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Book Law  City  and King

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael P. Breen
  • Publisher : University Rochester Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781580462365
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Law City and King written by Michael P. Breen and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth examination of political activities in early modern France that opens up new perspectives on the local workings of the French state and the experiences of those who participated in it.Law, City, and King provides important new insights into the transformation of political participation and consciousness among urban notables who bridged the gap between local society and the state in early modern France. Breen''s detailed research shows how the educated, socially-middling avocats who staffed Dijon''s municipality used law, patronage, and the other resources at their disposal to protect the city council''s authority and their own participation in local governance. Drawing on juridical and historical authorities, the avocats favored a traditional conception of limited "absolute" monarchy increasingly at odds with royal ideology. Despite their efforts to resist the monarchy''s growth, the expansion of royal power under Louis XIV eventually excluded Dijon''s avocats from the French state. In opening up new perspectives on the local workings of the French state and the experiences of those who participated in it, Law, City, and King recasts debates about absolutism and early modern state formation. By focusing on the political alienation of notables who had long linked the crown to provincial society, Breen explains why Louis XIV''s collaborative absolutism did not endure. At the same time, the book''s examination of lawyers'' political activities and ideas provides insights into the transformation of French political culturein the decades leading up to the French Revolution. Michael P. Breen is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.perspectives on the local workings of the French state and the experiences of those who participated in it, Law, City, and King recasts debates about absolutism and early modern state formation. By focusing on the political alienation of notables who had long linked the crown to provincial society, Breen explains why Louis XIV''s collaborative absolutism did not endure. At the same time, the book''s examination of lawyers'' political activities and ideas provides insights into the transformation of French political culturein the decades leading up to the French Revolution. Michael P. Breen is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.perspectives on the local workings of the French state and the experiences of those who participated in it, Law, City, and King recasts debates about absolutism and early modern state formation. By focusing on the political alienation of notables who had long linked the crown to provincial society, Breen explains why Louis XIV''s collaborative absolutism did not endure. At the same time, the book''s examination of lawyers'' political activities and ideas provides insights into the transformation of French political culturein the decades leading up to the French Revolution. Michael P. Breen is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.perspectives on the local workings of the French state and the experiences of those who participated in it, Law, City, and King recasts debates about absolutism and early modern state formation. By focusing on the political alienation of notables who had long linked the crown to provincial society, Breen explains why Louis XIV''s collaborative absolutism did not endure. At the same time, the book''s examination of lawyers'' political activities and ideas provides insights into the transformation of French political culturein the decades leading up to the French Revolution. Michael P. Breen is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. absolutism did not endure. At the same time, the book''s examination of lawyers'' political activities and ideas provides insights into the transformation of French political culturein the decades leading up to the French Revolution. Michael P. Breen is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Book Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Download or read book Letter from a Birmingham Jail written by Dr Martin Luther King and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 2025-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The King

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  • Author : Denis Law
  • Publisher : Bantam Press
  • Release : 2004-08
  • ISBN : 9780553815597
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The King written by Denis Law and published by Bantam Press. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denis Law was a goal-scoring genius who attacked the game with an enthusiasm that held his legions of loyal subjects in devoted awe. The undisputed king of Old Trafford in the 1960s, he became one of the most loved and respected footballers of all time.

Book The Code of Hammurabi

Download or read book The Code of Hammurabi written by Hammurabi and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world. The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a man-sized stone stele and various clay tablets. The Code consists of 282 laws, with scaled punishments, adjusting "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" (lex talionis) as graded depending on social status, of slave versus free man. Nearly one-half of the Code deals with matters of contract, establishing, for example, the wages to be paid to an ox driver or a surgeon. Other provisions set the terms of a transaction, establishing the liability of a builder for a house that collapses, for example, or property that is damaged while left in the care of another. A third of the code addresses issues concerning household and family relationships such as inheritance, divorce, paternity, and sexual behavior. Only one provision appears to impose obligations on an official; this provision establishes that a judge who reaches an incorrect decision is to be fined and removed from the bench permanently. A few provisions address issues related to military service. Hammurabi ruled for nearly 42 years, c. 1792 to 1750 BC according to the Middle chronology. In the preface to the law, he states, "Anu and Bel called by name me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, who feared Marduk, the patron god of Babylon (The Human Record, Andrea & Overfield 2005), to bring about the rule in the land." On the stone slab there are 44 columns and 28 paragraphs that contained 282 laws. The laws follow along the rules of 'an eye for an eye'.

Book A Digest of Laws Relating to the City of Philadelphia

Download or read book A Digest of Laws Relating to the City of Philadelphia written by Philadelphia (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Hologram for the King

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  • Author : Dave Eggers
  • Publisher : Vintage Canada
  • Release : 2013-06-04
  • ISBN : 034580760X
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book A Hologram for the King written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got here.

