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Download or read book The King's Peace written by Jo Walton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sulian ap Gwien was only 17 when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed, she could have defeated them. It took six to subdue her--and she will never forgive them. Thus begins the tale of a woman who rises to become the strong right hand to the great king who will reunite his people. (August)
Download or read book The KingÕs Peace written by Lisa Ford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the imposition of Crown rule across the British Empire during the Age of Revolution corroded the rights of British subjects and laid the foundations of the modern police state. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British Empire responded to numerous crises in its colonies, from North America to Jamaica, Bengal to New South Wales. This was the Age of Revolution, and the Crown, through colonial governors, tested an array of coercive peacekeeping methods in a desperate effort to maintain control. In the process these leaders transformed what it meant to be a British subject. In the decades after the American Revolution, colonial legal regimes were transformed as the kingÕs representatives ruled new colonies with an increasingly heavy hand. These new autocratic regimes blurred the lines between the rule of law and the rule of the sword. Safeguards of liberty and justice, developed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution, were eroded while exacting obedience and imposing order became the focus of colonial governance. In the process, many constitutional principles of empire were subordinated to a single, overarching rule: where necessary, colonial law could diverge from metropolitan law. Within decades of the American Revolution, Lisa Ford shows, the rights claimed by American rebels became unthinkable in the British Empire. Some colonial subjects fought back but, in the empire, the real winner of the American Revolution was the king. In tracing the dramatic growth of colonial executive power and the increasing deployment of arbitrary policing and military violence to maintain order, The KingÕs Peace provides important lessons on the relationship between peacekeeping, sovereignty, and political subjectivityÑlessons that illuminate contemporary debates over the imbalance between liberty and security.
Book Synopsis Spear-Won Land by : Andrea M. Berlin
Download or read book Spear-Won Land written by Andrea M. Berlin and published by Wisconsin Studies in Classics. This book was released on 2019 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a dozen prominent scholars offer comprehensive assessments of Hellenistic Sardis, a critical site in western Asia Minor that was one of the most important political centers of both the Aegean and Near Eastern worlds before it was governed as part of the Roman Empire.
Book Synopsis Kings of Peace Pawns of War by : Harriet Martin
Download or read book Kings of Peace Pawns of War written by Harriet Martin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the complex process of turning war into peace, international conflict mediators play an increasingly pivotal role. Yet almost nothing is known about these influential individuals. In Kings of Peace, Pawns of War, six of the world's leading mediators talk in detail for the first time about their efforts to secure peace in Iraq, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Iraq and Aceh. Former war correspondent Harriet Martin draws on unparalleled access to top-level mediators at work on the international scene today. Thus she is able to provide for the first time important insights into a profession rarely subjected to public scrutiny. She investigates the tactics they use to keep the two sides talking, and their drive to complete what is often a thankless task. She exposes how the warring parties, and also the international backers of a mediation, will manipulate a peace effort - and the mediator himself - in order to retain the upper hand.
Book Synopsis God's Peace and King's Peace by : Bruce R. O'Brien
Download or read book God's Peace and King's Peace written by Bruce R. O'Brien and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been spoken to William shortly after the Conquest by "English nobles who were wise men and learned in their law," recounting "the rules of their laws and customs" for the invading Norman king. When they had finished, the king wondered whether it might not be better for all of them to live under the law of his Viking ancestors; the English, however, protested that they preferred to live by their own preconquest laws. The king acquiesced, and thus, goes the story, were the laws of King Edward the Confessor authorized. Looking through the lens of this important—if spurious—treatise, God's Peace and King's Peace offers the first ground-level view of English law during the century in which the common law was born. Bruce R. O'Brien compares the Leges Edwardi to other memorials of legal policy and practice from before and after 1066, in both Normandy and England, and advances conclusions about the treatises' reliability on specific points of law. He also shows how the Laws of Edward the Confessor, taken as a record of English law at the conquest, came to be used as authoritative evidence behind the Magna Carta that the king was under the law, and how it was eventually declared a notorious forgery by seventeenth-century antiquaries and Enlightenment historians.
Download or read book Peaceful Kings written by Paul Kershaw and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full scholarly exploration of the relationship between the idea of peace and rulership through Europe's formative centuries, Peaceful Kings asks what peace meant to early medieval people, and to what extent royal intentions endeavoured to meet collective expectations.
