Download or read book Machiavelli and Republicanism written by Gisela Bock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the world's foremost historians of ideas consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the republican tradition.

Download or read book Florentine Tuscany written by William J. Connell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the best recent research on the Republic of Florence in Tuscany during the Renaissance.

Download or read book Legislation and Justice written by European Science Foundation and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No enquiry into the making of the modern European state can ignore the part played by law. This comprehensive scholarly volume examines in detail how states availed themselves of juridicial techniques in order to mould their institutions, to take control over their territory, and to exercisepower over their subjects. The contributors are leading scholars in the field, who explore the administration of justice and the promulgation of legislation across Europe over a period of several centuries, in order to uncover the role of the law in the birth and development of the European state. The Origins of the Modern State in Europe series arises from an important international research programme sponsored by the European Science foundation. the aim of the series, which comprises seven volumes, is to bring together specialists from different countries, who reinterpret from acomparative European perspective different aspects of the formation of the state over the long period from the beginning of the thirteenth to the end of the eighteenth century. One of the main achievments of the research programme has been to overcome the long-established historiographical tendencyto regard states mainly from the viewpoint of their twentieth-century borders.

Download or read book On Racial Icons written by Nicole R. Fleetwood and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography’s role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons “signify”? Nicole R. Fleetwood’s answers to these questions will change the way you think about the next photograph that you see depicting a racial event, black celebrity, or public figure. In On Racial Icons, Fleetwood focuses a sustained look on photography in documenting black public life, exploring the ways in which iconic images function as celebrations of national and racial progress at times or as a gauge of collective racial wounds in moments of crisis. Offering an overview of photography’s ability to capture shifting race relations, Fleetwood spotlights in each chapter a different set of iconic images in key sectors of public life. She considers flash points of racialized violence in photographs of Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till; the political, aesthetic, and cultural shifts marked by the rise of pop stars such as Diana Ross; and the power and precarity of such black sports icons as Serena Williams and LeBron James; and she does not miss Barack Obama and his family along the way. On Racial Icons is an eye-opener in every sense of the phrase. Images from the book. (http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/pages/Fleetwood.aspx)

Download or read book Recupero e restauro degli edifici storici written by Musso Stefano F and published by EPC srl. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questa quarta edizione del volume nasce da un profondo e sistematico aggiornamento dei contenuti e comprende due nuovi saggi che ne arricchiscono la struttura. Il libro è destinato a chi affronta i temi del rilievo geometrico, dell’analisi dei materiali, dei fenomeni e dei processi di degrado e quelli della ricostruzione, anche con metodi archeologici, della storia degli edifici. Il libro non si limita a fornire un ampio quadro teorico delle materie trattate ma offre indicazioni e suggerimenti per affrontare “operativamente” le principali questioni intellettuali e tecniche legate a ogni attività analitica e diagnostica. Il testo è articolato in quattro sezioni: 1) rilievo, 2) analisi dei materiali e delle tecniche costruttive, 3) analisi storica e archeologica dell’architettura, 4) analisi e diagnosi dei fenomeni di degrado. Ogni sezione comprende: un saggio introduttivo, una panoramica sui concetti, le nozioni e le conoscenze di base necessarie, un esame dei problemi teorici e operativi coinvolti, una descrizione degli strumenti, dei metodi operativi e dei prodotti di ciascuna fase analitica, l’indicazione delle ricadute che le singole indagini possono avere sul progetto e sul cantiere di restauro e recupero. Il volume, è completato da una sezione documentaria, con brevi descrizioni, in forma di glossario, delle principali tecniche analitiche e diagnostiche non distruttive per lo studio, il restauro e il recupero dell’architettura esistente.