Unlikely Heirs

Author : Sebastian Gehrig
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800730847

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Legal Entanglements by Sebastian Gehrig Pdf

During the division of Germany, law became the object of ideological conflicts and the means by which the two national governments conducted their battle over political legitimacy. Legal Entanglements explores how these dynamics produced competing concepts of statehood and sovereignty, all centered on citizens and their rights. Drawing on wide-ranging archival sources, including recently declassified documents, Sebastian Gehrig traces how politicians, diplomats, judges, lawyers, activists and intellectuals navigated the struggle between legal ideologies under the pressures of the Cold War and decolonization. As he shows, in their response to global debates over international law and human rights, their work kept the legal cultures of both German states entangled until 1989.

Author : Robert F. Gray,P.H. Gulliver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136529054

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The Family Estate in Africa by Robert F. Gray,P.H. Gulliver Pdf

Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book emphasize the developmental or time dimension of the family, analysing it as a process. In the seven different societies described in East Africa, the Congo and the Transvaal the changing nature of the distribution of rights in the family property and resources is directly linked with the growth and change of the family itself. First published in 1964.

Author : Howard A. Husock
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781641772037

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The Poor Side of Town by Howard A. Husock Pdf

This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing—a poor side of town—helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is more of a historical narrative than a straight policy book, however—telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence Veiller, anti-reformer Jane Jacobs, housing developer William Levitt, and African American small homes advocate Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, as well as first-person accounts of onetime residents of neighborhoods such as Detroit’s Black Bottom who lost their homes and businesses to housing reform and urban renewal. This is a book with important policy implications—built on powerful, personal stories.

Author : David Cooke
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326338510

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A Slow Blues HB by David Cooke Pdf

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0520047869

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Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics by Nancy Scheper-Hughes Pdf

Nancy Scheper-Hughes' classic ethnographic study of schizophrenia in western Ireland.

Author : Linda Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134786350

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Marginalization and Social Welfare in China by Linda Wong Pdf

This book provides a systematic analysis that defines and accounts for the contours and operation of China's welfare system. It is underpinned by recent empirical research and strong comparative theory, and will be welcomed as a significant advance in furthering our understanding of social welfare in China.

Author : Margaret Mih Tillman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231546225

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Raising China's Revolutionaries by Margaret Mih Tillman Pdf

A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China’s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and intervention in family life. Chinese academics and officials sought new scientific measures, educational institutions, and social reforms to improve children’s welfare. Successive regimes encouraged teachers to shape children into Qing subjects, Nationalist citizens, or Communist comrades. In Raising China’s Revolutionaries, Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education from the early Republican period through the first decade of the People’s Republic. She traces transnational advocacy for child welfare and education, examining Christian missionaries, philanthropists, and the role of international relief during World War II. Tillman provides in-depth analysis of similarities and differences between Nationalist and Communist policy and cultural notions of childhood. While both Nationalist and Communist regimes drew on preschool institutions to mobilize the workforce and shape children’s political subjectivity, the Communist regime rejected the Nationalists’ commitment to the modern, bourgeois family. With new insights into the roles of experts, the cultural politics of fundraising, and child welfare as a form of international exchange, Raising China’s Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in China.

Author : Robert S. Menchin
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780595094745

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Where There's a Will by Robert S. Menchin Pdf

Hilarious. Incredible. Bizarre. Witty. Deliciously malicious! Where There's a Will is an absorbing collection of odd and curious wills from many countries and many times. The vindictive wills, revealing wills, wills written on nurses petticoats, eggshells, tractor fenders and wills found in a bottle at sea included in the book reflect the full range of man's virtues and vices. The colorful individuals whose Last Will and Testament grace the pages of this book give more than their money away - they give themselves away. They use their wills to get back at obnoxious relatives, to maintain control beyond the grave, to reward, to punish, to defy those who say you can't take it with you. And to have the last word. Among the famous and the infamous whose wills are featured are: George Bernard Shaw, W.C. Fields, Patrick Henry, Janis Joplin, Napoleon, Jack Kelly, Howard Hughes, William Shakespeare, Ian Fleming, Billy Rose, Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Aristotle Onassis. . . and many more.

Author : Julia Roos
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472117345

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Weimar Through the Lens of Gender by Julia Roos Pdf

DIVExploring the social and political struggles over prostitution reform in the Weimar Republic/div

Author : Andrea Bachner,Howard Chiang,Yu-lin Lee
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888805716

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Sinoglossia by Andrea Bachner,Howard Chiang,Yu-lin Lee Pdf

Sinoglossia places the terms of embodiment, mediality, and translation at the center of analytical inquiry into Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Converging in the rubric of Sinoglossia, the chapters in this volume introduce a theory defined by cultural formations not overdetermined by Sinitic linguistic ties. The concept of Sinoglossia combines a heteroglossic and a heterotopian approach to the critical study of mediated discourses of China and Chineseness. From the history of physical examinations and queer subalternity to the cinematic inscription of Chineseness-as-landscape, and from Sinopop to the translational writings of Eileen Chang and Syaman Rapongan, this book argues for a flexible conceptualization of cultural objects, conditions, and contexts that draws attention to an array of polyphonic, multi-discursive, and multilingual articulations. In this new horizon of understanding, place or topos necessarily constitutes the possibility of friction and source of innovation. “Sinoglossia opens new possibilities for critical studies of China, Chineseness, and Chinese cultures. Bringing together pathbreaking scholarship from diverse perspectives, and highlighting multiplicity and heterogeneity on a range of topics, this volume is a vital addition to a range of fields.” —Karen L. Thornber, Harvard University “Vitally centering and theorizing processes of embodiment, mediality, and translation, this timely and rich volume—simultaneously reflective, speculative, comparative, and historically informed—convincingly articulates Sinoglossia as a flexible, heterogeneous approach to intercultural phenomena tenuously identified as Chinese or Sinophone.” —Brian Bernards, University of Southern California

