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Ambitious Rebels

Author : Reuben Zahler
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599084
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Ambitious Rebels written by Reuben Zahler and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder, street brawls, marital squabbles, infidelity, official corruption, public insults, and rebellion are just a few of the social layers Reuben Zahler investigates as he studies the dramatic shifts in Venezuela as it transformed from a Spanish colony to a modern republic. His book Ambitious Rebels illuminates the enormous changes in honor, law, and political culture that occurred and how ordinary men and women promoted or rejected those changes. In a highly engaging style, Zahler examines gender and class against the backdrop of Venezuelan institutions and culture during the late colonial period through post-independence (known as the “middle period”). His fine-grained analysis shows that liberal ideals permeated the elite and popular classes to a substantial degree while Venezuelan institutions enjoyed impressive levels of success. Showing remarkable ambition, Venezuela’s leaders aspired to transform a colony that adhered to the king, the church, and tradition into a liberal republic with minimal state intervention, a capitalistic economy, freedom of expression and religion, and an elected, representative government. Subtle but surprisingly profound changes of a liberal nature occurred, as evidenced by evolving standards of honor, appropriate gender roles, class and race relations, official conduct, courtroom evidence, press coverage, economic behavior, and church-state relations. This analysis of the philosophy of the elites and the daily lives of common men and women reveals in particular the unwritten, unofficial norms that lacked legal sanction but still greatly affected political structures. Relying on extensive archival resources, Zahler focuses on Venezuela but provides a broader perspective on Latin American history. His examination provides a comprehensive look at intellectual exchange across the Atlantic, comparative conditions throughout the Americas, and the tension between traditional norms and new liberal standards in a postcolonial society.

Ambition, A History

Author : William Casey King
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300182805
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Ambition, A History written by William Casey King and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how ambition, once considered a vice, became a celebrated virtue that defines American character.

Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence

Author : Emma Depledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108667341
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence written by Emma Depledge and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation and dissemination of Shakespeare during the Interregnum and Restoration. She demonstrates the crucial role of the Exclusion Crisis (1678–1682), a political crisis over the royal succession, as a foundational moment in Shakespeare's canonisation. The period saw a sudden surge of theatrical alterations and a significantly increased rate of new editions and stage revivals. In the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, Shakespeare's plays were made available on a scale not witnessed since the early seventeenth century, thus reversing what might otherwise have been a permanent disappearance of his drama from canonical familiarity and firmly establishing Shakespeare's work in the national cultural imagination.

Many Identities, One Nation

Author : Liam Riordan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203372
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Many Identities, One Nation written by Liam Riordan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richly diverse population of the mid-Atlantic region distinguished it from the homogeneity of Puritan New England and the stark differences of the plantation South that still dominate our understanding of early America. In Many Identities, One Nation, Liam Riordan explores how the American Revolution politicized religious, racial, and ethnic identities among the diverse inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. Attending to individual experiences through a close comparative analysis, Riordan explains the transformation from British subjects to U.S. citizens in a region that included Quakers, African Americans, and Pennsylvania Germans. In the face of a gradually emerging sense of nationalism, varied forms of personal and group identities took on heightened public significance in the Revolutionary Delaware Valley. While Quakers in Burlington, New Jersey, remained suspect after the war because of their pacifism, newly freed slaves in New Castle, Delaware, demanded full inclusion, and bilingual Pennsylvania Germans in Easton, Pennsylvania, successfully struggled to create a central place for themselves in the new nation. By placing the public contest over the proper expression of group distinctiveness in the context of local life, Riordan offers a new understanding of how cultural identity structured the early Jacksonian society of the 1820s as a culmination of the American Revolution in this region. This compelling story brings to life the popular culture of the Revolutionary Delaware Valley through analysis of wide-ranging evidence, from architecture, folk art, clothing, and music to personal papers, newspapers, and local church, tax, and census records. The study's multilayered local perspective allows us to see how the Revolutionary upheaval of the colonial status quo penetrated everyday life and stimulated new understandings of the importance of cultural diversity in the Revolutionary nation.

The Books of Homilies

Author : Gerald Bray
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227905121
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Books of Homilies written by Gerald Bray and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two Books of Homilies, along with the Book of Common Prayer and the Ordinal, have long been basic documents of the Church of England, and are valuable in showing how Anglican doctrine shifted during the Reformation, as well as being of considerable historical importance.The first book, published in 1547, early in the reign of Edward VI, was partly, though not entirely, the work of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, and the inspiration appears to have been his. This was intended to raise the standards of preaching by offering model ser mons covering particular doctrinal and pastoral themes, either to be read (particularly by unlicensed clergy) or to provide preachers with additional material for their own sermons.The success of the venture led Bishop EdmundBonner, who had contributed to Cranmer's book, to produce his own Book of Homilies in 1555, during the reign of Queen Mary. The Second Book of Homilies, published in 1563 (and in a revised form in 1571) appears in turn to have been influenced by both Cranmer's and Bonner's books.The present edition brings together all three books, edited and introduced by Revd Dr Gerald Bray.

Dani Nabudere's Afrikology

Author : Osha, Sanya
Publisher : CODESRIA
ISBN 13 : 2869787537
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Dani Nabudere's Afrikology written by Osha, Sanya and published by CODESRIA. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dani Wadada Nabudere, the illustrious Ugandan scholar, produced a diverse body of work on various aspects of African culture, politics, and philosophy. Toward the end of his life, he formulated a theoretical construct that he termed “Afrikology.” Unlike most other Afrocentrists, who have stopped with the task of proving the primacy of the Egyptian past and its numerous cultural and scientific achievements, Nabudere strenuously attempts to connect that illustrious heritage with the African present. This, remarkably, is what makes his project worthy of careful attention. His corpus is multidisciplinary, although a major preoccupation with Africa is discernible in virtually all his works. His writings deal with critiques of imperialism, African political systems, processes of globalization and Africa’s location within them, and finally the ideological and existential imperatives of Afrocentric discourse.

