The King S Three Faces

Author : Brendan McConville
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838860

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The King's Three Faces by Brendan McConville Pdf

Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break with the king. By reading American history forward from the seventeenth century rather than backward from the Revolution, McConville shows that political conflicts long assumed to foreshadow the events of 1776 were in fact fought out by factions who invoked competing visions of the king and appropriated royal rites rather than used abstract republican rights or pro-democratic proclamations. The American Revolution, McConville contends, emerged out of the fissure caused by the unstable mix of affective attachments to the king and a weak imperial government. Sure to provoke debate, The King's Three Faces offers a powerful counterthesis to dominant American historiography.

Author : Brendan McConville
Publisher : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0807830658

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The King's Three Faces by Brendan McConville Pdf

King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : HARVARD:HNFZ9B

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The Sacristy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674986480

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The Cabinet by Lindsay M. Chervinsky Pdf

The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet—the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government? On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries—Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph—for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet? Because the US Constitution did not create or provide for such a body. Washington was on his own. Faced with diplomatic crises, domestic insurrections, and constitutional challenges—and finding congressional help lacking—Washington decided he needed a group of advisors he could turn to. He modeled his new cabinet on the councils of war he had led as commander of the Continental Army. In the early days, the cabinet served at the president’s pleasure. Washington tinkered with its structure throughout his administration, at times calling regular meetings, at other times preferring written advice and individual discussions. Lindsay M. Chervinsky reveals the far-reaching consequences of Washington’s choice. The tensions in the cabinet between Hamilton and Jefferson heightened partisanship and contributed to the development of the first party system. And as Washington faced an increasingly recalcitrant Congress, he came to treat the cabinet as a private advisory body to summon as needed, greatly expanding the role of the president and the executive branch.

Author : Mark G. Schmeller
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421418711

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Invisible Sovereign by Mark G. Schmeller Pdf

This history of early American political thought examines the emergence, evolution, and manipulation of public opinion. In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style of democratic politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices, stall deliberation, and marginalize dissent. As Americans contested the meaning of this essentially contestable idea, they expanded and contracted the horizons of political possibility and renegotiated the terms of political legitimacy. Tracing the concept from its late eighteenth-century origins to the Gilded Age, Mark G. Schmeller’s Invisible Sovereign argues that public opinion is a central catalyst in the history of American political thought. Schmeller treats it as a contagious idea that infected a broad range of discourses and practices in powerful, occasionally ironic, and increasingly contentious ways. Ranging across a wide variety of historical fields, Invisible Sovereign traces a shift over time from early “political-constitutional” concepts, which wrapped pubic opinion in the language of constitutionalism, to more modern, “social-psychological” concepts, which defined public opinion as a product of social action and mass communication.

Author : C. Dallett Hemphill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780190215897

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Siblings by C. Dallett Hemphill Pdf

Brothers and sisters are so much a part of our lives that we can overlook their importance. Even scholars of the family tend to forget siblings, focusing instead on marriage and parent-child relations. Based on a wealth of family papers, period images, and popular literature, this is the first book devoted to the broad history of sibling relations, spanning the long period of transition from early to modern America. Illuminating the evolution of the modern family system, Siblings shows how brothers and sisters have helped each other in the face of the dramatic political, economic, and cultural changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book reveals that, in colonial America, sibling relations offered an egalitarian space to soften the challenges of the larger patriarchal family and society, while after the Revolution, in antebellum America, sibling relations provided order and authority in a more democratic nation. Moreover, Hemphill explains that siblings serve as the bridge between generations. Brothers and sisters grow up in a shared family culture influenced by their parents, but they are different from their parents in being part of the next generation. Responding to new economic and political conditions, they form and influence their own families, but their continuing relationships with brothers and sisters serve as a link to the past. Siblings thus experience and promote the new, but share the comforting context of the old. Indeed, in all races, siblings function as humanity's shock-absorbers, as well as valued kin and keepers of memory. This wide-ranging book offers a new understanding of the relationship between families and history in an evolving world. It is also a timely reminder of the role our siblings play in our own lives.