Author : Ian Cutler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476604893

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Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert by Ian Cutler Pdf

Cynicism began as a school of philosophy that was largely inspired by Socrates and often decried by popular commentators as a social pathology, a nihilistic rebellion against the foundations of civilization. Modern definitions of the cynic describe an individual who is negative and sarcastic, violently opposed to established authority and social convention, and dedicated to existentialism.This book attempts to vindicate cynicism, arguing that it is both a progressive approach to social dilemmas and an enlightened understanding of the human condition. Chapter One establishes the foundations of classical Greek cynicism, while later chapters illustrate the varied faces of the cynic phenomenon in the persons of such disparate characters as Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Diogenes, the Dadaists, George Bataille, Samuel Beckett, Auberon Waugh, the creators of South Park, and others. Nietzsche is portrayed as the most important representative of both classical and postmodern cynicism, as well as the pivotal link between the two. The book focuses on significant periods of historical change, such as the Renaissance, and the historical cynics responsible for several seminal social ideas, including cosmopolitanism (citizenship of the world), asceticism (personal growth through self-testing), and parrhesia (finding one's voice in the presence of tyrannical forces). The author claims that aspects of Greek cynicism are present in contemporary society, offering a positive strategy for living in a hostile world.

Author : Debarati Sanyal
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421429298

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The Violence of Modernity by Debarati Sanyal Pdf

The Violence of Modernity turns to Charles Baudelaire, one of the most canonical figures of literary modernism, in order to reclaim an aesthetic legacy for ethical inquiry and historical critique. Works of modern literature are commonly theorized as symptomatic responses to the trauma of history. In a climate that tends to privilege crisis over critique, Debarati Sanyal argues that it is urgent to rethink literary experience in terms that recall its contestatory potential. Examining Baudelaire's poems afresh, she shifts the focus of critical attention toward an account of modernism as an active engagement with violence, specifically the violence of history in nineteenth-century France. Sanyal analyzes a literary current that uses the traditional hallmarks of modernism—irony, intertextuality, self-reflexivity, and formalism—to challenge the historical violence of modernity. Baudelaire and the committed ironists writing in his wake teach us how to read and resist the violence of history, and thereby to challenge the melancholy tenor of our contemporary "wound culture." In a series of provocative readings, Sanyal presents Baudelaire's poetry as an aesthetic form that contests historical violence through rhetorical strategies of complicity, counterviolence, and critique. The book develops a new account of Baudelaire's significance as a modernist by dislodging him both from his traditional status as a practitioner of "art for art's sake" and from his more recent incarnation as the poet of trauma. Following her extended analysis of Baudelaire's poetry, Sanyal in later chapters considers a number of authors influenced by his strategies—including Rachilde, Virginie Despentes, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre—to examine the relevance of their interventions for our current climate of trauma and terror. The result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.

Author : Charles Scribner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Arts, European
ISBN : 9781538178621

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Sacred Muse by Charles Scribner Pdf

"This concise guide provides an introduction to the rich and variegated subject of Christian currents through art and music down the ages"--

Author : Sheila Kaye-Smith
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813235622

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The End of the House of Alard by Sheila Kaye-Smith Pdf

The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present the second volume in our Catholic Women Writers series, which will attempt to bring new attention to prose work of Catholic women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sheila Kaye-Smith was a best selling author who had published over 50 books in her lifetime, few of which remain in print since her death in 1956. The End of the House of Alard (1922) documents the choices made by the final generation of the aristocratic Alard family and the ways in which they, both willingly and reluctantly, bring the long line of their ancestral blood to a complete and sudden end. For some of them, the end of the Alard line is as painful to enact as it is for others to witness; for others it is welcomed as a necessary modernization or a true realignment toward religious integity and universal human truth. Some of the family's children yearn for individual liberty; others have it forced upon them. But none of them can find it under the burden of the Alard name and its crumbling estate. The End of the House of Alard is a novel about the human need for purpose, for a truth by which to live and for which to die. It is a novel about faith and idolatry, love and death, freedom and bondage, nature and grace. Put another way, it is about how human beings cannot escape the great challenge of salvation, of breaking free from false, man made gods in order to unite instead with the divine love of Christ. The novel's characters span a breadth of options on this spectrum and their various outlooks on life continue to reflect those available to us today.

Author : Louis Cazamian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135027742

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The Social Novel in England 1830-1850 (RLE Dickens) by Louis Cazamian Pdf

This is the first English translation of Le Roman social en Angleterre by Louis Cazamian, which is widely recognized as the classic survey of Victorian social fiction. Starting from the eighteenth century, Cazamian traces the ways in which rationalism and romanticism intertwined and competed, particularly in relation to radical political philosophy. He shows how industrialization polarized England, setting the industrial bourgeoisie in the van of progress in the first decades of the nineteenth century, until their political and economic triumph stirred up a passionate reaction against them. This reaction propelled novelists such as Charles Dickens who lies at the centre of his discussion. For this translation Martin Fido has provided a substantial foreword, and has revised and completed the bibliographical references and corrected the footnotes to assist the present-day reader.