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Title: The "mental crisis" of John Stuart Mill: The destruction of a mechanical consciousness.
Creator: Dhuwalia, Raj Kumar., Florida Atlantic University, Buckton, Oliver
Abstract/Description: In Chapter Five of his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill discusses a "mental crisis" which struck in 1826 and lingered for some time. Mill addresses one causative element of this crisis, a perception of himself at twenty as a "mechanical man." Yet these much-quoted words understate a greater point. I shall argue that Mill's crisis was the destruction of an almost purely mechanical consciousness, or at least a strike at his foundations of a breadth and severity that has not been fully addressed...
Show moreIn Chapter Five of his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill discusses a "mental crisis" which struck in 1826 and lingered for some time. Mill addresses one causative element of this crisis, a perception of himself at twenty as a "mechanical man." Yet these much-quoted words understate a greater point. I shall argue that Mill's crisis was the destruction of an almost purely mechanical consciousness, or at least a strike at his foundations of a breadth and severity that has not been fully addressed by Mill scholarship. I shall consider various aspects of Mill's life and thought before and after the crisis as a means of identifying the nature of this fundamental change in Mill. These aspects of Mill's thought include philosophy, economics, epistemology, poetry, and politics, and these aspects of Mill's life include education, his relationship with his father and Bentham, his early activism, his influences, and his perceptions of man and society.
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Date Issued: 1996
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15319
Subject Headings: Mill, John Stuart,--1806-1873--Autobiography, Consciousness in literature, Philosophy in literature, Authors, English--19th century--Biography--History and criticism
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: IN QUEST OF A POLICE PROFESSION: A BIOGRAPHY OF ORLANDO W. WILSON.
Creator: BOPP, WILLIAM J., Florida Atlantic University, O'Sullivan, John
Abstract/Description: Orlando W. Wilson was the most influential figure in the history of American law enforcement. His career as a police chief, criminology professor, consultant and author began in 1921, and spanned forty-six years. His accomplishments during this period have not been surpassed: He is the Father of the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics; he began America's first police-college cadet program; he pioneered state sponsored training courses and minimum standards for police personnel; he initiated...
Show moreOrlando W. Wilson was the most influential figure in the history of American law enforcement. His career as a police chief, criminology professor, consultant and author began in 1921, and spanned forty-six years. His accomplishments during this period have not been surpassed: He is the Father of the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics; he began America's first police-college cadet program; he pioneered state sponsored training courses and minimum standards for police personnel; he initiated psychological testing for police officers; he founded the country's first professional school of criminology; and he authored the most widely circulated police administration textbook in history. In addition, Wilson's former students and subordinates formed the vanguard of the American police professionalization movement, and his management surveys of some forty major police departments furnished a model for reorganization which has become dogma in law enforcement. Wilson's police career began as a patrolman in Berkeley, California. He briefly served Fullerton, California as its chief of police, then in 1928 began an eleven year tenure as chief in Wichita, Kansas. During that term of service, Wilson's reputation grew, as Wichita gained fame as the "West Point of Law Enforcement." Forced out of Wichita by corrupt politicians, Wilson accepted a professorship at the University of California in 1939. With the exception of wartime service as Director of de-Nazification activities in Germany, he spent twenty-one years at the University, the last decade as Dean of the School of Criminology. In 1960, he received an urgent call from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, whose administration was in jeopardy because of a major police scandal. Wilson was appointed to chair a search committee empaneled to select a reform police commissioner. When the committee could not find a competent applicant, it turned to its chairman, and persuaded Wilson to take the job. During his seven years in office, he completely reorganized the police department, aggressively fought corruption, and inspired public confidence in his efforts. He retired in 1967. O.W. Wilson was scrupulously honest, and dedicated to creating an American police profession. His battles against corruption and his disdain for politicians are legendary . Throughout his career, he directed his considerable energy toward uplifting the status of law enforcement. He was a man of high principles, unswervingly committed to excellence. Nonetheless, he also had serious limitations. He applied disciplinary action ruthlessly , without regard to human considerations. His penchant for orderliness led him to adopt a rigid military method of organizing police departments, despite the negative effect it had on police-community relationships. Moreover, Wilson often became so preoccupied with structural reorganization that more substantive police reform was overlooked. Notwithstanding personal limitations, Orlando H. Wilson was the greatest police administrator American law enforcement has yet produced. His impact on the movement to professionalize the police is incalculable, and even his earliest contributions to the field have stood the test of time.
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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11649
Subject Headings: Wilson, O W --(Orlando Winfield),--1900-1972
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: An address delivered before the Maine Historical Society, at Bowdoin College, on the afternoon of the annual commencement, September 5, 1849.
Creator: Winthrop, Robert C. (Robert Charles) 1809-1894, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Abstract/Description: Cover title: Mr. Winthrop's address before the Maine Historical Society, at Bowdoin College. Printer’s name appears on the title page verso. Appendix: pages [65]-68. FAU copy imperfect: cover missing, edges trimmed to 22 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb14f22
Subject Headings: Baccalaureate addresses -- 1849, Bowdoin, James -- 1726-1790, Governors -- Massachusetts -- Biography, Massachusetts -- Intellectual life -- 18th century, Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865, Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- To 1775, Political culture -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century, Revolutionaries -- Massachusetts -- Biography, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century
Format: E-book

Title: Eulogy on the life and character of the late Zachary Taylor : twelfth president of the United States, delivered at the request of the authorities of the city of Boston, August 15, 1850.
Creator: Quincy, Josiah 1802-1882
Abstract/Description: "Proceedings of the city government of Boston, on the reception of the intelligence of the death of President Taylor": pages [21]-41. FAU copy in original paper wrappers; side stiched with cord.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb15f8
Subject Headings: Eulogies -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century, Taylor, Zachary -- 1784-1850 -- Death and burial, Generals -- United States -- Biography, Memorials (Commemorative), Presidents -- United States -- Biography, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- History, Military -- 19th century, United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Format: E-book

Title: A discourse occasioned by the death of Daniel Webster : preached at the Melodeon on Sunday October 31, 1852.
Creator: Parker, Theodore 1810-1860, B.B. Mussey and Company
Abstract/Description: An uncomplimentary memorial emphasizing negative aspects of Webster's Seventh of March speech and criticizing certain personal qualities and habits. Includes verse. Includes bibliographical references. FAU copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb17f1
Subject Headings: Webster, Daniel -- 1782-1852 -- Death and burial, Abolitionists -- United States -- Speeches in Congress, Eulogies -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century, Eulogies -- 1853, Legislators -- United States -- Biography, Compromise of 1850, Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories, Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- Speeches in Congress, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
Format: E-book

Title: In memory of Charles Sumner. Sermon preached at King's Chapel, Sunday, March 22, 1874.
Creator: Foote, Henry Wilder 1838-1889, Alfred Mudge and Son
Abstract/Description: Alternate title: Sermon preached at King's Chapel, Sunday, March 22, 1874. Notes: "Printed by request of the Wardens and Vestry." "Appendix" includes hymns used at the funeral services and account of the services at King's Chapel, Boston, and at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, March 16, 1874: pages [37]-48. Includes bibliographical references. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed wrappers, side stitched with cord. Inscribed on front cover: With regards of H.W. Foote.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f33
Subject Headings: Abolitionists -- Biography, Antislavery movements -- United States -- 19th century, Funeral sermons -- 1874, Sumner, Charles -- 1811-1874 -- Death and burial, Sumner, Charles -- 1811-1874 -- Sermons, Sumner, Charles -- 1811-1874 -- Views on slavery, United States -- Congress -- Senate -- Biography, United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1877, Slavery -- United States
Format: E-book

