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Absolute Time

Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics

By: Emily Thomas

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Absolute Time

Rifts in Early Modern British Metaphysics

By: Emily Thomas

What is time? This is one of the most fundamental questions we can ask. Traditionally, the answer was that time is a product of the human mind, or of the motion of celestial bodies. In the mid-seventeenth century, a new kind of answer emerged: time or eternal duration is 'absolute', in the sense that it is independent of human minds and material bodies. Emily Thomas explores the development of absolute time or eternal duration during one of Britain's richest and most creative metaphysical periods, from the 1640s to the 1730s. She introduces an interconnected set of main characters - Henry More, Walter Charleton, Isaac Barrow, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Samuel Clarke, and John Jackson - alongside a large and varied supporting cast, whose metaphysical views are all read in their historical context and given a place in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century development of thought about time. In addition to interpreting the metaphysics of these thinkers, Absolute Time advances two general, developmental theses. First, the complexity of positions on time (and space) defended in early modern thought is hugely under-appreciated. Second, distinct kinds of absolutism emerged in British philosophy, helping us to understand why some absolutists considered time to be barely real, whilst others identified it with the most real being of all: God.

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Oxford University Press

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0198807937

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9780198807933

Harvest of Dissent

Agrarianism in Nineteenth-century New York

By: Thomas Summerhill

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Harvest of Dissent

Agrarianism in Nineteenth-century New York

By: Thomas Summerhill

With an expert blend of political, social, and economic history, Harvest of Dissent investigates the character of agrarian movements in nineteenth century New York to reexamine the nature of Northern farmers embrace of or resistance to the emergence of capitalist market agriculture. Taking the long view, Harvest of Dissent brings together the events of nearly a century of agrarian radicalism in central New York, giving Summerhill the ability to understand everything from the Anti-Rent movement to the Grange movement as part of a whole.Based on exceptionally thorough primary research, Summerhill convincingly demonstrates how protracted and contingent the process of drawing farmers into capitalist markets actually was, and the ways farmers selectively and creatively resisted it. Rather than characterizing farmer political insurgencies as episodic responses to discrete crises (as they are often portrayed), Harvest of Dissent argues that agrarianism played a constant role in the major political, economic, and social transformations that marked the emergence of modern America.Thomas Summerhill is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. He coedited Transatlantic Rebels: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252029763

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9780252029769

A Digested Index to the Reported Cases in Lower Canada

By: Thomas K. Ramsay

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A Digested Index to the Reported Cases in Lower Canada

By: Thomas K. Ramsay

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Contained in the reports of Pyke, Stuart, Revue de Législation, Law Reporter, Lower Canada Reports, Lower Canada Jurist, Stuart's Vice-Admiralty Cases and Canada Appeals brought down to January, 1864, to which is added an Appendix comprising Perrault's Précédents de la Prévosté et du Conseil Supérieur, with Tables of Reference, Names of Cases and a Concordance, also Numerous Notes, and References including several important cases not yet reported.

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434

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752586044

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9783752586046

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison

Electrifying New York and Abroad, April 1881–March 1883

By: Thomas A. Edison

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The Papers of Thomas A. Edison

Electrifying New York and Abroad, April 1881–March 1883

By: Thomas A. Edison

Gathers sketches, notebook entries, letters, articles, patent information, and financial papers from the beginning of Edison's career as an inventor

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940

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JHU Press

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0801886406

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9780801886409

Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain

By: Thomas Quinn

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Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain

By: Thomas Quinn

The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats each allow their members to participate in the selection of the party leader. It also examines the consequences of all-member ballots in leadership elections. It looks at how parties remove leaders, showing that each of the major British parties sought to make it harder to evict incumbents.

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164

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Springer

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0230362788

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9780230362789

Training for Catastrophe

Fictions of National Security after 9/11

By: Lindsay Thomas

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Training for Catastrophe

Fictions of National Security after 9/11

By: Lindsay Thomas

A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world Why would the normally buttoned-down national security state imagine lurid future scenarios like a zombie apocalypse? In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. With an in-depth focus on preparedness (a pivotal, emergent national security paradigm since 9/11) she explores how fiction shapes national security. Thomas finds fiction at work in unexpected settings, from policy documents and workplace training manuals to comics and video games. Through these texts—as well as plenty of science fiction—she examines the philosophy of preparedness, interrogating the roots of why it asks us to treat explicitly fictional events as real. Thomas connects this philosophical underpinning to how preparedness plays out in contemporary politics, emphasizing how it uses aesthetic elements like realism, genre, character, and plot to train people both to regard some disasters as normal and to ignore others. Training for Catastrophe makes an important case for how these documents elicit consent and compliance. Thomas draws from a huge archive of texts—including a Centers for Disease Control comic about a zombie apocalypse, the work of Audre Lorde, and the political thrillers of former national security advisor Richard Clarke—to ask difficult questions about the uses and values of fiction. A major statement on how national security intrudes into questions of art and life, Training for Catastrophe is a timely intervention into how we confront disasters.

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295

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452964254

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9781452964256

Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865

By: Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn

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Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865

By: Peter E. Palmquist,Thomas R. Kailbourn

This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.

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Stanford University Press

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0804740577

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9780804740579

Cathy Williams

From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

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Cathy Williams

From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier

By: Phillip Thomas Tucker

Presents a biography of Cathy Williams, African American and only woman ever to disguise herself as a man, join, serve in the Buffalo Soldiers, and succeed against all odds.

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Stackpole Books

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0811703401

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9780811703406

The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power

Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire

By: Greg Thomas

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The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power

Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire

By: Greg Thomas

A political, cultural, and intellectual study of race, sex, and Western empire. This book interrogates a system that represents race, gender, sexuality, and class in certain systematic and oppressive ways. It connects sex and eroticism to geopolitics to examine the logic, operations, and politics of sexuality in the West.

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225

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Indiana University Press

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0253348412

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9780253348418

Book's by Thomas Clarke

Absolute Time

Absolute Time

Harvest of Dissent

Harvest of Dissent

A Digested Index to the Reported Cases in Lower Canada

A Digested Index to the Reported Cases in Lower Canada

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison

Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain

Electing and Ejecting Party Leaders in Britain

Training for Catastrophe

Training for Catastrophe

Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

Cathy Williams

Cathy Williams

The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power

The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power

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