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Dangerous Ground

Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy

By: John Suval

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Dangerous Ground

Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy

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The squatter--defined by Noah Webster as one that settles on new land without a title--had long been a fixture of America's frontier past. In the antebellum period, white squatters propelled the Jacksonian Democratic Party to dominance and the United States to the shores of the Pacific. In a bold reframing of the era's political history, John Suval explores how Squatter Democracy transformed the partisan landscape and the map of North America, hastening clashes that ultimately sundered the nation. With one eye on Washington and the other on flashpoints across the West, Dangerous Ground tracks squatters from the Mississippi Valley and cotton lands of Texas, to Oregon, Gold Rush-era California, and, finally, Bleeding Kansas. The sweeping narrative reveals how claiming western domains became stubbornly intertwined with partisan politics and fights over the extension of slavery. While previous generations of statesmen had maligned and sought to contain illegal settlers, Democrats celebrated squatters as pioneering yeomen and encouraged their land grabs through preemption laws, Indian removal, and hawkish diplomacy. As America expanded, the party's power grew. The US-Mexican War led many to ask whether these squatters were genuine yeomen or forerunners of slavery expansion. Some northern Democrats bolted to form the Free Soil Party, while southerners denounced any hindrance to slavery's spread. Faced with a fracturing party, Democratic leaders allowed territorial inhabitants to determine whether new lands would be slave or free, leading to a destabilizing transfer of authority from Congress to frontier settlers. Squatters thus morphed from agents of Manifest Destiny into foot soldiers in battles that ruptured the party and the country. Deeply researched and vividly written, Dangerous Ground illuminates the overlooked role of squatters in the United States' growth into a continent-spanning juggernaut and in the onset of the Civil War, casting crucial light on the promises and vulnerabilities of American democracy.

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Dangerous Ground

Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy

By: John Suval

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Squatters, Statesmen, and the Antebellum Rupture of American Democracy

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Four-Leaf Clover

A Down Syndrome Portrait

By: John Schissler Jr.

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Four-Leaf Clover

A Down Syndrome Portrait

By: John Schissler Jr.

ADAM SCHISSLER, a young man with Down syndrome, has been living with his biological parents for the past 43 years. In this uplifting narrative, his father gives the reader a glimpse into what sharing a family life was like living with an exceptional infant, child, teen, and now an adult. The narrative also includes the valuable lessons learned and wisdom gained, especially from those critical child rearing years. This enlightening biography begins with informative and comforting passages revealing the challenges of raising a cognitively disabled child. The story then moves on to 17 heart-warming, and light-hearted vignettes that give insight into Adam’s view of the world, which he shares with everyone else. Told by his father John Schissler, his delightful story of life with Adam, gives some sage advice he and his wife can offer from their 55 years of raising three children. Dubbed a “four-leaf clover” by his Mom, Adam has brought an abundance of joy, love, mirth and good luck to the family he lives with in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Four-Leaf Clover is an enjoyable, uplifting, educational, and amusing read.

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Resenting God

Escape the Downward Spiral of Blame

By: John I. Snyder

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Resenting God

Escape the Downward Spiral of Blame

By: John I. Snyder

In our current social climate of growing distrust and escalation of hatred and personal losses, resentment and anger are on the rise. Resenting God offers the time-tested exit route from the lethal clutches of bitterness into a life of joyful faith and hope in a loving and gracious God. It exposes how resentment and disillusionment, leading inevitably to other destructive emotions, is a great deluder and is itself often based upon a great delusion—resentment against the Creator himself. We are blamers, and we blame God for life’s most painful and depressing experiences. We’ve all been there or are there. It can strike any person, anytime, anywhere. If we let down our guard and begin to give in to it, we’ll be pulled into a powerful downward spiral that we can’t escape by our own strength. We find ourselves asking: How can I forgive when the pain is so great? Does forgiving mean I have to forget the past? What if I choose not to forgive? Snyder discusses the causes and consequences of resentment, and the cures for resentment against God. Ultimately, the way out comes in knowing who God is and realizing that far from abandoning us in our hard times, he is the one who rescues us.

