Tag: Constitutions

Free Download Peter Gentzel, "The Forgotten Subject: Subject Constitutions in Mediatized Everyday Worlds"
English | ISBN: 3658428716 | 2023 | 294 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The volume provides a critical inventory of existing concepts of the subject in communication studies research. In addition, concepts are developed in order to be able to analyze subjectivity in the context of current theoretical debates (including media sociology, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, practice theory, science and technology studies) as well as social, cultural and technical developments (including digitalization, mediatization, mobility and networking). Since subject conceptions are of central importance for any communication and media analyses, the volume fills a central gap in communication and media studies.

Free Download David E. Wilkins, "Indigenous Governance: Clans, Constitutions, and Consent"
English | ISBN: 0190096004 | 2023 | 504 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 33 MB
After decades of federal dominance and dependence, Native governments now command attention as they exercise greater degrees of political, economic, and cultural power. Given the weight and importance of many issues confronting Native peoples today, these governments arguably matter even more to their peoples and to the broader society than ever before. Native governments have become critically important as the chief providers of basic services and the authors of solutions to collective problems in their societies.

Free Download Climates & Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment and British Imperialism in India, 1600-1850 By Mark Harrison
1999 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 0195646576 | PDF | 41 MB
The first major study of European attitudes towards India’s climate and their bearing on imperial expansion, this book shows how growing fears about racial degeneration led to the abandonment of plans for white colonization. It also considers European strategies for coping with Indian climate and explains the emergence of modern concepts of race.

Free Download Guy Laforest, Eugénie Brouillet, Alain-G. Gagnon, "The Constitutions that Shaped Us: A Historical Anthology of Pre-1867 Canadian Constitutions"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0773546073, 0773546065 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 0.5 mb
The Constitutions that Shaped Us re-examines from a comparative and critical standpoint the events, key players, and texts which, taken together, help to interpret all Canadian constitutions prior to Confederation. The key constitutional documents that are studied in this book are the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the Quebec Act of 1774, the Constitutional Act of 1791, and the 1840 Act of Union. Great Canadian historians of the past take turns in providing unforgettable sketches and understandings of the actions of monumental figures such as Governors Murray, Carleton, and Elgin, British politicians from Pitt to Burke, Grey, and Durham, without forgetting the leading political and intellectual colonial figures such as Bédard, Papineau, La Fontaine, Mackenzie, and Baldwin. Gathering together the most renowned and representative works of constitutional scholarship, this anthology provides readers with an in-depth account of the events that would ultimately lead to the union of British colonies, the birth of the Dominion of Canada, and the rebirth of political autonomy in a colony known successively as Quebec, Lower Canada, Canada East, and once again Quebec in 1867. Following a general survey of the various constitutions enacted under British rule, this collection includes an equal number of commentaries by French- and English-speaking historians concerning each of the four constitutions to offer the most nuanced view of Canada?s origins to date.

Free Download Power Beyond Constitutions: Presidential Constitutional Conventions in Central Europe
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031342437 | 465 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This research monograph examines presidential constitutional conventions and the role they play in the political systems of four Central European countries – the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland. As primarily unwritten rules of constitutional practice, constitutional conventions represent political arrangements and as such are political in origin. Not only this, constitutional conventions, in general, and presidential constitutional conventions, in particular, have significant political implications. They shape both the everyday operation and character of regimes. Central Europe represents a particularly useful example on which this role of constitutional conventions can be studied and assessed.

Free Download Vatican Council II: Constitutions, Decrees, Declarations (The Basic Sixteen Documents) By Second Vatican Council; Austin Flannery; Pope Paul VI
1996 | 610 Pages | ISBN: 0918344379 | EPUB | 1 MB
Highly acclaimed as the definitive reference work on Vatican II, The Documents of Vatican II features eminently readable translations of all sixteen council documents in English, together with introductions and commentaries by noted Roman Catholic bishops and Council experts and essays by Protestant and Orthodox clergy and scholars. Among the distinguished contributors are Avery Dulles, S.J., Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan, Robert McAfee Brown, John Courtney Murray, S.J., William A. Norgren, R.A.F. MacKenzie, S.J., Clement J. McNaspy, Bishop G. Emmett Carter and Bishop Robert H. Mueller.The Second Vatican Council-1962-1965-remains a watershed event in the history of the Catholic Church. In 2012, as the church celebrates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Council, Catholics and many other Christians will want to return to the source documents to better understand the church of tradition and build a more responsive community of believers for the present and future."We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to America Press for this new release of the Abbott edition of the Documents of Vatican II. For those who serve the vision of Vatican II, we now, once again, have at our disposal a helpful translation of the documents accompanied by commentaries and notes from leading Catholic scholars and ecumenists that can lead to a more profound appropriation of the council’s teaching. These tools, along with important supporting documentation of the council, now available in a Kindle version, are a great gift to the church today."– Richard Gaillardetz, co-author of Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II.