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Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

By: Richard Connors,John M. Law,University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

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Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework

By: Richard Connors,John M. Law,University of Alberta. Centre for Constitutional Studies

Forging Alberta’s Constitutional Framework analyzes the principal events and processes that precipitated the emergence and formation of the law and legal culture of Alberta from the foundation of the Hudson’s Bay in 1670 until the eve of the centenary of the Province in 2005. The formation of Alberta’s constitution and legal institutions was by no means a simple process by which English and Canadian law was imposed upon a receptive and passive population. Challenges to authority, latent lawlessness, interaction between indigenous and settler societies, periods (pre- and post-1905) of jurisdictional confusion, and demands for individual, group, and provincial rights and recognitions are as much part of Alberta’s legal history as the heroic and mythic images of an emergent and orderly Canadian west patrolled from the outset by red coated mounted police and peopled by peaceful and law-abiding subjects of the Crown. Papers focus on the development of criminal law in the Canadian west in the nineteenth century; the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement of 1930; the National Energy Program of the 1980s; Federal-Provincial relations; and the role and responsibilities of the offices of Justices of the Peace and of the Lieutenant-Governor; and the legacies of the Lougheed and Klein governments.

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Erasmus: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

By: Oxford University Press

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Erasmus: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

By: Oxford University Press

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance and Reformation, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of European history and culture between the 14th and 17th centuries. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

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Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century

By: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

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Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century

By: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

From the optimism associated with provincial status in 1905, through the trials of Depression and war, the boom times of the post-war period, and the economic vagaries of the 1980s and the 1990s, the twentieth century was a time of growth and hardship, development and change, for Alberta and its people. And during the century, twelve men, from a variety of political parties and from very different backgrounds, led the government of this province. The names of some--like William Aberhart, Ernest Manning, and Peter Lougheed--are still household names, while others--like Arthur Sifton, Herbert Greenfield and Richard Reid--have been all but forgotten. Yet each in his unique way, for better or for worse, helped to mould and steer the destiny of the province he governed. These are their stories.

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Counting Out The Scholars

The Case Against Performance Indicators in Higher Education

By: William Bruneau,Donald C. Savage,Canadian Association of University Teachers

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Counting Out The Scholars

The Case Against Performance Indicators in Higher Education

By: William Bruneau,Donald C. Savage,Canadian Association of University Teachers

Canada's universities have lost their autonomy. Under the guise of accountability, reformers from government and large corporations have undermined the original purposes of these institutions, insisting that they operate according to a business model. The chief tool used to effect this change is the performance indicator, a method of evaluation and ranking well suited to measuring sales per square foot, for example, but useless in assessing qualities such as critical thinking, creativity and wisdom. Evaluating use of performance indicators in Canada, the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand, the authors challenge readers to look beyond this narrow, business-based measure of value, and to consider more creative and effective methods of evaluation. Counting Out the Scholars is a penetrating analysis of current methods of performance evaluation in the university, one that offers alternatives to the prevailing orthodoxy.

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Urban and community development in Atlantic Canada, 1867-1991

By: Carleton University History Collaborative

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Urban and community development in Atlantic Canada, 1867-1991

By: Carleton University History Collaborative

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of community development for the Atlantic Provinces. The authors take a collaborative approach to their research question and contribute more than just a survey on urban development. They also create a framework for understanding the relationship between the development of towns and cities in Atlantic Canada and in other parts of the country.

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That Man Partridge

E.A. Partidge, His Thoughts and Times

By: Kenneth Murray Knuttila,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

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That Man Partridge

E.A. Partidge, His Thoughts and Times

By: Kenneth Murray Knuttila,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

This document attempts to understand the life and times of E.A. (Edward Alexander) Partridge. It presents Partridge and encourages to tries to make sense of his life, who he was, what he became, how he acted, and what he thought, by placing him in the context of his society and the historical period in which he lived. The document presents what we know about the life of Partridge in order to better understand the processes through which human individuals are on the one hand moulded and fashioned by history and society while they mould and shape history and society themselves.

