Author: United States Historical Documents InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Sessional Indexes to the Annals of Congress
Author: United States Historical Documents InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908
Author: Edward HookerReport of the Postal Commission
Author: Painted Love
Author: Hollis ClaysonPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367296
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this engrossing book, Hollis Clayson provides the first description and analysis of French artistic interest in women prostitutes, examining how the subject was treated in the art of the 1870s and 1880s by such avant-garde painters as Cézanne, Degas, Manet, and Renoir, as well as by the academic and low-brow painters who were their contemporaries. Clayson not only illuminates the imagery of prostitution-with its contradictory connotations of disgust and fascination-but also tackles the issues and problems relevant to women and men in a patriarchal society. She discusses the conspicuous sexual commerce during this era and the resulting public panic about the deterioration of social life and civilized mores. She describes the system that evolved out of regulating prostitutes and the subsequent rise of clandestine prostitutes who escaped police regulation and who were condemned both for blurring social boundaries and for spreading sexual licentiousness among their moral and social superiors. Clayson argues that the subject of covert prostitution was especially attractive to vanguard painters because it exemplified the commercialization and the ambiguity of modern life.
Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina
Author: Charleston (S.C.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Census
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Iowa Official Register
Author: Political Development in Hong Kong
Author: Ngok MaPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622098096
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book reviews the political development of Hong Kong before and after 1997, in particular the evolution of state-society relations in the last two decades, to analyze the slow development of democracy and governance in Hong Kong after 1997. This book is a most comprehensive analysis of the multi-faceted changes in Hong Kong in the last 20 years. The scope of changes analyzed included state functions and institutions, political changes such as party development and development of the Legislative Council, and social changes such as social movements, civil liberties, etc. It helps the reader understand the crisis of governance of Hong Kong after 1997, and the difficulty of democratic development in Hong Kong over the years. The book covers: changing state institutions in Hong Kong in the last few decades; party development in Hong Kong; the changing role and function of the legislature in Hong Kong; the evolution of social movement and movement organizational forms; media freedom, civil liberties, and the role of civil society; and theoretical discussions concerning governance problems and state-society relations in Hong Kong. Special emphasis is placed on how these changes brought about a new state-society relation, which in turn brought governance difficulties after 1997.
Evidence for Proposed Finding Against Federal Acknowledgment of the Wampanoag Tribal Council of Gay Head, Inc
Author: Space Weapons Earth Wars
Author: Robert PrestonPublisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833032526
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This overview aims to inform the public discussion of space-based weapons by examining their characteristics, potential attributes, limitations, legality, and utility. The authors do not argue for or against space weapons, nor do they estimate the potential costs and performance of specific programs, but instead sort through the realities and myths surrounding space weapons in order to ensure that debates and discussions are based on fact.
Minnesota
Author: William Watts FolwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description