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Revolutionary Conceptions

Author : Susan E. Klepp
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807838716

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In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, Susan E. Klepp demonstrates that many women--rural and urban, free and enslaved--began to radically redefine motherhood. They asserted, or attempted to assert, control over their bodies, their marriages, and their daughters' opportunities. Late-eighteenth-century American women were among the first in the world to disavow the continual childbearing and large families that had long been considered ideal. Liberty, equality, and heartfelt religion led to new conceptions of virtuous, rational womanhood and responsible parenthood. These changes can be seen in falling birthrates, in advice to friends and kin, in portraits, and in a gradual, even reluctant, shift in men's opinions. Revolutionary-era women redefined femininity, fertility, family, and their futures by limiting births. Women might not have won the vote in the new Republic, they might not have gained formal rights in other spheres, but, Klepp argues, there was a women's revolution nonetheless.

Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights

Author : Reidar Maliks,Johan Karlsson Schaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107153974

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Human rights can be understood as moral or political. This volume shows how this distinction matters for theory and practice.

Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1805

Author : Miriam L. Wallace
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838757055

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Revolutionary Subjects in the English "Jacobin" Novel, 1790-1805 by Miriam L. Wallace Pdf

The "Jacobin" novel was labeled as such in Britain because of its supposed connections to the French Revolution. This book takes an in-depth look at these novels, written between 1790 and 1805. She centers on the group surrounding Wollstonecraft and Godwin, although not exclusively, exploring the limits of their philosophy of human rights and personal subjectivity. Unlike other recent scholars, the author treats both male and female writers, making feminism an aspect of the work but not the overriding one. While the novels are the main focus, other work by the writers is considered as it pertains to their beliefs. She also discusses the reaction from those who defined the "Jacobins" by opposing them.

Race, Class, and Power

Author : Leo Kuper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351495035

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Examining in detail the apparently inexorable polarization of society in such countries as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the author questions whether current theories correctly explain the past or offer adequate guides for the future. In their place he puts forward an alternative neo-Durkheimian view of the possibility of non-violent revolutionary change, based on the development of such social and cultural continuities as already exist within each plural society. But he warns that -this is an age of passionate commitment to violence in which vicarious killers abound in search of a Vietnam of their own.- The aim of this groundbreaking and challenging book is to create theoretical perspectives in which to view the racial conflict of plural societies. Written in the turbulent early 1970s, the book demonstrates the inadequacy of then prevailing views such as Marxist interpretations of racial conflict as class struggle, and the Fanon a priori rejection of non-violent techniques of change, which Kuper holds responsible for the acceptance of what he calls -the platitudes of violence.- The book concludes with more personal sections focusing on the author's struggles with the then prevailing South African society, critiques of that, and censorship of his attempts to make these public. In the light of subsequent changes in South Africa many decades later, this book serves not only as an important work of political sociology but as a personal testament to the fight against racism in South Africa. Leo Kuper was professor of sociology and director of the African Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. A South African by birth, he was one of the first writers on genocide as well as other aspects of African studies and urban sociology. His major book, Genocide (Penguin, 1981), remains in print. The Leo Kuper Foundation is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the eradication of genocide through research, advice, and education. It was created in Washington, DC in 1994 following the death of Leo Kuper, with the aim of improving measures to prevent genocide. The main area of work for the past five years has been in support of the creation of an International Criminal Court. Troy Duster is director at the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University.

