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 Free Download Sophia Papaioannou, "Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome " English | ISBN: 3110699168 | 2021 | 313 pages | EPUB | 2 MB It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address the divine, to invoke the gods, to talk about the sacred, to express piety and to articulate, refer to, recite or explain the meaning of hymns, oaths, prayers, oracles and other religious matters and processes. The 13 contributions to this volume explore themes and topics that most succinctly describe the firm interrelation between religion and rhetoric mostly in, but not exclusively focused on, Greek and Roman antiquity, offering new, interdisciplinary insights into a great variety of aspects, from identity construction and performance to legal/political practices and a broad analytical approach to transcultural ritualistic customs. The volume also offers perceptive insights into oriental (i.e. Egyptian magic) texts and Christian literature.  Free Download Henry Morse Stephens, "Revolutionary Europe 1789-1815" English | 2020 | ASIN: B08KTTV7Q7 | EPUB | pages: 426 | 0.5 mb The Period from 1789 to 1815 an Era of Transition-The Principles propounded during the period which have modified the political conceptions of the Eighteenth Century: i. The Principle of the Sovereignty of the People; ii. The Principle of Nationality; iii. The Principle of Personal Liberty-The Eighteenth Century, the Era of the Benevolent Despots-The condition of the Labouring Classes in the Eighteenth Century: Serfdom-The Middle Classes-The Upper Classes-Why France led the way to modern ideas in the French Revolution-The influence of the thinkers and writers of the Eighteenth Century in bringing about the change-Contrast between the French and German thinkers-The low state of morality and general indifference to religion-Conclusion. The period from 1789 to 1815-that is, the era of the French Revolution and of the domination of Napoleon-marks one of the most important transitions in the history of Europe. Great as is the difference between the material condition of the Europe of the nineteenth century, with its railways and its electric telegraphs, and the Europe of the eighteenth century, with its bad roads and uncertain posts, it is not greater than the contrast between the political, social, and economical ideas which prevailed then and which prevail now. Modern principles, that mark a new departure in human progress and in its evidence, Civilisation, took their rise during this epoch of transition, and their development underlies the history of the period, and gives the key to its meaning. The conception that government exists for the promotion of the security and prosperity of the governed was fully grasped in the eighteenth century. But it was held alike by philosophers and rulers, alike in civilised England and in Russia emerging from barbarism that, whilst government existed for the good of the people, it must not be administered by the people. This fundamental principle is in the nineteenth century entirely denied. It is now believed that the government should be directed by the people through their representatives, and that it is better for a nation to make mistakes in the course of its self-government than to be ruled, be it ever so wisely, by an irresponsible monarch. This notion of the sovereignty of the people was energetically propounded during the great Revolution in France. It is not yet universally accepted in all the states of modern Europe. But it has profoundly affected the political development of the nineteenth century. It lies at the base of one group of modern political ideas; and, though in 1815 it seemed to have been propounded only to be condemned, one of the most striking features of the modern history of Europe since the Congress of Vienna, has been its gradual acceptance and steady growth in civilised countries.  Free Download Jeffrey Bortz, "Revolution within the Revolution: Cotton Textile Workers and the Mexican Labor Regime, 1910-1923" English | 2008 | ISBN: 0804758069 | EPUB | pages: 264 | 1.4 mb Mexico's revolution of 1910 ushered in a revolutionary era: during the twentieth century, Mexican, Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Iranian revolutions shaped local, regional, and world history. Because Mexico was at the time a rural and agrarian country, it is not surprising that historians have concentrated on the revolution in the countryside where the rural underclass fought for land. This book uncovers a previously unknown workers' revolution within the broader revolution. Working in Mexico's largest factory industry, cotton textile operatives fought their own fight, one that challenged and overthrew the old labor regime and changed the social relations of work. Their struggle created the most progressive labor regime in Latin America, including but not limited to the famous Article 123 of the 1917 Constitution. Revolution within the Revolution analyzes the rules of labor and explains how they became a pillar of the country's political system. Through the rest of the twentieth century, Mexico's land reform and revolutionary labor regime allowed it to avoid the revolution and repression experienced elsewhere in Latin America.  