Civil Vengeance

Author : Emily L. King
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739662
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil Vengeance written by Emily L. King and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage—the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus—emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture. In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society—church, law, and education—relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston's Antonio's Revenge and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body.

Author : H. Leon McBeth
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 143367128X
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sourcebook for Baptist Heritage written by H. Leon McBeth and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion to the The Baptist Heritage, this book provides documents that will enrich the study of Baptist history.

Author : Alphonso Gerald Newcomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.X6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Centuries of American Poetry and Prose written by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose and poetry selections from the Colonial Period and National Period.

Author : Laia Balcells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107118697
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rivalry and Revenge written by Laia Balcells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the motives of local political elites and armed groups in carrying out violence against civilians during civil war.

Author : Sylvia Clute
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612830536
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality written by Sylvia Clute and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in trouble. Our social, financial, and religious institutions are crumbling. Our criminal justice system is a prime example of society’s dysfunction.More than 1 in 100 Americans are now in jail.Taxes now finance the incarceration of 1 in 53 of adults in their 20s.There are now 2.3 million people locked up in the U.S. (the same number of prisoners in Russia and China combined).The U.S. accounts for 5 percent of the world’s population--and 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. What courtroom veteran and law professor Sylvia Clute saw on a daily basis was all too often the miscarriage of justice. Because of her legal background, Clute focuses on legal horror stories to demonstrate her underlying thesis: The crisis in our legal system is merely symptomatic of a rot found in each of our institutions. It is rooted in a philosophy of dualism that pits us against one another. It is rooted in a philosophy that fails to recognize the oneness or unity of all life. Clute unfolds her argument for applying the philosophy of non-duality to not only our criminal justice system, but to all social relationships. She explores the roots of dualist thinking in the religious traditions of the world and offers the hope that if individuals--and societies--can move beyond dualistic thinking, we will create a society that is truly just and authentically caring. Part social policy, part metaphysics, this is a book for all who are looking for a new model for individual and societal relationships.

Author : Elizabeth D. Leonard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393048681
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lincoln's Avengers written by Elizabeth D. Leonard and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by John Wilkes Booth, and Secretary of State William H. Seward was brutally stabbed. Clearly a conspiracy was afoot. Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt was put in charge of the investigation and trial. He first set out to punish all of Booth's accomplices and then wanted to go after Jefferson Davis, whom he felt had instigated the assassination—despite stern opposition, not least of all from Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson. Elizabeth D. Leonard tells for the first time the full story of the two assassination trials. She explores the questions that made these trials pivotal in American history: Were they to be used to make the South pay for secession? Were they to be fair trials based on the evidence? Or were they to be points of reconciliation, with the South forgiven at all costs to create a solid union?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1794-07 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lonnie R. Speer
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811713887
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War of Vengeance written by Lonnie R. Speer and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violent retaliation between sides in the American Civil War was perhaps most apparent in the taking of prisoners. Often, these retaliatory measures were enacted against the innocent-prisoners who were unfortunate enough to be in wrong place at the wrong time. Each chapter of this book undertakes to describe a specific event of retaliatory action. Lonnie Speer takes no sides as he points an accusing finger at both the Union and the Confederacy for their equal parts in treating the prisoners poorly. He explores this little-known wartime violence, focusing on the most notorious and well-documented cases of the practice.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oregon Voter written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Earl Emery Ramsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New National Speller written by Earl Emery Ramsey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: