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Francis Marion is certainly the stuff of which legends are made.
His nickname "The Swamp Fox," bestowed upon him by one of his
fiercest enemies, captures his wily approach to battle. The
embellishment of his exploits in Parson Weems' early biography make
separation of fact from fiction difficult, but certainly represents
the awe, loyalty, and attraction he produced in those around him.
His legacy is enshrined in the fact that more places in the United
States have been named after him than any other soldier of the
American Revolution, with the sole exception of George Washington.
Even today's U.S. Army Rangers include Marion as one of their
formative heroes. Surely much about leadership can be learned from
such an intriguing personality. Leading like the Swamp Fox: The
Leadership Lessons of Francis Marion unlocks those lessons. Divided
into three parts, the book first presents the historical background
and context necessary to appreciate Marion's situation. The main
body of the book then examines Marion's leadership across eight
categories, with a number of vignettes demonstrating Marion's
competency. The summary then captures some conclusions about how
leadership impacted the American Revolution in the South Carolina
Lowcountry. An appendix provides some information about how the
reader might explore those physical reminders of Marion and his
exploits that exist today. Readers interested in history or
leadership, or both, will all find something for them in Leading
like the Swamp Fox.
The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory: The Crisis of Testimony in
Theory and Practice re-considers survivor testimony, moving from a
subject-object reading of the past to a subject-subject encounter
in the present. It explores how testimony evolves in relationship
to the life of eyewitnesses across time. This book breaks new
ground based on three principles. The first draws on Martin Buber's
"I-Thou" concept, transforming the object of history into an
encounter between subjects. The second employs the Jungian concept
of identity, whereby the individual (internal identity) and the
persona (external identity) reframe testimony as an extension of
the individual. They are a living subject, rather than merely a
persona or narrative. The third principle draws on Daniel
Kahneman's concept of the experiencing self, which relives events
as they occurred, and the remembering self, which reflects on their
meaning in sum. Taken together, these principles comprise a new
literacy of testimony that enables the surviving victim and the
listener to enter a relationship of trust. Designed for readers of
Holocaust history and literature, this book defines the modalities
of memory, witness, and testimony. It shows how encountering the
individual who lived through the past changes how testimony is
understood, and therefore what it can come to mean.
When Steve and his partner Wilf set up their legal practice, they
aren't expecting the high life - 1980's Rotherham Magistrate's
Court is no Old Bailey. But they aren't expecting such weird and
wonderful lowlifes, either..."Boozers, Ballcocks & Bailis" the
first of legendary criminal lawyer Steve Smith's comic series, in
which Steve recounts with gusto their sometimes hilarious,
sometimes tragic and sometimes plain bizarre experiences both in
and outside the criminal justice system, and the colourful
characters they meet along the way. From incurably lacenous but
oddly likeable Jack Heptonstall to the Bird Man of Rotherham - not
to mention Spider, Pagey and an incontinent chimpanzee - the 'legal
James Herriot' takes the reader on a rollercoaster of laughter and
tears as he depicts human nature at its best - and worst.
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide
explores the many and sometimes complicated ways in which religion,
faith, doctrine, and practice intersect in societies where mass
atrocity and genocide occur. This volume is intended as an entry
point to questions about mass atrocity and genocide that are asked
by and of people of faith and is an outstanding reference source to
the key topics, historical events, and heated debates in this
subject area. The 39 contributions to the handbook, by a team of
international contributors, span five continents and cover four
millennia. Each explores the intersection of religion, faith, and
mainly state-sponsored mass atrocity and genocide, and draws from a
variety of disciplines. This volume is divided into six core
sections: Genocide in Antiquity and Holy Wars The Genocide of
Indigenous Peoples Religion and the State The Role of Religion
during Genocide Post Genocide Considerations Memory Culture Within
these sections central issues, historical events, debates, and
problems are examined, including the Crusades; Jihad and ISIS,
colonialism, the Holocaust, desecration of ritual objects, politics
of religion, Shinto nationalism, attacks on Rohingya Muslims; the
Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, responses to genocide;
gender-based atrocities, ritualcide in Cambodia, burial sites and
mass graves, transitional justice, forgiveness, documenting
genocide, survivor memory narratives, post-conflict healing and
memorialization. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Genocide is
essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in
religion and genocide, religion and violence, and religion and
politics. It will be of great interest to students of theology,
philosophy, genocide studies, narrative studies, history, and
international relations and those in related fields, such as
cultural studies, area studies, sociology, and anthropology.
