The Fruit Of Liberty

Author : Nicholas Scott Baker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674726390

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In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject. More than a chronological narrative, this analysis covers a wide range of contributing factors to this transition, from attitudes toward officeholding, clothing, the patronage of artists and architects to notions of self, family, and gender. Using a wide variety of sources including private letters, diaries, and art works, Nicholas Baker explores how the language, images, and values of the republic were reconceptualized to aid the shift from citizen to subject. He argues that the creation of Medici principality did not occur by a radical break with the past but with the adoption and adaptation of the political culture of Renaissance republicanism.

Author : Nicholas Scott Baker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674727625

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The Fruit of Liberty by Nicholas Scott Baker Pdf

In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject. More than a chronological narrative, this analysis covers a wide range of contributing factors to this transition, from attitudes toward office holding, clothing, and the patronage of artists and architects to notions of self, family, and gender. Using a wide variety of sources including private letters, diaries, and art works, Nicholas Baker explores how the language, images, and values of the republic were reconceptualized to aid the shift from citizen to subject. He argues that the creation of Medici principality did not occur by a radical break with the past but with the adoption and adaptation of the political culture of Renaissance republicanism.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Alford Brown Penniman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Sermons, American
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4UT8

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The Fruit of the Spirit and Other Sermons from a Greylock Pulpit by Alford Brown Penniman Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:HXMUP6

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The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547349143

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Catherine De Medici by Honoré de Balzac Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Catherine De Medici" by Honoré de Balzac. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755640126

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A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic by Brian Jeffrey Maxson Pdf

The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art – that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJRLC

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Catherine de ́Medici by Honoré de Balzac Pdf

Author : Amir Alexander
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226820729

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Liberty's Grid by Amir Alexander Pdf

The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape. Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, all precisely measured and perfectly aligned, turn both urban and rural America into a checkerboard landscape that stretches from horizon to horizon. In evidence throughout the country, but especially the West, the pattern is a hallmark of American life. One might consider it an administrative convenience--an easy way to divide land and lay down streets--but it is not. The colossal grid carved into the North American continent, argues historian and writer Amir Alexander, is a plan redolent with philosophical and political meaning. In 1784 Thomas Jefferson presented Congress with an audacious scheme to reshape the territory of the young United States. All western lands, he proposed, would be inscribed with a single rectilinear grid, transforming the natural landscape into a mathematical one. Following Isaac Newton and John Locke, he viewed mathematical space as a blank slate on which anything is possible and where new Americans, acting freely, could find liberty. And if the real America, with its diverse landscapes and rich human history, did not match his vision, then it must be made to match it. From the halls of Congress to the open prairies, and from the fight against George III to the Trail of Tears, Liberty's Grid tells the story of the battle between grid makers and their opponents. When Congress endorsed Jefferson's plan, it set off a struggle over American space that has not subsided. Transcendentalists, urban reformers, and conservationists saw the grid not as a place of possibility but as an artificial imposition that crushed the human spirit. Today, the ideas Jefferson associated with the grid still echo through political rhetoric about the country's founding, and competing visions for the nation are visible from Manhattan avenues and Kansan pastures to Yosemite's cliffs and suburbia's cul-de-sacs. An engrossing read, Liberty's Grid offers a powerful look at the ideological conflict written on the landscape.

Author : Daniel E. Williams,Christina Riley Brown
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820328003

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Liberty's Captives by Daniel E. Williams,Christina Riley Brown Pdf

An astonishing variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty years following the American Revolution; however, discussions about them have usually focused on accounts of Native American captivities. To most readers, then, captivity narratives are synonymous with "godless savages," the vast frontier, and the trials of kidnapped settlers. This anthology, the first to bring together various types of captivity narratives in a comparative way, broadens our view of the form as it shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination. Included here are accounts by Indian captives, but also prisoners of war, slaves, victims of pirates and Barbary corsairs, impressed sailors, and shipwreck survivors. The volume's seventeen selections have been culled from hundreds of such texts, edited according to scholarly standards, and reproduced with the highest possible degree of fidelity to the originals. Some selections are fictional or borrow heavily from other, true narratives; all are sensational. Immensely popular with American readers, they were also a lucrative commodity that helped to catalyze the explosion of print culture in the early Republic. As Americans began to personalize the rhetoric of their recent revolution, captivity narratives textually enacted graphic scenes of defiance toward deprivation, confinement, and coercion. At a critical point in American history they helped make the ideals of nationhood real to common citizens.

Author : Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813570105

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In Lady Liberty's Shadow by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez Pdf

Home to Ellis Island, New Jersey has been the first stop for many immigrant groups for well over a century. Yet in this highly diverse state, some of the most anti-immigrant policies in the nation are being tested. American suburbs are home to increasing numbers of first and second-generation immigrants who may actually be bypassing the city to settle directly into the neighborhoods that their predecessors have already begun to plant roots in—a trajectory that leads to nativist ordinances and other forms of xenophobia. In Lady Liberty’s Shadow examines popular white perceptions of danger represented by immigrants and their children, as well the specter that lurks at the edges of suburbs in the shape of black and Latino urban underclasses and the ever more nebulous hazard of (presumed-Islamic) terrorism that threatening to undermine “life as we know it.” Robyn Magalit Rodriguez explores the impact of anti-immigrant municipal ordinances on a range of immigrant groups living in varied suburban communities, from undocumented Latinos in predominantly white suburbs to long-established Asian immigrants in “majority-minority” suburbs. The “American Dream” that suburban life is supposed to represent is shown to rest on a racialized, segregated social order meant to be enjoyed only by whites. Although it is a case study of New Jersey, In Lady Liberty’s Shadow offers crucial insights that can shed fresh light on the national immigration debate. For more information, go to: https://www.facebook.com/inlibertysshadow

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027125525

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The Works of President Edwards. Edited by E. Williams and E. Parsons. With Memoirs of His Life by S. Hopkins by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : UCAL:B4981487

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The Works of President Edwards: Practical sermons by Jonathan Edwards Pdf

Author : Putnam P. Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112032747401

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Liberty's Ordeal by Putnam P. Bishop Pdf

Author : Ann E. Moyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108495479

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The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence by Ann E. Moyer Pdf

This study provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late Renaissance. It shows how studies of language helped Florentines to develop their own story as a people distinct from ancient Greece or Rome.