Title: The ties that bind: Harriet Jacobs's portrayal of her grandmother in Jacobs's "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself".
Creator: Metzcher-Smith, Marilyn K., Florida Atlantic University, Kurjiaka, Susan K. H.
Abstract/Description: Although the relationship between Harriet Jacobs and her grandmother in Jacobs's slave narrative seems at first a simple case of maternal and filial love, closer examination reveals a complex and carefully crafted interaction between author, persona, and character. Jacobs's manumitted grandmother attempts to gain autonomy by emulating white models for behavior in a dominant white culture that nevertheless continues to exclude her. Although strongly influenced by her grandmother, Jacobs's...
Show moreAlthough the relationship between Harriet Jacobs and her grandmother in Jacobs's slave narrative seems at first a simple case of maternal and filial love, closer examination reveals a complex and carefully crafted interaction between author, persona, and character. Jacobs's manumitted grandmother attempts to gain autonomy by emulating white models for behavior in a dominant white culture that nevertheless continues to exclude her. Although strongly influenced by her grandmother, Jacobs's persona, Linda Brent, learns to negotiate the power struggles of slavery by defining herself. The price Jacobs/Brent pays for gaining a voice is the disintegration of her and her grandmother's supportive relationship. Jacobs controls the narrative development of this relationship in order to represent her northern middle-class white women readers in her text. She represents her readers so as to both accommodate and criticize the social differences between women of different races and social standings.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15189
Subject Headings: Jacobs, Harriet A--(Harriet Ann),--1813-1897--Criticism and interpretation, Jacobs, Harriet A--(Harriet Ann),--1813-1897--Incidents in the life of a slave girl, Slavery--United States--Biography, Women slaves--United States--Biography
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Who are the 18 prisoners in the Minneapolis Labor Case? : how the Smith "Gag" Act has endangered workers rights and free speech.
Creator: Farrell, James T.
Date Issued: 1944
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/369035
Subject Headings: Trials (Conspiracy) --Minnesota --Minneapolis., Strikes and lockouts --Minnesota --Minneapolis --Automobile drivers., Truck Drivers' Strike, Minneapolis, Minn., 1934., Labor unions and communism --Minnesota --Minneapolis., Freedom of speech --United States., Working class --Minnesota --Minneapolis --Biography.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: We are Limestone Creek: an oral history of Limestone Creek community Jupiter, Florida.
Creator: Stout, Sara M., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description: Limestone Creek is an unincorporated community existing within the planning and zoning boundary lines of Jupiter, Florida. Contrasting the economically flush and rapidly developing surrounding municipality of Jupiter, Limestone Creek is a predominantly African American community with an apparent economic gap that leaves the community untouched by development. This thesis project attempts to capture the voices of Limestone Creek and Jupiter residents pertaining to their accounts with an...
Show moreLimestone Creek is an unincorporated community existing within the planning and zoning boundary lines of Jupiter, Florida. Contrasting the economically flush and rapidly developing surrounding municipality of Jupiter, Limestone Creek is a predominantly African American community with an apparent economic gap that leaves the community untouched by development. This thesis project attempts to capture the voices of Limestone Creek and Jupiter residents pertaining to their accounts with an unincorporated area surrounded by a much wealthier municipality. Interviews were conducted with the residents of the community, Palm Beach County and the Town of Jupiter residents and officials, in an effort to explore the existence of an isolated African American community. The research resulted in varied responses to the idea of incorporation because of lack of funds. Conclusions to this research reveal that, to the members of the community, while race underlies all discussions of incorporation the more immediate issue is about securing basic services and infrastructure.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3325089
Subject Headings: Municipal government, Suburban African Americans, Social conditions, Social aspects, Political aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A Dream of Araby: Glenn H. Curtiss and the Founding of Opa-locka.
Creator: FitzGerald-Bush, Frank S.
Date Issued: 1976
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/FA00000251.pdf
Subject Headings: History, History
Format: E-book

Title: Eulogy on the Hon. John Wheelock, LL.D., late president of Dartmouth University, who died April 4, 1817 :.
Creator: Allen, Samuel C. (Samuel Clesson) 1772-1842, Watson, David 1788-1867
Abstract/Description: pronounced in the university chapel August 27, 1817, being the day of the anniversary commencement. By Samuel C. Allen. ; [Five lines of quotations in English and Latin].
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb9f28
Subject Headings: Baccalaureate addresses -- 1817, Dartmouth College -- Presidents -- Biography, Eulogies -- New Hampshire -- Hanover -- 19th century, Wheelock, John -- 1754-1817 -- Death and burial, Dartmouth College, Obituaries, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century
Format: E-book

Title: An oration commemorative of the character and administration of Washington, delivered before the American Republican Society of Philadelphia, on the 22d day of February, 1810.
Creator: Caldwell, Charles 1772-1853, Bradford and Inskeep
Abstract/Description: By Charles Caldwell, M.D. ; Published at the request of the Society. FAU copy appears to have been trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb9f9
Subject Headings: Presidents -- United States -- Biography, United States -- History -- Confederation, 1783-1789, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783, Washington's Birthday addresses, Washington, George -- 1732-1799, Washington, George -- 1732-1799 -- Anniversaries, etc
Format: E-book

Title: A discourse on the life and character of the Rev. Charles Follen, L.L.D. : who perished, Jan. 13, 1840, in the conflagration of the Lexington : delivered before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, in the Marlborough Chapel, Boston, April 17, 1840.
Creator: May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797-1871, Devereux, Henry L.
Abstract/Description: By Samuel J. May. Cover title: Mr. May discourse on the life and character of the Rev. Charles Follen, L.L.D. Notes: "Order of services ... ": pages [29]-30. Hymns by John Pierport and Maria W. Chapman at end.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb13f2
Subject Headings: Abolitionists -- Massachusetts -- Biography, Eulogies -- United States -- 19th century, Follen, Charles -- 1796-1840 -- Death and burial, Antislavery movements -- Massachusetts, Funeral addresses -- 1840, Funeral orations -- 19th century, Slavery -- United States, Eulogies -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Format: E-book

