Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ...ideology, a demon of apartheid, the namesake of a theme park, even the subject of a TV film. This book explores the reasons for the potency of Shaka's image.
'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.'
William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written ...during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime. Not easy to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her personal and political selves. Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her first suicide attempt, on a mission from the lover whose affections she doubted, to recover his silver
on a ship that had gone missing. With her baby daughter and a nursemaid, she travelled across the dramatic landscape and wrote sublime descriptions of the natural world, and the events and people she encountered. What emerges most vividly is Wollstonecraft's courage and ability to look beyond her own
suffering to the turmoil around her in revolutionary Europe, and a better future.
This edition includes further material on the silver ship, Wollstonecraft's personal letters to Imlay during her trip, an extract from Godwin's memoir, and a selection of contemporary reviews.
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A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary ...between figures of greater significance, whose ideas, ambitions and schemes he frequently borrowed and disseminated across the Atlantic and continents.
Jeffersonians in Power Freeman, Joanne B; Neem, Johann N; Lewis, James E., Jr
09/2019
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In the 1790s, the Jeffersonian Republicans were the party of "no." They opposed attempts to expand the government's role in society, criticized the Washington administration's national bank, railed ...against a standing army, and bemoaned the spirit of the Federalist regime, which, they claimed, favored elite over ordinary Americans.
Accordingly, Thomas Jefferson asserted that his election as President in 1801 was a "revolution": with Jeffersonians in power, the government could be stripped down in size and strength. But there was a paradox at the heart of this image. Maintaining the security, stability, and prosperity of the republic required aggressive statecraft, and as a result, Jeffersonians deployed state power to reduce taxes and the debt, enforce a shipping embargo, go to war, and ultimately to support a national bank during Madison's administration.
This book explores the logic and logistics of Jeffersonian statesmanship. Focusing on Jeffersonian Republican statecraft in action,Jeffersonians in Power maps the meeting place of ideology and policy as Jeffersonians shifted from being an oppositional party to exercising power as the ruling coalition.
Contributors: Andrew Burstein, Louisiana State University * Benjamin L. Carp, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York * Christa Dierksheide, University of Missouri * Kevin R. C. Gutzman, Western Connecticut State University * James E. Lewis Jr., Kalamazoo College * Martin Öhman, Gothenburg University * Robert G. Parkinson, Binghamton University * John A. Ragosta, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello * Leonard J. Sadosky III * Richard Samuelson, California State University, San Bernardino * Brian Schoen, Ohio University * Mark Smith, John Burroughs School, St. Louis * Andrew Trees, Roosevelt University
Proclamation The Lockers of Moldavia and Wallachia! / General Feldmareşal Witgenstein. - Chişinău: s.n., 1828. - 1 f. ; 1 ° (35.5 cm)
Romanian text in Cyrillic characters - This tab comes from the ...donation of George Sion. A cardboard cover was added to the flywheel sheets. Following the Russo-Turkish War between 1806-1812 Bessarabia was annexed to the Russian Gorge.In this Proclamation Peter KhristianovichWittgenstein, a general who noted both during the Napoleonic wars and during the Russo-Turkish wars, addresses the inhabitants of Moldavia and those of Valahia asking them to help and make available to the Russian soldiers the ones needed to complete the new war with the Turks (1828-1829). The basis of action of General Wittgenstein’s armies was Bessarabia. He declares that he entered the country (Moldova and Valahia) with the oastea entrusted to him by the country Nicholas I in order to carry the war against the Turks “to fulfill the trampled foetuses, and to laugh in the rotten, the foggers that before everyone or the imprisoned.” It is addressed to the Romanians as allies, recognized friends of Russia: receive the brave rossieni hostage as pre frailor i and as your natural defenders “(...)” show noao evidence of your long-known Czech love. " He also states that “the war to break away from His Empress Enlargement after the undefended need will not miss you the plea of all these abilities, what a breast united with peace,” but “by wandering for the benefit of your homeland, you will see our newscast entitled to the protection and mercy of the Great Monarch.” After the formulation of his doleanness by exposing the purpose of his mission, the request to help the army, the benefits that the two countries will have from the help provided to the Russian soldiers, Marshal Wittgenstein concludes by declaring himself the “greatest hermitage” of the Russians.
Proclamaţie Lăcuitorilor Moldaviei şi Valahiei! / General Feldmareşal Witgenstein. - Chişinău : s.n., 1828. - 1 f. ; 1° (35,5 cm.)
Text în limba română cu caractere chirilice. - Această filă provine din donaţia lui George Sion. Foii volante i s-a adăugat o copertă de carton. În urma războiului ruso-turc dintre anii 1806-1812 Basarabia a fost anexată Împeriului Rus.În această Proclamaţie Peter KhristianovichWittgenstein, general ce s-a remarcat atât în timpul războaielor napoleoniene cât şi în timpul războaielor ruso-turceşti, se adresează locuitorilor Moldovei şi celor din Valahia cerându-le să ajute şi să pună la dispoziţia ostaşilor ruşi cele necesare pentru a putea duce la bun sfârşit noul război cu turcii (1828-1829). Baza de acţiune a armatelor generalului Wittgenstein a fost Basarabia. Acesta declară că a intrat în ţară (Moldova şi Valahia) cu oastea încredinţată lui de ţarul Nicolae I pentru a purta războiul contra turcilor „ca să se împlinească făgăduinţele ceale călcate, şi ca să se râdice întru puteare tractaturile, ceale ce înaintea a toată lumea sau închiiat”. Se adresează românilor ca unor aliaţi, prieteni recunoscuţi ai Rusiei: primiţi pre vitejii ostaşi rossieneşti ca pre fraţii şi ca pre apărătorii voştri cei fireşti” (...) „arătaţi noao dovezi a dragostei voastre cein de demult cunoscute”. Şi mai afirmă că „războiul ce să deşchide de cătră Împărăteasca Sa Mărire după neapărata nevoie nu vă va lipsi pre voi de toate aceale îndemânări, ce sânt unite cu pacea”, ci „răvnind folosului patriei voastre, voi veţi căştiga noao dreptăţi spre ocrotirea şi mila a Prea Puternicului Monarh”. După formularea doleanţei sale prin expunerea scopului misiunii sale, cererii de ajutorare a armatei, a beneficiilor pe care cele două ţări le vor avea în urma ajutorului oferit ostaşilor ruşi, mareşalul Wittgenstein încheie declarându-se „cel mai mare povăţuitor al armiei” ruseşti.
Proclamaţie Lăcuitorilor Moldaviei şi Valahiei! / General Feldmareşal Witgenstein. - Chişinău : s.n., 1828. - 1 f. ; 1° (35,5 cm.)
Text în limba română cu caractere chirilice. - Această filă provine din donaţia lui George Sion. Foii volante i s-a adăugat o copertă de carton. În urma războiului ruso-turc dintre anii 1806-1812 Basarabia a fost anexată Împeriului Rus.În această Proclamaţie Peter KhristianovichWittgenstein, general ce s-a remarcat atât în timpul războaielor napoleoniene cât şi în timpul războaielor ruso-turceşti, se adresează locuitorilor Moldovei şi celor din Valahia cerându-le să ajute şi să pună la dispoziţia ostaşilor ruşi cele necesare pentru a putea duce la bun sfârşit noul război cu turcii (1828-1829). Baza de acţiune a armatelor generalului Wittgenstein a fost Basarabia. Acesta declară că a intrat în ţară (Moldova şi Valahia) cu oastea încredinţată lui de ţarul Nicolae I pentru a purta războiul contra turcilor „ca să se împlinească făgăduinţele ceale călcate, şi ca să se râdice întru puteare tractaturile, ceale ce înaintea a toată lumea sau închiiat”. Se adresează românilor ca unor aliaţi, prieteni recunoscuţi ai Rusiei: primiţi pre vitejii ostaşi rossieneşti ca pre fraţii şi ca pre apărătorii voştri cei fireşti” (...) „arătaţi noao dovezi a dragostei voastre cein de demult cunoscute”. Şi mai afirmă că „războiul ce să deşchide de cătră Împărăteasca Sa Mărire după neapărata nevoie nu vă va lipsi pre voi de toate aceale îndemânări, ce sânt unite cu pacea”, ci „răvnind folosului patriei voastre, voi veţi căştiga noao dreptăţi spre ocrotirea şi mila a Prea Puternicului Monarh”. După formularea doleanţei sale prin expunerea scopului misiunii sale, cererii de ajutorare a armatei, a beneficiilor pe care cele două ţări le vor avea în urma ajutorului oferit ostaşilor ruşi, mareşalul Wittgenstein încheie declarându-se „cel mai mare povăţuitor al armiei” ruseşti.
Galvanized Brantley, Michael K
2020, 20200501, 2020-05-01
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Every Civil War veteran had a story to tell. But few stories top the one lived by Wright Stephen Batchelor. Like most North Carolina farmers, Batchelor eschewed slaveholding. He also opposed ...secession and war, yet he fought on both sides of the conflict. During his time in each uniform, Batchelor barely avoided death at the Battle of Gettysburg, was captured twice, and survived one of the war's most infamous prisoner-of-war camps. He escaped and, after walking hundreds of miles, rejoined his comrades at Petersburg, Virginia, just as the Union siege there began. Once the war ended, Batchelor returned on foot to his farm, where he took part in local politics, supported rights for freedmen, and was fatally involved in a bizarre hometown murder. Michael K. Brantley's story of his great-great-grandfather's odyssey blends memory and Civil War history to look at how the complexities of loyalty and personal belief governed one man's actions-and still influence the ways Americans think about the conflict today.
En el presente estudio ofrecemos líneas que fundamentarán la edición crítica de Sociedades americanas en 1828, la obra maestra inconclusa del pensador radical latinoamericano Simón Rodríguez. Para ...ello reconstruimos el plan general diseñado por Rodríguez para la edición de Sociedades americanas en 1828 y caracterizamos los diferentes fragmentos que Rodríguez alcanzó a publicar de esta obra y su lugar en el proyecto general.
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