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Comprehensive Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

By: John W. Hallett

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Comprehensive Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

By: John W. Hallett

Comprehensive Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 2nd Edition, edited by John W. Hallett, Jr., MD, FACS, Joseph L. Mills, MD, Jonothan Earnshaw, DM, FRCS, Jim A. Reekers, MD, PhD, and Thom Rooke, MD delivers in-depth, clinically focused coverage of all aspects of vascular surgery in an exceptionally well-designed single reference. Each disease chapter follows the same consistent format, for quick consultation and better comprehension. The revised 2nd Edition features several new chapters, increased endovascular treatment coverage, and updated data from the latest trials...bringing you the newest advances from the field. More than 1,000 photographs, line drawings and tables-including many revised illustrations now in color-depict key concepts and procedures. With its practical user friendly approach-and online access through Expert Consult functionality-this resource offers convenient access to complete guidance. Presents the work of a team of nearly 80 internationally respected vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists who focus on the issues and challenges you face in everyday practice. Uses a highly structured, templated format in each chapter to quickly and consistently deliver information on basic science, clinical presentation, non-invasive testing, medical management, surgical management, complications, outcome, and follow up-making information easy to access and understand. Includes Key Points boxes in every chapter that allow for quick reference and efficient study. Features over 1,000 photographs, line drawings, charts and tables that make important information easy to comprehend. Integrates clinical information with basic science making the material relevant to everyday practice. Covers treatment and interventions from an evidence-based perspective, whenever possible. Provides short, clinical vignettes in the same style as those found on oral exams. Provides online access to the text via expertconsult.com where you can perform quick searches of the complete contents, download all of the images, further your study with bonus review and self assessment questions, and follow links to PubMed abstracts for convenient consultation whwere and when you need it most. Offers new chapters on vascular diagnosis, graft infections, aortic dissection, and visceral aneurysms for greater coverage of the field. Includes a significant increase in endovascular treatment coverage in many of the chapters, reflecting the growing need for experience in these procedures. Presents current data from DREAM and EVAR 1 and 2 trials. Features a revised artwork program-including many revised illustrations and former black and white images now in color-for an enhanced visual understanding of concepts. Includes bonus review and self assessment questions accompany the online version. Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued.

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The African Diaspora in the United States and Europe

The Ghanaian Experience

By: John A. Arthur

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The African Diaspora in the United States and Europe

The Ghanaian Experience

By: John A. Arthur

This book systematically documents the experiences of Ghanaian communities in North America as a case study of the new African migration. The rapid increase in the number of Ghanaians lawfully admitted as permanent residents since 1980 offers an opportunity to investigate their immigrant journeys, their membership in the larger society and the expression of their individual and collective social identities. Using original empirical data from the US and Canada as well as comparative material from the UK and the Netherlands, the author also investigates the relationship between these new African migrants and the native-born black diaspora in the US. This study balances theoretical insight with policy implications, using the case-study as a lens not just on African migration but also on significant conceptual themes in migration studies including transnationalism, identity, social networks, remittances, economic integration and citizenship.

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Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II

By: John E. Moser

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Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II

By: John E. Moser

The Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II demonstrates the ways in which the economic crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s helped to cause and shape the course of the Second World War. Historian John E. Moser points to the essential uniformity in the way in which the world s industrialized and industrializing nations responded to the challenge of the Depression. Among these nations, there was a move away from legislative deliberation and toward executive authority; away from free trade and toward the creation of regional trading blocs; away from the international gold standard and toward managed national currencies; away from chaotic individual liberty and toward rational regimentation; in other words, away from classical liberalism and toward some combination of corporatism, nationalism, and militarism.For all the similarities, however, there was still a great divide between two different general approaches to the economic crisis. Those countries that enjoyed easy, unchallenged access to resources and markets the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France tended to turn inward, erecting tariff walls and promoting domestic recovery at the expense of the international order. On the other hand, those nations that lacked such access Germany and Japan sought to take the necessary resources and markets by force. The interplay of these powers, then, constituted the dynamic of international relations of the 1930s: have-nots attempting to achieve self-sufficiency through aggressive means, challenging haves that were too distrustful of one another, and too preoccupied with their own domestic affairs, to work cooperatively in an effort to stop them.

