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Book SynopsisDuring the British women's suffrage campaign of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women wrote plays to convert others to their cause; they wrote essays to justify their militant actions; and they wrote fiction and poetry about their prison experiences.This volume is a diverse collection of these writings, focused on the women's suffrage campaign in England and written primarily during the brief period between the New Woman writers of the 1890s and the modernists of the twentieth century. Many of these works have not been reprinted since they were first published.This important collection includes essays reflecting a variety of opinions and political positions; excerpts from autobiographies by women involved in the movement; suffrage poetry; the song that became the official song of the British suffrage movement; several one-act plays that were written and performed specifically to advance the suffrage cause; and short stories and excerpts from novels about suffrage.Trade ReviewThis is the richest collection yet of suffrage materials, fully introduced, annotated and illustrated. The initial contextualizing of the campaign is followed by an impressive collection of difficult-to-obtain literary texts. Satirical poetry and drama, presented alongside formal political argument, and the passionate testimonies of key campaigners, prove just how literary a campaign this was. The vivid prison narratives, short stories and complete one-act plays anthologized in this volume fully personalize the campaign and give one a sense of how ordinary people were caught up in the momentum of history. This is an invaluable anthology." - Valerie Sanders, The University of HullTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSLIST OF FIGURESINTRODUCTIONSIGNIFICANT DATES IN WOMEN’S STRUGGLE FOR EMANCIPATION AND SUFFRAGEBIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONSUFFRAGE ORGANIZATIONSCHAPTER 1: THE ARGUMENTSTHE CASE FOR AND AGAINST WOMEN’S SUFFRAGEHarriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill, from “Enfranchisement ofWomen”Lydia E. Becker, from “Female Suffrage”“An Appeal Against Female Suffrage”Millicent Garrett Fawcett, from “The Appeal Against FemaleSuffrage: A Reply. I”Mary Margaret Dilke, “The Appeal Against Female Suffrage:A Reply. II”From “Women’s Suffrage: A Reply”T. Dundas Pillans, from Plain Truths About Woman SuffrageH.B. Samuels, from Woman Suffrage: Its Dangers and DelusionsHarold Owen, from “Superfluous Woman” and “Sex andPolitics”Heber L. Hart, from Woman Suffrage: A National Danger THE QUESTION OF MILITANCY AND THE HUNGER STRIKEMillicent Garrett Fawcett, from “The Militant Societies”Teresa Billington-Greig, from Suffragist Tactics: Past and PresentEmmeline Pethick-Lawrence, from The New CrusadeMona Caird, “Militant Tactics and Woman’s Suffrage”Elizabeth Robins, from “The Hunger Strike”Elizabeth Robins, “In Conclusion”CHAPTER 2: WOMEN IN THE CAMPAIGN TELL THEIR STORIESEmmeline Pankhurst, from My Own StoryE. Sylvia Pankhurst, from The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and IdealsEmmeline Pethick-Lawrence, from My Part in a Changing WorldAnnie Kenney, from Memories of a MilitantCicely Hamilton, from Life ErrantHannah Mitchell, from The Hard Way Up: The Autobiography of Hannah Mitchell, Suffragette and RebelConstance Lytton, from Prisons and Prisoners: The Stirring Testimony of a SuffragetteMemorial Statue of Mrs. Pankhurst: Mr. Baldwin’s TributeCHAPTER 3: SUFFRAGE POETRY AND SONGSPOETRY“A Jingle of the Franchise”“Cautionary Tales in Verse”From Holloway Jingles SONGS“The Women’s Marseillaise”“The March of the Women”“Woman’s Song of Freedom”[“When Good Queen Bess was on the Throne”]“Christabel”“Rise Up Women”“Our Hard Case”CHAPTER 4: SUFFRAGE DRAMACicely Hamilton and Christopher St. John, How the Vote Was Won: A Play in One ActMary Cholmondeley, Votes for MenBessie Hatton, Before SunriseCicely Hamilton, A Pageant of Great WomenHenry Arncliffe-Sennett, An Englishwoman’s Home: A Play in One ActMargaret Wynne Nevinson, In the Workhouse: A Play in One ActGraham Moffat, The Maid and the Magistrate: A Duologue in One ActEvelyn Glover, A Chat with Mrs. Chicky: A DuologueEvelyn Glover, Miss Appleyard’s Awakening: A Play in One Act CHAPTER 5: SUFFRAGE FICTIONSHORT STORIESEvelyn Sharp, “The Women at the Gate”Evelyn Sharp, “Shaking Hands with the Middle Ages”Gertrude Colmore, “The Introduction”Gertrude Colmore, “The Magical Musician”W.L. Courtney, “The Soul of a Suffragette”NOVELSConstance Elizabeth Maud, from No SurrenderGertrude Colmore, from Suffragette Sally BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisNovel Definitions captures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel was accompanied by a rise in popular literary criticism. The anthology collects over 135 primary sources that chart the long eighteenth century’s interpretation of the novel. These sources—many newly-discovered—include essays, prefaces, reviews, and sermons written by authors ranging from Aphra Behn to Walter Scott. Novel Definitions brings together authors’ prefatory analyses of their work; essayists’ debates concerning the novel’s formal qualities; commentators’ questions concerning the novel’s cultural position, including whether or not women and children should read novels; reviewers’ definitions of the qualities that make a novel successful; and literary historians’ first attempts to write the history of the novel.Trade Review“[Novel Definitions] is essential reading in both the culture and theory of novel writing and reading during the eighteenth century. Our courses on the eighteenth-century novel and our writing about the novel will be much the better for its appearance.” — Jonathan Kramnick, Studies in English Literature“Cheryl Nixon’s Novel Definitions is an extremely useful, comprehensive, and very well-organized anthology of responses, both professional and popular, to the English novel in the period of its cultural ascendency. Both in its range—which covers major statements about the developing genre from Huet and Behn through Reeve and Barbauld—and in its depth—which places well-known texts by writers such as Richardson and Johnson alongside a wealth of less familiar criticism and commentary—Novel Definitions offers an indispensible resource for teaching and researching the history of the novel in eighteenth-century Britain.” — Scott Black, University of Utah“In this superb anthology, both learned and lively, Cheryl Nixon provides a thoughtful and theoretically informed introduction to the critical commentaries that shaped the debate over the meaning of the “new” novel. Authors and critics became cultural commentators, members of a cultural community all too aware of what was at stake in their new form…This collection is invaluable for a study of the novel and of eighteenth-century British culture.” — Carol Flynn, Tufts University“Cheryl Nixon’s invaluable Novel Definitions gathers vast and rich commentary that expands our understanding of eighteenth-century novels. With a superb introduction, Novel Definitions is intelligently designed and thoughtfully organized, schematizing its numerous materials into formal and thematic categories that foreground the experimental and provocative nature of the genre in its earliest incarnations. Students of the eighteenth-century novel will want to read all these prefaces, critical essays, commentaries and book reviews, for they illuminate the important controversies and vexing debates that preoccupied the eighteenth-century reading public. Novel Definitions is an outstanding edition of rarely-collected material that should be required reading.” — Tita Chico, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextPart I: Prefatory WritingA. The Novel’s Relationship to Fact, Fiction, and Truth Aphra Behn, Dedication and Opening of Oroonoko (1688) Daniel Defoe, Preface to Robinson Crusoe (1719) Daniel Defoe, Preface to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) Penelope Aubin, Preface to The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and his Family (1721) Samuel Richardson, Preface to Pamela (1740) Eliza Haywood, Preface to The Fortunate Foundlings (1744) John Cleland, Opening of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49) Charles Johnstone, Preface to Chrysal (1760-65) Elizabeth Griffith, Preface to The Delicate Distress (1769) Thomas Thoughtless [pseudonym], Advertisement to The Fugitive of Folly (1793) B. The Novel’s Definition as a Romance, History, Biography, or Other Form William Congreve, Preface to Incognita (1692) Jane Barker, Preface to Exilius (1715) Mary Davys, Preface to The Works of Mrs. Davys (1725) Henry Fielding, Preface to Joseph Andrews (1742) Sarah Fielding, Advertisement to The Adventures of David Simple (1744) Henry Fielding, Preface to Sarah Fielding, The Adventures of David Simple, 2nd ed. (1744) Tobias Smollett, Preface to The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) Henry Fielding, from Book 9, Chapter 1 of Tom Jones (1749) Thomas Holcroft, Preface to Alwyn (1780) [Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth], Preface to Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800) Sarah Green, Preface to Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) C. The Novel’s Structuring of Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Delariviere Manley, Preface to The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (1705) Daniel Defoe, Preface to Moll Flanders (1722) Anonymous [attributed to Samuel Richardson], Preface to Penelope Aubin, A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels (1739) Samuel Richardson, Preface to Clarissa (1747-48) Henry Fielding, from Book 8, Chapter 1 of Tom Jones (1749) Tobias Smollett, Dedication to The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) Jane Collier and Sarah Fielding, Introduction to The Cry (1754) Sarah Scott, Preface to The History of Sir George Ellison (1766) Richard Cumberland, from Book 3, Chapter 1 of Henry (1795) Mary Hays, Preface to Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) D. The Novel’s Definition as a Gothic, Eastern, Sentimental, Political, or Historical Tale Horace Walpole, Prefaces to The Castle of Otranto (1764, 1765) James Yeo, Preface to Omar and Zemira (1782) Clara Reeve, Preface to The School for Widows (1791) Charlotte Smith, Preface to Desmond (1792) Walter Scott, “Introductory” to Waverley (1814) Part II: Critical EssaysA. The Novel’s Relation to Fact, Fiction, and the Real John Dunton, ed., Athenian