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Book A Frail Liberty

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  • Author : Tessie P. Liu
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2022-07
  • ISBN : 1496232291
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book A Frail Liberty written by Tessie P. Liu and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Frail Liberty traces the paradoxical actions of the first French abolitionist society, the Société des Amis des Noirs (Society of the Friends of Blacks), at the juncture of two unprecedented achievements of the revolutionary era: the extension of full rights of citizenship to qualifying free men of color in 1792 and the emancipation decree of 1794 that simultaneously declared the formerly enslaved to be citizens of France. This society helped form the revolution’s notion of color-blind equality yet did not protest the pro-slavery attack on the new citizens of France. Tessie P. Liu prioritizes the understanding of the elite insiders’ vision of equality as crucial to understanding this dualism. By documenting the link between outright exclusion and political inclusion and emphasizing that a nation’s perceived qualifications for citizenship formulate a particular conception of racial equality, Liu argues that the treatment and status distinctions between free people of color and the formerly enslaved parallel the infamous divide between “active” and “passive” citizens. These two populations of colonial citizens with African ancestry then must be considered part of the normative operations of French citizenship at the time. Uniquely locating racial differentiation in the French and Haitian revolutions within the logic and structures of political representation, Liu deepens the conversation regarding race as a civic identity within democratic societies.

Book The Constitution of Liberty

Download or read book The Constitution of Liberty written by F.A. Hayek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1960, The Constitution of Liberty delineates and defends the principles of a free society and traces the origin, rise, and decline of the rule of law. Casting a skeptical eye on the growth of the welfare state, Hayek examines the challenges to freedom posed by an ever expanding government as well as its corrosive effect on the creation, preservation, and utilization of knowledge. In distinction to those who confidently call for the state to play a greater role in society, Hayek puts forward a nuanced argument for prudence. Guided by this quality, he elegantly demonstrates that a free market system in a democratic polity—under the rule of law and with strong constitutional protections of individual rights—represents the best chance for the continuing existence of liberty. Striking a balance between skepticism and hope, Hayek’s profound insights remain strikingly vital half a century on. This definitive edition of The Constitution of Liberty will give a new generation the opportunity to learn from Hayek’s enduring wisdom.

Book A History of Modern Liberty

Download or read book A History of Modern Liberty written by James Mackinnon and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Laboratory of Liberty

Download or read book A Laboratory of Liberty written by Marc Lerner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a tradition of political innovation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and republicanism through public political debates, during the revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society. The resulting hybrid political culture enhances our understanding of the international Age of Revolution.

Book For God and Liberty

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  • Author : PAMELA. VOEKEL
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2022-11-29
  • ISBN : 0197610196
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book For God and Liberty written by PAMELA. VOEKEL and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on Spanish and Latin American actors, Pamela Voekel argues that at the heart of this nineteenth-century transformation in Spanish America was a transatlantic Catholic civil war. Voekel demonstrates Reform Catholicism's significance to the thought and action of the rebel literati who led decolonization efforts in Mexico and Central America, showing how each side of this religious divide operated from within a self-conscious intercontinental network of like-minded Catholics. For its central protagonists, the era's crisis of sovereignty provided a political stage for a religious struggle. Drawing on ecclesiastical archives, pamphlets, sermons, and tracts, For God and Liberty reveals how the violent struggles of decolonization and the period before and after Independence are more legible in light of the fault lines within the Church.

Book Lust for Liberty

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  • Author : Samuel Kline COHN
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 0674029674
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Lust for Liberty written by Samuel Kline COHN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts. Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the last resort of desperate people. Leaders were largely workers, artisans, and peasants. Over 90 percent of the uprisings pitted ordinary people against the state and were fought over political rights--regarding citizenship, governmental offices, the barriers of ancient hierarchies--rather than rents, food prices, or working conditions. After the Black Death, the connection of the word liberty with revolts increased fivefold, and its meaning became more closely tied with notions of equality instead of privilege. The book offers a new interpretation of the Black Death and the increase of and change in popular revolt from the mid-1350s to the early fifteenth century. Instead of structural explanations based on economic, demographic, and political models, this book turns to the actors themselves--peasants, artisans, and bourgeois--finding that the plagues wrought a new urgency for social and political change and a new self- and class-confidence in the efficacy of collective action.

Book Called Unto Liberty

Download or read book Called Unto Liberty written by Colin H. Williams and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books examines the implications of language-related conflict and of nationalist mobilisation and analyses the appeal of national liberty for people whose national culture is itself challenged by structural and political changes in the global economy.

Book The Friends of Liberty

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  • Author : Albert Goodwin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-06-10
  • ISBN : 1317189868
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book The Friends of Liberty written by Albert Goodwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement is described in the context of the general democratic evolution of the West in the age of the American and French revolutions, by showing how its direction was influenced by events in France, Scotland and Ireland. The book emphasizes the importance of the great regional centres of provincial radicalism and of the evolution of a local, radical press. It also throws light on the impact of Painite radicalism, the origins of Anglo-french hostilities in 1793, the English treason trials of 1794, the protest movement of 1795 and the final phase of Anglo-Irish clandestine republicanism.

Book The Color of Liberty

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  • Author : Sue Peabody
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2003-06-30
  • ISBN : 9780822331179
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The Color of Liberty written by Sue Peabody and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTraces the multiple histories of race and racial thinking over time in France and in Francophone areas of the globe./div

Book Bender s Lawyers  Diary and Directory for the State of New York

Download or read book Bender s Lawyers Diary and Directory for the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Terrorism  Drugs  International Law  and the Protection of Human Liberty

Download or read book Terrorism Drugs International Law and the Protection of Human Liberty written by Blakesley and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking related concerns that are often treated in disparate areas of international law and practice, this ground-breaking book clearly reveals the interconnectedness in today's world of drug trafficking and political violence. Suggesting a new approach to our political and moral values and the laws in which they are reflected, it offers a coherent legal definition of and reaction to terrorism based on a conceptual model derived from substantive criminal law, the law of war, and public international law. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Book Spink   Son s Monthly Numismatic Circular

Download or read book Spink Son s Monthly Numismatic Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athen  um

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athen um written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum  1807 1871      I N

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum 1807 1871 I N written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Liberty  Equality  Maternity

Download or read book Liberty Equality Maternity written by Alison Fell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The concept of motherhood emerges strongly in the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Violette Leduc and Annie Ernaux, whose work is examined here in the light of current debates about women's reproductive function and the longstanding glorification of the mere au foyer in France, driven by fear of a falling population. In this interdisciplinary study of twentieth-century French women's writing, Fell uncovers tensions at the heart of the literary critique. She shows these authors challenging the patriarchal view of motherhood as the sole justification for a woman's existence while at the same time confronting the conflict inherent in their relationship with their own mothers. A survey of theoretical and historical material demonstrates vividly that the changing concept of motherhood remains a problematic and highly contentious issue for French feminists, whether writing in 1940 or 1999."