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Republican and Fascist Germany

Themes and Variations in the History of Weimar and the Third Reich, 1918-1945

By: John Hiden

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Republican and Fascist Germany

Themes and Variations in the History of Weimar and the Third Reich, 1918-1945

By: John Hiden

This important addition to modern German studies treats the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich as a continuum, exploring its themes through the 1920s and 1930s without artificial breaks. John Hiden looks at key issues in political, social and economic history, and in international relations. He highlights Germany's potentially constructive role in Europe before Hitler; analyses the country's structural problems; considers the importance of personalities and personal responsibility in the period; and examines the legacy of the Third Reich to postwar Germany. Filled with energy and ideas, the book has an intellectual substance far beyond its relatively modest length.

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Book of Martyrs or a History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths, of the Primitive as Well as Protestant Martyrs

By: John Foxe,Charles A. Goodrich

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Book of Martyrs or a History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths, of the Primitive as Well as Protestant Martyrs

By: John Foxe,Charles A. Goodrich

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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Weimar Cities

The Challenge of Urban Modernity in Germany, 1919–1933

By: John Bingham

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Weimar Cities

The Challenge of Urban Modernity in Germany, 1919–1933

By: John Bingham

Weimar Cities explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its great cities after World War I; by extension the book measures the feasibility of the postwar experiment that was the Weimar Republic. The book focuses particularly on the weakness, both local and national, that resulted from the disjunct between the cities’ perceived and actual power.

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Bearers of Meaning

The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

By: John Onians

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Bearers of Meaning

The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance

By: John Onians

For all those interested in the relationship between ideas and the built environment, John Onians provides a lively illustrated account of the range of meanings that Western culture has assigned to the Classical orders. Onians shows that during the 2,000 years from their first appearance in ancient Greece through their codification in Renaissance Italy, the orders--the columns and capitals known as Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite--were made to serve expressive purposes, engaging the viewer in a continuing visual dialogue.

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The Book of Martyrs

By: John Foxe

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The Book of Martyrs

By: John Foxe

Le Livre des Martyrs de Foxe, par John Foxe, est un récit des martyrs chrétiens à travers l'Histoire de l'Occident du ier siècle jusqu'au début du xvie siècle, et mettant l'accent sur les souffrances des protestants et proto-protestants anglais depuis le xive siècle jusqu'au règne de Marie Ire. D'abord publié en 1563 par l'éditeur protestant John Day, le livre fut somptueusement produit et illustré avec beaucoup de gravures sur bois et fut le plus important projet de publication en Grande-Bretagne jamais réalisé jusqu'alors. Largement possédé et lu par les puritains anglais, le livre contribua à modeler l'opinion populaire britannique sur la nature du catholicisme pour de nombreux siècles.

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Marxism and Leninism

An Essay in the Sociology of Knowledge

By: John H. Kautsky

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Marxism and Leninism

An Essay in the Sociology of Knowledge

By: John H. Kautsky

One of the pre-eminent scholars in the history and theory of European socialism, John Kautsky in this volume develops the argument that Marxism and Leninism are two quite different ideologies. He counterposes this view with the commonly accepted one of Leninism as simply one form that Marxism took in the course of its evolution. The easy identification of Marxism and Leninism with each other has been responsible for great confusion in the realm of both scholarly and political discourse. Kautsky develops his position within the tradition of the sociology of knowledge, by the close examination of the different meanings of the Marxist vocabulary as it was used by Marxists and Leninists. His frame of reference turns on the position of labor in turn-of-the-century industrial Europe and the role of modernizing intellectuals in underdeveloped countries. While the vocabulary used was often common to Marx and Lenin, Marxism was explicitly concerned with appeals to workers in industrial nations such as Germany and Austria, whereas Leninism appeals to revolutionaries in underdeveloped nations such as Russia and China. Whatever be the current assessment of the future of socialism and communism, Kautsky holds that it is important to study the core structure of both Marxism and Leninism, since they were major phenomena that powerfully affected the world in the twentieth century. Beyond that, in dealing with how different ideologies can be ensconced within the same rhetoric, the book offers an outstanding entrance into the sociology of knowledge as a tool for political analysis. This is a unique work in the function of language no less than the nature of ideology. The work is divided into five parts: Two environments, two ideologies, one terminology. The evolution of Marxism, its appeals in the German Empire. The evolution of Leninism, its appeals to strata involved in making modernizing revolutions. The differential outcomes of Marxism in the East and Leninism in the West. And finally, an examination of why Marxism and Leninism have been seen as a single ideology. In a new essay prepared for this new edition, Kautsky provides important autobiographical as well as historical reflections on how this book fits into the overall pattern of the author's work.

