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Canelo Waterloo: Wellington's Victory and Napoleon's
Book SynopsisTHE GREATEST OF BATTLESThe defining military engagement of the nineteenth century. The epic battle that forever ended one man’s dreams of a European empire unified under his rule.THE GREATEST OF RIVALSThis epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be remembered for the showdown between two of history’s most legendary commanders: the Duke of Wellington, and Napoleon Bonaparte.THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNTDivided into three parts, Christopher Hibbert masterfully depicts first Napoleon and his rise to power, then a portrait of Wellington and the allied armies, and lastly the steps leading up to and the battle itself, the final clash on the fields of Waterloo.A gripping, succinct and panoramic survey of this legendary battle, the history surrounding the conflict, and the personalities that defined both the battle itself, and a generation.
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Headline Publishing Group Treasures of World History The Story Of
Book SynopsisAn examination of world history, told through 50 key documents. Table of ContentsCode of Hammurabi • Tutankhamun wishing cup • I Ching • Mahabharata • Homer's Odyssey • Greek ostraka • Rosetta Stone • Dead Sea Scrolls • Res Gestae • Koran • Book of Kells • Magna Carta • Da Vinci notebooks • Treaty of Tordesillas • Codex Mendoza • Copernicus, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres • Shakespeare First Folio • Treaty of Westphalia • Declaration of Independence • Tennis Court Oath • Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women • Beethoven's Fifth Symphony • Key, 'O Say Can You See' • Napoleon 1 March 1815 proclamation • Brunel letter on propulsion • Communist Manifesto • Soccer Rules • Darwin, On the Origin of Species • Gettysburg Address • British North America Act • Congress of Berlin • New Zealand Suffrage Petition • Wright brothers telegram • Tubb Gallipoli diary • Einstein, General Relativity paper • Wilson, Fourteen Points • Coco Chanel sketch • Anne Frank diary • Einstein, Manhattan Project latter • D-Day map • Churchill-Stalin 'percentages' paper • UN Charter • 'A Structure for DNA' • Treaty of Rome • Beatles itinerary • Mandela courtroom speech • Tickets to Woodstock 1969 • Apollo 11 report • Tim Berners-Lee Web memo • Map of the universe.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Henry Chauncey
Book SynopsisA leader in twentieth-century education, Henry Chauncey (19052002) introduced large-scale assessment into the lives of individual Americans. This first full-length educational biography examines Chauncey's education at Groton School, Ohio State University, and Harvard College, his position as a teacher at William Penn Charter School, and his role as founding president of the Educational Testing Service. Documenting a career extending from the Great Depression through the end of the Cold War, this book provides an interpretative history of educational measurement through the careers of Chauncey and his contemporaries. As researcher, administrator, and writer, Chauncey dealt with topics central to the history of schools and schooling: the role of accountability in education; the value of individual difference; the identification of talent; the necessity of international perspectives; the resonance between technology and learning; and the impulse for social justice. This biography provideTrade Review«‘Henry Chauncey: An American Life’ is a painstaking biography of a remarkable man and his ancestors. As the first president of the Educational Testing Service, Chauncey oversaw the rapid growth of an organization that touched the lives of millions of students who took entrance examinations required by undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. From its early focus on college admissions, ETS expanded its scope to encompass vocational guidance, school counseling, financial aid, draft deferments, personality assessment, and other areas. As Chauncey told his former Harvard classmates in 1953, ‘there are large areas to be explored’ by this ‘infant science.’ If Chauncey had been a businessman, one colleague later said, he would have been an excellent venture capitalist. To some skeptics, ETS was a ‘semi-sinister organization on 400 acres of beautiful country in New Jersey… [with] little warrens of statistical sadists who are constantly inventing things to make kids unhappy.’ Those critics should read this book. Rather than feature heroes and villains, Elliot offers an even-handed analysis of the hopes and fears of the pioneers of a promising new field.» (Robert L. Hampel, University of Delaware)«‘Henry Chauncey: An American Life’ is a painstaking biography of a remarkable man and his ancestors. As the first president of the Educational Testing Service, Chauncey oversaw the rapid growth of an organization that touched the lives of millions of students who took entrance examinations required by undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. From its early focus on college admissions, ETS expanded its scope to encompass vocational guidance, school counseling, financial aid, draft deferments, personality assessment, and other areas. As Chauncey told his former Harvard classmates in 1953, ‘there are large areas to be explored’ by this ‘infant science.’ If Chauncey had been a businessman, one colleague later said, he would have been an excellent venture capitalist. To some skeptics, ETS was a ‘semi-sinister organization on 400 acres of beautiful country in New Jersey… [with] little warrens of statistical sadists who are constantly inventing things to make kids unhappy.’ Those critics should read this book. Rather than feature heroes and villains, Elliot offers an even-handed analysis of the hopes and fears of the pioneers of a promising new field.» (Robert L. Hampel, University of Delaware)Table of ContentsContens: Panama, 1985 33 – Fathers and Sons, 1838 to 1905 – Service, 1905 to 1927 – Reorientation and Reorganization, 1928 to 1945 – Invention, 1946 to 1958 – Integration, 1958 to 1970 – Pentimento, 1970 to 2002.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Eighth Sister No More
Book SynopsisWhen founded in 1911, Connecticut College for Women was a pioneering women's college that sought to prepare the progressive era's new woman to be self-sufficient. Despite a path-breaking emphasis on preparation for work in the new fields opening to women, Connecticut College and its peers have been overlooked by historians of women's higher education. This book makes the case for the significance of Connecticut College's birth and evolution, and contextualizes the college in the history of women's education. Eighth Sister No More examines Connecticut College for Women's founding mission and vision, revealing how its grassroots founding to provide educational opportunity for women was altered by coeducation; how the college has been shaped by changes in thinking about women's roles and alterations in curricular emphasis; and the role local community ties played at the college's point of origin and during the recent presidency of Claire Gaudiani, the only alumna to lead the collegTrade Review«Paul P. Marthers has produced a well-written and well-researched examination of a college and its journey from single-sex to co-ed. He does a wonderful job of distilling all of the characters involved, illuminating important gender issues.» (Marybeth Gasman, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania)«Paul P. Marthers has produced a well-written and well-researched examination of a college and its journey from single-sex to co-ed. He does a wonderful job of distilling all of the characters involved, illuminating important gender issues.» (Marybeth Gasman, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania)
£30.07
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Eighth Sister No More
Book SynopsisWhen founded in 1911, Connecticut College for Women was a pioneering women's college that sought to prepare the progressive era's new woman to be self-sufficient. Despite a path-breaking emphasis on preparation for work in the new fields opening to women, Connecticut College and its peers have been overlooked by historians of women's higher education. This book makes the case for the significance of Connecticut College's birth and evolution, and contextualizes the college in the history of women's education. Eighth Sister No More examines Connecticut College for Women's founding mission and vision, revealing how its grassroots founding to provide educational opportunity for women was altered by coeducation; how the college has been shaped by changes in thinking about women's roles and alterations in curricular emphasis; and the role local community ties played at the college's point of origin and during the recent presidency of Claire Gaudiani, the only alumna to lead the collegTrade Review«Paul P. Marthers has produced a well-written and well-researched examination of a college and its journey from single-sex to co-ed. He does a wonderful job of distilling all of the characters involved, illuminating important gender issues.» (Marybeth Gasman, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania)«Paul P. Marthers has produced a well-written and well-researched examination of a college and its journey from single-sex to co-ed. He does a wonderful job of distilling all of the characters involved, illuminating important gender issues.» (Marybeth Gasman, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania)
£78.39
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Roman Virtues
Book SynopsisOver the last half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, rising secular liberalism led many Catholic Church leaders in Latin America and Rome to believe that the Church was in a state of crisis. As a solution, they focused on improving clerical education by reforming Latin American seminaries and by sending the best students to the Colegio Pío Latino Americano in Rome. This book examines the experiences of young clerics in Rome and the effects of their Roman education on their home dioceses after their return. Roman Virtues contributes to our understanding of the role of the Catholic Church in Latin American society and the relationships between local Latin American churches and the papacy during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
£43.38
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Urban Catholic Education
Book SynopsisUrban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times is a sequel to a 2010 work with the similar title, Urban Catholic Education: Tales of Twelve American Cities. Together, these works explore the historical contours of the Catholic parochial school movement in America's divergent urban centers from colonial times to the present. The first volume covers the years of growth and expansion up to 1970 and the second volume continues the story and discusses the years of decline and retrenchment over the past forty years. In this second volume, ten scholars many affiliated with Catholic schools and universities address the recent history of parish schools in as many cities across the country. Not only do the essays address common themes, they also articulate the elements that make Catholic education distinctive in each city. The book is a valuable touchstone for Catholic educators and scholars who work in and for a national Catholic educational establishment; Trade Review«Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times is an engaging and encouraging text. It challenges some current assumptions about Catholic education by telling the real stories of inner city schools and placing them in their historical and present day context. These are stories of new vitality, determination, tenacity and innovation. In some cases, the stories are of schools redefined yet still and always focused on the essentials of extending the faith the next generation and preparing young people for productive lives.» (Karen Ristau) «A tour de force, Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times chronicles the story of the Catholic schools in the urban areas of ten archdioceses since 1960. Distinguished historians of Catholic education, professors and other Catholic educators document the similar challenges that Catholic schools in different parts of the country have encountered during the past half century of school closings and enrollment decline. The book is a must-read for bishops, superintendents and all interested in supporting Catholic schools, and a valuable addition to any library.» (John J. Convey, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Professor of Education, The Catholic University of America) «With a keen eye for detail and a spot-on analysis of the many challenges facing Catholic schools today, this volume deftly chronicles recent trends in major U.S. cities concerning enrollment, financing, governance, and broad political and ecclesial developments currently shaping the American educational landscape. The authors and editors are honest and unsparing; hence, this is not always a happy book but it is a helpful one. Educational leaders, parents, policy makers, and all those concerned for the future of Catholic schooling would benefit from entering into the ebb and flow of the stories of faith found in these select cities.» (Rev. Ronald J. Nuzzi, Senior Director, The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program, Alliance for Catholic Education, The University of Notre Dame)«Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times is an engaging and encouraging text. It challenges some current assumptions about Catholic education by telling the real stories of inner city schools and placing them in their historical and present day context. These are stories of new vitality, determination, tenacity and innovation. In some cases, the stories are of schools redefined yet still and always focused on the essentials of extending the faith the next generation and preparing young people for productive lives.» (Karen Ristau) «A tour de force, Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times chronicles the story of the Catholic schools in the urban areas of ten archdioceses since 1960. Distinguished historians of Catholic education, professors and other Catholic educators document the similar challenges that Catholic schools in different parts of the country have encountered during the past half century of school closings and enrollment decline. The book is a must-read for bishops, superintendents and all interested in supporting Catholic schools, and a valuable addition to any library.» (John J. Convey, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Professor of Education, The Catholic University of America) «With a keen eye for detail and a spot-on analysis of the many challenges facing Catholic schools today, this volume deftly chronicles recent trends in major U.S. cities concerning enrollment, financing, governance, and broad political and ecclesial developments currently shaping the American educational landscape. The authors and editors are honest and unsparing; hence, this is not always a happy book but it is a helpful one. Educational leaders, parents, policy makers, and all those concerned for the future of Catholic schooling would benefit from entering into the ebb and flow of the stories of faith found in these select cities.» (Rev. Ronald J. Nuzzi, Senior Director, The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program, Alliance for Catholic Education, The University of Notre Dame)Table of ContentsContents: David J. O’Brien: Introduction: Conscious Choices, Deliberate Decisions – John White: A Clash of Culture and Faith: Catholic Education in Boston – Rodger Van Allen: Toward Sustainable Catholic Education: Parochial Schools in Philadelphia – Maria Mazzenga: A Fast-Changing World: Race and Change in Baltimore’s Parochial Schools – C. Walker Gollar: Making the World Better: Catholic Education in Cincinnati – George V. Fornero: A Tale of Two Schools: Catholic Education in Chicago – John T. James: Planning for Growth and Retrenchment: Catholic Education in St. Louis – Justin D. Poché: Stemming the Tide: Catholic Education in New Orleans – Steve Neiheisel: From Mission Church to Future Church: Catholic Schools in San Antonio – Shane P. Martin: Diversity, Opportunity, Challenge: Parochial Education in Los Angeles – Mary Peter Traviss, O.P.: Catholic Schools by the Bay: Parochial Education in San Francisco – Timothy Walch: Conclusion: Looking Backward, Moving Forward.