The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution

Author : Ziva Galili y Garcia,Ziva Galili
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691657110

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The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution by Ziva Galili y Garcia,Ziva Galili Pdf

At the end of Febraury 1917 the tsarist government of Russia collapsed in a whirlwind of demonstrations by the workers and soldier of Petrograd. Ziva Galili tells how the moderate socialists, or Mensheviks, then attempted to prevent the conflicts between the newly formed liberal Provisional Government (the "bourgeois" camp) and the Petrograd Soviet (the "democractic" camp) from escalating into civil war--and how, in October of that same year, they finally failed. Placing narrative history in a broad social and political context, she creates an absorbing study of idealists who tried in vain to reflect as well as to contain the unfolding revolutionary process. Galili focuses on the Menshevik Revolutionary Defensists who became the leaders of the Petrograd Soviet and of the all-Russian network of soviets. She examines Menshevik political strategy as well as the three-way interaction between Mnesheviks (both in the Soviet and the Provisional Government), workers, and indsutrialists. She emphasizes the perpceptual and interactive aspects of the analysis of revolutions: the relations between social realities, perceptions of realities, and the formulation of political strategies; the roles of rhetorics and societal conflict in shaping social identities; and the impact of political authority and state institutions on the terms of social interaction. Ziva Galili is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is coeditor and annotator of The Making of Three Russian Revolutionsaries: Voice from the Menshevik Past (Cambridge). Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Conceptions of Childhood and Moral Education in Philosophy for Children

Author : Dina Mendonça,Florian Franken Figueiredo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783662641804

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Conceptions of Childhood and Moral Education in Philosophy for Children by Dina Mendonça,Florian Franken Figueiredo Pdf

Philosophy for Children (P4C) has long been considered as crucial for children’s ethical and moral education and a decisive contribution for education for the democratic life. The book gathers contributions from experts in the field who reflect on fundamental issues on how childhood and ethics are interrelated within the P4C movement. The main interest of this volume is to offer an understanding of how different philosophical conceptions of childhood can be coordinated with different ethical and meta-ethical philosophical considerations in P4C addressing topics such as P4C and relativism, P4C and Virtue ethics, ethics and emotions in P4C, philosophical commitments and P4C application, and Socratic practice within a pragmatist framework. A thought-provoking collection about how assumptions of particular philosophical conceptions of childhood modify moral and ethical education and a testimony of the undeniable contribution of P4C for moral education and reconceptualization of childhood.

Class and Social Stratification in Post-Revolution China

Author : University of London. Contemporary China Institute,Joint Committee on Contemporary China
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521260620

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Class and Social Stratification in Post-Revolution China by University of London. Contemporary China Institute,Joint Committee on Contemporary China Pdf

This 1984 book deals with those social transformations which occurred in Chinese society since the revolution in 1949. During the 1950s the Chinese Communist Party introduced a rigid system of class labels (e.g. landlord, rich peasant, middle peasant, landless labourer) based on pre-revolutionary notions of exploitation and property ownership. The class label system was a source of much social discontent during the 1960s and mid-1970s; the official use of labels ceased by the time of this book's publication, but the effects of the system are still felt by millions of Chinese. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers, not just those who specialise in Chinese social history. Contributors include two anthropologists, one historian, three political scientists, and three sociologists.

Patrolling the Revolution

Author : Elizabeth J. Perry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461739548

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Patrolling the Revolution by Elizabeth J. Perry Pdf

This pioneering study explores the role of working-class militias as vanguard and guardian of the Chinese Revolution. The book begins with the origins of urban militias in the late nineteenth century and follows their development to the present day. Elizabeth J. Perry focuses on the institution of worker militias as a vehicle for analyzing the changing (yet enduring) impact of China's revolutionary heritage on subsequent state-society relations. She also incorporates a strong comparative perspective, examining the influence of revolutionary militias on the political trajectories of the United States, France, the Soviet Union, and Iran. Based on exhaustive archival research, the work raises fascinating questions about the construction of revolutionary citizenship; the distinctions among class, community, and creed; the open-ended character of revolutionary movements; and the path dependency of institutional change. All readers interested in deepening their understanding of the Chinese Revolution and in the nature of revolutionary change more generally will find this an invaluable contribution.

