The Book Of Beginnings

VORREVOLUTIONÄRES ZEITALTER - Palmer, R. R.: The Age of the Democratic Revolution - A political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - The Challange; Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1965 (4th Printing).
Robert Roswell Palmer (* Chicago 1909, + 2002), US-amerikanischer Historiker. // A. d. Vorwort: There have been a great many works about the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the beginnings of the parliamentary reform movement in Great Britain, and on Irish affairs, as also, though less known in English-speaking world, on the several countries of continental Europe during this revolutionary era. This book attempts to bring all these national histories together. It rests heavily upon the work of others and is therefore an example of what we have come to know as a historical synthesis. The book may be thought of also as an attempt at a comparative constitutional history of Western Civilization at the time of the French and American revolutions, but "constitutional" is to be understood in a broad sense in close connection with the political, social and intellectual currents and the actual conflicts at the time. // Contents: 1. The Age of the Democratic Revolution; 2. Aristocracy about 1760: The Constituted Bodies; 3. Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice; 4. Clashes with Monarchy; 5. Clash with Democracy: Geneva and Jean-Jacques Rousseau; 6. The British Parliament between King and People; 7. The American Revolution: The Forces in Conflict; 8. The American Revolution: The People as Constituent Power; 9. Europe and the American Revolution; 10. Two Parliaments escape Reform; 11. Democrats and Aristocrats - Dutch, Belgian and Swiss; 12. The Limitations of Enlightened Despotism; 13. The Lessons of Poland; 14. The French Revolution: The Aristocratic Resurgence; 15. The French Revolution: The Explosion of 1789; Appendices.

IX + 534 Seiten; [gr-8°: 16 x 24 cm] Ganzleinen mit gold-schwarz geprägtem Rückentitel; Deckelecken etwas bestoßen; Besitzereintrag auf Innendeckel; gutes sauberes Exemplar; Gewicht über 1kg.

[KW: Französische Revolution Amerikanische Revolution Geschichte Geschichtswissenschaft 18. Jahrhundert Revolutionäre Vorrevolutionäre Zeit Epoche Periode Aufklärung Historische Synthese Demokratische]

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Freitag, Kornelia: Cultural Criticism in Woman's Experimental Writing. The Poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Lyn Hejinian and Susan Howe. (American Studies 128). Heidelberg: Winter 2006.
Contemporary experimental poetry? By women? But is this women's writing? The type of poetry that is central to this book has long been met with surprise, if not rejection, by both critics and the general public. This volume is an introduction to recent developments in women's poetic experiments, an area that has grown from rather marginalized and isolated beginnings into a thriving and highly visible field. Women's experimental texts can no longer be ignored, but they remain a challenge to readers and critics: this study examines some of the reasons why recognition has been delayed, and it also provides a range of new readings. With particular focus on poetry by Rosmarie Waldrop, Lyn Hejinian, and Susan Howe, women's poetic experiments are shown to be a critique of current practices of cultural representation that relegate women's poetry and experimental writing to separate spheres.

VIII, 379 S. Kart. *neuwertig*

[KW: Literaturwissenschaft; Literaturwissenschaft; Lyrik]

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Walton, DHW (Edited): Antarctic Science. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney, 1987.
The Antarctic Treaty has dedicated the world's coldest continent to peaceful scientific use and provided unparalleled opportunities for collaboration between East and West throughout the turmoil of global politics. This book, written by scientists, reviews the major international developments in Antarctic science from its early beginnings, in the age of Captain Cook, to the present complexity of the 1980s....

With contributions by CSM Doake, JR Dudeney, I Everson, RM Laws FRS and introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs FRS. 280 Seiten, reich illustriert, in englischer Sprache. 4°, 23 cm x 28,5cm, Leinen, Schutzumschlag, sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar.

[KW: Antarktis, Südpol, Pole, Eis, Gletscher]

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Fiss, Owen M. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. The History of the Supreme Court of the United States Vol. VIII... 2006

Fiss, Owen M. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. The History of the Supreme Court of the United States. Volume VIII. Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888-1910. [New York]: Cambridge University Press, May 2006. xix, 426 pp. [33 Illustrations]. Cloth. New. * Cambridge Univ. Press notes " An earlier version of this book was published by Macmillan Publishing Company in 1993. First published by Cambridge University Press 2006." A highly interpretive and eminently readable study of the Supreme Court during the period in which Melvin Fuller was Chief Justice, offering a complete account of the cases the Court saw during one of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history. The legacy of the Supreme Court at the turn of the century has largely been negative: decisions such as Lochner v. New York (1905), Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), In re Debs (1895), and Plessy v. Ferguson have been seen by subsequent generations of lawyers and judges as embodying a judicial method and philosophy that should be avoided at all costs. This book places these decisions in their historical context. It rejects the crude instrumental interpretation of these decisions and explains them as the expression of a conception of liberty that has its roots in the founding of the nation. Contents: Part I. The Legacy of Negative Examples: 1. Legitimacy and history; 2. The identity of the institution; Part II. Class Conflict and the Supreme Court: 3. Debs and the maintenance of public order; 4. Pollock - the redistributive function denied; Part III. The Response to Progressivism: 5. The Antitrust campaign; 6. Labor legislation and the theory of Lochner; 7. Rate regulation: the assault on Munn v. Illinois; Part IV. The Concept of the Nation: 8. The American empire?; 9. Federalism and liberty; Part V. Liberty Dishonored: 10. The Chinese cases: citizenship and the claims of procedure; 11. The early free speech cases; 12. Plessy, alas; 13. The end of a tradition?

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