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The Thoughtful Heart cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Series Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- About the Author -- Cues Titles & -- Bibliography -- Part One John Henry Newman Discursive Enquiries on Metaphysical Subjects -- Editor's Introduction -- Editor's Explanatory Notes -- Editor's Textual Notes -- Part Two William Myers Discursive Enquiries and the Philosophical Tradition -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Index.

"On the feast of St. Michael, September 1659, a thirteen-year-old peasant girl left her family's rural home to work as a maid in the nearby city of Brunswick. Just two years later, Grethe Schmidt found herself imprisoned and accused of murdering her bastard child. Filled with political intrigue, Death and a Maiden tells a fascinating story that began in the bedchamber of a house in Brunswick and ended at the court of Duke Augustus in the city of Wolfenbüttel. No one was ever able to prove conclusively that Grethe had been pregnant and no infant's body was ever found to justify her prosecution. But, from one accusation, Grethe's tale spiraled outward to set a defense lawyer and legal theorist against powerful city magistrates and then upward to a legal contest between that city and its overlord, the Duchy of Brunswick, with the city's ancient liberties hanging in the balance. Myers weaves the story of Grethe's arrest, torture, trial, and sentence for "suspected infanticide," into a detailed account of the workings of the criminal system in continental Europe, including the nature of interrogations, the process of torture, and the creation of a "criminal" identity over time. He presents an in-depth examination of a system in which torture was both legal and an important part of criminal investigations. This story serves as a captivating slice of European history as well as a highly informative look at the condition of poor women and the legal system in mid-17th century Germany. General readers and scholars alike will be riveted by Grethe's ordeal."--Publisher's website

This article examines some important aspects of the current international debate regarding how to apply concepts of children's rights to child labor. It begins with the question of what, & whose, ideas about children & childhood provide the foundation for globalized children's rights norms, looking into concerns that international child labor policies may be unjustly dominated by European & North American values & ideas at the expense of more representative worldviews. From this perspective, it then reviews the three main international conventions dealing with child labor, discussing certain ideological & strategic differences between them & tracing in their history a gradual movement away from the dominance of Northern ethnocentrism & toward more culturally inclusive & flexible formulations of children's rights standards. 38 References. Adapted from the source document.

According to the author, greater use needs to be made of field surveys of urban working children in order to understand their situation and avoid erroneous perceptions. The results of four such surveys carried out in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Peru are compared in an attempt to draw a composite profile suggestive of patterns that may be generally expected in South America. The paper focuses primarily on children working in urban streets, and discusses their work, remuneration, families, education and needs

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