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Twilight of the Republic

Author : Justin B. Litke
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813142210
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of the Republic written by Justin B. Litke and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uniqueness of America has been alternately celebrated and panned, emphasized and denied, for most of the country's history -- both by its own people and by visitors and observers from around the world. The idea of "American exceptionalism" tends to provoke strong feelings, but few are aware of the term's origins or understand its true meaning. Understanding the roots and consequences of America's uniqueness requires a thorough look into the nation's history and Americans' ideas about themselves. Through a masterful analysis of important texts and key documents, Justin B. Litke investigates the symbols that have defined American identity since the colonial era. From the time of the country's founding, the people of the United States have viewed themselves as citizens of a nation blessed by God, and they accordingly sought to serve as an example to others. Litke argues that as the republic developed, Americans came to perceive their country as an active "redeemer nation," responsible for liberating the world from its failings. He introduces and contextualizes the various historical and academic claims about American exceptionalism and offers an original approach to understanding this phenomenon. Today, American historians and politicians still debate the meaning of exceptionalism. Advocates of exceptionalism are often perceived by their opponents as unrealistically patriotic, and Litke's historically and theoretically rich inquiry attempts to reconcile these political and cultural tensions. Republicans of every age have recognized that a people cut off from their history will not long persist in self-government. Twilight of the Republic aims to reinvigorate the tradition that once caused people the world over to envy the American political order.

Twilight of the Republic

Author : Justin B. Litke
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813142229
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of the Republic written by Justin B. Litke and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful analysis of how American identity has been defined and reinvented through history, and the ongoing debate over “exceptionalism.” The idea of “American exceptionalism” tends to provoke strong feelings, but few are aware of the term’s origins or true meaning. Understanding the roots and consequences of America’s uniqueness requires a thorough look into the nation’s history and Americans’ ideas about themselves. Through a masterful analysis of important texts and key documents, Justin B. Litke investigates the symbols that have defined American identity since the colonial era. From the time of the United States’ founding, its people have viewed themselves as citizens of a nation blessed by God, and accordingly sought to serve as an example to others. Litke argues that as the republic developed, Americans came to perceive their country as an active “redeemer nation,” responsible for liberating the world from its failings. He introduces and contextualizes various historical and academic claims about American exceptionalism and offers an original approach to understanding this phenomenon. Today, historians and politicians still debate the meaning of exceptionalism. Advocates are often perceived by their opponents as unrealistically patriotic, and Litke’s historically and theoretically rich inquiry attempts to reconcile these political and cultural tensions. Republicans of every age have recognized that a people cut off from their history will not long persist in self-government. Twilight of the Republic aims to reinvigorate the tradition that once caused people the world over to envy the American political order. “Probing the depths of the American identity, Litke provides a lucid and deft rejoinder to the ‘dangerous nation’ thesis that insists the United States has always been an ideological, imperial power dedicated to global revolution [and] points the way forward to a renewal of the best of the American tradition.” ?Richard M. Gamble, author of In Search of the City on a Hill: The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth

Planet of Twilight: Star Wars Legends

Author : Barbara Hambly
Publisher : Random House Worlds
ISBN 13 : 0553575171
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Planet of Twilight: Star Wars Legends written by Barbara Hambly and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 1998-05-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Barbara Hambly returns to the Star Wars(r) universe to tell a breathtaking tale of a mysterious world where the battle between the New Republic and the Empire takes a shocking new twist.... Nam Chorios is a barren backwater world--once a dreaded prison colony, now home to a fanatic religious cult. It is here that Princess Leia has been taken captive by a ruthless and charismatic warlord bent on destroying the New Republic. Meanwhile, Luke lands on a mysterious planet in search of his lost love, Callista, only to discover the Force is his own worst enemy. But worst of all, as Han, Chewie, and Lando leave Coruscant on a desperate rescue mission, a strange life-form, unlike any the galaxy has ever seen, awakens...a life-form so malevolent it will destroy everything--both Empire and New Republic--on its path to domination.

The Republic of de Gaulle 1958-1969

Author : Serge Berstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521252393
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of de Gaulle 1958-1969 written by Serge Berstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of De Gaulle offers a comprehensive account - the fullest yet available in English - of the eleven years that followed the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Serge Berstein analyses the new constitutional and political system that emerged under De Gaulle, and shows how France was able to disengage from the ruinous Algerian War. He then conducts a detailed analysis of the socio-economic changes wrought during this period, and discusses the aims of De Gaulle's highly individualistic foreign policy. In the final section Professor Berstein traces the decline of De Gaulle's ascendancy up to his eventual resignation in 1969. In conclusion the author assesses the contribution of a remarkable political leader to the not less remarkable changes that took place in France during his presidency. This volume, lucidly translated by Peter Morris, features all those student aids now associated with the series.

