Revisions And Dissents

Author : Paul Gottfried
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781609092177

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Revisions and Dissents by Paul Gottfried Pdf

Paul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisions and Dissents focus on a range of topics in European intellectual and political history, social theory, and the history of modern political movements. With subjects as varied as Robert Nisbet, Whig history, the European Union election of 2014, and Donald Trump, the essays are tied together by their strenuous confrontation with historians and journalists whose claims about the past no longer receive critical scrutiny. According to Gottfried, successful writers on historical topics take advantage of political orthodoxy and/or widespread ignorance to present questionable platitudes as self-evident historical judgments. New research ceases to be of importance in determining accepted interpretations. What remains decisive, Gottfried maintains, is whether the favored view fits the political and emotional needs of what he calls "verbalizing elites." In this highly politicized age, Gottfried argues, it is necessary to re-examine these prevalent interpretations of the past. He does so in this engaging volume, which will appeal to general readers interested in political and intellectual history.

Author : New York (State). Commissioners of Statutory Revision
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437122049733

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Report of the Commissioners of Statutory Revision for the Year ... by New York (State). Commissioners of Statutory Revision Pdf

Author : New York (State). Commissioners of Statutory Revision
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112105216370

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Report of the Commissioners of Statutory Revision for the Year 1891 ... by New York (State). Commissioners of Statutory Revision Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097758411

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Report of the Commissioners of Statutory Revision for the Year 1890 ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Government publications
ISBN : CORNELL:31924106026846

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Documents of the Senate of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Senate Pdf

Author : Wisconsin. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : WISC:89121680060

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Callaghan's Official Wisconsin Reports by Wisconsin. Supreme Court Pdf

Author : Russell E. Richey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610972970

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Denominationalism Illustrated and Explained by Russell E. Richey Pdf

Evidence of mainstream denominational decline virtually throws itself in our faces--growing religious pluralism in North America; the decline over the last half century in the salience, prestige, power, and vitality of Protestant denominational leadership; slippage in mainline membership and corresponding growth, vigor, visibility, and political prowess of conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist bodies; patterns of congregational independence, including loosening of or removal of denominational identity, particularly in signage, and the related marginal loyalty of members; emergence of megachurches, with resources and the capacity to meet needs heretofore supplied by denominations (training, literature, expertise); growth within mainline denominations of caucuses and their alignment into broad progressive or conservative camps, often with connections to similar camps in other denominations; widespread suspicion of, indeed hostility towards, the centers and symbols of denominational identity--the regional and national headquarters; migration of individuals and families through various religious identities, sometimes out of classic Christianity altogether. Denominationalism looks doomed and is so proclaimed. It may be. However, viewing the sweep of Anglo-American history, this volume suggests how much denominations and denominationalism have changed, how resilient they have proved, how significant these structures of religious belonging have been in providing order and direction to American society, and how such enduring purposes find ever new structural/institutional expression.

Author : Lawrence Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190229238

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Strategy by Lawrence Freedman Pdf

One of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics synthesizes the vast history of strategy's evolution in this consistently engaging and surprising account of how it came to pervade every aspect of life.

Author : Sir Lawrence Freedman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199349906

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Strategy by Sir Lawrence Freedman Pdf

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade every aspect of our lives. The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de Jomini and Carl von Clausewitz, the grounding of revolutionary strategy in class struggles by Marx, the insights into corporate strategy found in Peter Drucker and Alfred Sloan, and the contributions of the leading social scientists working on strategy today. The core issue at the heart of strategy, the author notes, is whether it is possible to manipulate and shape our environment rather than simply become the victim of forces beyond one's control. Time and again, Freedman demonstrates that the inherent unpredictability of this environment-subject to chance events, the efforts of opponents, the missteps of friends-provides strategy with its challenge and its drama. Armies or corporations or nations rarely move from one predictable state of affairs to another, but instead feel their way through a series of states, each one not quite what was anticipated, requiring a reappraisal of the original strategy, including its ultimate objective. Thus the picture of strategy that emerges in this book is one that is fluid and flexible, governed by the starting point, not the end point. A brilliant overview of the most prominent strategic theories in history, from David's use of deception against Goliath, to the modern use of game theory in economics, this masterful volume sums up a lifetime of reflection on strategy.

