1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996247985803316

Autore

Ostwald Martin

Titolo

From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law : Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens / / Martin Ostwald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1986]

©1986

ISBN

0-520-90968-2

0-585-13980-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 663 p. )

Disciplina

342.495/12

344.951202

Soggetti

Law, Greek

Law - Greece - Athens - History

Constitutional history - Greece - Athens - To 146 B.C

Rule of law - Greece - Athens

Democracy

Athens (Greece) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (p. 551-569) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PROLEGOMENA: SCOPE AND PURPOSE -- CHAPTER ONE. Popular Sovereignty and the Control of Government -- CHAPTER TWO. Popular Sovereignty and Social Thought -- CHAPTER THREE. Popular Sovereignty and the Control of Religion -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Prelude -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Polarizations of the 420s -- CHAPTER SIX. Popular Sovereignty and the Intellectual: Alcibiades -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Problem of the Patrios Politeia (Ancestral Constitution) -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Breakdown of Popular Sovereignty -- CHAPTER NINE. The Second Oligarchical Challenge and Its Failure -- CHAPTER TEN. Toward a New Order: Democracy under the Law -- APPENDIX A: EISANGELIA CASES IN THE FIFTH -- APPENDIX B: THE EARLIEST TRIALS FOR IMPIETY (ASEBEIA) AT ATHENS -- APPENDIX C: THE SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND OF THE άσεβοῦντες OF 415 B.C. -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792381703321

Autore

Crow Charles L.

Titolo

American Gothic / / Charles L. Crow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-7083-2248-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Gothic literary studies. History of the Gothic

Disciplina

823.0872909

Soggetti

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American - History and criticism

American fiction - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States - History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; American Gothic to the Civil War; Realism's Dark Twin; American Gothic and Modernism; Gothic in a Post-American World; Conclusion; A Note on Gothic Criticism; Notes; Works Consulted; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book defines the American Gothic and places it both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history in the last 300 years, and also within the context of the critical issues of American culture.