British Outlaws of Literature and History

Author : Alexander L. Kaufman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786485124
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book British Outlaws of Literature and History written by Alexander L. Kaufman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval outlaws of Britain maintain a hold on the present-day imagination, judging by their presence in literature and on film. Exploring the nature of both historical and fictional outlaws, these twelve critical essays survey the literary, historical, and cultural environments that produced them, namely the medieval and early modern periods. Divided into three parts, the text examines the historical records of real outlawed men and women and the representation of Jews in medieval Britain as possible outlaws, outlaws associated specifically with Wales, and the popular figure of Robin Hood and the context of the late medieval poems and plays that feature him as a prominent figure.

"A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North

Author : Dennis McCarthy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844885
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North written by Dennis McCarthy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text.

Dune: The Butlerian Jihad

Author : Brian Herbert
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765301574
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Dune: The Butlerian Jihad written by Brian Herbert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction roman.

The Enlightenment on Trial

Author : Bianca Premo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190638745
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Enlightenment on Trial written by Bianca Premo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of the Enlightenment--the rights-oriented, formalist, secularizing, freedom-inspired eighteenth-century movement that defined modern Western law. But rather than members of a cosmopolitan Republic of Letters, its principal protagonists are non-literate, poor, and enslaved litigants who sued their superiors in the royal courts of Spain's American colonies. Despite growing evidence of the Hispanic world's contributions to Enlightenment science, the writing of history, and statecraft, the region is conventionally believed to have taken an alternate route to modernity. This book grapples with the contradiction between this legacy and eighteenth-century Spanish Americans' active production of concepts fundamental to modern law. The Enlightenment on Trial offers readers new insight into how Spanish imperial subjects created legal documents, fresh interpretations of the intellectual transformations and legal reform policies of the period, and comparative analysis of the volume of civil suits from six regions in Mexico, Peru and Spain. Ordinary litigants in the colonies--far more often than peninsular Spaniards--sued superiors at an accelerating pace in the second half of the eighteenth century. Three types of cases increased even faster than a stunning general rise of civil suits in the colonies: those that slaves, native peasants and women initiated against masters, native leaders and husbands. As they entered court, these litigants advanced a new law-centered culture distinct from the casuistic, justice-oriented legal culture of the early modern period. And they did so at precisely the same time that a few bright minds of Europe enshrined new ideas in print. The conclusion considers why, if this is so, the Spanish empire has remained marginal to the story of the advent of the modern West.

The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830

Author : Brian R. Hamnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107174643
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830 written by Brian R. Hamnett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive and comparative assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil.

Sermons, Or Homilies, Appointed to be Read in Churches

Author : England. - Church of England. - Homilies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sermons, Or Homilies, Appointed to be Read in Churches written by England. - Church of England. - Homilies and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thought and Word

Author : William Allingham
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Thought and Word written by William Allingham and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thought and Word" by William Allingham is a reflective poem that explores the relationship between thoughts and their expression through words. As a poet, Allingham may delve into the profound connection between internal contemplation and the external manifestation of ideas. In "Thought and Word," readers can anticipate Allingham's lyrical style and thoughtful exploration of the intricacies of human expression. The poem likely touches upon the power of language to convey complex emotions and thoughts, as well as the nuances involved in translating internal reflections into tangible words. Allingham, known for his works that often celebrate nature and capture the essence of the human experience, may infuse "Thought and Word" with imagery and metaphor to convey the beauty and challenges inherent in the interplay between thought and language.

Thought and Word

Author : William Allingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thought and Word written by William Allingham and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prince Dracula

Author : Gavin Baddeley
Publisher : Canelo + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1800329903
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Prince Dracula written by Gavin Baddeley and published by Canelo + ORM. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war hero, a mass murderer and a Gothic legend the world has never forgotten Vlad the Impaler is one of history’s most compelling and brutal characters, with a bizarre afterlife as a cult horror sensation. A hero to his countrymen, Vlad Dracula is a byword for dread. Not just for generations of Western fans of Gothic fiction and film, but also for an appalled and fascinated 15th-century readership, for whom contemporary accounts of Dracula’s atrocities became the world’s first horror bestsellers. Combining historical research and dramatic reconstruction with contemporary reference, here is Vlad the Impaler’s dramatic career, from pampered captive of the Ottoman Sultans to exterminating angel of Christian vengeance. But in reality, was he the embodiment of unbridled cruelty or model ruler of an embattled realm? Prince Dracula also examines the role of psychological warfare and black propaganda in international politics, from the medieval torture chamber to the headlines of the modern age, and shows Vlad as an unwitting pioneer of the modern world. Plying a grisly course through medieval bloodbaths and contemporary horrors, Gavin Baddeley and Paul Woods leave no tombstone unturned in this extraordinary history.

Educational Research in Public Schools

Author : David Spence Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Educational Research in Public Schools written by David Spence Hill and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report to the Superintendent of Schools

Author : New Orleans (La.). Dept. of Superintendence of the Public Schools. Division of Educational Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report to the Superintendent of Schools written by New Orleans (La.). Dept. of Superintendence of the Public Schools. Division of Educational Research and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: