Download or read book The Queen s Other Realms written by Peter John Boyce and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada, Australia and New Zealand inherited and adapted a monarchical framework of government, even in the absence of a resident monarch. Although steady transfer of the royal prerogative to a popularly elected executive has enabled these three former dominions to be sometimes described as "crowned republics" or "disguised republics", there was no popular drive to abandon monarchy until the 1990s, and even then the republican cause was based largely on issues of symbolism and national identity than on perceived core weaknesses in the political system. This book traces the long and sometimes subtle process of localising monarchy in the vice-regal office from the mid-twentieth century onwards, and compares the powers and functions of the Queen's surrogates with each other and with those of the monarch herself, including their recourse to the so-called "reserve powers". Among the key questions posed in this comparative study are: Can the current monarchical system be refined to the point of countering republican sentiment? Why has the republican argument gained more momentum in Australia than in Canada or New Zealand? Can a republican model retain residual monarchic elements? What is likely to be the lasting legacy of the Crown in these three strikingly similar political cultures? The author's underlying loyalties are neither firmly monarchist nor firmly republican. He is convinced, however, that the combined effects of a strong sense of national identity and an increasingly presidential style of political leadership within these three Westminster-derived systems make it difficult for contemporary governors-general (or their state and provincial colleagues)to fulfil two of their key roles-to unite and inspire the people on the one hand and to be a credible constitutional watchdog on the other.
Download or read book Heaven written by William Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Software Reuse Methods Techniques and Tools written by Jan Bosch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-06-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR-8, held in Madrid, Spain in July 2004. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on software variability: requirements; testing reusable software; feature modeling; aspect-oriented software development; component and service development; code level reuse; libraries, classification, and retrieval; model-based approaches; transformation and generation; and requirements.
Download or read book Islands written by Steven Roger Fischer and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lost’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center of imagined worlds, secluded and sometimes mystical locales filled with strange creatures and savage populations. The cannibals, raptors, and smoke monsters that exist on the islands of popular culture aside, the more than one million islands and islets on the planet are indeed small , geological, biological, and cultural laboratories. From Britain to Japan, from the Galapagos to Manhattan, this book roams the planet to provide the first global introduction to these waterlocked landforms. Longtime island dweller Steven Roger Fischer shows that, since time began, islands have been one of the primary birthplaces for plants, animals, and proto-humans. These eyots of stone and sand—whether in ocean, lake, or river—fostered the human race, and Fischer recounts how humanity then exploited these remarkable habitats as stepping stones to global dominion. He explores island economics, warfare, and politics, and he examines the role they have played in literature, art and psychology. At the same time, he sparks our imagination with visions of islands—from Atlantis to Tahiti, Treasure Island to Hawaii. Ultimately, he reveals, these isolated mini-worlds are a measure of humankind itself. An engaging account of the islets that have enriched, lured, terrified, and inspired us, Islands shines new light on these cradles of earth—and human—history.
Download or read book Advice to the Commons within all His Majesties Realms and Dominions Containing the perfect harmony between divinity and law And that kingly government is by divine right written by Jacob Bury and published by . This book was released on 1685 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I am The King written by and published by Er. Rohit Sharma . This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am The King
Download or read book Rulers and Realms in Medieval Iberia 711 1492 written by Timothy M. Flood and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Muslim conquest of Iberia in 711 began nearly eight centuries of struggle for control of the peninsula. The invaders quickly achieved military supremacy, but political dominance was less complete. Within a few years, a small band of Christian rebels defied Muslim authority, establishing their own ruling class in the northern mountains of Asturias. The opposing forces competed for control until the Catholic Monarchs Fernando and Isabel established absolute rule in 1492. Drawing on the latest scholarship, this comprehensive study traces the succession of Iberian sovereigns during a complicated period in early European history.
Download or read book Wild Woods and Waterways written by William Chalmers Covert and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King Charles III written by Mike Bartlett and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The Queen is dead: After a lifetime of waiting, the prince ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule? Mike Bartlett’s controversial play explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family.
