10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FILIBUSTERISM»
Discover the use of
filibusterism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
filibusterism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Brownson's Quarterly Review
Filibusterism is the order of the day. To invade with a lawless band of freebooters
and ragamuffins a weak state, and stir up the disaffected to rebellion, pillage, and
murder, is in our modern vocabulary noble, virtuous, patriotic, heroic, divine; ...
Filibusterism is the order of the day. To invade with a lawless band of freebooters
and ragamuffins a weak state, and stir up the disaffected to rebellion, pillage, and
murder, is in our modern vocabulary noble, virtuous, patriotic, heroic, divine; ...
A pertinent and clear example is the case of filibusterism, which Sperber and
Wilson (1995: 159) themselves introduce as a case countering the audience's
expectation of 'optimal relevance'. It seems to me rather apparent that, in the case
of ...
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Dr. Jose Rizal and the Writing of His Story
Therefore, Rizal was not the first to write about filibusterism, nor was he the last.
There were Merritt Parmalee wrote William Walker, Filibuster in 1932; William
Scroggs wrote Filibusters and Financiers in 1916 (New York), and Laurence
Greene ...
Maria Stella S. Valdez, 2007
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A Secret Society History of the Civil War
“The “K.G.C.”' (from Austin Southern Intelligencer), San Antonio Alamo Express,
November 5, 1&0, 1;Authentic Exposition ofthe “K.G.C.,”65. 16. “Filibusterism
Again,” New York Times, Iuly 23, 1&0, 3. 17 Authentic Exposition of the “K.G.C.,”
87; ...
6
American Settler Colonialism: A History
As the budding sectional crisis curbed state-sponsored expansionism,
filibusterism stepped into the breach. Filibusterism—the word derived from
French and Spanish versions of the Dutch term freebooter—had long been
closely connected ...
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Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the ...
Filibusterism. (1852–1860). Madelence, Henri de la. Le compte Gaston de
RaoussetBoulbon: Sa vie et ses aventures (d'apres ses papiers, et sa cor-
respondence). Paris: Poulet-Malassis, 1859. Walker, William. The War in
Nicaragua. Reprint ...
Because all Filipinos who educate themselves encounter the envy and hate of
reactionaries, this new type of filibusterism was concocted — a good excuse to
imprison and exile every Filipino who knows German or some other foreign ...
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Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the ...
Santacilia was already temporarily exiled in Spain when a military commission in
Cuba found a copy of "Mi Prision” in the hands of a woman “suspected of
filibusterism.” Authorities, he writes, “of course, found it necessary to put on trial
the ...
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True Women and Westward Expansion
The political climate of the s provided the perfect opportunity for
filibusterism. Due to sectional pressures, cries of manifest destiny frequently
failed in the face of governmental inaction, only to resurface in enthusiasm for
some private ...
Adrienne Caughfield, 2005
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FILIBUSTERISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
filibusterism is used in the context of the following news items.
People's Party delays approval of Catalan Government's 2015 …
The Catalan Government accused the PP of “parliamentary filibusterism” for delaying the bill's approval for a maximum of four weeks, but ... «Catalan News Agency, Feb 15»
Conservatives and Liberals Agree: Ted Cruz for President
... defend liberty" perhaps appropriately evocative of the equally awful "Battlefield Earth") now that knee-jerk filibusterism is ruining the chamber. «U.S. News & World Report, May 13»
