The Empire Of Habit

Author : Walter Nugent
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400078189

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Habits of Empire by Walter Nugent Pdf

Since its founding, the United States' declared principles of liberty and democracy have often clashed with aggressive policies of imperial expansion. In this sweeping narrative history, acclaimed scholar Walter Nugent explores this fundamental American contradiction by recounting the story of American land acquisition since 1782 and shows how this steady addition of territory instilled in the American people a habit of empire-building. From America's early expansions into Transappalachia and the Louisiana Purchase through later additions of Alaska and island protectorates in the Caribbean and Pacific, Nugent demonstrates that the history of American empire is a tale of shifting motives, as the early desire to annex land for a growing population gave way to securing strategic outposts for America's global economic and military interests. Thorough, enlightening, and well-sourced, this book explains the deep roots of American imperialism as no other has done.

Author : John Baltes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1782047042

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The Empire of Habit by John Baltes Pdf

Author : Paul Horgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1062004569

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The Habit of Empire by Paul Horgan Pdf

Author : John Baltes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580465618

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The Empire of Habit by John Baltes Pdf

The Plague State -- Conclusion: Locke's Labor -- 4 Locke the Landgrave: Inegalitarian Discipline -- Locke in Context: Shaftesbury's Pen or Ashcraft's Radical? -- Waldron's Locke -- The Democratic Intellect -- Teleology and Equality -- Conclusion: Locke's Inegalitarian Discipline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Goldwin Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108022972

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The Empire: A Series of Letters by Goldwin Smith Pdf

A collection of letters concerning British colonial interests written by a staunch anti-imperialist, first published in 1863.

Author : Greta LaFleur
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421438849

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The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America by Greta LaFleur Pdf

Ultimately, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America not only rewrites all dominant scholarly narratives of eighteenth-century sexual behavior but poses a major intervention into queer theoretical understandings of the relationship between sex and the subject.

Author : Charles Willsie,Gallus Thomann,George Jacobs Low,Henry Ingersoll Bowditch,Sir Isambard Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Alcohol
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU02612453

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The Connection of Disease with Habits of Intemperance by Charles Willsie,Gallus Thomann,George Jacobs Low,Henry Ingersoll Bowditch,Sir Isambard Owen Pdf

Author : Christopher Lynch,Jonathan Marks
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438461250

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Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought by Christopher Lynch,Jonathan Marks Pdf

Reflections on principle and prudence in the thoughts and actions of great thinkers and statesmen. Discussions of the place of moral principle in political practice are haunted by the abstract and misleading distinction between realism and its various principled or “idealist” alternatives. This volume argues that such discussions must be recast in terms of the relationship between principle and prudence: as Nathan Tarcov maintains, that relationship is “not dichotomous but complementary.” In a substantive introduction, the editors investigate Leo Strauss’s attack on contemporary political thought for its failure to account for both principle and prudence in politics. Leading commentators then reflect on principle and prudence in the writings of great thinkers such as Homer, Machiavelli, and Hegel, and in the thoughts and actions of great statesmen such as Pericles, Jefferson, and Lincoln. In a concluding section, contributors reassess Strauss’s own approach to principle and prudence in the history of political philosophy. “Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought contains a series of first-rate essays on a—if not the—central problem of political thought: how should and can abstract and general principles inform contingent, particularistic political life.” — Catherine H. Zuckert, coauthor of Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy

Author : Cherie Dimaline
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735277199

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Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline Pdf

INDIGO'S #1 BEST BOOK OF 2019 NATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MARROW THIEVES, THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER, MULTI-AWARD WINNER AND CANADA READS FINALIST "Wildly entertaining and profound and essential." --Tommy Orange, The New York Times Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year--ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher. By the time she staggers into the tent the service is over, but as she is about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice. She turns, and there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus. And he doesn't seem to be faking: there isn't even a flicker of recognition in his eyes. With only two allies--her odd, Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old ways--Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor, his life, and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon her success. Inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou--a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities--Cherie Dimaline has created a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel.

Author : Constantin-François Volney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UVA:X000372818

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Volney's Ruins, Or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires by Constantin-François Volney Pdf

Author : George Boyce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349277551

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Decolonisation and the British Empire, 1775–1997 by George Boyce Pdf

This book combines an analysis of the ideas and policies that governed the British experience of decolonization. It shows how the British, perhaps more correctly the English, political tradition, with its emphasis on experience over abstract theory, was integral to the way in which the empire was regarded as being transformed rather than lost. This was a significant aspect of the relatively painless British loss of empire. It places the process of decolonization in its wider context, tracing the twentieth-century domestic and international conditions that hastened decolonization, and, through a close analysis of not only the policy choices but also the language of British imperialism, it throws new light on the British way of managing both the expansion and contraction of empire.

Author : Manuel Perez-Garcia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811578656

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Global History with Chinese Characteristics by Manuel Perez-Garcia Pdf

This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of Qing China questioning the so-called “High Qing” (shèng qīng 盛清) era’s economic prosperity as the political system was set into a “power paradox” or “supremacy dilemma”. This is a new thesis introduced by the author demonstrating that interventionist states entail weak governance. Macao and Marseille as a new case study aims to compare Mediterranean and South China markets to provide new insights into both modern eras’ rising trade networks, non-official institutions and interventionist impulses of autocratic states such as China’s Qing and Spain’s Bourbon empires.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : IND:30000093229833

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The Nineteenth Century and After by Anonim Pdf

Author : Woodrow Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Political science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047506329

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The State by Woodrow Wilson Pdf

Author : John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Apocalyptic literature
ISBN : UOM:39015069249509

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Books which Influenced Our Lord and His Apostles by John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson Pdf