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Essays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval
Scotland and northern England. The volume celebrates the career of
the influential historian of late medieval Scotland and northern
England, Dr Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with
the profound shift in thinking about this society in the light of
his scholarship, and the development of the "New Orthodoxy", both
attending to the legacy of this discourse, and offering new
research with which to challenge or amend our understanding of late
medieval Scotland and northern England. Dr Grant's famously wide
and diverse historical interests are here reflected through three
main foci: kingship, lordship and identity. The volume includes
significant reassessments of the reputations of two kings,
Alexander I of Scotland and Henry V of England; an examination of
Richard III's relationship to the lordship of Pontefract; and a
study of the development of royal pardon in late medieval Scotland.
Further chapters consider the social influence and legal and
tenurial rights vested in aristocratic lineages, regional gentry
communities, and the leaders of burghal corporations. Finally, the
relationship between saints cults, piety and regnal and regional
identity in medieval Scotland is scrutinised in chapters on St
Margaret and St Ninian.
Life in the United States today is shot through with uncertainty:
about our jobs, our mortgaged houses, our retirement accounts, our
health, our marriages, and the future that awaits our children. For
many, our lives, public and private, have come to feel like the
discomfort and unease you experience the day or two before you get
really sick. Our life is a scratchy throat. John Marsh offers an
unlikely remedy for this widespread malaise: the poetry of Walt
Whitman. Mired in personal and political depression, Marsh turned
to Whitman--and it saved his life. In Walt We Trust: How a Queer
Socialist Poet Can Save America from Itself is a book about how
Walt Whitman can save America's life, too. Marsh identifies four
sources for our contemporary malaise (death, money, sex, democracy)
and then looks to a particular Whitman poem for relief from it. He
makes plain what, exactly, Whitman wrote and what he believed by
showing how they emerged from Whitman's life and times, and by
recreating the places and incidents (crossing Brooklyn ferry,
visiting wounded soldiers in hospitals) that inspired Whitman to
write the poems. Whitman, Marsh argues, can show us how to die, how
to accept and even celebrate our (relatively speaking) imminent
death. Just as important, though, he can show us how to live: how
to have better sex, what to do about money, and, best of all, how
to survive our fetid democracy without coming away stinking
ourselves. The result is a mix of biography, literary criticism,
manifesto, and a kind of self-help you're unlikely to encounter
anywhere else.
In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by
journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and
inequality in the United States can be solved through education.
Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in
the classroom, Marsh not only shows that education has little
impact on poverty and inequality, but that our mistaken beliefs
actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach
in them.
Rather than focus attention on the hierarchy of jobs and
power--where most jobs require relatively little education, and the
poor enjoy very little political power--money is funneled into
educational endeavors that ultimately do nothing to challenge
established social structures, and in fact reinforce them. And when
educational programs prove ineffective at reducing inequality, the
ones whom these programs were intended to help end up blaming
themselves. Marsh's struggle to grasp the connection between
education, poverty, and inequality is both powerful and
poignant.
In Class Dismissed, John Marsh debunks a myth cherished by
journalists, politicians, and economists: that growing poverty and
inequality in the United States can be solved through education.
Using sophisticated analysis combined with personal experience in
the classroom, Marsh not only shows that education has little
impact on poverty and inequality, but that our mistaken beliefs
actively shape the way we structure our schools and what we teach
in them.
Rather than focus attention on the hierarchy of jobs and
power--where most jobs require relatively little education, and the
poor enjoy very little political power--money is funneled into
educational endeavors that ultimately do nothing to challenge
established social structures, and in fact reinforce them. And when
educational programs prove ineffective at reducing inequality, the
ones whom these programs were intended to help end up blaming
themselves. Marsh's struggle to grasp the connection between
education, poverty, and inequality is both powerful and
poignant.
Max Edwards has done his time in the British Army. The big wide
world is now his Oyster. He has an Army Pension and his Bounty in
his pocket. He knows what he is going to do. He is going to make
money and plenty of it. Civvy street is not the friendly helpful
place he was expecting. The Stock Market beckons then turns on him.
Edwards has no choice but to adapt and overcome leading him into
the arms of the underworld. Edwards is now in business, which soon
gets out of control, he finds he has no where to turn and no way
out.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1835 Edition.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ Proceedings And Speeches At A Meeting Held In The Capitol, At
Washington, January 13, 1832, For The Purpose Of Promoting The
Cause Of Temperance In The United States Lewis Cass, John Marsh,
Congressional Temperance Society (Washington, D.C.) Congressional
Temperance Society, 1832 Self-Help; Substance Abuse &
Addictions; Alcoholism; Self-Help / Substance Abuse &
Addictions / Alcoholism; Temperance
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