Twilight of the Elites

Author : Chris Hayes
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307720462
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Twilight of the Elites written by Chris Hayes and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy. Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters. How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it. Mixing deft political analysis, timely social commentary, and deep historical understanding, Twilight of the Elites describes how the society we have come to inhabit – utterly forgiving at the top and relentlessly punitive at the bottom – produces leaders who are out of touch with the people they have been trusted to govern. Hayes argues that the public's failure to trust the federal government, corporate America, and the media has led to a crisis of authority that threatens to engulf not just our politics but our day-to-day lives. Upending well-worn ideological and partisan categories, Hayes entirely reorients our perspective on our times. Twilight of the Elites is the defining work of social criticism for the post-bailout age.

Witness for the Republic

Author : Ronald F. Davis
Publisher : Ronald Davis
ISBN 13 : 1598003844
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Witness for the Republic written by Ronald F. Davis and published by Ronald Davis. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Witness for the Republic" takes a revealing new look at the critical events of The Cold War Era through the eyes of the Baby Boomer generation. Through a unique blend of personal experiences and accounts of those caught up in the events of that time, this book shows how their lives directly helped to reshape American society. It also challenges the conventional view of the Cold War years, probing deep beneath the headlines to provide new insights into the lead stories of that tumultuous era. It is a firsthand account of many of the defining events of the twenty-year period 1956-1976, as well as an insightful look at the social revolution that created the modern world From the Kennedy campaign to the Johnson White House, from Vietnam to the Civil Rights Movement, from Woodstock to the fall of Saigon, this unique book goes inside the events that forever changed America. It also shows how the unshakable vision of the Baby Boomer Generation laid the groundwork for the digital age, the Womens Movement and the reshaping of American society.

Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822

Author : Mark A. Noll
Publisher : Regent College Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781573833158
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Princeton and the Republic, 1768-1822 written by Mark A. Noll and published by Regent College Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely viewed during the Revolutionary period as a champion of both republicanism and evangelical Calvinism, the College of New Jersey nonetheless experienced great inner turmoil as its leaders tried to support the stability of the new nation by integrating sound principles of science and faith. Focusing on three presidencies--those of John Witherspoon, Samuel Stanhope Smith, and Ashbel Green--Mark Noll relates the dramatic institutional history of what is now Princeton University, a history closely related to the intellectual development of the early republic. Noll examines in detail the student rebellions and the trustees' disillusionment with the college, which, despite Witherspoon's and Stanhope Smith's efforts to harmonize traditional Reformed faith with a moderate Scottish enlightenment, led to the establishment of a separate Presbyterian seminary in 1812. As a cultural and intellectual history of the early United States, this book deepens our understanding of how science, religion, and politics interacted during the period. Close attention is given to the Scottish philosophy of common sense, which Stanhope Smith developed into an educational vision that he hoped would encourage a stable social order. Mark A. Noll (PhD, Vanderbilt University) teaches Christian thought and church history at Wheaton College. He is author of more than ten books, including Religion and American Politics, Christian

The Republic of Letters

Author : Marc Fumaroli
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300221606
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Letters written by Marc Fumaroli and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined "republic" of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, Descartes, Montaigne, and others from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, through revolutions in culture and society. Via revealing portraits and analysis, Fumaroli traces intellectual currents engaged with the core question of how to live a moral life--and argues that these men of letters provide an example of the exchange of knowledge and ideas that is worthy of emulation in our own time. Combining scholarship, wit, and reverence, this thought-provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship.

The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire

Author : James Petras
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 0997287063
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire written by James Petras and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we approaching “peak America”, where the Republic has failed, and the Empire which put paid to it cannot be achieved?Seasoned political analyst James Petras addresses in broad brush the four major upheavals that loom:1) For the first time, the goal of socialism has been raised in the presidential primaries, backed by tens of millions of voters. The likely Republican candidate leads a mass right wing revolt which opposes globalization, capital flight and the free entry of immigrant labor. The US presidential elections are everything abnormal, with both major party candidates arousing popular revulsion. Not since the New Deal, nearly a century ago, have class relations come into sharper confrontation.2) Not since World War II have the US and Russia drawn closer to the possibility of mutual annihilation through nuclear war due to US empire building. The Presidency, in pursuit of a global legacy, draws on the support of the extremist mainstream media, prestigious Harvard mandarins of war, and military factions to pursue global hegemony, even as rebellious working peoples resist, and Russian and Chinese adversaries rearm and advance.3) Popular movements in France, Spain, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil, call for popular revolutions. Right wing nationalist parties are rising in Europe. Though the traditional center-left parties have been ousted or co-opted by elites, under the duress of capitalist wars and austerity, mass electoral upheavals, general strikes, and armed resistance openly challenge the empire in all its bastions.4) Who rules America and who sets the military agenda in the most contentious regions of the Middle East is in open dispute. A neoconservative domestic policy elite reflecting Zionist influence has gained ascendancy under dubious claims of meritocratic credentials. Their economic policies have plunged the country into repeated crises, systematic swindles and spiraling inequalities, while their foreign policy has led to prolonged, losing wars resulting in disastrous human and financial losses. The political and economic power of the Zionist configuration in America has severely repressed critical debate and political action seeking to challenge its dominance.