Download or read book The Central Literary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s Political Imagination written by Philip Goldfarb Styrt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare's plays it is essential to look at the historicism of setting: how the places and societies depicted in the plays were understood in the period when they were written. This book offers us new readings of neglected critical moments in key plays, such as Malcolm's final speech in Macbeth and the Duke's inaction in The Merchant of Venice, by investigating early modern views about each setting and demonstrating how the plays navigate between those contemporary perspectives. Divided into three parts, this book explores Shakespeare's historicist use of medieval Britain and Scotland in King John and Macbeth; ancient Rome in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus; and Renaissance Europe through Venice and Vienna in The Merchant of Venice, Othello and Measure for Measure. Philip Goldfarb Styrt argues that settings are a powerful component in Shakespeare's worlds that not only function as physical locations, but are a mechanism through which he communicates the political and social orders of the plays. Reading the plays in light of these social and political contexts reveals Shakespeare's dramatic method: how he used competing cultural narratives about other cultures to situate the action of his plays. These fresh insights encourage us to move away from overly localized or universalized readings of the plays and re-discover hidden moments and meanings that have long been obscured.
Download or read book Prince Albert in a Can written by Brian Daffern and published by Hickory Tales Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight years ago, a young prince from a distant realm was ?kidnapped? and hidden from his evil father. On Earth, ten year old Albert Prince knows nothing of his past or the hope that the people of the realm have that he will someday return to save them from his father's oppressive rule. But the cruel King, looking for his son, will stop at nothing to retrieve him. Albert is thrust into a world he never knew existed as he flees from strange human/animal creatures pursuing him. His only chance is a stranger-yet ability he never knew he had, to transform his body into that of a lion. With the help of new friends, Albert finds a brother, and the two adventurers set out on a journey of excitement, danger, secret passageways and a unique mode of travel over light waves. Brian Daffern, while recuperating in the hospital from a service injury in the Marines, developed the ideas and characters that would grow into the Realms of his books. Through his spellbinding fantasy-adventure novels, the Prince Albert Series, it is the author's hope to help teach children the value of life and love, and of family and friendship.
Download or read book The Era Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canadian Kingdom written by D. Michael Jackson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integral part of Canada’s political culture, the constitutional monarchy has evolved over the 150 years since Confederation to become a uniquely Canadian institution. Canada inherited the constitutional monarchy from Britain even before Confederation in 1867. In the 150 years since then, the Crown has shaped, and been shaped by, Canada’s achievement of independence, its robust federalism, the unique identity of Quebec, and its relationship with Indigenous peoples. What has this “Canadian Crown” contributed to the Canada of the twenty-first century? How is this historic yet resilient institution perceived today? The essays in this book respond to these questions from a variety of perspectives, encompassing the arts, the role of the vice-regal representatives, the Indigenous peoples, and the contemporary position of the monarch. In discussing whether there is a distinctly Canadian monarchy, the authors look beyond Canada’s borders, too, and explore how Canada’s development has influenced other Commonwealth realms.
Download or read book Repertorium Canonicum or an abridgement of the Ecclesiastical Laws of this Realm consistent with the Temporal etc written by John GODOLPHIN and published by . This book was released on 1678 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prince Albert written by Brian Daffern and published by Hickory Tales Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Prince, a boy from Earth, has found he has magical powers to teleport himself and transform himself into the King of the Beasts. When his mother, the good Queen Nara, is stolen by mysterious Realm Pirates, Albert is betrayed again by King John but sets out with the Beast Master to rescue his mother and unravel the secrets of the Realm Pirates.
Download or read book The Germanic Realms in Pre Carolingian Central Europe 400 750 written by Herbert Schutz and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Germanic Realms in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe, 400-750 complements the scant historical and ethnographic information left by the classical authors about the peoples of the «migration» period in Central Europe with extensive archeological evidence. This allows additional conclusions about what the people valued, what their sense of style was, how they felt about one another, where and how they lived, and from what they suffered and died. We can even deduce something of their beliefs. By examining their settlement patterns, funerary practices, material cultures, myths of origin, and their Christianization, this book presents a complementary picture of their individual characteristics. It is the intention of this book to make available for English readers a clearer cultural profile of the emergent populations in early medieval Central Europe.
