Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government ReformPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative oversight
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Activities of the House Committee on Government Reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government ReformPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative oversight
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Men who Matched the Mountains
Author: Edwin A. TuckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest rangers
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Saidiya HartmanPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324021594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection—Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.
The Terror of Natural Right
Author: Dan EdelsteinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226184404
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.
The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010
Author: Karen J. TerryPublisher: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
ISBN: 9781601372017
Category : Child sexual abuse by clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
This report outlines the results of an empirically based study of the causes and context of the phenomenon of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests in the United States between 1950 and 2010. It is the second of two studies produced by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice about sexual abuse by Catholic priests. ... This second study (the Causes and Context study) sought to understand why the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests occurred as it did by integrating research from sociocultural, psychological, situational, and organizational perspectives.
The Abbé Grégoire and his World
Author: Jeremy D. PopkinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792362470
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A distinguished group of international scholars from the disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and art history offer a reconsideration of the ideas and the impact of the abbé Henri Grégoire, one of the most important figures of the French Revolution and a contributor to the campaigns for Jewish emancipation, rights for blacks, the reform of the Catholic Church and many other causes
West Virginia Blue Book
Author: Historical Report of the Secretary of State, 2018
Author: Arkansas. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN: 9780692035535
Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 597
Book Description
Mind Myths
Author: Sergio Della SalaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Mind Myths shows that science can be entertaining and creative. Addressing various topics, this book counterbalances information derived from the media with a 'scientific view'. It contains contributions from experts around the world.
Author: Iowa