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New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon
S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the
United States. The half century extending from the imperial crisis
between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades
of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most
creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps
in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated
all aspects of politics and constitutionalism-the nature of power,
liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between
different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority,
and written constitutions. The results of these issues produced
institutions that have lasted for over two centuries. In this new
book, eminent historian Gordon S. Wood distills a lifetime of work
on constitutional innovations during the Revolutionary era. In
concise form, he illuminates critical events in the nation's
founding, ranging from the imperial debate that led to the
Declaration of Independence to the revolutionary state constitution
making in 1776 and the creation of the Federal Constitution in
1787. Among other topics, he discusses slavery and
constitutionalism, the emergence of the judiciary as one of the
major tripartite institutions of government, the demarcation
between public and private, and the formation of states' rights.
Here is an immensely readable synthesis of the key era in the
making of the history of the United States, presenting timely
insights on the Constitution and the nation's foundational legal
and political documents.
A new study of the early Renaissance portrait In fourteenth-century
Italy, ever more women and men—not only clergy but also
laity—introduced their own portraits into sacred paintings.
Images of modern supplicants, submissive and prayerful, shared
space with the holy narratives. The portraits mimicked the first
worshippers of Christ: Mary, the Three Magi, Mary Magdalene. At the
same time, they modeled, for modern viewers, ideal involvement in
the emotion-laden stories. In The Embedded Portrait, Christopher S.
Wood traces these incursions of the real and profane into
Florentine sacred painting between Giotto and Fra Angelico. The
portraits not only intruded upon a sacred space, but also
intervened in an artwork. The pressure exerted by the modern
interlopers—their lives and experiences, implied by their
portraits—threatened the formal closure that had served as a
powerful symbolic form of the pact between God and humans. The
Embedded Portrait reconstructs this art historical drama from the
point of view of the artists rather than the patrons. Following
clues left by Vasari, the book assigns a leading role to the
painter Giottino, or “little Giotto.” Little-known today but
highly regarded in his lifetime, Giottino proposed a new manner of
painting that was later realized by Fra Angelico through his own
innovative approach to the problem of the embedded portrait.
Seeking not to stabilize the artworks but to extend their reach,
the interpretations offered in The Embedded Portrait re-create and
update the psychic and libidinal energies that gave rise to these
works in the first place.
Since 1790, bicycle designs have been improved and become popular.
This comprehensive book introduces bicycle history, design changes,
newsletters and dealers for today's enthusiast. Hundreds of
bicycles are shown in advertising, catalogs, postcards and
collectibles.
A reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance,
examining the complex and layered temporalities of Renaissance
images and artifacts. In this widely anticipated book, two leading
contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound
reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance.
Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses,
and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of
originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts.
Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and
artists-a landscape obscured by art history's disciplinary
compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings,
paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals discussed were
shaped by concerns about authenticity, about reference to
prestigious origins and precedents, and about the implications of
transposition from one medium to another. Byzantine icons taken to
be Early Christian antiquities, the acheiropoieton (or "image made
without hands"), the activities of spoliation and citation,
differing approaches to art restoration, legends about movable
buildings, and forgeries and pastiches: all of these emerge as
basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. Although a work of
art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Nagel and
Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal
instability: how it points away from that moment, backward to a
remote ancestral origin, to a prior artifact or image, even to an
origin outside of time, in divinity. This book is not the story
about the Renaissance, nor is it just a story. It imagines the
infrastructure of many possible stories.
This book examines the Australia-ASEAN Dialogue Partnership since
its inception in 1974 and looks at the networks of engagement that
have shaped relations across three areas: regionalism,
non-traditional security, and economic engagement.
This book examines the Australia-ASEAN Dialogue Partnership since
its inception in 1974 and looks at the networks of engagement that
have shaped relations across three areas: regionalism,
non-traditional security, and economic engagement.
Robert Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature. This book narrates the development of his controversial creative life through responses to his work by five key 19th-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold. It also relates Browning's sense of literary vocation to Victorian publishing. Browning emerges as a writer vividly engaged with contemporary assumptions, yet deeply aware of the unaccountability of writing.
Robert Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for
an understanding of literature. This book narrates the development
of his controversial creative life through responses to his work by
five key 19th-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles
Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold. It also
relates Browning's sense of literary vocation to Victorian
publishing. Browning emerges as a writer vividly engaged with
contemporary assumptions, yet deeply aware of the unaccountability
of writing.
