Firm Heart And Capacious Mind
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Firm Heart And Capacious Mind
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Author : Jefferson P. Selth
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 1997
Firm Heart And Capacious Mind written by Jefferson P. Selth and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Firm Heart and Capacious Mind: The Life and Friends of Etienne Dumont is the first full-length biography of a Renaissance man, the statesman/publicist/jurist/political writer/man of letters who was hailed by Goethe, Macauley and Stendhal as one of the great intellects of his time. Among other activities he advised Mirabeau (he leader of the National Assembly) in the French Revolution, introduced Jeremy Bentham to the world by publishing ten volumes edited and rewritten from Bentham's notes, and led the political struggle that turned Geneva into a democracy. Dumont also played a direct role in such social reforms as the abolition of slavery, corresponding with and advising Samuel Romilly, William Wiberforce and others. A confirmed bachelor, he was admired and at times loved by some of the most prominent women of his time: Lady Holland, Madame de Stael and Maria Edgeworth. There has been no other full-length work, and no book at all in English, on this remarkable man.
Evangelicalism Penal Theory And The Politics Of Criminal Law
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Author : R. Follett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2000-11-30
Evangelicalism Penal Theory And The Politics Of Criminal Law written by R. Follett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-30 with History categories.
Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a group of politicians began to agitate for reform of England's "bloody code" of criminal statutes. This examines the politics and propaganda of criminal law reform from 1808 to the Whig succession to power in 1830.
Revolutions Without Borders
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Author : Janet L. Polasky
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Revolutions Without Borders written by Janet L. Polasky and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with History categories.
A sweeping exploration of revolutionary ideas that traveled the Atlantic in the late eighteenth century Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights and universal freedom. This expansive history explores how the revolutionary ideas that spurred the American and French revolutions reverberated far and wide, connecting European, North American, African, and Caribbean peoples more closely than ever before. Historian Janet Polasky focuses on the eighteenth-century travelers who spread new notions of liberty and equality. It was an age of itinerant revolutionaries, she shows, who ignored borders and found allies with whom to imagine a borderless world. As paths crossed, ideas entangled. The author investigates these ideas and how they were disseminated long before the days of instant communications and social media or even an international postal system. Polasky analyzes the paper records--books, broadsides, journals, newspapers, novels, letters, and more--to follow the far-reaching trails of revolutionary zeal. What emerges clearly from rich historic records is that the dream of liberty among America's founders was part of a much larger picture. It was a dream embraced throughout the far-flung regions of the Atlantic world.
The French Revolution And The Creation Of Benthamism
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Author : C. Blamires
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-07-10
The French Revolution And The Creation Of Benthamism written by C. Blamires and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-10 with History categories.
The first study of how Genevan Etienne Dumont, and his traumatic experience of the French Revolution, shaped the reception and presentation of 'Benthamism' and masked the true face of Jeremy Bentham, one of the architects of modern society who visualised a new world based on the values of transparency, accountability, and economy.
Against War And Empire
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Author : Richard Whatmore
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-31
Against War And Empire written by Richard Whatmore and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-31 with History categories.
As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats dedicated to the unprincipled pursuit of wealth. In this book Richard Whatmore presents an intellectual history of republicans who strove to ensure Geneva's survival as an independent state. Whatmore shows how the Genevan republicans grappled with the ideas of Rousseau, Voltaire, Bentham, and others in seeking to make modern Europe safe for small states, by vanquishing the threats presented by war and by empire.
Current Legal Problems 1998
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Author : M. D. A. Freeman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2000
Current Legal Problems 1998 written by M. D. A. Freeman and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Law categories.
This book is the fifty-first volume of Current Legal Problems and contains the now customary selection of high quality essays by a group of outstanding scholars. The volume provides a particularly valuable and broad-ranging set of contributions for a stimulating study of legal theory at the end of the millennium.
Rights Representation And Reform
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Author : Jeremy Bentham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Rights Representation And Reform written by Jeremy Bentham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Bentham's writings for the French Revolution were dominated by the themes of rights, representation, and reform. In 'Nonsense upon Stilts' (hitherto known as 'Anarchical Fallacies'), the most devastating attack on the theory of natural rights ever written, he argued that natural rights provided an unsuitable basis for stable legal and political arrangements. In discussing the nature of representation he produced the earliest utilitarian justification of political equality and representative democracy, even recommending women's suffrage.
European Literatures In Britain 18 15 1832 Romantic Translations
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Author : Diego Saglia
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-18
European Literatures In Britain 18 15 1832 Romantic Translations written by Diego Saglia and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with History categories.
Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.
Historical Dictionary Of The Reformed Churches
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Author : Robert Benedetto
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-10-15
Historical Dictionary Of The Reformed Churches written by Robert Benedetto and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-15 with Religion categories.
As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about reformed churches.
Securities Against Misrule
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Author : Jon Elster
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-22
Securities Against Misrule written by Jon Elster and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-22 with Education categories.
It is often argued that democratic institutions should be designed to produce good outcomes, assuming that we know what good outcomes are and which institutions will track them. This book denies both assumptions. The idea of the general interest is ill-defined and our understanding of social causality is fragile. Instead, one should reduce as much as possible the impact of self-interest, passion, prejudice, and bias on the decision makers, and then let the chips fall where they may. In addition to making novel theoretical proposals, this book discusses a welter of case studies and historical episodes.