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These volumes present letters and other documents of St Vincent's
period as First Lord of the Admiralty, the most controversial and
politically-heated of any during the time of the sailing navy. They
are taken from his out-letter books, and do not include the
replies. Unusually for Society volumes, the editor selected only a
part of each letter for publication, but such severe editing does
not entirely muffle the Earl's spiky and forceful turn of phrase.
This volume covers the first year of St Vincent's time at the
Admiralty, 1801.
Captain Boteler (1796-1885) came from a naval family, entering the
navy as a Volunteer, First Class in 1808, was made lieutenant in
September 1815, commander in 1830 and captain in 1851. He left the
navy in 1830. These recollections, full of well-told naval
anecdote, were written in old age, and published only for private
circulation. They can be considered accurate, though dates are
sometimes unclear. Boteler describes his service in the Baltic
between 1809 and 1812, though there was an intervening period in
the Channel and the North Sea before he returned to the Baltic late
in the Napoleonic War. He served after the war in Gibraltar and on
the Jamaica station, engaged in the suppression of piracy, and then
more generally in the West Indies. Boteler quotes a detailed
contemporary account of the battle of Navarino, 1827.
These volumes present letters and other documents of St Vincent's
period as First Lord of the Admiralty, the most controversial and
politically-heated of any during the time of the sailing navy. They
are taken from his out-letter books, and do not include the
replies. Unusually for Society volumes, the editor selected only a
part of each letter for publication, but such severe editing does
not entirely muffle the Earl's spiky and forceful turn of phrase.
This volume covers the first year of St Vincent's time at the
Admiralty, 1801.
These volumes present letters and other documents of St Vincent's
period as First Lord of the Admiralty, the most controversial and
politically-heated of any during the time of the sailing navy. They
are taken from his out-letter books, and do not include the
replies. Unusually for Society volumes, the editor selected only a
part of each letter for publication, but such severe editing does
not entirely muffle the Earl's spiky and forceful turn of phrase.
The subjects covered include the General Election of 1801, the
Royal Marines, the dockyards and other parts of the civil
administration of the navy. The volume ends with the
strongly-worded and partisan printed pamphlet, entitled: Memoirs of
the Administration of the Board of Admiralty under the presidency
of Earl of St Vincent. All copies save one were destroyed,
presumably because of its inflammatory nature, but one survived in
the Grenville collection in the British Library. It is here
reproduced in 130 pages.
Captain Boteler (1796-1885) came from a naval family, entering the
navy as a Volunteer, First Class in 1808, was made lieutenant in
September 1815, commander in 1830 and captain in 1851. He left the
navy in 1830. These recollections, full of well-told naval
anecdote, were written in old age, and published only for private
circulation. They can be considered accurate, though dates are
sometimes unclear. Boteler describes his service in the Baltic
between 1809 and 1812, though there was an intervening period in
the Channel and the North Sea before he returned to the Baltic late
in the Napoleonic War. He served after the war in Gibraltar and on
the Jamaica station, engaged in the suppression of piracy, and then
more generally in the West Indies. Boteler quotes a detailed
contemporary account of the battle of Navarino, 1827.
David Bonner presents an historical and contemporary legal analysis
of UK governmental use of executive measures, rather than criminal
process, to deal with national security threats. The work examines
measures of internment, deportation and restriction on movement
deployed in the UK and (along with the imposition of collective
punishment) also in three emergencies forming part of its
withdrawal from colonial empire: Cyprus, Kenya and Malaya. These
situations, along with that of Northern Ireland, are used to probe
the strengths and weaknesses of ECHR supervision. It is argued that
a new human rights era ushered in by a more confident Court of
Human Rights and a more confident national judiciary armed with the
HRA 1998, has moved us towards greater judicial scrutiny of the
application of these measures - a move away from unfettered and
unreviewable executive discretion.
David Bonner presents an historical and contemporary legal analysis
of UK governmental use of executive measures, rather than criminal
process, to deal with national security threats. The work examines
measures of internment, deportation and restriction on movement
deployed in the UK and (along with the imposition of collective
punishment) also in three emergencies forming part of its
withdrawal from colonial empire: Cyprus, Kenya and Malaya. These
situations, along with that of Northern Ireland, are used to probe
the strengths and weaknesses of ECHR supervision. It is argued that
a new human rights era ushered in by a more confident Court of
Human Rights and a more confident national judiciary armed with the
HRA 1998, has moved us towards greater judicial scrutiny of the
application of these measures - a move away from unfettered and
unreviewable executive discretion.