£28.98
Peter Lang Publishing Inc Urban Catholic Education
Book SynopsisUrban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times is a sequel to a 2010 work with the similar title, Urban Catholic Education: Tales of Twelve American Cities. Together, these works explore the historical contours of the Catholic parochial school movement in America's divergent urban centers from colonial times to the present. The first volume covers the years of growth and expansion up to 1970 and the second volume continues the story and discusses the years of decline and retrenchment over the past forty years. In this second volume, ten scholars many affiliated with Catholic schools and universities address the recent history of parish schools in as many cities across the country. Not only do the essays address common themes, they also articulate the elements that make Catholic education distinctive in each city. The book is a valuable touchstone for Catholic educators and scholars who work in and for a national Catholic educational establishment; Trade Review«Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times is an engaging and encouraging text. It challenges some current assumptions about Catholic education by telling the real stories of inner city schools and placing them in their historical and present day context. These are stories of new vitality, determination, tenacity and innovation. In some cases, the stories are of schools redefined yet still and always focused on the essentials of extending the faith the next generation and preparing young people for productive lives.» (Karen Ristau) «A tour de force, Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times chronicles the story of the Catholic schools in the urban areas of ten archdioceses since 1960. Distinguished historians of Catholic education, professors and other Catholic educators document the similar challenges that Catholic schools in different parts of the country have encountered during the past half century of school closings and enrollment decline. The book is a must-read for bishops, superintendents and all interested in supporting Catholic schools, and a valuable addition to any library.» (John J. Convey, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Professor of Education, The Catholic University of America) «With a keen eye for detail and a spot-on analysis of the many challenges facing Catholic schools today, this volume deftly chronicles recent trends in major U.S. cities concerning enrollment, financing, governance, and broad political and ecclesial developments currently shaping the American educational landscape. The authors and editors are honest and unsparing; hence, this is not always a happy book but it is a helpful one. Educational leaders, parents, policy makers, and all those concerned for the future of Catholic schooling would benefit from entering into the ebb and flow of the stories of faith found in these select cities.» (Rev. Ronald J. Nuzzi, Senior Director, The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program, Alliance for Catholic Education, The University of Notre Dame)«Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times is an engaging and encouraging text. It challenges some current assumptions about Catholic education by telling the real stories of inner city schools and placing them in their historical and present day context. These are stories of new vitality, determination, tenacity and innovation. In some cases, the stories are of schools redefined yet still and always focused on the essentials of extending the faith the next generation and preparing young people for productive lives.» (Karen Ristau) «A tour de force, Urban Catholic Education: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times chronicles the story of the Catholic schools in the urban areas of ten archdioceses since 1960. Distinguished historians of Catholic education, professors and other Catholic educators document the similar challenges that Catholic schools in different parts of the country have encountered during the past half century of school closings and enrollment decline. The book is a must-read for bishops, superintendents and all interested in supporting Catholic schools, and a valuable addition to any library.» (John J. Convey, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Professor of Education, The Catholic University of America) «With a keen eye for detail and a spot-on analysis of the many challenges facing Catholic schools today, this volume deftly chronicles recent trends in major U.S. cities concerning enrollment, financing, governance, and broad political and ecclesial developments currently shaping the American educational landscape. The authors and editors are honest and unsparing; hence, this is not always a happy book but it is a helpful one. Educational leaders, parents, policy makers, and all those concerned for the future of Catholic schooling would benefit from entering into the ebb and flow of the stories of faith found in these select cities.» (Rev. Ronald J. Nuzzi, Senior Director, The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program, Alliance for Catholic Education, The University of Notre Dame)Table of ContentsContents: David J. O’Brien: Introduction: Conscious Choices, Deliberate Decisions – John White: A Clash of Culture and Faith: Catholic Education in Boston – Rodger Van Allen: Toward Sustainable Catholic Education: Parochial Schools in Philadelphia – Maria Mazzenga: A Fast-Changing World: Race and Change in Baltimore’s Parochial Schools – C. Walker Gollar: Making the World Better: Catholic Education in Cincinnati – George V. Fornero: A Tale of Two Schools: Catholic Education in Chicago – John T. James: Planning for Growth and Retrenchment: Catholic Education in St. Louis – Justin D. Poché: Stemming the Tide: Catholic Education in New Orleans – Steve Neiheisel: From Mission Church to Future Church: Catholic Schools in San Antonio – Shane P. Martin: Diversity, Opportunity, Challenge: Parochial Education in Los Angeles – Mary Peter Traviss, O.P.: Catholic Schools by the Bay: Parochial Education in San Francisco – Timothy Walch: Conclusion: Looking Backward, Moving Forward.
£97.92
Peter Lang Publishing Inc A History of Elementary Social Studies
Book SynopsisElementary social studies, which seeks to instill in children the principles of democratic citizenship and the core values of social responsibility, has an important responsibility in U.S. classrooms. Yet, to achieve these goals, elementary social studies must overcome a number of challenges. Social studies lessons are marginalized in the school day, and critics complain these lessons lack disciplinary rigor and focus. In addition, scholarship in the field is under-funded and under-researched. A History of Elementary Social Studies: Romance and Reality recounts the history of elementary social studies in the United States, beginning with its mid-nineteenth century antecedents. The book reflects on the global and national issues that influenced the origins and development of elementary social studies. This history identifies the sources of many problems in contemporary social studies education. It explains why one particular approach, the expanding communities, has thrived in ele
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Secularism Education and Emotions
Book SynopsisSecularism, Education, and Emotions: Cultural Tensions in Hebrew Palestine (18821926) aims to explore the sources of secularism, its social and emotional significances, its various expressions, and its thorny frictions with different religious environments during the first decades of modern settlement of Jews in Eretz-Israel (Palestine). Accordingly, this book develops four main concepts about secularism in Eretz-Israel: (1) Secularism was, in large part, a reaction against religion; (2) Secularism was not an isolated local occurrence but rather a product of the wider European cultural stage, influenced by ideas of contestation against religious dominance and nascent nationalism; (3) Secularism was essentially an emotional phenomenon in Europe and in Eretz-Israel likewise; (4) In the struggle between religious and secularists in Eretz-Israel, education occupied a major place as the main vehicle for the promotion of ideas. Utilizing these four main concepts, Yair Seltenreich Table of ContentsContent: Religion in European culture – Secularism in European culture – Jewish secularism – Zionist secularism – Yishuv secularism – Secularists and religious in Yishuv society – Education, secularism and religion in Eretz-Israel – The struggle for preservation of religious education – Religion in the Galilee moshavot – The secular teacher in Galilee moshava – Religious struggles in the moshavot.
£66.33
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers Ethnic Oral History Materials in Yunnan
Book SynopsisThrough case studies of pilot conservation projects launched by the Yunnan Provincial Archives in recent years, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses issues in the conservation of ethnic oral history material and the development of ethnic oral history resources. After an overview of ethnic oral history material in general, the book gives an introduction to the oral history material of the Bai, Hani, Lisu, Wa, Zhuang, and Qiang ethnic groups; discusses theoretical research and work practices related to ethnic oral history; elaborates upon the methods for managing and integrating ethnic oral history archives; reviews the history, current state, and existing issues of work related to ethnic oral materials; summarizes experiences gained from international collaboration in the conservation of ethnic oral materials; and reflects upon issues such as the development of ethnic oral history resources and the establishment of oral history resource systems in multi-ethnic bordeTable of ContentsPreface – Overview of Ethnic Oral Materials – Case Study on Ethnic Oral History Materials and Archives – Studies of Ethnic Oral History Materials and Archives – Management of Ethnic Oral History Archives – History and Current State of Ethnic Oral Materials – Conservation of Ethnic Oral History Materials and International Cooperation – Development of Ethnic Oral History Resources.
