Moral fire Horowitz, Joseph
2012., 20120422, 2012, 2012-05-22
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Joseph Horowitz writes in Moral Fire: "If the Met's screaming Wagnerites standing on chairs (in the 1890s) are unthinkable today, it is partly because we mistrust high feeling. Our children avidly ...specialize in vicarious forms of electronic interpersonal diversion. Our laptops and televisions ensnare us in a surrogate world that shuns all but facile passions; only Jon Stewart and Bill Maher share moments of moral outrage disguised as comedy." Arguing that the past can prove instructive and inspirational, Horowitz revisits four astonishing personalities—Henry Higginson, Laura Langford, Henry Krehbiel and Charles Ives—whose missionary work in the realm of culture signaled a belief in the fundamental decency of civilized human nature, in the universality of moral values, and in progress toward a kingdom of peace and love.
A brutal attack on Israel by Hamas has spectacularly reignited the long-running conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. We look back over a century of hostilities.
Through an unknown country Helm, Charles; Jarvis, Edward Worrell; Hanington, Charles Francis
Through an unknown country,
2015, 2015
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"Based on previously unpublished reports and journals thought to be lost, Through An Unknown Country provides the reader with a harrowing and riveting account of a 19th century expedition through the ...northern mountain ranges of western Canada. In the winter of 1874-75, Edward Worrell Jarvis (1846 1894) and Charles Francis Hanington (1848-1930) took part in an expedition on behalf of the Canadian Pacific Survey from Quesnel, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It led them over the northern Rocky Mountains through what would come to be known as Jarvis Pass (Kakwa Provincial Park, British Columbia) and eventually onto the Canadian plains. The trip took them 116 days and covered over 3000 kilometres, of which almost 1500 was travelled on snowshoes. Through An Unknown Country brings together the day-to-day reports of Jarvis and the more entertaining narrative of the epic journey by Hanington into a single volume for the first time. Recounting harrowing treks through deep mountains, densely forested valleys, open foothills and wide prairie, this highly readable adventure story can most certainly be read alongside the better-known journals of Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, David Thompson and Paul Kane."--
The impact of the Home Rule Crisis, the mass electorate created by the reforms of 1884 to 1885, the attributes of political performance, the entry of new plutocracies into national politics, the ...decline of aristocratic engagement in political life, the expansion of the popular press, the exposure of the behavior of elites to mass curiosity, and the nature of celebrity and scandal are brought to bear on the individual choices and fortunes of her subjects. Of this group of friends, only Balfour, who became Prime Minister in 1902 and remained active in politics until 1929, and Margot Tennant, as the wife of the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, attained real prominence in national public life. ...there are times when Ellenberger's susceptibility to psychological jargon or inference reaches beyond the evidence.
The studies on the tariff reform movement from 1903 to 1913 in Britain can be classified into three main approaches, emphasising respectively: 1) a protectionist strategy to revive British industry, ...2) an electoral strategy to widen the base of the Unionists or the conservative Party, and 3) an imperial strategy to unite the British Empire through imperial preference. On the basis of new evidence, this study refutes the first and second views, and supports the third. However, even those scholars upholding the third view have not maintained that the domestic and imperial sides of tariff reform were unrelated. This study demonstrates instead that they were actually disconnected and that in order to achieve the unity of the British Empire, Joseph Chamberlain and leading tariff reformers formed a plan prioritizing the interests of the self-governing colonies or dominions over Britain's own national interests. In their vision, even if their scheme of tariff reform were to strengthen the dominions' economies rather than the home economy, it should be accepted as long as it reinforced the unity of the British Empire. To elucidate this point, we analyse Unionist Prime Minister Arthur Balfour's retaliatory tariff plan in comparison with Chamberlain's tariff reform. A new perspective that refutes the generally accepted view of Balfour's plan as a compromise between tariff reform and free trade will also be suggested.
