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In the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a fair number of
Americans thought the idea was crazy. Now everyone, except a few
die-hards, thinks it was. So what was going through the minds of
the talented and experienced men and women who planned and
initiated the war? What were their assumptions? Overreach "aims to
recover those presuppositions.
Michael MacDonald examines the standard hypotheses for the
decision to attack, showing them to be either wrong or of secondary
importance: the personality of President George W. Bush, including
his relationship with his father; Republican electoral
considerations; the oil lobby; the Israeli lobby. He also
undermines the argument that the war failed because of the Bush
administration s incompetence.
The more fundamental reasons for the Iraq War and its failure,
MacDonald argues, are located in basic axioms of American foreign
policy, which equate America s ideals with its interests
(distorting both in the process) and project those ideals as
universally applicable. Believing that democratic principles would
bring order to Iraq naturally and spontaneously, regardless of the
region s history and culture or what Iraqis themselves wanted,
neoconservative thinkers, with support from many on the left,
advocated breaking the back of state power under Saddam Hussein.
They maintained that by bringing about radical regime change, the
United States was promoting liberalism, capitalism, and democracy
in Iraq. But what it did instead was unleash chaos. That these
axioms are not limited to Iraq can be seen in the recent ousting of
Khadafi s regime in Libya."
This book, first published in 1637, was the first full-length
treatise on suicide published in English. Originally published in
1988 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry
series, the introduction by Michael MacDonald places the book in
the context of attitudes to suicide in its day, as well as showing
some of the ways that this theological book is also a study of the
psychology and sociology of suicide. It also discusses the
evolution of the law of suicide and analyses the religious beliefs
held about it at the time, before going on to look John Sym himself
and the structure of his book.
Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden
showed that hysteria and not demons lay behind the witch-craze.
Edward Jorden's Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the
Suffocation of the Mother (1603) is said to have reclaimed the
demoniacally possessed for medicine and to have introduced the
concept of hysteria into English psychiatry. The aim of this book
is to reassess the reasons why Jorden wrote his famous pamphlet and
to set it in its actual historical context. This book brings
Jorden's pamphlet together with two works by Jorden's adversaries,
John Swann's A True and Breife Report of Mary Glovers Vexation and
Stephen Bradwell's `Mary Glovers late Woeful Case', which has never
before been published. Both of these concern the incident that
provoked Jorden's Briefe Discourse, and they show that his pamphlet
was in fact prompted by a bitter religious and political
controversy over the case. Michael MacDonald, in his introduction
provides a fresh and realistic analysis of the politics of
credulity and scepticism in early modern England and Jorden's part
in them.
Edward Jorden has been hailed as one of the earliest champions of
rational scepticism, a heroic figure who perceived that the
symptoms his credulous contemporaries attributed to witchcraft were
actually the effects of hysteria. His "Briefe Discourse of a
Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother" (1603) is said to
have reclaimed the demoniacally possessed for medicine and to have
introduced the concept of hysteria into English psychiatry. The aim
of this book is to reassess the reasons why Jorden wrote his famous
pamphlet and to set it in its historical context. This book brings
Jorden's pamphlet together with two works by Jorden's adversaries,
John Swann's "A True and Brief Report of Mary Glovers Vexation" and
Stephen Bradwell's "Mary Glovers Late Woeful Case", which has never
before been published. Both of these concern the incident that
provoked Jorden's "Briefe Discourse", and they show that his
pamphlet was in fact prompted by a bitter religious and political
controversy over the case. The introduction, by Michael MacDonald,
carefully reconstructs the fascinating story of the bewitchment of
Mary Glover, a 14 year-old London girl, and the intrigues that
surrounded it. MacDon
This book, ‘Incurable Optimists’, may be the only book that
will tell you what it is actually like to live with Parkinson’s
disease. Written by people whose lives have been impacted by
Parkinson’s, these true tales are valuable examples of how one
can live one’s best possible life with this difficult condition.
The tales are from those newly diagnosed and from others who have
lived with Parkinson’s for more than thirty years. Michael
McDonald, whose working life had been helping large companies solve
complex problems, recognised the pressing need for this book during
Zoom sessions with the Parkinson’s group in Canterbury, UK. The
members of the group had all met previously at various therapy
sessions, but they had never told their stories to each other or
shared their personal challenges and solutions. As soon as they
did, and word got around, many other helpful tales began arriving
from all over the world. Prepare to be inspired!
This book, first published in 1637, was the first full-length
treatise on suicide published in English. Originally published in
1988 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry
series, the introduction by Michael MacDonald places the book in
the context of attitudes to suicide in its day, as well as showing
some of the ways that this theological book is also a study of the
psychology and sociology of suicide. He discusses the evolution of
the law of suicide and analyses the religious beliefs held about it
at the time, before going on to look at John Sym himself and the
structure of his book.
This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection
of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of
local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of
drinking companions and irate wives.
This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection
of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of
local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of
drinking companions and irate wives.
This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection
of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of
local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of
drinking companions and irate wives.
This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection
of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of
local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of
drinking companions and irate wives.
Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early
seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the
records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician,
who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients between 1597 and
1634. Napier's clients were drawn from every social rank and his
therapeutic techniques included all the types of psychological
healing practised at the time. His vivid descriptions of his
clients' afflictions and complaints illuminate the thoughts and
feelings of ordinary people. This book goes beyond simply analysing
mental disorder in a seventeenth-century astrological and medical
practice. It reveals contemporary attitudes towards family life,
describes the appeal of witchcraft and demonology to ordinary
villagers, and explains the social and intellectual basis for the
eclectic blend of scientific, magical, and religious therapies
practised before the English Revolution. Not only is it a
contribution to the history of medicine but also a survey of some
of the darkest regions of the mental world of the English people of
the seventeenth century.
This book explores the complex ways in which England's gradual
transformation from a Roman Catholic to a Protestant nation
presented men and women with new ways in which to fashion their own
identities and to define their relationships with society.
The past generation's research into the religious history of early
modern England has heightened our appreciation for the persistence
of traditional beliefs in the face of concerted attacks by
followers of Henry VIII and his successor Edward VI. The book
argues that the present challenge for historians is to move beyond
this revisionist characterization of the English Reformation as a
largely unpopular and unsuccessful exercise of state power to
assess its legacy of increasing religious diversification. The
contributors cast a post-revisionist light on religious change by
showing how the Henrician break with Rome and the Edwardian
implementation of a Protestant agenda had a lasting influence on
the laity's beliefs and practices, forging a legacy that Mary I's
efforts to restore Catholicism could not overturn.
If, as revisionist research has stressed, late medieval
Christianity provided the laity with a wide array of means with
which to internalize and individualize their religious experiences,
then surely the events of the reigns of Henry and Edward vastly
expanded the field over which the religiosity of English men and
women could range. This book addresses the unfolding consequences
of this theological variegation to assess how individual spiritual
beliefs, aspirations, and practices helped shape social and
political action on a family, local, and national level.
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Vanquish (Paperback)
Michelle McDonald; Edited by Lamoy Patterson
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I Like To Play (Paperback)
Rebecca McDonald, Michael McDonald; Illustrated by Graham Evans
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