A Short History of Rome: The monarchy and the republic, from the foundation of the city to the death of Julius Caesar, 754 B.C.-44 B.C

Author : Guglielmo Ferrero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Rome: The monarchy and the republic, from the foundation of the city to the death of Julius Caesar, 754 B.C.-44 B.C written by Guglielmo Ferrero and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters

Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262062343
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters by : Mordechai Feingold

Download or read book Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters written by Mordechai Feingold and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reassessment of the Jesuit contributions to the emergence of the scientific worldview.

The Roman Poets of the Republic

Author : William Young Sellar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Poets of the Republic written by William Young Sellar and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rites of the Republic

Author : Mark Ingram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442693797
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Rites of the Republic written by Mark Ingram and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating exploration of citizenship and the politics of culture in contemporary France, Ingram examines two theatre troupes in Provence: one based in a small town in the rural part of the Vaucluse region, and the other an urban project in Marseille, France's most culturally diverse city. Both troupes are committed to explicitly civic goals in the tradition of citizens' theatre. Focusing on the personal stories of the theatre artists in these two troupes, and the continuities between their narratives, their performances, and the national discourse directed by the Ministry of Culture, Ingram examines the ways in which these artists interpret universalistic ideals underlying both art and the Republic in their theatrical work. In the process he charts the evolution of new models for society and citizenship in a rapidly changing France.

France and the republic

Author : William Henry Hurlbert
Publisher : London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France and the republic written by William Henry Hurlbert and published by London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Company. This book was released on 1890 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Music of the Republic

Author : Eva Brann
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589882814
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book The Music of the Republic written by Eva Brann and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates has with his fellow Athenians. She shows how Plato's dialogues and the timeless matters they address remain important to us today. From introductory pieces on the Republic, the Phaedo, and the Sophist, to an account of the less well known Charmides, each essay starts where Plato starts, without presupposing a critical theory. In the title essay's brilliant account of the Republic, Brann demonstrates its central importance in Plato's work. Other essays consider Plato's notion of time; discuss how to teach Plato to undergraduates; and contend that a thoughtful text-based study of Plato can have a very personal impact on a reader. Encouraged to befriend the dialogues, readers will join in the great Socratic conversations.

Intellectual Founders of the Republic

Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019153014X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Founders of the Republic written by Sudhir Hazareesingh and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of French political culture re-examines the origins of modern republicanism through the lives and political thought of five nineteenth-century intellectuals: Jules Barni, Charles Dupont-White, Emile Littré, Eugène Pelletan, and Etienne Vacherot. By their writings and their political practices at the local, national, international levels these thinkers made major contributions to the founding of the new republican order in France. Drawing on a range of archival and published sources, the book sheds new light on classical republican thinking on such key issues as the interpretation of the 1789 Revolution, the definition of citizenship, the meaning of patriotism, the relationship between central government and local democracy, the value of individual liberty, and the place of education and religion in publica and private life. These five studies also break new ground in the conceptualization of nineteenth-century French intellectual history. The writings of these thinkers demonstrate the ideological pluralism and diversity of moderate French republican thought during this period. Positivism appears as an important and influential doctrine, but its hegemonic aspirations were successfully resisted by the abiding incluences of Saint-Simonism, socialism, doctrinaire liberalism, and neo-Kantianism. It emerges that the ideological potency of republican doctrine lay in its complexity and sophistication, as reflected in its capacity to effect a synthesis among these different approaches. Through its analysis of the writings and political practices of these five thinkers Intellectual Founders of the Republic offers critical insights into the history of political thought as well as modern French republicanism. It underlines both the significance of contextuality in the interpretation of political discourse, and the continuing relevance of classical republicanism in making sense of contemporary moral and political dilemmas.

The Republic of the Living

Author : Miguel Vatter
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823256049
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of the Living written by Miguel Vatter and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes up Foucault’s hypothesis that liberal “civil society,” far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters examine the critical theory of civil society—from Hegel and Marx through Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, and Arendt—from the new horizon opened up by Foucault’s turn to biopolitics and its reception in recent Italian theory. Negri, Agamben, and Esposito have argued that biopolitics not only denotes new forms of domination over life but harbors within it an affirmative relation between biological life and politics that carries an emancipatory potential. The chapters of this book take up this suggestion by locating this emancipatory potential in the biopolitical feature of the human condition that Arendt called “natality.” The book proceeds to illustrate how natality is the basis for a republican articulation of an affirmative biopolitics. It aims to renew the critical theory of civil society by pursuing the traces of natality as a “surplus of life” that resists the oppressive government of life found in the capitalist political economy, in the liberal system of rights, and in the bourgeois family. By contrast, natality offers the normative foundation for a new “republic of the living.” Finally, natality permits us to establish a relation between biological life and contemplative life that reverses the long-held belief in a privileged relationship of thinking to the possibility of our death. The result is a materialist, atheological conception of contemplative life as eternal life.