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Book Injured Honor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Spencer Tucker
  • Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Injured Honor written by Spencer Tucker and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors present a fascinating reconstruction of the naval inquiry into the affair, as well as an investigation of the controversial courts-martial of Commodore James Barron and other Chesapeake officers that bitterly divided the officer corps.

Book American Honor

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  • Author : Craig Bruce Smith
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2018-03-19
  • ISBN : 1469638843
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book American Honor written by Craig Bruce Smith and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Revolution was not only a revolution for liberty and freedom, it was also a revolution of ethics, reshaping what colonial Americans understood as "honor" and "virtue." As Craig Bruce Smith demonstrates, these concepts were crucial aspects of Revolutionary Americans' ideological break from Europe and shared by all ranks of society. Focusing his study primarily on prominent Americans who came of age before and during the Revolution—notably John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington—Smith shows how a colonial ethical transformation caused and became inseparable from the American Revolution, creating an ethical ideology that still remains. By also interweaving individuals and groups that have historically been excluded from the discussion of honor—such as female thinkers, women patriots, slaves, and free African Americans—Smith makes a broad and significant argument about how the Revolutionary era witnessed a fundamental shift in ethical ideas. This thoughtful work sheds new light on a forgotten cause of the Revolution and on the ideological foundation of the United States.

Book Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew

Download or read book Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew written by Jerome H. Neyrey and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome Neyrey clarifies what praise, honor, and glory meant to Matthew and his audience. He examines the traditional literary forms for bestowing such praise and the conventional grounds for awarding honor and praise in Matthew's world.

Book The Laws of Honor  or  an account of the suppression of duels in France  Extracted out of the King s edicts  regulations of the Marshals  records of Parliament

Download or read book The Laws of Honor or an account of the suppression of duels in France Extracted out of the King s edicts regulations of the Marshals records of Parliament written by France and published by . This book was released on 1713 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Honor For Us

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  • Author : William Lad Sessions
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2010-10-21
  • ISBN : 1441188347
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Honor For Us written by William Lad Sessions and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Book Honor  Status  and Law in Modern Latin America

Download or read book Honor Status and Law in Modern Latin America written by Sueann Caulfield and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together recent scholarship that examines how understandings of honor changed in Latin America between political independence in the early nineteenth century and the rise of nationalist challenges to liberalism in the 1930s. These rich historical case studies reveal the uneven processes through which ideas of honor and status came to depend more on achievements such as education and employment and less on the birthright privileges that were the mainstays of honor during the colonial period. Whether considering court battles over lost virginity or police conflicts with prostitutes, vagrants, and the poor over public decorum, the contributors illuminate shifting ideas about public and private spheres, changing conceptions of race, the growing intervention of the state in defining and arbitrating individual reputations, and the enduring role of patriarchy in apportioning both honor and legal rights. Each essay examines honor in the context of specific historical processes, including early republican nation-building in Peru; the transformation in Mexican villages of the cargo system, by which men rose in rank through service to the community; the abolition of slavery in Rio de Janeiro; the growth of local commerce and shifts in women’s status in highland Bolivia; the formation of a multiethnic society on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast; and the development of nationalist cultural responses to U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. By connecting liberal projects that aimed to modernize law and society with popular understandings of honor and status, this volume sheds new light on broad changes and continuities in Latin America over the course of the long nineteenth century. Contributors. José Amador de Jesus, Rossana Barragán, Sueann Caulfield, Sidney Chalhoub, Sarah C. Chambers, Eileen J. Findley, Brodwyn Fischer, Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha, Laura Gotkowitz, Keila Grinberg, Peter Guardino, Cristiana Schettini Pereira, Lara Elizabeth Putnam

Book Honor  Romanticism  and the Hidden Value of Modernity

Download or read book Honor Romanticism and the Hidden Value of Modernity written by Jamison Kantor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counterpoint to freedom, a well-known preoccupation of the period's literature. Focusing on texts by William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Mary Prince, and Mary Seacole, this book argues that the revitalization of honor in the first half of the nineteenth century signalled a crisis in the emerging liberal order, one with which we still wrestle today: how can political subjects demand real, materialist forms of dignity in a system dedicated to an abstract, and often impoverished, idea of 'liberty'? Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity presents both a theory and a history of this question in the media of the Black Atlantic, the Jacobin novel, the landscape poem, and the “financial” romance.