£62.19
Quercus Publishing Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their
Book Synopsis'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual' Helen Castor------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and collectors who made and kept the beautiful, fragile objects that have survived the ravages of fire, water and deliberate destruction to form a picture of both English culture and the wider European culture of which it is part.Without manuscripts, she shows, many historical figures would be lost to us, as well as those of lower social status, women and people of colour, their stories erased, and the remnants of their labours destroyed.From the Cuthbert Bible, to works including those by the Beowulf poet, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, Chaucer, the Paston Letters and Shakespeare, Mary Wellesley describes the production and preservation of these priceless objects.With an insistent emphasis on the early role of women as authors and artists and illustrated with over fifty colour plates, Hidden Hands is an important contribution to our understanding of literature and history.Trade ReviewThis is an engaging and beautiful book - the engagement arising from the author's deep commitment to understanding the lives of medieval women and men, and the beauty from her ability to make us see and hear them talking about and living their experiences. It isn't just an introduction to literary manuscripts but also a series of glimpses of the extraordinary diversity of medieval lives. Mary Wellesley has taken jewels from our bibliographic treasures and placed them, carefully and with love, in the palm of the reader's hand -- Ian MortimerMary Wellesley is a born storyteller and Hidden Hands is as good as historical writing gets. Wellesley draws on her deep scholarly knowledge of medieval manuscripts to weave a captivating tale, told through generations of 'tremulous hands' and forgotten artistic geniuses, whose works inform so much of what we know today about the Middle Ages. This is a sensational debut by a wonderfully gifted historian. -- Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and The Templars.Their creators being largely anonymous, Medieval manuscripts tell their own stories in this Decameron of devotion and obsession, encryption and skullduggery, extravagance, destruction, and survival. The result is an unexpectedly swift page-turner on the era when pages were turned slowly. -- Eliot Weinberger, author of Angels & SaintsHidden Hands shines with 'bibliophilic feeling.' With care forensic and literary, Wellesley reveals the traces of their history legible in the pores of the page and in the process provides a page-turner of her own. * Amaranth Borsuk, author of The Book *Mary Wellesley has written a most original book which is at once a vivid personal account of scholarly detective work and a model of how history might be taught now that there is easy electronic access to ancient manuscripts. She traces the precarious survival of the the earliest books, expounds with clarity the methods and purposes of authors, scribes, patrons, annotators and illustrators and speculates with sympathy on their motives. Hands (especially female ones) assume personalities, indeed voices which are recognisable even when alien - and often urgently appealing. -- Nicholas PennyAuthors may write their books, but they don''t make them. Here is the chance to meet the women and men who actually made the cathedrals and palaces of medieval English literature, from the St Cuthbert Gospel to the Luttrell Psalter, from Beowulf to Chaucer. Mary Wellesley tells us about the authors, but more important, she introduces us to the artists, the ink-makers, vellum preparers and pigment grinders - and all the others who contributed their different gifts to these great communal achievements. To read this book is to meet the makers of the English literary middle ages. -- Neil MacGregorHidden Hands is a delight - immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, full of gorgeous illustrations and shimmering description. Mary Wellesley explores the lives of medieval manuscripts, and the men and - importantly - women who made them, with deep learning and unmistakable love. * Helen Castor *It is very seldom you read a book which offers gifts on every page, every paragraph, every sentence. I learned more, and was more delighted, reading Hidden Hands that the last dozen books I read. Her book brings you into the heart's core of literature and I loved it. -- Andrew O'HaganIn an age moving ever more quickly away from the physical book, Hidden Hands conjures up in vivid detail the pleasures of reading and making manuscripts. Mary Wellesley's joy in telling the stories of books long lost and found, and voices forgotten and recovered, is palpable on every page. I finished this book with a burning desire to get back to the archives. -- Ramie Targoff, author of Renaissance WomanMary Wellesley brings early Britain alive with this exciting account of the hidden world of old manuscripts. Far from an arid examination of dusty parchments this is an exhilarating journey of discovery, full of new insights not least, as the title implies , the important but unrecognised role women played in political and religious life. A refreshing and original vision of who we once were. -- David DimblebyWith her richly detailed, personal, multi-layered and unexpected stories about manuscripts and their makers - scribes and patrons, illuminators and parchment-makers - Mary Wellesley brings vividly before us anonymous and forgotten figures, several of them women. Writing con amore, she celebrates the sensuous processes involved and chronicles the vicissitudes of the works' survival: this is a warm, enthralling and original contribution to the history of the book. -- Mariner WarnerA fascinating and brilliantly narrated voyage into the little-known treasure-houses of medieval culture. -- Simon JenkinsFascinating, well-researched and (pardon the pun) illuminating. * The Countryman Mag *It is intensely personal. It wears its learning lightly. It chats easily and informally to the reader. It conveys a mass of arcane but fascinating information... Manuscripts establish a personal bond across the centuries between [the author] and the men and women who made them. Few people have described the experience so eloquently. The range is remarkable... wonderful. * The Spectator *To Wellesley, books are objects, tangible things, a million miles away from Kindles, which are insert. Her taste is not for "the sanitised, ordered blandness of the modern edited text." * The Daily Telegraph *'Highlighting instances in which texts about women were radically recentered on men, Wellesley offers a nuanced glimpse of the shifting nature of the written word' * New Yorker *This is a lovely book, beautifully written and brimming with enthusiasm . . . Wonderful. * Sunday Times (History BOTY) *A georgeously written debut work from a historian of great talent * BBC History Magazine Books of the Year *A jaw-dropping account of . . . medieval manuscripts. * The Scotsman *
£11.69
Arc Humanities Press Antonio Latini’s The Modern Steward, or The Art
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£138.26
Archaeopress Revealing Trimontium: The Correspondence of James
Book SynopsisThe Roman fort of Trimontium, near the village of Newstead in the Scottish Borders, is renowned internationally thanks to the work of James Curle (1862–1944), a solicitor in nearby Melrose. He led the excavations of 1905–1910, with their spectacular discoveries, and produced an exemplary publication. This volume brings together key sets of his correspondence which illuminate his intellectual networks and connections. They reveal a web of local, national and international contacts and travels that equipped him with an impressively broad knowledge of Roman provincial archaeology and turned him into a sought-after advisor for his expertise and knowledge of a range of topics, especially Roman pottery. Yet his interests went beyond the Roman military. His early interests in Swedish archaeology were rekindled after the Trimontium excavations, with a series of papers on aspects of Viking brooches, while a long-running interest in finds of Roman material beyond the frontiers of the empire shows his concern to understand the Iron Age societies of Scotland and Scandinavia. The letters are provided with a critical apparatus to explain their context, while introductory chapters consider Curle’s background, his local links, his connections with the great Romano-British archaeologist Francis Haverfield, and his wider antiquarian networks. The letters cast fresh light on the intellectual networks of the early 20th century, when professional archaeology was still in its infancy and gifted amateurs such as James Curle played a key role in laying the foundations on which scholarship still builds today.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. James Curle and his Letters Chapter 3. An Introduction to Trimontium Chapter 4. James Curle and his Archaeological World Chapter 5. Curle and Haverfield Chapter 6. James Curle: A Man of Melrose Chapter 7. Glimpses of the Dramatis Personae Chapter 8. Letters to Hercules Chapter 9. From Greece and Rome Chapter 10. My Dear Haverfield Chapter 11. From Home and Abroad Chapter 12. Miscellanea Appendix. Letters between the British Museum and A.O. Curle Bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books Innovation and Implementation: Critical