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Secession of Quebec and the Future of Canada

By: Robert Andrew Young,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

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Secession of Quebec and the Future of Canada

By: Robert Andrew Young,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

Provides a thorough review of existing literature, analysis of comparative cases of peaceful secession, assessment of constitutional options for Canada without Quebec, and a detailed set of scenarios on how the transition to sovereignty might occur and the implications of the separation for the long-term future of both Canada and Quebec. Published with the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Federalism, Democracy and Labour Market Policy in Canada

By: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies

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Federalism, Democracy and Labour Market Policy in Canada

By: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations,Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies

In Federalism, Democracy and Labour Market Policy in Canada the authors provide comprehensive assessments of the current state of governance within the areas of income support for the unemployed, active labour market measures, and youth policy. The analysis focuses on how the current state of governance reflects a combined commitment to specific social policy goals, principles of federalism, and democratic oversight of the policy making process.;This volume sheds new light on the complex nature of the intergovernmental regimes governing labour market policy. It makes recommendations concerning how different governance structures might better serve both Canadians and the federation.

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Natural Moralities : A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

By: Department of Philosophy Duke University David B. Wong Professor and Chair

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Natural Moralities : A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism

By: Department of Philosophy Duke University David B. Wong Professor and Chair

David B. Wong proposes that there can be a plurality of true moralities, moralities that exist across different traditions and cultures, all of which address facets of the same problem: how we are to live well together. Wong examines a wide array of positions and texts within the Western canon as well as in Chinese philosophy, and draws on philosophy, psychology, evolutionary theory, history, and literature, to make a case for the importance of pluralism in moral life, and to establish the virtues of acceptance and accommodation. Wong's point is that there is no single value or principle or ordering of values and principles that offers a uniquely true path for human living, but variations according to different contexts that carry within them a common core of human values. We should thus be modest about our own morality, learn from other approaches, and accommodate different practices in our pluralistic society.

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019804156X

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Universities for Sale

Resisting Corporate Control Over Canadian Higher Education

By: Neil Tudiver,Canadian Association of University Teachers

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Universities for Sale

Resisting Corporate Control Over Canadian Higher Education

By: Neil Tudiver,Canadian Association of University Teachers

In the 1990s Canadian universities experienced an aggressive campaign of corporatization. Universities for Sale offers suggestions on how to resist corporatization. Neil Tudiver shows how scholarly independence has, in recent years, been eroded to a point of crisis. Left unchecked, corporations play a larger and larger role in deciding which fields of study survive and which will disappear. He looks at how professors defend free inquiry against the pressures of economic expediency. Universities for Sale is a penetrating analysis of the ongoing issue of corporate influence on Canada's universities.

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In Search of Geraldine Moodie

By: Geraldine Moodie,Donny White,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

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In Search of Geraldine Moodie

By: Geraldine Moodie,Donny White,University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

A biography of nineteenth-century Canadian photographer Geraldine Moodie.

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Common Women : Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

By: Ruth Mazo Karras Associate Professor of History Temple University

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Common Women : Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England

By: Ruth Mazo Karras Associate Professor of History Temple University

Common women" in medieval England were prostitutes, whose distinguishing feature was not that they took money for sex but that they belonged to all men in common. Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England tells the stories of these women's lives: their entrance into the trade because of poor job and marriage prospects or because of seduction or rape; their experiences as streetwalkers, brothel workers or the medieval equivalent of call girls; their customers, from poor apprentices to priests to wealthy foreign merchants; and their relations with those among whom they lived. Common Women crosses the boundary from social to cultural history by asking not only about the experiences of prostitutes but also about the meaning of prostitution in medieval culture. The teachings of the church attributed both lust and greed, in generous measure, to women as a group. Stories of repentant whores were popular among medieval preachers and writers because prostitutes were the epitome of feminine sin. Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginalized within medieval culture, prostitution as an institution was central to the medieval understanding of what it meant to be a woman. This important work will be of interest to scholars and students of history, women's studies, and the history of sexuality.

