Leslie S History Of The Greater New York Vol 1 Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Leslie's History of the Greater New York, Vol. 1 Mass-meeting in Support of President Johnson - Successful Laying of Atlantic Cable - Trans-continental Railroads - Visits of an English and a Russian Prince Presidential Campaign of 1872 and Death of Horace Greeley - Career of Tweed The Tweed Ring and Its Overthrow - Two Black Fridays - Orange Riots of 1870 and 1871 - Paid Fire Department Established - Creation of Board of Health - Deaths of Notable Journalists, Henry J. Raymond, James Gordon Bennett William Cullen Bryant - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. And Society for the Suppression of Vice Sorosis - Notable Buildings - Churches Public Schools - Normal College - Street Improvements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Leslie's History of the Greater New York, Vol. 1: New York to the Consolidation Mass-meeting in Support of President Johnson - Successful Laying of Atlantic Cable - Trans-continental Railroads - Visits of an English and a Russian Prince Presidential Campaign of 1872 and Death of Horace Greeley - Career of Tweed The Tweed Ring and Its Overthrow - Two Black Fridays Orange Riots of 1870 and 1871 - Paid Fire Department Established - Creation of Board of Health - Deaths of Notable Journalists, Henry J. Raymond, James Gordon Bennett William Cullen Bryant - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Society for the Suppression of ice - Sorosis - Notable Buildings - Churches Publio Schools - Normal College - Street Improvements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book explores the relationships between ancient Roman and Confucian thought, paying particular attention to their relevance for the contemporary world. More than 10 scholars from all around the world offer thereby a reference work for the comparative research between Roman (and early Greek) and Eastern thought, setting new trends in the panorama of Classical and Comparative Studies.

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Excerpt from Leslie's History of the Greater New York: Biographical Mr. Spencer is also President of the Alabama Great Southern Rail road and the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway. He is a director in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the Erie Railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, the Northern Pacific Railway, the Central of Georgia Railway, the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway, and the West End Street Railway, of Boston; a director in the Lawyers' Surety Company, of New York; a trustee of the Street Railway and Illuminating Trust, which was created to take over from the General Electric Company several millions of miscel laneous securities as a means of financing that company in the panic of 1893; and it is understood that Mr. Spencer also occupies the posi tion of arbitrator between the General Electric and Westinghouse Electric companies, in their agreement for the adjustment from time to time of their patent interests. In 1890, Mayor Grant appointed him a member of the Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"Cris Hollingsworth's waggle dance after scouting the rangiest field of literature--Virgil and Homer down to Milton and Swift, on to Plath and Byatt&#$151;leads you to where the nectar hides. . . . He wisely roams, extracting an anthology of poetry, prose, psychology, history&151;most of all, perception--that tops the bee's knees." --Paul West, author of The Secret Life of Words "Hollingsworth's wide-ranging exploration of the image of the hive is impressive. Poetics of the Hive and its panoply of references cannot fail to enrich university classrooms, especially those devoted to both the visual arts and literature." --Dore Ashton, author of A Fable of Modern Art "Cris Hollingsworth's Poetics of the Hive . . . is complex, even daring in argument; I'm even more impressed by [his] skill at an increasingly rare critical art, the educing of argument from careful, often brilliant analytical reading of literary texts." --Thomas R. Edwards, executive editor of Raritan: A Quarterly Review A study to delight the passionate reader, Poetics of the Hive tells the story of the evolution of the insect metaphor from antiquity to the multicultural present. An experiment in the &147;evolutionary biology&148; of artistic form, Poetics of the Hive freshly examines classic works of literature, offering a view of poetic creation that complicates our ideas of the past and its formative role in modern consciousness and world literature. In the first part of this lyrical synthesis of rhetoric, visual and postmodern theory, and cognitive science, Cristopher Hollingsworth reveals the structure behind his metaphor, redefining it as an aesthetically and philosophically potent tableau that he calls the Hive. He traces the Hive's evolution in epic poetry from Homer to Milton, which establishes antithetical but complementary images of angelic and demonic bees that Swift, Mandeville, and Keats use variously to debate classical versus emerging ideas of the individual's relationship to society. But the Hive becomes fully psychologized, Hollingsworth argues, only when its use by Conrad and Wells to explore Europe's colonial imagination of the Other is transformed by Kafka and Sartre into competing symbols of the modern self's existential condition. Cristopher Hollingsworth is an assistant professor of English at St. John's University, Staten Island.

With the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, the US government ushered in a new era of social welfare policies, to counteract the devastation of The Great Depression. While political philosophers generally view the welfare state to be built on values of equality and human dignity, America's politicians, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt, argued on different grounds. From the beginning, Roosevelt based his defense of the welfare state on the individualist, or Lockean premises inherent in America's political culture. As a result, he not only encouraged the United States' commitment to individualism, but also contributed to distinctively harsh American stigmatization of welfare recipients. In The Transformation of American Liberalism, George Klosko explores how American political leaders have justified social welfare programs since the 1930s, ultimately showing how their arguments have contributed to notably ungenerous programs. Students of political theory note the evolution of liberal political theory between its origins and major contemporary theorists who justify the values and social policies of the welfare state. But the transformation of liberalism in American political culture is incomplete. Individualist values and beliefs have exerted a continuing hold on America's leaders, constraining their justificatory arguments. The paradoxical result may be described as continuing attempts to justify new social programs without acknowledging incompatibility between the arguments necessary to do so and American culture's individualist assumptions. An important reason for the striking absence of strong and widely recognized arguments for social welfare programs in American political culture is that its political leaders did not provide them.