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This Dictionary contains more than 600 dictionary entries on
utopian thought and experimentation that span the centuries from
ancient times to the present. The text not only covers utopian
communities worldwide, but also its ideas from the well known such
as those expounded in Thomas More's Utopia, and the ideas of
philosophers and reformers from ancient times, the Middle Ages, the
Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and from notable 20th-century
figures. Included are the descriptions of utopian experiments
attempted in the United Sates such as those of the Shakers, Oneida,
Robert Owen, and the Fourierists, and elsewhere throughout the
world from Europe to Australia, Latin America, and the Far East.
Major utopian literary works and their literary counterparts and
dystopian novels are also profiled because these have fueled the
fires of time-honored arguments about the feasibility of creating a
perfect society. From the early theoreticians and thinkers who
proposed republican, democratic, and authoritarian innovations; to
those who sought equality of classes, races, and genders; to those
who insisted on hierarchy under a supreme leader, or god; and to
those who had more practical economic, social, and ethical plans,
this reference enables the reader to explore the Western mind's
desire to improve the world and the lives of the people within it
as utopianism has persisted over the centuries. Includes: Persons,
plans, and attempts associated with utopianism, An introductory
essay, Chronology, An extensive bibliography, An appendix listing
the names and locations of utopian communities worldwide.
Utopian thinking embraces fictional descriptions of how to create a
better (but not a perfect) alternative way of life as well as
intentional communities (that is, groups of people leading lives in
small communities for their own betterment and the betterment of
others). The first edition almost exclusively dealt with the
intentional-community side of utopianism; this second edition
offers a much more inclusive definition of the key term utopia by
offering a great many entries devoted to describing fictional or
literary utopian works. It is also heavily illustrated with plates
from utopian works, especially those from the heyday of utopianism
in the late nineteenth century. This second edition of Historical
Dictionary of Utopianism contains a chronology, an introduction,
appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section
has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on broad conceptual entries;
narrower entries about specific works; and narrower entries about
specific intentional communities or movements. This book is an
excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to
know more about Utopianism.
The United States Navy has evolved in the last century and a half
from humble and often frustrating beginnings during and after the
Revolutionary War to become the strongest navy in the world with
responsibilities that span the globe. The story of the Navy from
its birth through the Civil War and other 19th century conflicts
through its victories of World War I and World War II and down to
the current efforts in the Middle East to maintain the peace not
only for the United States but also for other nations as the
world's primary peace-keeper has been one of responding to the call
of duty, as captured by its unofficial motto Non sibi sed patriae
("Not self but country"). No other nation's navy past or present
can match its successes and history. The second edition of
Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy covers U.S. Naval
developments, personnel, and engagements from the colonial times to
the present day. This is done through a chronology, an introductory
essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced
dictionary entries on people, places, events and other terminology
of the Navy. This book is an excellent access point for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the United
States Navy.
This reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary
entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the
centuries from ancient times to the present. The text not only
covers utopian communities worldwide, but also its ideas from the
well known such as those expounded in Thomas More's Utopia and the
ideas of philosophers and reformers from ancient times, the Middle
Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and from notable
20th-century figures. Included are the descriptions of utopian
experiments attempted in the United Sates, like those of the
Shakers, Oneida, Robert Owen, and the Fourierists, and elsewhere
throughout the world from Europe to Australia, Latin America, and
the Far East. Major utopian literary works and their literary
counterparts and dystopian novels are also profiled because these
have fueled the fires of time-honored arguments about the
feasibility of creating a perfect society. From the early
theoreticians and thinkers who proposed republican, democratic, and
authoritarian innovations; to those who sought equality of classes,
races, and genders; to those who insisted on hierarchy under a
supreme leader, or god; and to those who had more practical
economic, social, and ethical plans, this reference enables the
reader to explore the Western mind's desire to improve the world
and the lives of the people within it as utopianism has persisted
over the centuries.
Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell
tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer's New York
Evening World , Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners
newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly-and kept his paper
in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the
Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic , Chapin set the
pace for the evening press, the CNN of the pre-electronic world of
journalism. In 1918, at the pinnacle of fame, Chapin's world
collapsed. Facing financial ruin, sunk in depression, he decided to
kill himself and his beloved wife Nellie. On a quiet September
morning, he took not his own life, but Nellie's, shooting her as
she slept. After his trial-and one hell of a story for the World's
competitors-he was sentenced to life in the infamous Sing Sing
Prison in Ossining, New York. In this story of an extraordinary
life set in the most thrilling epoch of American journalism, James
McGrath Morris tracks Chapin's rise from legendary Chicago street
reporter to celebrity powerbroker in media-mad New York. His was a
human tragedy played out in the sensational stories of tabloids and
broadsheets. But it's also an epic of redemption: in prison, Chapin
started a newspaper to fight for prisoner rights, wrote a
best-selling autobiography, had two long-distance love affairs, and
tapped his prodigious talents to transform barren prison plots into
world-famous rose gardens before dying peacefully in his cell in
1930. The first portrait of one of the founding figures of modern
American journalism, and a vibrant chronicle of the cutthroat
culture of scoops and scandals, The Rose Man of Sing Sing is also a
hidden history of New York at its most colorful and passionate.
James McGrath Morris is a former journalist, author of Jailhouse
Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars , and a historian. He
lives in Falls Church, Virginia, and teaches at West Springfield
High School.
On Mozart is an attempt to suggest how much more complicated a figure Mozart was than popular legends and media portrayals would have us believe. He was certainly a genius--in that, the legends are correct, and the evidence abounds--but he was also a working composer in a society crowded with other working composers, and he had to make a living at his craft to maintain the style of living to which he and his family had become accustomed. By observing a realistic and human genius, the collection of essays portrays a more complex individual than the divinely inspired Mozart of myth, who took his notes directly from God.
From the eighteenth century to our own, Mozart has remained one of
the world's most inventive and popular composers. The essays in
this collection examine Mozart and his art from psychological,
historical, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives. They set Mozart,
first, in the timeless ahistorical space reserved for individuals
of spectacular creativity, then in his time, and finally in our own
time. Most of the authors are not professional Mozart scholars or
musicologists, but all are Mozart lovers. Each speaks of Mozart and
his accomplishments from a particular position of expertise - as
psychologist, historian, biographer, economist, musicologist,
literary critic, film critic. These essays originated in a
three-day symposium organized by the Woodrow Wilson Center in 1991
to observe the bicentennial of the composer's death. In
nonspecialist language, they seek to draw out the human genius of
Mozart from the divinely inspired Mozart of myth, who took his
notes directly from God. They consider Mozart as prodigy, as
working composer, as family member, as late-eighteenth-century man,
and as an enduring cultural presence, whose significance has
changed over the course of two centuries, but whose stature has
only grown.
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