Book Synopsis Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Divided into three parts considering documentary research and recording of mortuary landscapes, reflections on memorial recording projects, and archiving and wider dissemination of data and interpretations. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials. Discussions therefore include how methodologies may or may not be applicable to both human and animal subjects.Trade Review “…the chapters provide a clear description of historic cemetery archaeological practices, giving individuals a better idea of potential archaeological projects and careers and the challenges faced by those in the field.” • Heather Garvin, Des Moines University “This is a timely, well-organized volume that focuses on new and updated approaches toward cemetery studies. The 14 chapters outline different but complimentary methodologies in cemetery studies and their application over a cross section of global locations.” • Nancy E. Tatarek, Ohio UniversityTable of Contents List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Harold Mytum and Richard Veit Part I: Exploring Surface, Subsurface and Documentary Evidence Chapter 1. Applying Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to Record and Interpret Mortuary Monuments Harold Mytum Chapter 2. Reevaluating Empty Sections Within Historic Cemeteries: Discovering Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Mark Nonestied Chapter 3. Is Anyone Out There? Survey and Research Techniques for CRM Projects when Burial Grounds/Cemeteries Border Construction Projects Mickey Dobbin and Bob Dean Chapter 4. Who Lies Where? A Land and Air-based Survey Methodology for Documenting Historic Cemeteries Richard W. Hunter, James S. Lee III, Alexis Alemy and Evan Mydlowski Part II: Field Recording of Monuments and Burial Ground Management Chapter 5. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Evaluating Earlier Cemetery Monument Records through Modern Recording Anne G. Giesecke and Dan Steffen Chapter 6. An International Mortuary Monument Recording System - From Site Analysis to International Comparative Studies Harold Mytum Chapter 7. “As Old as Pompeii or Herculaneum”: Kolkata, India’s South Park Street Cemetery, An Example of Rapid Recording Richard Veit Chapter 8. Standing for Sacred Spaces: NC Division of Cultural Resources and the African American Burial Ground Network Act Melissa A Timo Chapter 9. Mourning and Remembering Deceased Companion Species: Mortuary Monuments and Graves for Horses in Finland Tiina Äikäs, Janne Ikäheimo, Tuija Kirkinen, Karin Hemmann, and Päivi Laine Chapter 10. Preserving the Rainbow Bridge: Recording Pet Cemeteries Eric Tourigny Part III: Archiving and Dissemination Chapter 11. Discovering England's Burial Spaces (DEBS): Using Digital Tools in Graveyard Recording and Archiving Julian D Richards, Toby Pillatt, Debbie Maxwell, Gareth Beale and Nicole Smith Chapter 12. The Cemetery Surveyor Application: Non-paper data Collection Methods in Luxembourg Burial Grounds Christoph K. Streb, Cyrille Médard de Chardon, and Thomas Kolnberger Chapter 13. Burial Grounds on the Web: Reviewing the Role of Digital Data beyond Genealogy, and how Historical Archaeology can play its part Anna Fairley Nielsson Chapter 14. Burial Ground Recording and Analysis: Where Next? Harold Mytum and Richard Veit Index
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Anthem Press The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness
Book SynopsisThe Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. More than a million others fled the stricken land between 1845 and 1851. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap. It is based on a large volume of reports on social conditions in the Irish localities, emanating from within those localities, that has never been used systematically by historians. It bears the compelling title of the ‘Death Census’. Most historians are simply unaware of its existence. The outstanding feature of the Death Census is that it was authored by local clergymen who lived among the people they served and were intimately involved with their lives. This book brings the Death Census together in composite form for the first time and provides a detailed examination of its contents. The result is new understanding of the Great Famine as it was experienced on the ground.Trade Review‘This volume provides both a new source for determining the level of tragic local deaths as a result of the Great Famine and a brilliantly new way of evaluating the ameliorative efforts of the United Kingdom government. Famine studies will be significantly changed in light of this radical study’ —Professor Donald H. Akenson.‘Based on 100 eyewitness statements, amounting to almost 50,000 words of testimony, the death census of 1847 demonstrates that there are still sources to be recovered that add depth and nuance to our understanding of the tragedy known as the Great Famine. Stunning research by four accomplished scholars’ —Professor Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, USA.‘This book is a wonderful resource for all those who want to learn more about the most important event in Irish history. The Catholic clergy who prepared the reports were uniquely well placed to document the devastation across the country in Black ’47. The Death Census enables readers to drill down into the local experience of Ireland’s Great Famine using this unique source to understand how the catastrophe affected ordinary people in communities across the country in the late 1840s.’ —Professor Enda Delaney, University of Edinburgh, UK.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables, and Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I, Chapter One The Great Famine; Chapter Two The Death Census of 1847; Chapter Three The Politics of Famine Mortality; Chapter Four Estimates of Famine Mortality in the Death Census; Chapter Five Eyewitness Accounts of Black ’47; Chapter Six Famine, Priests and People; Part II, Chapter Seven The Death Census: Testimony in Context; Bibliography; Index
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The History Press Ltd Researching the History of a Country House: A
Book SynopsisThe origins of this book date from the 1990s when the author began to research the history of his own country house in the Kent Downs at Trimworth, near Canterbury. These early investigations led him to see how Trimworth could be used as a case study in a voyage of discovery which others could also enjoy. The book will be most relevant to owners of country houses, providing a methodology for the less experienced to trace an exciting pathway of inquiry. It is based on an exploration of a wide range of maps and documentary sources available from local, regional and national archive centres. This fully illustrated guide encourages a systematic process of research into the fascinating and topical subject of house history and makes frequent reference to online sources.
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Verlag Peter Lang Luise Buechner: A Nineteenth-Century Evolutionary
Book SynopsisThis first book-length biography with discussions of select writings by Luise Büchner (1821-1877) draws on her commentary of events available in letters and writings. A close reading of Büchner’s fictional writings reveals that she both entertained and educated her readers. Her pedagogical messages correspond to ideas she promoted in her work on the «woman question». This in-depth study properly situates her in the changing cultural climate and socio-political developments that led to unification of the German states in 1871. Büchner tested and revised her thoughts on the «woman question» in the course of her practical work as a co-founder of local women’s associations and as a member of two competing «national» bourgeois women’s organizations. Her «voice» and temperament, as reflected in letters and articles not consulted by previous biographers, lead to surprising discoveries about a single woman whose life had more to offer than the narrowly prescribed roles assigned to middle-class women of her day.Table of ContentsContents: Life in the Capital of Hesse-Darmstadt – Die Frauen und ihr Beruf, editions 1-3 – Büchner’s Fictional Work – Büchner’s Nonfictional Work – The Women’s Movement in the 1860s – The Women’s Movement in the 1870s – The Evolutionary Feminist.
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De Gruyter Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of experimental approaches to the study of media histories and their cultures. Doing media archaeological experiments, such as historical re-enactments and hands-on simulations with media historical objects, helps us to explore and better understand the workings of past media technologies and their practices of use. By systematically refl ecting on the methodological underpinnings of experimental media archaeology as a relatively new approach in media historical research and teaching, this book aims to serve as a practical handbook for doing media archaeological experiments. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory, authored by Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever.
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De Gruyter Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts,
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first in a new series of editions of Coptic-language "magical" manuscripts from Egypt, written on papyrus, ostraca, parchment, and paper, and dating to between the fourth and twelfth centuries CE. Their texts attest to non-institutional rituals intended to bring about changes in the lives of those who used them – heal disease, curse enemies, bring about love or hatred, or see into the future. These manuscripts represent rich sources of information on daily life and lived religion of Egypt in the last centuries of Roman rule and the first centuries after the Arab conquest, giving us glimpses of the hopes and fears of people of this time, their conflicts and problems, and their vision of the human and superhuman worlds. This volume presents 37 new editions and descriptions of manuscripts, focusing on formularies or "handbooks", those texts containing instructions for the performance of rituals. Each of these is accompanied by a history of its acquisition, a material description, and presented with facing text and translations, tracings of accompanying images, and explanatory notes to aid in understanding the text.
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Historische Philosophie: Beschreibung Einer
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Dietrich Reimer Carl Ritter Und Seine Erdkunde Von Asien: Die
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Die DDR im Blick der Stasi 1982: Die geheimen
Book Synopsis1982 stagniert die ökonomische Entwicklung, Verschleiß und Mangelwirtschaft führen zu Bränden und Explosionen in Industriebetrieben und in der Bevölkerung macht sich angesichts einer veritablen Versorgungskrise Resignation breit. Doch die Stasi fokussierte sich auf die aufkeimende Friedens- und Umweltbewegung. Vor dem Hintergrund des zweiten Kalten Krieges und der atomaren Hochrüstung der Supermächte beschäftigte sie sich beispielsweise eingehend mit dem „Berliner Appell“, dem Friedensforum in Dresden oder den Blues-Messen in Berlin. Die unter dem Dach der evangelischen Kirche entstehende kleine, aber aktive Friedensbewegung schien ausweislich der geheimen Berichte an die SED-Führung eine größere Bedrohung für den SED-Staat zu sein als der allgemeine wirtschaftliche Niedergang und seine Folgen.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Publicum und Secretum: Die Diarien Gerlach Adolph
Book SynopsisGegenstand der Edition ist das sog. Diarium Legationis, das Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen in seiner Funktion als erster Gesandter des Kurfürstentums Braunschweig-Lüneburg bei der Frankfurter Königswahl in den Jahren 1741 und 1742 verfasste. Das Diarium ist ein in vielerlei Hinsicht bemerkenswertes Dokument. Inmitten des Österreichischen Erbfolgekrieges entstanden, dokumentiert das Diarium die Komplikationen der Sukzession nach dem Tod Kaiser Karls VI. und des zeitweisen Übergangs der Kaiserwürde auf das Haus Wittelsbach im Anschluss an die reichsgeschichtlich dramatischen Auswirkungen der Pragmatischen Sanktion. Auch der seit Jahrzehnten wachsende Einfluss reichsfremder Mächte, insbesondere der Krone Frankreichs, auf die konkreten Geschicke der Reichspolitik finden im Diarium ihren Niederschlag. Auch für die inneren Geschicke Kurhannovers ist das Diarium ein Schlüsseldokument: Für den Aufstieg Münchhausens zum Premierminister in Hannover war die Gesandtschaft nach Frankfurt eine wichtige Etappe. Im Kontext der Reichsversammlungen des Heiligen Römischen Reiches nimmt der Bericht schließlich eine ungewöhnliche Stellung zwischen den nüchternen Versammlungsprotokollen den Gesandtschaftsrelationen ein. Für den regen Wissensaustausch zwischen Gesandtschaft und Hof, für die informellen Formen ministerialer Sozialisierung und klandestiner Diplomatie auf dem Wahltag und für den hohen Stellenwert persönlicher Beziehungen ist das Diarium Münchhausens von kaum zu überschätzender Bedeutung.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Regesta Pontificum Romanorum: Tomus quintus (ab
Book SynopsisIm Rahmen des Projekts „Papsturkunden des frühen und hohen Mittelalters“ der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, welches im Gesamtunternehmen der Pius-Stiftung für Papsturkundenforschung eingebettet ist, entsteht die Neubearbeitung der Regesta Pontificum Romanorum unter der Ägide von Klaus Herbers. Der fünfte Band enthält die Pontifikate von Gregor VII. bis zu Urban II. (von 1073 bis 1099). In kurzen lateinischen Regesten werden systematisch die Papstkontakte in chronologischer Reihenfolge erschlossen. Durch die Aufarbeitung der Forschungsgeschichte seit der letzten Auflage 1885 wurde die Zahl der Einträge auf über 2500 erhöht. Privilegien, Konzilsakten sowie Brief- und Rechtssammlungen wurden ebenso ausgewertet wie die wichtigste Historiographie. Einen zentralen Fortschritt erbrachte die bibliografische Aktualisierung. Die Regesten verweisen auf die heute maßgeblichen Editionen und die Diskussion zu Echtheit und Datierung der Papstschreiben. Konkordanzen und ein Initienregister erleichtern den Zugriff.
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Peter Lang AG Eminent Lives in Twentieth-Century Science and
Book SynopsisCan science and religion coexist in harmony? Or is conflict inevitable? In this volume an international team of distinguished scholars addresses these enduring yet urgent questions by examining the lives of thirteen eminent twentieth-century scientists whose careers were marked by the interaction of science and religion: Rachel Carson, Charles A. Coulson, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Arthur S. Eddington, Albert Einstein, Ronald A. Fisher, Julian Huxley, Pascual Jordan, Robert A. Millikan, Ivan P. Pavlov, Michael I. Pupin, Abdus Salam, and Edward O. Wilson. The richly empirical studies show a diversity of creative engagements between science and religion that defy efforts to set the two at odds.Trade Review«The strength of Rupke’s volume lies both in the judicious selection of eight particularly interesting scientists whose stories blend well together and in his recruitment of eight brilliantly qualified authors ... [T]he truly remarkable feature of this collection is the uniformly high standard of presentation in all these diverse and engaging biographical essays.» (Owen Gingerich in Perspectives on Sciences and Christian Faith on the first edition) «[T]he essays show scientists engaged as public intellectuals and are therefore relevant to scholars interested in science and religion in public life.» (Ruth Barton in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences on the first edition)Table of ContentsContents: Nicolaas A. Rupke: Introduction: Telling Lives in Science and Religion – Mark Stoll: Rachel Carson (1907-64) – Arie Leegwater: Charles Alfred Coulson (1910-74) – Jitse M. van der Meer: Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-75) – Jason M. Rampelt: Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) – Gebhard Löhr: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) – James Moore: Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) – Peter J. Bowler: Julian Huxley (1887-1975) – Richard H. Beyler: Pascual Jordan (1902-80) – Edward B. Davies: Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953) – Torsten Rüting: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) – Edward B. Davies: Michael Idvorsky Pupin (1858-1935) – Martin Riexinger: Abdus Salam (1926-96) – Mark Stoll: Edward Osborne Wilson (b. 1929) – Ronald L. Numbers: Epilogue: Science, Secularization, and Privatization.
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Peter Lang AG The University in the Making of the Welfare
Book SynopsisIn just a couple of decades, Finland evolved from one of Europe’s lowest educated countries to the top performer of the international PISA ranking. Behind this «success story», there was a conscious strategy to use educational policies for creating a more equal society. Tracing the development of Finnish higher education system after WWII, this book depicts the role of educational expansion in the making of the welfare state. It focuses on the 1970s degree reform and the challenges brought by the 1973 Oil Crisis, resulting in the rise of New Public Management. Though meticulously planned, the reform was a struggle between various actors with conflicting strategies and goals; between educational optimism and scarce resources, academic values and instrumentalism, social justice and elitism.Trade Review«Dieses Buch ist eine herausragende Studie. Zum einen zeigt seine Autorin, die finnische Historikerin Marja Jalava, wie gewinnbringend die Geschichte der Hochschulreform geschrieben werden kann, wenn man sie nicht als kleinteilige Universitätshistorie, sondern als Geschichte eines durch gesellschaftliche Aushandlungsprozesse gekennzeichneten und auf vielfältige Weise interagierenden sozialen Feldes konzipiert. Zum anderen macht die gerade einmal 170 Seiten zählende Monographie eine eklatante Forschungslücke innerhalb der europäischen Bildungs- und Zeitgeschichte sichtbar.» (Anne Rohstock, H-Soz-u-Kult 106, 2013/1)Table of ContentsContents: Nordic Countries – Welfare State – Finland – Higher Education – Idea of the University – Social Equality – Human Capital – Economic Growth – Regional Politics – State Planning – Social Transformation – Ministry of Education – Degree Reform – Student Movement – Think Tanks – New Public Management – PISA Surveys.
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Peter Lang AG Rufus Jones (1863-1948): Life and Bibliography of
Book SynopsisRufus Jones (1863-1948) helped organize the Quäkerspeisung (Quaker feeding effort), saving millions from starvation after the First World War. In Germany he is best known for having travelled to Berlin to seek a personal meeting with Hitler after the Kristallnacht in 1938. And, at the conclusion of a long life devoted to service, it was largely due to Jones that the American Friends Service Committee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. But Jones was also the quintessential «American scholar», seeking to harmonize theory and practice. He was a pivotal figure of the 20th century who stayed in close touch with authors and statesmen the world over. He earned a reputation as a modern mystic and an active pacifist, and was regarded as the moral conscience of his era. His scholarship encompassed education and pedagogy, philosophical questions, church and Quaker history, as well as the political issues of the day. Jones dealt with such issues as justice, democracy, and child-rearing. His ideas are still alive today and still arouse controversy. He was particularly anxious to avoid the cultivation of an elite, pleading instead for individual growth and personality development. Over the course of his life, he was awarded twelve academic titles, taught at numerous universities, delivered countless lectures, and was one of the first theologians to recognise the significance of radio and to make full use of it. To this day Rufus Jones is still honored as a «seer», «Protestant mystic», and even as a «Master Quaker» and «Quaker Giant». It is time also to take a critical look at these honors.Table of ContentsContents: Biography – Selected Writings: A postponed heaven - Diversions and recreations - Not cunningly devised fables - The historical and the inward Christ - The meaning of personality – Primary Sources: Education - Political Writing - Literary Works - Biography & Obituary - Autobiography - Mysticism - Church History - Religious Writing & Christianity - Missionary Work - Quakerism & Quaker Issues - Editorials, Introductions, and Forewords - Entries in Dictionaries – Secondary Sources: Bibliography - Literature on Rufus Jones.
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Peter Lang AG Nordic Ideology between Religion and Scholarship
Book SynopsisThe articles of this volume treat the expansion of the Nordic ideology in the first half of the twentieth century. They concentrate on the amalgamation of scientific, religious and political features, which transformed the idea of the North into a mainstay of extreme nationalism. Lacking positive norms and values, the Nordic idea depended on the opposition against everything deemed un-Nordic. Völkisch Nordicism shared with conventional forms of nationalism the enmity with Judaism and Bolshevism and – to a lesser extent – with Anglo-Americanism and Catholicism. Beyond that, it constituted a mythological counter narrative that combined the idea of spiritual kinship with biological lineage, on Pagan as well as on Christian grounds.Table of ContentsContents: Uwe Puschner: The Notions Völkisch and Nordic: A Conceptual Approximation – Horst Junginger: Nordic Ideology in the SS and the SS Ahnenerbe – Debora Dusse: The Eddic Myth between Academic and Religious Interpretations – Bernard Mees: Charisma, Authority and Heil: Walter Baetke and the Chasm of 1945 – Luitgard Löw: The Great God’s Oldest Runes – Anders Gerdmar: «Luthers Kampf gegen die Juden»: A Völkisch Reception of Luther’s View of the Jews – Lena Berggren: Völkisch Thought in Sweden: The Manhem Society and the Quest for National Enlightenment 1934–44 – Andreas Åkerlund: Nordic Studies in National Socialist Germany: A Possible Career Path for Swedish Academics – Hartmut Walravens: Sven Hedin and German Scholars: The Cases of Wilhelm A. Unkrig and Ferdinand Lessing – Isrun Engelhardt: The Holy City of Lhasa: Dreams and Destination for Sven Hedin and Ernst Schäfer – Stefanie v. Schnurbein: The Use of Theories of Religion in Contemporary Asatru – Herman Wirth: Summary of «The Great God’s Oldest Runes». Fimbultý’s Prehistoric Runes (Voluspá 60).
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Peter Lang AG Beyond the Classroom: Studies on Pupils and
Book SynopsisThe research on educational history has traditionally focused on its institutional, political and pedagogical aspects, more or less habitually analyzing schooling as a top-down, adult-controlled phenomenon. Even if change has been visible during the last decades, there still remain important topics that are rarely discussed in the field. These topics include practices related to day-to-day school life that are not part of the formal curriculum or classroom routine, but which nevertheless allow pupils to become actively involved in their own schooling. This book provides historical case studies on such extracurricular and informal schooling processes. It argues that the awareness of such topics is essential to our understanding of school settings – in both past and present.Table of ContentsContents: Anna Larsson / BjContents: Anna Larsson / Björn Norlin: Introduction: Taking Pupils into Account in Educational History Research – Sian Roberts: «It is Better to Learn than to be Taught»: Pupil Culture and Socialization in The Hazelwood Magazine in the 1820s – Esbjörn Larsson: Karlberg as a Total Institution: The Royal Swedish War Academy in the 1800s – Björn Norlin: The Nordic Secondary School Youth Movement: Pupil Exchange in the Era of Educational Modernization,1870-1914 – Marieke Smit: School Culture at Fons Vitae: Capturing Pupil Experiences in a Dutch Catholic Girls School, 1914-40 – Anna Larsson: Remembering School: Autobiographical Depictions of Daily School Life in Sweden, 1918-80 – Joakim Landahl: Simulating Society: The Norra Latin Summer Residence in Stockholm, 1938-65 – Emmanuel Droit: Between Identity and Stigmatization: The Socialization of East Berlin Pupils in the 1950s.
