A Fortnight In The Wilderness
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A Fortnight In The Wilderness
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Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
A Fortnight In The Wilderness written by Alexis de Tocqueville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The Making Of Michigan 1820 1860
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Author : Justin L. Kestenbaum
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1990
The Making Of Michigan 1820 1860 written by Justin L. Kestenbaum and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Making of Michigan is a wide-ranging collection of primary accounts of life in Michigan during the pioneer period. The Making of Michigan is a wide-ranging collection of primary accounts of life in Michigan during the pioneer period, the era from the 1820s to the outbreak of the Civil War. In this time of explosive growth, the state's population increased from 8,000 to 750,000. These emigrants brought the state into the union in 1837 and began to create a set of institutions and a way of life. Justin Kestenbaum draws on the rich documentary record left by those who sojourned in the state during this time and recorded their impressions. Not only pioneers but land speculators, missionaries, and sight-seers left valuable accounts of the Michigan landscape and its emerging society. Following a general introduction, the book is divided into six parts: The Interminable Forest, Laying the Foundation, The Great Migration, Education, A Vision of Life, and Political Life, each with its own brief introduction. Notes and a bibliography conclude this valuable resource history.
Tocqueville In America
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Author : George Wilson Pierson
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1996
Tocqueville In America written by George Wilson Pierson and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. This text reconstructs from their diaries and letters and newspaper accounts their nine-month tour and evolving analysis of American society.
Memoir Letters And Remains Of Alexis De Tocqueville
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Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
Memoir Letters And Remains Of Alexis De Tocqueville written by Alexis de Tocqueville and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with categories.
Detroit Perspectives
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Author : Wilma Wood Henrickson
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1991
Detroit Perspectives written by Wilma Wood Henrickson and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Using primary and secondary sources, Wilma Henrickson assembles a collection of documents related to decisive moments in the history of Detroit and the region, spanning the time from before statehood to the present. These were turning points for the region—life for the residents took a new direction, definitely closing off some options while accepting others. Some were brought about by accident; others were made by conscious decision. The consequences of some decisions were immediate, others appeared only after the accumulation of years. Among Henrickson's recurring themes are the destruction of the environment and its natural beauty, the lure of wealth, urban expansion and sprawl and civil rights. Selections include Lewis Cass' position paper on "Indian Removal," Jorge de Castellanos' article of "Black Slavery in Early Detroit," and excerpts from the writings of historian and mapmaker Silas farmer.
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds
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Author : Sheldon S. Wolin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-09
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds written by Sheldon S. Wolin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-09 with Philosophy categories.
Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the first work that fully connects Tocqueville's political and theoretical lives. In doing so, Sheldon Wolin presents sweeping new interpretations of Tocqueville's major works and of his place in intellectual history. As he traces the origins and impact of Tocqueville's ideas, Wolin also offers a profound commentary on the general trajectory of Western political life over the past two hundred years. Wolin proceeds by examining Tocqueville's key writings in light of his experiences in the troubled world of French politics. He portrays Democracy in America, for example, as a theory of discovery that emerged from Tocqueville's contrasting experiences of America and of France's constitutional monarchy. He shows us how Tocqueville used Recollections to reexamine his political commitments in light of the revolutions of 1848 and the threat of socialism. He portrays The Old Regime and the French Revolution as a work of theoretical history designed to throw light on the Bonapartist despotism he saw around him. Throughout, Wolin highlights the tensions between Tocqueville's ideas and his activities as a politician, arguing that--despite his limited political success--Tocqueville was ''perhaps the last influential theorist who can be said to have truly cared about political life.'' In the course of the book, Wolin also shows that Tocqueville struggled with many of the forces that constrain politics today, including the relentless advance of capitalism, of science and technology, and of state bureaucracy. He concludes that Tocqueville's insights and anxieties about the impotence of politics in a ''postaristocratic'' era speak directly to the challenges of our own ''postdemocratic'' age. A monumental new study of Tocqueville, this is also a rich and provocative work about the past, the present, and the future of democratic life in America and abroad.
A Fortnight With Ben
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Author : R. Hatfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-04-15
A Fortnight With Ben written by R. Hatfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-15 with categories.
A seemingly normal wilderness retreat along the Appalachian Trail suddenly becomes a journey of intrigue and discovery when a severe thunderstorm introduces Sam Fletcher to a great historical figure, Benjamin Franklin. This unlikely encounter in an even less likely setting provides the backdrop for a voyage of discovery, in which scientific, artistic, political and social aspects of modern life are explored.The impossibility of the encounter gradually becomes a plausible experience for the characters as they transcend time between colonial and modern perspectives. Ben Franklin's views, positions, and personality are brought to life in this serious and humorous tale. A wonderful read for all, from teens to seniors.
An Epitome Of General Ecclesiastical History
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Author : John Marsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
An Epitome Of General Ecclesiastical History written by John Marsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with Church history categories.
Moderate And Radical Liberalism
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Author : Nathaniel Wolloch
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-01-31
Moderate And Radical Liberalism written by Nathaniel Wolloch and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-31 with Philosophy categories.
A new reading of a crucial chapter in the history of social and political thought – the transition from the late Enlightenment to early liberalism.
From Virgin Land To Disney World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-08-22
From Virgin Land To Disney World written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-22 with History categories.
With the publication in English in 1930 of Civilization and its Discontents and its thesis that instinct – and, ultimately: nature – had been and must be forever subordinated in order that civilization might thrive and endure, Freud contributed what some contemporaries saw to the central debate of his era – a debate which had long preoccupied both official American pundits and the American populace at large. At the beginning of the new Millennium, evidence abounds that an American debate still rages over the meaning of “nature,” the rightful weight of instinct, and the status of civilization. The Millennium itself has appeared in popular and official discourses as an appropriate marker of an age in which nature is close to the edge of radical extinction and has also become more and more unreliable as a paradigm for representation and debate. At the same time, the contemporary tailoring of nature to postmodern needs and expectations inevitably reveals the conceptual difficulty of any possible, simple opposition between nature and culture as if they were clearly distinguishable domains. If nature, then, can clearly be seen as a discursive concept, it may also be a timeless concept insofar that it has been shaped, created, and used at all times. Every epoch, age and era had “its own nature,” with myth, history and ideology as its dominant shaping forces. From the Frontier to Cyberia, nature has been suffering the “agony of the real,” resurfacing in discursive strategies and demonstrating a powerful impact on American society, culture and self-definition. The essays in this collection “speak critically of the natural” and examine the American debate in the many guises it has assumed over the last century within the context of major critical approaches, psychoanalytical concepts, and postmodern theorizing.