The Peculiar State

Author : Patricio Pron
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101970430

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The Peculiar State by Patricio Pron Pdf

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Original Selection Hamburg: home of a lapsed writer and his statistician girlfriend. He is part of the 41 percent of the German population that hasn’t read a single book in the last three months; she decides to make up a game. The rules of the game are these: the two of them travel to a European city, separately, and try to find each other. They make no calls, leave no messages. They wander through Madrid, Munich, Coimbra. When they meet, they return home. But what happens if they don’t? “The Peculiar State” is a haunting, mischievous new story from Patricio Pron, one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists and the author of My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain. A thought-provoking, city-hopping story from one of South America’s most important new writers. An eBook short.

Author : Wallace Hettle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0820322822

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The Peculiar Democracy by Wallace Hettle Pdf

Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics in the nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the eve of Fort Sumter--a deceptively high point of white racial solidarity. Avoiding such a "Civil War synthesis," The Peculiar Democracy illuminates the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. Hettle shows that war was the greatest test of populist Democratic Party rhetoric that emphasized the shared interests of white men, slaveholder and nonslaveholder alike. The Peculiar Democracy analyzes antebellum politics in terms of the connections between slavery, manhood, and the legacies of Jefferson and Jackson. It then looks at the secession crisis through the anxieties felt by Democratic politicians who claimed concern for the interests of both slaveholders and nonslaveholders. At the heart of the book is a collective biography of five individuals whose stories highlight the limitations of democratic political culture in a society dominated by the "peculiar institution." Through narratives informed by recent scholarship on gender, honor, class, and the law, Hettle profiles South Carolina's Francis W. Pickens, Georgia's Joseph Brown, Alabama's Jeremiah Clemens, Virginia's John Rutherfoord, and Mississippi's Jefferson Davis. The Civil War stories presented in The Peculiar Democracy illuminate the political and sometimes personal tragedy of men torn between a political culture based on egalitarian rhetoric and the wartime imperatives to defend slavery.

Author : Wendy Gonaver
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469648453

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The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880 by Wendy Gonaver Pdf

Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold. In this book, Wendy Gonaver examines the relationship between these two historical developments, showing how slavery and ideas about race shaped early mental health treatment in the United States, especially in the South. She reveals these connections through the histories of two asylums in Virginia: the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg, the first in the nation; and the Central Lunatic Asylum in Petersburg, the first created specifically for African Americans. Eastern Lunatic Asylum was the only institution to accept both slaves and free blacks as patients and to employ slaves as attendants. Drawing from these institutions' untapped archives, Gonaver reveals how slavery influenced ideas about patient liberty, about the proper relationship between caregiver and patient, about what constituted healthy religious belief and unhealthy fanaticism, and about gender. This early form of psychiatric care acted as a precursor to public health policy for generations, and Gonaver's book fills an important gap in the historiography of mental health and race in the nineteenth century.

Author : Walter Brueggemann
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666715170

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The Peculiar Dialect of Faith by Walter Brueggemann Pdf

Biblical utterance, in contrast to the sounds of power and certitude, offers imaginative probes into the mystery of God’s creation and into the hidden complexities of human hurt and human hope. Thus the dialect of the Bible is offered in relational terms, so that the key ingredients to lived reality characteristically concern justice and righteousness, steadfast love, faithfulness, and compassion. Insofar as the church relies upon and attests to this dialect, we may expect that in church we will speak in a different rhetoric, and consequently we will speak about different subject matter. To be sure, the church is sometimes seduced away from this relational dialect to speak in cadences that are elementally alien to the Bible and to the claims of the gospel. Such seduction of the church takes place, for example, when our nation is at war and the church is tempted to reflect and reiterate the force of that social reality. Or such seduction occurs when the church is captured by any ism, notably in our time, racism or nationalism. Or alternatively, ideological conservatism that craves the language of certitude or ideological liberalism that is easily bewitched by the rhetoric of psychology or the market. When the church is domesticated to such alien claims, it loses its distinctiveness, and consequently loses its nerve and its courage for serious mission. Thus attentiveness to our peculiar dialect is an important investment. —from the Preface

Author : Jonathan Elliot
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783849653491

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The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Elliot Pdf

The five volumes furnish a collection of the Debates and Proceedings which took place in the different states, on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as submitted by the General Convention, on the 17th of September, 1787. In the compilation, care has been taken to search into contemporary publications, in order to make the work as perfect as possible. Still, however, the sentiments they contain may, in some instances, have been inaccurately taken down, and, in others, probably, too faintly sketched, fully to gratify the inquisitive politician; but they nevertheless disclose the opinions of many of the most distinguished revolutionary patriots and statesmen, in relation to the powers intended to be granted to the Congress of the United States under the Constitution, and certainly may form an excellent guide in expounding many doubtful points in that instrument. In forming a History of the Constitution, the materials they furnish must be also considered of the greatest importance. The lights, too, which they throw on the character and the men of those extraordinary times, will always give them a sufficient interest, in the eyes of an intelligent community, to confer a peculiar value on their publication, rescued from the ephemeral prints of that day.

Author : London. St. George's hospital,St. George's Hospital (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Clinical medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015074155592

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St. Georges Hospital Reports by London. St. George's hospital,St. George's Hospital (London, England) Pdf

Author : Jonathan Elliot
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385526167

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The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Jonathan Elliot Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author : Jan Stievermann,Oliver Scheiding
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271063003

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A Peculiar Mixture by Jan Stievermann,Oliver Scheiding Pdf

Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics,Edward Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Tariff
ISBN : PSU:000018423297

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Special Report on the Customs-tariff Legislation of the United States by United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics,Edward Young Pdf

Author : Elmer Schwieder,Dorothy Schwieder
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587298486

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A Peculiar People by Elmer Schwieder,Dorothy Schwieder Pdf

Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish Mennonites, the state’s most distinctive religious minority. Sociologist Elmer Schwieder and historian Dorothy Schwieder began their research with the largest group of Old Order Amish in the state, the community near Kalona in Johnson and Washington counties, in April 1970; they extended their studies and friendships in later years to other Old Order settlements as well as the slightly less conservative Beachy Amish. A Peculiar People explores the origin and growth of the Old Order Amish in Iowa, their religious practices, economic organization, family life, the formation of new communities, and the vital issue of education. Included also are appendixes giving the 1967 “Act Relating to Compulsory School Attendance and Educational Standards”; a sample “Church Organization Financial Agreement,” demonstrating the group’s unusual but advantageous mutual financial system; and the 1632 Dortrecht Confession of Faith, whose eighteen articles cover all the basic religious tenets of the Old Order Amish. Thomas Morain’s new essay describes external and internal issues for the Iowa Amish from the 1970s to today. The growth of utopian Amish communities across the nation, changes in occupation (although The Amish Directory still lists buggy shop operators, wheelwrights, and one lone horse dentist), the current state of education and health care, and the conscious balance between modern and traditional ways are reflected in an essay that describes how the Old Order dedication to Gelassenheit—the yielding of self to the interests of the larger community—has served its members well into the twenty-first century.

Author : Wisconsin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:78131541

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Public Documents of the State of Wisconsin by Wisconsin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Courts
ISBN : UCAL:B3000002

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American Criminal Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11043600

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Boston Medical and Surgical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : MINN:31951P01139827L

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Nature by Sir Norman Lockyer Pdf

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Bible
ISBN : MSU:31293104900497

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Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible by William Smith Pdf