Tyranny And Usurpation

Author : Doyeeta Majumder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781786941688

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In the middle years of the 16th century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the 'tyrant by entrie' or the usurper, who supplanted earlier 'tyrant by the administration' as the main antihero of political drama. This usurper or, in Machiavellian terms principe nuove, was the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own 'virtue' and through an act of 'lawmaking' violence. Early Tudor morality plays were exclusively concerned with the legitimate monarch who becomes a tyrant; in the political drama of the first half of the 16th century, we do not encounter a single instance of usurpation among the texts that are still available to us. Devoted exclusively to the study of usurpation and tyranny in 16th-century drama and politics, this book will challenge existing disciplinary boundaries in order to engage with these critical questions.

Author : Doyeeta Majumder
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786949622

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Tyranny and Usurpation by Doyeeta Majumder Pdf

This book investigates the political, legal, historical circumstances under which the ‘tyrant’ of early Tudor drama becomes conflated with the ‘usurper-tyrant’ of the commercial theatres of London, and how the usurpation plot emerges as one of the central preoccupations of early modern drama.

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Ten Speed Graphic
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781984859167

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On Tyranny Graphic Edition by Timothy Snyder Pdf

Note: The ebook of this graphic edition combines a hand-lettered font with richly detailed images. Due to the nature of the design, readers will be required to zoom in on each page. For the best experience, please use a larger, full-color screen. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting America’s arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of renowned illustrator Nora Krug “Nora Krug has visualized and rendered some of the most valuable lessons of the twentieth century, which will serve all citizens as we shape the future.”—Shepard Fairey, artist and activist Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow (“4: Take responsibility for the face of the world”), an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent (“11: Investigate”), a point to use personalized and individualized speech rather than clichéd phrases for the sake of mass appeal (“9: Be kind to our language”), and more. In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style in Belonging—at once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of memories—to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder’s riveting historical references, turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination. In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of On Tyranny emphasizes the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance.

Author : William Leggett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Political science
ISBN : NYPL:33433081900916

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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett by William Leggett Pdf

This collection provides important example of populist laissez-faire opinion from the Jacksonian Era in the United States. In terms of economic policy, the Jacksonians favored low taxes, decentralization, and hard-money while opposing central banks and regulation of private business.

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Liberty
ISBN : OXFORD:590611329

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Two Treatises on Government by John Locke Pdf

Author : Ruth W. Grant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226306919

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John Locke's Liberalism by Ruth W. Grant Pdf

In this work, Ruth W. Grant presents a new approach to John Locke's familiar works. Taking the unusual step of relating Locke's Two Treatises to his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Grant establishes the unity and coherence of Locke's political arguments. She analyzes the Two Treatises as a systematic demonstration of liberal principles of right and power and grounds it in the epistemology set forth in the Essay.

Author : Doctor Amy Eckert,Laura Sjoberg
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848137714

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Rethinking the 21st Century by Doctor Amy Eckert,Laura Sjoberg Pdf

Rethinking the 21st Century brings much needed context and perspective to the security problems we face today. In recent years, the 'Bush Doctrine' - that the security threats we now face are entirely unprecedented - has echoed around the world. Global security and stability is now challenged not only by states and nuclear war, but by insurgency, disease, environmental degradation and military privatisation. Yet this creates a deep sense of disconnect in the way we perceive politics, and can be dangerously stark and ahistorical. The chapters here show that, far from being a clean break, the 'new' problems faced today might actually have 'old' solutions. What can Locke tell us about terrorists? What does Bentham have to say about sanctions? What are the ethics of outsourcing war to private companies? By looking back to decades and even centuries of ethical analysis and political theory, this book provides fascinating insight into all these questions.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Law
ISBN : NYPL:33433081774675

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Register of Debates in Congress by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : John Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015016761077

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Tyranny Unmasked by John Taylor Pdf

John Taylor of Caroline (1753-1824) was one of the foremost philosophers of the States' rights Jeffersonians of the early national period. In keeping with his lifelong mission as a "minority man," John Taylor wrote "Tyranny Unmasked" not only to assault the protective tariff and the mercantilist policies of the times but also "to examine general principles in relation to commerce, political economy, and a free government." Originally published in 1822, it is the only major work of Taylor's that has never before been reprinted.As an early discussion of the principles of governmental power and their relationship to political economy and liberty, "Tyranny Unmasked" is an important primary source in the study of American history and political thought.F. Thornton Miller is Professor of History at Southwest Missouri State University.

