Author: Sous la direction de Marta Dvorák et Jane Koustas Canadienne, Parisienne, musicienne, ecrivaine de renommee internationale, Nancy Huston seduit aussi bien par ses essais provocateurs que par ses romans audacieux. Vivant entre deux langues et deux cultures, elle a conquis tant les publics francophone quanglophone. La narratrice dInstruments des tenebres formule cette phrase troublante : Pas de vision sans division. Je ne cesse de comparer, combiner, seduire, traduire, trahir. Jai le coeur et le cerveau fendus, comme les sabots du Malin. Anglais, francais. Cest avec cette citation comme point de depart que cet ouvrage propose une vision de son ecriture centree sur le dedoublement et la duplicite. Des auteurs en provenance de nombreux pays presentent un oeuvre ou priment les themes de lexil et de lenfermement, de la musique et de la folie, de lenfance et de la vieillesse, sous la plume dune ecrivaine qui, selon le Magazine litteraire, compte au nombre de ceux qui ne cessent de detruire pour mieux pouvoir reconstruire . Au tout debut de ce livre, le lecteur decouvrira un essai de Nancy Huston sur le film The Hours. Il sagit en fait dune reflexion fascinante sur la creation, la vie et la mort : une vision quelle a dedoublee selon sa coutume en francais et en anglais.

Author: Thomas C. Mackey A Documentary History of the American Civil War Era is the first comprehensive collection of public policy actions, political speeches, and judicial decisions related to the American Civil War. Collectively, the four volumes in this series give scholars, teachers, and students easy access to the full texts of the most important, fundamental documents as well as hard-to-find, rarely published primary sources on this critical period in U.S. history. The first two volumes of the series, Legislative Achievements and Political Arguments, were released last year. The final installments, Judicial Decisions, is split into two volumes, with this one, volume 3, spanning from 1857 to 1866. It contains some of the classic judicial decisions of the time such as the 1857 decision in Dred Scott and the 1861 Ex parte Merryman decision. Other decisions are well known to specialists but deserve wider readership and discussion, such as the October 1859 Jefferson County, Virginia, indictment of John Brown and the decision in the 1864 case of political and seditious activity in Ex parte Vallandigham. These judicial voices constitute a lasting and often overlooked aspect of the age of Abraham Lincoln. Mackeys headnotes and introductory essays situate cases within their historical context and trace their lasting significance. In contrast to the war, these judicial decisions lasted well past their immediate political and legal moment and deserve continued scholarship and scrutiny. This document collection presents the raw stuff of the Civil War era so that students, scholars, and interested readers can measure and gauge how that generation met Lincolns challenge to think anew, and act anew. A Documentary History of the American Civil War Era is an essential acquisition for academic and public libraries in addition to being a valuable resource for courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, legal history, political history, and nineteenth-century American history.

Author: Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer In the 1920s, a few Cleveland women perceived a need for reliable birth control. They believed that health and social service professionals denied women, especially poor and working-class women, critical health care information.Any Friend of the Movementtells the story of these women, their actions, and the organization they createdthe direct forerunner of a modern Planned Parenthood affiliate. The disparate threads of this particular tale include the suicide of a pregnant woman, the gift of a bereaved inventor, smuggling contraceptive supplies across state lines, and sponsoring ice skating galas to fund the work. Any Friend of the Movementbreaks new ground in the history of birth control activism in North America. Meyer argues that private philanthropy and voluntary action on the part of clinics like the Maternal Health Association (MHA) and their clients vitalized the larger movement at its roots and pushed it forward. Meyer adds new voices to the history of the national birth control movement and its leaders. A cache of letters from clinic clients to the MHA offers an unusually intimate look at the personal side of this reform. Meyer uses other evidence, such as speeches, reports, founders personal papers, newspaper accounts, and magazine and journal articles, and adds photo illustrations. Genuine concern for other women, eugenic and racist considerations, gender and class, networking, the prevailing cultural unease around sexual mattersthese elements all shaped the MHA and, in doing so, shaped the larger struggle for reproductive rights.

Author: George W. Evans A crucial challenge for economists is figuring out how people interpret the world and form expectations that will likely influence their economic activity. Inflation, asset prices, exchange rates, investment, and consumption are just some of the economic variables that are largely explained by expectations. Here George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja bring new explanatory power to a variety of expectation formation models by focusing on the learning factor. Whereas the rational expectations paradigm offers the prevailing method to determining expectations, it assumes very theoretical knowledge on the part of economic actors. Evans and Honkapohja contribute to a growing body of research positing that households and firms learn by making forecasts using observed data, updating their forecast rules over time in response to errors. This book is the first systematic development of the new statistical learning approach. Depending on the particular economic structure, the economy may converge to a standard rational-expectations or a rational bubble solution, or exhibit persistent learning dynamics. The learning approach also provides tools to assess the importance of new models with expectational indeterminacy, in which expectations are an independent cause of macroeconomic fluctuations. Moreover, learning dynamics provide a theory for the evolution of expectations and selection between alternative equilibria, with implications for business cycles, asset price volatility, and policy. This book provides an authoritative treatment of this emerging field, developing the analytical techniques in detail and using them to synthesize and extend existing research.