Mercury, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1692) Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 416 (1712) Charles Gildon, “A Dialogue betwixt D— F–e, Robinson Crusoe, and his Man Friday” and “An Epistle to D— D’F–e, the Reputed Author of Robinson Crusoe,” The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Mr. D—DeF– (1719) Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 4 (1750) John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 4 (1752) William Whitehead, The World, No. 19 (1753) Anna Letitia [Aikin] Barbauld and John Aikin, “On the Pleasure derived from Objects of Terror […]” and “An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which excite agreeable Sensations […],” Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose (1773) George Wright, “Modern Novel-Writers Justly Censur’d,” Pleasing Reflections on Life and Manners (1787) William Hazlitt, “Standard Novels,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 24 (1815) B. The Novel’s Definition as a Romance, History, Biography, or Other Form John Dennis, from Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear (1712) Peter Shaw, “Of Writings designed to improve Morality,” The Reflector (1750) Samuel Johnson, from A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Richard Hurd, from A Dissertation on the Idea of Universal Poetry (1766) Anna Letitia [Aikin] Barbauld and John Aikin, “On Romances, An Imitation” and “On the Province of Comedy,” Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose (1773) Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, from Letters written by … the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (1774) Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger, No. 28 (1785) George Canning, The Microcosm, No. 26 (1787) Robert Alves, “A Parallel between History and Novel writing,” Sketches of a History of Literature (1794) C. The Novel’s Structuring of Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Aaron Hill, “[Letter] To the Editor of Pamela,” Samuel Richardson, Pamela, 2nd ed. (1741) Sarah Fielding, from Remarks on Clarissa, Addressed to the Author (1749) Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 139 (1751) Anonymous, from An Essay on the New Species of Writing founded by Mr. Fielding (1751) Edward Young, from Conjectures on Original Composition (1759) Arthur Murphy, Introduction to The Works of Henry Fielding (1762) James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, from Vol. 3 of Of the Origin and Progress of Language (1776) William Craig, The Mirror, No. 31 (1779) Richard Cumberland, “Remarks upon novels, and particularly of Richardson’s Clarissa,” Vol. 2 of The Observer (1786) Humphry Repton, “On the Clarissa of Richardson and Fielding’s Tom Jones,” Variety (1787) Part III: Cultural CommentaryA. The Novel’s Expanding Popularity Philip Skelton, from The Candid Reader (1744) John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 35 (1753) Edward Moore, The World, No. 13 (1753) George Colman (the Elder) and Bonnell Thornton, The Connoisseur, No. 96 (1755) Oliver Goldsmith, “A Resverie,” The Bee, No. 5 (1759) George Colman (the Elder), Prologue to Polly Honeycombe, A Dramatic Novel of One Act (1760) Vicesimus Knox, “On the Multiplication of Books,” Vol. 1 of Essays Moral and Literary, new ed. (1782) “R.R.E.,” Gentleman’s Magazine, No. 57 (1787) Thomas Wilson, from The Use of Circulating Libraries Considered (1797) B. The Novel’s Moral Influence Samuel Croxall, Preface to A Select Collection of Novels (1720-22) John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 16 (1752) Elizabeth Montagu, “Plutarch—Charon—And a Modern Bookseller,” George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton [and Elizabeth Montagu], Dialogues of the Dead (1760) Richard Griffith, “Novels,” Vol. 1 of Something New (1772) Vicesimus Knox, “On the Efficacy of Moral Instruction,” Vol. 1 of Essays Moral and Literary, new ed. (1782) Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger, No. 20 (1785) C. The Novel’s Proper Use by Young People Samuel Pegge (the Elder), Gentleman’s Magazine, No. 37 (1767) William Jones, “On Novels,” Letters from a Tutor to his Pupils (1780) Vicesimus Knox, “On the Best Method of Exciting in Boys the Symptoms of Literary Genius,” Vol. 1 of Essays Moral and Literary, new ed. (1782) Catherine Macaulay, “Literary Education,” Letters on Education (1790) Erasmus Darwin, “Polite Literature,” A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools (1797) William Godwin, “Of Choice in Reading,” The Enquirer (1797) Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, “Books,” Vol. 1 of Practical Education (1798) Elizabeth Parker, Eleanor Smith, Eliza Sinclaire, and Jane Lewis, [Students’ Prize-winning Essays on “The Love of Novels,”] Vol. 1 of The Juvenile Library (1800) D. The Novel’s Power Over Women Mary Astell, from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) Judith Drake, from An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1696) Richard Berenger, The World, No. 79 (1754) James Fordyce, “On Female Virtue,” Vol. 1 of Sermons to Young Women (1766) Hester Chapone, “On Politeness and Accomplishments,” Vol. 2 of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773) Mary Wollstonecraft, “Some Instances of the Folly which the Ignorance of Women Generates […],” A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Ann Wingrove, “On Reading Novels,” Letters, Moral and Entertaining (1795) Thomas Gisborne, “On the Employment of Time,” An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797) Rachel Hunter, Preface to The Unexpected Legacy (1804) E. The Novel’s Threat to Religion John Nesbitt, from A Sermon Preached to Young Persons (1713) George Whitefield, from Christ the Best Husband (1740) James Relly, from The Life of Christ (1762) John Kendall, from Remarks on the Prevailing Custom of Attending Stage Entertainments: Also on the Present Taste for Reading Romances and Novels (1794) William Jones, from The Human Imagination (1796) Hester Rogers, from The Experience of Mrs. H.A. Rogers (1796) Part IV: Book ReviewsA. Competing Reviews of the Same Novel Owen Ruffhead, Review of Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Vols. 3 and 4, Monthly Review, No. 24(1761) Anonymous, Review of Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Vols. 3 and 4, Critical Review, No. 11 (1761) Anonymous, Review of Frances Burney, Evelina, Monthly Review, No. 58 (1778) Anonymous, Review of Frances Burney, Evelina, Gentleman’s Magazine, No. 48 (1778) Anonymous, Review of Frances Burney, Evelina, Critical Review, No. 46 (1778) Anonymous [attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge], Review of Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Critical Review, Series 2, No. 11 (1794) and Addendum to Review, Critical Review, Series 2, No. 12 (1794) Anonymous, Review of Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Monthly Review, Series 2, No. 15 (1794) Anonymous, Review of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, British Critic, Vol. 41, No. 2 (1813) Anonymous, Review of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Critical Review, Series 4, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1813) B. Positive Reviews of the Novel’s Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Anonymous, Review of Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, London Magazine, No. 18 (1749) John Cleland, Review of Tobias Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, Monthly Review, No. 4 (1751) Owen Ruffhead, Review of John Hawkesworth, Almoran and Hamet, Monthly Review, No. 24 (1761) Anonymous, Review of Frances Sheridan, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Critical Review, No. 11 (1761) Anonymous, Review of Mary Robinson, Vancenza, Monthly Review, No. 7 (1792) Anonymous, Review of Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House, Analytical Review, No. 16 (1793) Anonymous, Review of William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Analytical Review, No. 21 (1795) Walter Scott, Review of Jane Austen, Emma, Quarterly Review, No. 14 (1815) C. Negative Reviews of the Novel’s Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Anonymous, Review of Anonymous, The Fortune-Teller, Critical Review, No. 1 (1756) Anonymous, [A Series of Short Negative Reviews,] Monthly Review, No. 42 (1770) Anonymous, “Address to the Public” and Review of Anonymous, Peggy and Patty, London Magazine, No. 1 (1783) Anonymous, Review of Mrs. Thompson [i.e., Harriet Pigott], The Labyrinths of Life, Monthly Review, Series 2, No. 5 (1791) D. Writers Review the Critics Henry Fielding, from Book 11, Chapter 1 of Tom Jones (1749) Peter Shaw, “Of Authors and Censors,” The Reflector (1750) Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 176 (1751) Frances Burney, Dedication of Evelina (1778) Isaac Disraeli, “The Origin of Literary Journals,” Curiosities of Literature (1791) Richard Cumberland, from Book 2, Chapter 1 and Book 4, Chapter 1 of Henry (1795) William Beckford, “An Humble Address to the Doers of […] the British Critic,” Vol. 2 of Modern Novel Writing (1796) Part V: Histories of the NovelA. The Rise of the Novel Pierre-Daniel Huet, from The History of Romances [Trans. Stephen Lewis] (1715) Hugh Blair, “Fictitious History,” Vol. 2 of Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783) James Beattie, “On Fable and Romance,” Dissertations Moral and Critical (1783) Clara Reeve, from The Progress of Romance (1785) John Moore, “A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance,” The Works of Tobias Smollett (1797) Anna Letitia [Aikin] Barbauld, “On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing,” The British Novelists (1810) Glossary of Authors and TextsChronological List of TextsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBorn into a leading Lithuanian-Jewish rabbinic family, Moshe Aron Reguer initially followed the path of traditional yeshiva education. His adolescence coincided with World War I and its upheavals, pandemics, and pogroms, as well as with new ideas of Haskala, Zionism, and socialism. His memoir, recently discovered and here translated and published for the first time, discusses his internal struggles and describes the world around him and the people who influenced him. Moshe Aron Reguer wrote his memoir at the age of 23, on the eve of his departure for Eretz Israel in 1926. However, his story did not end there, but continued in British Mandated Palestine and the United States. He kept in touch with the family in Brest-Litovsk until the Nazis destroyed Jewish Lithuania, and some of their correspondence is included within this volume.