Author : Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107033641

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The International Distribution of News by Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb Pdf

This book traces the history of international news agencies and associations around the world from 1848 to 1947. Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb argues that newspaper publishers formed news associations and patronized news agencies to cut the costs of news collection and exclude competitors from gaining access to the news.

Author : Kenneth Pomeranz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351884501

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The Pacific in the Age of Early Industrialization by Kenneth Pomeranz Pdf

The essays selected for this volume show how the Pacific rapidly became part of an industrializing world. Its raw materials (notably rubber and copper) were critical, some of its handicraft industries were devastated by mechanized competition, others survived and adapted, contributing to distinctive patterns of industrialization that made Japan a new center of power, and also laid the groundwork for later growth in Taiwan, Korea, and coastal China. The Pacific coast of the Americas was also first drawn into an industrial world largely as an exporter of raw materials, but North and South diverged rapidly, portending futures even more different than those of Northeast and Southeast Asia. By the 1930s - when the uneven effects of industrialization would have much to do with plunging the Pacific into war - one can already glimpse in outline the structural bases for many of the region's contemporary characteristics. All this is set in context in the important introduction by Kenneth Pomeranz.

Author : New York (State)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:35112104871977

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The Revised Statutes of the State of New York by New York (State) Pdf

Author : William F. Buckley Jr.
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787200487

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Up From Liberalism by William F. Buckley Jr. Pdf

William Frank Buckley Jr.’s third book, originally published in 1959, is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the leading American liberals can be shown, in their speeches and statements, in the tacit premises that underlie their words and deeds, to be suffering from a long, but definable list of social and philosophical prejudices. “Up From Liberalism” examines the root assumptions of the Liberalism of his era and asks the startling question: do the actions of prominent liberalism derive from the attributes of Liberalism? “This book of mind and heart, wit and eloquence, by the chief spokesman for the young conservative revival in this country, must be read and understood, to understand what is going on in America.”—Senator Barry Goldwater “A guide for Americans who want to stay free in a country where pressures against individual freedom are coming from every direction.”—Charleston Nines & Courier “He is at top form...clear and penetrating...A slashing attack against the thinking of today’s pseudo-liberals.”—Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph “The most exciting book of the Fall.”—New York Mirror “Mr. Buckley is one of the most articulate of the critics of today’s liberalism and deserves to be heard.”—Washington Star “Buckley brilliantly excoriates a philosophy he calls liberalism.”—Newsweek “A skilled debater, a trenchant stylist...a man of agile and independent mind...He belongs in the great American tradition of protest and he deserve his audience.”—New York Herald Tribune

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466808119

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Berryman's Shakespeare by John Berryman Pdf

Edited by John Haffenden With a Preface by Robert Giroux John Berryman, one of America's most talented modern poets, was winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs and the National Book Award for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. He gained a reputation as an innovator whose bold literary adventures were tempered by exacting discipline. Berryman was also an active, prolific, and perceptive critic whose own experience as a major poet served to his advantage. Berryman was a protégé of Mark Van Doren, the great Shakespearean scholar, and the Bard's work remained one of his most abiding passions--he would devote a lifetime to writing about it. His voluminous writings on the subject have now been collected and edited by John Haffenden.

Author : Sean Patrick Adams
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421413587

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Home Fires by Sean Patrick Adams Pdf

“Easily the most thorough and best-grounded account of the coal-based system of heating in the nineteenth-century United States . . . authoritative.” —The New England Quarterly Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the “industrial hearth” appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs in home heating markets used to convince consumers that their product designs and fuel choices were superior, and how elite, middle-class, and poor Americans responded to these overtures. Adams depicts the problem of dwindling supplies of firewood and the search for alternatives; the hazards of cutting, digging, and drilling in the name of home heating; the trouble and expense of moving materials from place to place; the rise of steam power; the growth of an industrial economy; and questions of economic efficiency, at both the individual household and the regional level. Home Fires makes it clear that debates over energy sources, energy policy, and company profit margins have been around a long time. The challenge of staying warm in the industrializing North becomes a window into the complex world of energy transitions, economic change, and emerging consumerism. Readers will understand the struggles of urban families as they sought to adapt to the ever-changing nineteenth-century industrial landscape. This perspective allows a unique view of the development of an industrial society not just from the ground up but from the hearth up. “This smartly written and well-informed book focuses on a subject that very few people think about—the history of home heating in America.” —Choice