Reign Of Virtue

Author : Miranda Pollard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226924779

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Reign of Virtue by Miranda Pollard Pdf

In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. Drawing on governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda, Pollard explores what most historians have ignored: the many ways in which Vichy's politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity with work, family, and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. Pollard shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed.

Author : Miranda Pollard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226673499

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Reign of Virtue by Miranda Pollard Pdf

In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. Drawing on governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda, Pollard explores what most historians have ignored: the many ways in which Vichy's politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity with work, family, and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. Pollard shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed.

Author : John Kane
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300137125

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Between Virtue and Power by John Kane Pdf

In this survey of U.S. history, John Kane looks at the tensions between American virtue and power and how those tensions have influenced foreign policy. Americans have long been suspicious of power as a threat to individual liberty, Kane argues, and yet the growth of national power has been perceived as a natural byproduct of American virtue. This contradiction has posed a persistent crisis that has influenced the trajectory of American diplomacy and foreign relations for more than two hundred years. Kane examines the various challenges, including emerging Nationalism, isolationism, and burgeoning American power, which have at times challenged not only foreign policy but American national identity. The events of September 11, 2001, rekindled Americans' sense of righteousness, the author observes, but the subsequent use of power in Iraq has raised questions about the nation’s virtue and, as in earlier days, cast a deep shadow over its purpose and direction.

Author : Otto Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351492690

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Robespierre by Otto Scott Pdf

It is a perverse but almost inescapable phenomenon in the history of violent revolutions that after the first heroic days a colorless bureaucrat will inherit the mantle of leadership. In the Russian Revolution, Lenin was followed by a plodding Stalin rather than a dazzling Trotsky. Even after the American Revolution the celebrated Jefferson barely made it into office as president between two party regulars.The French Revolution was no exception. After the genius and idealism of Mirabeau, Danton, and others who had created the Revolution, it fell into the hands of an unscrupulous and sententious bourgeois lawyer who had been lost among the back benches of the first Estates-General. Like Stalin, Robespierre rose through tireless party service and meticulous attention to detail and finally through the execution of men who had been the real heroes of the Revolution. Unlike Stalin, however, Robespierre was a brilliant orator who ultimately was destroyed on the guillotine by the very terror he had created to eliminate his rivals.In Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue, Otto J. Scott has created an ironic portrait of hypocrisy in power. This biography is a study in moral arrogance, self-proclaimed virtue, and the effectiveness of brutality in the position of political leadership; it is a reenactment of the events that Robespierre came to personify—the Reign of Terror. This political condition has since been re-enacted all too often.

Author : Robert W. Merry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743266673

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Sands of Empire by Robert W. Merry Pdf

This title takes aim at the prevailing notion that Western civilization and American democracy are universal and can be dictated to the entire world. The author argues that America must accept the reality of fundamental cultural differences in the world and concentrate instead on its vital interests.

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Redemption
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010273931

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Observations Concerning the Scripture Oeconomy of the Trinity and Covenant of Redemption by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Thomas Dew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:3043719-10

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A Digest of the Laws, Manners, and Institutions of the Ancient and Modern Nations by Thomas Dew Pdf

Author : Maximilien Robespierre
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786633385

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Virtue and Terror by Maximilien Robespierre Pdf

Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents. Yet today, the French Revolution is celebrated as the event which gave birth to a nation built on the principles of Enlightenment. So how should a contemporary audience approach Robespierre's vindication of revolutionary terror? Zizek takes a helter-skelter route through these contradictions, marshaling all the breadth of analogy for which he is famous.

Author : Charles E. Curran,Lisa Fullam
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780809146857

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Virtue by Charles E. Curran,Lisa Fullam Pdf

This edited volume focuses on virtue using the same perspective that has characterized the previous fifteen volumes in the prestigious series Readings in Moral Theology from Paulist Press begun by Charles E. Curran and Richard A. McCormick in 1979. This volume brings together fourteen previously published articles dealing in a comprehensive manner with the important topic of the role of virtue in moral theology and the Christian life. The contributors to this volume include the most important figures in Catholic moral theology who have written about virtue. In addition the authors represented here come from the different theological perspectives found in moral theology today. The first part deals with the role of virtue in general beginning with an overview of the seminal work of Thomas Aquinas. A second chapter explains the important work of Alasdair MacIntyre while the last two chapters in this part come from the Catholic and feminist perspectives. The three chapters in the second part discuss the role of the various virtues in three different spheres of human existence--professional life, sexuality, and ecology. The third part develops in some depth the significant particular virtues of charity, justice, prudence, courage, and humility. +

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Close writs
ISBN : UOMDLP:abd4709:0003.001

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Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Pulic Record Ofice: 1333-1337 by Great Britain. Public Record Office Pdf

Author : Philip F. Riley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313001062

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A Lust for Virtue by Philip F. Riley Pdf

Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. The author demonstrates how this attack on sin expressed the punitive social policy of the French Catholic Reformation and how Louis's actions clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin. As a hot-blooded young prince, Louis XIV paid little attention to virtue or to sin and, despite his cherished title of God's Most Christian King, violations of God's Sixth and Ninth Commandments never troubled him. Indeed, for the first two decades of his reign, he paraded a stream of royal mistresses before all of Europe and fathered sixteen illegitimate children. Yet, midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. Using police and prison archives, administrative correspondence, memoirs, and letters, Riley describes the formation of Louis's narrow conscience and his efforts to safeguard his subjects' souls by attacking sin and infusing his kingdom with virtue, especially in Paris and at Versailles. Throughout his attack on sin, women--so-called Soldiers of Satan--were the special targets of the police. By the seventeenth century, fornication and adultery had become exclusively female crimes; men guilty of these sins were rarely punished as severely. Although unsuccessful, Louis's attack on sin clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin as well as the futility of enforcing a religiously inspired social policy on an irreverent, secular-minded France.

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Gazettes
ISBN : IOWA:31858045361676

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The London Gazette by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Jonas Hanway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : NLS:B000432787

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Virtue in Humble Life by Jonas Hanway Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015059418775

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Problems of Communism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonas Hanway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1777
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019919836

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Virtue in humble life, containing reflections on the reciprocal duties of the wealthy and indigent. ... Thoughts on the various situations, passions, ... and virtues of mankind. ... Fables. ... Anecdotes. ... A manual of Devotion, comprehending extracts from eminent poets by Jonas Hanway Pdf