Download or read book Confiscating the common good written by Edward J. Woell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolution’s religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy. It details two revolutionary dynamics that damaged the civic life of small towns: social polarisation and the loss of local institutions that had been a source of social capital as well as a common good. Detailed narratives about Pont-à-Mousson, Gournay-en-Bray, Vienne, Haguenau and Is-sur-Tille also reveal that contrary to the view upheld by many scholars, small-town religious politics extended far beyond the pivotal Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791. Other developments — the nationalisation of Church property, the dissolution of religious orders, and the elimination of bishoprics, chapters, parishes and collegial churches — also adversely affected the wellbeing of these small urban communities not only in the Revolution but also in the two centuries that followed.
Download or read book The Common Good written by Robert B. Reich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert B. Reich makes a powerful case for the expansion of America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality, he demonstrates that a common good constitutes the very essence of any society or nation. Societies, he says, undergo virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine it, one of which America has been experiencing for the past five decades. This process can and must be reversed. But first we need to weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how we relate to honor, shame, patriotism, truth, and the meaning of leadership. Powerful, urgent, and utterly vital, this is a heartfelt missive from one of our foremost political thinkers.
Download or read book The Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For the Common Good written by Jelle Haemers and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1477, the Low Countries were in chaos. On 5 January Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, was killed in the battle of Nancy. His political adversaries used this fortuitous opportunity to reverse his much-hated policies. The late duke's confidents were executed, as nobles fled from court.The French king declared war on Charles' heir, Mary of Burgundy, and the cities rose in rebellion against the duchy. United in their opposition to the ducal court, the Estates-General instituted a new state structure which severely reduced the power of the central state. The duchess' new husband, Maximilian of Austria, was never able to dictate war policy nor appease the discontent of the populace, because his first priority was to strengthen the power of the Habsburg dynasty. In 1482, when Mary of Burgundy died after a tragic fall from her horse, revolt again spread across the county of Flanders. In this dramatic crisis that would last for a decade, central authority was again challenged by a political alternative, the Flemish regency council. This book examines the people behind the revolt.From a murky background of conflicting loyalties, it identifies the principal allies of the Habsburg dynasty and key political adversaries of Maximilian in the Flemish cities. An in-depth analysis of their lives and their socio-economic and cultural backgrounds on the eve of the Flemish Revolt elucidates their reasons for rebelling or remaining loyal to court.By focusing on disloyal nobles at court and urban dissenters in the county of Flanders, this book goes beyond previous studies of the revolt and offers new insights into the social history of medieval politics. In the end, readers will discover whether the court, the nobility, and the urban rebels were really striving for the goal they claimed, the common good.
Download or read book The Common Good written by Amitai Etzioni and published by Polity Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collecting recent essays by the author, 'The Common Good' confronts topics at the forefront of public debates, including DNA testing, privacy & the internet, child protection, & public safety.
Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of the life and character of Patrick Henry Revised edition with headings to each chapter and such an arrangement of the notes contained in the former editions as to render the work suitable for a class book in academies and schools written by William WIRT and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legal Opinion of Hon John M Williams on the Constitutionality of the Massachusetts Prohibitive Liquor Law written by John Mason Williams and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thought Experiments 16 written by Leonard Lowe and published by Denk-Verlag.com English. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This time, we consciously and deliberately turn a bit away from the clamor of the times and back towards the search for truth, and away from speculation about temporary political skirmishes. Even though, of course, this is hardly possible in a world where everything is interconnected... Therefore, we do consider the broader picture here to some extent. We turn away from the madness of genocide and look at history. For there too, we may find clues about how the course of the world tends to unfold. We have already examined Egypt and Atlantis several times, but that does not prevent us from developing new thoughts about them. We also want to critically examine society, from the state of democracy to the societal handling of critical and outspoken opinions, all the way to the widely overlooked importance of nudity for our lives and well-being. From enlightenment and the old TV series ALF, to homosexuality and Gray aliens, we continually address the practical and pressing questions of our *confused* times from various angles. A meandering around the truth. Different perspectives and aspects on one and the same thing: our world, our life, reality, and the problems of our times…
Download or read book Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham the Hon R B Sheridan Lord Erskine and the Hon Edmund Burke written by William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economics of Agglomeration written by Masahisa Fujita and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition studies the economic reasons for the existence of a variety of agglomerations arising from the global to the local.
Download or read book Model Nazi written by Catherine Epstein and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the Warthegau 'German,' Greiser introduced numerous cruel policies. He spearheaded an influx of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans. He segregated Germans from Poles, and introduced wide-ranging discriminatory measures against the Polish population. He refashioned the urban and natural landscape to make it 'German.' And even more chillingly, the first and longest standing ghetto, the largest forced labour program, and the first mass gassings of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were all initiated under Greiser's jurisdiction. Who was the man behind these dreadful policies? Catherine Epstein gives us a compelling biographical portrait of Greiser the man: his birth in the German-Polish borderlands, his rise to Nazi prominence in Danzig, his actions as party leader in the Warthegau, and his trial and execution in postwar Poland. Drawing on a remarkable array of German and Polish sources, she shows how nationalist obsessions, political jealousies, and personal insecurities shaped the policies of a man who held remarkable power in his Nazi fiefdom. Throughout, Epstein confronts a burning question of our age: why do individuals imagine genocide and ethnic cleansing to be solutions to political problems?
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Download or read book Taxation and Welfare written by Harvey Whitefield Peck and published by New York : The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1925 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Report of Debates House of Commons written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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