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Literature, Journalism and Liberal Culture, 1886-1916 explores the
ways in which the vocabularies of advanced or 'new' liberalism
permeated English literary cultural discourse from the late 1880s
to World War One. Drawing on a wide range of autobiographical and
biographical material, this book reconstructs an extensive network
of advanced liberal journalists, men of letters, and political
theorists associated with key organs of the daily and weekly press,
and demonstrates for the first time the network's importance in the
literary cultural world at the turn of the century. Until now,
liberalism's place in that world has been understood as something
of a residual Victorianism. Through a careful analysis of essays
and book reviews published primarily in the liberal press, the
author traces out a set of cultural vocabularies related to but
quite distinct from classic Victorian liberalism, revealing a much
closer and more complex relation to the vocabularies of an emerging
modernist culture.
This is a unique collection of essays on the cultural history of
military defeats including the American Civil War, the Second World
War and Vietnam.This book presents new research from leading
scholars in their fields. It offers international focus emphasising
the role of memorialisation and experiences of both individuals and
social groups.The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through
private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in
international relations and political discourse. This book examines
the manner in which a series of military defeats have been
understood and remembered by individuals and societies in the era
of modern industrialised warfare.
As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in
his Cree family's history, passed down in the stories of his
mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and
horror--of the strong men in their family, of her love for Darrel,
and of the cruelty she and her sisters endured in residential
school--as well as his many siblings and cousins, and the smells of
moose stew and wild peppermint tea. And there young Darrel learns
to be fiercely proud of his heritage and to listen to the birds
that will guide him throughout his life. But after a series of
tragic losses, Bertha turns wild and unstable, and their home life
becomes chaotic. Sweet and eager to please, Darrel struggles to
maintain his grades and pursue interests in music and science while
changing homes, witnessing domestic violence, caring for his
younger siblings, and suffering abuse at the hands of his
brother-in-law. Meanwhile, he begins to question and grapple with
his sexual identity--a reckoning complicated by the repercussions
of his abuse and his sibling's own gender transition. Thrillingly
written in a series of fractured vignettes, and unflinchingly
honest, Mamaskatch--"It's a wonder!" in Cree--is a heartbreaking
account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the
next, and an uplifting story of one individual who overcame
enormous obstacles in pursuit of a fulfilling and adventurous life.
Alasdair J. Macleod examines the life and ministry of John Kennedy
(1819-84), minister of Dingwall Free Church of Scotland. Drawing on
Kennedy's notebooks and published writings, and on source material
including unpublished Gaelic poetry, this book explores how Kennedy
became the effective leader of the Highland Evangelicals through
his preaching, writing and public speaking. Macleod addresses
current debate on the divergence in Scottish Evangelicalism and how
far Kennedy may have helped to steer the trajectory of
Evangelicalism in the Highlands in a conservative direction.
Property and Practical Reason makes a moral argument for common law
property institutions and norms, and challenges the prevailing
dichotomy between individual rights and state interests and its
assumption that individual preferences and the good of communities
must be in conflict. One can understand competing intuitions about
private property rights by considering how private property enables
owners and their collaborators to exercise practical reason
consistent with the requirements of reason, and thereby to become
practically reasonable agents of deliberation and choice who
promote various aspects of the common good. The plural and mediated
domains of property ownership, though imperfect, have moral
benefits for all members of the community. They enable communities
and institutions of private ordering to pursue plural and
incommensurable good ends while specifying the boundaries of
property rights consistent with basic moral requirements.
This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English
literary discourse from the fin-de-siecle to World War One. It maps
out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and
political theorists, showing how their shared political and
literary vocabularies offer new readings of liberalism's relation
to an emerging modernist culture.
This book diagnoses an unexamined cause of the incivility in our
public discourse. Our most contentious controversies today are
moral. We disagree not only about questions of efficiency and
democracy and civil liberties but also about what is right to do
and who we are becoming as a people. We have not yet understood the
implications of this shift in public reasoning from discourse about
political ideals to debates about moral imperatives. The book
prescribes a way to educate ourselves and our young people how to
disagree well. We are not able to engage in moral discourse
effectively because our educational programs are still organized
around obsolete principles of political neutrality. Meanwhile, our
young people have learned to bend moral claims in service to
self-authorship. Also, different groups of us look to different
sources of moral truth. Further complicating our efforts, different
generations use the same language to refer to different moral
ideas. The book suggests principles for a practical education that
is robustly moral, that will enable us to understand and overcome
these new challenges. And it lays out a framework for flourishing
together in society despite our radical differences.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica, gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan.
