The Honor of a Gentleman
Author : Virginia Niles Leeds
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 1899
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Virginia Niles Leeds
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 1899
Category : American literature
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Author : Sharon R. Krause
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2002-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674007567
Why do men and women sometimes risk everything to defend their liberties? What motivates principled opposition to the abuse of power? In Liberalism with Honor, Sharon Krause explores honor as a motive for risky and difficult forms of political action. She shows the sense of honor to be an important source of such action and a spring of individual agency more generally. Krause traces the genealogy of honor, including its ties to conscientious objection and civil disobedience, beginning in old-regime France and culminating in the American civil rights movement. She examines the dangers intrinsic to honor and the tensions between honor and modern democracy, but demonstrates that the sense of honor has supported political agency in the United States from the founders to democratic reformers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Martin Luther King, Jr. Honor continues to hold interest and importance today because it combines self-concern and personal ambition with principled higher purposes, and so challenges the disabling dichotomy between self-interest and self-sacrifice that currently pervades both political theory and American public life.
Author : Tal GOLAN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674037693
Tal Golan charts the use of expert testimony in British and American courtrooms from the 18th century to the present day. He assesses the standing of the expert witness, which has in recent years declined amid courtroom drama and media jeering.
Author : Amanda Quick
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307575578
Townsfolk called him devil. For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Some said the beautiful Lady Ravenwood had drowned herself in the black, murky waters of Ravenwood Pond. Others whispered of foul play and the devil's wrath. Now country-bred Sophy Dorring is about to become Ravenwood's new bride. Drawn to his masculine strength and the glitter of desire that burned in his emerald eyes, the tawny-haired lass had her own reasons for agreeing to a marriage of convenience. One was vengeance, and in its pursuit she would entangle Julian in a blackmail plot, a duel at dawn, and a dangerous masquerade. The other reason was dearer to her heart, but just as wild a quest: Sophy Dorring intended to teach the devil to love again.
Author : John Bailey
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080219978X
A fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws and an unforgettable portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom. “Reads like a legal thriller” (The Washington Post). It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the young woman is property, the slave of a nearby cabaret owner. She has no memory of a “white” past. Yet her resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale birthmarks. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, as well as the incredible twists and turns of Sally Miller’s celebrated and sensational case. Did Miller, as her relatives sought to prove, arrive from Germany under perilous circumstances as an indentured servant or was she, as her master claimed, part African, and a slave for life? The Lost German Slave Girl is a tour de force of investigative history that reads like a suspense novel. “Bailey keeps us guessing until the end in this page-turning true courtroom drama of 19th-century New Orleans . . . [He] brings to life the fierce legal proceedings with vivid strokes.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Grace Burrowes
Publisher : Forever
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1538706997
A proper lady must choose between society or the untitled gentleman who has stolen her heart in this captivating Regency romance perfect for fans of Bridgerton. Ned Wentworth will be forever grateful to the family that plucked him from the streets and gave him a home, even though polite society still whispers years later about his questionable past. Precisely because of Ned’s connections in low places, Lady Rosalind Kinwood approaches him to help her find a lady’s maid who has disappeared. Rosalind is too opinionated—and too intelligent—and has frequently suffered judgment at the hands of polite society. Despite her family’s disdain for Ned, Rosalind finds he listens to her and respects her. Then too, his kisses are exquisite. As the investigation of the missing maids becomes more dangerous, both Ned and Rosalind will have to risk everything—including their hearts—if they are to share the happily ever after that Mayfair’s matchmakers have begrudged them both.
Author : Evelyn Waugh
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1667623745
Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and respect must be paid to the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is soon followed by the bitterness of Crete, where chaos reigns and a difficult evacuation must be accomplished.—Goodreads.com.
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Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 1911
Category : College students' writings, American
ISBN :
Author : Henry W. Hilliard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2022-03-24
Category :
ISBN : 3752588195
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. A Story of Plebeians and Patricians.