Material Ambitions

2021-11-30 History

Author : Rebecca Richardson
Release : 2021-11-30
Genre : History
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Download or read book Material Ambitions written by Rebecca Richardson. This book was released on 2021-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book traces the early history of the self-help genre and the literary depiction of ambition in Victorian British fiction. Stories of hardworking characters who bring themselves out of rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In chapters featuring the works of novelists, the author demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition and problematized it as well"--

Moral Visions and Material Ambitions

2009 Business & Economics

Author : A. Kristen Foster
Release : 2009
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Moral Visions and Material Ambitions written by A. Kristen Foster. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Single vision for the future of America existed after the Revolution. In light of social and economic changes, America's scope shifted from community-mindedness-the very heart of the republican ideal-to economic individualism. In Moral Visions and Material Ambittions, A. Kristen Foster describes how eager young entrepreneurs in Philadelphia manipulated America's moral vision of a classical republic to facilitate their own material ambitions, fostered by the free market economy that arose between 1776 and 1836. As market developments changed economic relationships in the city, men and women used the Revolutions's republican language to help explain what was happening to them, and in the process they helped redefine class structure in Philadelphia. This study explores the ways Philadelphians used the Revolution and its powerful language of liberty and equality to impose meaning on their lives, as an expanding market irreversibly changed social and econimic relationships in their city and, eventually, throughout the rest of the country. Book jacket.

DHEW Publication

1975

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Release : 1975
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Download or read book DHEW Publication written by . This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles

1997-09-25 History

Author : Chandra Mukerji
Release : 1997-09-25
Genre : History
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Download or read book Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles written by Chandra Mukerji. This book was released on 1997-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeenth-century France, land took on new importance for the practice of politics and rituals of court life. In her major new book, Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the two seemingly disparate activities of engineering and garden design. She shows how, at Versailles in particular, the royal park showcased French skills in using nature and art to design a distinctively French landscape and create a naturalized political territoriality. She challenges the association of state power with social and legal structures alone and demonstrates the importance for Louis XIV and his state of a controlled physical site, a demarcated French territory within the wider European geo-political continent.

Nuclear Ambitions

2019-03-04 Political Science

Author : Leonard S. Spector
Release : 2019-03-04
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Nuclear Ambitions written by Leonard S. Spector. This book was released on 2019-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth in a series on the spread of nuclear weapons. Through these reports, the Endowment seeks to increase public awareness of the fact and the danger of nuclear proliferation and to stimulate greater attention to this vital issue by policy makers, the media, and the scholarly community.The series was initiated with the publication of N

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