Author: Concord (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight, April 19, 1875
Author: Concord (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Witness Literature
Author: Horace Engdahl
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789812706515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
In December 2001, the centennial of the first Nobel Prize was celebrated in Stockholm. To mark the occasion, the Swedish Academy organized a symposium on the theme of OC Witness LiteratureOCO. Talks were given by speakers from Asia, Africa and Europe, including three Nobel laureates in literature: Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Gao Xingjian.The main objective of the symposium was to examine the concept of witness literature and its relevance to contemporary literature. This concept is relatively new and has not yet been defined clearly by literary criticism and scholarship. The discussion primarily alternated between two aspects of the topic: the particular claim to truth that witness literature puts forward, and the process that leads from catastrophe to creativity and that turns the victim into a writing witness with the power to suspend forgetfulness and denial.This volume, edited by Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, brings together all the talks given at the symposium."
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789812706515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
In December 2001, the centennial of the first Nobel Prize was celebrated in Stockholm. To mark the occasion, the Swedish Academy organized a symposium on the theme of OC Witness LiteratureOCO. Talks were given by speakers from Asia, Africa and Europe, including three Nobel laureates in literature: Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe and Gao Xingjian.The main objective of the symposium was to examine the concept of witness literature and its relevance to contemporary literature. This concept is relatively new and has not yet been defined clearly by literary criticism and scholarship. The discussion primarily alternated between two aspects of the topic: the particular claim to truth that witness literature puts forward, and the process that leads from catastrophe to creativity and that turns the victim into a writing witness with the power to suspend forgetfulness and denial.This volume, edited by Horace Engdahl, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, brings together all the talks given at the symposium."
Centennial Crisis
Author: William H. Rehnquist
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and peerlessly researched chronicle of the post—Civil War years, when the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant was marked by misjudgment and scandal, and Hayes, Republican governor of Ohio, vied with Tilden, a wealthy Democratic lawyer and successful corruption buster, to succeed Grant as America’s chief executive. The upshot was a very close popular vote (in favor of Tilden) that an irremediably deadlocked Congress was unable to resolve. In the pitched battle that ensued along party lines, the ultimate decision of who would be President rested with a commission that included five Supreme Court justices, as well as five congressional members from each party. With a firm understanding of the energies that motivated the era’s movers and shakers, and no shortage of insight into the processes by which epochal decisions are made, Chief Justice Rehnquist draws the reader intimately into a nineteenth-century event that offers valuable history lessons for us in the twenty-first.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307425215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and peerlessly researched chronicle of the post—Civil War years, when the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant was marked by misjudgment and scandal, and Hayes, Republican governor of Ohio, vied with Tilden, a wealthy Democratic lawyer and successful corruption buster, to succeed Grant as America’s chief executive. The upshot was a very close popular vote (in favor of Tilden) that an irremediably deadlocked Congress was unable to resolve. In the pitched battle that ensued along party lines, the ultimate decision of who would be President rested with a commission that included five Supreme Court justices, as well as five congressional members from each party. With a firm understanding of the energies that motivated the era’s movers and shakers, and no shortage of insight into the processes by which epochal decisions are made, Chief Justice Rehnquist draws the reader intimately into a nineteenth-century event that offers valuable history lessons for us in the twenty-first.
Catalogue
Author: Michigan State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library
Author: Michigan State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Documents of the Senate of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1879-80
Author: Michigan State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Catalogue of that Portion of the Private Library of Samuel Lane Boardman Relating to American and Local History, Biography etc., To Be Sold by Auction Nov. 27th and 28th, 1883
Author: Samuel Lane Boardman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385309557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385309557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.