Call to Virtue : Republics of Character from Rome to 1776 [1 ed.] 9780996057523, 9780996057509

The American republic was the Enlightenment’s greatest experiment, an attempt to institutionalize virtuous character as

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Call to Virtue : Republics of Character from Rome to 1776 [1 ed.]
9780996057523, 9780996057509

Character plays a central role in our everyday understanding and evaluation of ourselves and one another. It informs the

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The recovered possess the key to overcoming anorexia. Although individual sufferers do not know how the affliction takes

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Between the deaths of the Emperors Julian (363) and Justinian (565), the Roman Empire underwent momentous changes. Most

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A treasure trove of original correspondence reveals the experiences of four generations of a Scottish family in the serv

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Sixteen-year-old Idris Galcia Hall was a student at a French convent school in 1922 when she answered an ad in the Rivie

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From Two Republics to One Divided examines Peru’s troubled transition from colonial viceroyalty to postcolonial republic

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Lu Xun's A Call To Arms

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Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to

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Examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995

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"Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious les

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