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1351309420

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Hard Neighbors

The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

By: Colin G Calloway,John Kimble Jr 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies Colin G Calloway

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Hard Neighbors

The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity

By: Colin G Calloway,John Kimble Jr 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies Colin G Calloway

Colin Calloway offers an intricate portrait of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish -- from their origins on borderlands on one side of the Atlantic to their crucial part in conquering borderlands on the other. "Hard neighbors," as they were called, the Scotch-Irish were the tip of the spear of white colonial expansion into Indian lands, earning a reputation first as Indian killers and then as embodiments of the American pioneer spirit.

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0197618391

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Tracts

By: John Selden

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Tracts

By: John Selden

Selden, John. Tracts Written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire. The first Entituled, Jani Anglorum Facies Altera, rendred into English, with large Notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. The Second, England's Epinomis. The Third, Of the Original of Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions of Testaments. The Fourth, Of the Disposition or Administration of Intestates Goods. The Three last never before Extant. London: Printed for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleet-Street, and Richard Chiswell, 1683. [xxxiii], 131; [7], 39; [4], 24 pp. With a new introduction by Stephen M. Sheppard. Reprint available August 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-408-8. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of first edition. In three parts; each part has separate title page; the last two tracts form the third part. Included are four works: The Reverse or Back-Face of the English Janus. To-wit, all that is met with in story concerning the Common and Statute-Law of English Britanny, from the first memoirs of the two nations to the decease of Henry II...Written in Latin...; England's Epinomis; Two Treatises Written by John Selden...The First, Of the Original of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of testaments: The Second, Of the Disposition or Administration of Intestates Goods. The first tract Jani Anglorum... (The Reverse or Back-Face of the English Janus) begins John Selden's [1584-1654] study of the sources of English common law and the English constitution. This is carried through to the Magna Carta in the second tract, England's Epinomis. Holdsworth regards Selden "as the first scientific historian of English law" and goes on to state: "...his great intellectual qualities justify us in regarding him both as the pioneer of the select band of English legal historians, and one of the most eminent of its representatives." Holdsworth, The Historians of Anglo-American Law 50-51. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 146. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I:42(33). Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University (1909) II:557.

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1584774088

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Nazism and the Radical Right in Austria, 1918-1934

By: John T. Lauridsen

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Nazism and the Radical Right in Austria, 1918-1934

By: John T. Lauridsen

Part of the "Danish Humanist Texts and Studies" series, this work presents a comparative analysis of the two most important radical right-wing movements in Austria during the inter-war period: Heimwehr and NSDAP. It examines the movements from their emergence until they respectively came in to the power apparatus (Heimwehr) and forbidden (NSDAP).

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8763502216

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Germany and Europe 1919-1939

By: John Hiden

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Germany and Europe 1919-1939

By: John Hiden

This is the only short study in English to survey Germany's foreign policy from a German viewpoint across the entire inter-war period. The approach, which sets Germany in her full European context, is not narrowly diplomatic; and it gives as much attention to the Weimar years of the 1920s as it gives to the more familiar story of Germany's international relations under the Third Reich. John Hiden has now thoroughly revised his text to take account of new scholarship since the book first appeared in 1977.

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1317896270

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The Weimar Republic

By: John Hiden

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The Weimar Republic

By: John Hiden

It is often assumed that the Weimar Republic was bound to fail due to the harsh terms of the Versailles Settlement. Professor Hiden dispels this simplistic view and shows that it was a complex set of factors which finally brought Hitler to power. This clear and balanced study is now fully revised - for the first time since its publication in 1974 - to take account of the latest research.

