The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society . It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded. It has become one of the world's best-known magazines and is immediately identifiable by the characteristic yellow border running around the edge of its cover...
Выпуск: July 2006
Acknowledged expert Marilyn Stokstad combines interpretive essays and original documents in English translation in order to examine the role of the castle in society as well as its use in war.
Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions
This book explores the many different strands in the language of civil society from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a series of case-studies it investigates the applicability of the term to a wide range of historical settings. These include 'state interference', voluntary associations, economic decision-making, social and economic planning, the 'bourgeois public sphere', civil society in wartime, the 'inclusion' and 'exclusion' of women, and relations between the state, the voluntary sector, and individual citizens. The contributors suggest that the sharp distinction between civil society and the state, common in much continental thought, was of only limited application in a British context. They show how past understandings of the term were often very different from (even in some respects the exact opposite of) those held today, arguing that it makes more sense to understand civil society as a phenomenon that varies between differenc cultures and periods, rather than a universally applicable set of principles and procedures.
•
COVER:
Are We Failing Our Geniuses? - In U.S. schools, the highest achievers are too often challenged the least. Why that's hurting America — and how to fix it
•
How Not to Raise a Genius - Is Baby Einstein doing your child more harm than good?
• HEALTH & MEDICINE:
When Sadness Is a Good Thing - A new book argues that we should stop treating normal sorrow as a mental illness
• SOCIETY:
An Uneven Playing Field for Female Athletes - More colleges than ever have added women's teams. What's missing now? Enough women coaches
Though Jane Austen was writing at a time when Gothic potboilers such as Ann Ward Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto were all the rage, she never got carried away by romance in her own novels. In Austen's ordered world, the passions that ruled Gothic fiction would be horridly out of place; marriage was, first and foremost, a contract, the bedrock of polite society.In Mansfield Park Austen gives us Fanny Price, a poor young woman who has grown up in her wealthy relatives' household without ever being accepted as an equal. The only one who has truly been kind to Fanny is Edmund Bertram, the younger of the family's two sons.