Book Synopsis The King's peace by : C. V. Wedgwood
Download or read book The King's peace written by C. V. Wedgwood and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1993-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The King's Name written by Jo Walton and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The warrior Sulien ap Gwien and her lord King Urdo have finally united the land of Tir Tanagiri into a kingdom ruled by justice under a single code of law. But where many see a hopeful future for the land, others believe they sense the seeds of a new tyranny. Soon Tir Tanagiri faces the blight of civil war, and Sulien ap Gwien must take up arms against former comrades and loved ones, fighting harder and harder to hold on to Urdo's shining dream. Continuing the epic begun in The King's Peace, this new novel brings the story of Sulien ap Gwien to a rousing and moving conclusion. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis What Makes This Book So Great by : Jo Walton
Download or read book What Makes This Book So Great written by Jo Walton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As any reader of Jo Walton's Among Others might guess, Walton is both an inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, and a chronic re-reader of books. In 2008, then-new science-fiction mega-site Tor.com asked Walton to blog regularly about her re-reading—about all kinds of older fantasy and SF, ranging from acknowledged classics, to guilty pleasures, to forgotten oddities and gems. These posts have consistently been among the most popular features of Tor.com. Now this volumes presents a selection of the best of them, ranging from short essays to long reassessments of some of the field's most ambitious series. Among Walton's many subjects here are the Zones of Thought novels of Vernor Vinge; the question of what genre readers mean by "mainstream"; the underappreciated SF adventures of C. J. Cherryh; the field's many approaches to time travel; the masterful science fiction of Samuel R. Delany; Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children; the early Hainish novels of Ursula K. Le Guin; and a Robert A. Heinlein novel you have most certainly never read. Over 130 essays in all, What Makes This Book So Great is an immensely readable, engaging collection of provocative, opinionated thoughts about past and present-day fantasy and science fiction, from one of our best writers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis Representing War and Violence by : Joanna Bellis
Download or read book Representing War and Violence written by Joanna Bellis and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of written and other responses to conflict in a variety of forms and genres, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century.
Book Synopsis The Land of the Elephant Kings by : Paul J. Kosmin
Download or read book The Land of the Elephant Kings written by Paul J. Kosmin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking in the bulk of Alexander the Great's Asian conquests, the Seleucid Empire encompassed remarkable ethnic, religious, and linguistic diversity; yet it did not include Macedonia, the dynasty's ancestral homeland. Paul Kosmin shows how rulers over lands to which they had no historic claim transformed the territory into a coherent space.
Book Synopsis The Prize in the Game by : Jo Walton
Download or read book The Prize in the Game written by Jo Walton and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2004-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a friendly competition leads to the death of a beloved horse and incurs the wrath of the Horse Goddess, the kingdoms of the island of Tir Isarnagiri are doomed to suffer. As the goddess' curse chases them down the years, four friends destined for kingship-Conal, Emer, Darag, and Ferdia-are forced into conflict as their countries build towards war. Matters are complicated when Emer and Conal fall in love, and dream of escaping together from the machinations of their respective families. But Conal and Ferdia are rivals for the High Kingship of the island, and Conal cannot simply leave. The contest between them will lead to a visionary quest on a mountain sacred to the gods-and terrifying to men. Yet Emer faces an even greater struggle. For when war finally comes, Emer has two choices: perform her duty to the homeland to which she owes everything, or protect the one she loves and be branded a traitor forever. The path she takes will become the stuff of legend, and forever alter the destiny of Tir Isarnagiri. Set in the world of Jo Walton's previous novels, The King's Peace and The King's Name, this book takes us to a shining era of dark powers, legendary heroes and passionate loves-all of them ruled by the hand of Fate. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis The King's Peace by : Frederick Andrew Inderwick
Download or read book The King's Peace written by Frederick Andrew Inderwick and published by London, Sonnenschein. This book was released on 1895 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The King's Peace by : Jeremy Pomeroy
Download or read book The King's Peace written by Jeremy Pomeroy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric and Rich are Americans; Ania isn't. Eric has lived his life in panic, and isn't sure why. Rich gets by alright and is opposed to most things. Eric could have been, and perhaps should have been, in a different novel. There are five sections; the book is Modernist and a bit metafictional.
Book Synopsis The Keepers of the King's Peace by : Edgar Wallace
Download or read book The Keepers of the King's Peace written by Edgar Wallace and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keepers of the King's Peace by Edgar Wallace: Unravel a captivating mystery with this thrilling detective novel by Edgar Wallace. "The Keepers of the King's Peace" follows the escapades of Detective Inspector Macdonald as he delves into a baffling murder case that unfolds against the backdrop of London's criminal underworld. With an intricate plot, a colorful cast of characters, and unexpected twists, Wallace's novel promises to keep readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. Key Aspects of the Book "The Keepers of the King's Peace": Detective Fiction Classic: "The Keepers of the King's Peace" is a classic example of detective fiction, with elements of suspense, investigation, and criminal intrigue. Atmospheric Setting: Wallace skillfully creates an atmospheric portrayal of London's underworld and the bustling city streets, adding depth and realism to the narrative. Engaging Plot: The novel presents a riveting and complex plot that unfolds through clever detective work and unexpected revelations. Edgar Wallace was a prolific British author and playwright, best known for his contributions to the mystery and detective fiction genres. Born in 1875, Wallace achieved literary success with numerous novels, plays, and screenplays. His legacy includes a vast body of work that continues to captivate readers and audiences with its compelling storytelling and intriguing mysteries.
Book Synopsis The Keepers of the King's Peace by : Edgar Wallace
Download or read book The Keepers of the King's Peace written by Edgar Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Keeper of the King's Peace by : Edgar Wallace
Download or read book The Keeper of the King's Peace written by Edgar Wallace and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was Commissioner Sanders — the man who controlled a continent of untamed jungle.
