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Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549): Mother of the Renaissance
by Rouben Cholakian Patricia Francis CholakianSister to the king of France, queen of Navarre, gifted writer, religious reformer, and patron of the arts—in her many roles, Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was one of the most important figures of the French Renaissance. In this, the first major biography in English, Patricia F. Cholakian and Rouben C. Cholakian draw on her writings to provide a vivid portrait of Marguerite's public and private life. Freeing her from the shadow of her brother François I, they recognize her immense influence on French politics and culture, and they challenge conventional views of her family relationships.The authors highlight Marguerite's considerable role in advancing the cause of religious reform in France-her support of vernacular translations of sacred works, her denunciation of ecclesiastical corruption, her founding of orphanages and hospitals, and her defense and protection of persecuted reformists. Had this plucky and spirited woman not been sister to the king, she would most likely have ended up at the stake. Though she remained a devout catholic, her theological poem Miroir de l'âme pécheresse, a mystical summa of evangelical doctrine that was viciously attacked by conservatives, remains to this day an important part of the Protestant corpus. Marguerite, along with her brother the king, was a key architect and animator of the refined entertainments that became the hallmark of the French court. Always eager to encourage new ideas, she supported many of the illustrious writers and thinkers of her time. Moreover, uniquely for a queen, she was herself a prolific poet, dramatist, and prose writer and published a two-volume anthology of her works. In reassessing Marguerite's enormous oeuvre, the authors reveal the range and quality of her work beyond her famous collection of tales, posthumously called the Heptaméron. The Cholakians' groundbreaking reading of the rich body of her work, which uncovers autobiographical elements previously unrecognized by most scholars, and their study of her surviving correspondence portray a life that fully justifies Marguerite's sobriquet, "Mother of the Renaissance."
Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia: Versione per studenti e docenti (Libri di testo Le leggendarie donne della storia mondiale #3)
by Laurel A. RockefellerLa regina Maria Stuarda è la più amata, ed allo stesso tempo, controversa figura femminile di tutta la storia scozzese. Maria, in quanto nipote di re James IV e Margaret Tudor, deteneva diritti d’ascensione al trono d’Inghilterra; tale posizione di erede legittima alla corona inglese, assieme alle violenze della Riforma scozzese, sono alla base di una delle esistenze più drammatiche e fraintese di tutto il XVI secolo. Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia, ne racconta la vera storia, concentrandosi principalmente sul suo regno e celebrandone la vita piuttosto che la morte, oltre che a mostrare come Maria fosse una donna all’avanguardia per il suo tempo. La versione per studenti e docenti include: domande d’approfondimento alla fine di ogni capitolo, una dettagliata cronologia ed una vasta lista di letture consigliate.
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time
by Barbara Stollberg-RilingerA major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa (1717–1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, a far-flung realm composed of diverse ethnicities and languages, beset on all sides by enemies and rivals. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger provides the definitive biography of Maria Theresa, situating this exceptional empress within her time while dispelling the myths surrounding her.Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Stollberg-Rilinger examines all facets of eighteenth-century society, from piety and patronage to sexuality and childcare, ceremonial life at court, diplomacy, and the everyday indignities of warfare. She challenges the idealized image of Maria Theresa as an enlightened reformer and mother of her lands who embodied both feminine beauty and virile bellicosity, showing how she despised the ideas of the Enlightenment, treated her children with relentless austerity, and mercilessly persecuted Protestants and Jews. Work, consistent physical and mental discipline, and fear of God were the principles Maria Theresa lived by, and she demanded the same from her family, her court, and her subjects.A panoramic work of scholarship that brings Europe's age of empire spectacularly to life, Maria Theresa paints an unforgettable portrait of the uncompromising yet singularly charismatic woman who left her enduring mark on the era in which she lived and reigned.
Maria da Silva - A glimpse of Brazilian reality
by Pedro Marangoni Lesley SoglA glimpse of Brazil's harsher side. This is a story about a young girl's daily struggle to survive among the damned and forgotten of a favela. Her search to find a friend and a place of hope in a dark, cruel and pitiless world.