List of Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - Notes on the
Contributors - Restructuring and Recession; K.Purcell and S.Wood -
Contract Work in the Recession; R.Fevre - Re-dividing Labour:
Factory Politics and Work Reorganisation; B.Jones and M.Rose -
Recruitment as a Means of Control; M.Maguire - Multinational
Companies and Women's Labour; R.Pearson - Work, Home and the
Restructuring of Jobs; H.Bradley - Word Processing and the
Secretarial Labour Process; J.Webster - New Technology and the
Service Class; J.Child - Rationalisation, Technical Change and
Employee Relations; W.Littek - Women and Technology: Opportunity is
not Enough; C.Cockburn - Gender, Exploitation and Consent amongst
Sheltered Housing Wardens; S.Cunnison - Bibliography - Index
Increasingly high unemployment has brought with it a multitude of
consequences affecting those without jobs and, beyond them, their
families, friends and communities. This book reports findings from
original research. It explores, often in the words of the
unemployed and others involved, what life without a job is like. It
challenges many widely held beliefs about the unemployed - that
they are workshy, price themselves out of jobs or earn money
illegally on the side - and explores where such misconceptions come
from. It reveals the inherent contradictions involved in trying to
search for work whilst coping with the experience of unemployment.
An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins
to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative
book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the
evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages
through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history.
Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and
personalities, this original account of the development of
art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and
outside the discipline. The book shows that the pioneering
chroniclers of the Italian Renaissance-Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio
Vasari-measured every epoch against fixed standards of quality.
Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of
medieval art, anticipating the relativism of the later nineteenth
century, when art history learned to admire the art of all
societies and to value every work as an index of its times. The
major art historians of the modern era, however-Jacob Burckhardt,
Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wo lfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro,
and Ernst Gombrich-struggled to adapt their work to the rupture of
artistic modernism, leading to the current predicaments of the
discipline. Combining erudition with clarity, this book makes a
landmark contribution to the understanding of art history.
“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years.” -Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers
A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic.
When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty. The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had.
No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western civilization fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three decades, a huge, sprawling, rambunctious republic of nearly four million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution, like the history of the nation as a whole, ought not to be viewed simply as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to be explained and understood, not blindly celebrated or condemned. How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood’s mastery of his subject, and of the historian’s craft.
From the Hardcover edition.
An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins
to its modern predicaments In this authoritative book, the first of
its kind in English, Christopher S. Wood tracks the evolution of
the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the
rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history.
Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and
personalities, this original and accessible account of the
development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both
inside and outside the discipline. Combining erudition with
clarity, this book makes a landmark contribution to the
understanding of art history.
PET/CT in Clinical Practice provides guidelines for appropriate
use of PET/CT in lung, lymphoma, esophageal, colorectal, head/neck
and melanoma, with reference also made to tumors of the male and
female reproductive system. Concise, relevant and illustrated with
many interesting PET/CT images, each chapter contains a summary of
the appropriate staging system. The range of normal PET/CT
appearances is outlined in chapter 9. The book focuses on
FDG-PET/CT throughout, but chapter 10 makes reference to the future
application of other positron emitters and gives a beginners guide
to the physics of PET/CT.
Everyone from medical student to consultant oncologist will be
touched by this modality and all will need to understand its
strengths and weaknesses. The book is essential reading for all
consultants and medical students in radiology, nuclear medicine and
oncology.
This title shows how 'The Troubles' in Ulster defined the Scottish
and British military experience post-WW2. 'Bloody Sunday' is one of
the iconic moments in British History, but what were the
experiences of the soldiers in Ulster, many of them Scottish, and
how did the wider events of the Troubles figure in their minds?
Wood and Sanders give voice to these soldiers, with many new
documents, interviews and diary entries now released to the public
domain. On top of the seismic findings of the Saville report, this
analysis is a timely revisit to events which still echo in the
political consciousness of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. It
is a period of history which prompts many questions about a liberal
state. If it feels under armed threat within what it claims are its
own borders, how should it respond and what are the rules of
engagement? How accountable should they be to politicians, the
public and the media? At what point do such operations become
definable as war and how do they affect those who are called upon
to carry them out? This book attempts to answer those questions.