Free Download Joseph A. Scotchie, "Revolt from the Heartland: The Struggle for an Authentic Conservatism" English | 2002 | ISBN: 0765801280, 0765805847 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 0.4 mb The dominant forces of American conservatism remain wedded, at all costs, to the Republican Party, but another movement, one with its roots in the pre-World War II era, has stepped forth to fill an intellectual vacuum on the right. This Old Right first rose in opposition to the New Deal, fighting both statism at home and the emergence of an American empire abroad. More recently this movement, sometimes called paleoconservatism, has provided the ideological backbone of modern populism and the opposition to globalization, with decisive effects on presidential politics. In Revolt from the Heartland, Joseph Scotchie provides an intellectual history of the Old Right, treating its main figures and defining its conflict with the traditional left-right political mainstream.  Free Download K'tut Tantri, "Revolt In Paradise" English | 2016 | ISBN: 0343300788 | EPUB | pages: 306 | 2.7 mb The true-life adventure of a Western woman who found happiness in Bali, then stayed on in Indonesia to help in the struggle for freedom.  Free Download Randy P. Schiff, "Revivalist Fantasy: Alliterative Verse and Nationalist Literary History " English | ISBN: 0814211526 | 2011 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB In the book's opening, Schiff argues that the concept of an Alliterative Revival-the allegedly unified fourteenth-century resuscitation of Anglo-Saxon prosodic practices countering a Francophile South- is a nationalist formulation that reduces criticism's ability to engage with the variety of social and political contexts for late-medieval alliterative verse. Schiff explores the ways in which the nationalist assumptions of a critical Revivalism obscure late-medieval poetic meditations on class consolidation, gendered regional economics, imperial politics, and unstable textual cultures. Schiff analyzes transnational translation politics in 'William of Palerne' and its Old French source, 'Guillaume de Palerne,' and undermines the notion that alliterative verse was stubbornly Anglocentric. While examining anti-imperialist energies in the Northwest Midlands of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' Schiff illuminates the powerful role of women in a dynamic military zone. In a chapter focused on Arthurian texts of the unstable Anglo-Scottish marches, Schiff asserts that nationalist assumptions about alliterative verse disallow us to see practices such as military side-switching and trans-regional poetics. Turning to the socio-material background for the 'Piers Plowman Tradition', Schiff explores cutting-edge writing technologies that played a pivotal role in politicized poetry. Schiff concludes that, besides wrongly projecting national identity into the late-medieval period, Alliterative Revivalism precludes us from appreciating crucial continuities between late-medieval and post-national epochs that share fluid notions of territorial space and political identity.  Free Download Gail Lapidus, "Revival: Women, Work and Family in the Soviet Union: In the Soviet Union" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138895881 | EPUB | pages: 358 | 2.5 mb This work reports on the Vietnam war as seen by the GI in the jungles. It discusses current attitudes, views from Saigon, Hanoi and Phnom Penh, and other locales in the countryside.  Free Download Donald MacKenzie Smeaton, "Revival: The Loyal Karens of Burma" English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138556777 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.4 mb An exploration of the Karens, a small nation that inhabited the mountains and forests of the Lower Burma who were loyal to the British during the Anglo-Burmese wars.  Free Download Plummer Alfred, "Revival: The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century" English | 2019 | ISBN: 113856754X | EPUB | pages: 312 | 0.5 mb In a period of which so much is known, and of which the materials for additional knowledge are so abundant, as is the case with the eighteenth century, the writer of a handbook sees from the first that a very great deal, of even important matters, will have to be omitted: and one of his chief difficulties will be to decide which topics must be selected in order to give the reader an intelligible and coherent picture - faithful, as far as it goes - of the period as a whole.  Free Download Michael Rose, "Revival: Servants of Post Industrial Power: Sociogie Du Travail in Modern France" English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138045020 | EPUB | pages: 244 | 0.9 mb This title was first published in 1979: Deftly combining an analysis of socio-economic change and social institutions with political commentary, intellectual biography and theoretical critique, Michael Rose identifiesthe hidden similarities of the different currents in sociologie du travail and accounts for the popularity of such bold but fragile notions as Mallet's 'new working class' or Touraine's 'post industrial society'. Simultaneously, the relation between sociologie du travail and the state , management and politics is defined and evaluated. Finally, Rose discusses the work of the new generation of investigators emerging after the crisis-point of 1968. His conclusions are relevant not only for the many English speaking social scientistswho have been rediscoveringthe problems of the labour process, but for students of industrial relations, intellectual history, Marxism and modern French society. |
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