Search Results - "governance"

The Governance of Friendship : Law and Gender in the Decameron / by Sherberg, Michael

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Staging Governance : Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770–1800 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964 / by Treglode, Benoît de

Subjects: “…Politics and government. fast (OCoLC)fst01919741…”
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Rancière's Sentiments / by Panagia, Davide, 1971-

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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation / by Holman, Christopher

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Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire / by Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

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Modernizing Composition : Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka / by Field, Garrett M., 1981-

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Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth : Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece / by Rose, Peter W. (Peter Wires), 1936-

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Poetry, History, Memory : Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times by YANG, ZHIYI

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Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered / by Briggs, John Channing, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The mind of the persuader -- Rhetorical contexts -- The Lyceum address : "On the perpetuation of our political institutions" -- The temperance address : moral reform and emancipation -- The speech on the War with Mexico and the eulogy for Zachary Taylor : " injustice and heroic virtue " -- The eulogy for Henry Clay : persuasion and/or principle -- The Kansas-Nebraska speech : popular sovereignty and self-government -- The "house divided" speech : the logic of hopeful resolve -- Lecture on discoveries and inventions : self-government and inventions : self-government and arts of literacy -- The Milwaukee address : thorough farming and self-government -- The Cooper Union address : the empirical wager -- Presidential eloquence and political religion : governing "in the providence of God" -- The farewell address : "Let us confidently hope" -- The first inaugural, the Gettysburg address, and the second inaugural : providence and persuasion -- Postscript. …”
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Pageantry and Power : A cultural history of the early modern Lord Mayor's Show 1585–1639 / by Hill, Tracey

Table of Contents: “…The Lord Mayors' shows, 1585-1639 : summary ; Governance of the City of London.…”
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Writing Self, Writing Empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary / by Kinra, Rajeev

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : a Hindu secretary at King Shah Jahan's court -- Chandar Bhan's intellectual world : a revisionist perspective -- A mirror for Munsh's : secretarial arts and Mughal governance -- King of Delhi, king of the world : Chandar Bhan's perspective on Shah Jahan, the Mughal court, and the realm -- Writing the Mughal self : Chandar Bhan's life and letters -- Making Indo-Persian literature fresh : Chandar Bhan's poetic world -- The persistence of gossip : Chandar Bhan and the cultural memory of Mughal decline -- Conclusion : ending at just the beginning : towards a postcolonial Mughal historiography.…”
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Act Like A Man : Challenging Masculinities in American Drama / by Vorlicky, Robert, 1950-

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Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature / by Gikandi, Simon

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