Maria da Silva - Una cronaca brasiliana
by Sara Zampieri Pedro MarangoniNon si può affermare che Maria da Silva sia un lavoro di finzione, perché è una cronaca del quotidiano senza ritocchi. Un piccolo libro sulla vita breve di una rivenditrice di spazzatura. Qui non ci sono descrizioni superflue, così l'immaginazione del lettore, mentre legge il romanzo, comporrà l'ambiente con lo scenario che conosce, che si svolge vicino a lui, che visualizza giorno per giorno e le cui dinamiche gli sono ignote. Le "Maria da Silva" muoiono quotidianamente di inedia e di malattie non curate, in un breve e tragico cammino di vita, portando con sé un'intera storia ignorata dai più. È ora di vederle come esseri umani, e questo piccolo libro può aiutare. Sento che l'opera non è mia, io sono solo un tramite del messaggio di Maria da Silva. Credo che se qualche lettore cambierà dopo averla conosciuta, che sia solo nello sguardo che lancia ai senzatetto che rivendono spazzatura -che estraggono quello che viene disprezzato, senza elemosinarlo- la missione che mi è stata assegnata dal caso sarà compiuta.
Maria da Silva: Lediglich ein Bild des brasilianischen Alltags
by Pedro MarangoniMan kann "Maria da Silva" nicht als Science-Fiction bezeichnen, weil es ein Porträt des Alltags ist, ohne zu beschönigen. Ein kleines Buch über die kurze Lebensdauer einer Müllsammlerin. Hier gibt es keine überflüssigen Beschreibungen, so dass die Phantasie des Lesers die Umgebung zusammenfügen muss, indem er das Drama im Rahmen der Szene liest, die er kennt, die sich in seiner Nähe abspielt, die er im Alltag visualisiert und deren Herz er nicht kennt. "Marias da Silva" sterben täglich an Hunger und unbehandelten Krankheiten in einer kurzen und tragischen Reise des Lebens, und bergen darin eine ganze Geschichte, die von anderen Mitbürgern ignoriert wird. Es ist an der Zeit, sie als menschliche Wesen zu sehen, und dieses kleine Buch kann dabei helfen. Ich habe das Gefühl, dass das Werk nicht mir gehört, ich bin nur der Moderator der Botschaft von Maria da Silva. Ich glaube, wenn sich einige Leser ändern, nachdem sie dies kennengelernt haben, und sei es nur, dass sich der Ausdruck ihres Blickes auf die Müllsammler ändert - die das Verabscheute sammeln und nicht betteln - wird die mir zufällig anvertraute Mission erfüllt sein ...
Marian Devotions, Political Mobilization, and Nationalism in Europe and America
by Roberto Di Stefano Francisco Javier Ramón SolansThis volume examines the changing role of Marian devotion in politics, public life, and popular culture in Western Europe and America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book brings together, for the first time, studies on Marian devotions across the Atlantic, tracing their role as a rallying point to fight secularization, adversarial ideologies, and rival religions. This transnational approach illuminates the deep transformations of devotional cultures across the world. Catholics adopted modern means and new types of religious expression to foster mass devotions that epitomized the catholic essence of the "nation. " In many ways, the development of Marian devotions across the world is also a response to the questioning of Pope Sovereignty. These devotional transformations followed an Ultramontane pattern inspired not only by Rome but also by other successful models approved by the Vatican such as Lourdes. Collectively, they shed new light on the process of globalization and centralization of Catholicism.
Marian Reflections on War and Peace: Trauma, Mourning, and Justice in Ukraine and Beyond (Transforming Political Theologies)
by Lenart Škof Emily A. Holmes Pavlo SmytsnyukThis book presents an original Marian approach towards war and peace, dedicated to the suffering of children, women, and men in Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine and in the world. Offering new theological perspectives on the contemporary impact of war, the contributions take inspiration from the figure and symbol of Mary – as protector of children and guardian of peace, intermediary of the incarnation, as well as model for ecumenical, interreligious, and intercultural engagements. The chapters explore the role of Mary as a symbol for feminist and activist reflections, for the communication of suffering as the mater dolorosa, for power when appropriated for political ends, and for healing and reconciliation in peace-building efforts. The book provides readers with valuable theological reflections on conflict, global theological ethics, ecofeminist and peace-building thinking in theology, and contemporary political theology.
Marianas In Combat: Tete Puebla and the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon in Cuba's Revolutionary War, 1956-58 (The Cuban Revolution in World Politics Series)
by Teté PueblaBrigadier General Teté Puebla, the highest-ranking woman in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, joined the struggle to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1956, when she was fifteen years old. This is her story: from clandestine action in the cities, to serving as an officer in the victorious Rebel Army's first all-women's unit, the Mariana Grajales Women's Platoon. For nearly fifty years, the fight to transform the social and economic status of women in Cuba has been inseparable from Cuba's socialist revolution.