The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory: The Crisis of Testimony in
Theory and Practice re-considers survivor testimony, moving from a
subject-object reading of the past to a subject-subject encounter
in the present. It explores how testimony evolves in relationship
to the life of eyewitnesses across time. This book breaks new
ground based on three principles. The first draws on Martin Buber's
"I-Thou" concept, transforming the object of history into an
encounter between subjects. The second employs the Jungian concept
of identity, whereby the individual (internal identity) and the
persona (external identity) reframe testimony as an extension of
the individual. They are a living subject, rather than merely a
persona or narrative. The third principle draws on Daniel
Kahneman's concept of the experiencing self, which relives events
as they occurred, and the remembering self, which reflects on their
meaning in sum. Taken together, these principles comprise a new
literacy of testimony that enables the surviving victim and the
listener to enter a relationship of trust. Designed for readers of
Holocaust history and literature, this book defines the modalities
of memory, witness, and testimony. It shows how encountering the
individual who lived through the past changes how testimony is
understood, and therefore what it can come to mean.
Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is
shallow and unedifying. This debased condition is often attributed
to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life.
Steven Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards:
it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular
rationalism that have drained our modern discourse of force and
authenticity.
Thus, Rawlsian public reason filters appeals to religion or
other comprehensive doctrines out of public deliberation. But these
restrictions have the effect of excluding our deepest normative
commitments, virtually assuring that the discourse will be shallow.
Furthermore, because we cannot defend our normative positions
without resorting to convictions that secular discourse deems
inadmissible, we are frequently forced to smuggle in those
convictions under the guise of benign notions such as freedom or
equality.
Smith suggests that this sort of smuggling is pervasive in
modern secular discourse. He shows this by considering a series of
controversial, contemporary issues, including the Supreme Court s
assisted-suicide decisions, the harm principle, separation of
church and state, and freedom of conscience. He concludes by
suggesting that it is possible and desirable to free public
discourse of the constraints associated with secularism and public
reason.
In this remarkable introduction, Stephen D Smith, the new Executive
Director of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History
and Education, describes the inspiring journey he and his family
took in creating the first Holocaust centre in Britain. This story
was written in response to many questions. It replies with a
powerful challenge to all who think that 'never again' is really
worth the struggle. The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
hosts this lecture by Stephen Smith, the new director of the Shoah
Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California and
co-founder of the Aegis Trust. In his powerful address, Smith
discusses the past century of crimes against humanity and genocide:
the links between them, and the ways to understand them in order to
avoid them in the future.
Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology.
Within the last twenty years, the archaeology of conflict has
emerged as a valuable sub-discipline within anthropology,
contributing greatly to our knowledge and understanding of human
conflict on a global scale. Although archaeologists have clearly
demonstrated their utility in the study of large-scale battles and
sites of conventional warfare, such as camps and forts, conflicts
involving asymmetric, guerilla, or irregular warfare are largely
missing from the historical record. Partisans, Guerillas, and
Irregulars: Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare presents
recent examples of how historical archaeology can contribute to a
better understanding of asymmetric warfare. The volume introduces
readers to this growing study and to its historic importance.
Contributors illustrate how the wide range of traditional and new
methods and techniques of historiography and archaeology can be
applied to expose critical actions, sacrifices, and accomplishments
of competing groups representing opposing philosophies and ways of
life, which are otherwise lost in time. The case studies offered
cover significant events in American and world history, including
the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, Indian wars in
the Southeast and Southwest, the Civil War, Reconstruction,
Prohibition, and World War II. All such examples used here took
place at a local or regional level, and several were singular
events within a much larger and more complex historic movement.
While retained in local memory or tradition, and despite their
potential importance, they are poorly, and incompletely addressed
in the historic record. Furthermore, these conflicts took place
between groups of significantly different cultural and military
traditions and capabilities, most taking on a ""David vs. Goliath""
character, further shaping the definition of asymmetric warfare.
The Roman sophist Claudius Aelianus, born in Praeneste in the late
second century CE, spent his career cultivating a Greek literary
persona. Aelian was a highly regarded writer during his own
lifetime, and his literary compilations would be influential for a
thousand years and more in the Roman world. This book argues that
the De natura animalium, a miscellaneous treasury of animal lore
and Aelian's greatest work, is a sophisticated literary critique of
Severan Rome. Aelian's fascination with animals reflects the
cultural issues of his day: philosophy, religion, the exoticism of
Egypt and India, sex, gender, and imperial politics. This study
also considers how Aelian's interests in the De natura animalium
are echoed in his other works, the Rustic Letters and the Varia
Historia. Himself a prominent figure of mainstream Roman Hellenism,
Aelian refined his literary aesthetic to produce a reading of
nature that is both moral and provocative.
Is the United States Constitution the embodiment of certain
principles? The four authors of this book for a variety of reasons,
and with somewhat different emphases, believe the answer is no.
Those who authored the Constitution no doubt all believed in
liberty, equality, and, with caveats, republican self-government
values, or if you will, principles. But they had different
conceptions of those principles and what those principles entailed
for constituting a government. Although the Constitution they
created reflected, in some sense, their principles, the
Constitution itself was a specific list of do's and don'ts that its
creators hoped would gain the allegiance of the newly independent
and sovereign states. And, for somewhat different reasons, the
authors of this book believe that was a good thing.