How 'The Troubles' in Ulster defined the Scottish and British
military experience post-WW2 'Bloody Sunday' is one of the iconic
moments in British History, but what were the experiences of the
soldiers in Ulster, many of them Scottish, and how did the wider
events of the Troubles figure in their minds? Wood and Sanders give
voice to these soldiers, with many new documents, interviews and
diary entries now released to the public domain. On top of the
seismic findings of the Saville report, this analysis is a timely
revisit to events which still echo in the political consciousness
of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England. It is a period of history
which prompts many questions about a liberal state. If it feels
under armed threat within what it claims are its own borders, how
should it respond and what are the rules of engagement? How
accountable should they be to politicians, the public and the
media? At what point do such operations become definable as war and
how do they affect those who are called upon to carry them out?
This book attempts to answer those questions.
Sectarian murder, torture, bloody power struggles and racketeering
are what for many define their image of the Ulster Defence
Association. Yet as Northern Ireland's Troubles worsened in 1971
and 1972, it emerged with a mass membership to defend Loyalist
areas against the IRA and to uphold the Union with Britain. By 1974
it was able to defy the will of an elected government and it went
on to formulate political strategies for working-class Loyalism.
Ian S. Wood uses his specialist knowledge as well as extensive
interviews to recount these events and the ruthless war waged by
the UDA on the nationalist community. He explores issues such as
the UDA's descent into criminality and its relationship with the
'secret war' conducted by Britain's undercover services and he
assesses what impact the organisation had on the outcome of
Europe's worst political and ethnic conflict between 1945 and the
break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia after 1990.
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most
respected multi-volume history of the USA. The series includes
three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and
winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest
volume in the series, one of America's most esteemed historians,
Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American
Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national
government to the end of the War of 1812. As Wood reveals, the
period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American
life-in politics, society, economy, and culture. The men who
founded the new government had high hopes for the future, but few
of their hopes and dreams worked out quite as they expected. They
hated political parties but parties nonetheless emerged. Some
wanted the United States to become a great fiscal-military state
like those of Britain and France; others wanted the country to
remain a rural agricultural state very different from the European
states. Instead, by 1815 the United States became something neither
group anticipated. Many leaders expected American culture to
flourish and surpass that of Europe; instead it became popularized
and vulgarized. The leaders also hope to see the end of slavery;
instead, despite the release of many slaves and the end of slavery
in the North, slavery was stronger in 1815 than it had been in
1789. Many wanted to avoid entanglements with Europe, but instead
the country became involved in Europe's wars and ended up waging
another war with the former mother country. Still, with a new
generation emerging by 1815, most Americans were confident and
optimistic about the future of their country. Integrating all
aspects of life, from politics and law to the economy and culture,
Empire of Liberty offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era
when America took its first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly
expanding nation. A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History
Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book
Prize A New York Times Bestseller Selected as one of the Top 25
Books of 2009 by The Atlantic "On every page of this book, Wood's
subtlety and erudition show. Grand in scope and a landmark
achievement of scholarship, Empire of Liberty is a tour de force,
the culmination of a lifetime of brilliant thinking and writing."
-The New York Times Book Review "Empire of Liberty will rightly
take its place among the authoritative volumes in this important
and influential series." -The Washington Post
This volume describes the evolution of political thought from the
Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution
and in the process greatly illuminates the origins of the present
American political system. In a new preface, he discusses the
debate over republicanism that has developed since the book's
original publication by UNC Press in 1969.
This collection of essays by twenty-one distinguished American
historians reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the
past. At a time when history-writing has changed dramatically, the
authors discuss the birth and evolution of historiography in this
country, from its origins in the late nineteenth century through
its present, more cosmopolitan character.
In the book's first part, concerning recent historiography, are
chapters on exceptionalism, gender, economic history, social
theory, race, and immigration and multiculturalism. Authors are
Daniel Rodgers, Linda Kerber, Naomi Lamoreaux, Dorothy Ross, Thomas
Holt, and Philip Gleason. The three American centuries are
discussed in the second part, with chapters by Gordon Wood, George
Fredrickson, and James Patterson. The third part is a chronological
survey of non-American histories, including that of Western
civilization, ancient history, the middle ages, early modern and
modern Europe, Russia, and Asia. Contributors are Eugen Weber,
Richard Saller, Gabrielle Spiegel, Anthony Molho, Philip Benedict,
Richard Kagan, Keith Baker, Joseph Zizak, Volker Berghahn, Charles
Maier, Martin Malia, and Carol Gluck.
Together, these scholars reveal the unique perspective American
historians have brought to the past of their own nation as well as
that of the world. Formerly writing from a conviction that America
had a singular destiny, American historians have gradually come to
share viewpoints of historians in other countries about which they
write. The result is the virtual disappearance of what was a
distinctive American voice. That voice is the subject of this
book.
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