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In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow.
Armitage examines the Declaration as a political, legal, and intellectual document, and is the first to treat it entirely within a broad international framework. He shows how the Declaration arose within a global moment in the late eighteenth century similar to our own. He uses over one hundred declarations of independence written since 1776 to show the influence and role the U.S. Declaration has played in creating a world of states out of a world of empires. He discusses why the framers' language of natural rights did not resonate in Britain, how the document was interpreted in the rest of the world, whether the Declaration established a new nation or a collection of states, and where and how the Declaration has had an overt influence on independence movements--from Haiti to Vietnam, and from Venezuela to Rhodesia.
Included is the text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and sample declarations from around the world. An eye-opening list of declarations of independence since 1776 is compiled here for the first time. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world.
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A fine first offering.......2007-04-09
Armitage's work, though far from comprehensive, is an excellent "conversation starter" regarding the immense influence the U.S. Declaration of Independence has exerted upon world movements towards self-empowerment. And the reader need not take Armitage's word alone as the gospel: the oblong volume includes a broad selection of "declarations of independence" from around the world, including those from such diverse locations as Liberia, Texas, and Israel.
Armitage analyzes the ideological influences writers have felt from Jefferson's document, and offers his interpretations regarding the importance of those influences. His work is a key discussion on an emerging field in American archival study.
However, this book is simply not long enough. Only half of the volume is devoted to Armitage's research. The remaining half is given over to sample declarations, Jefferson's rough and final drafts for the Second Continental Congress, a British rebuttal to the American document, and a table listing almost all independence pronouncements from 1776 to 1993. Armitage has opened the discussion--it remains for a further scholar, or perhaps Armitage himself--to take it to the next level.
A nice little compendium.......2007-02-19
It was long known that the U.S declaration of Independence inspired others including Haiti, New Zealand, Hungary and Rhodesia. This book is an attempt to survey a few of those and ask important questions about the nature of such declarations. It is nice little book although it is not encyclopedic. It does miss a few declarations that are obviously modeled on the American one and the book could have gone deeper to examine the way in which the U.S declaration influenced others and why it didnt influence some. That would have been an interesting aside, nevertheless this is a first step and it merely begs someone to complete the project.
Incisive and intelligently written, a quick and enjoyable read.
Seth J. Frantzman
I declare.......2007-01-28
A strangely dry and thin analysis of the political afterlife of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. It reads like a professor's lecture notes that are slightly expanded and tidied-up for publication. One more book to be listed as a professional accomplishment for the Harvard teacher.
I did enjoy reading the reprinting of Jeremy Bentham's view of the great document shortly after it was issued in 1776.
I did not enjoy the physical size of this edition. I found its relative smallness made for an awkward reading experience.
MOVING ACCOUNT OF AMERICAN 'DOI'; TERRIBLE ACCOUNT OF GLOBAL HISTORY.......2007-01-28
The book's first hundred pages are a moving and extraordinary account of the American Declaration of Independence. It confirms the author's ommand of American history and of the English language. If the book stopped there, and was issued as a mass-distribution, commemorative account, it may even be the best thus far.
But alas, the author's ambition gets the better of him and he insists on turning it into a 'Global History' of declarations of independence. That is in fact the subtitle of the book, and perhaps a hoped-for hook to make readers buy it. But the next forty pages quickly confirm that the author has neither the breadth of knowledge to deliver a complete history, leaving gaps that an elephant could walk through, nor the savvy to avoid emphasizing declarations of independence by Haiti, Venezuela, Philipines, Latvia, Hungary and others, none of which have been independent for any reasonable length of their history. Lost thus are the history of Australian, New Zealand or French independence, and other countries that have in fact been independent, although those at least find mention in appendices and in passing. What finds no mention at all is the largest democracy in the world, India, and its declaration of independence, which begins with the familiar words "We the People." In fact, in an exhaustive but unnecessary appendix of all the world's declarations of independence, India finds no mention at all, neither its initial declaration in 1931 nor its final one in 1947. The book then simply loses all credibility and completeness.
It appears therefore that the author David Armitage has relied too much on extraneous countries, studying which perhaps won him grants and fellowships, and has thus missed the elephants in the room, countries like Australia and India, which rarely attract funding or discussions in the hallowed halls of Harvard. The book so badly misses its promise that Harvard Press should reissue it as a collector's books, and then it should soar.
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"In your country," Ignacio Martín-Baró remarked to a North American colleague, "it's publish or perish. In ours, it's publish and perish." In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately against oppression in his adopted country. A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago, Martín-Baró devoted much of his career to making psychology speak to the community as well as to the individual. This collection of his writings, the first in English translation, clarifies Martín-Baró's importance in Latin American psychology and reveals a major force in the field of social theory.
Gathering essays from an array of professional journals, this volume introduces readers to the questions and concerns that shaped Martín-Baró's thinking over several decades: the psychological dimensions of political repression, the impact of violence and trauma on child development and mental health, the use of psychology for political ends, religion as a tool of ideology, and defining the "real" and the "normal" under conditions of state-sponsored violence and oppression, among others. Though grounded in the harsh realities of civil conflict in Central America, these essays have broad relevance in a world where political and social turmoil determines the conditions of daily life for so many. In them we encounter Martín-Baró's humane, impassioned voice, reaffirming the essential connections among mental health, human rights, and the struggle against injustice. His analysis of contemporary social problems, and of the failure of the social sciences to address those problems, permits us to understand not only the substance of his contribution to social thought but also his lifelong commitment to the campesinos of El Salvador.
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revolutionary writings by a man of courage...........2000-05-27
Yes. Canonize him. Martin-Baro gave his life to prove that psychology had more business than as an on-the-shelf academic discipline. Using its methods to highlight the misery of his El Salvadoran people, he demonstrated how powerful a psychology relevant to the needs of the oppressed can be. Very inspiring.
Canonize This Man, Please.......2000-03-27
Ignacio Martin-Baro is probably better known in the U.S. as one of the slain Jesuit priests of El Salvador than as the ingenious psychologist that he was. Aron and Corne do U.S. psychologists, who are more often than not barred by their lack of facility with the Spanish language from a large body of important psychological literature, a huge favor by editing this carefully chosen and lovingly prepared volume of his translated works. Because the writings they have selected span the period from 1974, shortly before Martin-Baro initiated graduate work at the University of Chicago, to 1989, when he was murdered, we as readers are able to observe the maturation of his perspective as well as the many ways he applied his psychological knowledge and training in what can only be described as a "limit situation"-- namely, El Salvador in the late l970s through the mid 1980s. In these works, Martin-Baro addressed several themes of increasing global significance, including the effects political repression on the human psyche, the effects of war on children, the relation between religious ideology and political activity, and the nature of industrial psychology from the perspective of the under- and unemployed. Of greatest significance to psychologists, however, were his overarching themes, namely, the collusive role of mainstream psychology in human oppression and the necessary role of the psychologist in human liberation. Borrowing from Freire's famed concept of conscientizacao, Martin-Baro demonstrated how psychologists can act as agents of the development of critical consciousness, both through their nurturance of individuals in the process of psychological healing and development and through their interventions, as privileged and powerful members of society, upon the diseased socio-economic/political system itself. Through their insightful, passionate, and well-researched commentary, Aron and Corne demonstrate that Martin-Baro indeed lived and died by his praxis, proving that psychology's current state of critical inertia is not a necessary condition. In my opinion, Martin-Baro is destined to become the patron saint of psychology--and, boy, does it need one.
A must reading for any caring, thinking human being!.......1999-08-24
This unique work opened my eyes to a topic that most of us have no idea about. A must read for every politcal science major, and for everyone who cares about our world.
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“Any analysis of the American Black experience demands close attention to both the political and the personal, and this extraordinary memoir by Williams … offers just that, as well as making a noteworthy contribution to recent American legal History.”
“Becoming a Children’s Court probation officer … she contended with the political pressures of placing the children of Ethel and Julus Rosenberg … In the early 70’s, the author took on her most important case, defending her niece, Assata Shakur, “leader” of the Black Liberation Army.”
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The battle between public incivility and private tact has never been more relevant.
This striking work explores the arguments made for and against three forces that have transformed American life in the past century--invasive journalism, realistic fiction, and sex reform. Rochelle Gurstein examines the unexpected consequences of the victory of the "party of exposure," which opened the public sphere to once private matters, and considers the positions of the "party of reticence," which believed that an indiscriminate display of private matters deformed taste and judgment, lowered the tone of public conversation, and polluted public space. Gurstein's penetrating analysis establishes the vital connection between legal-cultural history and current debates over obscenity, privacy, and public decency.
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Great treatment of the defeat of reticence by exposure.......1998-06-30
Using a quiet, restrained writing style that is a pure pleasure to read, Gurstein chronicles the one-sided battle between the party of exposure and the party of reticence. She is on the side of reticence and writes with the pained nostalgia of a Southerner describing aspects of the War Between the States. Guerstein knows that reticence is a lost cause; she asks only whether it should be.
Gurstein makes a quiet case for the reintroduction of taste, judgement, and sensibility into our public lives. This is a common theme these days. What is uncommon is that she derives her "argument" (always presented with the greatest of civility) from the distortion of privacy that somehow led from Brandeis's great legal work on privacy to the transformation of social man to private men and women and eventually to the public dissemination of all sorts of private matters. This is innovative and intriguing.
Reticence should emerge from the coordinated behavior of civilized persons; it should not be coerced by legislation and litigation. It is thus especially appropriate that Gurstein never hectors or lectures. Instead, she paints such a delightful alternative portrait of life, far from morning talk radio, nightly real tv, and ever-present commercial messages in nearly all media, that she inspires the reader to aspire toward at least some aspects of reticence.
I felt that Gurstein did not define reticence early enough and failed to take advantage of the opportunities to add more detail as the book progressed. I assume that the party of reticence acquired useful knowledge over time, such as after its (happily) failed efforts to prosecute the publisher of Joyce's Ulysses. But these reservations are minor.
My most serious concern is whether the domestic party of reticence has foreign (and sometimes not-so-foreign) counterparts in governments that have successfully enforced taste through stern rule of law. I would have appreciated a treatment of these cultural (or anti-cultural) forces. Althoug! h very difficult, such an effort would have greatly sharpened my understanding of the tenets of the party of reticence and its role in our society. Gurstein surely knows that the mere existence of such potential counterparts to her domestic party of reticence may chill further inquiry; after all, she records numerous instances in which the party of exposure has dangled straw men for talismanic protection from true debate. It would be very useful if Gurstein, accounting for the human rights of those oppressed by governmental regimes, could make a better case for the human rights of those increasingly oppressed by the party of exposure, whose methodology of oppression is vastly different. The incremental personal losses to the party of exposure do not lend themselves to the same degree of drama, but possibly, over a sufficiently long period of time, they can present, cumulatively, a meaningful loss of freedom.
Henry James wrote that the words, "summer afternoon" were the most pleasant in the English language. Take a summer afternoon (or two) to read this euphonious essay for a refreshing breather from the cacophony of Howard Stern, Don Imus, and their local knock-offs; follow-up news stories on Viagra; Judge Judy; infomercials; network news; and the culture of money, sex, power, and fame hustled by the print and electronic media.
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In the great tradition of liberty writings.......2002-09-18
The struggle for freedom is unending; tyranny constantly renews itself and dons new faces. With ease we can retrospectively see the brutality of monarchy, theocracy, communism, and chattel slavery, but each of those survived long enough to lead to widespread brutality and bloodshed. In its heyday, each was considered both practical and necessary by the elites and the hoi polloi.
As James Madison is associated with opposition of unchecked clerical power, and William Lloyd Garrison to black slavery, Thomas Szasz is the leading opponent of psychiatric coercion.
With psychiatry as the leading internal threat to personal liberty in Western countries, and Szasz as its most articulate critic, he is arguably the most important philosopher of our time. "Liberation by Oppression" only serves to solidify the view that Szasz follows in the footsteps of Mill, Jefferson, Mises and Martin Luther King as a champion of freedom. He deserves our rapt attention.
Like Jefferson, Szasz writes such elegant prose that he is able to intellectually satisfy while stimulating moral outrage at the injustices he describes. Like all of his works, this book is a pleasure to read, brimming with erudition and a captivating journey into ideas. But at core it's a plea for toleration and decency, a humanitarian manifesto.
The American obsession with freedom was defiled by the blight of slavery. Our Constitution, the magnificent instrument of liberty, was used to define enslaved black people as three-fifths human. Even then psychiatric diagnoses were applied in the service of social control. Slaves who yearned to escape were said to be suffering from a mental illness called "drapetomania." Slaves who exhibited early signs of this disease, such as sulking, were "cured" by being whipped.
Szasz is remarkable in his ability to shed new light on well-examined historical events. He notes, for instance, that in the reprehensible Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Taney states that at the time of the Declaration of Independence and the framing of the Constitution, "the negro might justy and lawfully be reduced to slavery FOR HIS BENEFIT." (emphasis added.) In the same way, Szasz observes, psychiatric patients, the so-called mentally ill, have long been subject to imprisonment and the most cruel "treatments" for their "own benefit." Since so many "mentally ill" people do not consider themselves to be ill, and since there are no medical tests that establish that they are ill, it has been essential for psychiatry to justify its coercive treatments by claiming that they are in the best interest of the unwilling patients. Paternalism was an indispensable rationale for chattel slavery, as it is for psychiatric slavery.