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Book SynopsisThis concise book tells the absorbing story of the development of one of the greatest public institutions in the country.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The University of California: What Makes It Unique? Mind before Mines Land and a Charter The University President Gilman The Constitutional Convention of 1878 Early Benefactors Growth for the Twentieth Century President Wheeler The Faculty Revolution Growth of the Campuses The Modern University President Sproul The Loyalty Oath Progress and Problems The Chancellorship The Multiversity Achievements of the 1960s The Master Plan Decentralizing the University Student Unrest The Steady State Planning for Hard Times The Tax Revolt Bakke v. The Regents of the University of California New Intellectual Horizons The Booming 1980s A Pacific Rim State Growth Again Conflicts and Controversies The University under Fire A New President and an Economic Crisis The Debate over Admissions Rankings Research and Economic Growth New Directions for Outreach Tidal Wave II and New Approaches to Admission Achievement versus Aptitude Transitions The University Past and Present University of California Campuses Presidents of the University of California Chief Campus Officers/Chancellors of the University of California Notes Further Reading

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Book SynopsisJohn Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the development of philosophical ethics. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students, providing readers with the inspired guidance of one of contemporary philosophy's most noteworthy practitioners and teachers.Trade ReviewRawls is, of course, one of the major moral and political philosophers of the 20th-century. These essays center on Kant's moral philosophy as influenced by Hume's and Leibniz's and as it influenced Hegel. Throughout, Rawls tries to understand the distinctive questions each philosopher posed to himself and the specific answers he gave...Rawls's deep, tightly argued, and lucidly presented analyses warrant close attention by students on the subject. -- Robert Hoffman * Library Journal *Rawls's 'Kant Lectures' have enjoyed a cult status so great that it has propelled dog-eared copies of his notes across campuses and generations. After being guided by Rawls's able hand through the rigors of such texts as Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Hume's Treatise on Human Nature, readers will appreciate how Rawls's generosity, both to students and subject, earned these Harvard lectures a place in legend. * Kirkus Reviews *This volume draws together the final version of Rawls' lecture notes on the history of modern moral philosophy. It offers probing discussions of Hume, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel and of the four basic types of moral reasoning--perfectionism, utilitarianism, intuitionism, and Kantian constructivism. Readers could hardly find a more enlightening (if sometimes challenging) companion in exploring key historical approaches to life's most fundamental moral and philosophical questions. -- Mary Carroll * Booklist *What names would we want to place next to Wittgenstein and Heidegger? No thinker, I believe, has a greater right to stand alongside them than John Rawls. Rawls's A Theory of Justice, which appeared in 1971, changed forever the landscape of moral and political philosophy. Like Wittgenstein and Heidegger, Rawls has shown a remarkable capacity for self-criticism. Like them, he has gone on to revise in significant ways the doctrines that first established his fame...The publication of the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy is thus a major event, since here we find the conception of modern ethics as a whole, the understanding of its characteristic themes and problems, that has inspired Rawls's political thought. -- Charles Larmore * New Republic *Rawls has an enormously authoritative and interesting way of thinking and writing about the history of philosophy. His approach and tone is that of a world-class athlete watching old films to analyze the technique of his great predecessors. It is a pleasure to listen in. -- Matthew Simpson * Journal of the History of Philosophy *Table of ContentsEditors Foreword A Note On The Texts Introduction: Modern Moral Philosophy, 1600-1800 1. A Difference between Classical and Modern Moral Philosophy 2. The Main Problem of Greek Moral Philosophy 3. The Background of Modern Moral Philosophy 4. The Problems of Modem Moral Philosophy 5. The Relation between Religion and Science 6. Kant on Science and Religion 7. On Studying Historical Texts HUME I. Morality Psychologized and the Passions 1. Background: Skepticism and the Fideism of Nature 2. Classification of the Passions 3. Outline of Section 3 of Part III of Book II 4. Hume's Account of (Nonmoral) Deliberation: The Official View II. Rational Deliberation and the Role of Reason 1. Three Questions about Hume's Official View 2. Three Further Psychological Principles 3. Deliberation as Transforming the System of Passions 4. The General Appetite to Good 5. The General Appetite to Good: Passion or Principle? III. Justice as an Artificial Virtue 1. The Capital of the Sciences 2. The Elements of Hume's Problem 3. The Origin of Justice and Property 4. The Circumstances of Justice 5. The Idea of Convention Examples and Supplementary Remarks 6. Justice as a Best Scheme of Conventions 7. The Two Stages of Development IV. The Critique of Rational Intuitionism 1. Introduction 2. Some of Clarke's Main Claims 3. The Content of Right and Wrong 4. Rational Intuitionism's Moral Psychology 5. Hume's Critique of Rational Intuitionism 6. Hume's Second Argument: Morality Not Demonstrable V. The Judicious Spectator 1. Introduction 2. Hume's Account of Sympathy 3. The First Objection: The Idea of the Judicious Spectator 4. The Second Objection: Virtue in Rags Is Still Virtue 5. The Epistemological Role of the Moral Sentiments 6. Whether Hume Has a Conception of Practical Reason 7. The Concluding Section of the Treatise Appendix: Hume's Disowning the Treatise LEIBNIZ I. His Metaphysical Perfectionism 1. Introduction 2. Leibniz's Metaphysical Perfectionism 3. The Concept of a Perfection 4. Leibniz's Predicate-in-Subject Theory of Truth 5. Some Comments on Leibniz's Account of Truth II. Spirits As Active Substances: Their Freedom 1. The Complete Individual Concept Includes Active Powers 2. Spirits as Individual Rational Substances 3. True Freedom 4. Reason, Judgment, and Will 5. A Note on the Practical Point of View KANT I. Groundwork: Preface And Part I 1. Introductory Comments 2. Some Points about the Preface: Paragraphs 11-13 3. The Idea of a Pure Will 4. The Main Argument of Groundwork I 5. The Absolute Value of a Good Will 6. The Special Purpose of Reason 7. Two Roles of the Good Will II. The Categorical Imperative: The First Formulation 1. Introduction 2. Features of Ideal Moral Agents 3. The Four-Step CI-Procedure 4. Kant's Second Example: The Deceitful Promise 5. Kant's Fourth Example: The Maxim of Indifference 6. Two Limits on Information 7. The Structure of Motives III. THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE: THE SECOND FORMULATION 1. The Relation between the Formulations 2. Statements of the Second Formulation 3. Duties of Justice and Duties of Virtue 4. What Is Humanity? 5. The Negative Interpretation 6. The Positive Interpretation 7. Conclusion: Remarks on Groundwork 11:46-49 IV. THE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE: THE THIRD FORMULATION 1. Gaining Entry for the Moral Law 2. The Formulation of Autonomy and Its Interpretation 3. The Supremacy of Reason 4. The Realm of Ends 5. Bringing the Moral Law Nearer to Intuition 6. What Is the Analogy? V. THE PRIORITY OF RIGHT AND THE OBJECT OF THE MORAL LAW 1. Introduction 2. The First Three of Six Conceptions of the Good 3. The Second Three Conceptions of the Good 4. Autonomy and Heteronomy 5. The Priority of Bight 6. A Note on True Human Needs VI. Moral Constructivism 1. Rational Intuitionism: A Final Look 2. Kant's Moral Constructivism 3. The Constructivist Procedure 4. An Observation and an Objection 5. Two Conceptions of Objectivity 6. The Categorical Imperative: In What Way Synthetic A Priori? VII. THE FACT OF REASON 1. Introduction 2. The First Fact of Reason Passage 3. The Second Passage: 5-8 of Chapter 1 of the Analytic 4. The Third Passage: Appendix I to Analytic I, Paragraphs 8-15 5. Why Kant Might Have Abandoned a Deduction for the Moral Law 6. What Kind of Authentication Does the Moral Law Have? 7. The Fifth and Sixth Fact of Reason Passages 8. Conclusion VIII. The Moral Law as the Law of Freedom 1. Concluding Remarks on Constructivism and Due Reflection 2. The Two Points of View 3. Kant's Opposition to Leibniz on Freedom 4. Absolute Spontaneity 5. The Moral Law as a Law of Freedom 6. The Ideas of Freedom 7. Conclusion IX. THE MORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF THE RELIGION, BOOK I 1. The Three Predispositions 2. The Free Power of Choice 3. The Rational Representation of the Origin of Evil 4. The Manichean Moral Psychology 5. The Roots of Moral Motivation in Our Person X. The Unity Of Reason 1. The Practical Point of View 2. The Realm of Ends as Object of the Moral Law 3. The Highest Good as Object of the Moral Law 4. The Postulates of Vernunftglaube 5. The Content of Reasonable Faith 6. The Unity of Reason HEGEL I. His Rechtsphilosophie 1. Introduction 2. Philosophy as Reconciliation 3. The Free Will 4. Private Property 5. Civil Society II. Ethical Life and Liberalism 1. Sitttichkeit: The Account of Duty 2. Sittlickkeit: The State 3. Sittlichkeit: War and Peace 4. A Third Alternative 5. Hegel's Legacy as a Critic of Liberalism Appendix: Course Outline

