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Book Cattle Lords and Clansmen

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  • Author : Nerys T. Patterson
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 1994-04-30
  • ISBN : 0268161461
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Cattle Lords and Clansmen written by Nerys T. Patterson and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 1994-04-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sources with sociological and anthropological methods, Patterson produces a unique approach to the study of early Ireland—one that challenges previous scholarship. The second edition includes a chapter on seasonal rhythm, material derived from Patterson’s post-1991 publications, and an updated bibliography. The second edition includes a chapter on seasonal rhythm, material derived from Patterson’s post-1991 publications, and an updated bibliography.

Book A People s History of Classics

Download or read book A People s History of Classics written by Edith Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war. A People’s History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.

Book Anarchy and the Law

Download or read book Anarchy and the Law written by Edward P. Stringham and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private-property anarchism, also known as anarchist libertarianism, individualist anarchism, and anarcho-capitalism, is a political philosophy and set of economic and legal arguments that maintains that, just as the markets and private institutions of civil society provide food, shelter, and other human needs, markets and contracts should provide law and that the rule of law itself can only be understood as a private institution. To the libertarian, the state and its police powers are not benign societal forces, but a system of conquest, authoritarianism, and occupation. But whereas limited government libertarians argue in favor of political constraints, anarchist libertarians argue that, to check government against abuse, the state itself must be replaced by a social order of self-government based on contracts. Indeed, contemporary history has shown that limited government is untenable, as it is inherently unstable and prone to corruption, being dependent on the interest-group politics of the state's current leadership. Anarchy and the Law presents the most important essays explaining, debating, and examining historical examples of stateless orders. Section I, "Theory of Private Property Anarchism," presents articles that criticize arguments for government law enforcement and discuss how the private sector can provide law. In Section II, "Debate," limited government libertarians argue with anarchist libertarians about the morality and viability of private-sector law enforcement. Section III, "History of Anarchist Thought," contains a sampling of both classic anarchist works and modern studies of the history of anarchist thought and societies. Section IV, "Historical Case Studies of Non-Government Law Enforcement," shows that the idea that markets can function without state coercion is an entirely viable concept. Anarchy and the Law is a comprehensive reader on anarchist libertarian thought that will be welcomed by students of government, political science, history, philosophy, law, economics, and the broader study of liberty.

Book The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century written by Clare Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century examines Ireland's publishing history in the last century. This is a work of 'book history', a new and important interdisciplinary approach which aims to reorient literary and historical interpretations by looking at the diverse and often surprising roles which publishers, printers, readers, governments and censors can play in the creation of textual culture. A collection of twelve essays by scholars in Irish studies, The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century covers a range of topics including: the Irish Arts and Crafts book in the 1900s (Nicola Gordon Bowe); Innovation and Reception in Irish Language Publishing in the 1900s (Niall ���� Cios���¡in); Revising Irish Censorship (W. J. McCormack); Beckett's Early Career (John Pilling); Derek Mahon's Literary Archive (Steve Enniss); and Seamus Heaney's Sweeney's Flight (Colleen McKenna). The first book to examine Ireland's bibliographical heritage in the twentieth century, The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century will appeal to any reader with general or specific interests in Ireland's cultural and literary history through a century which has seen two literary revivals, the Literary Revival of the 1900s, and the 'Northern Revival' of more recent decades.

Book Ireland

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  • Author : Gustave de Beaumont
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-07-01
  • ISBN : 0674031113
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Ireland written by Gustave de Beaumont and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society. In Ireland, he chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. Published to acclaim in France, Ireland remained in print there until 1914. The English edition, translated by William Cooke Taylor and published in 1839, was not reprinted. In a devastating critique of British policy in Ireland, Beaumont questioned why a government with such enlightened institutions tolerated such oppression. He was scathing in his depiction of the ruinous state of Ireland, noting the desperation of the Catholics, the misery of repeated famines, the unfair landlord system, and the faults of the aristocracy. It was not surprising the Irish were seen as loafers, drunks, and brutes when they had been reduced to living like beasts. Yet Beaumont held out hope that British liberal reforms could heal Ireland's wounds. This rediscovered masterpiece, in a single volume for the first time, reproduces the nineteenth-century Taylor translation and includes an introduction on Beaumont and his world. This volume also presents Beaumont's impassioned preface to the 1863 French edition in which he portrays the appalling effects of the Great Famine. A classic of nineteenth-century political and social commentary, Beaumont's singular portrait offers the compelling immediacy of an eyewitness to history.

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athen  um

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  • Release : 1840
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica  Aus to Cal

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica Aus to Cal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World

Download or read book Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World written by Agathe Keller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Academy and Literature

Download or read book The Academy and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Examiner

Download or read book The Examiner written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publishers  circular and booksellers  record

Download or read book Publishers circular and booksellers record written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    The    Athenaeum

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  • Release : 1837
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 972 pages

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Book The Academy

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Publishers  Circular and Literary Gazette

Download or read book American Publishers Circular and Literary Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spectator

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  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 960 pages

Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Literary Gazette and Publishers  Circular

Download or read book American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: