The Honor of a Gentleman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Honor of a Gentleman write by Virginia Niles Leeds. This book was released on 1899. The Honor of a Gentleman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Liberalism with Honor
Liberalism with Honor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liberalism with Honor write by Sharon R. Krause. This book was released on 2002-04-15. Liberalism with Honor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do men and women sometimes risk everything to defend their liberties? What motivates principled opposition to the abuse of power? In Liberalism with Honor, Sharon Krause explores honor as a motive for risky and difficult forms of political action. She shows the sense of honor to be an important source of such action and a spring of individual agency more generally. Krause traces the genealogy of honor, including its ties to conscientious objection and civil disobedience, beginning in old-regime France and culminating in the American civil rights movement. She examines the dangers intrinsic to honor and the tensions between honor and modern democracy, but demonstrates that the sense of honor has supported political agency in the United States from the founders to democratic reformers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Martin Luther King, Jr. Honor continues to hold interest and importance today because it combines self-concern and personal ambition with principled higher purposes, and so challenges the disabling dichotomy between self-interest and self-sacrifice that currently pervades both political theory and American public life.
Seduction
Seduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seduction write by Amanda Quick. This book was released on 2010-09-22. Seduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Townsfolk called him devil. For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Some said the beautiful Lady Ravenwood had drowned herself in the black, murky waters of Ravenwood Pond. Others whispered of foul play and the devil's wrath. Now country-bred Sophy Dorring is about to become Ravenwood's new bride. Drawn to his masculine strength and the glitter of desire that burned in his emerald eyes, the tawny-haired lass had her own reasons for agreeing to a marriage of convenience. One was vengeance, and in its pursuit she would entangle Julian in a blackmail plot, a duel at dawn, and a dangerous masquerade. The other reason was dearer to her heart, but just as wild a quest: Sophy Dorring intended to teach the devil to love again.
Laws of Men and Laws of Nature
Laws of Men and Laws of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laws of Men and Laws of Nature write by Tal GOLAN. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Laws of Men and Laws of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tal Golan charts the use of expert testimony in British and American courtrooms from the 18th century to the present day. He assesses the standing of the expert witness, which has in recent years declined amid courtroom drama and media jeering.
The Lost German Slave Girl
The Lost German Slave Girl - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost German Slave Girl write by John Bailey. This book was released on 2007-12-01. The Lost German Slave Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws and an unforgettable portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom. “Reads like a legal thriller” (The Washington Post). It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the young woman is property, the slave of a nearby cabaret owner. She has no memory of a “white” past. Yet her resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale birthmarks. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, as well as the incredible twists and turns of Sally Miller’s celebrated and sensational case. Did Miller, as her relatives sought to prove, arrive from Germany under perilous circumstances as an indentured servant or was she, as her master claimed, part African, and a slave for life? The Lost German Slave Girl is a tour de force of investigative history that reads like a suspense novel. “Bailey keeps us guessing until the end in this page-turning true courtroom drama of 19th-century New Orleans . . . [He] brings to life the fierce legal proceedings with vivid strokes.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
