Death and life in nations and men
Title | Death and life in nations and men PDF eBook |
Author | T. G. (Thomas George) Bonney |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1868 |
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Death and Life in Nations and Men. Four sermons preached before the University of Cambridge, etc
Title | Death and Life in Nations and Men. Four sermons preached before the University of Cambridge, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas George BONNEY |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1868 |
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Death and life in nations and men, 4 sermons
Title | Death and life in nations and men, 4 sermons PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas George Bonney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1868 |
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ISBN |
The Life and Death of Democracy
Title | The Life and Death of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | John Keane |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 717 |
Release | 2009-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1847377602 |
John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps? The work of one of Britain's leading political writers, this is no mere antiquarian history. Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy. It unearths the beginnings of such precious institutions and ideals as government by public assembly, votes for women, the secret ballot, trial by jury and press freedom. It tracks the changing, hotly disputed meanings of democracy and describes quite a few of the extraordinary characters, many of them long forgotten, who dedicated their lives to building or defending democracy. And it explains why democracy is still potentially the best form of government on earth -- and why democracies everywhere are sleepwalking their way into deep trouble.
Death and Life in Nations and Men, 4 Sermons - Primary Source Edition
Title | Death and Life in Nations and Men, 4 Sermons - Primary Source Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas George Bonney |
Publisher | Nabu Press |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781289410414 |
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This Republic of Suffering
Title | This Republic of Suffering PDF eBook |
Author | Drew Gilpin Faust |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2009-01-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0375703837 |
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 Death and Life of Malcolm X
Title | The Death and Life of Malcolm X PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Louis Goldman |
Publisher | Orion |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Black Muslims |
ISBN | 9780575018112 |