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Book SynopsisThe dramatic story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire, as revealed by the archaeology of its famous siteTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and childrenthe last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Templereportedly took their own lives rather than surrender to the Roman army. This dramatic event, which took place on top of Masada, a barren and windswept mountain overlooking the Dead Sea, spawned a powerful story of Jewish resistance that came to symbolize the embattled modern State of Israel. Incorporating the latest findings, Jodi Magness, an archaeologist who has excavated at Masada, explains what happened thereand what it has come to mean since. Featuring numerous illustrations, this is an engaging exploration of an ancient story that continues to grip the imagination today.Trade Review"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History""Magness’s conversational style will inform and entertain both the general and specialist reader…After reading the book you’ll want to book a trip to see it for yourself."---Lindsay Powell, Ancient History"Beautifully produced…A wonderful presentation to supplement the huge literature on the archaeology of Masada."---Eric M. Meyers, Dead Sea Discoveries

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Book SynopsisBilstein goes on to describe NASA's recent planetary and extraplanetary exploration, as well as its less well-known research into the future of aeronautical design.Trade ReviewNo better introductory history of NACA and NASA exists. Choice 2003Table of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Foundations for Flight, 1915-1930 2. Aeronautics in Peace and War, 1930-1945 3. Jets, Sonic Speed, and Satellites, 1945-1958 4. On the Fringes of Space, 1958-1964 5. Dress Rehearsals, 1964-1969 6. Aerospace Dividends, 1969-1973 7. International Ventures, 1973-1980 8. Aircraft and Aerospace Craft, 1980-1989 9. The Post-Challenger Years, 1989-1990's 10. Toward Century 21 11. Retrospect and Prospect Notes on Reading Chronology Index

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Book SynopsisCovers the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany. This work presents an assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe.Trade Review"Poliakov has demonstrated brilliantly how widely and deeply versed he is in his subject." * Economist *"Léon Poliakov's work on antisemitism is of enormous importance. As a work of scholarship it is almost without peer. One could have imagined that Poliakov's study might have given a long overdue burial to the longest hatred. Sadly-tragically-it has taken on a new urgency in our time as the images and issues have been resurrected at the beginning of the 21st century." * Michael Berenbaum, Director, Sigi Ziering Institute *"Highly recommended without exception." * Choice *"Poliakov has shown that anti-Semitism is no chance phenomenon but an emanation of European culture." * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisBritish rule in India caused millions of deaths, economic devastation, and cultural exploitation. The East India Company's ruthless tactics led to suffering and decline in GDP. Despite claims of benefits, the reality was a brutal and exploitative regime that harmed India in numerous ways.

