Download or read book Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens written by James P. Sickinger and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, James Sickinger explores the use and preservation of public records in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods. Athenian public records are most familiar from the survival of inscribed stelai, slabs of marble on which were published decrees, treaties, financial accounts, and other state documents. Working largely from evidence supplied by such inscriptions, Sickinger demonstrates that their texts actually represented only a small part of Athenian record keeping. More numerous and more widely used, he says, were archival texts written on wooden tablets or papyri that were made, and often kept for extended periods of time, by Athenian officials. Beginning with the legislation of Drakon in the seventh century B.C., Sickinger traces the growing use of written records by the Athenian state over the next three centuries, concluding with an examination of the Metroon, the state archive of Athens, during the fourth century. Challenging assumptions about ancient Athenian literacy, democracy, and society, Sickinger argues that the practical use and preservation of laws, decrees, and other state documents were hallmarks of Athenian public life from the earliest times.
Download or read book Hymns to the Goddess and Hymn to Kali written by Sir John Woodroffe and published by DK Printworld (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book The Goddess or Devī is God in Its Mother aspect. Devī, who is existence, consciousness and bliss, is thought of as a female, a male or pure Brahman. This volume Hymns to the Goddess is an endeavour of Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon) to translate the Sanskrit hymns in praise of the Goddess or Devī, scattered in Tantra and Purāṇa texts, Mahābhārata, and in the hymns of Śaṅkarācārya, who was an incarnation of devotion and a great philosopher, Vālmīki and Indra. After a general introduction, the book starts with a hymn to Kālabhairava, the spouse of Devī, followed by Devī stotras. In these hymns, Devī is praised as Bhairavaī, Bhuvaneśvarī, Ādyakālī, Lakṣmī, Tārā, Mahiṣamardinī, Aṇṇapūrṇā, Sarasvatī, Durgā, Tripurā in Tantra texts; Sarvaviśvajananī, Ambikā, Caṇḍikā, Mahādevī and Jagadambikā in Purāṇas; Durgā, Āryā, Durgā in Mahābhārata; Tripurasundarī, Gaṅgā, Ānanadalaharī, Yamunā, Narmadā and Mahālakṣmī. Hymn to Kālī (Karpūrādi Stotra), another book within the book, is a celebrated Kaula stotra, having commentary on the hymns. It, in addition to mantroddhāradhārā, contains stotras of dhyāna, yantra, sādhanā, madya, māṁsa, maithuna and phala-śruti matters. About the Author Sir John George Woodroffe (1865–1936), also known by pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British Orientalist whose work helped to develop in the West a deep and wide interest in Hindu philosophy and yogic practices. A lawyer by profession, he developed parallel interest in Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and religion. Sir Woodroffe wrote or translated more than a dozen books: Introduction to the Tantra Sastra; Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahanirvana Tantra); Hymns to the Goddess; The Serpent Power; Hymn to Kali: Karpuradi-Stotra; The World as Power; The Garland of Letters; Principles of Tantra (2 vols) and Is India Civilized? Essays on Indian Culture are some of them.
Download or read book Report and Resolve Relating to the Public Archives written by Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Work of the Public Archives written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Archives and Public Records of the State of New York and of New York City written by Herbert Levi Osgood and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Second Report on the Public Archives written by Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Availability of Diplomatic Archives written by Neal H. Petersen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archives and the Public Good written by Richard J. Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume widens the perspective of the roles that records play in society. As opposed to most writings in the discipline of archives and records management which view records from cultural, historical, and economical efficiency dimensions, this volume highlights that one of the most salient features of records is the role they play as sources of accountability—a component that often brings them into daily headlines and into courtrooms. Struggles over control, access, preservation, destruction, authenticity, accuracy, and other issues demonstrate time and again that records are not mute observers and recordings of activity. Rather, they are frequently struggled over as objects of memory formation and erasure. The 14 powerful case studies focus around four closely related themes—explanation, secrecy, memory, and trust. They demonstrate how records compel, shape, distort, and recover social interactions across space and time. The diverse range of case studies includes the ownership of the Martin Luther King, Jr. papers, the destruction of records on Nazi war criminals in Canada, the politics of documents in the Iran-Contra affair, the failure of records management in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the publication of tobacco company documents on the World Wide Web, access to records associated with the U.S. government's infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, the role of the U.S. National Archives in identifying assets looted by the Nazis in the wake of the Holocaust, the destruction of public records by the South African government during apartheid's final years, the construction of foreign relations of the U.S. documentary histories, the forgery corrupting recordkeeping systems, and the collapse of foreign indigenous commercial banks.
Download or read book A Report on the Public Archives written by Theodore Christian Blegen and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Work of the Public Archives written by Public Archives Canada and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendix 42 in the report of the minister of agriculture for 1874 consists of a Report of proceedings connected with Canadian archives in Europe, by H.A.J.B. Verreau.
Download or read book Colonial Delaware written by John Andrew Munroe and published by Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Public Archives for the Year written by Public Archives of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Critical Guide to the Kwangtung Provincial Archives Deposited at the Public Record Office of London written by David Pong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogues approximately 2,000 documents from the Kwangtung Provincial Archives that are now deposited at the Public Record Office of London. These documents were captured at Canton on January 5, 1858, when the city fell to British and French forces. Topics include military matters, finance, education, and government administration.
Download or read book Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland written by Ireland. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes calendars, catalogues and indexes of records, issued as appendices.
Download or read book Report of the Examiner of Public Records written by Connecticut. Examiner of Public Records and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Management and Participation in the Public Sphere written by Merviö, Mika Markus and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public policy has a dynamic effect on multiple facets of modern society. Methods for managing and engaging the public sphere continue to change conceptually across the globe, impacting the ways that governments and citizens interact both within and across borders. Management and Participation in the Public Sphere is a definitive reference source for the latest scholarly research on the interplay of public affairs and the domestic realm, providing innovative methods on managing public policy across various nations, cultures, and governments. Featuring expansive coverage on a multitude of relevant topics in civic involvement, information technology, and modes of government, this publication is a pivotal reference source for researchers, students, and professionals seeking current developments in novel approaches to public policy studies. This publication features timely, research-based chapters on the critical issues of public policy including, but not limited to, archival paradigms, Internet censorship, media control, civic engagement, virtual public spaces, online activism, higher education, and public-private partnerships.
