Continental Ambitions

Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681497360
Total Pages : 1213 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental Ambitions written by Kevin Starr and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 1213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Starr has achieved a fast-paced evocation of three Roman Catholic civilizations Spain, France, and Recusant England as they explored, evangelized, and settled the North American continent. This book represents the first time this story has been told in one volume. Showing the same narrative verve of Starr's award-winning Americans and the California Dream series, this riveting but sometimes painful history should reach a wide readership. Starr begins this work with the exploration and temporary settlement of North America by recently Christianized Scandinavians. He continues with the destruction of Caribbean peoples by New Spain, the struggle against this tragedy by the great Dominican Bartolom矤e Las Casas, the Jesuit and Franciscan exploration and settlement of the Spanish Borderlands (Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Baja, and Alta California), and the strengths and weaknesses of the mission system. He then turns his attention to New France with its highly developed Catholic and Counter-Reformational cultures of Quebec and Montreal, its encounters with Native American peoples, and its advance southward to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. The volume ends with the founding of Maryland as a proprietary colony for Roman Catholic Recusants and Anglicans alike, the rise of Philadelphia and southern Pennsylvania as centers of Catholic life, the Suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, and the return of John Carroll to Maryland the following year. Starr dramatizes the representative personalities and events that illustrate the triumphs and the tragedies, the achievements and the failures, of each of these societies in their explorations, treatment of Native Americans, and translations of religious and social value to new and challenging environments. His history is notable for its honesty and its synoptic success in comparing and contrasting three disparate civilizations, albeit each of them Catholic, with three similar and differing approaches to expansion in the New World.

Author : Anna Plassart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300323
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution written by Anna Plassart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of ideas have traditionally discussed the significance of the French Revolution through the prism of several major interpretations, including the commentaries of Burke, Tocqueville and Marx. This book argues that the Scottish Enlightenment offered an alternative and equally powerful interpretative framework for the Revolution, which focused on the transformation of the polite, civilised moeurs that had defined the 'modernity' analysed by Hume and Smith in the eighteenth century. The Scots observed what they understood as a military- and democracy-led transformation of European modern morals and concluded that the real historical significance of the Revolution lay in the transformation of warfare, national feelings and relations between states, war and commerce that characterised the post-revolutionary international order. This book recovers the Scottish philosophers' powerful discussion of the nature of post-revolutionary modernity and shows that it is essential to our understanding of nineteenth-century political thought.

Author : Cornelia Navari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134861451
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internationalism and the State in the Twentieth Century written by Cornelia Navari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using in-depth analysis of power relations, material changes and developments in ideologies, this essential text provides an accessible and student friendly historical introduction to the changing relations between states. The subjects covered include long term trends relating to war, the changing balance of power, decolonisation, the European system and the Cold War. This volume is essential reading for all those interested in the history of International Relations in the twentieth century.

Author : Stephen Chan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135742685
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zimbabwe since the Unity Government written by Stephen Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe has moved from a condition of restricted expression to one of many contradictory expressions. Politics has lost none of its compromises and conflicts, but it has been amplified by an explosion of voices. For the first time, a genuine debate is possible among many actors, insiders and outsiders, and the question marks over Zimbabwe and its future are no longer in terms of a narrow choice between one party and another, one outlook or another. Compromise government has meant complexity of debate. This does not preclude disillusionment within debate, but it does include vigour and imagination in debate. This book includes essays from renowned scholars, governmental and diplomatic figures, and prioritises contributions by Zimbabweans themselves. The essays provide a blend of academic and practitioner observation and judgement which no other volume has done. This book was published as a special issue of The Round Table.

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Total Pages : 948 pages
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Author : Thomas Franklin Millard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Far Eastern Question written by Thomas Franklin Millard and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Franklin Millard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
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Download or read book America and the Far Eastern Question written by Thomas Franklin Millard and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 850 pages
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Total Pages : 792 pages
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Author : Howard Temperley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317867378
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Introduction to American Studies written by Howard Temperley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it actually means to study a culture. Ideals such as the commitment to liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and new light is shed on the sometimes contradictory ways in which these ideals have informed the nation's history and culture. For introductory undergraduate courses in American Studies, American History and American Literature.