BERDYAEV AS A PHILOSOPHER How shall a non-Russian, above all a
North American, assimilate the extraordinary assemblage of ideas
which is Berdyaev's philosophy? Dr. Richardson does not exaggerate
the difficulties. And he introduces us with great care (and what a
formidable task it must have been) precisely to what is most
strange in this writer, his fusion of historical ..
eschatological-metaphysical-mystical-Christian conceptions. By some
standards Berdyaev is a theologian rather than a philosopher; for
he takes the truth of the Christian revelation for granted and his
work can readily be viewed as an elaborate apologetic for one
religion against all others and against irreligion. Yet I incline
to sympathize with him in his claim to be a philosopher. What an
eccentric one, however! There are indeed some partial analogies in
the general European tradition. Certainly this Russian is a
disciple of Kant, and strong traces of Kantianism survive in him.
He also moved away from Kant somewhat as did Fichte, Hegel, and,
above all, Schelling in his last period. His sympathetic response
to Heracleitos and Boehme recalls Hegel. The interest in Boehme and
Schelling is found also in Tillich. Like the late German-American,
Berdyaev rejects conceptual in favor of symbolic speech about God.
Like Bergson, he stresses intuition and makes a radical distinction
between scientific logical analytic thought and the mode of
apprehension by which, he believes, metaphysical truth is to be
appropriated. Here one thinks also of Heidegger.
Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial
sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a
broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a
varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel
tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and gospel tunes, country
and western songs, sea shanties, labor and political songs,
calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass, and more. The
genre is of major importance in the broader spectrum of American
music, and it is easy to understand why folk music has been
marketed as America's music. Selling Folk Music presents the public
face of folk music in the United States via its commercial
promotion and presentation throughout the twentieth century.
Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook, magazine,
and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie lobby cards
and posters, all in their original colors. The 1964 hootenanny
craze, for example, spawned such items as a candy bar, pinball
machine, bath powder, paper dolls, Halloween costumes, and beach
towels. The almost five hundred images in Selling Folk Music
present a new way to catalog the history of folk music while
highlighting the transformative nature of the genre. Following the
detailed introduction on the history of folk music, illustrations
from commercial products make up the bulk of the work, presenting a
colorful, complex history.
Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild were the first
commercially significant record clubs in the world. By applying
proven book club methods to the field of phonograph records, these
two related companies attracted some hundred thousand subscribers
at their peak and serviced perhaps a million members in their
existence. Revolutionizing Children's Records: The Young People's
Records and Children's Record Guild Series, 1946-1977 tells the
history of YPR/CRG, explaining how these two labels intersected
important developments in the histories of mass marketing,
recording technology, educational philosophy, folk music,
contemporary composition, and Cold War politics. David Bonner
covers in detail the history of YPR/CRG, tracing its influences
back to the beginnings of music education in the 19th Century and
incorporating the impact of the American folk music revival on
music educators. The narrative follows the career paths of the
company principals, such as its progressive founder Horace Grenell;
the musicians who recorded for him, like American folk music
revival pioneer Tom Glazer; and the record industry offshoots they
created in the process. Bonner considers advances the club made in
recording technology as the first record label devoted exclusively
to "unbreakable" vinyl discs and provides a comprehensive summary
of record club marketing, including the application of "music
appreciation" to phonograph records. He also charts the commercial,
critical, and political response to these endeavors, including an
historical footnote to the "Red Scare" unavailable in existing Cold
War literature. A complete and detailed discography listing every
YPR and CRG recording, including all known writers and performers,
concludes this excellent reference for scholars, nostalgists, and
phonographic fanatics.
Selling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial
sources that reveal the process of how folk music has been packaged
and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk
music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the
blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and
gospel tunes, country and western songs, sea shanties, labor and
political songs, calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass,
and more. The genre is of major importance in the broader spectrum
of American music, and it is easy to understand why folk music has
been marketed as America's music. Selling Folk Music presents the
public face of folk music in the United States through its
commercial promotion and presentation through much of the twentieth
century. Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook,
magazine, and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie
lobby cards and posters, all in their original colors. The 1964
hootenanny craze, for example, spawned such items as a candy bar,
pinball machine, bath powder, paper dolls, Halloween costumes, and
beach towels. The almost five hundred images in Selling Folk Music
present a new way to catalog the history of folk music while
highlighting the transformative nature of the genre. Following the
detailed introduction on the history of folk music, illustrations
from commercial products make up the bulk of the work, presenting a
colorful, complex history of folk music.
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