Marianne Is Watching: Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State (Studies in War, Society, and the Military)
by Deborah BauerProfessional intelligence became a permanent feature of the French state as a result of the army&’s June 8, 1871, reorganization following France&’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Intelligence practices developed at the end of the nineteenth century without direction or oversight from elected officials, and yet the information gathered had a profound influence on the French population and on pre–World War I Europe more broadly. In Marianne Is Watching Deborah Bauer examines the history of French espionage and counterespionage services in the era of their professionalization, arguing that the expansion of surveillance practices reflects a change in understandings of how best to protect the nation. By leading readers through the processes and outcomes of professionalizing intelligence in three parts—covering the creation of permanent intelligence organizations within the state; the practice of intelligence; and the place of intelligence in the public sphere—Bauer fuses traditional state-focused history with social and cultural analysis to provide a modern understanding of intelligence and its role in both state formation and cultural change. With this first English-language book-length treatment of the history of French intelligence services in the era of their inception, Bauer provides a penetrating study not just of the security establishment in pre–World War I France but of the diverse social climate it nurtured and on which it fed.
Marie Antoinette
by Lady Antonia FraserMarie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still "la reine m chante", whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: "let them eat cake". Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny.Antonia Fraser examines her influence over the king, Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her patronage of the arts which enhanced French cultural life, her imprisonment, the death threats made against her, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial (during which her young son was forced to testify to sexual abuse by his mother) and her eventual execution by guillotine in 1793.Read by Lindsay Duncan(p) 2001 Orion Publishing Group
Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe
by Geri WaltonThe true story of the woman who befriended the last queen of France—and the price she paid for her devotion. Perhaps no one knew Marie Antoinette better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. The princess became superintendent of the queen&’s household in 1774, and through her relationship with Marie Antoinette, she gained a unique perspective of the lavishness and daily intrigue at Versailles. Born into the famous House of Savoy in Turin, Italy, Marie Thérèse was married at the age of seventeen to the Prince de Lamballe, heir to one of the richest fortunes in France. He transported her to the gold-leafed and glittering chandeliered halls of the Château de Versailles, where she soon found herself immersed in the political and sexual scandals that surrounded the royal court. As the plotters and planners of Versailles sought, at all costs, to gain the favor of Louis XVI and his queen, the Princess de Lamballe was there to witness it all. This book reveals the Princess de Lamballe&’s version of these events and is based on a wide variety of historical sources, helping to capture the waning days and grisly demise of the French monarchy. The story immerses you in a world of titillating sexual rumors, bloodthirsty revolutionaries, and hair-raising escape attempts—a must read for anyone interested in Marie Antoinette, the origins of the French Revolution, or life in the late eighteenth century.
Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles (The Royal Diaries)
by Kathryn LaskyIn 1769, 13-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Antonia FraserFrance's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake," was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime. For centuries since, she has been the object of debate, speculation, and the fascination so often accorded illustrious figures in history. Married in mere girlhood, this essentially lighthearted child was thrust onto the royal stage and commanded by circumstance to play a significant role in European history. Antonia Fraser's lavish and engaging portrait excites compassion and regard for all aspects of the queen, immersing the reader not only in the coming-of-age of a graceful woman, but in the culture of an unparalleled time and place.
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Lady Antonia Fraser'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and compassionate' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superbly researched ... the definitive work on the ill-fated queen' CATHOLIC HERALDMarie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To many people, she is still 'la reine méchante', whose extravagance and frivolity helped to bring down the French monarchy; her indifference to popular suffering epitomised by the (apocryphal) words: 'let them eat cake'. Others are equally passionate in her defence: to them, she is a victim of misogyny.Antonia Fraser examines her influence over the king, Louis XVI, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her, her patronage of the arts which enhanced French cultural life, her imprisonment, the death threats made against her, rumours of lesbian affairs, her trial (during which her young son was forced to testify to sexual abuse by his mother) and her eventual execution by guillotine in 1793.
Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Untold Love Story
by Evelyn FarrA new edition draws on fresh evidence from archive sources--including decoded secret correspondence--to peel back the layers of misinformation obscuring the Queen's great love affair and to reveal its impact on the destiny of the French Royal Family The tragic life of Marie-Antoinette, last Queen of France, has assumed almost mythical proportions. A victim of political intrigue, she was known as the "Austrian whore" and accused of every imaginable sexual and political crime. Yet after the French Revolution she was reinvented as a martyr, and the image of the woman behind the propaganda grew even more distorted. Daughter of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Marie-Antoinette was married at the age of 15 to the heir to the French throne. The vivacious Archduchess had charm and intelligence, while the Dauphin, crowned Louis XVI in 1774, was boorish, gauche, and unable to consummate their marriage. Rebuffed by him, the young girl engaged in a hectic social life and looked elsewhere for love. This book charts her transformation from reckless teenager to dignified yet misunderstood Queen and maps out in detail her enduring relationship with Axel von Fersen. Their liaison, based on deep affection and mutual passion, began long before revolutionary storm clouds gathered over France. Although known to insiders at court, her love for the chivalrous and handsome Swedish Count was suppressed in the many attempts to manipulate the Queen's image.
Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen
by John HardmanThis “wonderfully gripping biography” digs beneath the famous legend to present a nuanced and revealing portrait of a serious-mined monarch (Allan Massie, Wall Street Journal).As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. But who was she really? In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on her story.Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how she refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, bravely took over the helm from her faltering husband, and, when revolution broke out, worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it.Named a 2020 Book of the Year by The Spectator
Mariguana a la mexicana
by Nacho Lozano¿Qué hace más daño: la mota o la guerra contra la mota? Una nube de mitos, miedo e ignorancia rodea a la mariguana. ¿Pero en realidad qué tanto daño causa? ¿En verdad es ilegal consumirla? ¿Los beneficios que conlleva "compensan" los daños que provoca? Nacho Lozano, con un estilo ágil y riguroso, disecciona en esta obra qué es la mota y cuáles son sus efectos, no sólo en las personas, sino también en la sociedad. De este modo nos recuerda que nadie nunca ha muerto por sobredosis de yerba, que su afectación social es mucho menor que la del tabaco, y cómo es que, hoy en día, sólo cinco mexicanos pueden sembrar, cosechar, transportar y fumar mois... Así, a lo largo de estas páginas, una cuestión va emergiendo: ¿qué implicaría legalizar la mariguana? Y tal vez más importante: ¿cuál es el costo de no hacerlo?
Marihuana oficial: Crónica de un experimento uruguayo
by Christian Muller Guillermo DraperLa historia de un experimento que quedará para la historia, tanto si tiene éxito como si fracasa. Desde que José Mujica recorrió cuarteles para ver dónde podía plantar marihuana hasta que el cannabis echó raíces en un predio estatal pasaron más de tres años y una elección. La venta de la droga en farmacias completa un sistema único que rompe con décadas de prohibición y le disputa al narcotráfico uno de sus mercados.Una investigación periodística con más de cuarenta entrevistados, Marihuana oficial cuenta qué llevó al gobierno de Uruguay a embarcar a un pequeño país en un viaje desconocido. En sus páginas hay narcos, policías, activistas, políticos, empresarios y exguerrilleros; los protagonistas de un experimento que quedará en la historia si tiene éxito y también si fracasa.Desde que José Mujica recorrió cuarteles para ver dónde podía plantar marihuana hasta que el cannabis echó raíces en un predio estatal pasaron más de tres años y una elección. La venta de la droga en farmacias completa un sistema único que rompe con décadas de prohibición y le disputa al narcotráfico uno de sus mercados.Una investigación periodística con más de cuarenta entrevistados, Marihuana oficial cuenta qué llevó al gobierno de Uruguay a embarcar a un pequeño país en un viaje desconocido. En sus páginas hay narcos, policías, activistas, políticos, empresarios y exguerrilleros; los protagonistas de un experimento que quedará en la historia si tiene éxito y también si fracasa.
Marijuana Is Safer
by Steve Fox Paul Armentano Mason TvertNationally recognized marijuana-policy experts Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, and Mason Tvert compare and contrast the relative harms and legal status of the two most popular recreational substances in the world--marijuana and alcohol. Through an objective examination of the two drugs and the laws and social practices that steer people toward alcohol, the authors pose a simple yet rarely considered question: Why do we punish adults who make the rational, safer choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol?Marijuana Is Saferreaches for a broad audience. For those unfamiliar with marijuana, it provides an introduction to the cannabis plant and its effects on the user, and debunks some of the government's most frequently cited marijuana myths. For current and aspiring advocates of marijuana-law reform, as well as anyone else who is interested in what is becoming a major political battle, the authors spell out why the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol must be a prominent part of the public debate over legalization. Most importantly, for the millions of Americans who want to advance the cause of marijuana-policy reform--or simply want to defend their own personal, safer choice--this book provides the talking points and detailed information needed to make persuasive arguments to friends, family, coworkers, and elected officials.