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Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine

By: John M. Riddle

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Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine

By: John M. Riddle

For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40–80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives. Why, then, have his works remained obscure in recent centuries? Because of one small oversight (Dioscorides himself thought it was self-evident): he failed to describe his method for organizing drugs by their affinities. This omission led medical authorities to use his materials as a guide to pharmacy while overlooking Dioscorides' most valuable contribution—his empirically derived method for observing and classifying drugs by clinical testing. Dioscorides' De materia medica, a five-volume work, was written in the first century. Here revealed for the first time is the thesis that Dioscorides wrote more than a lengthy guide book. He wrote a great work of science. He had said that he discovered the natural order and would demonstrate it by his arrangement of drugs from plants, minerals, and animals. Until John M. Riddle's pathfinding study, no one saw the genius of his system. Botanists from the eighteenth century often attempted to find his unexplained method by identifying the sequences of his plants according to the Linnean system but, while there are certain patterns, there remained inexplicable incoherencies. However, Dioscorides' natural order as set down in De materia medica was determined by drug affinities as detected by his acute, clinical ability to observe drug reactions in and on the body. So remarkable was his ability to see relationships that, in some cases, he saw what we know to be common chemicals shared by plants of the same and related species and other natural product drugs from animal and mineral sources. Western European and Islamic medicine considered Dioscorides the foremost authority on drugs, just as Hippocrates is regarded as the Father of Medicine. They saw him point the way but only described the end of his finger, despite the fact that in the sixteenth century alone there were over one hundred books published on him. If he had explained what he thought to be self-evident, then science, especially chemistry and medicine, would almost certainly have developed differently. In this culmination of over twenty years of research, Riddle employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.

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University of Texas Press

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0292729847

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Fox's Book of Martyrs; Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

By: John Foxe

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Fox's Book of Martyrs; Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

By: John Foxe

This work is strictly what its title page imports, a compilation. Fox's "Book of Martyrs" has been made the basis of this volume. Liberty, however, has been taken to abridge wherever it was thought necessary;—to alter the antiquated form of the phraseology; to introduce additional information; and to correct any inaccuracy respecting matters of fact, which had escaped the author of the original work, or which has been found erroneous by the investigation of modern research. The object of this work, is to give a brief history of persecution since the first introduction of christianity, till the present time. In doing this, we have commenced with the martyrdom of Stephen, and following the course of events, have brought the History of persecution down to the year 1830. In all ages, we find that a disposition to persecute for opinion's sake, has been manifested by wicked men, whatever may have been their opinions or sentiments on religious subjects. The intolerant jew, and the bigoted pagan, have exhibited no more of a persecuting spirit, than the nominal professor of christianity, and the infidel and the avowed atheist. Indeed, it seems to be an "inherent vice," in unsanctified nature to endeavour by the pressure of physical force, to restrain obnoxious sentiments, and to propagate favourite opinions. It is only when the heart has been renewed and sanctified by divine grace, that men have rightly understood and practised the true principles of toleration. We do not say that none but real christians have adopted correct views respecting civil and religious liberty;—but we affirm that these views owe their origin entirely to christianity and its genuine disciples.

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3736411561

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Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts

Wilhelmine Imperialism, Overseas Resistance, and German Political Catholicism, 1897–1906

By: John S. Lowry

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Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts

Wilhelmine Imperialism, Overseas Resistance, and German Political Catholicism, 1897–1906

By: John S. Lowry

In Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts, John S. Lowry demonstrates that anti-imperialist resistance movements overseas significantly shaped the course of Wilhelmine domestic politics between 1897 and 1906. In 1898 and 1900, for example, the consequences of Chinese, Cuban, and Samoan resistance permitted Berlin to steer two large naval laws through the Reichstag by enabling the government to garner critical votes from the Catholic Center Party through pro-Catholic gestures overseas, rather than via repeal of the Anti-Jesuit Law at home. By contrast, after 1903 costly uprisings throughout German-occupied Africa generated acute fiscal concerns among Center Party delegates, and African civilian protests against colonial misrule aroused missionary and Centrist ire. Lowry emphasizes that the ensuing Reichstag dissolution of 1906 arose much more directly from African factors than previous scholarship has recognized.

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9004306870

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The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

By: John F. Padgett,Walter W. Powell

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The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

By: John F. Padgett,Walter W. Powell

The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. In the short run, they argue, actors make relations, but in the long run, they argue, actors make actors. Organizational novelty arises from spillover across intertwined networks, which tips reproducing biographical and production flows. This theory is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of careful and original historical case studies, ranging from early capitalism and state formation, to the transformation of communism, to the emergence of contemporary biotechnology and Silicon Vally. -- from back cover.

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