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The Culture of Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Culture of Violence

'Culture' and 'violence' have always been regarded as antithetical terms. In The Culture of Violence, Francis Barker takes a different view. Central to his argument is the contention that, contrary to post-Enlightenment humanist, liberal and conservative thought, 'culture' does not necessarily stand in opposition to political inequality and social injustice, but may be complicit with the oppressive exercise of power. The book focuses on Shakespearean tragedy and on the historicism and culturalism of much present-day cultural theory. Barker's analysis moves dialectically backwards and forwards between these two moments in order to illuminate aspects of early modern culture, and to critique the ways in which the complicity between culture and violence has been occluded. Rejecting the tendency of both modernism and post-modernism to homogenise historical time, Barker argues for a genuinely new, 'diacritical' understanding of the violence of history.

Draughts, Checkers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Draughts, Checkers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1889
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1774
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Tremulous Private Body
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

The Tremulous Private Body

  • Categories: Art

An ambitious study of literary, aesthetic, and philosophical authors on the modern subject versus the modern body

The Up Stairs Lounge Arson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

The Up Stairs Lounge Arson

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-04
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  • Publisher: McFarland

On June 24, 1973, a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. This still stands as the deadliest fire in the city's history. Though arson was suspected, and though the police identified a likely culprit, no arrest was ever made. Additionally, government and religious leaders who normally would have provided moral leadership at a time of crisis were either silent or were openly disdainful of the dead, most of whom were gay men. Based upon review of hundreds of primary and secondary sources, including contemporary news accounts, interviews with former patrons of the lounge, and the extensive documentary trail left behind by the criminal investigations, The Up Stairs Lounge Arson tells the story of who used to go to this bar, what happened on the day of the fire, what course the investigations took, why an arrest was never made, and what the lasting effects of the fire have been.

The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870

Stephen Warren traces the transformation in Shawnee sociopolitical organization over seventy years as it changed from village-centric, multi-tribe kin groups to an institutionalized national government. By analyzing the crucial role that individuals, institutions, and policies played in shaping modern tribal governments, Warren establishes that the form of the modern Shawnee "tribe" was coerced in accordance with the U.S. government's desire for an entity with whom to do business, rather than as a natural development of traditional Shawnee ways.

The Great Charter of the Liberties of the City of Waterford
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

The Great Charter of the Liberties of the City of Waterford

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1806
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Surrey Archaeological Collections, relating to the History and Antiquities of the County
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Surrey Archaeological Collections, relating to the History and Antiquities of the County

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.

Surrey Archaeological Collections
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Surrey Archaeological Collections

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1864
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  • Publisher: Unknown

List of members.

Surrey Archaeological Collections
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Surrey Archaeological Collections

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1864
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  • Publisher: Unknown

List of members.