1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910479974603321

Autore

Klooster Wim

Titolo

Revolutions in the Atlantic World : A Comparative History / / Wim Klooster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4798-6511-7

Edizione

[New edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

973.3

Soggetti

Sovereignty

Revolutions

Revolutions - America - History - 19th century

Revolutions - America - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Latin America History Wars of Independence, 1806-1830

Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804

France History Revolution, 1789-1799

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-241) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Civil War in the British Empire -- 3. The War on Privilege and Dissension -- 4. From Prize Colony to Black Independence -- 5. Multiple Routes to Sovereignty -- 6. The Revolutions Compared -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

A new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions transformed the Atlantic world. This book is the first to analyze these events through a comparative lens, revealing several central themes in the field of Atlantic history. From the murky position of the European empire between the Old and New Worlds to slavery and diaspora, Wim Klooster offers insights into the forces behind the many conflicts in the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth



and early nineteenth centuries. Digging deeply into the structural causes and oppressive environments in which these revolutions occurred, Klooster debunks the popular myth that the “people” rebelled against a small ruling elite, arguing instead that the revolutions were civil wars in which all classes fought on both sides. The book reveals the extent to which mechanisms of popular mobilization were visible in the revolutions. For example, although Blacks and Indians often played an important role in the success of the revolutions, they were never compensated once new regimes rose to power. Nor was democracy a goal or product of these revolutions, which usually spawned authoritarian polities. The new edition covers the latest historiographical trends in the study of the Atlantic world, including new research regarding the role of privateers. Drawing on fresh research – such as primary documents and extant secondary literature – Klooster ultimately concludes that the Enlightenment was the ideological inspiration for the Age of Revolutions, although not its cause.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452553703321

Autore

Coyle Sean

Titolo

Dimensions of politics and English jurisprudence / / Sean Coyle [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-06468-6

1-139-88782-3

1-107-05425-7

1-107-05520-2

1-107-05866-X

0-511-97907-X

1-107-05740-X

1-107-05630-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 388 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

349.41

Soggetti

Jurisprudence - Great Britain

Jurisprudence - United States

Law - Philosophy

Liberalism



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; English jurisprudence; Dimensions of the problem; Part I Jurisprudence; 1 Jurisprudence and the liberal order; History and direction; The end of legal order; Proper order?; 2 Concept and reality in jurisprudence; Law, reality, truth; The interpretation of law; Jurisprudence in context; 3 On the 'Protestant' inheritance of juridical thought; A dualism; Protestant jurisprudence and secular liberal thought; A self-contained politics?; The limits of Protestant political theory; 4 The form and direction of Anglo-American jurisprudence; Hart and Oxford philosophy

Rawls and American political thoughtHart's English liberalism; 5 Three approaches to jurisprudence; Conservatism; Scepticism; Idealism; The categorical context; Part II Understanding the present; 6 Authority and tradition: visions of law and politics; One vision of politics: Kant; An alternative vision of politics: Hobbes; A third vision of politics: Augustine; The nature of the question; 7 Legalism and modernity I: Identifying and understanding the problem; The nature and source of the problem; The centrality of legalism to modern politics

8 Legalism and modernity II: Reflections upon the problemHabit, tradition and rule; Direction and purpose; Wisdom and unwisdom in politics; Politics in the perspective of eternity; 9 Political thought and the 'well-ordered society'; What connects utopianism to politics?; Utopian thought and the character of philosophy; 10 The limits of legal ideologies; Man's reason and social order; Reason and ideology; The 'rational existence' as an object of legal thought; Reason in society; 11 Conservatism and its dilemmas; The dilemma of conservatism; Kantian vs. Aristotelian conceptions of ethics

Kantian and Platonic forms of ethicismLessons for law and government; 12 Liberal jurisprudence and its order; Order and its absence; Ordo virtutum; The problem of justice; Part III Justice; 13 Justice without mercy; Law, justice and society; Mercy and society; The character of mercy; The role of mercy in the world; 14 Justice and moral judgment; Integrity and conscience; Morality and metaphysics; The morality of the law; 15 Fallen justice; Augustine: justice without the law; Aquinas: The justice of the law; Justice and its implications; 16 Freedom and justice in a democratic age; Freedom

JusticeThe state; The importance of civil society; Bibliography of Works Cited; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Understandings of law and politics are intrinsically bound up with broader visions of the human condition. Sean Coyle argues for a renewed engagement with the juridical and political philosophies of the Western intellectual tradition, and takes up questions pondered by Aristotle, Plato, Augustine, Aquinas and Hobbes in seeking a deeper understanding of law, politics, freedom, justice and order. Criticising modern theories for their failure to engage with fundamental questions, he explores the profound connections between justice and order and raises the neglected question of whether human beings in all their imperfection can ever achieve truly just order in this life. Above all, he confronts the question of whether the open society is the natural home of liberals who have given up faith in human progress (there are no ideal societies), or whether liberal political order is itself the ideal society?



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797556903321

Titolo

Collections care and stewardship : innovative approaches for museums / / edited by Juilee Decker ; contributors, Jennifer Schwarz Ballard [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md. : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4422-3880-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 105 pages)

Collana

Innovative Approaches for Museums

Disciplina

069.068

Soggetti

Museums - Collection management

Antiquities - Collection and preservation

Art objects - Collection and preservation

Manuscripts - Collection and preservation

Museums - Curatorship

Museums - Educational aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Ch01. An Outdoor Museum Perspective on Education and Audience Engagement; Ch02. Collection Preservation Facilities; Ch03. A Window on the Work; Ch04. The Increase and Diffusion of Collections Care Knowledge; Ch05. Contextualizing Collections Management in Academic Museums; Ch06. Collection Curriculum; Ch07. Divergent Agendas and Dobles Vidas; Ch08. Co-Creation and Sustainable Community Engagement; Ch09. Common Cause; Ch10. Joining the Dots; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Collections Care and Stewardship: Innovative Approaches for Museums considers best practices and innovations related to documenting collections with regard to movement and safe handling of items for transport, display, photography, and treatment; collections storage; and information-sharing within and beyond the museum.