Author: Abigail G. Mullen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421449269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
"This work provides a new history of the First Barbary War, a conflict that, in its political and diplomatic aspects, planted the seeds for the United States' ascent to a global superpower"--
To Fix a National Character
Author: Abigail G. Mullen
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421449269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
"This work provides a new history of the First Barbary War, a conflict that, in its political and diplomatic aspects, planted the seeds for the United States' ascent to a global superpower"--
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421449269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
"This work provides a new history of the First Barbary War, a conflict that, in its political and diplomatic aspects, planted the seeds for the United States' ascent to a global superpower"--
Caricature and National Character
Author: Christopher J. Gilbert
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108992X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
According to the popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Chris Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insights into American cultural identity. Tracing the comic representation of American values from the First World War to the War on Terror, Gilbert explores the power of humor in caricature to expose both the folly in jingoistic virtues and the sometimes-strange fortune in nationalistic vices. He examines the artwork of four exemplary American cartoonists—James Montgomery Flagg, Dr. Seuss, Ollie Harrington, and Ann Telnaes—to craft a trenchant image of Americanism. These examinations animate the rhetorical, and indeed comic, force of icons like Uncle Sam, national symbols like the American Eagle, political stooges like President Donald J. Trump, and more, as well as the power of political cartoons to comment on issues of race, class, and gender on the home front. Throughout, Gilbert portrays a US culture rooted in and riven by ideas of manifest destiny, patriotism, and democracy for all, yet plagued by ugly forms of nationalism, misogyny, racism, and violence. Rich with examples of hilarious and masterfully drawn caricatures from a diverse range of creators, this unflinching look at the evolution of our conflicted national character illustrates how American cartoonists use farce, mockery, and wit to put national character in the comic looking glass.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027108992X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
According to the popular maxim, a nation at war reveals its true character. In this incisive work, Chris Gilbert examines the long history of US war politics through the lens of political cartoons to provide new, unique insights into American cultural identity. Tracing the comic representation of American values from the First World War to the War on Terror, Gilbert explores the power of humor in caricature to expose both the folly in jingoistic virtues and the sometimes-strange fortune in nationalistic vices. He examines the artwork of four exemplary American cartoonists—James Montgomery Flagg, Dr. Seuss, Ollie Harrington, and Ann Telnaes—to craft a trenchant image of Americanism. These examinations animate the rhetorical, and indeed comic, force of icons like Uncle Sam, national symbols like the American Eagle, political stooges like President Donald J. Trump, and more, as well as the power of political cartoons to comment on issues of race, class, and gender on the home front. Throughout, Gilbert portrays a US culture rooted in and riven by ideas of manifest destiny, patriotism, and democracy for all, yet plagued by ugly forms of nationalism, misogyny, racism, and violence. Rich with examples of hilarious and masterfully drawn caricatures from a diverse range of creators, this unflinching look at the evolution of our conflicted national character illustrates how American cartoonists use farce, mockery, and wit to put national character in the comic looking glass.
Institutes of International Law
Author: Richard Wildman
Publisher:
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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Category : International law
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Public Schools of the City of Washington
Author: District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
An Analytical Digest of All the Reported Cases Determined by the High Court of Admiralty of England
Author: William Tarn Pritchard
Publisher:
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Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Admiralty
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Opposing Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism
Author: Marina Gržinić
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527543927
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
This volume gathers together reflections on racism and nationalism, empowerment and futurity. It focuses on collective amnesia in regards to traumatic events of the European past and the ways in which memory and history are presented for the future. The essays cover and oppose the seemingly disparate genocides committed during Belgian colonialism, Austrian antisemitism and turbo-nationalism in “Republika Srpska” (Bosnia and Herzegovina), implying by no means a homogenization of the experiences. What connects these historical situations is the fact that, despite available documents, to this very day, nation-states are built on practices of oblivion regarding their past. This volume is indispensable for theoreticians, philosophers, and historians, as well as the general public. It expresses the demand to critically question our inherited knowledge and to rethink the past for a new future of conviviality.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527543927
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
This volume gathers together reflections on racism and nationalism, empowerment and futurity. It focuses on collective amnesia in regards to traumatic events of the European past and the ways in which memory and history are presented for the future. The essays cover and oppose the seemingly disparate genocides committed during Belgian colonialism, Austrian antisemitism and turbo-nationalism in “Republika Srpska” (Bosnia and Herzegovina), implying by no means a homogenization of the experiences. What connects these historical situations is the fact that, despite available documents, to this very day, nation-states are built on practices of oblivion regarding their past. This volume is indispensable for theoreticians, philosophers, and historians, as well as the general public. It expresses the demand to critically question our inherited knowledge and to rethink the past for a new future of conviviality.
Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde
Author: Paul Peppis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521662383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Accounts of the 'historical avant-garde' and of 'high modernism' often celebrate the former for its revolutionary aesthetics or denigrate the latter for its 'proto-fascist' politics. In Literature, Politics and the English Avant-Garde, Paul Peppis shows how neither interpretation explains the writings of avant-gardists in early twentieth-century England. Peppis reads texts by writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Dora Marsden, and Ezra Pound alongside English political discourse between the death of Victoria and the end of the Great War. He traces the impact of nation and empire on the avant-garde, arguing that Vorticism, England's foremost avant-garde movement, used nationalism to advance literature and avant-garde literature to advance empire. Peppis's study demonstrates that these ambitions were enabled by a period conception of nationality as an essence and construct. By recovering these neglected aspects of avant-garde politics, Peppis's book opens important avenues for assessing modernist politics after the war.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521662383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Accounts of the 'historical avant-garde' and of 'high modernism' often celebrate the former for its revolutionary aesthetics or denigrate the latter for its 'proto-fascist' politics. In Literature, Politics and the English Avant-Garde, Paul Peppis shows how neither interpretation explains the writings of avant-gardists in early twentieth-century England. Peppis reads texts by writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Dora Marsden, and Ezra Pound alongside English political discourse between the death of Victoria and the end of the Great War. He traces the impact of nation and empire on the avant-garde, arguing that Vorticism, England's foremost avant-garde movement, used nationalism to advance literature and avant-garde literature to advance empire. Peppis's study demonstrates that these ambitions were enabled by a period conception of nationality as an essence and construct. By recovering these neglected aspects of avant-garde politics, Peppis's book opens important avenues for assessing modernist politics after the war.
The Brazilians
Author: José Honório Rodrigues
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477302905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Brazil has long been a country in search of its own meaning and mission. Early in their history Brazilians began to puzzle over their surroundings and their relation to them. The eighteenth century produced an entire school of nativistic writers who, with the advent of independence, became fiery nationalists, still pursuing introspective studies of their homeland. Throughout the nineteenth century, the intellectuals of Brazil determined to define their nation, its character, and its aspirations. In this now well-established tradition, José Honório Rodrigues confronts the questions of who and what the Brazilian is, what Brazil stands for, where it has been, and where it is going. This study, originally published in Portuguese as Aspirações nacionais, was especially timely at a period when strong feelings of nationalism led Brazilians to seek to define their own image, and when the revolution of rising expectations disposed them to determine what goals they were seeking and how far they were on the road to achieving them. In order to understand and explain his nation, Rodrigues poses two questions: what are the national characteristics, and what are the national aspirations? Both questions are complex, but the reader will find well-reasoned answers, with a wealth of information on growth and development and abundant statistics to substantiate these answers.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477302905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Brazil has long been a country in search of its own meaning and mission. Early in their history Brazilians began to puzzle over their surroundings and their relation to them. The eighteenth century produced an entire school of nativistic writers who, with the advent of independence, became fiery nationalists, still pursuing introspective studies of their homeland. Throughout the nineteenth century, the intellectuals of Brazil determined to define their nation, its character, and its aspirations. In this now well-established tradition, José Honório Rodrigues confronts the questions of who and what the Brazilian is, what Brazil stands for, where it has been, and where it is going. This study, originally published in Portuguese as Aspirações nacionais, was especially timely at a period when strong feelings of nationalism led Brazilians to seek to define their own image, and when the revolution of rising expectations disposed them to determine what goals they were seeking and how far they were on the road to achieving them. In order to understand and explain his nation, Rodrigues poses two questions: what are the national characteristics, and what are the national aspirations? Both questions are complex, but the reader will find well-reasoned answers, with a wealth of information on growth and development and abundant statistics to substantiate these answers.
Reports of Criminal Law Cases ...
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Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description