A New Translation of Volney's Ruins
Author | : Constantin-François Volney |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1811 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Author | : Constantin-François Volney |
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Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1811 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Author | : Constantin-François Volney |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1802 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Author | : Constantin-François Volney |
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Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Author | : Constantin-Franã§Ois Volney |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2010-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0557014417 |
A survey of the revolutions of empires. CONTENTS: The Tour--Meditations--The Apparition--The Hemisphere--Condition of man in the Universe--Original state of Man--Principles of Society--Source of the evils of Society--Origin of Government and Laws--General causes of the prosperity of Nations--General causes of the prosperity and ruin of ancient States--Lessons taught by ancient, repeated in modern Times--Will the Human Race be ever in a better condition than at present?--Grand obstacle to Improvement--New Age--A free and legislative People--Universal basis of all Right and law--Consternation and conspiracy of Tyrants--General assembly of the people--Investigation of Truth--Problem of religious contradictions--Origin and genealogy of religious ideas.
Author | : Constantin-François Volney |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Author | : Constantin-Franc ̧ois Volney |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2017-02-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780243326372 |
Excerpt from A New Translation of Volney's Ruins, or Meditations on the Revolution of Empires, Vol. 1: Made Under the Inspection of the Author As the work has already become a classical. One, even in English, and as it must become and continue to be so regarded in all languages in which it shall be faithfully rendered, We Wish it to suffer as little as pos sible from a change-of country; that as much of the spirit of the original be transfused and preserved as is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Gordon S. Wood |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2009-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199741093 |
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to the end of the War of 1812. As Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American life--in politics, society, economy, and culture. The men who founded the new government had high hopes for the future, but few of their hopes and dreams worked out quite as they expected. They hated political parties but parties nonetheless emerged. Some wanted the United States to become a great fiscal-military state like those of Britain and France; others wanted the country to remain a rural agricultural state very different from the European states. Instead, by 1815 the United States became something neither group anticipated. Many leaders expected American culture to flourish and surpass that of Europe; instead it became popularized and vulgarized. The leaders also hope to see the end of slavery; instead, despite the release of many slaves and the end of slavery in the North, slavery was stronger in 1815 than it had been in 1789. Many wanted to avoid entanglements with Europe, but instead the country became involved in Europe's wars and ended up waging another war with the former mother country. Still, with a new generation emerging by 1815, most Americans were confident and optimistic about the future of their country. Named a New York Times Notable Book, Empire of Liberty offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era when America took its first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly expanding nation.
Author | : Jeffrey Einboden |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : African American Muslims |
ISBN | : 0190844477 |
"On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler from the American frontier, who urgently requested a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents delivered to the President in 1807 were penned by literate African slaves, and written entirely in Arabic. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives reveals the untold story of two escaped West Africans in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Recounting a quest for emancipation that crosses borders of race, region and religion, Jeffrey Einboden unearths Arabic manuscripts that circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, including a document from 1780s Georgia identified as the earliest surviving example of Muslim slave authorship in the newly-formed United States. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with Islam and captivity, Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives tracks the ascent of Arabic slave writings to the highest halls of U.S. power, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten."--
Author | : John Levi Barnard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0190663596 |
Introduction: Black classicism in the American empire -- Phillis Wheatley and the affairs of state -- In plain sight: slavery and the architecture of democracy -- Ancient history, American time: Charles Chesnutt and the sites of memory -- Crumbling into dust: conjure and the ruins of empire -- National monuments and the residue of history
Author | : James M. Brophy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2024-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198845723 |
Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with popular formats. Most of all, they contested censorship with finesse and resolve, thereby undermining the aim of Prussia and Austria to criminalize democratic thought. By packaging dissent through popular media, publishers cultivated broad readerships, promoted political literacy, and refashioned citizenship ideals. As political actors, intellectual midwives, and cultural mediators, publishers speak to a broad range of scholarly interests. Their outsize personalities, their entrepreneurial zeal, and their publishing achievements portray how print markets shaped the political world.The narrow perimeters of political communication in the late-absolutist states of Prussia and Austria curtailed the open market of ideas. The publishing industry contested this information order, working both within and outside legal parameters to create a modern public sphere. Their expansion of print markets, their cat-and-mouse game with censors, and their ingenuity in packaging political commentary sheds light on the production and reception of dissent. Against the backdrop of censorship and police surveillance, the successes and failures of these citizens of print tell us much about nineteenth-century civil society and Central Europe's tortuous pathway to political modernization. Cutting across a range of disciplines, this study will engage social and political historians as well as scholars of publishing, literary criticism, cultural studies, translation, and the public sphere. The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political tale. It sheds important new light on political communication and how publishers exposed German-language readers to the Age of Democratic Revolution.