Arthur Balfour (1848-1930)Lord Arthur Balfour est l’un des principaux hommes d’État britanniques des années 1900-1930. Premier ministre, puis secrétaire au Foreign Office, il est un des leaders du ...parti conservateur, parfois en coalition avec les libéraux. Ses relations avec le sionisme, commencées à Manchester en 1906 et approfondies dans le contexte de la Déclaration du 2 novembre 1917, ont fait de lui et de sa famille un véritable lieu de mémoire.Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868‑1937)Le destinataire de la Déclaration Balfour est un des héritiers de la prestigieuse famille de banquiers, dont la branche anglaise a été jusque‑là très prudente en matière de sionisme. À la demande de Chaïm Weizmann, il participe aux démarches préliminaires à la Déclaration. L’homme est en fait un passionné de zoologie, dont les collections exceptionnelles sont aujourd’hui rattachées au British Museum.Chaïm Weizmann (1874‑1952)Le principal négociateur sioniste de la Déclaration Balfour est un professeur de chimie de l’université de Manchester, né dans un shtetl de Biélorussie et représentatif d’une élite intellectuelle disciple de Ahad Ha’am. Entouré d’universitaires et ami des hommes d’affaires, il a su trouver les moyens de concrétiser la coopération anglo-sioniste à travers des travaux constructifs en Palestine, notamment dans le domaine scientifique et culturel qu’il privilégiait. La rupture de cette coopération l’a placé en porte-à-faux, mais il a laissé sa marque sur l’État né en 1948.Un acteur français méconnu de la Déclaration Balfour : Charles Dreyfus (1848-1935)Ce chimiste juif alsacien a créé à Manchester une industrie textile florissante et novatrice. Il a embauché le jeune chimiste Chaïm Weizmann et a mis à son service ses relations étendues avec la classe dirigeante locale et nationale, notamment avec Arthur Balfour dont il était un important soutien. Sa personnalité et celles de ses proches sont hautes en couleur.
The declaration Posner, Michael
Queen's quarterly,
03/2017, Letnik:
124, Številka:
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Journal Article, Magazine Article
Recenzirano
Though Arthur Balfour, David Lloyd George, and others were supportive, serious obstacles remained, including the staunch opposition of prominent Jews in England and America. Among these was Herbert ...Samuel's own cousin, Edwin Montagu, a British cabinet member who regarded Zionism as "a mischievous political creed." A Jewish state, he argued, would not only disenfranchise non-Jews; it would also challenge the loyalties of Jews in other nations and thus promote anti-Semitism. Another strong opponent, Lord Curzon, said Jewish immigration would displace indigenous Arabs, and called the declaration a "striking contradiction of our publicly declared principles." As drafts of the document circulated, it was Montagu who diluted the wording, reducing the commitment to a Jewish "state" to "national home" and insisting on a clause aimed at protecting the rights of existing populations. Later, the homeland was reduced from Palestine at large to territory "in" Palestine, effectively excluding Transjordan. As cabinet debated the letter for the final time in November 1917, Chaim Weizmann waited in an anteroom. A jubilant Mark Sykes finally emerged, shouting, "Dr Weizmann, it's a boy!" Studying the letter's carefully hedged wording, Weizmann later conceded, "I did not like the boy at first. He was not the one I had expected. But I knew this was a great event. I telephoned my wife, and went to see Ahad Ha'am" (Zionist thinker Asher Ginsberg).
The term the "Edwardian Crisis" has been used down the years to describe the growth of radical political sentiment, which manifested itself in everything from a challenge to the powers of the House ...of Lords through to the burgeoning demands for female suffrage and trade union rights. The Edwardian Crisis has also been associated with less tangible changes in the zeitgeist, ranging from the emergence of new ideas in literature and art to growing anxiety about the threat posed to Britain's international pre-eminence as the result of a loss of "national efficiency." Here, Hughes features Archbishop Randall Davidson, the man responsible for leading the Church of England.
The article sets the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the final confirmation of Britain's Palestine Mandate in 1923 within the context of national imperial concerns: in particular, anxieties over the ...security of the Suez Canal and the country's sea-route to its economic and military power-base in India. In 1917 strategic issues were paramount in the progressive annexation of Palestine by the Lloyd George coalition, this the essential territorial precondition for the pursuit of the Zionist project. In 1923 these global considerations were again to the fore when the new Conservative administration, less Zionist than its predecessor, decided finally to accept and implement the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and the obligation therein to advance the cause of a Jewish national home. And throughout this period there was a widespread sense in official circles that Zionist settlers might perform as direct agents of Empire, acting as grateful, loyal, and developmental servants of the British imperial interest. Paradoxically, however - and largely on account of the ill-informed and reflexive manner in which plans were formulated in London - the entire exercise was, in the long-term, to prove a source of profound weakness to Britain's strategic authority in the East. Palestine policy, like so much imperial reasoning in the twentieth century, was to prove intrinsically delusional.
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