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Sovereignty or Submission

Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?

By: John Fonte

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Sovereignty or Submission

Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?

By: John Fonte

The Twenty-First Century is witnessing an epic struggle between the forces of global governance and American constitutional democracy. Transnational progressives and pragmatists in the UN, EU, post-modern states of Europe, NGOs, corporations, prominent foundations, and most importantly, in America’s leading elites, seek to establish “global governance.” Further, they understand that in order to achieve global governance, American sovereignty must be subordinated to the “global rule of law.” The U.S. Constitution must incorporate “evolving norms of international law.” Sovereignty or Submission? examines this process with crystalline clarity and alerts the American public to the danger ahead. Global governance seeks legitimacy not in democracy, but in a partisan interpretation of human rights. It would shift power from democracies (U.S., Israel, India) to post-democratic authorities, such as the judges of the International Criminal Court. Global governance is a new political form (a rival to liberal democracy), that is already a significant actor on the world stage. America faces serious challenges from radical Islam and a rising China. Simultaneously, it faces a third challenge (global governance) that is internal to the democratic world; is non-violent; but nonetheless threatens constitutional self-government. Although it seems unlikely that the utopian goals of the globalists could be fully achieved, if they continue to obtain a wide spread influence over mainstream elite opinion, they could disable and disarm democratic self-government at home and abroad. The result would be the slow suicide of American liberal democracy. Whichever side prevails, the existential conflict of global governance versus American sovereignty (and democratic self-government in general) will be at the heart of world politics as far as the eye can see.

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Encounter Books

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1594035466

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9781594035463

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age

By: Carole Levin,John Watkins

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Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age

By: Carole Levin,John Watkins

In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers. Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins argue that Shakespeare's centrality to English national consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the foreign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between England's internal minorities and its competitors within an increasingly fraught European mercantile system. As a women's historian, Levin is particularly interested in Shakespeare's responses to marginalized sectors of English society. As a scholar of English, Italian Studies, and Medieval Studies, Watkins situates Shakespeare in the context of broadly European historical movements. Together Levin and Watkins narrate the emergence of the foreign as portable category that might be applied both to "strangers" from other countries and to native-born English men and women, such as religious dissidents, who resisted conformity to an increasingly narrow sense of English identity. Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds will appeal to historians, literary scholars, theater specialists, and anyone interested in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age.

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233

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Cornell University Press

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0801457718

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9780801457715

Twenty Thousand Mornings

An Autobiography

By: John Joseph Mathews

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Twenty Thousand Mornings

An Autobiography

By: John Joseph Mathews

When John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews’s intimate chronicle of his formative years. Written in 1965-67 but only recently discovered, this work captures Osage life in pre-statehood Oklahoma and recounts many remarkable events in early-twentieth-century history. Born in Pawhuska, Osage Nation, Mathews was the only surviving son of a mixed-blood Osage father and a French-American mother. Within these pages he lovingly depicts his close relationships with family members and friends. Yet always drawn to solitude and the natural world, he wanders the Osage Hills in search of tranquil swimming holes—and new adventures. Overturning misguided critical attempts to confine Mathews to either Indian or white identity, Twenty Thousand Mornings shows him as a young man of his time. He goes to dances and movies, attends the brand-new University of Oklahoma, and joins the Air Service as a flight instructor during World War I—spawning a lifelong fascination with aviation. His accounts of wartime experiences include unforgettable descriptions of his first solo flight and growing skill in night-flying. Eventually Mathews gives up piloting to become a student again, this time at Oxford University, where he begins to mature as an intellectual. In her insightful introduction and explanatory notes, Susan Kalter places Mathews’s work in the context of his life and career as a novelist, historian, naturalist, and scholar. Kalter draws on his unpublished diaries, revealing aspects of his personal life that have previously been misunderstood. In addressing the significance of this posthumous work, she posits that Twenty Thousand Mornings will challenge, defy, and perhaps redefine studies of American Indian autobiography.”

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362

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806187468

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9780806187464

The Word From Paris

Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers

By: John Sturrock

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The Word From Paris

Essays on Modern French Thinkers and Writers

By: John Sturrock

In this accessible guide to the literature and thought of 20th century France, Sturrock clarifies the various intellectual movements that have marked the recent history of French writing, including Existentialism, Structuralism and the OuLiPo.

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228

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Verso

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1859841635

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9781859841631

Cosmè Tura of Ferrara

Style, Politics, and the Renaissance City, 1450-1495

By: Stephen John Campbell

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Cosmè Tura of Ferrara

Style, Politics, and the Renaissance City, 1450-1495

By: Stephen John Campbell

Amajor study of Cosm� Tura (c.1430-1495) who came to prominence as painter to the Este court. As well as close examination of his paintings, Tura's life and works are used as a starting point for the investigation of the 15th cent artist's role and status at court, and urban culture.

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230

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Yale University Press

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0300072198

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9780300072198

Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1400

By: John White,John Reeves White

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Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1400

By: John White,John Reeves White

The 14th century in Italian art is a very rich one, and Professor White's book gives architecture equal weight with painting and sculpture. The story of the Gothic style and the prehistory of the Renaissance is given: all the facts are related, but also the works of art are described with insight and for their own sakes, and not simply as data for fitting into schemes and theories. Among the great names are those of Arnolfo di Cambio, the Pisani, Cavallini, Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto, Simone Martini, and the Lorenzetti; among the buildings S. Croce, S. Maria Novella, the cathedral and the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and the cathedrals of Siena, Orvieto, and Milan, as well as churches, castles, and civic buildings from the Val d'Aosta to Sicily. The third edition of this work includes colour illustrations and incorporates textual revisions and an updated bibliography.