Book Stolen Honor

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  • Author : Katherine Pratt Ewing
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2008-05-09
  • ISBN : 0804779724
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Stolen Honor written by Katherine Pratt Ewing and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The covered Muslim woman is a common spectacle in Western media—a victim of male brutality, the oppressed and suffering wife or daughter. And the resulting negative stereotypes of Muslim men, stereotypes reinforced by the post-9/11 climate in which he is seen as a potential terrorist, have become so prominent that they influence and shape public policy, citizenship legislation, and the course of elections across Europe and throughout the Western world. In this book, Katherine Pratt Ewing asks why and how these stereotypes—what she terms "stigmatized masculinity"—largely go unrecognized, and examines how Muslim men manage their masculine identities in the face of such discrimination. The author focuses her analysis and develops an ethnographic portrait of the Turkish Muslim immigrant community in Germany, a population increasingly framed in the media and public discourse as in crisis because of a perceived refusal of Muslim men to assimilate. Interrogating this sense of crisis, Ewing examines a series of controversies—including honor killings, headscarf debates, and Muslim stereotypes in cinema and the media—to reveal how the Muslim man is ultimately depicted as the "abjected other" in German society.

Book By Honor Bound

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  • Author : Nancy Shields Kollmann
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-11-01
  • ISBN : 1501706950
  • Pages : 499 pages

Download or read book By Honor Bound written by Nancy Shields Kollmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these codes were manipulated to construct identity and enforce social norms—and also to defend against insults, to pursue vendettas, and to unsettle communities. She offers evidence for a new view of the relationship of state and society in the Russian empire, and her richly comparative approach enhances knowledge of statebuilding in premodern Europe. By presenting Muscovite state and society in the context of medieval and early modern Europe, she exposes similarities that blur long-standing distinctions between Russian and European history.Through the prism of honor, Kollmann examines the interaction of the Russian state and its people in regulating social relations and defining an individual's rank. She finds vital information in a collection of transcripts of legal suits brought by elites and peasants alike to avenge insult to honor. The cases make clear the conservative role honor played in society as well as the ability of men and women to employ this body of ideas to address their relations with one another and with the state. Kollmann demonstrates that the grand princes—and later the tsars—tolerated a surprising degree of local autonomy throughout their rapidly expanding realm. Her work marks a stark contrast with traditional Russian historiography, which exaggerates the power of the state and downplays the volition of society.

Book The Way to the Temple of True Honor and Fame  2

Download or read book The Way to the Temple of True Honor and Fame 2 written by W. Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The way to the temple of true honor and fame  by the paths of heroic virtue  exemplified in the     lives of     eminent persons

Download or read book The way to the temple of true honor and fame by the paths of heroic virtue exemplified in the lives of eminent persons written by William Cooke (fellow of New coll, Oxford.) and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Railroad Reports

Download or read book Railroad Reports written by Thomas Johnson Michie and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers cases decided 1901-1913.

Book Railroad Reports

Download or read book Railroad Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers cases decided 1901-1913.

Book Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review

Download or read book Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Medal of Honor

Download or read book The Medal of Honor written by The Editors of Boston Publishing Company and published by Zenith Press. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of America's highest award for military valor. The Medal of Honor chronicles the creation, evolution, and awarding of the Medal, from the battlefields of the Civil War to the jungles of Vietnam, through a wealth of illustrations and hundreds of authoritative, action-filled accounts of heroism in America's conflicts. This wonderfully detailed and beautifully designed history book puts the Medal and its recipients into the context of their times, with brief and accessible introductions explaining each war and conflict for which the Medal was awarded. It also includes photo essays, intriguing stories of the Medal's sometimes quirky personalities, effects on surviving recipients, and the Medal's preeminent place in the American story. Whether you're an avid reader on the history of the Medal of Honor or simply intrigued by its place in our history, you're certain to want to flip through the pages of The Medal of Honor again and again.

Book The Saturday Evening Post

Download or read book The Saturday Evening Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: