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O.D. Skelton : the work of the world, 1923-1941
\"Skelton was a towering foreign policy advisor to Canada's prime ministers and a lonely advocate for the country's independence from Great Britain. His accounts detail his work as he co-operated and clashed with William Lyon Mackenzie King and R.B. Bennett over Canada's participation in the international arena. Norman Hillmer's selection and assessment of Skelton's writings offer a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the federal government as Skelton systematically built up the Department of External Affairs and the Canadian diplomatic service as instruments of the national interest, confronted the Manchurian, Ethiopian, and Czech crises of the 1930s, aligned himself with senior francophone politicians such as Ernest Lapointe and Raoul Dandurand, and watched in despair as Europe and Asia descended into war.\"--Back of jacket.
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Lorenzo de' Medici and the art of magnificence
In the past half century scholars have downplayed the significance of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), called \"the Magnificent, \" as a patron of the arts. Less wealthy than his grandfather Cosimo, the argument goes, Lorenzo was far more interested in collecting ancient objects of art than in commissioning contemporary art or architecture. His earlier reputation as a patron was said to be largely a construct of humanist exaggeration and partisan deference.
Although some recent studies have taken issue with this view, no synthesis of Lorenzo as art patron and art lover has yet emerged. In Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence historian F. W. Kent offers a new look at Lorenzo's relationship to the arts, aesthetics, collecting, and building—especially in the context of his role as the political boss ( maestro della bottega ) of republican Florence and a leading player in Renaissance Italian diplomacy. As a result of this approach, which pays careful attention to the events of his short but dramatic life, a radically new chronology of Lorenzo's activities as an art patron emerges, revealing them to have been more extensive and creative than previously thought. Kent's Lorenzo was broadly interested in the arts and supported efforts to beautify Florence and the many Medici lands and palaces. His expertise was well regarded by guildsmen and artists, who often turned to him for advice as well as for patronage. Lorenzo himself was educated in the arts by such men, and Kent explores his aesthetic education and taste, taking into account what is known of Lorenzo's patronage of music and manuscripts, and of his own creative work as a major Quattrocento poet.
Richly illustrated with photographs of Medici landmarks by Ralph Lieberman, Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence offers a masterful portrait of Lorenzo as a man whose achievements might have rivaled his grandfather's had he not died so young.
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At Lincoln's side : John Hay's Civil War correspondence and selected writings
John Hay believed that \"real history is told in private letters,\" and the more than 220 surviving letters and telegrams from his Civil War days prove that to be true, showing Abraham Lincoln in action: \"The Tycoon is in fine whack.I have rarely seen him more serene & busy.
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Inventing a Nation
This New York Times bestseller offers \"an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all\" ( New York Review of Books ).In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington.
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James Madison
James Madison is remembered primarily as a systematic political theorist, but this bookish and unassuming man was also a practical politician who strove for balance in an age of revolution. In this biography, Jeff Broadwater focuses on Madison's role in the battle for religious freedom in Virginia, his contributions to the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, his place in the evolution of the party system, his relationship with Dolley Madison, his performance as a wartime commander in chief, and his views on slavery. From Broadwater's perspective, no single figure can tell us more about the origins of the American republic than our fourth president.In these pages, Madison emerges as a remarkably resilient politician, an unlikely wartime leader who survived repeated setbacks in the War of 1812 with his popularity intact. Yet Broadwater shows that despite his keen intelligence, the more Madison thought about one issue, race, the more muddled his thinking became, and his conviction that white prejudices were intractable prevented him from fully grappling with the dilemma of American slavery.
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Tensions dans la quantification : faire compter l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes
Dans cet article, nous proposons de regarder comment trois organisations syndicales (OS) se saisissent d’outils quantifiés (suivi de performance, calcul de notes, demandes de budgets) afin de mettre en œuvre l’égalité femmes-hommes à la SNCF. Nous développons comment les OS se saisissent de ces outils dans le temps long de la négociation d’un accord égalité-mixité au travers de données longitudinales collectées entre 2017 et 2020. Nous montrons comment la quantification et sa mobilisation par des actrices telles que les OS permettent de créer de nouveaux modes d’opérationnalisation de l’égalité de genre, en utilisant le cadre théorique et méthodologique des relations de domination proposé par Dorothy Smith (1987). Nous contribuons à la littérature comptable en discutant notamment l’inclusion des OS dans les processus de formalisation des nombres et de la performance.
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Femmes, féministes et universités populaires en Belgique avant 1914
À l’instar de la France, la Belgique connaît dès 1900, une vague de création d’universités populaires dont l’objectif est d’aller vers la classe ouvrière pour rencontrer les aspirations sociales émergentes. Dès le début, des femmes sont parties prenantes du processus, tant dans la création des UP, dans leur développement que leur organisation. La préoccupation de la formation des femmes adultes est présente mais privilégie souvent une approche traditionnelle des rôles sociaux attendus des hommes et des femmes. Pourtant, la plupart des UP invitent à leur tribune des conférencières dont plusieurs sont des féministes notoires. Celles-ci ont presque toutes été formées dans les cours d’Isabelle Gatti de Gamond. Elles poursuivent leurs études supérieures à l’Université libre de Bruxelles et sont affiliées aux associations féministes existantes. Leurs contributions aux UP répond à un projet politique et culturel : faire partager à un large public la compréhension du statut inégalitaire des femmes dans la société et les justes revendications féministes. From 1900 onwards, Universités Populaires (popular universities, PU), similar to those in France, started to pop up in Belgium. They were designed to cater for the growing social aspirations of the working class. Women were fully involved in this process right from the beginning, creating, developing and organising these PU. The education of adult women was seen as important, although it often involved a traditional view of the social roles expected of men and women. However, most PUs invited female speakers onto their podiums. These included some well-known feminists. Almost all were trained by Isabelle Gatti de Gamond. They continued their higher education at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and were affiliated to existing feminist associations. Their input in the PU was political and cultural, the aim being to share a common awareness of the unequal status of women in society and their justified feminist demands with a wide audience.
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Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi, icon of Indian liberation, remains an inspiration for anti-capitalists and peace activists globally. His campaigns for national liberation based on non-violence and mass civil disobedience were critical to defeating the power of the British Empire. This biography examines his campaigns from South Africa to India to evaluate the successes and failures of non-violent resistance. Seventy years after his death, his legacy remains contested: was he a saint, revolutionary, class conciliator, or self-obsessed spiritual zealot? The contradictions of Gandhi’s politics are unpicked through an analysis of the social forces at play in the mass movement around him. Entrusted to liberate the oppressed of India, his key support base were industrialists, landlords and the rich peasantry. Gandhi’s moral imperatives often clashed with these vested material interests, as well as with more radical currents to his left. Today, our world is scarred by permanent wars, racism and violence, environmental destruction and economic crisis. Can non-violent resistance win against state and corporate power? This book explores Gandhi’s experiments in civil disobedience to assess their relevance for struggles today.
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Me Yawovi Agboyibo
Ce livre revient sur la vie et le parcours sociopolitique d'un homme dont la notoriété a dépassé les frontières du Togo : Me Yawovi Agboyibo, fervent défenseur des droits humains, premier Président de la Commission Nationale des Droits de l'Homme (CNDH) au Togo. Un homme qui a remarquablement marqué l'histoire institutionnelle et politique du Togo. Ancien Premier ministre du Togo, Me Yawovi Agboyibo était un homme dont peu de Togolais connaissent la grandeur, la magnanimité et l'abnégation. L'auteur révèle dans cet ouvrage, les côtés cachés du « Bélier Noir » que seuls sa famille et ses plus proches collaborateurs connaissent. L'auteur partage avec le grand public, les relations amicales et professionnelles qu'il avait avec cet éminent avocat togolais décédé en 2020 à Paris.
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L'agir humain sur le climat et la naissance de la climatologie historique, XVII e -XVIII e siècles
L'idée d'un changement climatique, causé par l'homme ou par des facteurs naturels, s'est imposée peu à peu, au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. La climatologie historique a émergé, dès cette époque, pour l'étudier grâce à un regard rétrospectif sur les registres météorologiques, les sources historiques, les végétations anciennes et l'évolution des fleuves et des glaciers. Dès 1671, Robert Boyle recommande d'observer le temps pour étudier l'action humaine sur le climat. Des enjeux multiples ont contribué à cette historicisation: la colonisation de l'Amérique du Nord et la comparaison transatlantique des climats; l'essor d'un discours historique mêlant processus de civilisation des peuples et amélioration climatique; le projet des monarchies éclairées d'améliorer le climat; la volonté de percer le mystère des cycles météorologiques; et enfin l'émergence d'une conception historiciste de la nature (la géologie, les théories de la Terre). Les théories influentes de Richard Grove et Dipesh Chakrabarty sur les liens entre histoire, climat et réflexivité environnementale des sociétés sont ici réinterrogées. The idea of climate change, caused by man or by natural factors, emerged gradually over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Historical climatology appeared at that time: old weather records, historical sources, ancient vegetation and the evolution of rivers and glaciers were considered as resources for the study of climate change. As early as 1671, Robert Boyle recommended climate change as a topic of investigation for instrumental meteorology. Several circumstances have contributed to the historicization of climate: the colonization of North America and the comparison of different climates at the same latitude across the Atlantic; the development of a historical discourse connecting the progress of civilization with climatic improvement; the Enlightenment projects of climate improvement; the will to solve the riddle of astro-meteorological cycles; and finally the emergence of a historicist conception of nature (geology and the theories of Earth). The influential theories of Richard Grove and Dipesh Chakrabarty on the links between history, climate, and the environmental reflexivity of past societies are put into question in this article.
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