Used - fair to good. Embossed boards stained & solied, corners bumped, foxing on end pages only, normal age toning, a very solid, unmarked copy, a fascinating piece of history in nice shape at 128+ years old. 102 pp. View More...
Russia's ever-expanding imperial boundaries encompassed diverse peoples and religions. Yet Russian Orthodoxy remained inseparable from the identity of the Russian empire-state, which at different times launched conversion campaigns not only to save the souls of animists and bring deviant Orthodox groups into the mainstream, but also to convert the empire's numerous Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, Catholics, and Uniates.This book is the first to investigate the role of religious conversion in the long history of Russian state building. How successful were the Church and the state in proselytizing amo... View More...
Millions of American families have turned to The Book of Virtues and The Moral Compass by William J. Bennett for moral guidance in troubled times. Our Sacred Honor offers inspiration and instruction as well...this time of a particularly American sort. The lessons it contains are especially welcome. We live in a time when the practice of representative government in the United States of America is under siege from both the left and the right. Scandals abound. We are first shocked, then wearied, to learn that our national leaders have feet of clay. We live in a time, in short, which demands that... View More...
What were the Beaker cultures? When did the Chola dynasty rule? Who were the Green Mountain boys? Did Hengist and Horsa really exist? This volume of the Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia provides the answers to anyone needing specific historical information for projects, exams, crossword puzzles, or just for the interest of finding things out. Featuring more than 2,400 alphabetized entries, this volume covers early civilizations, ancient Egypt, biblical times, the Greek and Roman empires, and the history of European affairs up through the medieval period to the enlightenment and the advent of th... View More...
This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific--told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service.In this new book by the authors of Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory of World War II in the Pacific, the history of the War in the Pacific comes vividly to life in the words of those who witnessed it first hand. The editors create for the reader, as the veterans themselves recall it, what that war was like--how it looked, felt, smelled, and sounded. The storie... View More...
Around the year A.D. 350 a young orator and philosopher called Themistius delivered a speech to the Emperor Constantius II in Ancyra (modern Ankara). Themistius found great favor with the Emperor, who catapulted him into the senate of Constantinople in 355. He was similarly favored by subsequent emperors Jovian (363-64), Valens (364-78), and Theodosius (379-95).This volume presents translations of a selection of the speeches of Themistius, grouped into chapters that deal either with a key period in the evolution of his career or with a sequence of events of particular historical significance: ... View More...
- How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million years by living in and utilizing 'nature' and by assimilating it into 'culture'. Indeed, the technological and cultural advancement of the species has been widely acknowledged to rest upon human domination and control of nature. Yet, by the 1960s, the idea of culture in confrontation with nature was b... View More...
Civic Humanism has been one of the most influential concepts in the history of ideas ever since the pioneering work of Hans Baron and J. G. A. Pocock. This book reassesses Renaissance republican thinkers in relation to the medieval and early modern traditions of political thought and proposes new understandings of the evolution of important republican concepts. The distinguished team of American and European political theorists and historians together contribute a distinctive and significant addition to the study of republican political ideology. View More...