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Yale University Press

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0300055854

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9780300055856

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

By: John Beckwith,Richard Krautheimer,Slobodan Ćurčić

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Early Christian and Byzantine Art

By: John Beckwith,Richard Krautheimer,Slobodan Ćurčić

Focusing on mosaics, sculpture, paintings, jewelry, and silk, the author examines this artistic style as an expression of religious thought

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410

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Yale University Press

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0300052960

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9780300052961

The Rough Guide to Portugal

By: Mark Ellingham,John Fisher,Graham Kenyon

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The Rough Guide to Portugal

By: Mark Ellingham,John Fisher,Graham Kenyon

Now in its 9th edition, this guide just keeps getting better. The Rough Guide to Portugal features exhaustive listings on all ranges of accommodation, from basic pensiones to luxury hotels, and up-to-date facts on sightseeing, shopping, day trips, dining, and more. As always, we also give you the inside scoop on secluded beaches, fado joints, and port-tasting sessions on the banks of the Porto.

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Rough Guides

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1858288770

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9781858288772

The Poems of St. John of the Cross

By: Saint John of the Cross

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The Poems of St. John of the Cross

By: Saint John of the Cross

San Juan de la Cruz, the great sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, is regarded by many as Spain's finest poet. Passionate, ecstatic, and spiritual, his poems are a blend of exquisite lyricism and profound mystical thought. In The Poems of St. John of the Cross John Frederick Nims presents his superlative translation of the complete poems, re-creating the religious fervor of St. John's art. This dual-language edition makes available the original Spanish from the Codex of Sanlúcon de Barrameda with facing English translations. The work concludes with two essays--a critique of the poetry and a short piece on the Spanish text that appears alongside the translation--as well as brief notes on the individual poems.

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164

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University of Chicago Press

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0226401103

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9780226401102

An Anthology of Spanish Poetry

From the Beginnings to the Present Day, Including Both Spain and Spanish America

By: John A. Crow

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An Anthology of Spanish Poetry

From the Beginnings to the Present Day, Including Both Spain and Spanish America

By: John A. Crow

John A. Crow, a leading Hispanist, has culled the best translations available--by such poets as Richard Franshawe, Edward Fitzgerald, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Robert Southey, and many distinguished modern poets--of poems ranging from the eleventh century to the present to make this the most complete collection of both Spanish and Spanish American poetry in English translation. Represented here is work by such twentieth century poets as Gabriela Mistral, Octavio Paz, Federico García Lorca, César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Anotnio Machado, and Juan Ramón Jiménez, many of whom the editor has known personally. The inclusion of many contemporary poets whose verse has never before appeared in English makes this anthology a particularly valuable collection.

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LSU Press

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0807104833

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9780807104835

Revival: Mirk's Festival: A Collection of Homilies (1905)

By: John Mirk

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Revival: Mirk's Festival: A Collection of Homilies (1905)

By: John Mirk

This first part contains only the text and a glossary. In the second part, with Introduction concerning the MSS. and the arrangement of the texts, &c. I may therefore, here confine myself to a very few remarks. In addition to the ordinary contraction signs the scribe of the Gough MS. frequently make a stroke over or otherwise adds a a stroke to the last letter of the words.

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Routledge

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1351338374

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9781351338370

The Poetry of Francisco de la Torre

By: John Gethin Hughes

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The Poetry of Francisco de la Torre

By: John Gethin Hughes

Francisco de la Torre has long been praised as an outstanding poet in the mould of Garcilaso de la Vega and his simplicity of style and soft, gentle, Arcadian environment of his poetry have been emphasized. In this volume Professor Hughes attempts to define more accurately the position of Francisco de la Torre's verse in the evolution of Spanish poetry in the sixteenth century, revealing that Torre's vision of the pastoral world and his poetic language show him to be a transitional poet of considerable quality and substance and not merely an imitator of Garcilaso. Hughes demonstrates that while some of Torre's poetry follows a general pastoral pattern, his descriptions are characterized by a sense of movement through a shifting perspective and that even in poems with a traditional pastoral setting, the descriptions sometimes negate the pastoral qualities. The author also shows that Torre, rather than looking back towards Garcilaso and his contemporaries, is already anticipating – especially in his stylistic technique and in his view of nature – the attitude of the seventeenth century.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487590334

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9781487590338

Book's by John Fonte

Sovereignty or Submission

Sovereignty or Submission

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

Twenty Thousand Mornings

Twenty Thousand Mornings

The Word From Paris

The Word From Paris

Cosmè Tura of Ferrara

Cosmè Tura of Ferrara

Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1400

Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1400

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

Early Christian and Byzantine Art

The Rough Guide to Portugal

The Rough Guide to Portugal

The Poems of St. John of the Cross

The Poems of St. John of the Cross

An Anthology of Spanish Poetry

An Anthology of Spanish Poetry

Revival: Mirk's Festival: A Collection of Homilies (1905)

Revival: Mirk's Festival: A Collection of Homilies (1905)

The Poetry of Francisco de la Torre

The Poetry of Francisco de la Torre

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