Author : Taylor Caldwell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504039017

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Captains and the Kings by Taylor Caldwell Pdf

New York Times Bestseller: Sweeping from the 1850s through the early 1920s, this towering family saga examines the price of ambition and power. Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh is twelve years old when he gets his first glimpse of the promised land of America through a dirty porthole in steerage on an Irish immigrant ship. His long voyage, dogged by tragedy, ends not in the great city of New York but in the bigoted, small town of Winfield, Pennsylvania, where his younger brother, Sean, and his infant sister, Regina, are sent to an orphanage. Joseph toils at whatever work will pay a living wage and plans for the day he can take his siblings away from St. Agnes’s Orphanage and make a home for them all. Joseph’s journey will catapult him to the highest echelons of power and grant him entry into the most elite political circles. Even as misfortune continues to follow the Armagh family like an ancient curse, Joseph takes his revenge against the uncaring world that once took everything from him. He orchestrates his eldest son Rory’s political ascent from the offspring of an Irish immigrant to US senator. And Joseph will settle for nothing less than the pinnacle of glory: seeing his boy crowned the first Catholic president of the United States. Spanning seventy years, Captains and the Kings, which was adapted into an eight-part television miniseries, is Taylor Caldwell’s masterpiece about nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, and the grit, ambition, fortitude, and sheer hubris it takes for an immigrant to survive and thrive in a dynamic new land.

Author : Willem S. Prinslo
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1672 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467453691

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Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Psalms by Willem S. Prinslo Pdf

This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Prinslo’s introduction to and concise commentary on Psalms. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers. Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.

Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1923 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504054928

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The Cluster Series by Piers Anthony Pdf

“Original and fascinating . . . entertaining and beautifully written,” the complete series from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Xanth Novels (Science Fiction Review). Seamlessly blending science fiction and fantasy, New York Times–bestselling author Piers Anthony presents an epic adventure series in a completely original universe. Cluster: In a battle to control the energy of the Milky Way galaxy, two adversaries of superior Kirlian auras—green-skinned Flint of Outworld and a female Andromedan agent—are irresistibly drawn to each other. Chaining the Lady: Melody of Mintaka, a direct descendant of Flint and his Andromedan mate, must save the Milky Way from the enemy Andromedans, who have discovered the secret of involuntary hosting—possessing another individual via a stronger aura. Kirlian Quest: With his hyper-intense Kirlian aura, Herald the Healer, an aural descendant of Flint and Melody, must unravel the secrets of the Ancients to defend against the Space Amoeba, a fleet of alien ships a million strong. Thousandstar: A new Ancient Site has been discovered, and in the competition to explore it, both host Heem of Highfalls and his transferee, Jessica of Capella, harbor secrets that may cost them their lives. Viscous Circle: The bloodthirsty Solarians, desperate to possess the secrets of the Ancient Site, target the Bands, strange and beautiful pacifist beings, and only Rondl has the knowledge to save his race from extinction.

Author : Aidan Dodson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136158148

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The Canopic Equipment Of The Kings of Egypt by Aidan Dodson Pdf

First published in 1994. The term 'Canopic', as applied to the containers employed by the Egyptians to contain the embalmed internal organs of the deceased, derives from a case of mistaken identity. The aims of this monograph are primarily archaeological and historical, to document all canopic equipment attributable to the kings of Egypt, and to discuss each element in its spatial and temporal context. Translations of all available texts are provided, but no attempt is made to discuss them from a detailed religious or philological standpoint.

Author : Stephen Prickett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781441154026

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European Romanticism by Stephen Prickett Pdf

Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tended to see Romanticism as predominantly British, the term itself actually originated in Germany, where it became the banner of a Europe-wide movement involving the profound intellectual and aesthetic changes which we now associate with modernity. This anthology is the first to place British Romanticism within a comprehensive and multi-lingual European context, showing how ideas and writers interconnected across national and linguistic boundaries. By reprinting everything in the original languages, together with an English translation of all non-English material in parallel on the opposite page, it offers a new intellectual map of Romanticism. Material is thematically arranged as follows: - Art & Aesthetics - The Self - History - Language - Hermeneutics & Theology - Nature - The Exotic - Science While focusing on European texts, the inclusion of essays on their North American and Japanese reception means that Romanticism can be seen as a global phenomenon, influencing a surprising number of the ways in which the modern world sees itself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11337177

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The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tyndale
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 2409 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781496445445

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NLT Study Bible Large Print by Tyndale Pdf

Make Your Study Personal and Your Devotions Serious. You study the Bible to connect with God's heart. The NLT Study Bible gives you the tools you need to enter the world of the Bible so you can do just that. Including over 25,000 study notes plus profiles, charts, maps, timelines, book and section introductions, and approximately 300 theme notes, the NLT Study Bible will make your study personal and your devotions serious. This new large print edition features a generous 10-point font. The New Living Translation breathes life into even the most difficult-to-understand Bible passages, changing lives as the words speak directly to their hearts.

Author : Milton Spenser Terry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X030510082

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Kings to Esther by Milton Spenser Terry Pdf

Author : Charles John Ellicott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH54KP

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An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers: Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel by Charles John Ellicott Pdf