Author : Paola Partenza
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783847003861

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Dynamics of Desacralization by Paola Partenza Pdf

The idea of desacralization has become almost commonplace, attributing to the word the rejection of what is sacred. One might think that it is strictly connected to theology and its system, or suppose that it implies the relationship human beings have with anything that can express a denial of the spiritual part of life. The concept of desacralization has numerous meanings, either from a philosophical or a literary viewpoint. The scholars' investigation of Dynamics of Desacralization has made this collection of essays rich and varied, revealing new worlds the different authors have created. What they do is to narrate various types of desacralization interrogating the nature of novels, poems or works of art; certain aspects of being are revealed through various expressions, engaging the multiple levels and the meaning of desacralization providing an articulation and interpretation of it.

Author : David Lay Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521197557

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Rousseau's Social Contract by David Lay Williams Pdf

Rousseau's Social Contract: An Introduction offers a thorough and systematic tour of this notoriously paradoxical and challenging text.

Author : Peter Lake
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300225662

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How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage by Peter Lake Pdf

A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare’s plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare’s England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated problems. In this monumental work, Peter Lake reveals, more than any previous critic, the extent to which Shakespeare’s plays speak to the depth and sophistication of Elizabethan political culture and the Elizabethan imagination. Lake reveals the complex ways in which Shakespeare’s major plays engaged with the events of his day, particularly regarding the uncertain royal succession, theological and doctrinal debates, and virtue and virtù in politics. Through his plays, Lake demonstrates, Shakespeare was boldly in conversation with his audience about a range of contemporary issues. This remarkable literary and historical analysis pulls the curtain back on what Shakespeare was really telling his audience and what his plays tell us today about the times in which they were written.

Author : Elizabeth Duquette
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192899880

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American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon by Elizabeth Duquette Pdf

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their polity and society. While some informed their thinking with reference to classical texts, which comprehensively consider tyranny's dangers, most drew on a more contemporary source--Napoleon Bonaparte, the century's most famous man and its most notorious tyrant. Because Napoleon defined tyranny around the nineteenth-century Atlantic world--its features and emergence, its relationship to democratic institutions, its effects on persons and peoples--he provides a way for nineteenth-century Americans to explore the parameters of tyranny and their complicity in its cruelties. Napoleon helps us see the decidedly plural forms of tyranny in the US, bringing their fictions into focus. At the same time, however, there are distinctly American modes of tyranny. From the tyrannical style of the American imagination to the usurping potential of American individualism, Elizabeth Duquette shows that tyranny is as American as democracy.

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Crown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804190114

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On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.

Author : Eugenio Amato,Francesco Citti,Bart Huelsenbeck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110402087

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Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation by Eugenio Amato,Francesco Citti,Bart Huelsenbeck Pdf

Ancient declamation—the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios—defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. It is only within the past few decades that the full complexity of declamation, and the promise inherent in its study, have come to be recognized. This volume, which contains thirteen essays from an international team of scholars, engages with the multidisciplinary nature of declamation, focusing in particular on the various interactions in declamation between rhetoric, literature, law, and ethics. Contributions pursue a range of topics, but also complement each other. Separate essays by Brescia, Lentano, and Lupi explore social roles—their tensions and expectations—as defined through declamation. With similar emphasis on historical circumstances, Quiroga Puertas and Tomassi consider the adaptation of rhetorical material to frame contemporary realities. Schwartz draws attention to the sometimes hazy borderline between declamation and the courtroom. The relationship between laws and declamation, a topic of abiding importance, is examined in studies by Berti, Breij, and Johansson. Also with an eye to the complex interaction between laws and declamation, Pasetti offers a narratological analysis of cases of poisoning. Citti discovers the concept of natural law represented in declamatory material. While looking at a case of extreme cruelty, Huelsenbeck evaluates the nature of declamatory language, emphasizing its use as an integral instrument of performance events. Zinsmaier looks at discourse on the topic of torture in rhetorical and legal contexts.