The Elusive 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 The Elusive Republic write by Drew R. McCoy. This book was released on 2012-12-01. The Elusive Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American 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 Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic write by Matthew Stewart. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient, pagan, and continental ideas from which America’s revolutionaries drew their inspiration. In the writings of Spinoza, Lucretius, and other great philosophers, Stewart recovers the true meanings of “Nature’s God,” “the pursuit of happiness,” and the radical political theory with which the American experiment in self-government began.
Elusive Equality
Elusive Equality - 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 Elusive Equality write by Melissa Feinberg. This book was released on 2006-04-30. Elusive Equality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Czechoslovakia became independent in 1918, Czechs embraced democracy, which they saw as particularly suited to their national interests. Politicians enthusiastically supported a constitution that proclaimed all citizens, women as well as men, legally equal. But they soon found themselves split over how to implement this pledge. Some believed democracy required extensive egalitarian legislation. Others contended that any commitment to equality had to bow before other social interests, such as preserving the traditional family. On the eve of World War II, Czech leaders jettisoned the young republic for an "authoritarian democracy" that firmly placed their nation, and not the individual citizen, at the center of politics. In 1948, they turned to a Communist-led "people's democracy," which also devalued individual rights. By examining specific policy issues, including marriage and family law, civil service regulations, citizenship law, and abortion statutes, Elusive Equality demonstrates the relationship between Czechs' ideas about gender roles and their attitudes toward democracy. Gradually, many Czechs became convinced that protecting a traditionally gendered family ideal was more important to their national survival than adhering to constitutionally prescribed standards of equal citizenship. Through extensive original research, Melissa Feinberg assembles a compelling account of how early Czech progress in women's rights, tied to democratic reforms, eventually lost momentum in the face of political transformations and the separation of state and domestic issues. Moreover, Feinberg presents a prism through which our understanding of twentieth-century democracy is deepened, and a cautionary tale for all those who want to make democratic governments work.
James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government
James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government - 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 James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government write by Colleen A. Sheehan. This book was released on 2009-01-12. James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sheehan argues that Madison's vision for the new nation was informed by the idea of republican self-government.
Elusive Refuge
Elusive Refuge - 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 Elusive Refuge write by Laura Madokoro. This book was released on 2016-09-26. Elusive Refuge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Laura Madokoro recovers the lost history of millions of displaced Chinese who fled the Communist Revolution and recounts humanitarian efforts to find homes for them outside China. Entrenched bigotry in predominantly white countries, the spread of human rights, Cold War geopolitics, and the Vietnam War shaped refugee policies that still hold sway.