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Book SynopsisThe ''Industrial Revolution'' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the construction of the first railways, a great network of arteries feeding the factories. Cities grew as people shifted from agriculture to industry and commerce. Hand in hand with the growth of cities came rising levels of pollution and disease. Many people lost their jobs to the new machinery, whilst working conditions in the factories were grim and pay was low. As the middle classes prospered, social unrest ran through the working classes, and the exploitation of workers led to the growth of trade unions and protest movements.In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen analyzes the key features of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, and the spread of industrialization to other countries. He considers the factors that combined to enable industrialization at this time, including Britain''s position as a global commercial empire, and discusses the changes in technology and business organization, and their impact on different social classes and groups. Introducing the ''winners'' and the ''losers'' of the Industrial Revolution, he looks at how the changes were reflected in evolving government policies, and what contribution these made to the economic transformation. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Reviewa landmark outline of global economic growth and the British Industrial Revolution in alignment with mainstream economic thinking today. * Avner Offer, Economic History.net *An authoritative overview of recent perspectives on the Industrial Revolution which is very clearly written and a pleasure to read. * Nick Crafts, Professor of Economic History, University of Warwick *Table of ContentsREFERENCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX

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Book SynopsisSurveys centuries of folklore about vampires. This book offers an explanation for the origins of the vampire legends, from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires.Trade Review"A stimulating, authoritative discourse on the relationship between the historical concepts of vampires in folklore and fiction across the ages and throughout the world."—Library Journal"Barber, a specialist in German language and folklore who has a faintly ghoulish sense of humour, has written a splendid book about the undead, illuminated by the findings of morbid anatomy. . . . The main value of this most interesting book is to remind us how far we have come in our ability to explain the world and how this has released us from at least some terrors."—Anthony Daniels, The Spectator "Since this is essentially a scholarly work on human decomposition and historical attitudes to it, it is remarkable how often Paul Barber manages to be funny. . . . His insights, medical and cultural, hold a chastening fascination."—Hugh Barnacle, Independent "A pioneering work on the role of medicine in unraveling the mysteries of the supernatural. Breaking new ground, it belongs among the significant studies of folklore."—Felix J. Oinas, Indiana University

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Book SynopsisLiberia was in the headlines in 1990 when thousands of teenage fighters, including young men wearing women's clothing and bizarre objects of decoration, laid seige to the capital, Monrovia. In response to the crisis, a West African peacekeeping force, ECONMOG, was sent to stabilize the country and prevent the main warlord, Charles Taylor, from coming to power. Seven years later, however, Taylor was elected President. The country had a fragile peace but the war had spread to its neighbour Sierra Leone. This book traces the history of the civil war that has blighted Liberia in recent years and looks at its roots in the way governments have been established in West Africa during the 20th century.Trade Review'The first half of this outstanding study of Liberia's civil war (1989-97) reviews the conflict's political, economic, military and international features, drawing on a comprehensive array of sources. the second half is a fascinating and profound exploration of what Ellis sees as Liberian's deep spiritual anarchy, manifested during the war in extreme brutality, incidents of cannibalism, and the fighters' bizarre sartorial affections. these things tend to boggle Western minds, as did the overwhelming support among Liberian voters for the unprincipled warlord Charles Taylor in the country's 1997 presidential election. But Ellis' persuasive analysis of Liberian religious ideology and culture does more than make sense of these strange phenomena. It offers rare insight into the political, physical, and spiritual power can be linked and legitimized in the popular imagination-and how each can run amok in the absence of durable institutional checks and balances. A model of lucid writing, thorough research, and penetrating interpretation, this is one of the best books on Africa in recent years.' -Foreign Affairs, Washington, DCTable of ContentsA death in the night; the first of the warlords; lean and hungry years; the mechanics of war; business and diplomacy; a nation long forlorn; men and devils; false prophets. Appendix: war deaths, 1989-1997.

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Book SynopsisTo this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. But, as this new edition of Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. The transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a 'cure' that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.Trade Review'[An] informative, scholarly and dispassionately fascinating book. ... Narcotic Culture explodes various myths surrounding the use of opium in nineteenth and early twentieth century China.' * Justin Wintle, The Independent *

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Book SynopsisJulia Hauser explores the global history of vegetarianism from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She demonstrates that vegetarians in India and the West shared notions of purity, which drew some toward not only internationalism and anticolonialism but also racism, nationalism, and violence.Trade ReviewVegetarianism’s political and ecological imperatives have long wanted for a historian capable of excavating their roots. Julia Hauser offers an electric, wholly original account of the nationalist and international politics, racial paradigms, and unexpected encounters between German, Swiss, American, and Indian thinkers as they crafted modern vegetarianism’s moral stance. -- Benjamin Siegel, author of Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern IndiaCentral today to many modern lifestyles and movements, vegetarianism is in fact rooted in a deep history, now masterfully explored by Julia Hauser. Rich in detail, often surprising, and written in clear prose, this study is sure to challenge established notions of West and East, modern and traditional, left and right. Much food for thought! -- Paul Nolte, Free University BerlinTable of ContentsIntroduction1. In Search of Purity: European Vegetarians and Their Spheres of Projection2. Evolution, Cows, and Communalism: Vegetarianism and the Colonial Encounter in India, ca. 1880–19123. The Chicago Effect: Internationalizing Vegetarianism4. Between Buddha, Gandhi, Sufism, and Militant Masculinity: Relating to South Asia in Interwar German and Swiss Vegetarianism5. Race, Nation, and Peace: (Re-)Internationalizing Vegetarianism After the Second World WarEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisVitalism, the recognition that the physical body is animated by a vital life force, is the foundation of most natural healing therapies. The forefathers of alternative medicine discovered methods of healing the body by stimulating this life force. In Vitalism: The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences, Matthew Wood describes the theories, lives, and work of nine great physicians who laid the groundwork for natural medicine.

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Book SynopsisRecounts the struggle for human rights across the ages and synthesizes historical and intellectual developments since the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi. This book chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies that have played a part in this struggle, and illustrates how the history of human rights has evolved.Trade Review"This is an important book for those who focus on human rights in history." -- Susan Longfield Karr Journal Of World HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Definition, the Argument, and Six Historical Controversies Structure 1. Early Ethical Contributions to Human Rights Religious and Secular Notions of Universalism Liberty: The Origins of Tolerance Equality: Early Notions of Economic and Social Justice How to Promote Justice? Fraternity, or Human Rights for Whom? 2. Human Rights and the Enlightenment: The Development of a Liberal and Secular Perspective of Human Rights From Ancient Civilizations to the Rise of the West Freedom of Religion and Opinion The Right to Life The Right to Private Property The State and Just-War Theory Human Rights for Whom? 3. Human Rights and the Industrial Age: The Development of a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights The Industrial Age Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights Universal Suffrage, Economic and other Social Rights Challenging Capitalism and the State Human Rights for Whom? 4. The World Wars: The Institutionalization of International Rights and the Right to Self-Determination The End of Empires The Right to Self-Determination Institutionalizing Human Rights Human Rights for Whom? 5. Globalization and Its Impact on Human Rights Globalization and Protest Movements Defining Rights in the Era of Globalization After September 11: Security versus Human Rights Human Rights for Whom? 6. Promoting Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century: The Changing Arena of Struggle Medievalism and the Absence of Civil Society The Emergence of Civil Society during the Enlightenment The Expansion of Civil Society in the Industrial Revolution The Anti-Colonial Struggle The Globalization of Civil Society? Or an Assault on the Private Realm? Appendix: A Chronology of Events and Writings Related to Human Rights Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the world of the thumbscrew and the rack, engines of torture authorized for investigating crime in European legal systems from medieval times into the eighteenth century. Drawing on juristic literature and legal records, this crisply written book provides an account of how European legal systems became dependent on the use of torture.

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Book SynopsisA survey of the history of the French Foreign Legion that outlines the Legion's vicissitudes, victorious campaigns, marches, dirtiest combats and dramatic defeats. This book discusses the Legion in the historical background of France and also describes its development, organization, uniforms, equipments and weapons.

