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Publisher: Odile Jacob
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Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 2738192866
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The Exploited Child
Author: Bernard Schlemmer
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2000-07
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781856497213
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The Transformation of the World
Author: Jürgen Osterhammel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 1192
ISBN-13: 0691169802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA panoramic global history of the nineteenth century A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more. This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French. Indispensable for any historian, The Transformation of the World sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developments.
The Practice of Everyday Life
Author: Michel de Certeau
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0520271459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology--to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.
Christoph Von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern
Author: Christoph von Baron Graffenried
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 446
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Author: Edmond Paris
Publisher: Chick Publications
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0758908253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecrets the Jesuits don't want Christians to know Out of Europe, a voice is heard from the secular world that documents historically the same information told by ex-priests. The author exposes the Vatican's involvement in world politics, intrigues, and the fomenting of wars throughout history. It appears, beyond any doubt, that the Roman Catholic institution is not a Christian church and never was. The poor Roman Catholic people have been betrayed by her and are facing spiritual disaster. Paris shows that Rome is responsible for the two great world wars. Author Edmond Paris explains why he wrote this book... "The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the start of the two world wars -- a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict." "In fact, the part they took in those tragic events has hardly been mentioned until the present time, except by apologists eager to disguise it. It is with the aim of rectifying this and establishing the true facts that we present in this and other books the political activity of the Vatican during the contemporary -- activity which mutually concerns the Jesuits." "This study is based on irrefutable archive documents, publications from well-known political personalities, diplomats, ambassadors and eminent writers, most of whom are Catholics, even attested by the imprimatur."
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 346
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Author: Meyer Schapiro
Publisher: New York : G. Braziller, 1978, 1979 printing.
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780807608999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren's Rights
Author: Jude L. Fernando
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2001-05
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) by a majority of the International Labor Organization's member states technically affirms that children are born with fundamental freedoms and the inherent rights of all human beings. This should mark the 21st century as a century of hope for those children whose fundamental rights are violated across the world. There is, however, widespread concern that in spite of some successes in enlisting broad-based societal commitments to safeguard children's rights, there exists neither a universal consensus on the meaning and very concept of "children's rights" nor sufficient reasons for us to be content with the current status of children's rights worldwide. The widening of the gap between expectations and achievements in the area of human rights raises a fundamental issue: how comfortably does our commitment to children's rights fit with our convictions about social justice? Violation of children's rights multiplies at an alarming rate - pointing to the wholesale failure of policies, programs, interventions, and conventions designed to curb them. On the positive side, however, the present trends in the debate and advocacy around children's rights have great potential not only for improving the status of children. Child-centered demands for distributive justice have a much greater potential in terms of the possibility of building an intercultural consensus as compared to similar demands by other social groups. The 11 articles in this volume of The Annals seek to address some of the dominant themes in the current debate over children's rights in order to facilitate new paradigms and directions that could be effective in responding to this most important issue. This issue of The Annals deals with the various topics crucial in the discussion of children's rights around the world.
The Violence of Modernity
Author: Debarati Sanyal
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1421429292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanyal analyzes a literary current that uses the traditional hallmarks of modernism—irony, intertextuality, self-reflexivity, and formalism—to challenge the historical violence of modernity. Baudelaire and the committed ironists writing in his wake teach us how to read and resist the violence of history, and thereby to challenge the melancholy tenor of our contemporary "wound culture." In a series of provocative readings, Sanyal presents Baudelaire's poetry as an aesthetic form that contests historical violence through rhetorical strategies of complicity, counterviolence, and critique. The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma. Following her extended analysis of Baudelaire's poetry, Sanyal in later chapters considers a number of authors influenced by his strategies—including Rachilde, Virginie Despentes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre—to examine the relevance of their interventions for our current climate of trauma and terror. The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.
