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Author: United States. Congress. House
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Total Pages: 2054
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 1236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSome vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
The Rise of Eurocentrism
Author: Vassilis Lambropoulos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0691201811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western tradition: the act of interpretation as a distinct practice of understanding and a civil right. Championed by Protestants insisting on independent interpretation of scripture, this ideal of autonomy ushered in the era of modernity with its essentialist philosophy of universal man and his aesthetic understanding of the world. After explaining the dominance of European culture through the combined archetypes of Hebraism (reason and morality) and Hellenism (spirit and art), Lambropoulos shows how the rule of autonomy has been transformed into the aesthetic, disinterested contemplation of things in themselves. Arguing that it is time to restore the socio-political dimension to the movement of autonomy, he proposes that a genealogy of the Hebraic-Hellenic archetypes can help us evaluate more recent models--like the Afrocentric one--and redefine the controversy surrounding education, Eurocentrism, and cultural politics.
Communism and the Emergence of Democracy
Author: Harald Wydra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-02-08
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1139462180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore democracy becomes an institutionalised form of political authority, the rupture with authoritarian forms of power causes deep uncertainty about power and outcomes. This book connects the study of democratisation in eastern Europe and Russia to the emergence and crisis of communism. Wydra argues that the communist past is not simply a legacy but needs to be seen as a social organism in gestation, where critical events produce new expectations, memories and symbols that influence meanings of democracy. By examining a series of pivotal historical events, he shows that democratisation is not just a matter of institutional design, but rather a matter of consciousness and leadership under conditions of extreme and traumatic incivility. Rather than adopting the opposition between non-democratic and democratic, Wydra argues that the communist experience must be central to the study of the emergence and nature of democracy in (post-) communist countries.
El Vino Y la Viña
Author: P. T. H. Unwin
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0415031206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an introduction to the historical geography of viticulture and the wine trade from prehistory to the present, considering wine as a symbol, rich in meaning and a commercial product of great economic importance to specific regions.
The Mythmakers
Author: Bernard D. Nossiter
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 264
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Author: Thomas A. Latousek
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 26
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Author: Ohio. General Assembly. Senate
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 114
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBotticelli Past and Present
Author: Ana Debenedetti
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 178735461X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.
Ghost Brothers
Author: Rony Blum
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780773528284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Rony Blum explores how "phantom-mediated" interpretations of the past and present were key to the uniquely successful relationship that developed between French settlers and Natives in the Americas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