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Book SynopsisThis popular text has now been revised to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the growing number of people interested in all the main philosophical traditions of the world. Introduces all the main philosophical systems of the world, from ancient times to the present day. Now includes new sections on Indian and Persian thought and on feminist and environmental philosophy. The preface and bibliography have also been updated. Written by a highly successful textbook author. Trade Review‘A multicultural feast of ideas and arguments! In language that is expressive, clear and often humorous, David Cooper has written a compelling history of philosophy, covering as it does not only the major figures in Western thought but also the main trends in non-Western philosophy.' Robert L. Arrington, Georgia State University ‘By opening the door to cross-cultural comparison, Cooper has let in a draught that may blow away the whole house of cards, and uncover the parts of philosophy that the histories never reached.' Jonathan Rée, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface to second edition vii 1 Introduction 1 Part I: Ancient Philosophies 9 2 India 13 3 China 58 4 Greece 92 Part II: Middle Period and 'Modern' Philosophies: 147 5 Medieval Philosophies 151 6 Developments in Asian Philosophy 203 7 From Renaissance to Enlightenment 241 Part III: Recent Philosophies: 307 8 Kant and the Nineteenth Century 311 9 Recent Non-Western Philosophies 377 10 Twentieth-Century Western Philosophies 426 Bibliography 505 Index 527

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Book SynopsisA first history of mediation and arbitration in England before the Common Law. This book shows how natural and widespread mediation and arbitration have been in England since history began. It includes an appendix which deals with the many unsettled questions of the languages of the period, British, Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman.

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Book SynopsisPrinted first in 1666, this source is both an instruction manual and plea for reform, comparing the positive potential of mediation and arbitration with the chicanery of contemporary litigation. It describes in detail some arbitrations of the period.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the revival under Edward VII of the ceremonial state visit by British monarchs, showing the impact and importance of active royal diplomacy during his reign. Using the Royal Archives, memoirs and newspapers, it reveals the contribution made by the use of ceremony and public display to popular appreciation of the monarchy.Trade Review“This absorbing book reveals much of a lesser-appreciated facet of the public life of King Edward VII … . This book confirms the relevance of this area of scholarship to those interested in British diplomacy and royal visits, and invites further comparative research into overseas journeys undertaken by subsequent monarchs.” (Laura Cook, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 3 (2), 2016) Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Modern Revival of Royal Diplomacy 2. The First Royal Visits 3. A Difficult Host: Edward VII's Visit to Italy 4. Edward's Gift to Diplomacy? 1903 Visit to Paris 5. A Virtual Royal Occasion: Edward VII's 1907 Visit to Spain 6. The Diplomatic Margins: State Visits to Scandinavia 7. Dealing with the Great Bear: Edward VII's Visit to Russia 8. 'The Most Powerful and Influential Diplomat of his Day': Edward VII's Final State Visits Epilogue

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Book SynopsisExploding the myth that Marco Polo discovered pasta in China and brought it back to Italy, this volume shows that pasta has existed in various forms throughout Middle Eastern, Asian, and even North African culinary cultures long before its appearance in the West.Trade ReviewServenti and Sabban's remarkable tracing of pasta's history and development makes this a central addition to the history of food. -- Mark Knoblauch Booklist [Pasta] is stuffed as tight as cannelloni with facts, numbers and quotes...an excellent study not only of pasta but of the way a single product can mutate and influence various economies over time...no doubt the exhaustive new authority on its subject. Publishers Weekly A feast for the mind. Guardian Offers more in the way of pasta history than most readers have even begun to imagine. Kirkus Reviews There are countless books on pasta, but none before has really explained how noodles took over the world, from the two great civilizations of China and Italy... [Pasta] is rich with stories. -- Bee Wilson London Times You might think that a 400-plus-page book about pasta wouldn't be much of a page turner, but you'd be wrong...Serventi & Sabban have written an engrossing book. -- Dan Santow Chicago Tribune [A]nyone who cares about pasta (which is to say, anyone who eats) will find a great deal of fascinating material to savor. This book is catnip for history buffs. -- Fred Plotkin Gastronomica Pasta shows how much is to be gained by looking at historical change through the lens provided by... food. -- Priscilla Ferguson Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Preface Note Concerning a Definition of Pasta Products Acknowledgments Introduction: In the Beginning Was Wheat 1. The Infancy of an Art 2. The Time of the Pioneers 3. From the Hand to the Extrusion Press 4. The Golden Age of the Pasta Manufactory 5. The Industrial Age 6. Pasta Without Borders 7. The Time of Plenty 8. The Taste for Pasta 9. China: Pasta's Other Homeland 10. The Words of Pasta

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Book SynopsisPresents an argument that the research university developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. This book investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalog, the library catalog, and the grading system.Trade Review"In almost any way that one can imagine, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University is an astonishing book.... Many times the prose is purposefully funny and anything but dry-as-dust academic writing. No summary can do justice to a book so relentless in analysis and so rich in original source material.... This is a brilliant book. The styles and methods may be recognizable, but the whole is daringly new, exciting, and disturbing." - Sheldon Rothblatt, American Scientist "[Clark] makes his case with analytic shrewdness, an exuberant love of archival anecdote, and a wry sense of humor. It's hard to resist a writer who begins by noting, 'Befitting the subject, this is an odd book.'" - Anthony Grafton, New Yorker"

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Book SynopsisThe Phantom was developed for the US Navy as a long range all-weather fighter and first flew in May 1958. Phantoms have been used in combat in many conflicts throughout its long service history. This text provides a history of this craft.

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Book SynopsisA half-century of Wall Street history as seen through the lives of its most illustrious family This compelling new narrative from bestselling author John Rothchild tells the story of three generations of the legendary Davis family, who rank among the most successful investors in the history of the Street.Trade Review"...Rothchild's book is a combination of entertaining biography and successful investment philosophy..." (Lloyd's List, 28 September, 2001) "...well-researched, solidly written book..." (Institutional Investor, 1 October, 2001)Table of ContentsIntroduction. Davis Meets His Bankroll. From the Great Depression To the Hitler Crisis. Beyond the Rear-View Mirror. A Last Hurrah for Bonds. A Crib Course in Coverage. From Bureaucrat to Investor. The Bullish 1950s. Davis Shops Abroad. Wall Street a Go-Go. Shelby Gets Funded. The Inheritance Flap. Cool Trio Runs Hot Fund. The Worst Decline Since 1929. Davis on the Rebound. Shelby Buys Banks--Davis Buys Everything. The Grandsons Get in the Game. The Family Joins Forces. Chris Inherits Venture. Investing à la Davis. Source Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Monarch History of the Church is an eight-volume series by world-renowned historians and theologians. Each volume offers an even-handed, comprehensive and readable assessment of the main strands of Christianity within its period. The first volume covers the period AD 30-312. During this time, the church experienced major challenges politically, culturally and intellectually, yet grew and defined itself in remarkable ways. Here is the story of Christianity's earliest shapers - men and women whose influence is still felt today.Trade Review`A telling account of early Christianity from Bible times down to the conversion of Constantine that is clear, readable and informed by recent scholarship.’ -- David Bebbington, Professor of History, University of Stirling`An account of the early church that is both readable and informative, without being simplistic’ -- Gerald Bray, Anglican Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School

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Book SynopsisThis volume is part one of a two-volume set. Volume I: From the Puritans through Transcendentalism. Volume I: From the St. Louis Hegelians through C. I. Lewis

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Book SynopsisIncludes such contents as: The Absolute Immigrates to America - The St Louis Hegelians; The Evolutionary Controversy; Charles Sanders Peirce; William James, the Tough-Minded - An Appraisal; Josiah Royce; George Santayana - The Exile at Home; Dewey - Battling Against Dualisms; C I Lewis: Conceptualistic Pragmatism; Epilogue; and, Index.

