Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee
Author : John William Jones
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Page : 596 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : John William Jones
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Page : 596 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Sir John William Kaye
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Page : 718 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 1880
Category : India
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : Helmuth Graf von Moltke
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Page : 380 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1896
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Author : John Ruskin
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Architecture
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Author : John Ruskin
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Page : 358 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Art
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Author : Carrie Hyde
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674981723
Citizenship defines the U.S. political experiment, but the modern legal category that it now names is a relatively recent invention. There was no Constitutional definition of citizenship until the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, almost a century after the Declaration of Independence. Civic Longing looks at the fascinating prehistory of U.S. citizenship in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, when the cultural and juridical meaning of citizenship—as much as its scope—was still up for grabs. Carrie Hyde recovers the numerous cultural forms through which the meaning of citizenship was provisionally made and remade in the early United States. Civic Longing offers the first historically grounded account of the formative political power of the imaginative traditions that shaped early debates about citizenship. In the absence of a centralized legal definition of citizenship, Hyde shows, politicians and writers regularly turned to a number of highly speculative traditions—political philosophy, Christian theology, natural law, fiction, and didactic literature—to authorize visions of what citizenship was or ought to be. These speculative traditions sustained an idealized image of citizenship by imagining it from its outer limits, from the point of view of its “negative civic exemplars”—expatriates, slaves, traitors, and alienated subjects. By recovering the strange, idiosyncratic meanings of citizenship in the early United States, Hyde provides a powerful critique of originalism, and challenges anachronistic assumptions that read the definition of citizenship backward from its consolidation in the mid-nineteenth century as jus soli or birthright citizenship.
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1473362512
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1855 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species' is an article that details Wallace's ideas on the natural arrangement of species and their successive creation. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory.
Author : Samuel Sewall
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Massachusetts
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Author : Henry Adams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Historians
ISBN : 9780674526853