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Sins of the Flesh

Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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Sins of the Flesh

Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Few illnesses in the early modern period carried the impact of the dreaded pox, a lethal sexually transmitted disease usually thought to be syphilis. In the early sixteenth century the disease quickly emerged as a powerful cultural force. Just as powerful were the responses of doctors, bureaucrats, moralists, playwrights, and satirists. These ten essays gauge the impact of sexual disease on early modern society by exploring the ways in which European culture reacted to the presence of a new deadly sexual infection. Articles about scientific and medical responses analyze how physicians incorporated the disease within existing intellectual frameworks. Studies in literary and metaphoric responses examine how early modern writers put images of sexual infection and the diseased body to a range of rhetorical and political uses. Finally, essays about institutional and policing responses chronicle how authorities responded to the crisis and how these public health responses linked up with wider campaigns to police sexuality.

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Disciplining Dissent

The Curbing of Free Expression in Academia and the Media

By: William Bruneau,James Turk,Canadian Association of University Teachers

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Disciplining Dissent

The Curbing of Free Expression in Academia and the Media

By: William Bruneau,James Turk,Canadian Association of University Teachers

Respected contributors from Canada, the United States and Europe share examine the many issues associated with the increasing restrictions on free speech in the media and the academic world.

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Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada

By: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

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Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada

By: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

An exploration of the ways in which federal and provincial governments relate to one another, and to the citizenry, in the making of health policy.

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The Security of Freedom

Essays on Canada's Anti-terrorism Bill

By: University of Toronto. Faculty of Law

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The Security of Freedom

Essays on Canada's Anti-terrorism Bill

By: University of Toronto. Faculty of Law

Papers from a conference, The Security of Freedom, held at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto on Nov. 9-10, 2001.

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Gods, Heroes, and Kings : The Battle for Mythic Britain

The Battle for Mythic Britain

By: Christopher R. Fee Assistant Professor of English Gettysburg College,David A. Leeming Professor of English & Comparative Literature University of Connecticut (Emeritus)

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Gods, Heroes, and Kings : The Battle for Mythic Britain

The Battle for Mythic Britain

By: Christopher R. Fee Assistant Professor of English Gettysburg College,David A. Leeming Professor of English & Comparative Literature University of Connecticut (Emeritus)

The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources, Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.

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0195350634

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The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

By: Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University

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The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

By: Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University

A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.

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0198024274

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Terrorism and the Politics of Fear

By: David L. Altheide, Arizona State University

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Terrorism and the Politics of Fear

By: David L. Altheide, Arizona State University

Terrorism and the Politics of Fear shows how the mass media and propaganda about fear of crime and terrorism contribute to social policies that promote social control and threaten civil liberties. This excellent treatment of a timely subject will be indispensable to teachers and students of sociology, media, politics, and criminology studies.

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0759112517

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Subject to Change : Guerrilla Television Revisited

Guerrilla Television Revisited

By: Deirdre Boyle Professor of History New York University

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Subject to Change : Guerrilla Television Revisited

Guerrilla Television Revisited

By: Deirdre Boyle Professor of History New York University

Before the Internet, camcorders, and hundred-channel cable- systems--predating the Information Superhighway and talk of cyber-democracy--there was guerilla television. Part of the larger alternative media tide which swept the country in the late sixties, guerilla television emerged when the arrival of lightweight, affordable consumer video equipment made it possible for ordinary people to make their own television. Fueled both by outrage at the day's events and by the writings of people like Marshall McLuhan, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson, the movement gained a manifesto in 1971, when Michael Shamberg and the raindance Corp. published Guerilla Television. As framed in this quixotic text, the goal of the video guerilla was nothing less than a reshaping of the structure of information in America. In Subject to Change, Deidre Boyle tells the fascinating story of the first TV generation's dream of remaking television and their frustrated attempts at democratizing the medium. Interweaving the narratives of three very different video collectives from the 1970s--TVTV, Broadside TV, and University Community Video--Boyle offers a thought-provoking account of an earlier electronic utopianism, one with significant implications for today's debates over free speech, public discourse, and the information explosion.