Title: The truly great : a discourse, appropriate to the life and character of John Quincy Adams by E.H. Chapin.
Creator: Chapin, E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) 1814-1880, A. Tompkins, 38 Cornhill,
Abstract/Description: Discourse, appropriate to the life and character of John Quincy Adams. Includes verse. Issued in blue printed wrappers with title page forme machined on front wrapper within double-ruled border. FAU copy imperfect, lacks wrappers; edges trimed to 22 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb14f14
Subject Headings: Adams, John Quincy -- 1767-1848, Presidents -- United States -- Biography -- Sermons, Memorials -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century, Bible -- Samuel, 2nd, III, 38 -- Sermons, Poems -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century, Sermons, American -- 19th century
Format: E-book

Title: Mr. Webster's Andover address and his political course while secretary of state.
Creator: Stuart, Moses 1780-1852
Abstract/Description: The publishers have no authority to designate the authorship of the following pages; but from various circumstances, they infer the probability, that they were written by Prof. Stuart, of Andover. Caption title: Mr. Webster and the Andover address. Notes: In two "numbers." Signed (page 20): "Civis."
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb13f21
Subject Headings: Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Webster, Daniel -- 1782-1852, United States -- Congress -- Senate -- Biography, United States -- Foreign relations -- 1841-1845, United States -- Politics and government -- 1841-1845
Format: E-book

Title: Interview with Howard Shapiro – ca. 2001.
Creator: Shapiro, Howard (Interviewee), Carbonara, Michelina M. (Interviewer)
Date Issued: 2001-02-26
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT78801
Subject Headings: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), United States Army, World War, 1939-1945, Arturo Toscanini School, Tamarac (Fla.), Fort Lauderdale Preparatory School, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history, Teachers --Florida --Biography
Format: Set of related objects

Title: A Discourse on the Death of William Henry Harrison, Late President of the United States, 1841.
Creator: Potter, Horatio 1802-1887, Hoffman, White & Visscher
Abstract/Description: By the Rev. Horatio Potter, D.D. Rector of said Church. St. Peter's Church (Albany, N.Y.) Cover title: Dr. Potter's discourse before the legislature of New-York, on the death of President Harrison. New York (State) Legislature FAU copy imperfect: cover missing; edges trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb13f7
Subject Headings: Eulogies -- New York (State) -- Albany, Harrison, William Henry -- 1773-1841 -- Death and burial, Legislative addresses -- 1841, Presidents -- United States -- Biography, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century
Format: E-book

Title: Eulogy upon the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, delivered at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, July 3, 1861.
Creator: Forney, John W. (John Wien) 1817-1881, Ringwalt & Brown
Abstract/Description: Eulogy upon the Honorable Stephen A. Douglas.Notes: Includes a poem by Scott, Walter 1771-1832, page 28. FAU copy edges trimmed to 22 cm.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f32
Subject Headings: Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Douglas, Stephen A. -- (Stephen Arnold) -- 1813-1861 -- Death and burial, Eulogies -- Washington (D.C.) -- 19th century, Legislators -- Illinois -- Biography, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Adversaries, Memorials (Commemorative) -- 1861, Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- 19th century, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- Congress -- Senate -- Biography, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
Format: E-book

Title: Abraham Lincoln : the just magistrate, the representative statesman, the practical philanthropist : address.
Creator: Bullock, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton) 1816-1882, Hamilton, Charles 1828-1896
Abstract/Description: Caption title: Eulogy
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb22f28
Subject Headings: Biography, Eulogies, Presidents -- United States -- Death, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Assassination, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Ethics, Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- 19th century, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Political and social views, Memorials (Commemorative) -- 1865, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Moral and ethical aspects, Political leadership -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Format: E-book

Title: Eulogy on the death of Abraham Lincoln : delivered before the City Council and citizens of Lowell, at Huntington Hall, April 19th, 1865.
Creator: Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall) 1818-1905, Stone & Huse
Abstract/Description: Cover title. "Published by resolution of the City Council."
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb22f27
Subject Headings: Biography, Presidents -- United States -- Death, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Assassination, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Influence, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Philosophy, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Political and social views, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Relations with African Americans, Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery, Memorials (Commemorative) -- 1865, Eulogies
Format: E-book

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