Psychiatry recognizes no aspect of life as beyond its authority. The right to self-medicate was once taken for granted by Americans, until they were stripped of it in the early 1900s. Americans from every walk of life, including Washington and Jefferson, self-administered opium for various discomforts. Since the burgeoning of the "therapeutic state," a term Szasz coined, such behavior is not just criminal but proof of uncontrollable addiction. Now, the prominent psychiatrist Sally Satel declares that "force is the best medicine" for addicts, and virtually everyone arrested for possession is assumed to be an addict who obliged to submit to 'therapy" and "education." Force was also the "best medicine" for non-compliant black slaves with drapetomania. Force, shows Szasz, is what psychiatry is about.
Szasz describes a frightening society that is virtually a cradle-to-grave psychiatric clinic. Preschoolers are given drugs for "attention deficit hyperactive disorder." Parents are now required to allow their children to be given drugs like Ritalin; if they resist they risk having the children taken by the state. Rescue workers at the site of the World Trade Center have "grief therapy" forced upon them. People who act strangely but not criminally are imprisoned, restrained, and drugged. People thought to be suicidal are taken into custody "for their own protection.
Psychiatry has thoroughly debased the justice system. As Szasz puts it: "Criminal law, based on a recognition of the intrinsically adversarial nature of the relationship between accused and accuser, separates the roles of prosecuting attorney and defense attorney. In contrast, mental health law, based on a denial of the intrinsically adversarial nature of the relationship between the person accused of mental illness and his accuser, combines and confuses the roles of prosecuting psychiatrist and defense psychiatrist: even when the psychiatrist imposes his intervention against his will, mental health law defines the psychiatrist's role as serving the best interests of the patient."
In this masterful work, Thomas Szasz describes the thorough undoing of legal and social protections in the name of psychiatry and "mental health." Despite the cliché that "mental illness is just like any other illness," anyone diagnosed with a "mental illness" is subject to coerced treatments, physical and chemical restraint, imprisonment, and the loss of freedom, without ever having to do harm or commit a crime. With remarkable breadth of scholarship, Szasz ties together his thesis that much of what justified chattel slavery now justifies psychiatric slavery.
Many who read this book will be shocked. As an abolitionist, Szasz challenges widely held beliefs, just as Madison and Garrison did. The ideas in this book will be new and challenging to most readers. But, unlike many scholars, Szasz writes prose that is crystal clear and sparkling. He does not hide behind a wall of jargon and pretentious nonsense, he writes to be understood.
Anyone who is interested in "mental health," criminal justice, American history, and social philosophy should consider "Liberation by Oppression" a "must read." It also fits nicely in the libraries of those who simply read to broaden their knowledge. Agree or disagree with him, Thomas Szasz has set forth a moral case that must be considered in light of the profound transformations wrought by the therapeutic nature of the modern state. And he has done it with great polish. To paraphrase Mencken, Szasz is one of the few scholars who can really write.
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When Deputy Joseph Richard Quinn and three other veteran Harris County, Texas, sheriff's deputies with guns drawn, burst into an apartment the night of September 17, 1998, searching for a black male with a gun, their shocking discovery in the back bedroom triggered a chain of events resulting in a 2003 U. S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas-that state laws criminalizing consensual, adult sodomy are unconstitutional. The landmark Lawrence ruling is the trigger event kicking away roadblocks to gay marriage. Lawrence remains in headlines today, in a larger cultural war, over adoption, employee benefits, the military's Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell policy, and related issues of judicial activism.
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Embelished Prose.......2007-08-05
Entertaining book?...Not so much if you actually knew the author. I'd have to say that this woman was probably the most inept excuse for a criminal court judge in Harris County Texas in the last 35 years. She did not know criminal court law and "shot from the hip" usually, which got her into trouble with "all" the other presiding judges (15 total)AND The Supreme Court of Texas.
Ms. Law was a traffic court judge before becoming a criminal court judge and did a good job in traffic court. But, she was entirely "out of her league" in criminal court. I sometimes felt sorry for her but normally not for long as she was dealing misery to all who had to be associated with her through her childish, selfish, nature. What judge would require a bailiff to furnish snacks and drinks to juries and not offer reimbursement? ... she wore surgical gloves in the courts building ... wore the same dirty tennis shoes everyday (effort to avoid cross contamination?) ... strange.
