Author: David McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521308038
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873-1972.
A History of Cambridge University Press: Volume 3, New Worlds for Learning, 1873-1972
Author: David McKitterick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521308038
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873-1972.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521308038
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873-1972.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2426
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Pages : 2426
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The Founders and the Classics
Author: Carl J. Richard
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff of antiquity? So far largely a matter of generalization and speculation, the influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book-the first comprehensive study of the founders’ classical reading. Carl J. Richard begins by examining how eighteenth-century social institutions in general and the educational system in particular conditioned the founders to venerate the classics. He then explores the founders’ various uses of classical symbolism, models, “antimodels,” mixed government theory, pastoralism, and philosophy, revealing in detail the formative influence exerted by the classics, both directly and through the mediation of Whig and American perspectives. In this analysis, we see how the classics not only supplied the principal basis for the U.S. Constitution but also contributed to the founders’ conception of human nature, their understanding of virtue, and their sense of identity and purpose within a grand universal scheme. At the same time, we learn how the classics inspired obsessive fear of conspiracies against liberty, which poisoned relations between Federalists and Republicans. The shrewd ancients who molded Western civilization still have much to teach us, Richard suggests. His account of the critical role they played in shaping our nation and our lives provides a valuable lesson in the transcendent power of the classics.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff of antiquity? So far largely a matter of generalization and speculation, the influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book-the first comprehensive study of the founders’ classical reading. Carl J. Richard begins by examining how eighteenth-century social institutions in general and the educational system in particular conditioned the founders to venerate the classics. He then explores the founders’ various uses of classical symbolism, models, “antimodels,” mixed government theory, pastoralism, and philosophy, revealing in detail the formative influence exerted by the classics, both directly and through the mediation of Whig and American perspectives. In this analysis, we see how the classics not only supplied the principal basis for the U.S. Constitution but also contributed to the founders’ conception of human nature, their understanding of virtue, and their sense of identity and purpose within a grand universal scheme. At the same time, we learn how the classics inspired obsessive fear of conspiracies against liberty, which poisoned relations between Federalists and Republicans. The shrewd ancients who molded Western civilization still have much to teach us, Richard suggests. His account of the critical role they played in shaping our nation and our lives provides a valuable lesson in the transcendent power of the classics.
Winthrop's Journal, "History of New England," 1630-1649
Author: John Winthrop
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America
Author: Michael Meckler
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1932792325
Category : Civilization, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
history and illustrates how the ancient Greeks and Romans continue to influence political theory and determine policy in the United States, from the education of the Founders to the War in Iraq.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1932792325
Category : Civilization, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
history and illustrates how the ancient Greeks and Romans continue to influence political theory and determine policy in the United States, from the education of the Founders to the War in Iraq.
In Search of the City on a Hill
Author: Richard M. Gamble
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441162321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441162321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The American history of the 'city on a hill' metaphor from its Puritan beginnings to its role in Reagan's American civil religion and beyond.
Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia
Author: Richard A. Lobban
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810865785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-Meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in Nubia (Sudan). This resource focuses on Nubian history through a Nubian perspective, rather than on the more common Egypto-centrism perspective, and the coverage is based on the latest and best archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Newly created maps of the general area and its specific regions and place names and a photospread showing important related features of the region are included. A detailed chronology provides a timeline of historical events, and an introductory narrative shapes the overall history and leads to the main body of the work in the form of a cross-referenced dictionary. The descriptive entries cover the main features of the region in the various periods that are key not only to Nubian events, but also to the important interactions they had with Egypt to the north. Nine appendices and an extensive bibliography conclude this work. Lobban has been teaching Nubian studies in undergraduate classrooms for thirty years, and this book is a product of his hands-on experiences as well as extensive anthropological fieldwork and travel in Sudanese and Egyptian Nubia.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810865785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-Meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in Nubia (Sudan). This resource focuses on Nubian history through a Nubian perspective, rather than on the more common Egypto-centrism perspective, and the coverage is based on the latest and best archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Newly created maps of the general area and its specific regions and place names and a photospread showing important related features of the region are included. A detailed chronology provides a timeline of historical events, and an introductory narrative shapes the overall history and leads to the main body of the work in the form of a cross-referenced dictionary. The descriptive entries cover the main features of the region in the various periods that are key not only to Nubian events, but also to the important interactions they had with Egypt to the north. Nine appendices and an extensive bibliography conclude this work. Lobban has been teaching Nubian studies in undergraduate classrooms for thirty years, and this book is a product of his hands-on experiences as well as extensive anthropological fieldwork and travel in Sudanese and Egyptian Nubia.
America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
In God We Trust
Author: Michael Shea
Publisher: Michael Shea
ISBN: 0985128704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This book is a unique look into God's hand in American history, viewed through the life of George Washington. The book reflects the providential view that Washington and other Founding Fathers had of the God of history (God of Abraham). The book attempts to document God's hand in Washington's life and the Revolutionary War using Washington's own words and detailing the numerous micarcles that led to the country's eventual independence and subsequent constitution. The book also explores the country's reason for existence, God's purpose in the founding of the United States, and what it portends for our future survival as a nation.
Publisher: Michael Shea
ISBN: 0985128704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This book is a unique look into God's hand in American history, viewed through the life of George Washington. The book reflects the providential view that Washington and other Founding Fathers had of the God of history (God of Abraham). The book attempts to document God's hand in Washington's life and the Revolutionary War using Washington's own words and detailing the numerous micarcles that led to the country's eventual independence and subsequent constitution. The book also explores the country's reason for existence, God's purpose in the founding of the United States, and what it portends for our future survival as a nation.
The Publisher
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Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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