Sexy, scintillating, and sometimes scandalous, Greek epigrams from
the age of the Emperor Justinian commemorate the survival of the
sensual in a world transformed by Christianity. Around 567 CE, the
poet and historian Agathias of Myrina published his Cycle, an
anthology of epigrams by contemporary poets who wrote about what
mattered to elite men in sixth-century Constantinople: harlots and
dancing girls, chariot races in the hippodrome, and the luxuries of
the Roman bath. But amid this banquet of worldly delights, ascetic
Christianity - pervasive in early Byzantine thought - made sensual
pleasure both more complicated and more compelling. In this book,
Steven D. Smith explores how this miniature classical genre gave
expression to lurid fantasies of domination and submission,
constraint and release, and the relationship between masculine and
feminine. The volume will appeal to literary scholars and
historians interested in Greek poetry, Late Antiquity, Byzantine
studies, Early Christianity, gender, and sexuality.
The Roman sophist Claudius Aelianus, born in Praeneste in the late
second century CE, spent his career cultivating a Greek literary
persona. Aelian was a highly regarded writer during his own
lifetime, and his literary compilations would be influential for a
thousand years and more in the Roman world. This book argues that
the De natura animalium, a miscellaneous treasury of animal lore
and Aelian's greatest work, is a sophisticated literary critique of
Severan Rome. Aelian's fascination with animals reflects the
cultural issues of his day: philosophy, religion, the exoticism of
Egypt and India, sex, gender, and imperial politics. This study
also considers how Aelian's interests in the De natura animalium
are echoed in his other works, the Rustic Letters and the Varia
Historia. Himself a prominent figure of mainstream Roman Hellenism,
Aelian refined his literary aesthetic to produce a reading of
nature that is both moral and provocative.
The book provides an outline and modern overview of the
classification of the finite simple groups. It primarily covers the
“even case”, where the main groups arising are Lie-type
(matrix) groups over a field of characteristic 2. The book thus
completes a project begun by Daniel Gorenstein’s 1983 book, which
outlined the classification of groups of “noncharacteristic 2
type”. However, this book provides much more. Chapter 0 is a
modern overview of the logical structure of the entire
classification. Chapter 1 is a concise but complete outline of the
“odd case” with updated references, while Chapter 2 sets the
stage for the remainder of the book with a similar outline of the
“even case”. The remaining six chapters describe in detail the
fundamental results whose union completes the proof of the
classification theorem. Several important subsidiary results are
also discussed. In addition, there is a comprehensive listing of
the large number of papers referenced from the literature.
Appendices provide a brief but valuable modern introduction to many
key ideas and techniques of the proof. Some improved arguments are
developed, along with indications of new approaches to the entire
classification—such as the second and third generation
projects—although there is no attempt to cover them
comprehensively. The work should appeal to a broad range of
mathematicians—from those who just want an overview of the main
ideas of the classification, to those who want a reader’s guide
to help navigate some of the major papers, and to those who may
wish to improve the existing proofs.
For each of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups, the authors
construct a 2-completed classifying space using a homotopy
decomposition in terms of classifying spaces of suitable 2-local
subgroups. This construction leads to an additive decomposition of
the mod 2 group cohomology. The authors also summarize the current
status of knowledge in the literature about the ring structure of
the mod 2 cohomology of sporadic simple groups.
Attempting to realize Plato's vision of a republic governed by
"reason," American constitutionalists, according to Steven D.
Smith's bold new critical study, have instead reenacted the Tower
of Babel myth, producing a constitutional discourse marked by
rampant confusion, elaborate sophistry, and thinly veiled
authoritarian bullying. How is it that the pursuit of such lofty
aims by yesterday's framers and today's scholars has left us mired
in a constitutional morass?
This timely book ponders that question with the intellectual vigor
it deserves. Observing that standard accounts of constitutional
law--both the "conservative" and "liberal" varieties--have lost
their power to illuminate, The Constitution and the Pride of Reason
explores how constitutional law hangs together (and how it falls
apart) by investigating the perennial claim that the Constitution
and its interpretation somehow embody a commitment to governance by
"reason." What does this claim mean, and is it valid? In
confronting these queries, Smith offers revealing and iconoclastic
assessments of constitutionalists ranging from Madison and
Jefferson to Dworkin and Bork. Also detailed in these pages is a
provocative overview of the whole constitutional project, from its
noble aspirations to its tragic failures.
A truly visionary work that investigates the scholarship, the
design, and the history of the quintessential American legal
document, this volume also sensibly reflects on the meaning and
possibility of the ethical commitment to the "life of reason." It
will appeal not only to students of constitutional law but also to
those interested in political science, philosophy, and American
history.
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