587221
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic written by Joseph Farrell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic focuses on the works of the major Augustan poets, Vergil, Horace, Propertius, and Ovid, and explores the under-studied aspect of their poetry, namely the way in which they constructed and investigated images of the Roman Republic and the Roman past.

Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979

Author : Julia Frances Andrews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079816
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (798 download)

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Book Synopsis Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 by : Julia Frances Andrews

Download or read book Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 written by Julia Frances Andrews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That Julia Andrews has reached sources that are so sensitive and difficult with such success is remarkable. The book is unquestionably a brilliant job, well-written, understandable, and of enormous scholarly value."--Joan Lebold Cohen, author of The New Chinese Painting

The Early Republic and Antebellum America

Author : Christopher G. Bates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317457404
Total Pages : 1453 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Early Republic and Antebellum America written by Christopher G. Bates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 1453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic

Author : John Lothrop Motley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Dutch Republic written by John Lothrop Motley and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of the Dutch Republic

Author : Motley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Dutch Republic written by Motley and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Early Republic and Rise of National Identity

Author : Jeffrey H. Hacker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317457374
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Early Republic and Rise of National Identity written by Jeffrey H. Hacker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Republic and the Rise of National Identity, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the formative period of the Early Republic through the early 1860s. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes. The Early Republic and the Rise of National Identity begins with an interdisciplinary Chronology that identifies, defines, and places in context the notable historical events, literary works, authors' lives, and cultural landmarks of the period. This is followed by a comprehensive overview essay that summarizes the era's major historical trends, social movements, cultural and artistic themes, literary voices, and enduring works as reflections of each other and the spirit of the times. The core content comprises 20-30 articles on representative writers of the period, along with excerpts from essential literary works that highlight a historical theme, sociocultural movement, or the confluence of the two. These excerpts serve the Common Core emphasis on "informational texts from a broad range of cultures and periods", including "stories, drama, poetry, and literary nonfiction".

The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Etc

Author : John Lothrop Motley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Etc written by John Lothrop Motley and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The rise of the Dutch republic. 5 v

Author : John Lothrop Motley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The rise of the Dutch republic. 5 v written by John Lothrop Motley and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of the Dutch Republic, a History

Author : John Lothrop Motley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Dutch Republic, a History written by John Lothrop Motley and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783–1812 [3 volumes]

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598841572
Total Pages : 1134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783–1812 [3 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relatively little attention has been paid to American military history between 1783 and 1812—arguably the most formative years of the United States. This encyclopedia fills the void in existing literature and provides greater understanding of how the nation evolved during this era. This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive examination of U.S. military history from the beginning of the republic in 1783 up to the eve of war with Great Britain in 1812. It enables a detailed study of the Early Republic, during which ideological and political divisions occurred over the fledgling U.S. military. The entries cover all the important battles, key individuals, weapons, Indian nations, and treaties, as well as numerous social, political, cultural, and economic developments during this period. The contents of the work will enable readers at the high school, college, university, and even graduate level to comprehend how political parties emerged, and how ideological differences over the organization, size, and use of the military developed. Larger global developments, including Anglo-American and Franco-American interactions, relations between Middle Eastern states and the United States, and relations and warfare between the U.S. government and various Indian nations are also detailed. The extensive and detailed bibliographies will be immensely helpful to learners at all levels.