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Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882) was a leading British philosopher and political figure and founder of the school of British Idealism, which displaced the philosophy of Bentham and John Stuart Mill as the dominant tradition in British universities from 1880 into the twentieth century. Greengarten presents a detailed analysis of Green's thought, including his theories of political obligation, property, self-realization, and human nature, and developed the necessary tools for an analysis of Green's work and the tradition of liberal-democratic thought. He finds in Green a view of human nature and human potentialities which is in striking contract to the views of earlier liberal thinkers, and remarkably similar to that of Marx - despite Green's clear and often passionate defence of capitalism and market freedom. His concept of human nature is of a divided, self-contradictory nature; his theory of the true good is of a good that is to be shared, a common good that is not attainable through the selfish pursuit of private goods; his vision of the good society foresees the elimination of poverty, and the establishment of a classless society wherein all members would have equal opportunity to develop and realize their potential. This book offers a fresh perspective on Green and raises issues of importance in the field of social and political theory.
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La necessità di una nuova carta archeologica del Colle capitolino risponde all' esigenza di disporre di uno strumento cartografico e di schedatura quanto più possibile verificabile e attendibile nell' aderenza critica alle fonti documentarie primarie, e tale da riflettere, insieme, la totalità e le differenti caratteristiche di quelle fonti: solo su queste basi potranno affrontarsi riflessioni interpretative e ricostruttive.Nonostante i precedenti illustri nella cartografia del Campidoglio, quello strumento cartografico archeologico non esisteva ancora, e prevaleva l' abitudine ad accettare i dati tràditi, al di là della verifica dell' attendibilità della rappresentazione, della possibilità di comprenderne la consistenza, e dell' eventualità di individuare dati nuovi e di correggerne vecchi. Con quest' opera si è affrontato il problema, a partire dalla base aerofotogrammetrica, realizzando una carta archeologica corredata di un volume di schede: ognuna di esse corrisponde a un oggetto della rappresentazione cartografica, e ne riassume i dati costitutivi acquisiti con la ricerca originale che ha incrociato le fonti di varia provenienza: archivistica, bibliografica, autoptica di ricognizione.Il Tomo I, che qui si presenta, comprende la maggior parte del volume di schede archeologiche, ordinate nelle due macrofasi cronologiche e, all' interno di esse, disposte in ordine topografico, mentre il Tomo II in uscita comprenderà le schede archeologiche seguenti, pertinenti tutte alla seconda macrofase, nell' ordine topografico già applicato nella prima e, insieme, comprenderà alcuni capitoli tematici che affronteranno alcune questioni interpretative con un taglio monografico.L'opera costituisce pertanto una messa a punto di una realtà documentaria che sfuggiva finora alla definizione, ed è suscettibile di tutte le integrazioni che verranno dalle nuove indagini archeologiche, così come suscettibili di sviluppo e di rielaborazione saranno le conclusioni e le ipotesi contenute nei capitoli tematici.
Archaeological surveying --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Capitoline Hill (Italy) --- Rome (Italy)
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Andrew Hill Clark (1911-1975) was responsible for much of the recent rise of historical geography in North America. The focus on his research was the opening of New World lands by European peoples, and this North American experience is the subject of this collection of essays written by eight of Clark's students. They examine the role of a new physical and economic environment - particularly abundant and cheap land - in the settlement of New France, the cultural and physical problems that conditioned Russian America, the transformation of cultural regionalism in the eastern United States between the late colonial seaboard and the early republican interior, the changing economic geography of rice farming on the antebellum Southern seaboard, the interrelationships of the European and Indian economies in the pre-conquest fur trade of Canada, differential acculturation and ethnic territoriality among three immigrant groups in Kansas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the development in England and the United States of similar social geographic images of the Victorian city, and the erosion of a sense of place and community by possessive individualism in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. The essays are preceded by an appreciation of Clark as an historical geographer written by D.W. Meinig and are brought together in an epilogue by John Warkentin. The work is an unusually consistent Festchrift which should appeal to all interested in the patterns of North American settlement.
Clark, Andrew Hill, --- United States --- Canada --- Historical geography. --- Colonization.
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Funded by the AHRC, the Atlas of Hillforts of Britain and Ireland project (2012-2016) involved a team drawn from the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Cork which was responsible for compiling a massive database, now freely available online at https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac, on hillforts in Britain and Ireland. This was underpinned by a major desk-based re-assessment of accessible records. These twelve studies, presented at the end of that exercise to a conference in Edinburgh, and contributed by team members and colleagues, outline the background to and development of the project (Gary Lock) and offer a preliminary assessment of the online digital Atlas (John Pouncett) as well as presenting initial research studies using Atlas data. The volume is profusely illustrated with over 140 figures, including many new maps.Ian Ralston provides a historical assessment of key stages in the enumeration and mapping of these important monuments on both sides of the Irish Sea. The hill- and promontory forts of England, Wales and the Isle of Man are assessed by Ian Brown and those of Ireland by James O’Driscoll, Alan Hawkes and William O’Brien. Stratford Halliday’s study of the Scottish evidence focuses on the impact of the application of the Atlas criteria to the records of forts in that country. Simon Maddison deploys Percolation Analysis as an example of the potential re-use of the Atlas data in analysing new distributions; Jessica Murray presents a GIS-based approach to hillfort settings and configurations.Syntheses on insular Early Historic fortified settlements in northern Britain and Ireland, by James O’Driscoll and Gordon Noble, and on hillforts in areas of the nearer Continent are included. The latter comprise an overview by Sophie Krausz on Iron Age fortifications in France and a consideration of the south German records of hillforts and oppida by Axel Posluschny, while Fernando Rodriguez del Cueto tackles the north-western Spanish evidence.
Fortification, Prehistoric --- Hill-forts --- Prehistoric fortification --- Archaeology --- E-books --- Conferences - Meetings
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An insightful study of urban transformation recalls four centuries in the life of Boston's most famous neighborhood, tracing social, economic, and political changes in the community. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 2002. With a new foreword by Jeffrey E. Klee.
History of the Americas --- Massachusetts --- Boston (Mass.) --- Beacon Hill (Boston, Mass.) --- History.
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Church architecture --- Architecture, Medieval --- San Saba (Church : Rome, Italy) --- Aventine Hill (Italy) --- Religion.
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