No Compromise With Slavery - William Lloyd Garrisons Rede vom 4. Juli 1854

No Compromise With Slavery - William Lloyd Garrisons Rede vom 4. Juli 1854
Title No Compromise With Slavery - William Lloyd Garrisons Rede vom 4. Juli 1854 PDF eBook
Author
Publisher GRIN Verlag
Pages 28
Release 2006-06-17
Genre History
ISBN 3638510670

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Amerika, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Der Süden der USA von der Kolonialzeit bis zum Bürgerkrieg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Amerikanische Bürgerkrieg von 1861 bis 1865 stellte für die noch junge amerikanische Nation eine folgenreiche Zäsur dar. Innerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten hatte sich über Jahrzehnte hinweg ein Nebeneinander zweier verschiedener Lebensweisen und Kulturen entwickelt. Der zuletzt unüberwindbar wirkende ideelle Gegensatz zwischen den Nordstaaten und den Südstaaten der USA gipfelte schließlich in einem politischen Antagonismus, der zum Krieg führte. Nach vier Jahren erbitterter Feindschaft und über 600.000 Toten war der Süden geschlagen und die Teilung des Landes überwunden. Die Einheit war gerettet, doch die Nation eine andere als zuvor. Mit Gewalt wurde der Eigenheit des Südens getrotzt und dessen Kultur verändert. Die nachfolgende jahrelang andauernde Besatzung durch nordstaatliche Truppen unterstrich dies deutlich. Eine dieser Eigenheiten und kulturellen Elemente des „Alten Süden“ vor dem Bürgerkrieg war die Sklaverei. An ihr war der Konflikt gebunden, der die Nation zunehmend entzweite. Zerbrach die Einheit des Landes zwar grundsätzlich an der Verteidigung bundesstaatlicher Souveränität seitens des Süden und somit an verfassungsrechtlichen Fragen, so ist die Sklavenfrage doch auslösendes Moment und vorherrschender Streitpunkt gewesen. Die sich im 19. Jahrhundert stark etablierende publizistische Kultur verhalf der Antisklaverei-Bewegung im Norden der USA zu neuer Stärke und vermochte es die Öffentlichkeit mehr denn je zu politisieren und gegen Sklaverei zu mobilisieren. Ihren Ursprung findet sie bereits in der die menschliche Individualität betonenden Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts und den damit einhergehenden Antisklaverei-Gesetzen in England. Bereits 1772 verbot der oberste Richter hier den Rechtsstatus des Sklaven. Bis 1833 wurden dann der Sklavenimport und schließlich die Sklavenhaltung selbst im gesamten Empire verboten. Während ebenso die Nordstaaten der USA bis 1804 mit der schrittweisen Freilassung ihrer Sklaven begannen, erhöhte sich die Anzahl der unter Zwang arbeitenden Schwarzen im Süden immer mehr. Der lukrative Baumwollanbau als wichtigster Wirtschaftsfaktor des Südens ließ sich nur mit der Institution der Sklaverei aufrechterhalten, welche nun zum festen Bestandteil der südstaatlichen Gesellschaft geworden war.

The Last Utopia

The Last Utopia
Title The Last Utopia PDF eBook
Author Samuel Moyn
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 346
Release 2012-03-05
Genre History
ISBN 0674256522

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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

Antebellum Posthuman

Antebellum Posthuman
Title Antebellum Posthuman PDF eBook
Author Cristin Ellis
Publisher Fordham Univ Press
Pages 300
Release 2018-01-02
Genre History
ISBN 0823278468

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From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into question by the biological sciences. While this conflict between liberal humanism and biological materialism animates debates in posthumanism and critical race studies today, Antebellum Posthuman argues that it first emerged as a key question in the antebellum era. In a moment in which the authority of science was increasingly invoked to defend slavery and other racist policies, abolitionist arguments underwent a profound shift, producing a new, materialist strain of antislavery. Engaging the works of Douglass, Thoreau, and Whitman, and Dickinson, Cristin Ellis identifies and traces the emergence of an antislavery materialism in mid-nineteenth century American literature, placing race at the center of the history of posthumanist thought. Turning to contemporary debates now unfolding between posthumanist and critical race theorists, Ellis demonstrates how this antebellum posthumanism highlights the difficulty of reconciling materialist ontologies of the human with the project of social justice.

Anarchism in Germany

Anarchism in Germany
Title Anarchism in Germany PDF eBook
Author Andrew R. Carlson
Publisher
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Release 1972
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Heritage Regimes and the State

Heritage Regimes and the State
Title Heritage Regimes and the State PDF eBook
Author Bendix, Regina
Publisher Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Pages 422
Release 2013-07-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3863951220

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What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.

The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps

The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps
Title The Story of the Noncommissioned Officer Corps PDF eBook
Author David W. Hogan
Publisher Government Printing Office
Pages 136
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN

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New revised edition which updates the 1989 version which culminated the Center of Military History's contribution to the Year of the NCO Corps since 1775. Has added chapters on Desert Storm, the Army during the 1990s, the Army in Afghanistan, and a new epilogue to carry the story forward. Contains portraits of NCOs in action; and selected documents on responsibilities, professional status and specialist rank. Appendices include: evolution of NCO rank insignia, and a gallery of Noncommissioned Officer heroes.

Roman Imperialism and Runic Literacy

Roman Imperialism and Runic Literacy
Title Roman Imperialism and Runic Literacy PDF eBook
Author Svante Fischer
Publisher
Pages 270
Release 2005
Genre Europe, Northern
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