[PDF] Sovereignty And The Sword eBook

Author : Arihiro Fukuda
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 36,94 MB
Release : 1997-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0191583731

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The English civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century produced two political thinkers of genius: Thomas Hobbes and James Harrington. They are known today as spokesmen of opposite positions, Hobbes of absolutism, Harrington of republicanism. Yet behind their disagreements, argues Arihiro Fukuda, there lay a common perspective. For both writers, the primary aim was the restoration of peace and order to a divided land. Both men saw the conventional thinking of the time as unequal to that task. Their greatest works — Hobbes's Leviathan of 1651, Harrington's Oceana of 1656 — proposed the reconstruction of the English polity on novel bases. It was not over the principle of sovereignty that the two men differed. Fukuda shows Harrington to have been, no less than Hobbes, a theorist of absolute sovereignty. But where Hobbes repudiated the mixed governments of classical antiquity, Harrington's study of them convinced him that mixed government, far from being the enemy of absolute sovereignty, was its essential foundation.

Author : Arihiro Fukuda
Publisher :
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780191677328

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Hobbes and Harrington are known today as spokesmen of opposite positions. Yet, behind their disagreements, argues Fukuda, there lay a common perspective. For both writers, the primary aim was the restoration of peace and order to a divided land.

Author : Jennifer E. Sessions
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0801454468

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In 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. Victory did not salvage his regime from revolution, but it began the French conquest of Algeria, which was continued and consolidated by the succeeding July Monarchy. In By Sword and Plow, Jennifer E. Sessions explains why France chose first to conquer Algeria and then to transform it into its only large-scale settler colony. Deftly reconstructing the political culture of mid-nineteenth-century France, she also sheds light on policies whose long-term consequences remain a source of social, cultural, and political tensions in France and its former colony. In Sessions's view, French expansion in North Africa was rooted in contests over sovereignty and male citizenship in the wake of the Atlantic revolutions of the eighteenth century. The French monarchy embraced warfare as a means to legitimize new forms of rule, incorporating the Algerian army into royal iconography and public festivals. Colorful broadsides, songs, and plays depicted the men of the Armée d'Afrique as citizen soldiers. Social reformers and colonial theorists formulated plans to settle Algeria with European emigrants. The propaganda used to recruit settlers featured imagery celebrating Algeria's agricultural potential, but the male emigrants who responded were primarily poor, urban laborers who saw the colony as a place to exercise what they saw as their right to work. Generously illustrated with examples of this imperialist iconography, Sessions's work connects a wide-ranging culture of empire to specific policies of colonization during a pivotal period in the genesis of modern France.

Author : Benjamin Jensen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804797382

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As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incremental adjustments. Yet, since 1945, the U.S. Army has rewritten its capstone doctrine manual, Operations, fourteen times. While some modifications have been incremental, collectively they reflect a significant evolution in how the Army approaches warfare—making the U.S. Army a crucial and unique case of a modern land power that is capable of change. So what accounts for this anomaly? What institutional processes have professional officers developed over time to escape bureaucracies' iron cage? Forging the Sword conducts a comparative historical process-tracing of doctrinal reform in the U.S. Army. The findings suggest that there are unaccounted-for institutional facilitators of change within military organizations. Thus, it argues that change in military organizations requires "incubators," designated subunits established outside the normal bureaucratic hierarchy, and "advocacy networks" championing new concepts. Incubators, ranging from special study groups to non-Title 10 war games and field exercises, provide a safe space for experimentation and the construction of new operational concepts. Advocacy networks then connect different constituents and inject them with concepts developed in incubators. This injection makes changes elites would have otherwise rejected a contagious narrative.

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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781956791006

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Over a hundred years ago, members of the ancient Vanari race fled northbound, eluding the conflicts brought to them by mankind. From there they came across the olden city of ash, deciding to take refuge and call it their home. Years later while at full strength, the Vanari re-established their once broken sovereignty, and along with it, forged ancient weapons infused with the cosmic arts, each gifted to renowned warriors for their courage and fidelity. There was once a time where the Vanari were everlasting in their supremacy. Until one particular day, they all vanished in the blink of an eye. Today, the Vanari race, now presumed dead, have been vanquished alongside their empire, and what remains of the ancient weapons have been scattered. Amidst the chaos and conflict which continues to reign throughout the nations across, one of the weapons has finally been unveiled after so long. A sword, saturated with the moonlight artistry, Lunarmancy. And the man who holds it now, an orphan man, named Auden Stray. This is the story of not a hero, but a person, who wields the sword named Sapience.

Author : Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0786721642

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Throughout the history of human intellectual endeavor, sovereignty has cut across the diverse realms of theology, political thought, and psychology. From earliest Christian worship to the revolutionary ideas of Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx, the debates about sovereignty -- complete independence and self-government -- have dominated our history. In this seminal work of political history and political theory, leading scholar and public intellectual Jean Bethke Elshtain examines the origins and meanings of &"sovereignty"; as it relates to all the ways we attempt to explain our world: God, state, and self. Examining the early modern ideas of God which formed the basis for the modern sovereign state, Elshtain carries her research from theology and philosophy into psychology, showing that political theories of state sovereignty fuel contemporary understandings of sovereignty of the self. As the basis of sovereign power shifts from God, to the state, to the self, Elshtain uncovers startling realities often hidden from view. Her thesis consists in nothing less than a thorough-going rethinking of our intellectual history through its keystone concept. The culmination of over thirty years of critically applauded work in feminism, international relations, political thought, and religion, Sovereignty opens new ground for our understanding of our own culture, its past, present, and future.

Author : Hun ShiXiaoMoWang
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 877 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1636666655

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Su Yang was originally the Su Family's lowest-ranked outer disciple. But due to a stroke of luck, nine Primordial Devil Swords appeared within his body. With the help of these nine demon swords, Su Yang's strength had advanced by leaps and bounds. His way of the sword was clear, he had embarked on a legendary path of martial arts!

Author : Peter den Hertog
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526772396

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This investigation into the Nazi leader’s mindset is “an inherently fascinating study . . . a work of meticulously presented and seminal scholarship”(Midwest Book Review). Adolf Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism is often attributed to external cultural and environmental factors. But as historian Peter den Hertog notes in this book, most of Hitler’s contemporaries experienced the same culture and environment and didn’t turn into rabid Jew-haters, let alone perpetrators of genocide. In this study, the author investigates what we do know about the roots of the German leader’s anti-Semitism. He also takes the significant step of mapping out what we do not know in detail, opening pathways to further research. Focusing not only on history but on psychology, forensic psychiatry, and related fields, he reveals how Hitler was a man with highly paranoid traits, and clarifies the causes behind this paranoia while explaining its connection to his anti-Semitism. The author also explores, and answers, whether the Führer gave one specific instruction ordering the elimination of Europe’s Jews, and, if so, when this took place. Peter den Hertog is able to provide an all-encompassing explanation for Hitler’s anti-Semitism by combining insights from many different disciplines—and makes clearer how Hitler’s own particular brand of anti-Semitism could lead the way to the Holocaust.