Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Volume 1 (Illustrations)

Spanish America, Its Romance, Reality and Future, Volume 1 (Illustrations)

Author: Charles Reginald Enock

Publisher: T. FISHER UNWIN LTD

Published: 2015-01-08

Total Pages: 126

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The purpose of this work is twofold—to afford a broad survey of the Latin American countries, with the colour and interest which so strongly characterizes this half of the New World; and to offer in some degree a detailed study of the region as concerns what (elsewhere) I have ventured to term a "science of humanity" or science of corporate life, whose main factors are topographical, occupational or industrial, and ethical or ethical-economic. New responsibilities are arising in our dealings and contact with foreign lands, especially those whose social affairs are still backward. We must beware how we regard the folk of such lands mainly as hewers of wood and drawers of water, or absorbents of exported goods or producers of dividends, or their lands as mainly reservoirs of raw material. Elemental forces are at work in the world to-day, which only justice and constructive intelligence can control. The English-speaking peoples have wide interests and consequent responsibilities in these lands: matters which are discussed in the final chapter. As will be seen, I have embodied many descriptive passages in this book from the various authors of the South American Series, to which the present work is in a measure auxiliary.


Spanish America: Its Romance, Reality and Future

Spanish America: Its Romance, Reality and Future

Author: C. Reginald Enock

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2021-01-23

Total Pages: 425

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The aim of this work is twofold – to afford a broad survey of the Latin American countries, with the color and interest which so strongly characterizes this half of the New World; and to offer in some degree a detailed study of the region as concerns what the author has ventured to term a "science of humanity" or science of corporate life, whose main factors are topographical, occupational or industrial, and ethical or ethical-economic._x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ A Reconnaissance, and Some Informal Geography_x000D_ A Historical Outline_x000D_ Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, British Honduras, Nicaragua, Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama_x000D_ Ancient and Modern Mexico_x000D_ Along the Pacific Coast: in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru_x000D_ Along the Pacific Coast: in Peru, Bolivia and Chile_x000D_ The Cordillera of the Andes: in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia_x000D_ The Cordillera of the Andes: in Bolivia, Chile and Argentina_x000D_ The Lands of the Spanish Main: Colombia and Venezuela_x000D_ The Lands of the Spanish Main: Venezuela and Guiana_x000D_ The Amazon Valley: in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil_x000D_ Brazil_x000D_ The River Plate and the Pampas: Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay_x000D_ Trade and Finance_x000D_ To-day and To-morrow


Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800

Culture, Thought and Belief in British Political Life Since 1800

Author: Paul Readman

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1837650187

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Brings together agenda-setting essays that illuminate the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history. Ideas matter in modern British political life: culture, thought and belief are integral to the fabric of politics, high and low, foreign and domestic. They are woven into the day-to-day business of debate, policy and decision-making. This book shows how and why they have mattered so much. Inspired by the work of Jonathan Parry, it explores the cultural and intellectual influences on politics both formal and informal since the turn of the nineteenth century. Featuring original interventions by some of the world's leading historians, the essays in the volume are organised around themes of central relevance to the understanding of modern British political history. They explore a wide range of subjects across political life and its intellectual and cultural hinterlands, including constitutionalism and international political thought, anticolonial activism, race and imperial commemoration, female political thinkers, parliament, monarchy and the law, the politics of religion, and patriotism and national identity. This is an agenda-setting text that will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the complex relationship between ideas and political activity in modern British history. Paul Readman is Professor of Modern British History at King's College London. Dr Geraint Thomas is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. Contributors: Michael Bentley, John Bew, Paul Bew, David Cannadine, Matthew Cragoe, Tom Crewe, Ben Griffin, Boyd Hilton, Michael Ledger-Lomas, Joanna Lewis, Helen McCarthy, Alex Middleton, Susan D. Pennybacker, Kathryn Rix, James Thompson, Philip Williamson