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0195364597

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Perfectionism

By: Thomas Hurka Professor of Philosophy University of Calgary

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Perfectionism

By: Thomas Hurka Professor of Philosophy University of Calgary

Perfectionism is one of the great moralities of the Western tradition. It holds that certain states of humans, such as knowledge, achievement, and friendship, are good apart from any pleasure they may bring, and that the morally right act is always the one that most promotes these states. Defined more narrowly, perfectionism identifies the human good by reference to human nature: if knowledge and achievement are good, it is because they realize aspects of human nature. This book gives an account of perfectionism, first in the narrower sense, analyzing its central concepts and defending a theory of human nature in which rationality plays a central role. It then uses this theory to construct an elaborate account of the intrinsic value of beliefs and actions that embody rationality, and applies this account to political questions about liberty and equality. The book attempts to formulate the most defensible version of perfectionism, using contemporary analytic techniques. It aims both to regain for perfectionism a central place in contemporary moral debate and to shed light on the writings of classical perfectionists such as Aristotle, Aquinas, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and T.H. Green.

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0198024185

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The Jewish Cultural Tapestry : International Jewish Folk Traditions

International Jewish Folk Traditions

By: Steven M. Lowenstein Isadore Levine Professor of Jewish History University of Judaism

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The Jewish Cultural Tapestry : International Jewish Folk Traditions

International Jewish Folk Traditions

By: Steven M. Lowenstein Isadore Levine Professor of Jewish History University of Judaism

Here, in one compact volume, is an illuminating survey of Jewish folkways on five continents. Filled with fascinating facts and keen insights, The Jewish Cultural Tapestry is a richly woven fabric that vividly captures the diversity of Jewish life. All Jews are bound together by the common thread of the Torah and the Talmud, notes author Steven Lowenstein, but this thread takes on a different coloration in different parts of the world, as Jewish tradition and local non-Jewish customs intertwine. Lowenstein describes these widely varying regional Jewish cultures with needlepoint accuracy, highlighting the often surprising similarities between Jewish and non-Jewish local traditions, and revealing why Jewish customs vary as much as they do from region to region. We visit the great Ashkenazic and Sephardic cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean; the unique Jewish cultures of Iraq, Persia, Ethiopia and Yemen; the little-known cultures of the Bukharian Jews of Central Asia, the Cochin Jews of India, and the Kaifeng Jews of China. We read about regional religious practices, wedding ceremonies and marriage customs; different traditions of Jewish music and Jewish dress; and the origins of Jewish names. Lowenstein also surveys Jewish cuisine around the world, offering easy-to-prepare traditional recipes, ranging from kugel and blintzes to Malawach from Yemen, T'beet from Iraq, Mina de Cordero from Turkey, and Passover Soup from Uzbekistan. From Europe to India, Israel to America, The Jewish Cultural Tapestry offers an engaging overview of the customs and folkways of a people united by tradition, yet scattered to the far corners of the earth. Packaged in an attractive large format, this beautifully illustrated volume would be a meaningful gift for the holidays.

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Exiled Royalties : Melville and the Life We Imagine

Melville and the Life We Imagine

By: Department of English Washington University Robert Milder Professor, St Louis

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Exiled Royalties : Melville and the Life We Imagine

Melville and the Life We Imagine

By: Department of English Washington University Robert Milder Professor, St Louis

