Convulsed States
Title | Convulsed States PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Todd Hancock |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2021-02-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469662191 |
The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a broad cast of thinkers struggled to explain these seemingly unprecedented natural phenomena. They summoned a range of traditions of inquiry into the natural world and drew connections among signs of environmental, spiritual, and political disorder on the cusp of the War of 1812. Drawn from extensive archival research, Convulsed States probes their interpretations to offer insights into revivalism, nation remaking, and the relationship between religious and political authority across Native nations and the United States in the early nineteenth century. With a compelling narrative and rigorous comparative analysis, Jonathan Todd Hancock uses the earthquakes to bridge historical fields and shed new light on this pivotal era of nation remaking. Through varied peoples' efforts to come to grips with the New Madrid earthquakes, Hancock reframes early nineteenth-century North America as a site where all of its inhabitants wrestled with fundamental human questions amid prophecies, political reinventions, and war.
Walladmor
Title | Walladmor PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas De Quincey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 658 |
Release | 1825 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States
Title | The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 790 |
Release | 1849 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the New York State Conventions for "rescuing the Canals from the Ruin with which They are Threatened"
Title | Proceedings of the New York State Conventions for "rescuing the Canals from the Ruin with which They are Threatened" PDF eBook |
Author | Henry O'Reilly |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 1859 |
Genre | Canals |
ISBN |
Pulpit Memorials
Title | Pulpit Memorials PDF eBook |
Author | E. J. Evans |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Congregational churches |
ISBN |
Constitutional Paradigms and the Stability of States
Title | Constitutional Paradigms and the Stability of States PDF eBook |
Author | Noel Cox |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2016-05-23 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317161653 |
This book examines the influence of constitutional legal paradigms upon the political stability and viability of states. It contributes to the literature in the field by focussing on how constitutional flexibility may have led to the rise of 'successful' states and to the decline of 'unsuccessful' states, by promoting stability. Divided into two parts, the book considers theories of the rise and fall of civilizations and individual states, explains the concept of hard and soft constitutions and applies this concept to different types of state models. A series of international case studies in the second part of the book identifies the key dynamics in legal, political and economic history and includes the UK, US, New Zealand and Eastern Europe.
Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Criminalized States in Latin America
Title | Transnational Organized Crime, Terrorism, and Criminalized States in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Farah |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | National security |
ISBN |
The emergence of new hybrid (state and nonstate) transnational criminal/terrorist franchises in Latin America operating under broad state protection now pose a tier-one security threat for the United States. Similar hybrid franchise models are developing in other parts of the world, making understanding the new dynamics an important factor in a broader national security context. This threat goes well beyond the traditional nonstate theory of constraints activity such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking into the potential for trafficking related to weapons of mass destruction by designated terrorist organizations and their sponsors. These activities are carried out with the support of regional and extra regional states actors whose leadership is deeply enmeshed in criminal activity, which yields billions of dollars in illicit revenues every year. These same leaders have a publicly articulated, common doctrine of asymmetrical warfare against the United States and its allies that explicitly endorses as legitimate the use of weapons of mass destruction. The central binding element in this alliance is a hatred for the West, particularly the United States, and deep anti-Semitism, based on a shared view that the 1979 Iranian Revolution was a transformative historical event. For Islamists, it is evidence of divine favor; and for Bolivarians, a model of a successful asymmetrical strategy to defeat the "Empire." The primary architect of this theology/ideology that merges radical Islam and radical, anti-Western populism and revolutionary zeal is the convicted terrorist Ilich Sánchez Ramirez, better known as "Carlos the Jackal," whom Chávez has called a true visionary.