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Outside looking in : adventures of an observer
Prolific journalist, historian, political columnist, and practicing Catholic Wills (now 76) writes an intensely opinionated re-evaluation of leaders and celebrities he has encountered, among them Studs Terkel, Beverly Sills, William Buckley, Richard Nixon, and more.
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\En remuneracion de sus servicios\ en 1823-1856: El servicio domestico en Chile a traves de testamentos /\In payment for its services\ in 1823-1856: Domestic service in Chile through wills
This article studies domestic service in Chile, particularly in the province of Concepcion, during the first half of the nineteenth century. The main objective is to characterize the social and labour dynamics involved in domestic service during the first years of the Republic focusing on the study of the testamentary practices of the local elite evidenced through the review and analysis of wills notarized in the city of Concepcion between 1823 and 1856. Methodologically, the selection of wills was carried out in a universe of 315 wills, 73 of which contained bequests to domestic service, and their analysis was carried out both quantitatively and qualitatively. The main conclusions are related to the characterization of the objects bequeathed and to the materialization or agency in the delivery of the bequests. Keywords: Servants, domestic service, social history, wills, Concepcion, Chile. El presente articulo estudia el servicio domestico en Chile, particu-larmente en la provincia de Concepcion, durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Se pretende caracterizar las dinamicas sociales y laborales que envuelven al servicio domestico durante los primeros anos de la Republica por medio del estudio de las practicas testamentarias de la elite local, evidenciadas a traves de la revision y analisis de testamentos notariados en la ciudad de Concepcion entre 1823 y 1856. Metodologicamente, la seleccion de testamentos se realizo en un universo de 315 testamentos, de los cuales 73 contenian legados al servicio domestico y su analisis se realizo tanto de manera cuantitativa como cualitativa. Las principales conclusiones se extraen en relacion con la caracterizacion de los objetos legados y con la materializacion u agencialidad en la entrega de los mismos. Palabras claves: Sirvientes, servicio domestico, historia social, testamentos, Concepcion, Chile.
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Family, law, and inheritance in America : a social and legal history of nineteenth-century Kentucky
\"Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappointed heirs claimed that their departed relative lacked the capacity required to write a valid will. These inheritance disputes criss-crossed a variety of legal and cultural terrains, including ordinary people's understandings of what constituted insanity and justice, medical experts' attempts to infuse law with science, and the independence claims of women. Pitts uncovers the contradictions in the body of law that explicitly protected free will while simultaneously reinforcing the primacy of blood in mediating claims to inherited property. By anchoring the study in local communities and the texts of elite jurists, Pitts demonstrates that 'capacity' was a term laden with legal meaning and competing communal values about family, race relations and rationality. These concepts evolved as Kentucky transitioned from a conflicted border state with slaves to a developing free-labor, industrializing economy\"-- Provided by publisher.
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1517: Weltgeschichte eines Jahres Historia mundial de un año
Sin embargo, la semejanza del libro reseñado no es tan próxima a los anteriormente listados, sino más bien al de Florian Illies8 (todo un feuilleton del antebellum) y, más aún, al del sinólogo John E. Wills, quien en un intento de acercarse a un planteamiento metodológico compara el estilo narrativo de una historia mundial de un año con el estilo artístico del pintor Shi Tao, esto es, \"ponerle al lector un gran número de imágenes del mundo que puedan reflejar la variedad inabarcable del esplendor y rareza de la condición humana\"9. La fecha de 1542, por sí sola, significa poco para nosotros, pero cuando agrupamos algunas fechas históricas cercanas a su alrededor, le agrega perspectiva y color, y así nos percatamos que esta es una de las fechas de la historia norteamericana que merece respeto por su antigüedad.11 Se encuentra aquí un precursor no avisado de esta metodología. Este buen detalle pierde fuerza, sin embargo, por un error de denominación. Cada uno de estos trata temas distintos: el primero es el más ambicioso, reúne distintos focos de análisis como la formación del poder estatal moderno en la época de los príncipes y señoríos, la herencia del poder romano y el estado climático; el segundo, donde se encuentra uno de los aportes más sugerentes, trata de una exposición general sobre la paz, el dinero y el crédito; el tercero sobre la expansión europea en el mundo; el cuarto ofrece un vistazo a las ideas heredadas del renacimiento en la época de la apertura europea al mundo; el quinto busca en la psicología colectiva para sacar a la luz los miedos de la época; en el sexto se encuentra un panorama de la posible geopolítica del momento desde los ojos del control vaticano; y el último capítulo vuelve al problema esencial del libro:
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The Death of a Wealthy Relation
Why she failed to make a will is a matter for guesswork. Because of disabling infirmity, she may have lacked legal capacity to do so.
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Thomas Kinkade's Cape Light : a Christmas secret
\"Martin Nightingale is no stranger to Cape Light. He spent many happy summers there as a boy. Now he has returned to fulfill the unusual terms of his grandfather's will. In order to collect his inheritance, Martin must spread joy throughout the town with anonymous gifts. A shy man who doesn't make friends easily, Martin is stumped by his new role as Secret Santa. But as a pretty police officer named Louisa Tully shows him, 'A stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet'\"-- Provided by publisher.
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WALKER PERCY'S PILGRIMAGE
Even the abyss may be rendered tolerable-or, for that matter, luxurious-furnished with creature comforts so that the unbearable truth of one's condition is overlooked: a pair of lavishly upholstered armchairs, some choice pictures on the wall, bookcases laden with the best that has been thought and said, a sound system worthy of your favorite Beethoven and Brahms recordings, a well-stocked liquor cabinet, soothing overhead track lighting, and strategically placed table lamps to make you almost forget the perpetual darkness outside your walls. Pushing thirty, a stock and bond broker in his uncle's firm, living in a basement apartment in the nondescript New Orleans suburb of Gentilly, Binx at first seems a paragon of the dullest conformity, a surefire candidate for unwitting despair. The unreality of her pedestrian, psychiatrically monitored days and nights weighs her down, and after walking away from psychotherapy and entertaining with amused skepticism a marriage proposal from Binx that is the most feckless ever recorded, she takes an overdose of Nembutal. There is little doubt that Percy, in some vital part of his soul, exults in Emily's hottest animadversions, and certain readers have thought this harangue the author's last word on Binx's spiritual condition.
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