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Author | : Robert G. Parkinson |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2016-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469626926 |
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. In a fresh reading of the founding moment, Parkinson demonstrates the dual projection of the "common cause." Patriots through both an ideological appeal to popular rights and a wartime movement against a host of British-recruited slaves and Indians forged a racialized, exclusionary model of American citizenship.
Author | : Leela Gandhi |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2014-03-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 022602007X |
Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism, fascism, and liberalism—an ethic that excluded the ordinary and unexceptional. But, she also illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual discipline. Reframing the way we think about some of the most consequential political events of the era, Gandhi presents moral imperfectionism as the lost tradition of global democratic thought and offers it to us as a key to democracy’s future. In doing so, she defends democracy as a shared art of living on the other side of perfection and mounts a postcolonial appeal for an ethics of becoming common.
Author | : Gábor Hofer-Szabó |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013-05-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107019354 |
A conceptually and mathematically rigorous analysis of the common cause principle and its status in quantum theory.
Author | : Diane Bennet Durkin |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-01-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780072442595 |
Seeking Common Cause is a reader that defines argument as creating credibility. The authors encourage careful examination of writers' multiple perspectives and various strategies for drawing readers in. These strategies are what help readers see what the writer sees, and share views that they did not expect to share. The book emphasizes a form of argument in which writers synthesize points of view rather than polarize them. The authors aim to teach critical reading through empathy and belief rather than through disbelief and quick dismissal. For that reason, they rely less on legal logic--analysis through claim, evidence, and warrant--than on writing strategies for bringing about mutual consent.
Author | : Tim Holmes |
Publisher | : Anchor Books |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social action |
ISBN | : 9780950364872 |
Author | : Marcie L. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2019-06-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000004783 |
In Interest Group Design, Marcie L. Reynolds examines the evolution of Common Cause, the first national government reform lobby. Founded in 1970 by John W. Gardner, the organization gained influence with Congress and established an organizational culture that lasted several decades. External and internal environmental changes led to mounting crises, and by 2000, Common Cause’s survival was in question. Yet fifteen years later, Common Cause is a renewed organization, with evidence of revival across the U.S. Empirical evidence suggests how Common Cause changed its interest group design but kept its identity in order to survive. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach to frame and analyze the history of Common Cause, Reynolds provides a lens for studying how key aspects of the U.S. political system—interest groups, collective action, lobbying, and representation—work as environments change. She extends work by previous scholars Andrew S. McFarland (1984) and Lawrence Rothenberg (1992), creating a sequence of analytical research about one interest group spanning almost fifty years, a unique contribution to political science. This thoroughly researched and comprehensive book will be of great interest to those who study political participation and organizational change.
Author | : Jack A. Goldstone |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197666302 |
"In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the "color revolutions" across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--
Author | : Robert G. Parkinson |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469662582 |
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time. So how did these American colonies overcome long odds to create a durable union capable of declaring independence from Britain? In this powerful new history of the fifteen tense months that culminated in the Declaration of Independence, Robert G. Parkinson provides a troubling answer: racial fear. Tracing the circulation of information in the colonial news systems that linked patriot leaders and average colonists, Parkinson reveals how the system's participants constructed a compelling drama featuring virtuous men who suddenly found themselves threatened by ruthless Indians and defiant slaves acting on behalf of the king. Parkinson argues that patriot leaders used racial prejudices to persuade Americans to declare independence. Between the Revolutionary War's start at Lexington and the Declaration, they broadcast any news they could find about Native Americans, enslaved Blacks, and Hessian mercenaries working with their British enemies. American independence thus owed less to the love of liberty than to the exploitation of colonial fears about race. Thirteen Clocks offers an accessible history of the Revolution that uncovers the uncomfortable origins of the republic even as it speaks to our own moment.
Author | : Common Cause (Organisation) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Anti-communist movements |
ISBN | : 9780906587058 |
Author | : H. D. Shourie |
Publisher | : books catalog |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Grievance arbitration |
ISBN | : 9788129107015 |
This is an account of public grievances and problems taken up in 25 years for redressal through the Supreme Court, Delhi High Court, National Consumers Commission and by pursuing with concerned governmental authorities. Common Cause is an NGO which has been pursuing the objective of seeking redressal of common and collective problems and grievances of the people by seeking directions through the instrument of filing public interest litigations. The purpose of the book is to disseminate information so that individuals and organisations may see what has been attempted and achieved by Common Cause through its intensive efforts.