Biographical Sketches of Lyman C. Draper and Mortimer Melville Jackson (Classic Reprint)

Biographical Sketches of Lyman C. Draper and Mortimer Melville Jackson (Classic Reprint)
Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2016-08-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781333431099

Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of Lyman C. Draper and Mortimer Melville Jackson Probably no historical student within the basin of the Mississippi is so generally known among men of letters as Lyman C. Draper, LL. D., cor responding secretary of the State Historical Soci ety of Wisconsin.1 While his reputation thus far has been chie y that of a collector and editor of materials for history, rather than a writer, his work is quite as famous in its way as though his contributions to standard literature had been more numerous. Occupying a position quite unique in 'american scholarship, and regarded as an oracle on western topics among historical specialists the country over, but little is popularly known of Dr. Draper's personality - as to what sort of man this tireless worker is, what his methods are, his manner or his physical characteristics. Indeed, or so retiring a disposition is he, of so modest a demeanor and of so shrinking a habit, that it is given to but few of his townsmen admirers. 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."

Biographical Sketches of Lyman C. Draper and Mortimer Melville Jackson

Biographical Sketches of Lyman C. Draper and Mortimer Melville Jackson
Author: Consul Willshire Butterfield
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781359435316

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The Last Utopia

The Last Utopia
Author: Samuel Moyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674256522

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

Biographical Sketches of Lyman C. Draper

Biographical Sketches of Lyman C. Draper
Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2012-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781407759647

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1843-1856

1843-1856
Author: New York (State). Governor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 924
Release: 1909
Genre: Governors
ISBN: