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Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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Actes Du Huitieme Congres International Des Lumieres, Bristol 21-27 Juillet 1991
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Actes Du Huitième Congrès International Des Lumières
Author: Compte Rendu Du ... Congrès International Sur Le Siècle Des Lumiéres
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Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Transactions of the Eighth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Bristol, 21-27 July 1991
Author: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Abbé Sicard's Deaf Education
Author: Emmet KennedyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137512865
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Abbé Sicard was a French revolutionary priest and an innovator of French and American sign language. He enjoyed a meteoric rise from Toulouse and Bordeaux to Paris and, despite his non-conformist tendencies, he escaped the guillotine. In fact, the revolutionaries acknowledged his position and during the Terror of 1794, they made him the director of the first school for the deaf. Later, he became a member of the first Ecole Normale, the National Institute, and the Académie Française. He is recognized today as having developed Enlightenment theories of pantomime, "signing,' and a form of "universal language" that later spread to Russia, Spain, and America. This is the first book-length biography of Sicard published in any language since 1873, despite Sicard’s international renown. This thoughtful, engaging work explores French and American sign language and deaf studies set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
The Animal Rights Struggle
Author: Christophe TraïniPublisher: Protest and Social Movements
ISBN: 9789089648495
Category : Animal rights
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
From the beginning of the 19th century to the present day, a host of campaigners have denounced the mistreatment of animals. Relying on a comparison of the British and French experiences, this book retraces the various strands of the animal protection movement, from their origins to their continuing impact on current debates. The story of the collective mobilizations behind the struggle for animal rights sheds light on several crucial processes in our social and political history: changes in sensibilities and socially approved emotions; the definition of what constitutes legitimate violence; the establishment of norms designed to change what constitutes morally acceptable practices; rivalry between elites having differing conceptions of the forms authority should take; the influence of religious belief on militant activities; and the effects of gender discrimination.--
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity
Author: J. HeilbronPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401155283
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science. Contrary to the standard accounts of various social science disciplines, the essays in this volume demonstrate that modern social science actually emerged during the critical period between 1750 and 1850. It is shown that the social sciences were a crucial element in the conceptual and epistemic revolution, which parallelled and partly underpinned the political and economic transformations of the modern world. From a consistently comparative perspective, a group of internationally leading scholars takes up fundamental issues such as the role of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution in the shaping of the social sciences, the changing relationships between political theory and moral discourse, the profound transformation of philosophy, and the constitution of political economy and statistics.
The Book of Proverbs
Author: Ted HildebrandtPublisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
ISBN: 9781905048878
Category : Religion
Languages : en
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The Woman on the Windowsill
Author: Sylvia Sellers-GarciaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A true story of violence and punishment that illuminates a transformative moment in Guatemalan history On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Díaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and understand the motives behind such a brutal act, this volume pinpoints the sensational crime as a watershed moment in Guatemalan history that radically changed the nature of justice and the established social order. Sylvia Sellers-García reveals how this bizarre and macabre event spurred an increased attention to crime that resulted in more forceful policing and reflected important policy decisions not only in Guatemala but across Latin America. This fascinating book is both an engaging criminal case study and a broader consideration of the forces shaping Guatemala City at the brink of the modern era.