A Union of Diversity: Language, Identity and Polity-Building in Europe (Themes in European Governance)

The ecu Union's motto 'United in range' contrasts with the cultural standardization entailed within the formation of realms and the forging of political identities in Europe. So what does being 'united in range' suggest? targeting language politics and rules, this ebook bargains an intensive evaluate of the results of cultural and linguistic range for the method of making a ecu polity.

Timothy Matlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence

On July four, 1776, the assertion of Independence was once learn aloud to a crowd accumulated open air the Pennsylvania kingdom apartment. It used to be engrossed on vellum later within the month, and delegates all started signing the finely penned record in early August. the guy who learn the announcement and later embossed it—the guy with possibly the main well-known penmanship in American history—was Timothy Matlack, a Philadelphia beer bottler who strongly believed within the American reason.

Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: Blacks in the Industrial City, 1900-1950 (Crosscurrents in African American History)

This number of 12 new essays will inform the tale of the way the slow transformation of business society into service-driven postindustrial society affected black lifestyles and tradition within the urban among 1900 and 1950, and it'll make clear the improvement of these forces that wreaked havoc within the lives of African americans within the succeeding epoch.

A Washington Tragedy: Bill & Hillary Clinton and the Suicide of Vincent Foster

From the advent to the 2015 2d variation of A Washington Tragedy: invoice & Hillary Clinton and the Suicide of Vincent Foster:The Foster case could turn out to be an eye-opening, life-altering event for me. via my huge examine, I accrued transparent facts cheating, money-grubbing cabal of disingenuous Clinton-haters—who shared details, coated up each one other's error, outright fabricated proof, and obtained their investment from a similar source—had conspired to painting Foster's premature suicide as a homicide in a cynical attempt to undermine the authority and the authenticity of the Clinton White apartment.