[PDF] The Voice Of The People eBook

Author : Matthew Campbell
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783080612

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‘The Voice of the People’ presents a series of essays on literary aspects of the European folk revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and focuses on two key practices of antiquarianism: the role that collecting and editing played in the formation of ethnological study in the European academy; and the business of publishing and editing, which produced many ‘folkloric’ texts of dubious authenticity. The volume also presents new readings of various genres, including the epic, song, tale and novel, and contributes to the study of several crucial European literary figures. Above all, it investigates the great anonymous authors of the European folk tradition – in narrative and lyric art – and their relation to the cultural movements and imagined identities of the peoples of the emerging nineteenth-century European nation.

Author : Jean Vautrin
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781861591746

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Horace Grondin, deputy head of the Sureté, is in fact Charles Bassicousse, sentenced sixteen years earlier for a murder he did not commit and obsessed with wreaking his revenge on Antoine Tarpagnan, the man he believes did commit the crime. Tarpagnan, an army captain, has fallen in love with Gabriella Pucci, the mistress of Paris's greatest villain. As Tarpagnan searches the underworld for Gabriella, unknown to him, Grondin is searching for him. Reminiscent of Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES, with the zest for characterisation of Dickens, Vautrin's novel revels in the chaos and passion of the period culminating in the savage repression of the Commune. The final climactic moments between Grondin and Tarpagnan take place on the barricades as Paris descends into a fury of bloodletting and panic. Fiction on a grand scale, Vautrin's multi-peopled novel exuberantly recreates the moment.

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1583229477

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Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.

Author : James S. Fishkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300072556

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Philosopher and political scientist James Fishkin evaluates modern democratic practices, explains how the voice of the people has struggled to make itself heard in the past and combines a review of ideas and experiments--including his own idea for a National Issues Convention that was adapted by PBS in January 1996--to legitimately rediscover the people's voice.

Author : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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The Voice of the People by Ellen Glasgow is about the poor son of a farmer who leaves the law profession to take a job in a store instead. When he gets involved in politics, his life is threatened, and he must decide either to aid the townspeople or act in the name of what is right. Excerpt: "The last day of Circuit Court was over at Kingsborough. The jury had vanished from the semicircle of straight-backed chairs in the old court-house, the clerk had laid aside his pen along with his air of listless attention, and the judge was making his way through the straggling spectators to the sunken stone steps of the platform outside."

Author : Terry Blas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0593224493

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Discover the story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike in this moving graphic novel -- written by award-winning author Terry Blas and illustrated by Ignatz-nominated cartoonist Mar Julia. Presenting Who HQ Graphic Novels: an exciting addition to the #1 New York Times best-selling Who Was? series! Follow Cesar Chavez and the National Farmworkers Association as they set out on a difficult 300-mile protest march in support of farm workers' rights. A story of hope, solidarity, and perseverance, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the famous Latino American Civil Rights leader -- brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump off the page.

Author : William Harlan Hale
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
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American journalist and political leader Horace Greeley (1811-1872) founded the" New York Tribune" in 1841. Richard B. Latner provides a biographical sketch of Greeley online.

Author : Alan Abramowitz
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Written by one of the top scholars in the field, this text will help readers understand the continued disengagement of American citizens from the electoral process, as well as the reasons for the ongoing ideological realignment of the Democratic and Republican parties. In the process, students are introduced to some of the theoretical approaches and analytic techniques commonly used in research on elections and voting behavior.

Author : Wim Blockmans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1003830102

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Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged. Political participation in Europe before the Revolutions moved away from the traditional focus on ‘Three Estates’ which has often blurred the interpretation of popular participation’s role in societies. This book instead examines Europe’s key political variants such as high levels of commercialization and urbanization, combined with a balance of powers between competing categories of actors in society controlling relatively independent resources which lead to political participation forming across the continent. Instead of starting from any ideal type of political participation, this book focuses on the variation through time and space, its composition and activity, helps to explain the functions particular institutional settings fulfilled. The time frame 1100–1800 sheds light on the long-term evolutions such as institutional inertia and processes of oligarchizing. To reveal a correlation of economic and demographical growth with the claim of rising social classes to voice their interests. It also points to the opposite tendency: the formation of fiscalmilitary monarchical states. This book is essential reading for those interested in the formation of Europe’s political structures and students of premodern political history.