Revolutionary Republicanism

Author : Samuel Hayat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003824145

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Revolutionary Republicanism provides a history of French republicanism seen through a seminal episode of its creation – the 1848 revolution. The process of reinventing republicanism in 1848 gave rise to two opposite understandings of republicanism: a moderate one that merely adapted the institutions of representative government to popular sovereignty, and a more radical, ‘social- democratic’ notion of republicanism, based on inclusive forms of representation and aiming at the emancipation of the proletariat. These two notions of republicanism unfolded over the course of the few critical months between the revolution of February 1848 and the uprising of June 1848, which saw the victory of the moderate one. Playing devil’s advocate to the traditional republican history that casts 1848 as a mere step in the continuous history of French republicanism, the book demonstrates that the events of the revolution amounted to a repression of all that the ‘Republic’ had meant up until that point, particularly the forms of participation and popular representation hitherto seen as constituting a republican regime. The text also sets out to chart the history of the ‘democratic and social Republic’, as the socialist and worker revolutionaries of 1848 called the radical republicanism they dreamed of founding and believed would fulfil the republican promise of emancipation. This book will appeal to all those with an interest in the French revolutions, and the history of radical ideas.

Reconstructing Citizenship

Author : Miriam Feldblum
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791442705

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Provides the most comprehensive analysis of the rise of citizenship conflict in contemporary France.

Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities. 1(2003)

Author : Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004125345

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Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities. 1(2003) by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Pdf

Annotation. This collection of essays provides an analysis of the dynamics of Civilizations. The processes of globalization and of world history are described from a comparative sociological point of view in a Weberian tradition. These essays were written between 1974 and 2002 by one of the most eminent sociologists of today.

Conceptions of Cosmos

Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199209163

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Conceptions of Cosmos by Helge Kragh Pdf

This book is a historical account of how natural philosophers and scientists have endeavoured to understand the universe at large, first in a mythical and later in a scientific context. Starting with the creation stories of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, the book covers all the major events in theoretical and observational cosmology, from Aristotle's cosmos over the Copernican revolution to the discovery of the accelerating universe in the late 1990s. It presents cosmology as asubject including scientific as well as non-scientific dimensions, and tells the story of how it developed into a true science of the heavens. Contrary to most other books in the history of cosmology, it offers an integrated account of the development with emphasis on the modern Einsteinian andpost-Einsteinian period. Starting in the pre-literary era, it carries the story onwards to the early years of the 21st century.

Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Author : Jennifer Evans,Ciara Meehan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319441689

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Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century by Jennifer Evans,Ciara Meehan Pdf

This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the process of reproduction from conception and contraception, to birth and parenthood. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This book explores how these issues have been constructed, represented and experienced in a range of geographical locations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Crossing the boundary between the pre-modern and modern worlds, the chapters reveal the continuities, similarities and differences in understanding a process that is often, in the popular mind-set, considered to be fundamental and unchanging.

Generative Linguistics

Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134820511

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Generative Linguistics by Frederick J. Newmeyer Pdf

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science

Author : John L. Heilbron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0195112296

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Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries. Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early twenty-first century, the articles cover all disciplines (Biology, Alchemy, Behaviorism), historical periods (the Scientific Revolution, World War II, the Cold War), concepts (Hypothesis, Space and Time, Ether), and methodologies and philosophies (Observation and Experiment, Darwinism). Coverage is international, tracing the spread of science from its traditional centers and explaining how the prevailing knowledge of non-Western societies has modified or contributed to the dominant global science as it is currently understood. Revealing the interplay between science and the wider culture, the Companion includes entries on topics such as minority groups, art, religion, and science's practical applications. One hundred biographies of the most iconic historic figures, chosen for their contributions to science and the interest of their lives, are also included. Above all The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science is a companion to world history: modern in coverage, generous in breadth, and cosmopolitan in scope. The volume's utility is enhanced by a thematic outline of the entire contents, a thorough system of cross-referencing, and a detailed index that enables the reader to follow a specific line of inquiry along various threads from multiple starting points. Each essay has numerous suggestions for further reading, all of which favor literature that is accessible to the general reader, and a bibliographical essay provides a general overview of the scholarship in the field. Lastly, as a contribution to the visual appeal of the Companion, over 100 black-and-white illustrations and an eight-page color section capture the eye and spark the imagination.