Focusing on the process of British decolonisation, this updated Seminar Study examines the rapid transformation of the British Empire from its post-World War II prominence to the independence of most of its major dependencies by the mid-1960s. It offers a comprehensive overview suitable for students and general readers, featuring a diverse array of primary sources that enhance understanding of this significant historical shift.
When University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to Mississippi to volunteer her efforts in Freedom Summer, she's assigned to help register voters in the small town of Pineyville, a place best known for a notorious lynching that occurred only a few years earlier. As the long, hot summer unfolds, Celeste befriends several members of the community, but there are also those who are threatened by her and the change that her presence in the South represents. Finding inner strength as she helps lift the veil of oppression and learns valuable lessons about race, social change, and violence, Celeste prepares her adult students for their showdown with the county registrar. All the while, she struggles with loneliness, a worried father in Detroit, and her burgeoning feelings for Ed Jolivette, a young man also in Mississippi for the summer. By summer's end, Celeste learns there are no easy answers to the questions that preoccupy her about violence and nonviolence, about race, identity, and color, and about the strength of love and family bonds.
This analysis explores the depiction of the crisis in 'family values' within late nineteenth-century French novels. It examines how authors addressed shifting societal norms and the impact on familial relationships, highlighting the tension between tradition and modernity. Through a close reading of key texts, the book reveals the complexities of family dynamics during this transformative period in French history, offering insights into the cultural and social challenges faced by families.
A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. číst celé
The book challenges the traditional belief that ancient Greek ethics significantly differs from modern ethical perspectives. It explores how Greek ethics has been interpreted since the 18th century, focusing on the historical concept of conflict between human aims, especially the tension between adhering to ethical standards and pursuing personal happiness. Through this examination, it reveals the complexities and continuities in ethical thought across time.
Offers an account of Plato's epistemology. This title places Plato's preoccupation in historical perspective, without belittling the intrinsic difficulties of the problems he tackled.
A lucid and concise introduction to the histories of the modern countries of South East Asia, providing an essential guide for both tourists and the general reader. It spans the history of the region from 'Java Man' some one million years ago to the development of high tech, sky scraper cities of the new millennium. South East Asia has always inter reacted with the wider world, and throughout the book the ability of South East Asians to absorb and adapt alien influences whether from Europe or the rest of Asia - is stressed. Readers will appreciate how South East Asia's soul has been preserved against tremendous external pressures.
A step by step, passage by passage analysis of the complete Republic. White shows how the argument of the book is articulated, the important interconnections among its elements, and the coherent and carefully developed train of though which motivates its complex philosophical reasoning. In his extensive introduction, White describes Plato's aims, introduces the argument, and discusses the major philosophical and ethical theories embodied in the Republic. He then summarizes each of its ten books and provides substantial explanatory and interpretive notes.