Author: Sam Orwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578842226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this concise and devastating critique of American progressivism, Sam Orwell demonstrates how perpetual government expansion destroys human liberty. National debt, inflation, and reliance on public-sector problem solving are historical precursors to social injustices by the state. Strong centralized governments confiscate civil liberties for collective goals, and levy punishments on citizens wishing to maintain basic economic freedoms. The United States eerily resembles several nations prior to their transformation into oppressive regimes, and must return to constitutional limited government in order to avoid the coming storm.
Dusk of Liberty
Author: Sam Orwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578842226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this concise and devastating critique of American progressivism, Sam Orwell demonstrates how perpetual government expansion destroys human liberty. National debt, inflation, and reliance on public-sector problem solving are historical precursors to social injustices by the state. Strong centralized governments confiscate civil liberties for collective goals, and levy punishments on citizens wishing to maintain basic economic freedoms. The United States eerily resembles several nations prior to their transformation into oppressive regimes, and must return to constitutional limited government in order to avoid the coming storm.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578842226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this concise and devastating critique of American progressivism, Sam Orwell demonstrates how perpetual government expansion destroys human liberty. National debt, inflation, and reliance on public-sector problem solving are historical precursors to social injustices by the state. Strong centralized governments confiscate civil liberties for collective goals, and levy punishments on citizens wishing to maintain basic economic freedoms. The United States eerily resembles several nations prior to their transformation into oppressive regimes, and must return to constitutional limited government in order to avoid the coming storm.
Dusk
Author: F. Sionil José
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307830306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and the new life it attempts to make in the small town of Rosales. Here commences the epic tale of a family unwillingly thrown into the turmoil of history. But this is more than a historical novel; it is also the eternal story of man's tortured search for true faith and the larger meaning of existence. Jose has achieved a fiction of extraordinary scope and passion, a book as meaningful to Philippine literature as One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Latin American literature. "The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer."--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books "Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story."--Chicago Tribune
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307830306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s, Dusk records the exile of a tenant family from its village and the new life it attempts to make in the small town of Rosales. Here commences the epic tale of a family unwillingly thrown into the turmoil of history. But this is more than a historical novel; it is also the eternal story of man's tortured search for true faith and the larger meaning of existence. Jose has achieved a fiction of extraordinary scope and passion, a book as meaningful to Philippine literature as One Hundred Years of Solitude is to Latin American literature. "The foremost Filipino novelist in English, his novels deserve a much wider readership than the Philippines can offer."--Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books "Tolstoy himself, not to mention Italo Svevo, would envy the author of this story."--Chicago Tribune
Legislative Document
Author: New York (State). Legislature
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Liberty's Excess
Author: Lidia Yuknavitch
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9781573660846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
In interconnected and mutually enfolding texts protagonists face off with some deformation of being: psychological, sexual, political, philosophical. Plots play out across the body, as if formed, deformed, reformed by culture. Drugs, violence, and sex inscribe the literal flesh of "figures" standing in for what formerly passed for character. In these fictions a woman is more likely to appear with a needle in her arm than a baby. Sometimes a woman cannot be distinguished from a man at all. Cutting from subject to object, severing the eye/I from skin, these fictions bring America back to its body. In Liberty's Excess, capitalism and individualism lose their cover stories, releasing desire all over culture's deadening hum. Yuknavitch is both master and mistress of this dis-formed beauty, creating a landscape neither Waste Land nor Kansas nor Pomo Glitter.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9781573660846
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
In interconnected and mutually enfolding texts protagonists face off with some deformation of being: psychological, sexual, political, philosophical. Plots play out across the body, as if formed, deformed, reformed by culture. Drugs, violence, and sex inscribe the literal flesh of "figures" standing in for what formerly passed for character. In these fictions a woman is more likely to appear with a needle in her arm than a baby. Sometimes a woman cannot be distinguished from a man at all. Cutting from subject to object, severing the eye/I from skin, these fictions bring America back to its body. In Liberty's Excess, capitalism and individualism lose their cover stories, releasing desire all over culture's deadening hum. Yuknavitch is both master and mistress of this dis-formed beauty, creating a landscape neither Waste Land nor Kansas nor Pomo Glitter.
Drums at Dusk
Author: Arna Wendell Bontemps
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Haiti
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Haiti
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Liberty's Captives
Author: Daniel E. Williams
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820328006
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An astonishing variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty years following the American Revolution; however, discussions about them have usually focused on accounts of Native American captivities. To most readers, then, captivity narratives are synonymous with "godless savages," the vast frontier, and the trials of kidnapped settlers. This anthology, the first to bring together various types of captivity narratives in a comparative way, broadens our view of the form as it shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination. Included here are accounts by Indian captives, but also prisoners of war, slaves, victims of pirates and Barbary corsairs, impressed sailors, and shipwreck survivors. The volume's seventeen selections have been culled from hundreds of such texts, edited according to scholarly standards, and reproduced with the highest possible degree of fidelity to the originals. Some selections are fictional or borrow heavily from other, true narratives; all are sensational. Immensely popular with American readers, they were also a lucrative commodity that helped to catalyze the explosion of print culture in the early Republic. As Americans began to personalize the rhetoric of their recent revolution, captivity narratives textually enacted graphic scenes of defiance toward deprivation, confinement, and coercion. At a critical point in American history they helped make the ideals of nationhood real to common citizens.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820328006
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
An astonishing variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty years following the American Revolution; however, discussions about them have usually focused on accounts of Native American captivities. To most readers, then, captivity narratives are synonymous with "godless savages," the vast frontier, and the trials of kidnapped settlers. This anthology, the first to bring together various types of captivity narratives in a comparative way, broadens our view of the form as it shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination. Included here are accounts by Indian captives, but also prisoners of war, slaves, victims of pirates and Barbary corsairs, impressed sailors, and shipwreck survivors. The volume's seventeen selections have been culled from hundreds of such texts, edited according to scholarly standards, and reproduced with the highest possible degree of fidelity to the originals. Some selections are fictional or borrow heavily from other, true narratives; all are sensational. Immensely popular with American readers, they were also a lucrative commodity that helped to catalyze the explosion of print culture in the early Republic. As Americans began to personalize the rhetoric of their recent revolution, captivity narratives textually enacted graphic scenes of defiance toward deprivation, confinement, and coercion. At a critical point in American history they helped make the ideals of nationhood real to common citizens.
The Annual Register
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.
The Keystone
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1604
Book Description
Airman's Information Manual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to air navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to air navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: New York (State). Public Service Commission. 2nd district
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description