Marijuana: A Short History
by John HudakFrom Reefer Madness to legal purchase at the corner store.With long-time legal and social barriers to marijuana falling across much of the United States, the time has come for an accessible and informative look at attitudes toward the dried byproduct of Cannabis sativa. Marijuana: A Short History profiles the politics and policies concerning the five-leaf plant in the United States and around the world.Millions of Americans have used marijuana at some point in their lives, yet it remains a substance shrouded by myth, misinformation, and mystery. This book offers an up-to-date, cutting-edge look at how a plant with a tumultuous history has emerged from the shadows of counterculture and illegality. Today, marijuana has become a remarkable social, economic, and even political force, with a surprising range of advocates and opponents. Public policy toward marijuana, especially in the United States, is changing rapidly. Marijuana: A Short History provides a brief yet compelling narrative that discusses the social and cultural history of marijuana but also tells us how a once-vilified plant has been transformed into a serious, even mainstream, public policy issue. Focusing on politics, the media, government, and education, the book describes why public policy has changed, and what that change might mean for marijuana's future place in society.
Marika Marches for Equality (Smithsonian Historical Fiction)
by Salima AlikhanMiddle-schooler Marika is caught between two worlds. She and her friend Beth are passionate about women’s rights, and they plan to join a national rally to support the cause. But it’s 1970, and the equal rights movement has a lot of resistance—including from Marika’s parents. Marika wishes they were as supportive of equal rights as Beth’s parents, but Marika’s parents seem content with how things are. As the day of the Women’s Strike for Equality approaches, will Marika convince her parents to support her beliefs?
Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice: Different Pathways, Common Lessons
by Julia M. Wondolleck Steven Lewis YaffeeWhat are the key ingredients of successful marine ecosystem planning? The surprising answer, according to authors Julia Wondolleck and Stephen Yaffee, is that a successful approach calls for more than just sound organizational structure and resources, but also a comfortable atmosphere of trust, understanding, and collaboration.Marine Ecosystem-Based Management in Practice is the first practical guide for the marine conservation realm. In a unique collection of case studies, the authors showcase successful collaborative approaches to ecosystem-based management. This book offers a hopeful message to policy makers, managers, practitioners, and students who will find this an indispensable guide to field-tested, replicable marine conservation management practices that work.
Marine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice
by Erika TecheraMarine Environmental Governance: From International Law to Local Practice considers the relationship between international environmental law and community-based management of marine areas. Focusing on small island states, in which indigenous populations have to a large extent continued to maintain traditional lifestyles, this book takes up the question of how indigenous customary law and state-based legislation can be reconciled in the implementation of international environmental law. Including a range of case studies, as well as detailed comparative analysis, it pursues an interdisciplinary approach to legal pluralism 'in practice' that will be of considerable interest to environmental lawyers, legal anthropologists, conservation biologists and those working in the area of community-based conservation.
Marine Exploration and Exploitation of Hydrocarbons: An Environmental and Legal Perspective (Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security)
by Violeta S. RadovichThe book analyzes the environmental regulation of upstream marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons, at the international, regional MERCOSUR and Argentine national level. It uses the concept of normative integration as a methodological approach, critically assessing the interaction between the law of the sea, maritime law, environmental law and human rights law in the field of study. The book analyses the legal framework in a timeline, giving context to the evolution of the different branches of international law with sparkles of history. In this sense, the book also analyses international conventions’ bills on the subject that have not entered into force. The manuscript focuses on the reports from two marine pollution events (Deepwater Horizon and Montara oil spills) to analyse the lessons learnt and the normative and institutional framework needed to ensure environmental safety in the marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons. The book critically analyses marine platform accidents’ official reports comprehensively in order to assess existing normative and institutional frameworks and to give a way forward regarding policies. The manuscript contributes to rethinking the governance of the ocean at the time of environmental challenges. In that context, it refers to the concept of normative integration and effectiveness. It takes the existing scholarship further by introducing the notion of “marine platforms” instead of “offshore platforms” to rethink the relationship between land and sea and to develop a functional approach to enhance existing regulations. This is an open access book.