Republic of Signs - 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 Republic of Signs write by Anne Norton. This book was released on 1993-11-15. Republic of Signs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Norton examines the enactment of liberal ideas in popular culture; in the possessions of ordinary people and the habits of everyday life. She sees liberalism as the common sense of the American people: a set of conventions unconsciously adhered to, a set of principles silently taken for granted. The author ranges over a wide expanse of popular activities (e.g. wrestling, roller derby, lotteries, shopping sprees, and dining out), as well as conventional political topics (e.g., the Constitution, presidency, news media, and centrality of law). Yet the argument is pointed and probling, never shallow or superficial. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are as vital to the republic as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. "In discussions that range from the Constitution and the presidency to money and shopping, voting, lotteries, and survey research, Norton discerns and imaginatively invents possibilities that exceed recognized actualities and already approved opportunities."—Richard E. Flathman, American Political Science Review "[S]timulating and stylish exploration of political theory, language, culture, and shopping at the mall . . . popular culture at its best, informed by history and theory, serious in purpose, yet witty and modest in tone."—Bernard Mergen, American Studies International
Deaf Republic
Deaf Republic - 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 Deaf Republic write by Ilya Kaminsky. This book was released on 2019-03-05. Deaf Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear—they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. The story follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple, Alfonso and Sonya, expecting a child; the brash Momma Galya, instigating the insurgency from her puppet theater; and Galya’s girls, heroically teaching signing by day and by night luring soldiers one by one to their deaths behind the curtain. At once a love story, an elegy, and an urgent plea, Ilya Kaminsky’s long-awaited Deaf Republic confronts our time’s vicious atrocities and our collective silence in the face of them.
This Republic of Suffering
This Republic of Suffering - 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 This Republic of Suffering write by Drew Gilpin Faust. This book was released on 2009-01-06. This Republic of Suffering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861
The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 - 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 Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 write by John Ashworth. This book was released on 2012-08-27. The Republic in Crisis, 1848-1861 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meticulously analyses the political climate in the years leading up to the American Civil War and the causes of that conflict.
Humanity in the City
Humanity in the City - 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 Humanity in the City write by Edwin Hubbell Chapin. This book was released on 1854. Humanity in the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