Exiled Royalties is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. Conceived separately but narratively and thematically intertwined, the ten essays in the book are rooted in a belief that "Melville's work," as Charles Olson said, "must be left in his own 'life,'" which for Milder means primarily his spiritual, psychological, and vocational life. Four of the ten essays deal with Melville's life and work after his novelistic career ended with the The Confidence-Man in 1857. The range of issues addressed in the essays includes Melville's attitudes toward society, history, and politics, from broad ideas about democracy and the course of Western civilization to responses to particular events like the Astor Place Riots and the Civil War; his feeling about sexuality and, throughout the book, about religion; his relationship to past and present writers, especially to the phases of Euro-American Romanticism, post-Romanticism, and nascent Modernism; his relationship to his wife, Lizzie, to Hawthorne, and to his father, all of whom figured in the crisis that made for Pierre. The title essay, "Exiled Royalties," takes its origin from Ishmael's account of "the larger, darker, deeper part of Ahab"--Melville's mythic projection of a "larger, darker, deeper part" of himself. How to live nobly in spiritual exile--to be godlike in the perceptible absence of God--was a lifelong preoccupation for Melville, who, in lieu of positive belief, transposed the drama of his spiritual life to literature. The ways in which this impulse expressed itself through Melville's forty-five year career, interweaving itself with his personal life and the life of the nation and shaping both the matter and manner of his work, is the unifying subject of Exiled Royalties.

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0198032528

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A Language of Our Own : The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

By: Peter Bakker Researcher University of Aarhus

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A Language of Our Own : The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

The Genesis of Michif, the Mixed Cree-French Language of the Canadian Metis

By: Peter Bakker Researcher University of Aarhus

The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.

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0198025750

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Religion Against the Self : An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

By: Isabelle Nabokov Assistant Professor of Anthropology Princeton University

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Religion Against the Self : An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals

By: Isabelle Nabokov Assistant Professor of Anthropology Princeton University

In this comprehensive analysis of South Indian village Hinduism, Isabelle Nabokov shows that a wide spectrum of Tamil rituals effects transformations of identity through similar processual and symbolic operations. She reveals that such operations may lead participants to adopt personalities which are at odds with themselves.

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0198027354

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Constitutional Democracy

By: Dennis C. Mueller Professor of Economics University of Vienna

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Constitutional Democracy

By: Dennis C. Mueller Professor of Economics University of Vienna

Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. This relationship is especially important at a time when Americans are increasingly disillusioned about government's fundamental ability to reach solutions for domestic problems, and when countries in the former Soviet block and around the world are rewriting their constitutions. Political economist Mueller illuminates the links between the structure of democratic government and the outcomes it achieves by drawing comparisons between the American system and other government systems around the world. Working from the "public choice" perspective in political science, the book analyzes electoral rules, voting rules, federalism, bicameralism, citizenship, and separation of powers. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of political economy.

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The Unity of Reason : Rereading Kant

Rereading Kant

By: Susan Neiman Professor of Philosophy Tel Aviv University

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Rereading Kant

By: Susan Neiman Professor of Philosophy Tel Aviv University

The Unity of Reason is the first major study of Kant's account of reason. It argues that Kant's wide-ranging interests and goals can only be understood by redirecting attention from epistemological questions of his work to those concerning the nature of reason. Rather than accepting a notion of reason given by his predecessors, a fundamental aim of Kant's philosophy is to reconceive the nature of reason. This enables us to understand Kant's insistence on the unity of theoretical and practical reason as well as his claim that his metaphysics was driven by practical and political ends. Neiman begins by discussing the historical roots of Kant's conception of reason, and by showing Kant's solution to problems which earlier conceptions left unresolved. Kant's notion of reason itself is examined through a discussion of all the activities Kant attributes to reason. In separate chapters discussing the role of reason in science, morality, religion, and philosophy, Neiman explores Kant's distinctions between reason and knowledge, and his difficult account of the regulative principles of reason. Through examination of these principles in Kant's major and minor writings, The Unity of Reason provides a fundamentally new perspective on Kant's entire work.

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Saskatchewan Politicians

Lives Past and Present

By: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

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Saskatchewan Politicians

Lives Past and Present

By: University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center

The more than 275 biographies of Saskatchewan politicians from the past 100 years that are included in this volume represent but a fraction of those who have been elected to public office in the province. These are only the longer-serving, the most distinguished, the most famous...the most infamous. Together, their individual stories tell our collective political story in Saskatchewan, the birthplace of Medicare and socialism in North America.

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