Inventing English

Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231541244

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Inventing English by Seth Lerer Pdf

A history of English from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem, “written with real authority, enthusiasm and love for our unruly and exquisite language” (The Washington Post). Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Seth Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition of his “remarkable linguistic investigation” (Booklist) features a new chapter on the influence of biblical translation and an epilogue on the relationship of English speech to writing. A unique blend of historical and personal narrative, both “erudite and accessible” (The Globe and Mail), Inventing English is the surprising tale of a language that is as dynamic as the people to whom it belongs. “Lerer is not just a scholar; he's also a fan of English—his passion is evident on every page of this examination of how our language came to sound—and look—as it does and how words came to have their current meanings…the book percolates with creative energy and will please anyone intrigued by how our richly variegated language came to be.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Daniel Hannan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780062231758

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Inventing Freedom by Daniel Hannan Pdf

Why does the world speak English? Why does every country at least pretend to aspire to representative government, personal freedom, and an independent judiciary? In The New Road to Serfdom, British politician Daniel Hannan exhorted Americans not to abandon the principles that have made our country great. Inventing Freedom is a much more ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of those principles, and their role in creating a sphere of economic and political liberty that is as crucial as it is imperiled. According to Hannan, the ideas and institutions we consider essential to maintaining and preserving our freedoms—individual rights, private property, the rule of law, and the institutions of representative government—are not broadly "Western" in the usual sense of the term. Rather they are the legacy of a very specific tradition, one that was born in England and that we Americans, along with other former British colonies, inherited. The first English kingdoms, as they emerged from the Dark Ages, already had unique characteristics that would develop into what we now call constitutional government. By the tenth century, a thousand years before most modern countries, England was a nation-state whose people were already starting to define themselves with reference to inherited common-law rights. The story of liberty is the story of how that model triumphed. How, repressed after the Norman Conquest, it reasserted itself; how it developed during the civil wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries into the modern liberal-democratic tradition; how it was enshrined in a series of landmark victories—the Magna Carta, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the U.S. Constitution—and how it came to defeat every international rival. Yet there was nothing inevitable about it. Anglosphere values could easily have been snuffed out in the 1940s. And they would not be ascendant today if the Cold War had ended differently. Today we see those ideas abandoned and scorned in the places where they once went unchallenged. The current U.S. president, in particular, seems determined to deride and traduce the Anglosphere values that the Founders took for granted. Inventing Freedom explains why the extraordinary idea that the state was the servant, not the ruler, of the individual evolved uniquely in the English-speaking world. It is a chronicle of the success of Anglosphere exceptionalism. And it is offered at a time that may turn out to be the end of the age of political freedom.

Author : Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199998142

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Inventing Eden by Zachary McLeod Hutchins Pdf

As Christopher Columbus surveyed lush New World landscapes, he eventually concluded that he had rediscovered the biblical garden from which God expelled Adam and Eve. Reading the paradisiacal rhetoric of Columbus, John Smith, and other explorers, English immigrants sailed for North America full of hope. However, the rocky soil and cold winters of New England quickly persuaded Puritan and Quaker colonists to convert their search for a physical paradise into a quest for Eden's less tangible perfections: temperate physiologies, intellectual enlightenment, linguistic purity, and harmonious social relations. Scholars have long acknowledged explorers' willingness to characterize the North American terrain in edenic terms, but Inventing Eden pushes beyond this geographical optimism to uncover the influence of Genesis on the iconic artifacts, traditions, and social movements that shaped seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American culture. Harvard Yard, the Bay Psalm Book, and the Quaker use of antiquated pronouns like thee and thou: these are products of a seventeenth-century desire for Eden. So, too, are the evangelical emphasis of the Great Awakening, the doctrine of natural law popularized by the Declaration of Independence, and the first United States judicial decision abolishing slavery. From public nudity to Freemasonry, a belief in Eden affected every sphere of public life in colonial New England and, eventually, the new nation. Spanning two centuries and surveying the work of English and colonial thinkers from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden is the history of an idea that shaped American literature, identity, and culture.