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Peter Lang AG The Treachery of the Elites
Book SynopsisThis book gives explanations for the growing gap in wealth and income and the rise of anti-democratic movements. The power of the elites today is supposedly founded on merit (education, intelligence etc.), but a closer look shows that a well-marked-out pool is just self-re-producing. The power these in-groups wield often leads to moral insensibility, made worse by a condescending attitude towards people further down the food chain. The pre-dominance of the model of the nation-state, with its centralism and top-down structure, is one of the roots of this problem, as is the lack of comparisons and value judgements; examples from transport and urbanism show that they are possible. The deplorable situation is made worse by the “anti-“social-media scuppering open and productive discussions.Table of ContentsThe achievements of Western democracies (equality, rule of law, social justice) are met with growing disdain. The option of comparing different systems and trying to improve them is not practised any more. The elites (social, political, economic, intellectual) are met with scorn and hate by the common people who are treated with disdain and contempt – social give and take does not happen anymore, the situation is made worse by the social media.
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Peter Lang AG More than Alive: The Dead, Orthodoxy and
Book SynopsisThe process of the Orthodoxization of memory in Russia started long before the Russian Orthodox Church engaged in the memory politics. It was a grassrooted process initiated by both the living and the dead. By using religious symbols and rituals, various groups of living were restoring their relationship with the forgotten dead of Soviet repressions and war. When the Moscow Patriarchate has returned to active public life and started developing its religious memory infrastructure, the Orthodoxization process got a new up–down dimension. Finally, a turn of the Putin’s regime towards religious commemorative practices caused the disappearance of the boundary between religious and political memory. The bricolage memory, consisting of elements of Orthodox tradition and Soviet memory culture, appeared.Table of ContentsPart I: Grassroot Orthodoxization - Part II: Top- Down Orthodoxization
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Der Osterreichische Staatsrat, Protokolle Des
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Kunst ALS Waffe - Der Einsatzstab Reichsleiter
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Das Kloster Schontal Bei Langenbruck: Die Bau-
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Jan Thorbecke Verlag Kurie Und Kodikologie: Festschrift Fur Claudia
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Leiden University Press East Asia beyond the Archives: Missing Sources
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Amsterdam University Press Desecularizing the Christian Past: Beyond R.A.
Book SynopsisThe essential objective of this study is to unpack the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the study of late ancient and early medieval Christianity—and then suggest a way out. In this work of historiography of religion, Enrico Beltramini argues that religious history is inherently secular and produces distorted representations of the Christian past. He suggests moving from an epistemological to a hermeneutical approach so that the supernatural worldview of the Christian past can be addressed on its own terms. This work also engages Markus’s saeculum and replaces Markus’s secularized relationship between the Kingdom and the government of the civitas with the Augustinian association of the Kingdom and divine government.Table of ContentsFOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION SACRAMENTAL ONTOLOGY ONTOLOGICAL TURN HISTORY AND THEOLOGY SAECULUM ANCIENT AND MODERN CHRISTIANITY AUGUSTINIANISMS SAECULUM RETOLD CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Amsterdam University Press Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and
Book SynopsisThis volume assembles texts dedicated to the linguistic and educational aspects of missionary and colonial enterprises, taking into account all continents and with an extended diachronic perspective (15th–20th centuries). Strictly speaking, this “linguistics” is contemporary to the colonial era, so it is primarily the work of missionaries of Catholic orders and Protestant societies. It can also belong to a retrospective outlook, following decolonization. In the first category, one mostly finds transcription, translation, and grammatization practices (typically, the production of dictionaries and grammar books). In the second category, one finds in addition descriptions of language use, of situations of diglossia, and of contact between languages. Within this framework, the volume focuses on educational and linguistic policies, language teaching and learning, and the didactics that were associated with them.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Language Teaching and Grammatization in the Colonial Empires (Dan Savatovsky) I. Iberian Mission Lands Chapter 1. Toward a Historiography of Foreign Language Documentation: Teaching and Learning of Non-Western Languages in a Missionary Context (16th–18th Centuries) (Otto Zwartjes) Chapter 2. A Contribution to the History of Missionary Grammars and Romance Languages Grammars: The Commensurability of Metalanguage and Categories in the Sixteenth Century (Alejandro Díaz Villalba) II. The Sinic World Chapter 3. Learning a Language While Making It Up. Matteo Ricci’s Ways of Inculturation and the Communicative Strategy of the Company of Jesus (Diego Poli) Chapter 4. For an Epistemological and Cognitive Approach to Matteo Ricci’s The Palace of Memory: Didactics and Imaginative Processes († Maria Lucia Aliffi and Mariangela Albano) Chapter 5. The Role of British Missionary Scholars in Setting the Foundations for the Academic Study of Chinese in British Universities (Tinghe Jin and Steven Cowan) III. West Africa Chapter 6. Language Policy within the French Colonial Army: The First World War and Beyond (Cécile Van Den Avenne) Chapter 7. The “Civilization-Language-Culture” Relationship in Reading Books for Teaching in French to Allophone Schoolchildren (1885–1930): A Window Opened to the Past (Valérie Spaëth) IV. East Africa Chapter 8. From Teaching Non-Arabs Arabic to Arabization in 1950s Sudan (Andrea Facchin) Chapter 9. Italian Colonial Educational Policy in the Horn of Africa (Raymond Siebetcheu) V. Middle East Chapter 10. How to Create a Language by Describing It? Orientalists and Pure Colloquial Arabic (Tarek Abouelgamal) Chapter 11. Politique d’enseignement au Liban au début du Mandat français: les manuels scolaires en français et la place de l’arabe au Collège de Beyrouth (Manar El Kak) VI. Southeast Asia Chapter 12. The Romanized Writing of Vietnamese: A Unique Case in the Far East (Thi Kieu Ly Pham and Mariangela Albano) Chapter 13. On Indonesian and English as Lingua Francas: Colonial, National, Global (Joseph Errington) VII. Europe Chapter 14. Un empire culturel et littéraire: quelques grammaires de l’italien langue étrangère (seizième–dix-septième siècles) (Giada Mattarucco) Chapter 15. “A Language that Reigns in the City:” Italian in Grammar Books for Foreigners (Second Half of the 18th Century) (Norma Romanelli) Chapter 16. L’enseignement du grec moderne comme langue étrangère: des missionnaires catholiques aux grammairiens philhellènes (Lélia (Evangélia) Pantéloglou)
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