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Book SynopsisExploring recent political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past, John Torpey argues that there are major differences between reparations for the living victims of past wrongdoing and reparations for the descendants of such victims. This reprint edition contains a new preface by the author.Trade Review"History is written by the winners, it is commonly said. But heritage—history shaped to present purposes—is increasingly fashioned by the losers. Ex-colonial peoples, minorities, tribal indigenes everywhere demand reparations—atonement for the suffering of those deprived of autonomy and agency, repatriation of treasures purloined or pillaged or purchased, compensation for past injustices… Among millions maltreated by history, John Torpey notes, an unseemly contest for the status of worst-victimized often ensues. Torpey's short and scintillating book, Making Whole What Has Been Smashed, explores reparation demands ranging from official apologies and admissions of wrongdoing to memorials, cash payments, health and welfare aid, and property return to groups and individuals. Chapters on post-apartheid Namibia and South Africa, on Japanese-American and Japanese-Canadian Second World War internees, and on legacies of slavery that still disable African Americans suggest his topical scope. But the book's greatest merit is its profound and lucid critique of the causes and political, legal, economic, and symbolic implications of reparation claims. Compassionate erudition, deft demolition of holier-than-thou posturing, and clarity of expression make this a minor classic reminiscent of Paul Bator's 1983 The International Trade in Art. Torpey rightly links current campaigns to redress wrongs with the broader trend, consequent on widespread public pessimism, refocusing attention from the future to the past." -- David Lowenthal * The Times Literary Supplement *"Torpey has written on reparations politics in a manner that is both informed by scholarship and usefully oriented toward influencing relevant thinking." * American Journal of Sociology *"After reading this book, I am struck with the question of to whom to give reparations for the past injustices. In a country where the victims of abuses do not live, and persons or groups who ask for reparations are not merely the descendant of the victims, is it evenhanded to give reparations? Torpey puts forth this quandary in exemplifying the case of reparations for Black Americans, Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians. This analysis of trans-generational justice is one of the precious contributions of this book that all researchers of transitional justice as well as students of political science, sociology, history and philosophy must consider. His invaluable analysis of the reparations movements, drawn from an interdisciplinary perspective, calls to a wide range of readers." * International Journal on World Peace *"Anyone interested in the history, politics, sociology or philosophy of reparations should read John Torpey's brilliant analysis of global reparations politics. Torpey uses a superb blend of historical sociology and philosophy to offer his readers an informed, skeptical, yet not entirely unsympathetic look at the reparations movement." * Canadian Journal of Sociology Online *"While the reader might not share Torpey’s dissatisfaction with past-oriented politics, his analytical insights into the rise of the past as an object of politics are fresh and perceptive… Theorists and practitioners of past-oriented politics would be well advised to take on Torpey's challenge and ask themselves why they pursue past-oriented politics, and how these politics relate to projects of the future." * Ethics & International Affairs *"Torpey’s book, both theoretical and empirical in its analysis, is unquestionably the most clear-headed work available on the several international campaigns to redress past injustices. Keenly insightful and analytical, Torpey is no polemicist favoring or opposing reparations. Rather, he is a smart social scientist who unravels the persistent human concern of reckoning with the past and righting history’s wrongs." * North Carolina Historical Review *"'When the future collapses, the past rushes in.' With this formidable insight, John Torpey launches his penetrating study of the many varieties of reparations politics around the world. In exemplary fashion, Torpey clarifies what is at stake in a global movement seeking recompense and apology for the past's insulted and injured in an era inhospitable to ideals for future reconstruction. This reflective work is a splendid starting point for thinking through not only reparation ideas but some of the other large quandaries of reform thought today." -- Todd Gitlin * author of The Intellectuals and the Flag *"Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics is comprehensive, thoughtful, and almost compulsively readable. John Torpey's willingness to query the unquestioned pieties of our era's therapeutic politics is a tribute to the rigorousness of his approach. The tone of the work is consistently cool, analytical, and tactfully skeptical, no small achievement given the highly charged nature of these debates." -- Michael Brown * author of Who Owns Native Culture? *"Why do we so regularly hear admonishments to 'come to terms with the past?' In reply, John Torpey identifies momentous trends in a splendid, far-ranging inquiry: the collapse of transformative politics and the end of the Cold War, the emergence of the Holocaust as a template for the rectification of historic wrongs, the mobilization of the historically victimized, and the mix of human rights commitments with the juridification of politics. Critical, yet balanced and humane, Torpey presents a savvy, deeply-informed analysis that should be contemplated by all who seek a better global future. I couldn't recommend him more enthusiastically." -- Michael R. Marrus * author of The Holocaust in History *"The German campaign of 1904 to end Herero resistance in the northern part of the colony of South-West Africa culminated in the forced movement of the Herero into the Kalahari Desert, or capturing these people and herding them into concentration camps. Torpey does an excellent job of explaining how this massacre of the Herero, considered by many to have been a dress rehearsal by the Germans for the Holocaust, engendered reparations initiatives in Namibia that focused primarily on monetary compensation, rather than on an apology by the German government" -- Lamont DeHaven King * JSTOR: Association for the Study of African-American Life and History *"A seminal study that is impressively informative and thought-provoking, "Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics..." [is] unreservedly recommended" -- Micah Andrew * Midwestern Book Review *Table of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Surfacing of Subterranean History 2 An Anatomy of Reparations Politics 3 Commemoration, Redress, and Reconciliation: The Cases of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians 4 Forty Acres: The Case of Reparations for Black Americans 5 Post-Colonial Reparations: Reparations Politics in Post-Apartheid Namibia and South Africa Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. Senate recently proposed the U.S.-China Cultural Engagement Act, a $1.3 billion initiative to provide Chinese language and culture instruction in American schoolsTrade Review"A brief introduction to the main characteristics of Chinese, written to be accessible to beginning students as well as anyone with a general interest in Chinese language and culture. Provides a demystifying overview of Chinese from a linguistic, historical and social perspective." --Omniglot.com blog"Excellent overview of the Chinese language. It's perfect for a reader with some knowledge of linguistic terms, but it's definitely written for a layman. It has tons of examples and really whetted my appetite to learn more." —Goodreads

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Book SynopsisThis work collects, analyzes, and systematically presents in over 160 examples a magnificent tradition to future generations of cantors, scholars of Jewish music, and music enthusiasts worldwide. It reacquaints acculturated Jews with a largely unknown part of their heritage.

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Book SynopsisOprah''s book club has declared The Feminist Revolution a must-read for Women''s History Month.The Feminist Revolution offers an overview of women''s struggle for equal rights in the late twentieth century. Beginning with the auspicious founding of the National Organization for Women in 1966, at a time when women across the world were mobilizing individually and collectively in the fight to assert their independence and establish their rights in society, the book traces a path through political campaigns, protests, the formation of women''s publishing houses and groundbreaking magazines, and other events that shaped women''s history. It examines women''s determination to free themselves from definition by male culture, wanting not only to ''take back the night'' but also to reclaim their bodies, their minds, and their cultural identity. It demonstrates as well that the feminist revolution was enacted by women from all backgrounds, of every color, and of