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062488700

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Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts, and By] the United States Supreme Court ...: Decisions by English courts, 1602-1843 by United States. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Jennifer M. Rampling
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226710846

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The Experimental Fire by Jennifer M. Rampling Pdf

A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice. In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could heal the human body? To defend such claims, alchemists turned to the past, scouring ancient books for evidence of a lost alchemical heritage and seeking to translate their secret language and obscure imagery into replicable, practical effects. Tracing the development of alchemy in England over four hundred years, from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the end of the seventeenth, Jennifer M. Rampling illuminates the role of alchemical reading and experimental practice in the broader context of national and scientific history. Using new manuscript sources, she shows how practitioners like George Ripley, John Dee, and Edward Kelley, as well as many previously unknown alchemists, devised new practical approaches to alchemy while seeking the support of English monarchs. By reconstructing their alchemical ideas, practices, and disputes, Rampling reveals how English alchemy was continually reinvented over the space of four centuries, resulting in changes to the science itself. In so doing, The Experimental Fire bridges the intellectual history of chemistry and the wider worlds of early modern patronage, medicine, and science.

Author : Alison Games
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197507735

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Inventing the English Massacre by Alison Games Pdf

Acknowledgments; A Note on Dates and Spelling; Cast of Characters; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Competition to Conspiracy; Chapter 2 The Amboyna Business; Chapter 3 Inventing the Amboyna Massacre; Chapter 4 The Reckoning; Chapter 5 Domesticating Amboyna; Chapter 6 Legacies: Reinvention and the Linchpin of Empire; Epilogue The First English Massacre; Appendix 1 Deposition Abbreviations; Appendix 2 True Relations; Appendix 3 A Note on Sources and Methodology; Notes; Index.

Author : Robert Rezetko,Ian Young
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628370461

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Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew by Robert Rezetko,Ian Young Pdf

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" html meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type" body A philologically robust approach to the history of ancient Hebrew In this book the authors work toward constructing an approach to the history of ancient Hebrew that overcomes the chasm of academic specialization. The authors illustrate how cross-textual variable analysis and variation analysis advance research on Biblical Hebrew and correct theories based on extra-linguistic assumptions, intuitions, and ideologies by focusing on variation of forms/uses in the Masoretic text and variation between the Masoretic text and other textual traditions. Features: A unique approach that examines the nature of the sources and the description of their language together Extensive bibliography for further research Tables of linguistic variables and parallels

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062488734

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Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts, and By] the United States Supreme Court ...: Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, 1754-1890 by United States. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : R. Crane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230380080

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Inventing India by R. Crane Pdf

Working at the interface of historical and fictional writing, Ralph Crane considers the history of India from the Revolt of 1857 to the Emergency of 1975 as it is presented in the works of twentieth-century novelists, both Indian and British, who have written about particular periods of Indian history from within various periods of literary history. A constant thread in the book is the exploration of the use of paintings as iconography and allegory, used in the novels to reveal aspects of British-Indian relationships.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Business education
ISBN : UOM:39015011409243

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Stenographer and Phonographic World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elly van Gelderen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270436

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A History of the English Language by Elly van Gelderen Pdf

The English language in its complex shapes and forms changes fast. This thoroughly revised edition has been refreshed with current examples of change and has been updated regarding archeological research. Most suggestions brought up by users and reviewers have been incorporated, for instance, a family tree for Germanic has been added, Celtic influence is highlighted much more, there is more on the origin of Chancery English, and internal and external change are discussed in much greater detail. The philosophy of the revised book remains the same with an emphasis on the linguistic history and on using authentic texts. My audience remains undergraduates (and beginning graduates). The goals of the class and the book are to come to recognize English from various time periods, to be able to read each stage with a glossary, to get an understanding of typical language change, internal and external, and to understand something about language typology through the emphasis on the change from synthetic to analytic. This book has a companion website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.183.website

Author : Christine MacLeod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521893992

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Inventing the Industrial Revolution by Christine MacLeod Pdf

This book examines the development of the English patent system and its relationship with technical change during the period between 1660 and 1800, when the patent system evolved from an instrument of royal patronage into one of commercial competition among the inventors and manufacturers of the Industrial Revolution. It analyses the legal and political framework within which patenting took place and gives an account of the motivations and fortunes of patentees, who obtained patents for a variety of purposes beyond the simple protection of an invention. It includes the first in-depth attempt to gauge the reliability of the patent statistics as a measure of inventive activity and technical change in the early part of the Industrial Revolution, and suggests that the distribution of patents is a better guide to the advance of capitalism than to the centres of inventive activity. It also queries the common assumption that the chief goal of inventors was to save labour, and examines contemporary criticism of the patent system in the light of the changing conceptualisation of invention among natural scientists and political economists.

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:2174094-10

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Amenities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli Pdf

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105116980579

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Disraeli's Complete Works by Isaac Disraeli Pdf

Author : Disraeli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00082425

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Amenities of Literature by Disraeli Pdf