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

The eu Union's motto 'United in variety' 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? concentrating on language politics and guidelines, this ebook deals an intensive overview of the consequences of cultural and linguistic range for the method of creating a eu polity.

Timothy Matlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence

On July four, 1776, the assertion of Independence used to be learn aloud to a crowd collected outdoors the Pennsylvania country condo. It was once engrossed on vellum later within the month, and delegates started signing the finely penned record in early August. the fellow who learn the assertion 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 ways the sluggish transformation of business society into service-driven postindustrial society affected black existence and tradition within the urban among 1900 and 1950, and it'll make clear the advance of these forces that wreaked havoc within the lives of African american citizens within the succeeding epoch.

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

From the advent to the 2015 second version of A Washington Tragedy: invoice & Hillary Clinton and the Suicide of Vincent Foster:The Foster case may end up to be an eye-opening, life-altering event for me. via my vast study, I accumulated transparent proof cheating, money-grubbing cabal of disingenuous Clinton-haters—who shared info, coated up each one other's errors, outright fabricated proof, and bought their investment from an analogous 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 condominium.