Poor thing kept the post-it notes company in business. Post-it notes reminding her of what the criminal laws were...were stuck all over her bench and chambers. She was advised by the other presiding judges of rules, laws, procedures, in order to avoid embarrassment to the Harris County justice system and possible grounds for appeal. She did not take kindly to "any" criticism as if she was being unfairly persecuted.
I can truthfully say that this lady did not gain the respect of anyone employed in the Harris County Criminal Courts building for her prowess as a criminal courts judge or on a personal basis.
As mentioned earlier ... traffic court was her forte. You should notice that her 1st term as a criminal court judge was her last term as a criminal court judge. Even MADD whom she swayed to promote her election as a criminal court judge was appalled by her actions. And, MADD wrote her off as a mistake.
Read the book but remember the grain of salt.
A GRIPPING TALE.......2005-11-25
Judge Law's book, Sex Appealed, is a well-documented and researched investigation of the facts behind Lawrence v. Texas supporting her conclusion of invited arrests. It is a gripping tale. The National Press Club selected Sex Appealed as one of sixty books (out of 600 submitted) featured in its 2005 Book Fair and Authors' Night in Washington, D.C.
The main purpose of Sex Appealed is exposing possible manipulation of the judicial process. Such manipulation is always improper no matter how noble or ignoble the cause. Nowhere in Sex Appealed is there hysteria or gay bashing.
If the defendents invited their arrest, they waived their right to privacy which was the basis of the Supreme Court decision. Public sex is not protected by privacy. Written Agatha Christie style, Sex Appealed is a fascinating non-fiction narrative of police procedures, political maneuvering, the characters involved in the case, and how the judicial process works.
a rant disguised as a book.......2005-11-20
Ms. Law is shocked--shocked!--that some people may have wanted to challenge laws criminalizing private sexual behavior. She conveniently ignores that truth that many important cases, including the case that decriminalized birth control in 1965, are actively sought.
Whether the Lawrence case was deliberately created is completely uninteresting, and her "proof" of this is pretty poor. Much more important is the way Ms. Law hysterically predicts the end of civilization as we know it--merely because consenting adults are "given" the right to pleasure each other as they wish.
Supreme Court Justice Scalia said the same thing in his dissent. Both of them are telling us much more about the frightening, guilt-ridden world in which they live than they are telling us about U.S. jurisprudence.
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Love Liberation & the Law: The Ten Commandments
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- An excellent, non-hysterical look at the gay lifestyle.
- Accurate, Timely, and Needed for Our Country!
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Are Gay Rights, Right?: Making Sense of the Controversy
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An excellent, non-hysterical look at the gay lifestyle........1998-11-03
Magnuson presents a non-hysterical, meticulous analysis of the gay community. Using their own publications and materials as his source of reference, he presents a perspective rarely given serious audience. In an age where balanced, honest debate is all but absent on this issue, Are Gay Rights Right? raises the issues succinctly, and doesn't distort conclusions to satisfy the politically correct. I have checked many of the works Magnuson cited and found his references to be accurate and undistorted. Gays have cited this work as a threat to them in that it is inarguable in its research and accurate in its findings. I can think of no other source that presents a more descriptive, sobering snapshot of the gay community. This thoughtful and provocative work should be used in our classrooms.
Accurate, Timely, and Needed for Our Country!.......1998-08-29
After reading this book and meeting the author, I believe this book finally brings the truth to those who really want to shine light on a very important issue. Facts are Facts, no matter how old they are. The fact that George Washington was our first president is never going to change. No matter how far we as a society have fallen from what's morally and ethically proper, the truth may hurt a few, but really help a lot.
Out-dated, distorted, stereotypical re-hash of homosexuality.......1998-06-30
Although the cover says "updated edition", this book is anything but current. The author cites "present day studies" which are referenced from the 1960's. Another quote refering to "modern medicine" is from 1971. The author also presents his personal opinions referenced as fact. The book is basically fodder for those of the extreme religious right who believe that homosexuals are less than human, that AIDs is an exclusively gay disease, and all the other lies and distortions that they choose to believe, despite our current knowledge and understanding of homosexuality. The author feels that the "good homosexuals" are those that remain celebate and in the closet. The "evil homosexuals" are those who are visible and in partnerships with other homosexuals. The author also believes that jobs, homes, and access to public accomodation are special privileges that should be denied to homosexuals, i.e. gays rights are special rights. The author paints all homosexuals and homosexuality with a very broad brush; a brush coated with gross distortions and out-dated myths. A look at the facts negates practically all that is written in this book.
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