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the period from the 1890s until the 1930s, when prostitution was legal in Argentina. At the same time, pogroms and anti-Semitic discrimination left thousands of Eastern European Jewish people displaced. For many Jewish women, participation in prostitution was one few ways they could escape the limited options in their home countries.Trade Review"Recommended."— Choice "Yarfitz has approached the delicate subject deftly and with sophistication."— H-Net “A fascinating account of Jewish participation in sexual commerce in Buenos Aires…Impure Migration deepens our knowledge of the relation between prostitution and migration.”— Cristiana Schettini, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) / University of San Martín, Argentina “A tour de force. It transcends conventional accounts of victimized prostitutes and malevolent pimps with an intellectually bold exploration of sexual and racialized public anxieties. An important contribution to the history of international mobility, immigrant sociability, gendered labor, and multi-ethnic cities.”— José Moya, professor of history, Barnard College “Impure Migration presents a fascinating chapter in the history of Jewish immigration to the Americas... it is important that this story be made available.”— Adriana M. Brodsky, professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland "Wyklęta Varsovia. Sutenerski szlak "Napoleona" ze Smoczej," by Wojtek Rodak— Weekend Gazeta "If you want to read just one of the very many books on Jewish white slavery, this is the one you should choose. Both specialists and the general public will find this volume engaging and insightful."— Raanan Rein, vice president, Tel Aviv University "This book provides us with exciting ways in which the perspectives of the subaltern can be narrated into a transnational history of elites who dominated the talk about them. Impure Migration is a brilliant piece of history writing which will speak loudly and inspirationally to global and transnational historians. Its findings will equally be of immense help to activists and academics engaged in debates on contemporary sex work and trafficking."— ConnectionsTable of ContentsContents Note on Translation and Transliteration Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction: White Slave Wives on the Road to Buenos Aires 1 White Slaves and Dark Masters 2 Jewish Traffic in Women 3 Marriage as Ruse, or Migration Strategy 4 Immigrant Mutual Aid among Pimps 5 The Impure Shape Jewish Buenos Aires Conclusion: After the Varsovia Society Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSix tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years, including the tragic, untold tale of what happened to Britain's extensive networks in Soviet Russia between the wars. It reveals for the first time how the playwright and MI6 agent Harley Granville Barker bribed the Daily News to keep Arthur Ransome in Russia, and the real reason Paul Dukes returned there. It shows development of tradecraftA" and the great personal risk officers and their agents took, far from home and unprotected. In Salonika, for example, Lieutenant Norman Dewhurst realised it was time to leave when he opened his door to find one of his agents hanging dismembered in a sack. This first part of Six takes us up to the eve of the conflict, using hundreds of previously unreleased files and interviews with key players to show how one of the world's most secretive of secret agencies originated and developed into something like the MI6 we know today. The second part, published in Spring 2012, will tell the story from the outbreak of World War Two to the present.Trade ReviewEngrossing... As a rollicking chronicle of demented derringdo, Smith's book is hard to beat. His research is prodigious and his eye for a good story impeccable, and his book, while perfectly scholarly, often reads like a real-life James Bond thriller.A" Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times If you want to know every detail of how Mansfield Cumming, the original C, won the fight with the directors of intelligence to establish the independence of his new service... then Smith's is your book.A" Literary Review Michael Smith's book covers events in more depth, features the identity of leading players, and affords readers and researchers an opportunity to seek further information. It is a brilliant work - meticulously researched and presented.A" Eye Spy Magazine

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Book SynopsisCodes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s.Trade ReviewA brilliant book on the political economy of script reforms in modern China. For the first time, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu clarifies how the technologies of writing, such as the making of new or simplified scripts to manage labor, information flow, and so on, became increasingly central to the political struggles over the future of China and its place in the world. This rich and well-researched study is a major contribution to the fields of Chinese history and global history. -- Lydia H. Liu, author of The Freudian RobotKuzuoğlu’s achievements in Codes of Modernity are unmatched. Analyzing a dazzling array of transnational historical, linguistic, and communications phenomena, he presents nothing less than the ascendancy of China’s twentieth-century political economy of information. Kuzuoğlu proves convincingly that it both shared features with and departed from global labor regimes of economy and efficiency. -- Christopher A. Reed, author of Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937Uluğ Kuzuoğlu's Codes of Modernity is not only one of the most rigorous and fascinating histories of Chinese scripts ever written, it is also a story of media, of the conditions of thought and language, and of the technological mythologies structuring the goals of 'modernity' that were central to China's ongoing transformations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is a field-defining book, as rich in analysis as it is in archival insights. Kuzuoğlu brilliantly reframes the history of China's efforts at language and script reform as part of a much larger economy of information and knowledge work. Codes of Modernity brings questions about the evolving conditions of Chinese orthography into conversation with the rise of information capitalism, computation, and global politics. Codes of Modernity will be indispensable to scholars of Chinese writing, but it also deserves a much wider readership—a book of archival treasures and powerful synthesis for anyone interested in the evolution of information technologies over the past two centuries. -- R. John Williams, author of The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Alphabetic Labor Time: Scripts, Wires, and Brains in the Late Qing2. The National Phonetic Alphabet: Scripts and the Birth of Language Politics3. Basic Chinese: Cognitive Management and Mass Literacy4. Simplification of Chinese Characters: Mining, Counting, Seeing5. The New Dunganese Alphabet: Latinization Across Eurasia6. The Chinese Latin Alphabet: A Revolutionary Script7. The Empire of PinyinEpilogue: A New Age of CodesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe veteran journalist Sandy Gall reported from Afghanistan at length through the 1980s and â90s, spending months with Massoud and his forces.

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Book SynopsisSuch wisdom is as relevant in today's stressful world as it was thousands of years ago, when it was first written. It was my love for this wonderful book which prompted me to write my adaptation, and I hope I have been able to share that love with others.

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Book SynopsisAnyone who experienced the attacks on September 11 cannot forget the imagery: the smoking, falling towers, the Pentagon smoldering, the Shanksville crash site, the first responders.But there is an invisible story hidden in the wreckage, one that required years of patient investigation and the piecing together of a sequence from many scattered sources. By establishing the most definitive timeline of how that day unfolded, William M. Arkin shows how the US government failed in the face of the unprecedented attack. It is a story of laughable airport security, vulnerable airspace, blind intelligence, poor communications, muddled orders, Pentagon chaos, and presidential isolation. Everything about the emergency procedures of the governments-from White House security to continuity of government to military alerts-went wrong.On That Day is a stunning, nightmare journey through a government reeling in confusion while many civilians performed individual acts of heroism. It is a chilling exposé of government negligence and overreach, and a constitution in crisis.

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Book SynopsisFrom Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they have shaped it in a distinctively African manner. Football may obey global rules, but the influence of magicians and healers, the nurturing of different tactics and styles of play, and local forms of spectatorship give football in the continent a cultural and sporting imprint all of its own . In African Soccerscapes Peter Alegi explores how football was influenced by colonialism, the growth of cities, independence, and global capitalism. Regional differences and the links between sport, culture and politics feature prominently in his book. In the independent era football offered a rare form of 'national culture' in ethnically diverse nations and symbolized pan-African unity and solidarity through the anti-apartheid struggle and the campaign for more guaranteed places for African teams in the World Cup finals. Huge numbers of Africans play overseas, disproportionately rewarding European leagues at Africa's expense, and this phenomenon is discussed, as are the recent privatization of the African game, football development programs and the growth of women's football.Trade ReviewNobody understands the background to African soccer better than the Italian-American historian Peter Alegi. This World Cup is his moment. His African Soccerscapes crams daunting erudition, gleaned over many years of study of African football, into under 200 pages of history. -- Financial TimesPeter Alegi's African Soccerscapes is simply the best available overview of the history. Concise and to the point, you'll be through it before the round of 16 begins, having covered all the basics without forgetting the pleasures and the passions that animate African football. -- The GuardianA fascinating history of African football, from empire to the post-colony. -- Sunday Independent (South Africa)Table of Contents1: The White Man's Burden: Football and Empire, 1860s-1919 2: The Africanization of Football, 1920s-1940s 3: Making Nations in Late Colonial Africa, 1940s-1964 4: Nationhood, Pan-Africanism, and Football after Independence 5: Football Migration to Europe Since the 1930s 6: The Privatization of Football, 1980s to Recent Times Epilogue: South Africa 2010: The World Cup Comes to Africa

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Book SynopsisFor decades, many have doubted the existence of American cuisine, believing that hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza define the nation’s palate. Not so, says leading food historian Paul Freedman. Freedman traces the twentieth-century rise of processed food, standardisation and fast-food restaurants. With the farm-to-table movement, a culinary revolution has transformed the way Americans eat. Whether analysing how businesses and advertisers used seduction and guilt to dictate women’s food-shopping habits, exploring how class determines what Americans eat or documenting the contributions provided by immigrants, Freedman reveals an astonishing history.Trade Review"In American Cuisine, Paul Freedman embarks on an epic quest, to locate the roots of American foodways and follow changing tastes through the decades, a search that takes him straight to the heart of American identity. It is an enormous, endlessly fascinating subject, and Freedman makes a wonderful tour guide, scholarly and wry." -- William Grimes, former New York Times restaurant critic"This fascinating book delves into American cuisine with gusto." -- Choice

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