Life on the remote island of Papavray in the 1970s was a world away
from Mary J. MacLeod's urban existence in the south of England. And
this peaceful environment was just what she was looking for. While
indoor toilets were still something of a luxury, and
'teleeffissions' could produce terror in some of the older
residents, the glory of the mountains and the sea combined with the
warmth of the island people meant she had found a haven for her
family. Mary's post as district nurse gave her a unique insight
into island life, and her stories of the troubles, joys, drama and
comedies endured by her patients make this a charming and humorous
account of community life on a small island in a bygone era.
The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and
collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations
and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a
series of military defeats have been understood and remembered by
individuals and societies in the era of modern industrialised
warfare.
This book analyses the impact of American Revolutionary ideology
upon conceptions of the place of slavery in American society. The
ambivalence involved in a libertarian revolution occurring in a
slave society was as obvious to eighteenth-century Americans as it
is to twentieth-century historians yet the obvious sincerity of
Southern Republicanism and the persistence of slavery have
presented a paradox with which historians have hardly come to
terms.
This book diagnoses an unexamined cause of the incivility in our
public discourse. Our most contentious controversies today are
moral. We disagree not only about questions of efficiency and
democracy and civil liberties but also about what is right to do
and who we are becoming as a people. We have not yet understood the
implications of this shift in public reasoning from discourse about
political ideals to debates about moral imperatives. The book
prescribes a way to educate ourselves and our young people how to
disagree well. We are not able to engage in moral discourse
effectively because our educational programs are still organized
around obsolete principles of political neutrality. Meanwhile, our
young people have learned to bend moral claims in service to
self-authorship. Also, different groups of us look to different
sources of moral truth. Further complicating our efforts, different
generations use the same language to refer to different moral
ideas. The book suggests principles for a practical education that
is robustly moral, that will enable us to understand and overcome
these new challenges. And it lays out a framework for flourishing
together in society despite our radical differences.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica, gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan.
A man loses five years of his life. Two women are desperate for him
to remember. Perfect for fans of Kate Kerrigan and Colleen
McCullough. Running away for the second time in her life,
twenty-seven-year old Ava believes the cook's job at a country
B&B is perfect, until she meets the owner's son, John Tate. The
young fifth-generation grazier is a beguiling blend of both man,
boy and a terrible flirt. With their connection immediate and
intense, they begin a clandestine affair right under the noses of
John's formidable parents. Thirty years later, Ava returns to
Candlebark Creek with her daughter, Nina, who is determined to meet
her mother's lost love for herself. While struggling to find her
own place in the world, Nina discovers an urban myth about a
love-struck man, a forgotten engagement ring, and a dinner
reservation back in the eighties. Now she must decide if revealing
the truth will hurt more than it heals... What readers are saying
about A Place to Remember: 'A memorable, emotional family saga in
an unforgiving setting. The emotion and poignancy of this story
will stay with me' 'Definitely a five star read for me and highly
recommended!' 'This is a story that readers won't forget in a
hurry. I'd recommend it to everyone'.
How does the US Army mold a video-game generation with its thumbs
on the joystick into a proud fighting force with its fingers on the
trigger-and lives on the line-in America's War on Terror? Michael
J. MacLeod, already an accomplished professional photographer and
journalist, decided to find out the hard way: by enlisting in the
armed forces at age forty-one. What he observed and experienced as
an embedded reporter and a serving soldier makes for an unflinching
and inspiring portrait of endurance, sacrifice, discipline, and
courage. From the trials of basic training on the home front to the
ranks of the legendary 82nd Airborne Division to taking fire in the
hot zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, MacLeod chronicles the soldier's
evolution as only one who's been in those boots can. Candid, wise,
and powerful, his memoir takes readers on an unforgettable journey
through war and allows them to witness bravery firsthand.
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