An Essay on National Pride
Title | An Essay on National Pride PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Georg Zimmermann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1805 |
Genre | Nationalism |
ISBN |
Essay on National Pride
Title | Essay on National Pride PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Georg Zimmermann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1797 |
Genre | National characteristics |
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Essay on National Pride. To which are added Memoirs of the author's Life and Writings. Translated from the ... German ... by S. H. Wilcocke
Title | Essay on National Pride. To which are added Memoirs of the author's Life and Writings. Translated from the ... German ... by S. H. Wilcocke PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Georg Zimmermann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1797 |
Genre | |
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Heartland
Title | Heartland PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Smarsh |
Publisher | Scribner |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2019-09-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1501133101 |
*Finalist for the National Book Award* *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly* An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country and “a deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight”.* Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side, and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the heartland. During Sarah’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, she enjoyed the freedom of a country childhood, but observed the painful challenges of the poverty around her; untreated medical conditions for lack of insurance or consistent care, unsafe job conditions, abusive relationships, and limited resources and information that would provide for the upward mobility that is the American Dream. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves with clarity and precision but without judgement, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country. Beautifully written, in a distinctive voice, Heartland combines personal narrative with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, challenging the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. “Heartland is one of a growing number of important works—including Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Amy Goldstein’s Janesville—that together merit their own section in nonfiction aisles across the country: America’s postindustrial decline...Smarsh shows how the false promise of the ‘American dream’ was used to subjugate the poor. It’s a powerful mantra” *(The New York Times Book Review).
Achieving Our Country
Title | Achieving Our Country PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rorty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780674003125 |
One of America's foremost philosophers challenges the lost generation of the American Left to understand the role it might play in the great tradition of democratic intellectual labor that started with writers such as Walt Whitman and John Dewey.
Pride and Punishment: An essay from the collection, Of This Our Country
Title | Pride and Punishment: An essay from the collection, Of This Our Country PDF eBook |
Author | Chigozie Obioma |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 18 |
Release | 2021-09-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0008512728 |
To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or images.
The Ethics of Patriotism
Title | The Ethics of Patriotism PDF eBook |
Author | John Kleinig |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2015-02-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0470658851 |
The unique approach taken within The Ethics of Patriotism brings together the differing perspectives of three leading figures in the philosophical debate who deliver an up-to-date, accessible, and vigorous presentation of the major views and arguments. Brings together the differing perspectives of three leading philosophers, who, together, explore the major positions on the ethics of patriotism Connects with several burgeoning fields of interest in philosophy and politics, including nationalism, civic virtue, liberalism and republicanism, loyalty, and cosmopolitanism Demonstrates that it is possible to make progress on the question of the ethics of patriotism while taking an ecumenical approach to larger theoretical questions A timely and relevant response to the upsurge of interest in nationalism, patriotism, and secessions