Book A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances  Relating to the City of Philadelphia  in Force on the Twelfth Day of December  A D  1868

Download or read book A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances Relating to the City of Philadelphia in Force on the Twelfth Day of December A D 1868 written by Philadelphia (Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book King City

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  • Author : Lee Goldberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-05
  • ISBN : 9781612183176
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book King City written by Lee Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Major Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption...turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he's exiled to patrol a beat in King City's deadliest neighborhood...with no back-up, no resources, and no hope of survival. Now Wade fights to tame the lawless, poverty-stricken wasteland...while investigating a string of brutal murders of young women. It's a case that takes him from the squalor of the inner-city to the manicured enclaves of the privileged, revealing the sordid and deadly ways the two worlds are intertwined...making his enemies even more determined to crush him. But for Tom Wade, backing down is never an option...even if it will cost him his life. It's one reason why bestselling author Janet Evanovich calls Wade "an unforgettable and deeply compelling character in the most original crime novel to come along in years."

Book Laws

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  • Author : Plato
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-05-28
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 573 pages

Download or read book Laws written by Plato and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laws is Plato's last, longest, and perhaps, most famous work. It presents a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian, a Spartan named Megillus, and a Cretan named Clinias. They worked to create a constitution for Magnesia, a new Cretan colony that would make all of its citizens happy and virtuous. In this work, Plato combines political philosophy with applied legislation, going into great detail concerning what laws and procedures should be in the state. For example, they consider whether drunkenness should be allowed in the city, how citizens should hunt, and how to punish suicide. The principles of this book have entered the legislation of many modern countries and provoke a great interest of philosophers even in the 21st century.

Book Select Cases Before the King s Council in the Star Chamber  Commonly Called the Court of Star Chamber  A D  1477  1544

Download or read book Select Cases Before the King s Council in the Star Chamber Commonly Called the Court of Star Chamber A D 1477 1544 written by England. Court of Star Chamber and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Law

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  • Author : John Maxcy Zane
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book The Story of Law written by John Maxcy Zane and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oldest Code of Laws in the World

Download or read book The Oldest Code of Laws in the World written by Hammurabi (King of Babylonia.) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Martin Luther King

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  • Author : Paul Harvey
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-11-01
  • ISBN : 153811593X
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Martin Luther King written by Paul Harvey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Sh]ould take a prominent place on the shelf of literature about the man who changed 20th century America." Publishers Weekly, Starred Review In this new biography, distinguished historian Paul Harvey examines Martin Luther King’s life through his complex, emerging religious lives. Harvey introduces many readers, perhaps for the first or only time, to the King of diverse religious and intellectual influences, of an increasingly radical cast of thought, and of a mélange of intellectual influences that he aligned in becoming the spokesperson for the most important social movement of twentieth-century American history. Not only does Harvey chronicle King’s metamorphosis and its impact on American and African American life, but he seeks to explain his “afterlives”—how in American culture King became transformed into a mainstream civil saint, shorn of his radical religious critique of how power functioned in America. Harvey’s concise biography will allow readers to see King anew in the context of his time and today.

Book Martin Luther King Jr  and the Morality of Legal Practice

Download or read book Martin Luther King Jr and the Morality of Legal Practice written by Robert K. Vischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Martin Luther King, Jr built his advocacy on moral claims of love, justice and human nature.

Book The King of Arcadia

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  • Author : Francis Francis Lynde
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-02-05
  • ISBN : 9781985094659
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book The King of Arcadia written by Francis Francis Lynde and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Lynde Stetson (April 23, 1846 - December 5, 1920) was an American lawyer. He was president of the New York City Bar Association from 1910 to 1911. He was born at Keeseville, New York, the son of Lemuel Stetson who served in the New York state assembly and as a representative in the 28th U. S. Congress. He was graduated from Williams College in 1867 and from Columbia Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and practiced in New York City. He devoted attention chiefly to corporation and railway law, becoming eminent in those lines. He became general counsel of the International Mercantile Marine Company, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Southern Railway, and the United States Rubber Company; also director in several railway companies and other corporations. In 1894, he formed the firm of Stetson, Jennings & Russell (a predecessor to the modern-day Davis Polk & Wardwell), which represented J. P. Morgan's United States Steel Corporation; he was also Morgan's personal attorney.

Book A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances  Relating to the City of Philadelphia  in Force on the Twelth Day of December  A D  1868

Download or read book A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances Relating to the City of Philadelphia in Force on the Twelth Day of December A D 1868 written by Philadelphia (Pa.). and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lawyers  Record and Official Register of the Unites States

Download or read book Lawyers Record and Official Register of the Unites States written by H. Charles Ulman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 1145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.